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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 252 - Spring Sports Wrap Up - 4-28 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  This is Meridian senior Katie Pringaman and you're listening to the WACOM Preps Podcast with
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  Tyler and Ryland. Go Trojans, Greetings, and welcome into the watcom Preps
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  Podcast. This is episode two and fifty two Spring Sports, a weekly wrap
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  up. I'm Ryland Spencer along with me as always Tyler Anderson of watcomb Preps
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  and watcom Preps. Spotted Tyler, how are we doing? Doing great?
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  Doing great? Getting to the end of April that means playoffs, all that
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  kind of stuff. Doing awesome. This is what it all comes down to.
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  And you know, so many people have been seeing me this spring and
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  they always ask how I'm doing it. I'm like, man, it is
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  crazy. Eight sports going on right now in the spring. So many more
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  athletes are doing stuff in the spring than the other two seasons, so it
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  is It is a blast. It is busy, and it's only going to
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  get better from here on out because the competition is going to be good.
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  There's not going to be any dead games. It's gonna be awesome. Yeah,
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  And it's one of those things like I kind of know where you're at,
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  you know, like with high school football with what I used to do
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  it was like you kind of get to towards the end of it all and
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  you have to drag yourself out of bed in the morning, but you're happy
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  to do it, you know what I mean, Like, yep, you're
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  tired, but you're happy to go hop on the computer and watch the film
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  or whatever. And it is it's crazy, it's crazy. It's a lot
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  of fun. Then. Yeah, I mean, we're right here in the
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  thick of it, Tyler, So we need to give a thank you to
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  Katie Pregerman of Meridian Fast Pitch, a senior who Tyler, you told me
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  she's pitched like a billion innings for Meridian. Yeah, she's obviously a senior
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  this year, but right from day one as a freshman, I would say
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  that she has pitched, you know, ninety nine at least percent of the
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  innings since she was a freshman. I mean, she has been the workhorse.
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  And it's she's not just great at that amazing hitter, tons of extra
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  base hits, including some home runs, and you know, a big time
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  leader of that team and such a tough conference because all those other one day
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  schools are just loaded and she, you know, she's helped a young team,
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  stay right with it. It's just her and another and just one other
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  senior, Kayln Nevil. So it's a young, young team, but she
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  seems like she's she seems like she's been a senior on it forever, you
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  know. So she's one of those players that they're gonna miss her a lot
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  next year, and I'm excited to see what she does to end the season
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  does not want flowers. Mother's days coming up? Right, She doesn't want
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  got all kinds of stuff. Tyler. I mean, I'm looking at it
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  here and I'm going whoa, whoa, whoa. There are a lot of
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  things that go on here that I didn't know about. And I'm not gonna
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  lie, Tyler. You and I were gonna come up at some point or
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  so I'm gonna come up and apparently we're gonna try to get some hits off
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  of some some really good pictures and different things, and then I don't know,
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  maybe we'll go over here and get ourselves a full leg wax. What
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  do you think. I think it'd be a lot like the scene from forty
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  year Old Virgin Kelly Clarkson. Kelly Clarkson and I heard that when they did
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  that scene, like he wanted to actually get whax. So the reactions were,
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  you know, literal, yeah, I mean I can imagine that.
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  Oh, and he was just they're laughing so hard when it was happening,
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  and oh my goodness, that would be uh, that would be something that
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  we'd probably remember for the rest of our lives. Yeah, now, Tyler,
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  I'm looking at some of the other things on here, and I got
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  some questions. Okay, all right back in chess chest wax. I'm not
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  getting that done because, like you just said, forty year old version there
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  under arm wax, I don't know about that one. I need to know
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  what this is though. What is a booty facial? It says here the
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  booty facial is an excellent treatment for those who would love a radiant, firm
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  and lifted bottom. I'm not even gonna get into that, but I mean
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  I feel like you and I both probably need one of those. Yeah,
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  I think. I think afterwards, I wouldn't want to sit for a long
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  time. I just feel you got to get like the donut, you know,
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  Yeah exactly. It's what you don't want to do, is you don't
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  want to like get a haircut and put a hat on, right, Yeah
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  exactly. So anyway, Tyler, what do we need to know about this
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  She feels there's probably a bunch of high school kids that have you know,
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  what are they going to do for their moms. Well, this is something
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  that's a deal that you could do. So uh, you know mentioned walking
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  continuing thing as a as a sponsor. She just reached out because with Mother's
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  Day coming up, like I said, uh, just kind of try to
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  make something work here. So I said, absolutely, got it all taken
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  care of, and and uh yeah, it's pretty pretty cool deal. I
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  License Certified. I mean, it's the real deal. She knows what he's
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  doing. Yeah, she knows what she's doing. Tyler and I, on
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  the other hand, we have no idea what any of this means, right,
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  we really don't. All we know is this one here is thirty five
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  dollars and we know how to pay for it. That's that's really all we
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  can do. Yeah, I have to look up how to say esthetics.
