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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 387 - Week 8 Fall Sports Recap · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is skalkam senior Archer Burns and you're listening to
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Speaker 1: the Walkham Press Podcast with Tyler Anderson Roll storm A.
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Speaker 2: Greetings and welcome into the Walkham Preps podcast. This is
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Speaker 2: episode three hundred and eighty seven, your fall sports weekly recap,
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Speaker 2: and I'm your host, Tyler Anderson from Walkham Preps. Got
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Speaker 2: to give a thank you to Squalkam's senior volleyball player
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Speaker 2: archer Burns for the intro. What a dynamic player at
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Speaker 2: the net. You know, squalkm is not the tallest team,
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Speaker 2: but she plays taller than than she is, you know, defensively,
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Speaker 2: offensively and at the service line. Great overall player. Thank
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Speaker 2: you so much, archer Burns for the intro. Also got
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Speaker 2: the week that was in Wakin County, but football is
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Speaker 2: not included. If you want to hear about what happened
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Speaker 2: over the weekend with football, that podcast will be coming
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Speaker 2: out tomorrow morning. All right, A lot was going on
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Speaker 2: over this past week and weekend, especially with postseason action
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Speaker 2: So the district races pat took place this past weekend.
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Speaker 2: I was at the Deming log Show on Friday. That
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Speaker 2: was where the one A boys and Girls district races
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Speaker 2: took place, and for the most part it kind of
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Speaker 2: went as scripted. I guess you could say Meridian finishing first,
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Speaker 2: Lynnen Christian second, and Blamed third in that order for
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Speaker 2: boys and girls. When you look at the girls side,
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Speaker 2: Logan Ignacio took first place for the fourth straight year.
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Speaker 2: And some people asked me at the race if that's
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Speaker 2: ever been done before, and I don't know. It's one
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Speaker 2: of those things that I'm gonna have to research and
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Speaker 2: find out, you know, I could look at old newspapers
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Speaker 2: and stuff. It's one It's one of those things that
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Speaker 2: I'll probably I'll look at over the summer. But Logan
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Speaker 2: Ignacio of Meridian, now a senior, four straight years as
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Speaker 2: the district champion. Her time was eighteen minutes forty eight
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Speaker 2: point sixty six seconds the team of seven Meridian runners.
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Speaker 2: The top seven Meridian runners will qualify for state. That's
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Speaker 2: Logan Ignacio, Bria Remp, Eric Thompson, Adeline Nasty, Lyla van Golen,
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Speaker 2: Mila Kratzov, and Adele Ashmore So they will go to
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Speaker 2: state as a team as well, and Lyndon Christian sophomore
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Speaker 2: Leyla Melima will go to state as well. She finished
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Speaker 2: in second place at the Deming log Show in the districts.
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Speaker 2: On the boys side. The winner was Ruben Taveldi of Meridian,
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Speaker 2: the junior, who finished two and a half seconds a
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Speaker 2: little under two and a half seconds ahead of Nicholas
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Speaker 2: LUs of Lynn and Christian Loos was leading the whole race.
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Speaker 2: These two been battling each other year in and year out,
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Speaker 2: every race. It seems like they're really really close. Ruben
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Speaker 2: Taveldi took a strong lead at the very end, and
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Speaker 2: Nicholas Loose was close to getting there, getting back there.
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Speaker 2: But the elation on Reuben's face when he crossed the
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Speaker 2: finish line, that's something I'll never forget. It was really
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Speaker 2: really cool to see. So he finishes in the first, Nicholas
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Speaker 2: and second. Judah ta Veldi of Meridian, the freshman, took
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Speaker 2: third place, William Sherfield of Lennon Christian fourth, Colton Valentine
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Speaker 2: of Meridian, fifth, Colby Honkkoop of Lennon Christian, sixth, Ribon
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Speaker 2: Durbin Durbin of Meridian, seventh, Carson Seatle Sayodol of Meridian, eighth,
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Speaker 2: Emanuel Rios Martinez of Blaine took ninth, and Wyatt Lehenberger
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Speaker 2: of Meridian took tenth. Also qualifying for state is Alexander
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Speaker 2: Ortiz of Niksack Valley, Oliver Nichols of Meridian, Henry Contreres,
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Speaker 2: Moore of Mount Baker, Stephen Phelps McDonald's of Blaine, Isaac
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Speaker 2: Scott of Lennon Christian, along with other link runners that
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Speaker 2: qualify as a team. So Blake, Justin Blake, sorry Blake, Justice,
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Speaker 2: Weston Coyman, and Logan van Dalen will all go to
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Speaker 2: state as well. So congratulations to those runners in the
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Speaker 2: one A level and now going to jump over to
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Speaker 2: two AA. This was these district champions District one and
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Speaker 2: two combining, and this was out at Lakewood High School
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Speaker 2: on Saturday, and we look at the girl's side first.
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Speaker 2: As a team, Seahome took the top honors, Bellingham second
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Speaker 2: and of course third, Lindon fourth, Squalicum fifth, and Burlington,
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Speaker 2: Edison and Lakewood rounding that out is in. The number
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Speaker 2: one runner was Sloane Dixon of Linden with a time
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Speaker 2: of eighteen minutes five point eight seconds. She was followed
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Speaker 2: by Sloane Kleines of Seahome at eighteen fourteen. Third place
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Speaker 2: was Little Dessler of Seahome. Fourth was Sophia Koch of Bellingham.
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Speaker 2: Fifth was Kirsten Ludeman of Seahome, sixth Samantha Nip of Seahome,
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Speaker 2: and eighth place was Ren Dixon of Linden. Ninth place
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Speaker 2: with Sandra Voy of Squalicum. So those are your your
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Speaker 2: walking county finishers in the top ten. Also qualifying to
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Speaker 2: go to state will be Audrey Blue of Squalkum, Nora
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Speaker 2: Alexander of Bellingham, Page Rix of Seaholme, Elise Holland of Bellingham,
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Speaker 2: leoh Wagner of Bellingham, Lucy Penner of Seaholme, Helen Butteau
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Speaker 2: of Seahome, avery As Austland of Bellingham, Johnny Aegert of Seahome,
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Speaker 2: Sylvia Briggs Bauer of Bellingham, and Ella Dowling of Bellingham.
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Speaker 2: So congratulations to those runners. State will be coming up
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Speaker 2: and yeah, coming right up this upcoming weekend, so be
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Speaker 2: ready for that. On the boys side, Seahome finishes in
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Speaker 2: the top spot as a team finished in a really
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Speaker 2: close battle for second, third and fourth. It's anacordus Squalkam
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Speaker 2: then Bellingham and second, third and fourth, all finishing within
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Speaker 2: five points of each other. Burlington is in fifth lake
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Speaker 2: with sixth, Lynden, seventh, Marysville Pilchuck eighth. The district champion
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Speaker 2: was Berkeley Pass of Bellingham, finishing nineteen seconds ahead of
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Speaker 2: Dylan Raul of anaccortis Dylan, who's you know, state champion?
