Latest / Whatcom Preps Podcast / Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 344 - Spring Sports Wrap Up 4-13
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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is Bellingham Senior Hunter to Shane's and you're listening
- 0:02Speaker 1: to the WALKAM Preps podcast with Tyler and Ryland gobay Hawks.
- 0:15Speaker 2: Greetings and welcome into the watcum Preps podcast. This is
- 0:18Speaker 2: episode three hundred and forty four of Spring Sports, a
- 0:21Speaker 2: weekly wrap up. I'm Royland Spencer along with me as
- 0:24Speaker 2: as always as Tyler Anderson of watchcumb Preps.
- 0:26Speaker 3: Tyler, how we doing doing good? Spring break? A little
- 0:31Speaker 3: light week this week, so not as much to talk about,
- 0:33Speaker 3: but you know, still got to see quite a bit
- 0:36Speaker 3: of sports and a lot of teams kind of out
- 0:39Speaker 3: of the county and doing things, and a lot of
- 0:41Speaker 3: sports taking some time off. And the weather's been getting better.
- 0:44Speaker 3: So we're gonna head right into this second half the
- 0:46Speaker 3: season here pretty quickly, and it's gonna be great. Yeah.
- 0:50Speaker 2: I mean we're pretty much only going to talk about
- 0:51Speaker 2: baseball today. I mean, we're talking about a couple other things,
- 0:54Speaker 2: but we're really talking there's a lot of baseball that
- 0:57Speaker 2: went on. Everybody else kind of took the week off,
- 0:59Speaker 2: but let's see here, Tyler, we need to give a
- 1:02Speaker 2: thank you to Hunter. To Shanes, that's a tough name
- 1:06Speaker 2: to say when you look at it and it's Dees
- 1:09Speaker 2: Shanes Bellingham track superstar and senior who had himself a
- 1:15Speaker 2: nice meet. The one thing that track did do this week.
- 1:19Speaker 2: I mean, don't get me wrong, they were practicing all week.
- 1:21Speaker 2: I saw it up at Boffel. Our track team was
- 1:24Speaker 2: out there running circles, just going nuts. But Tyler sponsorships.
- 1:29Speaker 2: If somebody wants to get a hold of you, there's
- 1:32Speaker 2: still some stuff maybe that they could sponsor here in
- 1:34Speaker 2: the spring. It's getting a little late, but you know
- 1:36Speaker 2: they can throw down fifty one hundred bucks or something,
- 1:37Speaker 2: maybe get a little something something. And then there's the
- 1:40Speaker 2: fall coming up, so lots of stuff to sponsor in
- 1:44Speaker 2: the fall. How did they get a hold of you?
- 1:47Speaker 2: Are the best ways through social media?
- 1:48Speaker 3: Just search for walk and preps and send a message
- 1:52Speaker 3: from there, and you can even just say something as
- 1:54Speaker 3: easy as I want to get involved somehow or whatever.
- 1:59Speaker 3: If you don't have have an idea but you want
- 2:01Speaker 3: to do something, that's fine. We can come up with
- 2:03Speaker 3: an idea together and and we can just go go
- 2:07Speaker 3: from there. Yeah, and it's it's it's just been amazing.
- 2:11Speaker 3: I still can't believe how many people listen. I mean,
- 2:13Speaker 3: I was at the Burgersolberg track me uh, just on Saturday,
- 2:17Speaker 3: and and you know, there was a couple from Seahome.
- 2:20Speaker 3: They came up and they were really nice and they
- 2:22Speaker 3: were like, we love the podcast, and I'm just like
- 2:26Speaker 3: really like you do, like you know about it? You know,
- 2:30Speaker 3: it's it's just so crazy. Why yeah, yeah, no, well
- 2:33Speaker 3: I think she said. The first thing the wife said
- 2:36Speaker 3: was something like, you know, we listened to the podcast
- 2:40Speaker 3: all the time and I'm and I'm like, I'm sorry,
- 2:43Speaker 3: and so it is, it's always just so crazy that
- 2:46Speaker 3: people are it's really growing and that's what that's what's
- 2:49Speaker 3: really cool. But what was fun for them is they
- 2:51Speaker 3: were saying, how you know, they're they're kind of new
- 2:53Speaker 3: to the area, so they don't know a lot of
- 2:56Speaker 3: the history, and so they're learning a lot from the podcast.
- 2:59Speaker 3: And they kids that do cross country and football and track,
- 3:03Speaker 3: and so when we're talking about all these different sports,
- 3:06Speaker 3: they're really learning a lot. I mean, you have you
- 3:08Speaker 3: have a kid, if you're new to the area and
- 3:09Speaker 3: you have a kid that runs cross country for Seahome,
- 3:11Speaker 3: it's like, wow, this this team is really good. Yeah,
- 3:14Speaker 3: they've been great for like ten years. You know, winning
- 3:17Speaker 3: all these state state titles in a row, but you
- 3:18Speaker 3: might not know that coming in. And they get to
- 3:21Speaker 3: learn about the history. And that's what I love is
- 3:23Speaker 3: the history too. So that's why I kind of overdo
- 3:26Speaker 3: it maybe on the podcast a little bit. And they
- 3:29Speaker 3: were even saying how it's so fun, how you know
- 3:31Speaker 3: this person's mom or this person's dad or uncle or whatever,
- 3:35Speaker 3: and they're learning these things. And so I think it's
- 3:37Speaker 3: really cool that that people are listening and and yeah,
- 3:40Speaker 3: and getting getting sponsorships is huge, and there are there
- 3:44Speaker 3: are lots of things and there's some there's some big
- 3:47Speaker 3: ideas coming up for the next school year with more
- 3:51Speaker 3: kind of weekly award type things, team stuff, a big
- 3:55Speaker 3: three that you and I were talking about. There's all
- 3:57Speaker 3: these different ideas. You know, the standings is going great.
- 4:00Speaker 3: You know, maybe if we can start doing standings for
- 4:02Speaker 3: other sports or which whichever I mean, there's gonna be
- 4:05Speaker 3: there's gonna be options, there's gonna be things that are
- 4:07Speaker 3: gonna be open. And so I'm really excited for the
- 4:11Speaker 3: future of walking Preps and uh, you know, we just
- 4:14Speaker 3: need to get some more businesses on board and keep
- 4:16Speaker 3: this keep this thing going because it's it's really happening,
- 4:21Speaker 3: you know. I don't want to say like supersonic speed,
- 4:24Speaker 3: but it's the trajectory is looking really good right now.
- 4:27Speaker 3: And so that's kind of the goal. And and it's
- 4:30Speaker 3: it's a group effort with the whole community.
- 4:32Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think if you know, if there were
- 4:34Speaker 2: more sponsors for some things, then we could put more
- 4:36Speaker 2: time and effort in some of those things, you know,
- 4:38Speaker 2: with let's just say boys and girls golf. You know,
- 4:40Speaker 2: if there was a way that we could you know,
- 4:44Speaker 2: afford to pay somebody to kind of focus on some
- 4:47Speaker 2: things like that, you know, and yeah, and.
- 4:49Speaker 3: Get individual shots of each if each golfer, so we
- 4:52Speaker 3: can do more like you know, like you know most
- 4:55Speaker 3: you know, birdies graphic, you know what I mean. Like
- 4:58Speaker 3: like there's so many cool things that could happen. It
- 5:01Speaker 3: just then we need the resources and the time and
- 5:05Speaker 3: helpers and stuff like that.
- 5:06Speaker 2: So yeah, and that's a lot of that comes with money.
- 5:09Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, you know, people want to volunteer their time.
- 5:13Speaker 2: That's great, but take it from somebody who's run a
- 5:16Speaker 2: lot of events where you need volunteers. It's always tough,
- 5:20Speaker 2: you know, And even when you find somebody that wants
- 5:22Speaker 2: to volunteer. It's tough to find somebody who's actually going
- 5:25Speaker 2: to follow through and be good at what they do.
- 5:27Speaker 2: You know, if you can drop them a few bucks
- 5:29Speaker 2: here or there, that helps with things. So that's where
- 5:32Speaker 2: sponsorships come in. Tyler, boys and Girls Golf this week
- 5:37Speaker 2: on my shows sheet. It's great because they didn't do anything,
- 5:40Speaker 2: those slackers. Nothing going on over there, Boys and Girls Golf.
- 5:44Speaker 2: I guess we can, Tyler, you know we could mention
- 5:47Speaker 2: maybe a couple of the top ten numbers here. I mean,
- 5:50Speaker 2: it is pretty crazy, you know. Daniel Blankenberg, Matthew Blankenberg
- 5:54Speaker 2: over at Meridian, they are kind of leading the way.
- 5:56Speaker 2: I guy TV three, Travis Brocky the third at Ferndale.
- 6:00Speaker 2: He's only point three behind Matthew Blankenberg for third place.
- 6:03Speaker 2: So it's going to be exciting going the rest of
- 6:06Speaker 2: the way. And then obviously Kinsley Rector over there at
- 6:11Speaker 2: over there at Lyndon, she is just absolutely killing it
- 6:13Speaker 2: in the in the girls golf. But you know there's
- 6:16Speaker 2: some girls that are making their way up up the
- 6:19Speaker 2: top ten that now that we've got it sorted by
- 6:22Speaker 2: eighteen hole average, and I believe girls golf. You said
- 6:26Speaker 2: they start playing eighteen here soon.
- 6:27Speaker 3: I think it's going to start this upcoming week. That's
- 6:30Speaker 3: what I was told. Right after spring break, they'll start
- 6:33Speaker 3: playing eighteen holes. You know, the weather's getting nicer, the
- 6:35Speaker 3: sun is staying out longer, it's going to work out.
- 6:38Speaker 3: So that's going to be really interesting because now it's
- 6:41Speaker 3: going to be about you know, sort of endurance and
- 6:44Speaker 3: walking eighteen holes. And will some players start to drop
- 6:48Speaker 3: off because they're not used to it. Will some players
- 6:51Speaker 3: come back up into the list because I don't know,
- 6:54Speaker 3: they get they get hot on one round and it
- 6:56Speaker 3: can really change your score. And so we'll have to see.
- 6:59Speaker 3: It's going to be it's going to be interesting, you know.
- 7:01Speaker 3: I mean, I I think, I mean, I haven't golfed
- 7:04Speaker 3: in over twenty years, probably, but it's like I'm I know,
- 7:07Speaker 3: I've golfed nine holes here and there. I have golf
- 7:09Speaker 3: golfed eighteen holes here and there, and it's a world
- 7:11Speaker 3: of difference, you know, So we have to see. It's
- 7:15Speaker 3: gonna be really interesting to see kind of how things
- 7:16Speaker 3: shake out in that whole realm there.
- 7:19Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know tennis as well. Tennis is moving
- 7:23Speaker 2: around along We've got three teams right now that are
- 7:27Speaker 2: still undefeated with Lyndon five and OH Seahome five and
- 7:30Speaker 2: OH Bellingham four and oh and Squalicum, who's one of
- 7:32Speaker 2: the better teams in the county. They are right behind
- 7:34Speaker 2: them at four and one. So a lot of tennis
- 7:37Speaker 2: coming up. As a matter of fact to Tyler, you know,
- 7:42Speaker 2: we've still got some of the best teams have to
- 7:44Speaker 2: play each other as far as gross tennis goes. I mean,
- 7:47Speaker 2: you can't have everybody undefeated if they've all played each other, right,
- 7:50Speaker 2: So we've got some really really big matches coming up
- 7:54Speaker 2: here soon. I know you're probably pretty excited about being
- 7:57Speaker 2: able to go out to some of those.
- 7:59Speaker 3: Yeah, there's there's you know, it's it's been a while,
- 8:02Speaker 3: you know, it seems like since I've been able to
- 8:03Speaker 3: see some of these sports. And and I want to say,
- 8:07Speaker 3: I think it's Lynden Bellingham.
- 8:08Speaker 2: Might be Tuesday, Tuesday, April fifteenth, Yes, Lynden Bellingham four pm.