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  I just wanted to, you know, you know, I just want to
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  make sure I can actually pronounce the word. That's as far about. That's
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  about as far as I get with it. Yeah, that's good enough for
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  me. Yeah. So, Tyler, maybe miss Walkom Preps gets one.
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  What do you think I do you know that she listened to the show?
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  Yeah, well she listens from the next room. Uh and uh. And
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  I was thinking, you know, maybe for her and her mom kind of
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  together be got fun there you go, Well, you know what she's already
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  got your business, so yeah, go ahead, Fresh Face Aesthetics by Monica.
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  Farm advertisement. Yep, it's right there, So maybe click on that because
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  some strawberries or something. Then head down and get your mind. I'm a
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  facial Yeah. Uh, Tyler, we have a lot of stuff to talk
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  about. But first, but first and not but wait, there's more.
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  First, we need to talk NFL Draft over the weekend. Tyler. Yeah,
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  I don't know about you, but I'm psychotic for it. Like I
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  even tweeted, and this is no joke. There's seven rounds to the draft.
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  If they just did one round a day, I would take the whole
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  week off work. I would. Yeah, you know, I was like
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  that for about twenty years straight. Like I would, I would. And
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  you know it used to be just Friday and Saturday back in the day,
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  and or no, I mean it might even like Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
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  It was something crazy like that. And then and I would get the
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  magazines and I would I would, you know, I mean, I get
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  I would know every single player, like inside and out. I get.
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  Now there's so much free stuff online that like, yeah, you don't need
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  to get some of the magazine things like that. So much free stuff online
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  and you can go on YouTube and watch film of pretty much every player.
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  And so that's what I end up doing. End up like every now and
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  then I'll be bored, sitting in my car with nothing to do, and
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  I'll just go watch film on like Graham Barton, the guy that was the
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  center at Duke, you know what I mean, Like that's what I do.
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  The funny thing is I remember because it sometimes it lands on my birthday,
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  which is always fun because then I'm like, Okay, no one's gonna
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  bother me. I can watch the draft. And I remember one year when
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  it was going to do that, and I was so excited. I think,
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  I want to say it was like the two draft, and I believe
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  that we had just it was we drafted I think we meaning the Seahawks.
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  I think we drafted Jeremy Stevens and uh and Morris, the running back from
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  Oregon, Maurice Morris. Maurice Morris, and I remember that draft very well
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  because a friend of mine came and kidnapped me to take me down to Seattle
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  to meet a buddy of ours. They had this whole thing planned. We
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  were going to go to the Mariners game the next day, and I was
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  like, I was kind of disappointed because I just wanted to weakend to myself.
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  Just watch the draft. No one's gonna bother me. So I was
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  like that for years. I would always just you know, turn off the
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  phone, watch the draft, and just just get into it. But I
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  haven't done that in like five years because of Wakam preps. Yeah, you
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  know, so it's been it's been hard to even kind of catch us going
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  on. I was listening to it on the radio while I was driving to
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  a baseball game, like the first round, and it was it was hilarious
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  because I was like, I, you know, they're like, and now
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  the pick, and I had to turn off the car because I was like,
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  oh, I don't know what's going on, but it's still a really
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  really cool thing. Yeah. Now the reason we bring this up or I
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  bring it up and you jumped on board. Here. Casey Bawman, former
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  Knooksack Valley Giant, did not get drafted, but he has signed a free
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  agent deal with the Los Angeles Chargers, which, by the way, still
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  feels really weird to say. But yes, signed with the Chargers. I
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  mean, Tyler, this is a big deal. I mean, it's not
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  the although it seems like it's happening more and more, it's not every year
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  that somebody from Wakam County is headed into the NFL. Yeah, I mean
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  we were lucky last year with TJ. Bass that happened with the Cowboys.