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Speaker 2: I'm not quite sure if he was, if he was
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Speaker 2: injured or just taking it taking it easy or what
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Speaker 2: was going on. Berkeley Pass has been having an amazing
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Speaker 2: year all year, so I don't want to take anything
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Speaker 2: away from him either, but you know, he's just it's
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Speaker 2: rare to see that. Where Dylan does not finish in
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Speaker 2: first place, Bains Machinski of Bellingham in third place, Taylor
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Speaker 2: Rush of Squalkom in fourth, Judson Bareth of Seahome in fifth,
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Speaker 2: Luke Scouting of Lyndon in seventh, Aid and Bat of
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Speaker 2: Seahome in eighth, Dylan Hill of Seahome in ninth, and
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Speaker 2: Luca Burley of Squalkum in tenth place. Also qualifying for
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Speaker 2: state is Owen Mumley of Seahome, Ezra Bubb of Sea Home,
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Speaker 2: Ian James of see Home, Luke Zohlner of Seahome, Vander
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Speaker 2: Burley of Squalcum And, as well as Squalkum runners Parker
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Speaker 2: Mason and Jonathan Piper cam Yar Horton, Thomas Knutson. So
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Speaker 2: those are all the runners. So it sounds like Squalkum
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Speaker 2: as a team will be going Seaholme as a team
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Speaker 2: as well. So yeah, it's a pretty exciting there. There's
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Speaker 2: a lot of great runners. Like I said, Berkeley Pass
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Speaker 2: finishing in first place really really impressive just to see
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Speaker 2: what he's done this year. Always one of the top
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Speaker 2: runners in years past, but this year really elevating his
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Speaker 2: game and really really good to see. So best of
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Speaker 2: luck to him and his teammates and all of his
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Speaker 2: competitors as well. At State for three a Ferndale, you know,
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Speaker 2: they struggled this year. They you know, they didn't have
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Speaker 2: a full team on either boys or girls. None of
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Speaker 2: the runners will qualify for state, but you know it's
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Speaker 2: pretty young team boys for boys and girls, like I said,
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Speaker 2: and so we'll see how they do next year. But
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Speaker 2: this year they failed to advance anyone to the state race.
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Speaker 2: So so that is cross country. We're going to talk
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Speaker 2: about our Staffer Insurance Runner of the Week and I'm
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Speaker 2: giving this to Meridian junior Reuben Taveldi. I just loved
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Speaker 2: the passion that he showed when he crossed the finish line.
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Speaker 2: He was so elated. You could see it on his face,
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Speaker 2: the fist pump. I got sort of a picture of it,
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Speaker 2: but I was too close to him and I had
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Speaker 2: the wide angle lens in, so, you know, still kind
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Speaker 2: of new for me taking these pictures and stuff. It's
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Speaker 2: not really my forte at all. Neither is writing, but
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Speaker 2: for some reason I keep plugging away. And but yeah,
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Speaker 2: he was. He was fantastic. Ruben Taveldi the Meridian Junior.
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Speaker 2: He is your District one Boys champion and the Staffer
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Speaker 2: Insurance Runner of the Week. Let's jump over to girls
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Speaker 2: swimming and diving, and they're getting really close to you know,
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Speaker 2: the regular season is over now, they got the District
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Speaker 2: ones Swimming and Diving championships that will that will take
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Speaker 2: place at Anna Chordis the Fadeggle Pool and Fitness Center
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Speaker 2: on November seventh and eighth. That's this upcoming Friday and Saturday.
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Speaker 2: And I have the psych sheet here so kind of
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Speaker 2: explain kind of who the top seeds are, and we'll
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Speaker 2: just kind of go over each event and kind of
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Speaker 2: who the favorites are. In the girl's two hundred yard
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Speaker 2: medley relay, it's the Bellingham team is the number one seed,
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Speaker 2: followed closely by Seahome and squalk Them, you know, all
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Speaker 2: separated by about three seconds. In the two hundred freestyle,
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Speaker 2: Seaholmes Elsa Ethelba is the number one seed. She's about
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Speaker 2: nine seconds ahead of anybody else. Eating Shields of Blaine
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Speaker 2: is the fifth seed. Claire Fleming Buttella of Lyndon is
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Speaker 2: the sixth seed. You go to the two hundred individual medley,
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Speaker 2: so leel Roubido of Squalkum is the number two seed,
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Speaker 2: Sage Maiden of Seaholme is the fourth seed, and Bronwin
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Speaker 2: Wilkins of Bellingham the freshman. She is the seventh seed.
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Speaker 2: In the fifty free style, the number one seed is
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Speaker 2: Bellingham sophomore Jasmine Garcia, and then number two is Seaholme
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Speaker 2: freshman Raja Gare and number three is Mount Baker senior
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Speaker 2: Jane Lentz. Number four is Seaholme senior Taylor Tellifson. Number
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Speaker 2: five is Sea Home sophomore Brielle Hicks. And so there's
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Speaker 2: you know, that's gonna be a close race. I mean
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Speaker 2: you're only talking fifty yards, so that's always gonna be
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Speaker 2: a bang bang finish at the end. In the one
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Speaker 2: meter diving, second seed is Ifa Taminga, the junior from
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Speaker 2: Seahome and followed by Carmadi Beatty of Bellingham, Jazzy Nelson
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Speaker 2: of Squalicum, and Hailey Farrell of Blaine. I didn't know
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Speaker 2: that Hailey dove too. That's that's gonna be. That's pretty cool.
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Speaker 2: In the one hundred butterfly, you know, it's a lot
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Speaker 2: of these are This is really taken over by the
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Speaker 2: schools down south. Marysville Pilchuk has a swimmer, a couple
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Speaker 2: of Anacorda swimmers. Another Archbishop Murphy swinger. Eten Shields is
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Speaker 2: the fifth seed, the senior from Blaine, and Marion Baldwin
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Speaker 2: of Lindon is the seventh seed. So it's gonna be
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Speaker 2: tough to crack into that if you're a Wakam County swimmer.