- 8:13Speaker 3: Yeah, So that one, I that one I had had
- 8:16Speaker 3: in my head for a while now, And it seems
- 8:18Speaker 3: like April fifteenth was so long ago or along away,
- 8:21Speaker 3: and now it's just right here this week. You know
- 8:24Speaker 3: it's and so that one I'm really super excited about.
- 8:27Speaker 3: It's I'm really curious to see because you know, it's
- 8:32Speaker 3: you don't have the flexibility like you do in wrestling.
- 8:34Speaker 3: But you know how in wrestling you can you can
- 8:36Speaker 3: put a guy up away strategically speaking, to face another
- 8:40Speaker 3: wrestler or do something. You know, you can kind of
- 8:43Speaker 3: do that kind of stuff. And in tennis, you know,
- 8:46Speaker 3: Linden and Bellingham right now have a lot of flexibility
- 8:48Speaker 3: to say, wow, they're they're really strong in doubles.
- 8:51Speaker 2: Do we do we.
- 8:53Speaker 3: Taken loss here so we can win like three of
- 8:55Speaker 3: the singles matches? And you know, because it's really tricky
- 9:00Speaker 3: because Lennon has those twin sisters, the Brooks sisters that
- 9:03Speaker 3: are unbelievable. Did he keep them both singles? Does Bellingham
- 9:07Speaker 3: use their top two players and put them in doubles
- 9:10Speaker 3: because they won state last year in doubles? But the
- 9:12Speaker 3: but do you face them straight ahead straight you know,
- 9:15Speaker 3: head to head against the Brooks sisters and singles? There's
- 9:18Speaker 3: so much of this and like I don't know how
- 9:21Speaker 3: I wish I knew, but and I know there's some
- 9:23Speaker 3: tennis experts out there listening but I don't know when
- 9:25Speaker 3: they decide that, how or how late in the game
- 9:28Speaker 3: they decide who's going to be where do you have
- 9:31Speaker 3: to add like does the home team? Does one team
- 9:34Speaker 3: have to do it first and then the other team decide, Oh,
- 9:36Speaker 3: that's how you're doing it. So I'm going to play it.
- 9:38Speaker 2: This way like the you know, the visiting team puts
- 9:41Speaker 2: in their lineup and then the home team puts in there.
- 9:44Speaker 3: Like yeah, So I'm really curious to see a lot
- 9:47Speaker 3: of that that strategy get happens, and and so it's
- 9:53Speaker 3: that one's going to be really good, and I'm really
- 9:55Speaker 3: curious to see certain matchups. I hope I get to
- 9:58Speaker 3: see certain matchups because that's gonna be wild's and you know,
- 10:01Speaker 3: hopefully the weather will stay stay good and they'll get
- 10:04Speaker 3: it out they'll play. It'd be awesome.
- 10:06Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'll tell you what this week, Tyler specifically
- 10:09Speaker 2: is unbelievably huge. So Lakewood, who is two to one
- 10:14Speaker 2: on the season, granted they've actually lost more courts than
- 10:18Speaker 2: they've won, which is wild to look at, but they
- 10:22Speaker 2: play Bellingham on Monday, and then Bellingham has to come
- 10:25Speaker 2: back again and play Linden on Tuesday, while Seahome travels
- 10:29Speaker 2: down to Okarbor, who's having a pretty rough season, and
- 10:34Speaker 2: then Squalcum is taking on Ferndale, who is actually has
- 10:39Speaker 2: the exact same record as ok Haarbor. But then on Thursday,
- 10:45Speaker 2: you've got Seaholme, Ferndale, you've got Blaine, Lindon, you've got Squalicum, Lakewood,
- 10:49Speaker 2: you've got Ana Cortus Bellingham. And then on Friday, that's right,
- 10:54Speaker 2: Bellingham has four matches this week Tyler Bellingham, Blaine, Lakewood, Seahome, Lynden, Squalicum.
- 11:03Speaker 2: So Linden plays, Linden plays Bellingham, Blaine, and Squalicum this week. Yeah,
- 11:12Speaker 2: so we're gonna find out a lot about I mean,
- 11:14Speaker 2: these standings are gonna change drastically, like or they all
- 11:19Speaker 2: kind of round about beat each other and nobody really moves.
- 11:22Speaker 2: But I mean there's gonna be some definite changes just
- 11:25Speaker 2: this week. And then Tyler, Yeah, just to go even further, Okay,
- 11:30Speaker 2: on Tuesday, Seahome Linden. So in their next four matches,
- 11:34Speaker 2: Linden gets Bellingham, Blaine, Squalicum, and Sea Home all in
- 11:38Speaker 2: eight days.
- 11:39Speaker 3: They run the walking county gamut there.
- 11:41Speaker 2: Yeah, and then starting or to be next week or
- 11:46Speaker 2: the week after is when you get that doubles tournament,
- 11:49Speaker 2: that two day doubles tournament over at Sea Hoome. So
- 11:53Speaker 2: a lot of tennis coming up here, I mean, Tyler,
- 11:55Speaker 2: we talked way more tennis right now than we kind
- 11:57Speaker 2: of planned on it because there's so much coming up
- 11:59Speaker 2: here soon. But yeah, track and Field, Tyler, they did
- 12:03Speaker 2: have something going on this week. Track and Field had
- 12:06Speaker 2: the Burger Sulberg Invite that was on Saturday over at
- 12:09Speaker 2: Civic Stadium. Just give you a real quick top five
- 12:13Speaker 2: team scores if you will. Shorecress wins the women's side
- 12:17Speaker 2: eighty one and a half points see Home seventy five points,
- 12:21Speaker 2: and second Ballard seventy three points, and third Shorewood sixty
- 12:24Speaker 2: points and fourth Curtis fifty three and a half in
- 12:26Speaker 2: fifth and then on the men's side Shorewood eighty seven
- 12:31Speaker 2: and a half they win, and a Cordus seventy seven,
- 12:34Speaker 2: Jackson fifty eight, South Windby forty six, and Bothel the
- 12:38Speaker 2: Cougars the Fighting Kugs forty five points. They finished in
- 12:43Speaker 2: fifth place. Lots of lots of new times and stuff, though, Tyler,
- 12:48Speaker 2: did you make it out there to the Burger Solberg Invite? Yeah?
- 12:50Speaker 3: I was out there for a few hours. Weather was
- 12:53Speaker 3: weather was sunny. It was just kind of it was cold. Yeah,
- 12:56Speaker 3: and it's like that was Chris Man, but it was
- 12:58Speaker 3: it was like it was almost like perfect fotball weather
- 13:00Speaker 3: where you know there's you know, the wind wasn't too bad.
- 13:03Speaker 3: It was great. You know, you could see everything, and
- 13:05Speaker 3: it was a chill because you want it to be
- 13:07Speaker 3: kind of colder when you're playing because you're out there,
- 13:09Speaker 3: you know, especially the lineman and uh, but that's kind
- 13:12Speaker 3: of what that's kind of the feel that it had.
- 13:15Speaker 3: You know, I saw a lot of people that I knew.
- 13:17Speaker 3: It was really cool. I love kind of walking around
- 13:19Speaker 3: and seeing a little bit of each event with what's
- 13:22Speaker 3: going on, kind of what's happening. Oh that's still the
- 13:24Speaker 3: first flight here, Okay, I'll go and check this out. Okay,
- 13:27Speaker 3: what's going on over here? Got to always check out
- 13:30Speaker 3: the high jump. I love I love seeing the high jump.
- 13:32Speaker 3: It's one of my favorites. And it was it was
- 13:35Speaker 3: really cool. I mean, I you know, thirty seven different schools.
- 13:38Speaker 3: There a lot of school buses parked, you know, got
- 13:41Speaker 3: to find a good parking spot. You know. It was
- 13:45Speaker 3: it was really really neat, you know, seeing a lot
- 13:47Speaker 3: of people. There wasn't a ton of walking county schools there. Bellingham,
- 13:50Speaker 3: Sea Home, Ferndale, Lending Christian. I think that was it.
- 13:55Speaker 3: But uh you know my guy aj Bennett from Blaine,
- 13:58Speaker 3: he was out there taking pictures, you know, just kind
- 14:01Speaker 3: of doing his thing and and uh so, yeah, it was.
- 14:05Speaker 3: It was a really really cool event. And I it's
- 14:07Speaker 3: it's nice when these events that I seem like I
- 14:09Speaker 3: go to every year, it seems like this year the
- 14:11Speaker 3: weather has been pretty decent for them, when they haven't
- 14:14Speaker 3: been in the years past.
- 14:16Speaker 2: Tyler, do you know who took seventh in the men's
- 14:18Speaker 2: varsity javelin? Probably Grant Staffer. Grant Staffer who, by the way,
- 14:25Speaker 2: Stafford Insurance. I forgot to mention that they sponsored track
- 14:27Speaker 2: and field. Yeah, I can't believe I did that. Stafford
- 14:30Speaker 2: Insurance nineteen oh three Front Street in the Linden three
- 14:33Speaker 2: six zero seven four six eighty eighth three. Online that
- 14:36Speaker 2: Stafford Insurance dot com. That's st A U F F
- 14:40Speaker 2: E R Insurance dot com. I've just been bouncing around
- 14:43Speaker 2: looking at different things, Tyler. One of my buddies is
- 14:47Speaker 2: a throws coach. I think he's down at Olympia. You
- 14:50Speaker 2: know what he had the other day? What's that he
- 14:53Speaker 2: had a guy throw over sixty feet in the shot
- 14:56Speaker 2: put Ooh yeah, I saw that. I went that seems
- 15:02Speaker 2: really far, like yes, and I went and looked it
- 15:04Speaker 2: up and sure enough it is pretty far. The top distance,
- 15:08Speaker 2: I guess if you will. At the Burger Solberg was
- 15:11Speaker 2: fifty feet.
- 15:13Speaker 3: Yeah. I was gonna say most of the times, like
- 15:15Speaker 3: they have like each like every ten feet they have
- 15:17Speaker 3: like the like the like the marking you know or
- 15:21Speaker 3: you know, and usually they don't have one for sixty.
- 15:24Speaker 3: So that just tells you something right there. I think
- 15:27Speaker 3: the walkt country record is sixty four to seven and
- 15:31Speaker 3: that's that was Stephen Ayres.
- 15:33Speaker 2: But the state that tournament record get this tyler, and
- 15:37Speaker 2: there's a reason it stood since nineteen seventy seven sixty
- 15:42Speaker 2: eight feet eight and a half by Vince Goldsmith of
- 15:47Speaker 2: Mount Tahoma. I mean that. Oh now, hold on a
- 15:50Speaker 2: second here, and this is where the WIAA smack you
- 15:55Speaker 2: guys around here says here the for a state tournament
- 15:58Speaker 2: record is sixty nine nine and a half. So either
- 16:02Speaker 2: they screwed it up or they just didn't update it somehow,
- 16:04Speaker 2: but sixty nine nine and a half is what it
- 16:07Speaker 2: says here for a boys, I mean, that's unbelievable, Like,
- 16:13Speaker 2: how do you throw it that far?
- 16:15Speaker 3: Vince Goldsmith, by the way, went to University of Oregon
- 16:19Speaker 3: to play football and do track, and he's in the
- 16:23Speaker 3: Canadian Football Hall of Fame. Played in the CFL, won
- 16:26Speaker 3: a Great Cup from eighty one to nineteen ninety. He
- 16:29Speaker 3: was a defensive end and linebacker.
- 16:32Speaker 2: Wow.
- 16:32Speaker 3: So yeah, And even says here on his on his
- 16:37Speaker 3: Wikipedia that he has the Walkham County or not to
- 16:41Speaker 3: walk Hight the Washington State record sixty nine to eleven. So,
- 16:45Speaker 3: oh my god, on April twenty ninth, nineteen seventy seven.
- 16:49Speaker 3: So April twenty nine. That wouldn't have been at state,
- 16:51Speaker 3: but that was his best.