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  He has an amazing preseason. He was the only he was the only offensive
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  lineman on the team that didn't allow a hurry and it makes the team plays
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  in all seventeen games. And uh so that was really that was a that
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  was a cool deal. Obviously former Mount Baker tight end, defensive end and
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  then and now Casey. I mean, it's such a cool thing because these
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  are guys that like, I mean, you know Casey probably better than I
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  do. Uh and so it's it's a it's a it's a really cool deal.
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  We both become pretty good friends with them. You know, I know
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  that you reached out to him. I I didn't want to. I figured
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  he was pretty busy, but uh, it's such a it's just such a
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  great deal. Really cool family. Congratulations to him, because just the more
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  you know, experience you can get and going to camps and doing things and
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  just the opportunities and stuff like that, it's awesome. It's you know,
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  it's just it's just such a great thing. You know. He was a
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  guest picker of ours early on years ago, so yeah, it was just
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  awesome deal for him. And really the reason I reached out too, is
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  because at Bathel, one of our guys signed with the Chargers as well,
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  and so it's like, hey, probably not a bad idea for those guys
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  to throw a little bit, right, see if we can't maybe work them
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  both into a contract of some sort when the season comes. But yeah,
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  I mean it's it's a pretty cool deal. You know. Obviously it's a
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  little more fun when they get drafted, right, but just any opportunity to
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  play in the NFL, that's awesome. That is just really awesome. And
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  you know, if things don't work out there, the CFL, I'm sure
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  will be very happy to take him because that guy can absolutely throw a football.
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  Yes, Tyler, We've got all kinds of stuff to talk about here.
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  We'll start with track and field again, as always, sponsored by Staffer
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  eight oh three online Staffer Insurance dot com, s t A U F F
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  E er Insurance dot com. Let's see hear every team participated in a meet
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  this week, Tyler. Uh. Some were even in two. Uh.
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  Teams getting ready for the post season. Here we've got boys and girls,
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  not as many times, but or new times new new Uh what do you
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  call Watcom County best if you will, But this is exactly what we talked
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  about early in the season. It was a lot more changing different things.
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  Now it's like we go, we got some times and some some distances and
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  stuff that are tough to beat. Yeah, yo, gonna you know,
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  there was some unexpectedly really nice days earlier in the year weatherwise, and sometimes
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  that can bring out a really great throw, a really great time, or
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  really great jump and uh, and there's a lot of times. I mean,
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  you're looking at the Chase Bartlett eight hundred meters one fifty five point sixty
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  four. That was that was like in March when he ran that, you
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  know, and he's held onto that forever. Jase Klinkamer, Meridiyan retook the
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  one hundred meter dash at ten point nine two. Him and Teagan Daughters kind
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  of going back and forth on that. Jack Brady of Seahome now with the
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  best time at three hundred meter hurdles at forty two nine. You know,
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  all the all theknooksat kids with the throws, they all had a really good,
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  you know, really good throw at Earlier on in the year. I
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  think I saw all those Tyson Bima taking the high jump at six foot two.
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  Now, that's incredible. I mean that's he wasn't even really competing in
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  the high jump earlier in the year. I mean it started out like five
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  six, five, eight, five, ten. And that's one of those
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  events that I was telling you early on that that's one where just they get
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  better and better and better as the season goes. It was so funny because
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  I went to U some events this this week and I bumped into Joel Perry,
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  who is a two time state champion high jumper from Mount Baker High School.
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  Oh, I should have let you just do that part but school.
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  Yeah, but uh, he high jumped six foot nine in high school.
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  I think he went to you dubbed to high jump, and I bumped into
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  him. He's a year older than me, and so he's forty six years
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  old. And I said, what could you jump right now? If I
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  just said put put your clipboard down and just just jump right now. He's
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  like probably like six' four, which is crazy, you know it ssore
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  Yeah, yeah, it's just and I just shook my head and I was
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  like, man, you're a freak in the best way possible. And he
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  was just one of the coolest guys, you know. Uh, you know,
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  we were in the band together, and we were in conditioning class together,
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  and and uh, but just an awesome guy. But yeah, two
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  times state state champion. Uh as a sophomore and then as a senior.
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  He got injured his junior year. Probably could have won it three times.
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  So yeah to Gonzega and then you dub yeah right yeah, yep. That's
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  hometown deming Washington High School, Mount Baker and it says studies Masters in Mechanical
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  Engineering Tyler. So he is yeah, way smarter than you and I crazy
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  smart. High school personal best was six foot nine yep, was a winner.