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Speaker 2: A lot of swimmers down south have got that kind
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Speaker 2: of going on. In the one hundred free style, Jasmine Garcia,
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Speaker 2: the sophomore of Bellingham, is the number two seed. Her
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Speaker 2: teammate Addie Hayes this is from senior as a senior
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Speaker 2: from Bellingham. She's the fourth seed. Mount Baker's senor Jane
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Speaker 2: Lentz is the fifth seed, followed by a couple of
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Speaker 2: Bellingham swimmers, Jordan Ebling and Mandela Windrom. In the five
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Speaker 2: hundred freestyle, it's Haley Ferrell of Blaine is the number
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Speaker 2: one seed. She's a senior. Elsa Fabov Seaholme is the
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Speaker 2: number two seed. Sage Maiden of Seahome is the fifth seed,
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Speaker 2: so we'll see if we can get some swimmers onto
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Speaker 2: State from there. In the two hundred freestyle relay, Seaholme
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Speaker 2: is the number two seed by three tenths of a second,
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Speaker 2: so close. Bellingham is the three seed as well, very
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Speaker 2: very close as well, so I would expect those two
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Speaker 2: teams to probably go on to State. In the one
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Speaker 2: hundred backstroke, there's a lot of Bellingham swimmers here. They're
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Speaker 2: ranked third through sixth. They are freshman Carmadi Betty, freshman
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Speaker 2: Amanda Buck, junior Sonya Clys, and senior Mattie Knights, So
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Speaker 2: all four of those swimmers hoping to make an impact
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Speaker 2: and move on to State. In the one hundred breaststroke,
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Speaker 2: it's Squalicum freshmen that rule the roost here, so Laloe
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Speaker 2: Robido and Jazzy Nelson both freshmen out of Squalicum number
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Speaker 2: one and two. In the breaststroke, another freshman, Raja Gare
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Speaker 2: of Seahome is third. Amanda Buck, another freshman from Bellingham,
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Speaker 2: is fourth. So the top four all from the city schools,
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Speaker 2: all freshmen looking to make an impact this year and
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Speaker 2: for years to come, which is really really cool to see.
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Speaker 2: And in the four hundred freestyle relay, your ana chordis
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Speaker 2: looks to be like the top team Bellingham and Seahome
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Speaker 2: and Lyndon his thirds and then Squalalkum fifth, So yeah,
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Speaker 2: so you got you got some good times here and
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Speaker 2: hopefully some teams will will move on. In the freestyle adaptive.
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Speaker 2: For fifty yard freestyle adaptive, they got some Seahome swimmers here,
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Speaker 2: Lauren Gongwer and Sarah Carollo. They are the top two
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Speaker 2: swimmers in under a minute, which is awesome to see.
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Speaker 2: And then in the fifty yard backstroke, this is really cool.
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Speaker 2: Abbigail Small of Lindon, she's such an awesome kid. I've
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Speaker 2: gotten to know her a little bit over the years,
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Speaker 2: especially through her dad. She's got the number one seed
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Speaker 2: for the adaptive fifty yard backstroke. So good luck to
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Speaker 2: all these swimmers and athletes that we're competing out at
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Speaker 2: Fadoggle Pool in Anacordis this weekend. Hopefully they bring home
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Speaker 2: some some good results and some great times and scores
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Speaker 2: and you get to move on to the state tournament.
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Speaker 2: That's going to be really, really cool. I'm excited about that.
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Speaker 2: Now we're gonna move on to girls soccer, and we
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Speaker 2: got a lot of stuff to talk about. Of course.
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Speaker 2: best sponsors I've ever had and continue to have. They
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Speaker 2: I'm doing. And they're just they're just one of the
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Speaker 2: best and such a positive relationship with them and that's
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Speaker 2: what I love as well, is that they make it
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Speaker 2: easy for me. I'm not the best businessman in the world,
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Speaker 2: and they make it easy for me, and I can't
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Speaker 2: say enough about them. We're in the playoffs already, I mean,
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Speaker 2: there's a lot that's already been going on, So let's
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Speaker 2: kind of get into it a little start with the
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Speaker 2: District one A girls soccer tournament We had a match
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Speaker 2: that took place earlier last week where Meridian defeated Mount
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Speaker 2: Baker in a penalty kicks, so they won one to zero.
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Speaker 2: Mount Bakers ousted for the year, so Meridian moved on
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Speaker 2: to take the top to take on the top seed
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Speaker 2: Linden Christian on Saturday. They lost that matchup eight to zero,
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Speaker 2: so lind And Christian moves on there. Meridian goes to
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Speaker 2: the consolation bracket and then in the other side on
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Speaker 2: the semi finals, Nuksack Valley edged out Blaine four to three.
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Speaker 2: That was three to three after regulation. Nuxack Valley wins
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Speaker 2: in penalty kicks, So it will be Nuxack Valley against
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Speaker 2: Lyndon Christian in the district championship. The winner will go
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Speaker 2: to State I and so that's really really exciting. The
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Speaker 2: loser has a chance still to go to state, but
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Speaker 2: they will face another match up later so on November fifth,
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Speaker 2: so that'll be Wednesday, seven point thirty at Blaine High School.
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Speaker 2: Will be that one a girls soccer district championship match
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Speaker 2: between Nuxac Valley and Lynden Christian. Right before that, at
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Speaker 2: five o'clock, Blaine will be playing against Meridian in a
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Speaker 2: loser out game. If they win, they will take on
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Speaker 2: the loser of the championship match for a chance to
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Speaker 2: go to state. So so yeah, a lot of stuff
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Speaker 2: going on there. It looks it looks like Lyndon Christian
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Speaker 2: is heavily favored, but you never know whether it could
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Speaker 2: play into it a little bit as well. Playing on
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Speaker 2: a turf field, it won't be muddy or anything, but
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Speaker 2: you know, it might be maybe a tad slippery, or
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Speaker 2: at least the ball might be a little slippery. I
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Speaker 2: really don't know enough about soccer to know if it's
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Speaker 2: and it's a turf field, how that can really I
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Speaker 2: would imagine the ball could really skim a little bit,
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Speaker 2: and so the goalies have to be really be ready
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Speaker 2: for that. On some low shots might be coming a
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Speaker 2: little quicker than they're used to, or might you know,
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Speaker 2: skip off the turf a little differently than they're used to.
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Speaker 2: So still four teams alive there, two will come out
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Speaker 2: of there to go to state, and always a lot
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Speaker 2: of fun out at Blaine High School. Let's look at
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Speaker 2: the two A district girls soccer tournament and still got
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Speaker 2: you know, all the teams from Walkin County are still
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Speaker 2: alive here. Seehome won their first round matchup against Lakewood.
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Speaker 2: They won six to zero, and Archbishop defeated Lynden two
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Speaker 2: to zero. Put Linden in the consolation round. Squalal Can
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Speaker 2: beat Bellingham two to one, so Squala moved on, and
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Speaker 2: Anachortus beat Burlington s And five zero, so Anachordus moved
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Speaker 2: on in that next round. In the semi finals, Squalum
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Speaker 2: lost a heartbreaker to Anachortus. It was they were up
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Speaker 2: two to zero, Anachordus scores a couple of late goals,
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Speaker 2: There's a big collision between two players and injuries and
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Speaker 2: red cards and I mean there was all sorts of
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Speaker 2: craziness there at the end, and then Antichordus wins it
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Speaker 2: in penalty kicks, and you know, Anachordus came into it favored,
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Speaker 2: but Squalkum was playing lights out and really really looking
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Speaker 2: for a chance to win that game. And because Antichortus
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Speaker 2: won that, they have already punched their ticket to state,
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Speaker 2: but they will be playing for the district championship. And
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Speaker 2: then on the other side of the bracket. Sea Home
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Speaker 2: defeated Archbishop Murphy five to zero at Civic Stadium on
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Speaker 2: Saturday afternoon, so see Home has punched their ticket to state.