- 16:54Speaker 2: He just did it at some random event, right right,
- 16:58Speaker 2: the Bob Johnson Memorial. Now, Tyler, since there was one event,
- 17:03Speaker 2: there are some new times and some new leaders as
- 17:06Speaker 2: far as you know the one hundred meters, the two
- 17:09Speaker 2: hundred meters. So we've got some stuff to talk about
- 17:10Speaker 2: here in the We'll start with the boys like we
- 17:13Speaker 2: always do here. One hundred meters, Tyler, a whole new
- 17:17Speaker 2: name here taken over the top spot. Yeah, you know,
- 17:20Speaker 2: Lucaslolgi had it for a while. Ansonos Bjornson took it
- 17:23Speaker 2: over and now it's Porter Leak of Seahome, who at
- 17:27Speaker 2: the Bergersolburg ran eleven point two nine and uh, you know,
- 17:31Speaker 2: that's an unbelievable time. But I I'm you know, it's
- 17:36Speaker 2: one of those weird years where somebody usually gets like
- 17:38Speaker 2: eleven one eleven flat somewhere in here, and it just
- 17:41Speaker 2: hasn't happened yet in Waka County.
- 17:42Speaker 3: I know it will. Uh, and there's a lot of
- 17:45Speaker 3: other guys you know that are getting that are getting
- 17:48Speaker 3: their times better, especially in the hundred meter dash, and
- 17:50Speaker 3: this is one of those events and you would neither
- 17:51Speaker 3: you or I did track, but when you're but we
- 17:55Speaker 3: both competed in sports, so it's like, you know, when
- 17:58Speaker 3: the competition is little better, that you kind of up
- 18:01Speaker 3: your game just kind of naturally. And I'm sure that
- 18:04Speaker 3: you know a lot of these, you know, especially in
- 18:06Speaker 3: the sprints here. Uh, it doesn't you know, it doesn't
- 18:09Speaker 3: surprise me that you know, you have someone running faster
- 18:12Speaker 3: than usual next to you. You're gonna you're gonna, you know,
- 18:15Speaker 3: you just naturally run faster, so uh so I'm not
- 18:18Speaker 3: surprised there. Porter League of Seahome eleven point twenty nine
- 18:20Speaker 3: and the hundred meters now, and.
- 18:22Speaker 2: Porter League does lead in the two hundred meters and
- 18:24Speaker 2: put up a new best time.
- 18:26Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty two to nine to three. So what he
- 18:29Speaker 3: did at that bursol Berg invite is he just kind
- 18:32Speaker 3: of upped his game a little bit. Like I said,
- 18:34Speaker 3: the weather was pretty good, so now he's leading him
- 18:36Speaker 3: both and he got new uh season best and both times.
- 18:40Speaker 2: We got new times in the one ten meter hurdles
- 18:43Speaker 2: and the three hundred meter hurdles, both by the young
- 18:47Speaker 2: man that gave us the intro today.
- 18:49Speaker 3: Absolutely, and that's again that's the same type of deal
- 18:51Speaker 3: where you know the the athletes around you are pushing
- 18:54Speaker 3: you to be better. And fifteen point zero two unbelievable
- 18:58Speaker 3: time for Hunter to Shane's of Bellingham on the one
- 19:01Speaker 3: ten meter hurdles, and then he broke forty again, bettering
- 19:05Speaker 3: his old time now at thirty nine to four to
- 19:08Speaker 3: three in the three hundred meter hurdles. Definitely kind of
- 19:12Speaker 3: head and shoulders above everybody else all season as the
- 19:15Speaker 3: top hurdler in Walking.
- 19:16Speaker 2: County Seaholme has now taken over the top time in
- 19:19Speaker 2: the four by four hundred relay led by our guy
- 19:22Speaker 2: Porter Leak.
- 19:24Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, Porter League, Parker, Norman, Heath Terry and Aiden
- 19:27Speaker 3: Batt of Seahome three minutes twenty nine point nine to
- 19:32Speaker 3: seven seconds, and that is I think that's like, I
- 19:35Speaker 3: don't know, it's like seven or eight seconds faster than
- 19:38Speaker 3: the next one. So that really tells me a lot.
- 19:40Speaker 3: And that's that's a time that we might not see
- 19:46Speaker 3: bettered for quite a while. That is one of those
- 19:48Speaker 3: times I'm looking at it going, Holy cow, I gotta
- 19:51Speaker 3: start looking at like school record, walka county record type stuff.
- 19:55Speaker 3: I know there's been some really good times over the years,
- 19:59Speaker 3: but that one really kind of jumped out to me.
- 20:01Speaker 2: For this year so far, the state tournament best time
- 20:05Speaker 2: in the four x four is three point fifteen Tyler
- 20:08Speaker 2: oh Go. And actually, as I'm looking at it here,
- 20:11Speaker 2: Mike Tate, Jeremiah McNeil, Zeke McNeil. Those guys were really
- 20:14Speaker 2: good football players too from Federal Away High School. That
- 20:17Speaker 2: was in twenty ten. I'm thinking about it here too.
- 20:19Speaker 2: I think those three guys I just named, I think
- 20:22Speaker 2: they might have been sophomores at the time, because they
- 20:25Speaker 2: would have been like two thousand and thirteen graduates or
- 20:29Speaker 2: ten twelve. So I can't remember exactly because I know
- 20:32Speaker 2: they played in the twenty twelve season. They were there
- 20:35Speaker 2: at the same time as like I think Chico mcclatcher
- 20:37Speaker 2: was a freshman at the time, and there was so
- 20:40Speaker 2: much speed going through that school it was unbelievable.
- 20:43Speaker 3: I mean, so I got, yeah, I got the Walkham
- 20:45Speaker 3: County record from Squalicum at three twenty point six y three,
- 20:51Speaker 3: and I don't know who was on that team. I
- 20:52Speaker 3: just have the team, you know, from twenty thirteen, but
- 20:55Speaker 3: the two thousand and nine team from Lyndon was three
- 20:58Speaker 3: twenty point nine eight and I believe that that was
- 21:00Speaker 3: Blair Bomber was on that team. And so yeah, so
- 21:03Speaker 3: there's been some some pretty decent times here, but they
- 21:06Speaker 3: do crack the top you know twenty like Walking County
- 21:11Speaker 3: all time with that with that time, so it's pretty cool.
- 21:14Speaker 2: I'm just jumping through looking at some of the other
- 21:16Speaker 2: you know, levels of the state tournament, other classifications to
- 21:20Speaker 2: see what their times are, and they're all right around
- 21:22Speaker 2: that that three twenty yeah time and then you look
- 21:26Speaker 2: at the four A and it's three fifteen, like, holy crap. Yeah,
- 21:28Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, I mean and then you look at
- 21:32Speaker 2: Juwarren Hooker in his ten thirty five state championship time
- 21:35Speaker 2: in the one hundred, you just laugh like that's just crazy.
- 21:39Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's that's an unbelievable time. Let's move
- 21:42Speaker 2: on to talk about girls. There are a few top
- 21:43Speaker 2: times over here. Let's see here we start with the
- 21:48Speaker 2: the eight hundred meters, same girl, new time.
- 21:51Speaker 3: Yeah, Kirsten Ludiman of Seahome, she bettered her time by
- 21:55Speaker 3: like five seconds, which is really saying something. In the
- 21:57Speaker 3: eight inner meters. I think she took second place at
- 22:00Speaker 3: the Burger Solberg. So again you're chasing someone, you know
- 22:03Speaker 3: who you're not used to having to chase somebody, and
- 22:05Speaker 3: she was, and she got a really good time to
- 22:07Speaker 3: thirteen oh one.
- 22:09Speaker 2: We got a new time in the thirty two hundred
- 22:12Speaker 2: meters and it's a very familiar name.
- 22:14Speaker 3: Yeah, Sloan Clins from Sea Home just over eleven minutes,
- 22:18Speaker 3: eleven minutes and then zero point nine to five seconds,
- 22:22Speaker 3: and yeah, you start you're gonna start getting this influx
- 22:26Speaker 3: of these Sea Home long long distance runners where you know,
- 22:30Speaker 3: you're they're all gonna kind of they might even kind
- 22:32Speaker 3: of better themselves and go upot, you know, above each other.
- 22:35Speaker 3: And so I'm not I'm not surprised there. Uh And
- 22:39Speaker 3: the thirty two hundred is and again definitely one of
- 22:42Speaker 3: those events where every single week you're gonna see better
- 22:45Speaker 3: times just because you're getting better conditioned and the weather's
- 22:48Speaker 3: getting better and it just kind of all falls into
- 22:50Speaker 3: place that way.
- 22:51Speaker 2: We got a new distance in the long jump, the
- 22:55Speaker 2: trip or excuse me, I knew long as a triple jump.
- 22:58Speaker 2: We'll just add those two together. The triple jump's got
- 23:01Speaker 2: a new top time, top, yeah, top whatever.
- 23:04Speaker 3: Yeah. The freshman Kaylin Hinton, who we talked about last
- 23:07Speaker 3: week quite a bit. Uh her it was thirty five
- 23:09Speaker 3: feet even now she's thirty five feet nine and a
- 23:12Speaker 3: half inches, and she did that at the Burger Solberg
- 23:15Speaker 3: and that is you know, we were talking about looking
- 23:18Speaker 3: at school records and all that with with that, with
- 23:21Speaker 3: that distance, I think this Waking Country record is thirty
- 23:24Speaker 3: nine feet, so really really impressive, especially for a freshman
- 23:29Speaker 3: for an event that's kind of a unique event that
- 23:32Speaker 3: you know, a lot of people don't even try. You know.
- 23:34Speaker 3: It's kind of like pole ball. It's like you look
- 23:36Speaker 3: at and you I don't want to try it, you know,
- 23:38Speaker 3: and because it's just so herky, jerky and and everything.
- 23:42Speaker 3: But man, she's she's got it down and she's probably
- 23:45Speaker 3: gonna be dominating for the next few years.
- 23:47Speaker 2: Tyler, what do you think the long jump was for
- 23:51Speaker 2: the center fielder from Angels in the outfield when the
- 23:53Speaker 2: angel lifted him up.
- 23:57Speaker 3: I mean, not that ball.
- 23:58Speaker 2: It was a long waist. It was a long That's
- 24:02Speaker 2: it for Track and Field again. Brought to you by
- 24:03Speaker 2: Staffer Insurance. We think them for their continued support of
- 24:07Speaker 2: Watcom Preps boys soccer. Tyler North County Alliance FC a
- 24:11Speaker 2: reminder their tryouts are I believe starting. Is it like
- 24:15Speaker 2: Wednesday or something? I think it's the seventeenth.
- 24:18Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really really close. I know that.
- 24:19Speaker 2: Yeah, let me see if I can type it in
- 24:22Speaker 2: NC ALLIANCEFC dot com. Right here, come on, quickly, come on, Ryland,
- 24:28Speaker 2: get it together here, you're behind your game. Twenty twenty
- 24:31Speaker 2: five tryouts Tyler starting on the seventeenth. I was right,
- 24:38Speaker 2: look at that. Yep. A whole week later and I
- 24:40Speaker 2: still remember. Yeah, from to the sea here, what is it?
- 24:45Speaker 2: Twenty eighteen birth year all the way down to two
- 24:48Speaker 2: thousand and seven. They've got teams going on that is
- 24:51Speaker 2: both boys and girls. And the tryouts start the seventeenth
- 24:54Speaker 2: for the youngest and they go all the way until
- 24:57Speaker 2: May seventh for the oldest. So hop on see allions
- 25:00Speaker 2: FC dot com backslash tryouts you can find out all
- 25:03Speaker 2: the information. I assume it's probably the trial. It's gonna
- 25:06Speaker 2: be at Bender Fields. Let's hear yep. All trials held
- 25:09Speaker 2: at Bender Fields in Linden's So, and it's coming up.
- 25:13Speaker 2: Let's see. The fourteenth is what Monday? So fifteen sixteen seventeen,
- 25:18Speaker 2: so Thursday, Thursday is the first ones for the for
- 25:21Speaker 2: the When I say twenty eighteen, those kids are like six.