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  Was the winner of the Washington Division one a high school high or high
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  jump in ninety four and ninety six. Yep, so didn't win it as
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  a junior, but wanted as a sophomore. In his side, he was
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  injured his junior year. Okay, yeah, served as a captain. Also
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  lettered in basketball junior and senior years. Academically, was a National Merit scholar.
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  Yeah, he's way smarter than us. Yeah yeah. Also earned Wakam
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  County Student Athlete Award. Was a member of the Honor Society. Was inducted
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  into the Alpha Stigma NU and I don't even know how to say that one
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  in nineteen ninety nine. Yeah. Wow, this guy is like way more
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  accomplished than you and I one of the most one of my funniest memories of
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  him was like he can fly right obviously, Yeah, and uh and he
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  was a pretty good basketball player. He was like the third option on our
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  team his senior year. He was. I mean, we had a really
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  really good team and he made it to play in the senior game afterwards out
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  at Linden where they did the dunk contest and stuff, and I was like,
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  dude, you got to do the dunk contest And he's really humble.
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  He's like, I don't know, and so and I tell you what.
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  Ninety six was probably the best overall class of basketball players Walking County's ever seen.
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  It was just it was ridiculous and like players going to Gonzaega and you
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  know, see him went thirty and zher and they were ranked like top ten
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  in the nation and everything. So anyways, he goes out there and he's
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  doing these dunks and people are going crazy, and then he he ends it
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  with a dunk from the foul line like the Michael Jordan dunck, and people
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  went nuts, like no one really pulled it off. Yeah, oh yeah,
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  holy now, and nobody knew who he was. And this was this
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  was like this would have been like two weeks after Brent Barry did it.
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  Yeah, so everybody like, this is a high school kid doing it,
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  right, And that was when Brent Barry did it at the you know,
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  the NBA Slam Dunk Champion in ninety six, So imagine that. Now we
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  had like to really talk back then, you know what I mean, Like,
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  oh, I know there is video of it, and it's so funny
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  because it's all grainy, and then all of a sudden, when he slams
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  it, like the video is like shaking. His whole place is going crazy
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  and it was. It was awesome. So it was really cool to bump
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  into him. I hadn't seen him in probably twenty five years. Really really
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  cool deal. But Tyson Bima, such an awesome athlete, broke the school
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  record at the two hundred meters last week. Yeah, you know, and
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  he ran like an eleven three at the hundred earlier this earlier in the year
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  two. So really good deal for him. And then Adam Perry from Sea
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  Home, not related to Joel Perry's felt differently, Yeah, triple jumped forty
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  two feet six and a half inches. I didn't know anybody was gonna take
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  this from Mick Owen, who's been leading all year. But Adam Perry,
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  who is a really good athlete that I think that is gonna kind of step
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  up a little bit on the football field next year that you and I are
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  going to notice. You know, Sealm doesn't, doesn't you know, they
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  didn't graduate a ton of kids obviously. The biggest one, uh you know,
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  literally and physical and you know, figuratively was Braddick Duckworth. And the
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  big question is gonna be who's gonna fill that tight end outside linebacker spot.
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  I think it's gonna be this kid, and what a great athlete forty two
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  feet six and a half inches in the triple jump out at the Lakewood sonny
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  and seventy meat that was it was a lot huh yeah, yeah, but
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  uh so yeah. So those are the new leaders in the boys categories and
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  the girls there's a bunch of new times. Sofia Calibretta still leading in the
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  one hundred meters now at twelve point one point eight, which is really really
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  impressive. I mean, you start, you get under twelve and a half
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  seconds in the girls one hundred meters and that you just don't see that very
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  often. Faith van Brocklan forty seven point eighty nine, shed a little bit
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  of time off of her best for the three hundred meter her Tabada Young every
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  single week she just adds just a few more inches or sometimes a few more
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  feet to her to her throws. Shot put is now forty one feet four
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  and a half inches. In the discus one hundred and fifteen feet and six
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  inches, and then in the high jump. Yeah you mentioned we already had
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  edit to Young and Gracie Papp at four foot ten and so now a couple
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  younger athletes here Hayden and Niwodompski from Sea Home, a sophomore, and Tea
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  Dubay a freshman from Blaine. They're both really good but yeah, both really
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  good volleyball players. And Tayo Dubay a great basketball player too, started every
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  game as a freshman in the post. But she's only like five to seven
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  five eight, so so really really good athletes. All of these girls are
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  really good. To high jump four to ten is unbelievable, and all four
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  of them now from four different schools, have done that. And then a
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  lean belt camp from Lynnon Christian, who is one of the better hurdlers that
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  we've seen this year. She now has tied Genevieve Blum from Bellingham with a
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  triple jump of thirty four feet and six inches, so together they both hold
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  that that long distance for the triple jump in Walking County. That is Boys
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  three six zero seven four six eighty eighth three. Give our guy Marty a
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  call. Demand to talk to Marty if you call. Not just kidding,
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  Tyler, Let's talk. What is up next year? We got girls girls
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  tennis? Tyler? Oh yeah, girls tennis, and it finally finally happened.