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Speaker 2: They will face Antichordus in the district championship game that
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Speaker 2: will be on Wednesday night at seven o'clock at Civic Stadium.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be exciting. I mean, that's a I
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Speaker 2: think when they played in the regular season, I believe
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Speaker 2: that was a tie. So it just should be good. Right,
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Speaker 2: It's gonna be awesome. And then on the so and
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Speaker 2: then on Sat there were some elimination games. Bellingham defeated
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Speaker 2: Burlington Edison to zero to stay alive. Burlington Edison is
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Speaker 2: bounced from the district playoffs and Linden defeated Lake with
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Speaker 2: four to zero. Make Clark with three goals in that
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Speaker 2: one and an assist, So that kept Linden's hopes alive.
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Speaker 2: So now Linden will take on Squalicum. That will be
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Speaker 2: at Ferndale High School at eight o'clock at night on Monday.
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Speaker 2: So you're listening to this probably on Monday. So tonight
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Speaker 2: at Ferndale High School there will be a doubleheader. Bellingham
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Speaker 2: against Archbishop Murphy at six o'clock, Linden against Squallyam at
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Speaker 2: eight o'clock. Both of those games are loser out games.
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Speaker 2: Winner gets to move on and uh you know, hopefully
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Speaker 2: keep their keep their season alive. They will play the
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Speaker 2: winner will move on and they will play each other
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Speaker 2: at Civic Stadium on Wednesday, right before the district championship game.
19:54
Speaker 2: And then the winner and then the winner of that
19:56
Speaker 2: game has to play a District five crossover to get
19:59
Speaker 2: to date. So the loser that game is out. So
20:02
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff going on, you know, just you know,
20:07
Speaker 2: just keep tuned in to walk the preps. I'll try
20:09
Speaker 2: to tell everybody where the games are at what times,
20:12
Speaker 2: but basically Ferndale High School on Monday night, doubleheader, like
20:17
Speaker 2: I said, Bellingham against Archbishop Murphy at six o'clock, Lynden
20:21
Speaker 2: versus Squalkham at eight o'clock. Those are both loser out games.
20:24
Speaker 2: It's so hard to believe to say loser out games.
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Speaker 2: Those are four great, great teams and two teams are
20:31
Speaker 2: going to be ousted and done for the year. So
20:34
Speaker 2: we'll see how that goes. And of course the district
20:36
Speaker 2: championship game on Wednesday out at Civic Stadium at seven
20:39
Speaker 2: o'clock and a Chordus versus Seahome two versus one gonna
20:43
Speaker 2: be fantastic and then for three A Ferndale. Ferndale played
20:49
Speaker 2: their first game of the tournament. They won eight to
20:51
Speaker 2: zero over Everett. That was a huge win at home,
20:54
Speaker 2: which meant they traveled down to Edmunds Stadium to take
20:57
Speaker 2: on Edmunds Woodway on Saturday, but they lost two to zero,
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Speaker 2: so they are in the consolation bracket. They will play
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Speaker 2: Meadowdale on Tuesday at home and that is a loser
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Speaker 2: out game, so they have to win that game to
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Speaker 2: stay a live. Meadowdale' is the eight seed. Ferndale's the
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Speaker 2: five seeds, so Meadowdale so far, they defeated Mount Vernon
21:18
Speaker 2: three to one in their first round matchup and then
21:21
Speaker 2: they lost to top seed at Snahomish one to zero,
21:25
Speaker 2: So that tells me Meadowdale pretty darn good, so Ferndale's
21:30
Speaker 2: gonna have their work cut out for them. Golden Eagles
21:31
Speaker 2: have been playing great recently and they especially do well
21:35
Speaker 2: against really good teams, so I you know, this one
21:38
Speaker 2: being at Ferndale is only gonna help. So hopefully the
21:41
Speaker 2: Golden Eagles can take care of business and keep playing.
21:43
Speaker 2: If they do win that game on Tuesday, they will
21:45
Speaker 2: play again on Thursday at Shoreline Stadium in another loser
21:51
Speaker 2: out game, but if they win it, they go to State.
21:53
Speaker 2: So really exciting for the Golden Eagles that see what
21:56
Speaker 2: they can do on that on the tournament side, on
21:59
Speaker 2: the three side, really really exciting. Let's talk about the
22:03
Speaker 2: goal leaders right now, and right now we have twelve
22:05
Speaker 2: players that are in double digits with goals on the year.
22:09
Speaker 2: We have five players that have ten on the year.
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Speaker 2: We'll start with Ruby Bellermino, the freshman at a Blaine
22:14
Speaker 2: Estella Siegal senior from Lyndon, Christian Kira Reeves, the senior
22:19
Speaker 2: from Seahome, Ava Simons, another senior this time at a Squalkum,
22:23
Speaker 2: and Mia Collins, a freshman from Ferndale, all have ten
22:27
Speaker 2: goals on the year. With eleven goals on the year,
22:30
Speaker 2: it's Kylie Ifsovich of Seaholmes she is a junior, and
22:34
Speaker 2: then it is sophomore Teagan Ambrose of Ferndale. They both
22:37
Speaker 2: have eleven goals on the year. And then you have
22:39
Speaker 2: that Linden Christian trio and we've been talking about all year.
22:43
Speaker 2: The junior Naylas Spear has thirteen goals, sophomore Kaylan Hinton
22:47
Speaker 2: has fourteen, and Seeler senior Kayla Yun has fifteen and
22:52
Speaker 2: that's what makes Lyndon Christian so dominant in one A
22:56
Speaker 2: and that you know, I mean, Nukak Valley, You're gonna
22:58
Speaker 2: have your work cut out for. You got a lot
23:00
Speaker 2: of weapons out there that you're gonna have to contain.
23:03
Speaker 2: And yeah, I tell you what, their goalie, the Pioneers
23:06
Speaker 2: goalie did a great job, especially in the penalty kicks there.
23:10
Speaker 2: So she's gonna have to ride that hot hand and
23:12
Speaker 2: keep Elsie out of the goal. It's going to be really,
23:14
Speaker 2: really tough to do. Number two on the year is
23:18
Speaker 2: Addison Wilson, the sophomore at a Squalkum. She has eighteen
23:21
Speaker 2: goals so far this year. And then Seahome senior Ryan
23:24
Speaker 2: bain Now with twenty five goals. What a year she
23:27
Speaker 2: has had. Boy, it's so easy when I go there
23:31
Speaker 2: to take pictures of Seahome soccer because I know exactly
23:34
Speaker 2: where to go, because I know she's going to get
23:36
Speaker 2: the ball and she's going to make stuff happen right
23:38
Speaker 2: in that right in that corner where she always is
23:40
Speaker 2: and makes it easy for me because she does create
23:45
Speaker 2: a lot of havoc in there and right now, the
23:47
Speaker 2: top goal getter in Walkham County. What she's been most
23:51
Speaker 2: of the year. And we're going to talk about the
23:54
Speaker 2: Player of the Week, which of course has brought you
23:55
Speaker 2: by North County Alliance FC. The North County Alliance FC
23:59
Speaker 2: Girls soccer Play the Week is Seahome senior Ryan Bame.