- 25:24Speaker 2: I mean, that's gotta be fun to watch those kids
- 25:26Speaker 2: just running around, bumping into each other, falling all over
- 25:28Speaker 2: the place, kicking the ball. They probably don't even know
- 25:30Speaker 2: where it's going, you know. I love that stuff, Like
- 25:34Speaker 2: it's like t ball, Like I don't want to watch
- 25:36Speaker 2: three hours of t ball, but a nice fifteen minutes
- 25:38Speaker 2: or something, and it's hilarious. You know. I saw one
- 25:41Speaker 2: the other day Tyler a kid, you know, they put
- 25:43Speaker 2: the ball on the tee and he smacks it and
- 25:44Speaker 2: it goes like right to the pitcher and the pitcher
- 25:46Speaker 2: falls down as he's trying to grab it. And then
- 25:49Speaker 2: the kid like stands back up and the kid that
- 25:50Speaker 2: hit the ball comes flying at him and just destroys him.
- 25:54Speaker 2: I don't know where he thought he was going. He
- 25:55Speaker 2: wasn't going to first base. I can tell you that much.
- 25:57Speaker 2: A right man. He took out the picture. That's a
- 26:00Speaker 2: new sport. I wouldn't mind, like full contact baseball. Could
- 26:02Speaker 2: you imagine that little grounder back to the pitcher and
- 26:04Speaker 2: you just come body checking it. Be like baseball and
- 26:06Speaker 2: hockey together in one. It'd be fun, ye watch. Yeah, yeah,
- 26:10Speaker 2: not much going on in soccer as a matter of fact,
- 26:12Speaker 2: nothing going on in soccer, but North County Alliance FC
- 26:15Speaker 2: dot com that is the website. Just really quickly see
- 26:18Speaker 2: home Squalum. They're both still undefeated, Bellingham Linden. They both
- 26:22Speaker 2: have just the one loss, so a lot of action
- 26:25Speaker 2: coming on here. And then our guy Harvest Howell the
- 26:28Speaker 2: leader with nine goals. Second place Cody McCauley of Squalalicum
- 26:33Speaker 2: with six so Harvest Howell, holding on, holding on up there.
- 26:37Speaker 2: But yeah, that's it for soccer fast pitch. Not much
- 26:40Speaker 2: going on over there either, just one game. But let's
- 26:43Speaker 2: talk scoreboards. Brought to you by man In Insurance, seven
- 26:46Speaker 2: hundred Front Street in Lindon three six zero nine to
- 26:48Speaker 2: two to two zero one four nine. Not a great
- 26:51Speaker 2: week for their money because they only got the one scoreboard, Tyler. Yeah,
- 26:55Speaker 2: and the stat leaders basically don't really change. I mean,
- 26:58Speaker 2: well stat leaders don't change at all as far as
- 27:00Speaker 2: I'm looking at here. But it wasn't a whole lot
- 27:03Speaker 2: going on, so just the one game. But let's take
- 27:05Speaker 2: a quick peek at the standings, which are brought to
- 27:07Speaker 2: you by Acceleration Driving School in Lindon three six zero
- 27:10Speaker 2: seven four six four five sixty seven Linden. They are
- 27:14Speaker 2: five and oh and uh five and ohero in League
- 27:17Speaker 2: play five and four overall, Nooksack Valley three and two
- 27:20Speaker 2: in League five and two overall, Ferndale three and two
- 27:22Speaker 2: in League five and five overall. Uh yeah, that's the
- 27:25Speaker 2: top of the league there. The daily recaps are brought
- 27:28Speaker 2: to you by Watcom Wolverines Watcomwolverines dot com. They also
- 27:32Speaker 2: sponsored the player of the Week Tyler. And with the
- 27:34Speaker 2: one game, there is still a player of the Week
- 27:37Speaker 2: coming out because there is one girl that did go
- 27:39Speaker 2: absolutely nuts in that one game.
- 27:42Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was a crazy game. I was five
- 27:44Speaker 3: to five after seven innings, and then I don't know
- 27:46Speaker 3: if you know this, but in fast pitch they adopt
- 27:48Speaker 3: the extra inning rule. It's the same as like Major
- 27:51Speaker 3: League Baseball put a runner on second base and and
- 27:54Speaker 3: so you usually don't go too many innings. I did
- 27:57Speaker 3: witness a fourteen inning game at State in twenty fey two.
- 28:00Speaker 3: It was unbelievable. The best fast pitch game I've ever
- 28:03Speaker 3: seen were they both like scoring the runner from second
- 28:05Speaker 3: and then the other team would do it too or
- 28:07Speaker 3: what it was kind of off and on. I think
- 28:09Speaker 3: majority of the time nobody was scoring, but when the
- 28:12Speaker 3: win one would then the other one would or they'd
- 28:13Speaker 3: score two and the other one scored two. It was insane. Yeah,
- 28:18Speaker 3: I'll never forget that game. And but yeah, and this
- 28:22Speaker 3: one it was you know, it was five to five.
- 28:24Speaker 3: They go to the eighth inning, neither team scores. They
- 28:27Speaker 3: go to the ninth inning and Mount Baker scored like
- 28:31Speaker 3: twelve runs, and which is what they're capable of doing. Yeah,
- 28:35Speaker 3: and then and then Kashmir scored three and that that
- 28:38Speaker 3: that that was that. So it was seventeen to eight.
- 28:42Speaker 3: But but Annalie Cone, the leadoff shortstop she is, she
- 28:49Speaker 3: had an amazing, amazing game. Not only is she go
- 28:51Speaker 3: three for six, but all three hits were doubles. She
- 28:54Speaker 3: had three RBIs, she scored four runs, and she stole
- 28:57Speaker 3: three bases as well, And she was kind of the
- 28:59Speaker 3: catalyst for that for that inning. I think she led
- 29:01Speaker 3: off that inning with the runner on second base, that
- 29:05Speaker 3: top of the ninth with the double, scored a run.
- 29:08Speaker 3: Later on in the inning she got on you know,
- 29:11Speaker 3: I might have been I'm trying to remember if it
- 29:13Speaker 3: was that second at beat she had in the inning
- 29:15Speaker 3: where she had another double, and then after that, you know,
- 29:18Speaker 3: Carl Walters hit a three run home run and then
- 29:20Speaker 3: Grazie Zender hit a solo run right after that, back
- 29:24Speaker 3: to back Jackson just that that inning kind of got away.
- 29:27Speaker 3: But Walking Wolverine's Player of the Week is going to
- 29:30Speaker 3: Annalie Cohen of Mount Baker, getting the getting that inning going,
- 29:33Speaker 3: having three doubles in that one game, scored four runs,
- 29:36Speaker 3: stole three bases and three RBIs, so congratulations to her.
- 29:40Speaker 2: Yeah, and Tyler, you mentioned a couple of stat leaders
- 29:42Speaker 2: there too, the Gracie Zender with hits, Annalie Cohne with runs.
- 29:47Speaker 2: So she's up to twenty six now, I mean.
- 29:50Speaker 3: No, these these stat leaders are updated now on Oh okay,
- 29:53Speaker 3: she went from eighteen to twenty two.
- 29:54Speaker 2: And yeah, and then I'm looking at some of the
- 29:57Speaker 2: other stuff here too. I still can't believe Ops Grazies
- 30:00Speaker 2: nineteen eighty two. Holy cow, man, Yeah, I mean pretty incredible,
- 30:05Speaker 2: It's just ridiculous. And again, stat Leaders brought to you
- 30:08Speaker 2: by Mana Insurance MANA Insurance Group dot com. Tyler, there
- 30:12Speaker 2: is one sport that did actually play a lot this
- 30:14Speaker 2: weekend or this week, and that's baseball. So we actually
- 30:17Speaker 2: got a little bit to talk about here. We might
- 30:19Speaker 2: even be able to make this podcast almost a full hour.
- 30:23Speaker 2: Probably not because we were only halfway there. But scoreboards
- 30:27Speaker 2: brought to you by j e KK Sports Cards. You
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- 30:34Speaker 2: The daily recaps are brought to you by Dick Bedlington Farms.
- 30:37Speaker 2: Find them and their potatoes over at Bedlington Farms dot com.
- 30:41Speaker 2: Standings again, brought to you by Acceleration Driving School in Lynden.
- 30:44Speaker 2: Three six zero seven four six four five six seven
- 30:48Speaker 2: and Tyler just really quickly. The scoreboard on Tuesday was wild.
- 30:55Speaker 2: Was it Tuesday?
- 30:55Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 30:56Speaker 2: Because Monday was rainhouse, right, and then everybody, well on everybody,
- 31:01Speaker 2: But there was a lot of double headers on Tuesday, right.
- 31:03Speaker 3: I think it was Monday. Everything was rained out Tuesday,
- 31:06Speaker 3: there was some. There was pretty busy. Wednesday was the
- 31:10Speaker 3: crazy day.
- 31:10Speaker 2: Okay, because I remember seeing our guy Joel over there.
- 31:15Speaker 2: He posted that they were playing a double header at
- 31:17Speaker 2: two different places, and I'm like, what right, Like, what
- 31:19Speaker 2: the heck is going on here? And because obviously I'm
- 31:22Speaker 2: not up in Waukham County, so I didn't know that
- 31:24Speaker 2: the weather was bad, although we got rained out on
- 31:26Speaker 2: Monday also, so I'm looking at him like, wow, that's
- 31:29Speaker 2: kind of interesting. I wonder why they're doing that. And then
- 31:30Speaker 2: the scoreboard comes out later was it Wednesday night? And
- 31:33Speaker 2: I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on a second here,
- 31:36Speaker 2: how the heck did Linden play Mount Baker and then
- 31:39Speaker 2: travel across the state and place Sila And You're like,
- 31:42Speaker 2: oh boy, let me tell you about that, so really quickly,
- 31:47Speaker 2: just give me the review of like kind of how
- 31:49Speaker 2: things went down here.
- 31:50Speaker 3: Well, it was pretty crazy, and I mean, I mean
- 31:52Speaker 3: what happens is they everybody's supposed to get in two
- 31:55Speaker 3: league games during spring break, and because at spring break
- 31:59Speaker 3: you want to get him in on Monday and Tuesday. Yeah,
- 32:01Speaker 3: you know, by the way you have that way you
- 32:03Speaker 3: can kind of have a spring break and and Wednesday
- 32:06Speaker 3: is the rain out day. That's kind of how you know,
- 32:10Speaker 3: everybody's prepared for it, and a lot there's you know,
- 32:13Speaker 3: there were some teams that didn't have their their best
- 32:15Speaker 3: players because spring break and they had vacations and stuff
- 32:18Speaker 3: like that. There was you know, I know because I
- 32:20Speaker 3: was a part of this. The Mount Baker band every
- 32:24Speaker 3: three years goes on a trip to Disneyland and so
- 32:26Speaker 3: you're always kind of waiting for that year to happen,
- 32:29Speaker 3: and it happens during spring break. Well this was the year.
- 32:31Speaker 3: So they were missing like three players, three pretty good players,
- 32:35Speaker 3: and so there was you know, teams were not at
- 32:37Speaker 3: full form for the most part, but it was Yeah,
- 32:41Speaker 3: everything was out. Monday. Tuesday started with you know, Ferndale
- 32:45Speaker 3: played at Squalk and then they went down to Lakewood
- 32:47Speaker 3: and played there in a doubleheader, so they had, you know,
- 32:50Speaker 3: played in you know, Walking County, then you go down
- 32:53Speaker 3: to Snohomish County and play a game. And it was
- 32:56Speaker 3: crazy because that first game just kind of gave everybody
- 32:59Speaker 3: a world because Squalicum beat Ferndale. Squalicum hadn't won a
- 33:03Speaker 3: game in seven hundred and eleven days. Wow, So that
- 33:06Speaker 3: was a really really cool thing for them. Uh and
- 33:09Speaker 3: to do it against a team like Ferndale that's loaded. Uh,
- 33:12Speaker 3: that was that kind of showed everybody, Okay, here's the
- 33:15Speaker 3: here's this kind of week that we're gonna have, and
- 33:19Speaker 3: and it just kind of went from there and a
- 33:21Speaker 3: lot of teams getting in games kind of here and there.