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  The weather. It looked like the weather was gonna maybe push linden Sea
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  Home back, but Randy Small came in put his hand out on top of
• 21:49
  the rain and kept it off just long enough. Tyler. You told me
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  there was a lot of people there too, but linden Sea Home. That
• 21:56
  was the big one this week. And then Blaine picks up their first win.
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  So congratulations with the border rights, Tyler. But let's talk girls tennis.
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  What do you see I assume you were out there linden Sea Home.
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  Yeah, oh, absolutely, that was one I've been looking forward to.
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  We've been talking about it for a month. Seems like it was supposed to
• 22:14
  go about three weeks ago. The weather pushed it out and we were both
• 22:18
  kind of thinking, oh, push out to next week. And then I
• 22:19
  remember you looking at the schedule and going, Tyler, they're not doing this
• 22:22
  till like April twenty fourth or something like that. I was like, oh,
• 22:26
  man. And and then last week on the podcast, you said I
• 22:30
  got some bad news for you, and I was like, what's that And
• 22:32
  You're like, it's gonna rain, And boy, it was close. I
• 22:36
  went out there and it was kind of drizzling a little bit. And with
• 22:38
  tennis, I mean, you can't have a camer you know, you just
• 22:42
  can't have any you know, you don't want to slide around. I mean,
• 22:45
  you know you're you're stopping on a dime so many times and the ball
• 22:48
  could hit a puddle. I mean, it's just not ball. It gets
• 22:52
  wet and they gets sockty. Yeah, there's so many guys there's you cannot
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  do it. And so right as I was getting there, you know,
• 22:59
  all the singles players were kind of huddled together from both schools with one of
• 23:03
  the coaches. All the doubles players were hunted to uddle together with the other
• 23:06
  coach, and all of a sudden, they all kind of came off the
• 23:08
  court and Grace Rice and Maya vander Yacht, the number two doubles team from
• 23:14
  Lynnen, they were walking towards me. I said, I put my hands
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  up. I goes, so, what's the deal you guys playing her?
• 23:18
  What? And She's like, well, the coaches said, we're gonna wait
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  a little bit. She goes. All the singles players wanted to wait,
• 23:22
  but all the doubles players wanted to go. And I was like well that
• 23:26
  tells me something. You doubles players are you know, they don't care,
• 23:30
  man, They just want to go out there and play. And the good
• 23:33
  thing was going on. It was at the exact same time Ferndale was in
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  town to play Sea Home in a fast pitch game, which is right next
• 23:40
  to the tennis courts. Perfect, So I just I just kind of hopped
• 23:42
  over there, was taking pictures, keeping an eye on the tennis courts,
• 23:45
  and all of a sudden I could see the ball going back and forth a
• 23:48
  little bit, and I was like, okay, here we go. I
• 23:49
  came back and and it was you know, Linnen took care of business.
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  They got them five to two even, which is really really impressive of really
• 24:00
  strong doubles. That's kind of where the Linden's gonna hang, is gonna hang
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  their hat and uh, but they did it up and down the court five
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  to two. Uh, that was a big one. They also beat Squalicum
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  five to two squalkam really sneaky good uh, really good top end players there.
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  And uh but Linden remains undefeated at eleven and oh see Home drops down
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  to nine and one. They beat Bellingham earlier in the week four to three.
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  Bellingham also very very good who turn around after losing to see him and
• 24:30
  beat Burlington seven zero uh. And then Ferndale had a good week. They
• 24:36
  beat Okarber and they beat Blaine, so they jumped up to near five hundred
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  at five and six, and Blaine did get their first win of the year,
• 24:42
  going up to one and nine now after beating Mount Vernon. So really
• 24:45
  big busy week in girls tennis. There was a few cancelations here and there,
• 24:52
  things getting moved, stuff like that, and it's usually just very simple.