24:02
Speaker 2: It's her second time winning this award. You know, I
24:07
Speaker 2: talked about going into the playoffs, your best players have
24:09
Speaker 2: to come through when it matters most. She comes in
24:11
Speaker 2: and scores four goals against Lakewood, She scores the first
24:15
Speaker 2: two goals of the game against Archbishop Murphy. She gets
24:18
Speaker 2: things started and moving and it frustrates the other team
24:22
Speaker 2: because of the stuff she's able to do with the
24:24
Speaker 2: soccer ball, which is just not normal for an high
24:26
Speaker 2: for high school player, and it just it just keeps
24:30
Speaker 2: translating into more stuff. And so she she's kind of
24:34
Speaker 2: the spark that gets things going. And boy, you jump
24:37
Speaker 2: out ahead two zero, three zero, and it's really hard
24:40
Speaker 2: to come back, especially with that defense the Seahome has
24:43
Speaker 2: as well, So it's you know, but she's that spark
24:46
Speaker 2: that gets it going. So Ryan Bame of Seahome, she
24:49
Speaker 2: is your North County Alliance FC Player of the Week. Boy,
24:53
Speaker 2: A lot of soccer that's going to be continuing to
24:55
Speaker 2: go this week, and then the state is right around
24:58
Speaker 2: the corner next week. I can't believe. It just happens
25:01
Speaker 2: so fast every single year. It gets faster every single year.
25:04
Speaker 2: Let's jump over to volleyball again. A lot to talk
25:08
Speaker 2: about here. It's the week started with regular season wrapping
25:11
Speaker 2: up and it ended with playoffs starting. Playoffs, playoffs starting
25:17
Speaker 2: with the one A and the two Way three A
25:19
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25:22
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25:54
Speaker 2: at all the craziness that is going on in the
25:57
Speaker 2: district tournaments. Will start off with the one A. All
26:00
Speaker 2: these games being held at Meridian High School. I was
26:02
Speaker 2: out there for I was out there multiple times on
26:05
Speaker 2: Saturday catching things. I was kind of all over the county.
26:07
Speaker 2: Went to I don't know, four or five different games
26:11
Speaker 2: and three different sports. But it started out with Blaine
26:16
Speaker 2: and Mount Baker playing that loser out game to be
26:19
Speaker 2: in the top four in districts. And I tell you what,
26:22
Speaker 2: I I had a feeling that Mount Baker might pull
26:25
Speaker 2: it off. But Blaine finished the year so strong, you know,
26:30
Speaker 2: beating you know, had a really total close game against
26:32
Speaker 2: Mount Vernon. They beat they beat Oak Oak Harbor. Mount
26:35
Speaker 2: Baker has been on on on a tear recently too,
26:39
Speaker 2: just you know, much improved second half of the year
26:41
Speaker 2: as opposed to the first half of the year. And
26:43
Speaker 2: a couple of those sets went went extra I think
26:45
Speaker 2: Blaine won the first one twenty six to twenty four.
26:48
Speaker 2: They won the third one twenty eight twenty six. And
26:51
Speaker 2: when it gets down to that where this could be
26:53
Speaker 2: your last ever match, I mean I love how teams
26:56
Speaker 2: fight and put it all in there, and and but
26:58
Speaker 2: Blaine came out with the as the winner and three
27:00
Speaker 2: straight sets, so eliminated Mount Baker. But I tell you what,
27:04
Speaker 2: I like what coach Goborth is doing. I love the
27:07
Speaker 2: trajectory that the team is on. And you know, they
27:10
Speaker 2: got some good players coming back next year. Yes, you'll
27:12
Speaker 2: have to say goodbye to some big time seniors, but
27:15
Speaker 2: it's it's heading in the right direction and that's what
27:17
Speaker 2: Mount Baker needs more than anything right now. So but
27:20
Speaker 2: Blaine moved on, and uh so in that next round
27:24
Speaker 2: they had to you know, basically rest for a few
27:26
Speaker 2: hours and then play again, which they did eventually against
27:29
Speaker 2: Nuxack Valley, the number one seed in the tournament. In
27:32
Speaker 2: Nuxack Valley, uh they did what they're supposed to do.
27:35
Speaker 2: They beat him in three straight sets. Blaine did not
27:37
Speaker 2: make it easy for them, especially as the match wore on.
27:40
Speaker 2: But the Pioneers win it and move on to the
27:43
Speaker 2: championship game. And you know, they're just the Knucksack Valley Piners.
27:48
Speaker 2: They just kind of use that size advantage, right, especially
27:51
Speaker 2: with Elizabeth de Lang, Grace de Hogue, you know, Reagan
27:54
Speaker 2: Burke in the middle as well, Grace, Gracie Rutgers and
27:58
Speaker 2: and uh, you know they're just anti strembler. I mean,
28:01
Speaker 2: there's a lot of girls that are five ten or
28:04
Speaker 2: taller a lot of them, and it just makes it tough.
28:06
Speaker 2: And and uh, you know, Blaine doesn't rotate a ton
28:10
Speaker 2: of players in and uh, but they hung in there
28:13
Speaker 2: and they're still alive. But Niuksack Valley will move on
28:16
Speaker 2: to play in the district championship game. On the other
28:18
Speaker 2: side of the bracket, Lynden Christian defeated Meridian in three
28:21
Speaker 2: straight sets. I was a little surprised in that the
28:25
Speaker 2: close one. The first one was really close, and then
28:27
Speaker 2: they just kind of put them away after that. You know,
28:31
Speaker 2: they played to five sets earlier in the year, so
28:33
Speaker 2: I think that's why I was a little a little
28:35
Speaker 2: bit surprised. But Lyndon Christian looked really really good. Uh
28:39
Speaker 2: again playing they have a size advantage over most teams,
28:42
Speaker 2: including Meridians, so uh, they played well. So Lyndon Christian
28:45
Speaker 2: moves on to take on Nuksack Valley in the district
28:49
Speaker 2: championship game. That will be Tuesday night at Meridian High
28:53
Speaker 2: School at seven point thirty. Uh. Oh man, that's gonna
28:56
Speaker 2: be big. The winner of that will go to State.