- 33:23Speaker 3: It was still kind of rainy on Tuesday wasn't super nice.
- 33:26Speaker 3: Wednesday was pretty nice. And what they did was a
- 33:29Speaker 3: lot of games got shifted to Sea Home High School
- 33:32Speaker 3: and they played a quadruple header there. I was there
- 33:36Speaker 3: for the first two and Mikaylae was there for the
- 33:39Speaker 3: second two and and it was and they had to
- 33:42Speaker 3: play the Linden Baker one first because Linden had to
- 33:44Speaker 3: travel right after that, and so they played at nine
- 33:48Speaker 3: thirty in the morning. I was there and they you know,
- 33:51Speaker 3: they got that one going pretty good, and then boom
- 33:54Speaker 3: they they left, and then Baker stuck around and l
- 33:56Speaker 3: C showed up and then played Baker. And in that game,
- 34:01Speaker 3: Tanner Blair, freshman pitcher for Lindy Christian, threw a no hitter.
- 34:05Speaker 3: His first ever varsity start throws a no hitter, so
- 34:07Speaker 3: congratulations to him. Also in the game, Austin engles with
- 34:11Speaker 3: two milestones. Not only did he reach one hundred hits
- 34:15Speaker 3: in his career, but when he hit number one hundred
- 34:18Speaker 3: and one, that broke the school record for most hits
- 34:21Speaker 3: in a in a you know, in a career. So
- 34:25Speaker 3: that was just, you know, all these things happening in
- 34:27Speaker 3: one game. It was really really cool to see. And
- 34:29Speaker 3: then Baker left and Elsie stayed and Meridian showed up.
- 34:33Speaker 3: So then Lynny Christian and Meridian played and that was
- 34:36Speaker 3: a game that came right down to the end. It
- 34:37Speaker 3: was a it was a walk off literally like bases
- 34:40Speaker 3: loaded walk and scored the winning run and for Lindy
- 34:44Speaker 3: Christian to win their tenth game in a row. And
- 34:47Speaker 3: then Linny Christian left and Meridian stuck around and then
- 34:49Speaker 3: Knuksack showed up, So it was kind of like one
- 34:53Speaker 3: team would leave, another team would show up to play two,
- 34:55Speaker 3: and then the team would leave, another team would show
- 34:56Speaker 3: up to play two. But Nuksack I had already played
- 34:58Speaker 3: Blaine earlier in the day out at Blaine and and
- 35:02Speaker 3: then Blaine stayed at home and played Sultan later that day.
- 35:05Speaker 3: I mean, it was just insane, like just the amount
- 35:08Speaker 3: of movement going on, like you said, and then Lynnon
- 35:11Speaker 3: you know, played Sela that night, lost a close one,
- 35:14Speaker 3: six to five. So yeah, and then the next day
- 35:17Speaker 3: on right, and then the next day like Meridian drove
- 35:21Speaker 3: over and played Brewster on Thursday, and then they played
- 35:24Speaker 3: Cashmere on Friday, and and and then on Saturday, Granted
- 35:28Speaker 3: Falls came to town and played a doubleheader at Knoksack.
- 35:31Speaker 3: One went against Nuksack, went against Baker. So it was
- 35:35Speaker 3: just it was just kind of a unique week of
- 35:37Speaker 3: stuff happening. But everybody got their games in, which is cool.
- 35:42Speaker 3: It wasn't too weird for like Bellingham played I think
- 35:46Speaker 3: I think they played Tuesday and Wednesday, you know, they
- 35:49Speaker 3: they dropped one one to one, same with Sea Home.
- 35:51Speaker 3: They lost to Mount Vernon but beat o'carbor. I think
- 35:53Speaker 3: Bellingham lost to lost to Okarbor, but beat Lakewood. You know,
- 35:57Speaker 3: there's a lot of teams kind of going one and
- 35:59Speaker 3: one and here and there. Ferndale went one and one
- 36:01Speaker 3: as well. But you but the really impressive thing is
- 36:05Speaker 3: Lenny Christian winning their tenth in a row. Now, Linden
- 36:08Speaker 3: looked really good. There was a few, like I said,
- 36:10Speaker 3: there was a few double no hitters. Matthew Carroll threw
- 36:13Speaker 3: a no hitter, struck out fifteen. There was a five
- 36:16Speaker 3: inning game, and so yeah, I mean every out was strikeout.
- 36:23Speaker 3: And then same with Tanner Blair, like I said, from
- 36:26Speaker 3: Lenny Christians just a freshman. And then Josh Cochran struck
- 36:30Speaker 3: out eighteen batters through seven innings, struck out eighteen batters,
- 36:34Speaker 3: which you know, that's it's not a Wackham County record.
- 36:38Speaker 3: I think Dave Zapien, which is a name from the
- 36:40Speaker 3: past that people will know that played at Nuxac Valley
- 36:43Speaker 3: in the early eighties. I want to say he played
- 36:46Speaker 3: some minor league ball too. I think he struck out
- 36:48Speaker 3: twenty or twenty one in a game in the early eighties.
- 36:53Speaker 3: There's been some other guys too that have been up
- 36:55Speaker 3: there in the like nineteen to twenty range, but that
- 36:59Speaker 3: but eighteen is a number that hasn't been reached for
- 37:01Speaker 3: a long time. So Josh Cochran of Blaine did that.
- 37:05Speaker 3: So there was some really big time performances. Gavin Gutterson
- 37:09Speaker 3: threw a one hitter, just a lot of stuff that
- 37:12Speaker 3: kind of happened this week in baseball where there were
- 37:16Speaker 3: a couple of whole runs were finally hit, so we
- 37:18Speaker 3: get to talk about that, and yeah, just just a
- 37:22Speaker 3: really good overall week and you know, heading into that
- 37:25Speaker 3: second half of the season now and I'm excited because
- 37:30Speaker 3: you know what was happening. It just seemed like there
- 37:32Speaker 3: was you know, whenever teams would play outside the county,
- 37:35Speaker 3: they it wasn't going well. And now they're you know,
- 37:38Speaker 3: I think teams are starting to kind of get their groove.
- 37:40Speaker 3: And you know a lot of teams like Linden's one
- 37:42Speaker 3: of those teams where they seem to have their lineup
- 37:44Speaker 3: and they just don't change from it, and they were
- 37:46Speaker 3: kind of meddling around and changing. I think Tristan Thomas
- 37:49Speaker 3: is out one of their best players because I haven't seen
- 37:51Speaker 3: him in the lineup for quite a while, but you're
- 37:53Speaker 3: starting to find your groove and find your lineup and
- 37:55Speaker 3: find where things work, and then you can kind of
- 37:58Speaker 3: settle into it a little bit. And baseball you know
- 38:00Speaker 3: this better than anybody. It's one of those sports where it's,
- 38:03Speaker 3: you know, it takes a lot of games to kind
- 38:05Speaker 3: of find your groove. In a high school season, it's there.
- 38:08Speaker 3: They're pretty short, so the quicker you can find it,
- 38:11Speaker 3: the better, and then you want to be at your
- 38:13Speaker 3: peak once you get to the playoffs and kind of
- 38:15Speaker 3: go from there, and it's going to be an interesting
- 38:17Speaker 3: finish the season.
- 38:18Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's funny, Tyler. Just the other day
- 38:21Speaker 2: we played on Friday, and after the game, or I
- 38:26Speaker 2: guess it was at our practice on Saturday, our coach
- 38:29Speaker 2: started off by saying, you know, hey, guys, we got
- 38:31Speaker 2: two weeks left of the regular season. And I went,
- 38:33Speaker 2: oh my god, we do, like we only have six
- 38:36Speaker 2: six regular season games left, and then we go into
- 38:38Speaker 2: the Kingko Tournament, and then we go into the districts
- 38:40Speaker 2: and then you know, hopefully onto the state tournament. I mean,
- 38:42Speaker 2: just all of a sudden, here it is, you know,
- 38:44Speaker 2: and it's like, wow, we have six games left. I
- 38:47Speaker 2: think it's two on the road and four at home,
- 38:50Speaker 2: and I'm sitting there thinking to myself, I only got
- 38:52Speaker 2: to break the baseball pants out two more times. I mean,
- 38:56Speaker 2: you know, in the regular season. By the way. Dave
- 38:58Speaker 2: Zapian Tyler, Yeah, ended up at Centralia College after Nooksaka,
- 39:03Speaker 2: but he was drafted out of high school by the
- 39:05Speaker 2: Cleveland Indians in the twenty fourth round, number six hundred overall,
- 39:10Speaker 2: did not sign, went to Centralia College, and was eventually
- 39:13Speaker 2: drafted by the New York Yankees in round four, number
- 39:16Speaker 2: sixty three overall. So in one year he went from
- 39:19Speaker 2: six hundred down to sixty three, which is pretty amazing.
- 39:22Speaker 2: But I see a pitcher like it says positions first
- 39:25Speaker 2: base is what it says.
- 39:26Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I mean it's just yeah, tremendous. Yeah.
- 39:30Speaker 2: It doesn't have any stats or anything. This is the
- 39:32Speaker 2: Baseball Cube. I don't know if you've ever been on there.
- 39:34Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, I love the Baseball Cube. And he
- 39:36Speaker 3: was a great three sport guy, like he would. He
- 39:37Speaker 3: was like five eleven or six feet, but he led
- 39:40Speaker 3: the whole county in rebounds. Just one of those kind
- 39:43Speaker 3: of just stronger than everybody and just a great athlete
- 39:46Speaker 3: and then football wise, he played quarterback I think, and
- 39:48Speaker 3: he was it might have been like an All state punter.
- 39:51Speaker 3: Just one of the Yeah, like I just said, this
- 39:53Speaker 3: is just one of those guys that did a lot
- 39:55Speaker 3: of things. I've never met him before, but heard a lot,
- 39:58Speaker 3: read a lot about him.
- 40:00Speaker 2: There is one other player on the baseball cube, Tyler
- 40:04Speaker 2: from Knooksack Valley. Do you know who it is?
- 40:08Speaker 3: Brandon Newall.
- 40:09Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I'll give you a clue, but
- 40:12Speaker 2: you don't need it. He played in minor league baseball
- 40:15Speaker 2: from ninety three to ninety six. Brandon Newell with the
- 40:19Speaker 2: New York Mets system after going to the University of Washington.
- 40:23Speaker 3: And yeah, he was drafted out of high school by
- 40:25Speaker 3: the Mariners but didn't sign.
- 40:26Speaker 2: I think he was drafted in the sixty fourth round,
- 40:32Speaker 2: number one twenty seven, did not sign, and then he
- 40:37Speaker 2: was drafted three years later by the Mets in round
- 40:39Speaker 2: forty three.
- 40:42Speaker 3: Ninety nine. Out of you.
- 40:43Speaker 2: Dub played for the Pittsfield, the Mets, the Columbia Bombers,
- 40:47Speaker 2: the Gulf Coast Mets, and then the Tri City Posse
- 40:52Speaker 2: and it was eventually a scout for the Milwaukee Brewers.
- 40:55Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, and the Brewers because of that, the Brewers
- 40:58Speaker 3: were drafting a lot of Walkom County kids in that
- 41:01Speaker 3: in that mid two thousands, Joey Patorik and Kyle Dahanni
- 41:04Speaker 3: and those. You know, it always seemed like the really
- 41:07Speaker 3: really really good Walking County players that might get drafted,
- 41:10Speaker 3: they always get drafted by the Brewers.
- 41:12Speaker 2: Yeah, might be right, be low, might be high, might
- 41:14Speaker 2: be in the middle, but they were gonna get drafted
- 41:16Speaker 2: at some point because you know, he knew it was
- 41:18Speaker 2: going on up here. Yeah, and maybe they can maybe
- 41:21Speaker 2: they can convince him to sign, you know, yeah, right.
- 41:24Speaker 2: That's always the hard thing is you know, and that's
- 41:26Speaker 2: the weird thing about baseball is some man of these
- 41:28Speaker 2: guys make it known no, no, I'm going to go
- 41:30Speaker 2: to college. And it's not a bad thing that they're
- 41:32Speaker 2: going to college, but make it known. Then all of
- 41:34Speaker 2: a sudden, they get drafted in like the twenty fifth round.