• 24:55
  It's like there's matches on Tuesday and Thursday. That's kind of usually how
• 24:57
  it goes. But because of all these and things, I think this upcoming
• 25:02
  week, I think there's matches every day, so it's gonna be it's gonna
• 25:06
  be a busy week with a lot of tennis going on and trying to go
• 25:10
  out and get pictures while there's district tournament stuff going on. It's a hopefully
• 25:14
  I'm just really hoping that the weather is gonna hold for a little bit of
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  this. I mean we're getting right into May. I mean, come on,
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  it's gotta happen. Yeah, you remember those things like a sit and
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  spin where you like sit on and like spin yourself in a circle. Yeah,
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  you need to like get one of those, so that and then just
• 25:30
  like sit on it and just like tilt yourself back and forth and like follow
• 25:33
  the ball. Tyler, we always talk about the records, but then we
• 25:38
  we kind of mentioned sometimes about the courts one and yeah, refresh my memory.
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  So uh, let's just we'll just talk Lynden Sea home here. Yeah,
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  five and two. So seven total? Is that four singles and three
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  doubles. Yes, that's exactly what it is. That's always the case.
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  Okay, So this is just mind blowing. So on the week, Lynden
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  loses four courts, which brings their total to sixty eight and nine on the
• 26:08
  year. So they almost doubled their amount of courts lost just in this week.
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  But it is unbelievable when you look at it, because coming into the
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  week they only had five total courts lost. Yeah, and I I know
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  that their top two doubles teams are undefeated. I know that. Wow.
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  And they've kind of rotated a little bit with the third doubles teams, you
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  know, have tried different things mixed and match and stuff like that, and
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  there's been some losses there, and there's been a few losses with the singles,
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  but not not very many. It's a it's a really really strong team
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  and it's and it's a it's you know, they're really good to they're really
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  fun to watch. I I I'm telling people you should go out and watch
• 26:52
  them. They are a lot of these tennis matches are really really fun.
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  Linden plays their home games out at Linden Middle School, so you know,
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  you just got to make sure that, uh, you go to the right
• 27:03
  place. But yeah, and Bellingham's home court right now, they're playing at
• 27:07
  Western Washington University. Oh and so so yeah, so as few of these
• 27:11
  schools are playing at different places than you would imagine, but it's it's worth
• 27:15
  it. I mean, there's some really good players out there, and you
• 27:19
  know state tournament coming right around. I know Bellingham's dubbed like Bellingham. They
• 27:25
  they have some players that can go bounce back and forth depending on matchups between
• 27:30
  singles and doubles. They have two really good players, but when they team
• 27:33
  up, they're unbelievable. I think they took second in state last year in
• 27:36
  doubles and they're both back. But they've been playing a lot of singles this
• 27:40
  year, they just kind of, you know, they kind of go where
• 27:41
  they need to based on who their opponents are, and uh, you know,
• 27:45
  it's all it's kind of like wrestling, you know, where you you
• 27:48
  know, a really good wrestler, they might bump that wrestler up a weight
• 27:52
  class to to try to take care of a you know, take care of
• 27:56
  a win here that you think you can get. And you know, just
• 27:59
  just a lot there's a lot of strategy going on with stuff like that.
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  And as I'm learning more about these these tennis players, uh, it's really
• 28:04
  interesting to see because I'll I'll start predicting it in my head, you know,
• 28:08
  I'm like I was thinking, you know, who are they going to
• 28:11
  put up against Anna, Who's the number one Linden's player for singles? Uh?