29:00
Speaker 2: No crossovers that there after that the winner will go
29:03
Speaker 2: to State. Also before that matchup, at five point thirty,
29:09
Speaker 2: Blaine and Meridian will play each other. That will be
29:13
Speaker 2: a loser out contest and the winner will move on
29:16
Speaker 2: with a chance to go to state in a game
29:19
Speaker 2: that will be played on Thursday, So Meridian High School.
29:23
Speaker 2: The one a's will be at five thirty and seven
29:26
Speaker 2: thirty on Tuesday. First game will be Blaine Meridian. Second
29:29
Speaker 2: game will be that district championship game between Lynden Christian
29:34
Speaker 2: and k Nooksack Valley. Winner will go to state. So
29:38
Speaker 2: pretty exciting stuff. Let's go on to two A and
29:42
Speaker 2: there was a lot of stuff that already happened on Saturday,
29:45
Speaker 2: including Linden defeating Lakewood three to zero. They move on
29:50
Speaker 2: to the semi finals. Squalkum. I thought they had a
29:53
Speaker 2: chance at Burlington Edison. They did so well on that
29:56
Speaker 2: first first set. They were head for probably eighty per
30:00
Speaker 2: son of it and at the very end the Tigers
30:02
Speaker 2: came back and took that first set. It kind of
30:04
Speaker 2: took the air out of the storm, which was really
30:06
Speaker 2: too bad because then Brilliington Edison just did their thing.
30:08
Speaker 2: After that. They defeat the squal like from three to zero.
30:11
Speaker 2: Brilliington Edison moves on to take on Linden and then
30:14
Speaker 2: on the other side of the bracket, Seahome defeated Bellingham
30:17
Speaker 2: in three straight sets, look pretty dominant doing it. The
30:19
Speaker 2: Mariners move on, and then Archbishop Murphy defeated Anna Chortus,
30:23
Speaker 2: so Archbishop will take on Seahome. So the one, two, three,
30:26
Speaker 2: four seeds move on as expected, and they were in
30:29
Speaker 2: the semifinals to play at Meridian High School and the five, six, seven,
30:35
Speaker 2: eight all go down to the consolation round. And so
30:40
Speaker 2: all these two way teams will be playing later on
30:42
Speaker 2: tonight at Meridian High School. So here you go. Here's
30:45
Speaker 2: the rundown at five thirty at Meridian High School Monday night.
30:50
Speaker 2: So tonight, if you're listening to this on Monday, it'll
30:53
Speaker 2: be Sea Home against Archbishop Murphy at five point thirty
30:57
Speaker 2: in the main court. The winner of that game we'll
31:00
Speaker 2: move on to the state tournament. And I tell you
31:03
Speaker 2: what the Mariners right now are. This is a redemption
31:06
Speaker 2: tour for them because I think it was Archbishop that
31:09
Speaker 2: bounced them out into a to a in a winner
31:12
Speaker 2: to state loser goes home at Meridian High School last year.
31:15
Speaker 2: So this is huge for the Mariners and they're gonna
31:18
Speaker 2: be looking to you know, this is this is gonna
31:20
Speaker 2: be This is kind of what they've been aiding for
31:22
Speaker 2: all year and they've been playing great. Kind of stumbled
31:25
Speaker 2: a little bit a week ago, uh, but they're kind
31:27
Speaker 2: of back on track right now and you know, doing
31:30
Speaker 2: well beating a good Meridian team earlier in the week
31:33
Speaker 2: and then and then taking care of business against Bellingham.
31:36
Speaker 2: So see them against Archbishop Murphy. That's gonna be huge
31:38
Speaker 2: at five point thirty on the in the other side
31:41
Speaker 2: of the court at five thirty, Bellingham and Anna Cortus
31:44
Speaker 2: will be battling each other in a loser out game.
31:46
Speaker 2: I really believe Bellingham has a chance here. I think
31:50
Speaker 2: there's some pieces there that just work so well. And
31:54
Speaker 2: they've had a lot of players come up from the
31:55
Speaker 2: JV during the year and have played extremely well. Kind
31:58
Speaker 2: of give them a give them that shot in the
31:59
Speaker 2: own when they come into the game, and sometimes that's needed,
32:02
Speaker 2: you know, it's it's one of those things where it
32:05
Speaker 2: can get a little monotonous maybe and you get a
32:07
Speaker 2: new face out there to do some stuff defensively or
32:10
Speaker 2: at the service line, and it can really go well.
32:13
Speaker 2: So Bellingham will attempt to keep their season alive also
32:16
Speaker 2: at five point thirty and then at seven thirty on
32:19
Speaker 2: on the other court, the Sea Court, Squalicum will attempt
32:22
Speaker 2: to keep their seasonalive against Lakewood. I really believe the
32:25
Speaker 2: Squalicum Storm can take care of business here. They just
32:28
Speaker 2: there's something about that team that, you know, I it's
32:32
Speaker 2: one of those and I'm not supposed to root really
32:34
Speaker 2: unless it's you know, Walkam County versus non Walkam County,
32:37
Speaker 2: but I find myself rooting for the Storm volleyball team.
32:40
Speaker 2: They're just they're so great to me and and that
32:43
Speaker 2: you know it, it makes it easy for me to
32:46
Speaker 2: root for them. And so like I said earlier when
32:49
Speaker 2: I was talking about archer Burns, it's not the tallest team.
32:53
Speaker 2: They're just there's just something about them that makes them
32:56
Speaker 2: easy to root for, and and uh yeah, it's a
32:59
Speaker 2: lot of fun. And the Cougars I've seen I've seen
33:02
Speaker 2: the Lake with Cougars. I've seen them take a set
33:05
Speaker 2: from Seahome and I've seen them lose to Mount Baker.
33:08
Speaker 2: They're kind of all over the place. So we'll have
33:10
Speaker 2: to see. Squalicum will have a chance to stay alive
33:14
Speaker 2: if they can beat Lakewood on Monday night. Then that
33:18
Speaker 2: will eliminate the Cougars and the squalk and we'll move on.
33:21
Speaker 2: Also at seven thirty on Monday night, Linden will take
33:24
Speaker 2: on Burlington Edison. This will be at Meridian as well,
33:27
Speaker 2: at the main court seven thirty and traditionally these are
33:31
Speaker 2: been the two top teams in the conference. Lynnon this
33:34
Speaker 2: year undefeated, ranked number one in the state. Burlington Edison
33:38
Speaker 2: a little down year for them. A pretty good year
33:41
Speaker 2: but for them a down year, not ranked in the
33:44
Speaker 2: top ten. Still receiving votes though, so it's still a
33:47
Speaker 2: dangerous team. But yeah, if Linden takes this one, they
33:52
Speaker 2: will punch their ticket to State. I've already got my
33:54
Speaker 2: ticket to stay. I've got everything set up, I got
33:56
Speaker 2: the hotel, I got everything ready, just you know, got
33:59
Speaker 2: to get my car fix before I head over there.