- 41:36Speaker 2: You're like, Wow, that's the best player in our state.
- 41:39Speaker 2: How is he getting drafted so low? And it's because
- 41:40Speaker 2: he's going to go to college, you know, So like
- 41:44Speaker 2: taking a flyer, you know, I think Xavier and Nians,
- 41:46Speaker 2: I think the big thing for him. He's you know,
- 41:48Speaker 2: committed to Oregon State, I believe, but I think it's
- 41:50Speaker 2: one of those things where it's like they know that, hey,
- 41:53Speaker 2: he's seriously entertaining pro ball right out of high school,
- 41:56Speaker 2: which is why he's such a you know, a high pick,
- 41:59Speaker 2: whereas like Mason Pike down at Pualla, who throws like
- 42:02Speaker 2: ninety seven, which is just insane. I think it's I
- 42:04Speaker 2: think the fastest I've seen from him was ninety seven
- 42:07Speaker 2: point three, is what it said. And he's like, I
- 42:11Speaker 2: guess kind of told people like, oh no, he's going
- 42:13Speaker 2: to Oregon State, like he's gonna do at least a
- 42:15Speaker 2: year down there or whatever it is.
- 42:16Speaker 3: You know.
- 42:18Speaker 2: So yeah, that's uh, that's that, Tyler. Let's talk stat leaders,
- 42:22Speaker 2: how about that? Yeah sounds good and yeah, I mean
- 42:27Speaker 2: we can't actually do stat leaders. There's plenty of them here. Yeah,
- 42:30Speaker 2: but again brought to you by j e KK Cards,
- 42:34Speaker 2: big time sponsors of WAKAM Preps Baseball. Let's go with hits,
- 42:39Speaker 2: doubles and triples, Tyler.
- 42:40Speaker 3: Yeah, all from lynnon Christian. You're gonna see a lot
- 42:42Speaker 3: of links all over these stat leaders. Hits. Austin Engeles
- 42:46Speaker 3: now with twenty hits on the season. There there's a
- 42:49Speaker 3: lot of high school players that would love to have
- 42:51Speaker 3: twenty hits in the in the entire season. He's already
- 42:53Speaker 3: at twenty and like I said earlier, that puts him
- 42:56Speaker 3: into triple digits in his career, which is just insane. Doubles.
- 43:00Speaker 3: Austin Angles has eight doubles already, and so that's you know,
- 43:04Speaker 3: that shows that a lot of his hits are getting
- 43:06Speaker 3: in the gap and he's he's getting extra bases out
- 43:09Speaker 3: of him. And then in triples it's his teammate Eli Mayberry,
- 43:12Speaker 3: just a junior who has three triples already, So really impressive.
- 43:16Speaker 3: That offense for the Links is clicking, and you know,
- 43:19Speaker 3: hopefully they can just keep it going for the postseason.
- 43:22Speaker 2: Is I mean eight doubles when you have twenty hits
- 43:26Speaker 2: is insane. Yeah, like ridiculously insane, Tyler, you mentioned it
- 43:31Speaker 2: a little bit earlier. We finally got some home runs
- 43:33Speaker 2: to talk about. We got two guys that hit one
- 43:35Speaker 2: home run this week and they are now the leaders.
- 43:38Speaker 3: Yeah. What's weird is they both did them in games
- 43:41Speaker 3: that they lost, which is kind of unique. Fenton Vasik
- 43:45Speaker 3: of Ferndale got a home run, and Cole Bauman of
- 43:48Speaker 3: Knooksack Valley got a home run just the other day,
- 43:50Speaker 3: just against Grant Balls there on Saturday. So so congratulations
- 43:54Speaker 3: to both of them. I believe it's the first career
- 43:58Speaker 3: home runs for both players. It would take me a
- 44:00Speaker 3: little bit to kind of find that out, but but yeah,
- 44:03Speaker 3: these are a couple guys that definitely have the potential
- 44:06Speaker 3: and they did it, and which is great.
- 44:08Speaker 2: Let's go batting average and RBIs batting average.
- 44:12Speaker 3: Austin Engles still holding that at five point fifty six
- 44:15Speaker 3: batting average, which is just nuts. He actually dropped his
- 44:19Speaker 3: average this week from it was around I think it
- 44:21Speaker 3: was just over six hundred or somewhere around there. Yeah,
- 44:24Speaker 3: he's a five fifty six now. And Spencer Adams, who
- 44:27Speaker 3: had an amazing week at Lyndon, now has fourteen RBIs
- 44:30Speaker 3: to lead Walking County.
- 44:31Speaker 2: I can see the headline that angles has rough week
- 44:33Speaker 2: dropped batting average to five fifty six exactly. Let's see here,
- 44:37Speaker 2: how about runs, stolen bases and walks.
- 44:40Speaker 3: Yeah, three different players here, and Jackson Juleett of Lyndy
- 44:45Speaker 3: Christian now has scored sixteen runs. And I tell you
- 44:47Speaker 3: what if you're if you're lead, if you're the lead
- 44:48Speaker 3: off hitter for the Links, you will score runs. If
- 44:51Speaker 3: you do your job and get on base, you will
- 44:53Speaker 3: score with all those boppers behind you. And he has
- 44:55Speaker 3: scored sixteen runs so far stolen bases. Joe Harvard from
- 44:59Speaker 3: Bellingham he led last year with I believe twenty three
- 45:03Speaker 3: or something like that. He has sixteen already on the season.
- 45:06Speaker 3: And I said it last week. If he's getting on,
- 45:09Speaker 3: he's going. I mean, it's just it's as simple as that.
- 45:12Speaker 3: He's probably the most aggressive player, just maybe aggressive athlete
- 45:17Speaker 3: right now in Walking County. He's just one of those
- 45:19Speaker 3: guys that football, basketball, baseball. He only knows one speed
- 45:23Speaker 3: and it's you know, it's hard to rein him in,
- 45:25Speaker 3: like he's just gonna go and and it's a lot
- 45:28Speaker 3: of fun to watch. He's very entertaining player. And then
- 45:31Speaker 3: his teammate Kai Nelson of Fellingham now has twelve walks
- 45:35Speaker 3: on the year, which is just incredible. He had four
- 45:39Speaker 3: walks in one game. I want to say it was
- 45:40Speaker 3: the game against Lakewood and he was he was batting third,
- 45:44Speaker 3: and he's been batting third recently since they've kind of
- 45:47Speaker 3: shuffled the lineup around a little bit, and you know,
- 45:51Speaker 3: and some of these could have been in like intentional walks.
- 45:54Speaker 3: I'm not quite sure, but you know, but he's a really,
- 45:57Speaker 3: really good hitter, a feared hitter. So twelve one talks
- 46:00Speaker 3: now in the year, and you got Joe Harvard hitting behind,
- 46:02Speaker 3: just so you know, I think he at Joe. I
- 46:05Speaker 3: think I think Joe had three RBIs in that game
- 46:07Speaker 3: against Lakewood. So there you go.
- 46:10Speaker 2: I think I've said it before on here that when
- 46:13Speaker 2: I played baseball, I was like it was drilled into
- 46:16Speaker 2: my head that I'm not allowed to swing until there's
- 46:18Speaker 2: at least one strike. And so I used to take
- 46:21Speaker 2: a lot of four pitch walks, right And there was
- 46:23Speaker 2: games where I had two or three. I don't think
- 46:25Speaker 2: I ever had four.
- 46:26Speaker 3: In a game.
- 46:26Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, that's a lot. Yeah, yeah, that is.
- 46:29Speaker 2: That's hard to do. I mean it is unless you're
- 46:31Speaker 2: maybe bury bonds like but yeah, and even then, a
- 46:34Speaker 2: couple of those were probably intentional, you know, But my goodness,
- 46:38Speaker 2: let's talk percentages here, Tyler slugging on base and ops.
- 46:42Speaker 3: Yeah, slugging percentage. Austin Engeles seven to seventy eight slugging.
- 46:46Speaker 3: That's an incredible on base percentage. It's been taken back
- 46:50Speaker 3: over by his teammate Tracon Johnson, the catcher, clean up
- 46:53Speaker 3: hitter at six fifty nine. I mean, he's getting on
- 46:56Speaker 3: base two out of three times. That's incredible. And man,
- 47:00Speaker 3: at that lineup is just it's just on a terror
- 47:03Speaker 3: right now. And then Ops Austin Engeles. We always talked
- 47:06Speaker 3: about this. If you're at like a thousand, it's basically
- 47:09Speaker 3: like your percentage in class, like you just move a
- 47:14Speaker 3: decimal and he's getting one hundred percent in math or whatever,
- 47:17Speaker 3: and he's at fourteen thirty. So that's like going to
- 47:20Speaker 3: a class in school and you have one hundred and
- 47:22Speaker 3: forty three percent. That's how good he is at baseball.
- 47:25Speaker 3: That's what his grade would be as a baseball player.
- 47:27Speaker 3: He's one hundred and forty three percent, which is just
- 47:29Speaker 3: incredible as an offensive player. And that is that is
- 47:32Speaker 3: really saying something like I said, these links are really
- 47:35Speaker 3: clicking right now.
- 47:36Speaker 2: Let's talk about pitching stats here, and we've got four
- 47:39Speaker 2: stats and only two guys, So Tyler, let's talk first
- 47:42Speaker 2: about Hudson F.
- 47:43Speaker 3: Yeah, Hudson F now stands alone. He has four wins
- 47:46Speaker 3: on the season, and you know, it's really incredible see
- 47:50Speaker 3: him has five wins as a team. So when he
- 47:52Speaker 3: goes up on the mound and pitches they they tend
- 47:55Speaker 3: to win. They beating Oak Haarb on the road on
- 47:58Speaker 3: Wednesday was huge. It was so funny because you know,
- 48:00Speaker 3: Seaholme hosted four games and none of them were from
- 48:03Speaker 3: Sea Home and and uh but I was there when
- 48:06Speaker 3: when Dane Sigfrey came by and we talked for a
- 48:09Speaker 3: little bit. They were getting the team ready to go
- 48:10Speaker 3: on the road to play Oak Harbor and they were
- 48:13Speaker 3: missing some guys, you know, they you know, it's just
- 48:16Speaker 3: spring break, that's what happens. They got kind of trounced
- 48:18Speaker 3: by Mount Vernon the night before and they were going
- 48:21Speaker 3: down to play Oak Harbor. But I knew that nef
- 48:23Speaker 3: was going to be on the mound, and I look
- 48:24Speaker 3: on Game Changer later and they won, and it's like
- 48:27Speaker 3: good for them. I mean, they were very freshman heavy
- 48:29Speaker 3: in that game and had to play a few guys
- 48:31Speaker 3: that they're not they're not used to. But you know,
- 48:32Speaker 3: you got huts enough on the mounta and that that
- 48:34Speaker 3: and that that helps a lot. And he also leads
- 48:37Speaker 3: now an innings pitch twenty five and two thirds innings.
- 48:39Speaker 3: So so he's he's that he's that workhorse, he's that
- 48:43Speaker 3: guy that when you need to win, and he was
- 48:46Speaker 3: kind of sick in the beginning of the season. So
- 48:47Speaker 3: I think he's starting to come around. His hitting is
- 48:49Speaker 3: going to start coming around, and that's gonna be huge
- 48:51Speaker 3: at the top of the lineup for the Mariners going forward.
- 48:54Speaker 2: And then we've got Matthew Carroll, the leader in a
- 48:57Speaker 2: couple of stats.
- 48:58Speaker 3: Yeah, he just had an amazing I mean, you know,
- 49:01Speaker 3: he struck out fifteen batters in the in one game.
- 49:07Speaker 3: He's got forty two now on the season to lead
- 49:09Speaker 3: Walking County. And again I was totally wrong going into
- 49:13Speaker 3: the season. I thought that they would just I was saying, well,
- 49:16Speaker 3: he's probably gonna be like a cleanup hitter and just
- 49:18Speaker 3: play third base and he'll come in and close. Well,
- 49:21Speaker 3: I was wrong about all those he's bat and lead off.