• 28:15
  Who's good? Who's good? You know? Is it gonna be Claire
• 28:18
  Stadola? Is it going to be Aaron Lynn? You know? And I'm
• 28:21
  I'm actually going there thinking this like and that I would have never thought that
• 28:25
  I would be doing that, but now I've fired yeah, and I'm and
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  I know who these girls are now, Like when I see them, I
• 28:32
  know who they are. And that's It's a really cool deal because I'm I'm
• 28:34
  really starting to learn more of the athletes, you know, all these different
• 28:38
  things, so and just and sometimes I'm like I'm hoping that they're you know,
• 28:44
  underclassmen so I can see them again. But I don't want to like
• 28:47
  learn who they are and then boom they graduate, you know, because it's
• 28:48
  like, oh, I just I just got into this. I'm I you
• 28:52
  know, I mean, I've been tough in tennis now for a couple of
• 28:55
  years, but now I'm going to matches every single week. You know,
• 28:59
  I was going to tow three a year before. Now it's like I have
• 29:03
  the time now, so I'm going and I'm and I'm watching him seeing what
• 29:07
  I can see. And and there's just really good top end talent in Walkin
• 29:10
  County. So it's gonna be you know, you never know once you get
• 29:12
  to state, like, you know, how do you compare it? Because
• 29:15
  he just they don't play a lot of other teams, so you just don't
• 29:18
  know who's really good. And and and then all of a sudden, you
• 29:22
  know a player who's undefeated, they can go to State and just they could
• 29:25
  be out in two rounds and it's like Okay, I thought they were pretty
• 29:29
  good, so you just never know. But Walking County's done pretty well at
• 29:32
  state. You know what we need to do next year, Tyler, We
• 29:36
  need to get a sponsor for a pregame tailgate in the spring and I'll come
• 29:44
  up like once a week and we'll pick like a random event Lynden Sea Home
• 29:48
  Tennis, right, and we're gonna tailgate it, you know what I mean,
• 29:52
  and people can come out and get hot dogs and burgers. Really,
• 29:56
  I'm the reason I bring this up is because I just want to have a
• 29:57
  reason to eat more burgers. But sure, I like the idea of going
• 30:02
  to some of these random events that we never would have gone to in the
• 30:04
  past and just hey, you know what if we can get some tailgate out
• 30:08
  of it. I mean, you know, ain't nobody out there tailgate and
• 30:11
  uh tennis, we could be there. We could be some trailblazers here,
• 30:14
  Tyler. I like it. Yeah, girls tennis there Sea Home Linden.
• 30:21
  That was the big one and uh yeah, Linden gets the win and Linden
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  eleven and zero on the year see Home nine and one, Bellingham nine and
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  two, squal Comes seven and three. So so really really girl, good
• 30:30
  girls tennis going on, Tyler, I got a question for you actually now
• 30:33
  that I'm thinking about it here. Yeah, and maybe you don't even know
• 30:37
  the answer to this, but I think you do. Come playoff time,
• 30:41
  playoffs? What's that? Uh? Come playoff time? Is there an opera
• 30:48
  like the Linden two could play the Linden one? Right? Oh? Yeah,
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  absolutely, they'll all be seated. And that was that's crossed my mind
• 30:56
  for the doubles teams. Yeah, with both of them, so exactly what
• 31:00
  I was thinking about. And the Bellingham one too is phenomenal, So we'll
• 31:03
  see. But I think that even happened last year. I want to say
• 31:07
  that the Linden teams played each other in doubles like in the semis or something
• 31:11
  like that, or the quarters, and it could definitely happen again, just
• 31:15
  like wrestling, right, once you get to you know, state tournament,
• 31:18
  district or whatever, you start your top and ittion happens all the time.
• 31:22
  Oh exactly. Yeah, you're competing against your teammates, and so that could
• 31:26
  definitely happen, and I would expect it to with some of these higher end
• 31:30
  players. That's girls tennis. Let's talk boys and girls golf will start with
• 31:36
  the boys. Some matches going on this week, Tyler. Some changes in
• 31:41
  the in the top ten here with it, and we always call it top
• 31:45
  ten, but it's not always a top ten in the top Watam County golfers
• 31:48
  here. For on the boys side, one, two and three stayed the
• 31:52
  same. Actually one through ten on the boys side, it's all the same
• 31:56
  names, but different order. One, two and three are in the exact
• 32:00
  same order. That is Baylor Larabee, Daniel Blankenberg, and John Coomer.
• 32:07
  After that, though, it's kind of a little bit of a shakeup.