34:01
Speaker 2: But it is one of those things where I'm going.
34:04
Speaker 2: I just hope some Walking County teams are going and
34:06
Speaker 2: I'm pretty confident this year. So so we'll have to
34:09
Speaker 2: wait and see. And uh yeah, really really excited. So
34:13
Speaker 2: much going on on Monday with all those and then
34:17
Speaker 2: on Tuesday, the consolation winners will start playing, or the
34:22
Speaker 2: consolation games will take place on Tuesday out at the
34:26
Speaker 2: Sea Court at Meridian High School. So you know, if
34:29
Speaker 2: Squalkam wins and Bellingham wins, then they will face the
34:32
Speaker 2: loser of the Lynn and Burlington game and the Seahome
34:35
Speaker 2: Archbishop game. So I could see a lot of Walkham
34:37
Speaker 2: County flavor on Tuesday as well. And then on Wednesday
34:41
Speaker 2: is when the District championship game will take place, and
34:45
Speaker 2: the and then the other one that will take place
34:48
Speaker 2: right before that will be the The winner will go
34:52
Speaker 2: to a District five crossover matchup later and the loser
34:56
Speaker 2: will be out. That'll be the basically as the consolation champions. So,
35:00
Speaker 2: holy cow, a lot going on. And every time I
35:03
Speaker 2: write the stories, I will try to, you know, put
35:06
Speaker 2: at the end of the story kind of what that means. Now,
35:09
Speaker 2: this win means this, this team will be playing this
35:11
Speaker 2: team at this time, at this place, all that stuff.
35:14
Speaker 2: But basically, if you're into volleyball, just go to Meridian
35:16
Speaker 2: in High School every night because there's gonna be some great,
35:18
Speaker 2: great matches, a lot of loser out games which get
35:22
Speaker 2: really competitive, and a lot of action there. That is
35:26
Speaker 2: the two a kind of bracket site. How you want
35:29
Speaker 2: to look at it. For three A, there's still things
35:33
Speaker 2: that are up in the air. You know, a lot
35:34
Speaker 2: of the teams down south for three A haven't finished
35:37
Speaker 2: their season yet, so the seeding is not quite there yet.
35:40
Speaker 2: I would imagine Ferndal is gonna have a pretty good seed.
35:43
Speaker 2: I'm hoping they'll have a high enough seed to where
35:46
Speaker 2: they will get to host and have a first round by.
35:49
Speaker 2: So the one, two, three, and four in District one,
35:53
Speaker 2: we'll all have a first round by and then they'll
35:54
Speaker 2: get to host on November eleventh, so that'll be the
35:59
Speaker 2: Tuesday after. If they get to do that, then that'll
36:03
Speaker 2: be great. They will, they'll won't They won't play for
36:05
Speaker 2: quite a while. If not, then they will play on
36:07
Speaker 2: November six, that is Thursday, and they have and that's
36:10
Speaker 2: a loser out game. Whoever they would play move on.
36:12
Speaker 2: But I would imagine, you know, Ferndale's having a pretty
36:15
Speaker 2: strong year. They haven't been in the top ten, but
36:18
Speaker 2: they're right outside the top ten. So I would imagine
36:20
Speaker 2: for districts they will be one of the top four teams.
36:23
Speaker 2: So if they are like I said, they will get
36:26
Speaker 2: to host and have that and and they don't have
36:29
Speaker 2: to play that first round. They will get to host
36:31
Speaker 2: on November eleventh, that's the following Tuesday. So yeah, so
36:36
Speaker 2: we'll just have to wait and see. Ferndale has had
36:38
Speaker 2: a great, great year. I'm gonna be completely honest, a
36:41
Speaker 2: better year than I thought they would have. I thought
36:43
Speaker 2: they'd be above five hundred. I just didn't know they
36:45
Speaker 2: would be as dominant as they've been this year. You know,
36:49
Speaker 2: a lot of new hitters on that team. But good
36:52
Speaker 2: to see Jillia Fox come back out and play. I
36:54
Speaker 2: think that's been a nice shot in the arm for
36:56
Speaker 2: the team. And and uh yeah, it's been great to
37:00
Speaker 2: the Golden Eagles play the way they've been playing. And
37:02
Speaker 2: so I'm really really excited about that. And that kind
37:06
Speaker 2: of basically is your playoff outlook right now. You know,
37:10
Speaker 2: a lot of teams still going on. Nine out of
37:12
Speaker 2: the ten teams are still playing, So that is a
37:16
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Speaker 2: competitive tournaments, and provide opportunities for athletes to play club volleyball.
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Speaker 2: They emphasize playing in a positive, nurturing environment, teaching the
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Speaker 2: concepts of teamwork, sportsmanship, and having fun. Their goal is
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Speaker 2: to support APEX Northwest athletes and reaching their goal of
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Speaker 2: playing at the middle school, high school, and collegiate levels.
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Speaker 2: Check them out at APEX or check them out online
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Speaker 2: at APEX n W Volleyball Club dot org. Again, that's
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Speaker 2: APEX NW Volleyball Club dot org. And we look at
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Speaker 2: the stat leaders. Now we're gonna start off with kills
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Speaker 2: per set and it's still Finley Parcher way out ahead
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Speaker 2: at four point seven to nine kills perset. She is
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Speaker 2: followed by Melanie Short of Meridian, Hayden, Nevadomsky of Sea Home,
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Speaker 2: Teya Dubay of Blaine and Grace de Hoogue of Nooksack Valley.
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Speaker 2: For the most part's been same five or six names
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Speaker 2: up there this year and Kills Perset. We look at
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Speaker 2: Diggs per Set, Campbell to Young of Lindens still holding
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Speaker 2: that top spot just barely at four point ninety eight,
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Speaker 2: being closely followed by Katrina Ferry, another senior out of
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Speaker 2: Ferndale four point ninety five, and then McKenna Andrews of
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Speaker 2: See hom She is third at four point five six.
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Speaker 2: I tell you what, for my money, those are the
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Speaker 2: three best liberos in Wakam County and I could not
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Speaker 2: rank them one through three. They are all so darn
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Speaker 2: good at what they do. It would be so hard
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Speaker 2: for me. I'm so curious to see, you know, how
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Speaker 2: the all all conference teams get voted on and stuff
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Speaker 2: like that. I would imagine all three of them are
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Speaker 2: going to be named first team. But I am not
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Speaker 2: looking forward to making the top fifty list because I
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Speaker 2: don't There's so many names that I don't know how
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna rank them, and those three are so good.
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Speaker 2: They're followed closely by Bailey Burge of Bellingham four point
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Speaker 2: two two and Bronwyn Jones of Squalkham who reaches the
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Speaker 2: top five now, and she's right at four digs per set.