- 49:23Speaker 3: Now he's playing second base, but when he pitches, he's
- 49:25Speaker 3: a starter and he goes the complete game. So I
- 49:27Speaker 3: was zero for three on that three strikes and I'm out,
- 49:30Speaker 3: But you are the leader in strikeouts, I am I
- 49:33Speaker 3: am a following me closely as MATCVIW Carroll of forty
- 49:37Speaker 3: two strikeouts and and but and in er now he
- 49:41Speaker 3: lowered it, believe it or not, to now zero point
- 49:45Speaker 3: three to two. So I had to I had to
- 49:47Speaker 3: look for my my microscope to find his ra I
- 49:50Speaker 3: finally found it zero point three to two. Unbelievable for
- 49:53Speaker 3: Matthew Carroll.
- 49:55Speaker 2: That's it for stat leaders Tyler again brought to you
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- 50:16Speaker 2: of the Week.
- 50:17Speaker 3: This one was really tough because Josh Cochran struck out
- 50:21Speaker 3: eighteen batters and he did really well offensively. Matthew Carroll,
- 50:25Speaker 3: Tanner Blair they pitched no hitters. But when I really
- 50:29Speaker 3: looked at everything, I really thought Spencer Adams from Lyndon
- 50:32Speaker 3: had a great week. Lennon went two and two this week,
- 50:35Speaker 3: but he performed so well in every single game you know,
- 50:40Speaker 3: he had a ton of RBIs now leads the county
- 50:44Speaker 3: and you know, one game he pitched extremely well. That
- 50:47Speaker 3: one they did lose, but he had a lot of
- 50:49Speaker 3: unearned runs. And I thought that he really elevated his
- 50:55Speaker 3: game this week and he's going to be a big,
- 50:57Speaker 3: big part batting in the middle of that lineup for
- 50:59Speaker 3: Lindon Abs excess going forward. He's one of those guys
- 51:02Speaker 3: that's really going to be needed to have, you know,
- 51:05Speaker 3: a big season down the stretch, just a junior, and
- 51:09Speaker 3: you know, he was a part of that team last
- 51:11Speaker 3: year that got to the Final four, and so he's
- 51:14Speaker 3: he's you know, he's he's been a part of it.
- 51:16Speaker 3: He understands what it takes. And now he's he's one
- 51:20Speaker 3: of the main cogs now in that in that lineup,
- 51:22Speaker 3: and he really answered the bell. I mean even that
- 51:24Speaker 3: game that they lost, the second game that they lost
- 51:26Speaker 3: at Sela ten to one, I think he was like
- 51:28Speaker 3: two for three, you know, had he just had a
- 51:32Speaker 3: really really good week and and he's one of those
- 51:35Speaker 3: guys that you're gonna have to be leary of. I mean,
- 51:37Speaker 3: he's six foot five in that batter's box. He has
- 51:39Speaker 3: a big time presence, really really good swing. And so
- 51:43Speaker 3: Spencer Adams of Lyndon, he's your SIG Funeral and Cremation
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- 51:49Speaker 2: That's it, Tyler. Yeah, nothing else. We are done, and
- 51:54Speaker 2: it's fifty one minutes, which is about an hour faster
- 51:57Speaker 2: than we normally get done.
- 51:59Speaker 3: This is usually the time of what it is when
- 52:01Speaker 3: I do it on my on my own, you know,
- 52:04Speaker 3: just which was not fun, but I sometimes that has
- 52:07Speaker 3: to be done. But yeah, I mean there was just
- 52:09Speaker 3: not a lot going on. Like you said, there was
- 52:10Speaker 3: a lot of sports that will be right back at
- 52:12Speaker 3: it full full tilt this this upcoming week. And and
- 52:17Speaker 3: you know, I haven't I haven't really looked too much
- 52:20Speaker 3: at the schedule because I'm kind of enjoying relaxing a
- 52:23Speaker 3: little bit. I don't want it to scare me off. Uh,
- 52:27Speaker 3: but but yeah, it's uh, it's gonna be it's gonna
- 52:30Speaker 3: be another it's gonna be a fun week, like like
- 52:32Speaker 3: you said, just a few more weeks now and it's
- 52:34Speaker 3: and we're gonna get into the postseason play and the
- 52:36Speaker 3: weather's gonna get nicer. And that's always the weird thing
- 52:38Speaker 3: is because and you you you probably feel this too,
- 52:41Speaker 3: is on the west side of the mountains. You know,
- 52:43Speaker 3: you're still kind of you're still kind of bundled up
- 52:45Speaker 3: going to these games and stuff like that, and all
- 52:47Speaker 3: of a sudden, like you know, when it gets to
- 52:49Speaker 3: like State and stuff, and if you have to travel east,
- 52:52Speaker 3: it's like completely different. It's like eighty degrees and you version,
- 52:55Speaker 3: where's the sunscreen? You know, it's just night and day.
- 52:58Speaker 3: It just kind of hits you out.
- 53:00Speaker 2: So, yeah, the first two rounds of State last year,
- 53:03Speaker 2: we were down at the Rack in Lacey. Yeah, and
- 53:06Speaker 2: it rained a little bit during our first game, rained
- 53:09Speaker 2: a little bit during our second game. It was cloudy
- 53:11Speaker 2: pretty much the whole time. The sun did peak through
- 53:14Speaker 2: here or there. And then the next week it was
- 53:17Speaker 2: like eighty eight degrees over in Pasco for the Final
- 53:19Speaker 2: four and I'm just sweating like you wouldn't believe out there,
- 53:22Speaker 2: just going good lord man. I mean just this last week, Tyler,
- 53:26Speaker 2: we got rained out on Monday. Tuesday was a little
- 53:31Speaker 2: bit of rain here or there. It was incredibly windy,
- 53:35Speaker 2: and I mean incredibly windy, and then Wednesday it was hot.
- 53:41Speaker 2: I mean I'm sitting in the booth because we had
- 53:43Speaker 2: a home game on Wednesday, I'm sitting in the booth
- 53:45Speaker 2: and you know, we actually our booth is really small
- 53:49Speaker 2: and it's me and another guy that sit in there,
- 53:51Speaker 2: and usually we keep the door closed because the wind
- 53:54Speaker 2: will whip right through the booth and it just gets
- 53:56Speaker 2: really cold in there. But we we actually opened it
- 54:00Speaker 2: to get the air moving. It was so hot on Wednesday,
- 54:02Speaker 2: and then Thursday we had a little youth camp and
- 54:04Speaker 2: it was pouring down right, Like, what in the world
- 54:08Speaker 2: is going on out here? I just pick one or
- 54:10Speaker 2: the other at this point, pick one or the other.
- 54:12Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean it's starting to feel today, especially
- 54:15Speaker 2: like I can already feel like the it's kind of
- 54:18Speaker 2: warm on the side of my house. So it feels
- 54:20Speaker 2: like today is gonna be a good one. But yeah,
- 54:22Speaker 2: I'm excited for for what's left here, Tyler. I mean
- 54:26Speaker 2: there's some there's some games this week that are some
- 54:29Speaker 2: good things. I believe Anna Chortus is pretty good at baseball, right, yes,
- 54:33Speaker 2: Lynn Christian and a Chordus that is on Wednesday down
- 54:37Speaker 2: at Anna Chordis.
- 54:39Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 54:40Speaker 2: I mean, other than that, there's maybe not a whole
- 54:42Speaker 2: lot of ones I'm really looking at, just kind of
- 54:44Speaker 2: skimming through seatre. Woolly, are they good at baseball?
- 54:46Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 54:47Speaker 2: Yeah, secure wooey and Lynnen Christian. Lynnon Christian's got an
- 54:51Speaker 2: interesting week with those two. And they have Oak Harbor
- 54:54Speaker 2: on Tuesday. So Lynnen Christian is outside the county this week,
- 54:58Speaker 2: nobody nobody inside that which prob he makes the people
- 55:00Speaker 2: inside the county pretty happy.
- 55:02Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's gonna be a good test for them.
- 55:04Speaker 3: I mean obviously going on the road and yeah, we
- 55:08Speaker 3: will have to see. I mean the kind of the
- 55:09Speaker 3: one thing was going into this year was kind of
- 55:12Speaker 3: where's the pitching gonna come from? You have guys that
- 55:14Speaker 3: can pitch, but how dominant can they be the offense?
- 55:17Speaker 3: Will Will Will be there, But you know, Trason Johnson's
- 55:21Speaker 3: pitching well, Sam Cox is pitching well, Eli Mayberry and
- 55:24Speaker 3: now Tanner Blair comes up and throws a no hitter.
- 55:27Speaker 3: It's like, okay, they can. They have some guys. So
- 55:30Speaker 3: it's starting to become that that that complete team. But
- 55:32Speaker 3: that game against Anna Cortis will really tell me a lot.
- 55:36Speaker 3: And I'm sure Anna Cortis will throw Jake Andrew, who
- 55:39Speaker 3: is really really good pitcher, is you know, he can
- 55:42Speaker 3: just kind of place it wherever he wants a lot
- 55:44Speaker 3: of a lot of movement on his pitches, but he
- 55:47Speaker 3: stays right there in the strike zone. And I think
- 55:49Speaker 3: that that's going to be you know, that's gonna be
- 55:51Speaker 3: the big matchup will be Jake Andrew against the Lennon
- 55:54Speaker 3: Christian offense. And you know, if you can squeak out
- 55:59Speaker 3: some runs, you might have to. You know, it might
- 56:01Speaker 3: only be two to one or something like that. But
- 56:04Speaker 3: I'm really curious to see who the Links will throw
- 56:06Speaker 3: against Dana Cordis. It's gonna be awesome. We'll have to see.
- 56:09Speaker 3: And I won't be down there at that game most likely,
- 56:13Speaker 3: but it's gonna be a really really good one. Yeah.
- 56:15Speaker 2: I'm gonna get to see a lot of Anacordus this week, Tyler,
- 56:17Speaker 2: because they play Ferndale and Nuksack Valley also. Yeah, and
- 56:21Speaker 2: then on on Monday is a big one as well,
- 56:23Speaker 2: or excuse me, Tuesday four thirty down in Mount Vernon,
- 56:28Speaker 2: Linden at Mount Vernon.
- 56:29Speaker 3: Yeah, that's gonna be awesome. A couple of teams that
- 56:31Speaker 3: got to the final four last year in their respective classifications,
- 56:35Speaker 3: you know, Sherman Anderson Field. It's it's so funny because
- 56:38Speaker 3: I think the last time I ever in a baseball game,
- 56:41Speaker 3: last time I ever hit one over the fence was
- 56:43Speaker 3: at Sherman Anderson Field from second man not I think
- 56:48Speaker 3: it was in eighth grade, and it just it just
- 56:53Speaker 3: happened to be this the best, you know, time I
- 56:55Speaker 3: ever just hit a ball and and it just skipped over,
- 56:59Speaker 3: just skimmed over the left center field fence. And and
- 57:02Speaker 3: I don't know if I've been to that field since
- 57:06Speaker 3: and how I have, but I have a lot of
- 57:07Speaker 3: fun memories of the Summer League between seventh and eighth grade,
- 57:10Speaker 3: playing and playing down there a little bit, and so
- 57:15Speaker 3: I kind of always want to make it down there
- 57:17Speaker 3: for a game and just kind of see what I remember.
- 57:19Speaker 3: And I think that that would be kind of a
- 57:21Speaker 3: fun one to go to. I mean, Linden and Mount Vernon,
- 57:24Speaker 3: that's you know, that's a pretty good rivalry and and
- 57:27Speaker 3: that'd be a really really good game.
- 57:29Speaker 2: Yeah, and then fast pitch other there's some interesting games
- 57:32Speaker 2: on Tuesday. Sizar Woolley is up to play Ferndale at
- 57:34Speaker 2: Ferndale and then Linden and Knukxack Valley are also playing
- 57:40Speaker 2: at four thirty in Knukxack Valley Middle School. That's on Tuesday.