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Speaker 2: We look at assists per set. It is Isy Stephan
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Speaker 2: out of Lynden. She's at nine point seventy nine assists
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Speaker 2: per set. Ella Fritz of Lyndon Christian at nine point
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Speaker 2: five two, Taylor Terrell of Seeom nine point one five,
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Speaker 2: Peyton Bartell of Knikzack Valley at eight point point seven nine,
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Speaker 2: and Chloe Bresler of Meridian at eight point four four.
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Speaker 2: And we go to aces per set And this is
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Speaker 2: always fun because I'm always curious about who's leading them,
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Speaker 2: and I really keep my eyes open when they're at
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Speaker 2: the service line because it's a lot of fun to watch.
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Speaker 2: Number one is still Page Floory of Seahomes zero point
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Speaker 2: eight nine, followed by Brooklyn Larabia Ferndale zero point eighty three,
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Speaker 2: Melanie Short of Meridian at zero point seven nine, Isy
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Speaker 2: Stephan of Lindon at zero point seven zero, and then
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Speaker 2: the lone senior on this list, Jada Knutson of Bellingham
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Speaker 2: at zero point six point nine. Yeah, a lot of
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Speaker 2: underclassmen up there, and you know, I mean, Eden Bernardi
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Speaker 2: is right there. Next at zero point six eight she
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Speaker 2: is she's really I think she led Walking County last year,
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Speaker 2: so there's obviously no slouch the line there, and let's
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Speaker 2: go to blocks per set. The leader is Elizabeth Delang
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Speaker 2: of Knoksack Bellley. She's averaging right at one block per set.
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Speaker 2: She has sixty eight blocks on the year, unbelievable. Rebecca
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Speaker 2: Sores of Mount Baker right on her heels zero point
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Speaker 2: nine to seven blocks per set, Jocelyn s Ice of
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Speaker 2: Lenny Christian at zero point nine to one, followed by
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Speaker 2: her teammate Ali Wright of Lyndy Christian at zero point
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Speaker 2: eight three, and Ryan Stephen of Lyndon at zero point
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Speaker 2: eight one, creating a big stretch, you know, big jump
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Speaker 2: off from those top five. Next ones would be Ella
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Speaker 2: Fritz of Lendy Christian, Tianna Thompson a Squalicum, Carly Saunders
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Speaker 2: of Blaine, Adel Overson of Ferndale, and Gracie Pappov Meridian,
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Speaker 2: who were all great defensively at the net, but their numbers,
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Speaker 2: they'd have to double up their numbers to get to
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Speaker 2: the top five. That's how big time those top five
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Speaker 2: have been all season. So those are APEX Northwest Volleyball
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Speaker 2: Club Weekly stat Leaders, which means it's Player of the
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Speaker 2: week time Acceleration Driving School and Linden they sponsored the
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Speaker 2: Defensive Player of the Week. You got to check out
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Speaker 2: Acceleration Driving School and Linden. Give Kevin a call at
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Speaker 2: three six zero seven four six four five six seven.
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Speaker 2: Tell them you heard about them on the Walcome Preps podcast.
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Speaker 2: And we're gonna start off with the Defensive Player of
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Speaker 2: the Week, which is brought to you by Acceleration Driving
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Speaker 2: School in Linden. And this week it's going to McKenna Andrews,
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Speaker 2: the Seahome Senior Boy. One thing that strikes me when
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Speaker 2: I'm watching her play defense is how I mean she
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Speaker 2: she kind of can see where things are going to be,
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Speaker 2: kind of how the other team is setting up. But
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Speaker 2: when she goes down to get a dig, the way
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Speaker 2: she can kind of roll and pop back up that
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Speaker 2: is is like catlike is so unbelievable. She is such
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Speaker 2: a weapon back there. I thought she was underrated last
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Speaker 2: year and then I saw at the end that you know,
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Speaker 2: she was an All Conference first team and I was like, yes,
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Speaker 2: she is. She is. She is that good. I think
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Speaker 2: I had her ranked in the top five or so
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Speaker 2: on the top fifty list. Just an amazing player. McKenna
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Speaker 2: Andrews of Seahome. She is your Acceleration Driving School and
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Speaker 2: Linden Defensive Player of the Week. The offensive player of
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Speaker 2: the Week this week, which has brought to you by nobody,
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Speaker 2: so I call it the Walkham Preps Offensive Player of
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Speaker 2: the Week is Lynden Christian Senior Ella Fritz. I tell
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Speaker 2: you what she does so many things, you know, setting
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Speaker 2: up that offense. She is the setter. She's got a
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Speaker 2: lot of stuff going on. But you look at when
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Speaker 2: you look at the numbers and you look at how
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Speaker 2: many weapons she has, it is spread out so evenly,
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Speaker 2: and that's all on her. She does a great job
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Speaker 2: of seeing the mismatches and then she will take advantage
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Speaker 2: of things every once in a while as well. Nobody
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Speaker 2: can put a set over the net like she can.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: Now there's great setters that that that do it, but
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Speaker 2: no one could do it with a two hand force
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Speaker 2: like she can, or a one handed kind of like
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Speaker 2: reverse dunk almost that that that she can. It is
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Speaker 2: really something to see. Also a weapon at the service
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Speaker 2: line as well. So overall great offensive player. Ella Fritz
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Speaker 2: of Linden Christian. She is your Walking Preps Offensive Player
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Speaker 2: of the Week. Whow what a week it's been. And
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Speaker 2: I kind of, you know, usually at this point is
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Speaker 2: when I talk about the week that's coming up. We
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Speaker 2: kind of talked about it with all the playoffs going
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Speaker 2: on and and the races and the swimming and the
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Speaker 2: and the soccer and volleyball everything, so we've kind of
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Speaker 2: covered that, so you know, be out there, check it out.
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Speaker 2: A lot of stuff going on at Civic Stadium, Ferndale
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Speaker 2: High School, Meridian High School indoors, a lot of things
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Speaker 2: going on. Go out and support these athletes. They are amazing.
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Speaker 2: I'm telling you is is you know, even if like
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Speaker 2: if your team might be done or if your team's
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Speaker 2: off for the night, go and go and check these
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Speaker 2: players out. What's really cool is out out at Meridian
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Speaker 2: High School all week there's one A and two A
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Speaker 2: going on, so there's always something going on. Check it out.
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Speaker 2: I'm so glad that there's a gym that's close by
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Speaker 2: with with with two you know, two spots to play
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Speaker 2: volleyball at the same time, so you can get a
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Speaker 2: lot of stuff going on. Really really cool. I just
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Speaker 2: want to give it. Thank you to all my sponsors again,
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Speaker 2: Acceleration Driving School and Linden Apex, Northwest Volleyball Club, the
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Speaker 2: and Kurt Mayberryfarm dot Com. Again, this has been an
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Speaker 2: episode three hundred and eighty seven, your Fall Sports Weekly
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Speaker 2: Recap and I am Tyler Anderson of Walkome Preps and
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Speaker 2: that will talk to you tomorrow morning.