- 57:44Speaker 2: So a couple of big ones there. Anything else. Knuokxack
- 57:49Speaker 2: Valley plays a random doubleheader on Friday out at Gateway
- 57:53Speaker 2: Complex at k whatever that is. They played Kittitas and
- 57:58Speaker 2: Kleelum in four thirty. So I'm not really sure why
- 58:02Speaker 2: that one's going on. I mean, you would think they'd
- 58:04Speaker 2: be in school that day, right, I mean, is there
- 58:06Speaker 2: something going on Friday that I don't know about?
- 58:07Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not well, it could be it's it is
- 58:10Speaker 3: good Friday on Friday, so I don't know if. I mean,
- 58:13Speaker 3: I think they'll still have school, but I think.
- 58:17Speaker 2: That maybe is that Easter.
- 58:20Speaker 3: It's the Easter's coming up next Sunday.
- 58:22Speaker 2: Yeah, so maybe they take Friday off from making the
- 58:24Speaker 2: three day weekend for Easter.
- 58:25Speaker 3: They could. Yeah, And so but Nooksac Valley right now,
- 58:30Speaker 3: if you look at kind of the involund they've only
- 58:31Speaker 3: played seven games, and you know, Lennon's played nine, Fridel's
- 58:37Speaker 3: played ten, Baker's play ten, Blaine's only played three I'm
- 58:40Speaker 3: sorry five. Uh, But Noki Valley trying to get in
- 58:43Speaker 3: some non league games here and and you know we'll
- 58:46Speaker 3: have to see Blaine Blade's only played five fast pitch games,
- 58:50Speaker 3: those poor Borderets with the rainouts. But yeah, it's gonna be.
- 58:54Speaker 3: It's gonna be a fun finish Sedro Wooley though. Yeah,
- 58:58Speaker 3: if you're talking about just the whole Northway Conference and
- 59:00Speaker 3: fast bitch that team is, you know, you can kind
- 59:03Speaker 3: of just say, yeah, that that that's the team that's
- 59:06Speaker 3: gonna win that. But they're three a now, so it
- 59:09Speaker 3: opens the door for some two way you know, stuff
- 59:12Speaker 3: to happen in districts and you know who knows. I mean,
- 59:15Speaker 3: because Lyndon is Linden's starting to play pretty well, you know, Uh,
- 59:20Speaker 3: Burlington is usually pretty good, you know anti Chortus and
- 59:24Speaker 3: Lakewood you can score some runs and but you know
- 59:27Speaker 3: can see home squeak in there, and it's it's gonna be,
- 59:30Speaker 3: it's gonna be interesting. It's uh, it's uh, it's there's
- 59:34Speaker 3: not like that one super dominant team up in Walking
- 59:36Speaker 3: County right now. That sometimes that happens, and it just
- 59:40Speaker 3: isn't that that that year the dominant team is Segar
- 59:42Speaker 3: Woolley and probably Mount Vernon after that.
- 59:47Speaker 2: So Tyler, it has just popped up here. We've talked
- 59:50Speaker 2: about it a few times about the Mill Creek Sportsplex
- 59:54Speaker 2: games over in Walla, Walla, right, you know, and that's
- 59:57Speaker 2: coming up this weekend. All of a sudden, here they are.
- 1:00:01Speaker 2: Remember we've we've been looking and we never saw it.
- 1:00:03Speaker 2: And then here it is. So uh, Mount Baker's headed
- 1:00:07Speaker 2: over Meridian and Knooksack Valley. So Nuxack Valley is playing
- 1:00:11Speaker 2: four games in two days. The one I assume the
- 1:00:16Speaker 2: Friday thing is at Kitta Tass is what gateway complex
- 1:00:20Speaker 2: at k and I don't see. I'm looking at Kitta
- 1:00:26Speaker 2: Tass right now the area, trying to see if there's
- 1:00:29Speaker 2: a gateway complex and I don't see anything. But oh,
- 1:00:34Speaker 2: gateway complex at Kawanas Park. Okay, So this is in Yakama. Actually, oh, Okay,
- 1:00:40Speaker 2: Gateway complex in Yakama is what it is. And there's
- 1:00:44Speaker 2: quite a few fields there, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
- 1:00:47Speaker 2: eight eight fields in the state tiny complex. It's right
- 1:00:51Speaker 2: along the freeway. I assume they must play the state
- 1:00:54Speaker 2: tournament there. That's got to be where that state tournament?
- 1:00:59Speaker 3: Is it?
- 1:00:59Speaker 2: Three or two? What is it?
- 1:01:02Speaker 3: One?
- 1:01:02Speaker 2: A and forty are Richmond, right?
- 1:01:05Speaker 3: Rich one and four in Richland? Three A might be
- 1:01:08Speaker 3: there because two a's.
- 1:01:09Speaker 2: In Sela, Okay, so then it's maybe it's three A
- 1:01:12Speaker 2: and like two B could.
- 1:01:15Speaker 3: Be something like that. I'm not I'm not quite sure.
- 1:01:17Speaker 3: But eight eight fields that's incredible.
- 1:01:19Speaker 2: Yeah, one of them doesn't look all that nice, but
- 1:01:21Speaker 2: the other the other seven looked really really nice, like
- 1:01:24Speaker 2: very well camp and so yeah, and then Saturday there's Baker,
- 1:01:29Speaker 2: Cedar Park Christian over in Walla, Walla, Meridian, Rochester, Hope, Weam,
- 1:01:33Speaker 2: Knoksack Valley, Mount Baker and Alma Tanino in Noksack and
- 1:01:37Speaker 2: then Meridian and Royal was Royal I think state champs
- 1:01:41Speaker 2: last year too.
- 1:01:42Speaker 3: Yes, Royal was state champs. Cedar Park Christian though, uh,
- 1:01:47Speaker 3: they're pretty legit. Monta SnO Is probably the best, just
- 1:01:52Speaker 3: like one to nine like that I saw last year.
- 1:01:56Speaker 3: I was kind of I mean, Royal was good, Baker
- 1:01:58Speaker 3: beat Royal at this thing last year, and but Montaseo
- 1:02:04Speaker 3: is that team that I kind of look at and go,
- 1:02:06Speaker 3: I don't know if they're over there or not, but
- 1:02:08Speaker 3: that those that team is just they have to be
- 1:02:12Speaker 3: the odds on favorite for the one A state title.
- 1:02:14Speaker 3: They're just loaded. I'm surprised. Leny Christian's not going to well.
- 1:02:18Speaker 3: They but they played a lot of these tough non
- 1:02:20Speaker 3: league games early on in the year. You know, they
- 1:02:23Speaker 3: they played Montiseo, you know, they played Cedar Park Christian.
- 1:02:27Speaker 3: They they've kind of already played these teams. So maybe
- 1:02:31Speaker 3: that's why they're not going over there. And it's too
- 1:02:32Speaker 3: bad Blaine's not going over there because I know Blaine
- 1:02:34Speaker 3: was there last year, and they because they have some
- 1:02:37Speaker 3: games that they maybe they have these maybe they're making
- 1:02:39Speaker 3: up games that they missed earlier in the year and
- 1:02:41Speaker 3: they were having to use this weekend for it. I'm
- 1:02:43Speaker 3: not quite sure, and.
- 1:02:45Speaker 2: I'm just looking at the the always fun comical w
- 1:02:49Speaker 2: I A A r p I rankings. Tyler, Oh Ferndale
- 1:02:54Speaker 2: is neither baseball, fast pitch or boys soccer. And then
- 1:03:01Speaker 2: uh in two A let's see two A. Uh nobody
- 1:03:05Speaker 2: in baseball. Uh nobody in fast pitch see home is
- 1:03:11Speaker 2: two in boys soccer? Yeah, Squalum is eight. Yeah, that's it.
- 1:03:18Speaker 2: Uh one a baseball We've got uh Lennen Christian at seven. Okay,
- 1:03:24Speaker 2: see the part Christian at nine. Wow, Fast Pitch Royal
- 1:03:30Speaker 2: is seven. Montseno is eight. Really, Uh, nobody from Wakam County. Yeah,
- 1:03:37Speaker 2: and then uh boys soccer in the one a Montseno seven,
- 1:03:41Speaker 2: that doesn't matter, Royal is nine, that doesn't matter. No,
- 1:03:44Speaker 2: probably yeah, yeah, it's pretty crazy.
- 1:03:46Speaker 3: There's nothing. It's time to get some upsets.
- 1:03:49Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:03:49Speaker 3: So the Lennen Christian Boys baseball and sea home is
- 1:03:52Speaker 3: Squalicum boy soccer.
- 1:03:54Speaker 2: Yeah. That's that's all I see from Wakam County, which
- 1:03:57Speaker 2: is it's all right. Yeah, I don't know, I don't
- 1:04:00Speaker 2: know where they uh and uh Ana chordis is six
- 1:04:03Speaker 2: and two A baseball so okay, yeah, so yeah, and
- 1:04:07Speaker 2: that's kind of what the w i a A has obviously.
- 1:04:10Speaker 2: I don't know why anybody would ever trust any of
- 1:04:12Speaker 2: that crap, but tell you what, you tell me what
- 1:04:17Speaker 2: you really think? Y yeah, yeah yeah, because luckily I
- 1:04:21Speaker 2: didn't swear. That's that's the big key here.
- 1:04:24Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:04:25Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it, Tyler. I don't think we got anything
- 1:04:27Speaker 2: else left to talk about here. There's all kinds of
- 1:04:28Speaker 2: sports coming up this week. Next week's podcast should be
- 1:04:32Speaker 2: an on one because there's going to be a lot
- 1:04:33Speaker 2: to talk about and although who knows, maybe there won't
- 1:04:37Speaker 2: be much in track. You never know. They did have
- 1:04:39Speaker 2: the Burger Solberg, So right, Yeah.
- 1:04:42Speaker 3: Well it'll be interesting because also keep in mind, when
- 1:04:44Speaker 3: we're going to record this next Sunday, that's Easter, so
- 1:04:48Speaker 3: hopefully you know you've made plans or whatever accordingly all
- 1:04:52Speaker 3: and it's my birthday on that Sunday. Now, I do
- 1:04:55Speaker 3: not care about those things.
- 1:04:57Speaker 2: Yeah, my family is not real big on Easter. I mean,
- 1:04:58Speaker 2: I'm sure I'm supposed to go somewhere, but nobody's told
- 1:05:01Speaker 2: me yet, so who knows, right.
- 1:05:04Speaker 3: All right, And I kind of tell my family like
- 1:05:06Speaker 3: all the holidays, like I'm busy, like until until summer
- 1:05:10Speaker 3: so and even on my birthday and like I don't
- 1:05:13Speaker 3: want to do anything. I got stuff to do.
- 1:05:16Speaker 2: Well, yeah, especially because you might have a bunch of writing,
- 1:05:19Speaker 2: a bunch of things going on.
- 1:05:20Speaker 3: Then yeah, oh yeah, I'll be loaded. I'll be busy.
- 1:05:23Speaker 2: You and I are recording right now. It's ten twenty
- 1:05:25Speaker 2: five am on Sunday. This is about, I don't know,
- 1:05:29Speaker 2: ten hours earlier than we normally record. So I'm sure
- 1:05:33Speaker 2: we'll be back to the regular scheduled time of us
- 1:05:36Speaker 2: recording next week. But yeah, I mean I don't know.
- 1:05:41Speaker 2: I guess that's it. We don't have anything else. I
- 1:05:43Speaker 2: think we're good already again. Thank you to all of
- 1:05:46Speaker 2: our sponsors for their continued support of walkom Preps. Let's
- 1:05:50Speaker 2: see here. He's Tyler Anderson, Walkompreps, walkompreps dot com. I'm
- 1:05:53Speaker 2: Ryland Spencer. You've been listening to episode three hundred and
- 1:05:55Speaker 2: forty four Spring Sports, a weekly wrap up here on
- 1:05:58Speaker 2: the Walk Them Preps podcast. We will tell talk to
- 1:06:00Speaker 2: you next week.
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