• 32:09
  Yeah, and this is this is kind of that area where they've kind of
• 32:13
  jockey for position a little bit. Matthew Blankenberg now moves ahead of Thomaston Hartog
• 32:17
  who jumped from like seven to four last week. He gets bumped down to
• 32:22
  number five, but it's just minuscuol, you know, averaging eighty point two
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  to eighty point three. Travis Brocki at eighty point eight, still sitting there
• 32:30
  at at number six. Jack Stapleton's still sitting there at number seven, and
• 32:34
  Daniel Robbins moved from ten up to nine, and Gabe Quick moved from nine
• 32:37
  to eight from sealm so yeah, just it's it's so there. There's a
• 32:43
  lot of consistency with these players. You know. The big one that I
• 32:46
  noticed earlier was Thomaston Hartalk Earlier on in the year, I think that first
• 32:51
  round was just not a great score, and so every year he's been shooting
• 32:54
  in every tournament since, he's been shooting in the seventies to bring that score
• 32:59
  to eighty point three right now. So I've seen Matthew Blankenberg easily shooting in
• 33:04
  the seventies. So these are kids that can shoot in that score. And
• 33:08
  you know, but you have an off round here. You know, the
• 33:10
  weather isn't always great. I think even Baylor Larrabee had like a seventy four
• 33:15
  or seventy six or something like that, but he won by eight or nine
• 33:19
  strokes in a day that was just horrible weather. And you know, but
• 33:23
  you kind of dealt the cards that you get dealt, or you play the
• 33:27
  cards you get dealt, and that's what happens. Baylor Larabie. You know,
• 33:31
  he got back to under seventy for the average. Now, of course
• 33:35
  we all know he's top golfer in the state. Going to UCLA really cool
• 33:39
  deal there. So yeah, this man it's fun to go out and watch
• 33:44
  these guys too, especially you know, right off that first tea, and
• 33:46
  just to watch them just drive it. It's pretty awesome. I don't walk
• 33:49
  around a whole lot and get some of the short game stuff, but it's
• 33:52
  always fun to see see the really good drives on the girls side. And
• 33:57
  this is why we don't call it a top ten, because there's actually more
• 34:00
  than ten girls within the top ten. That being said, though one through
• 34:04
  seven the order all exactly the same, no changes there, and maybe not
• 34:09
  totally surprising because as you get to this point in the season, it can
• 34:14
  be hard to move around as very much at all. But that being said,
• 34:16
  Tyler, on the back end of it, we actually have a three
• 34:20
  way tie for ninth place at the moment with one hundred and twelve strokes,
• 34:23
  including a new name out of Ferndale. Yeah, it's it's it's a really
• 34:30
  really cool deal, Sadie Remmert from Ferndale. We haven't talked about her.
• 34:34
  She hadn't she hasn't been in this in this but she's been shooting really well.
• 34:37
  Recently jumped up to a tie for ninth place with Mattie Taylor from Bellingham,
• 34:42
  and Dallas Ranky from Meridian, and KaiA van Reischwick, who was in
• 34:45
  tenth place last week jumps up to eighth now and she just keeps playing better
• 34:52
  and better, and and Jobe Jensen had another good round to tie Lucy Jones
• 34:57
  now at six. But it's a lot of still the same top names near
• 35:00
  the top. Kinsley Rector who's undoubtedly the best player in Walkin County from Lyndon,
• 35:06
  Cassidy Hogan at Sea Home, Madeleine Angles, Lenny Christian, Kaylee Anderson
• 35:08
  Knooksack Valley and Ellie I think Yeah from Blaine. And so it's been a
• 35:19
  lot of the same names near the top. Sometimes the name will pop in
• 35:22
  there, but the bottom half of these of these top players has been kind
• 35:25
  of moving around, and it's good to see another player in there. Sadie
• 35:29
  Remmerit for Ferndale. That is boys and girls golf. Let's move over and
• 35:34
  talk about boys soccer. Tyler and Boys Soccer is brought to you by North
• 35:37
  County Alliance FC, their sponsor and everything having to do with soccer. You
• 35:40
  can find them online at ncalliancefc dot com. Tyler, we've been talking every
• 35:46
  week about their tryouts. Yeah, they're through a few of the tryouts by
• 35:52
  now, but they're basically taking a week off this week from tryouts. Next
• 35:58
  week we get back into some tryouts with the twenty twelves, the twenty eleven's,
• 36:02
  the twenty tens that's birth year. They are going on May sixth and
• 36:07
  May seventh out there at Benderfields in London. And then the high school kids
• 36:14
  which would be six, seven, eight and nine, they go on May
• 36:17
  eighth and May ninth. So still some stuff going on. Still opportunity here
• 36:22
  to uh to get out there and join some soccer. So yeah, be
• 36:28
  sure to check out nc Alliance FC dot com. Uh Sea home beat Squalcum
• 36:34
  and Burlington Edison to claim the claim the Northwest Conference Championship. Lynden Christian still
• 36:40
  on a roll seven straight clean sheets now and Linden, as we were told,
• 36:46
  peaking at the right time Tyler, they're getting hot at the back end
• 36:50
  of the season. Yeah, it's it's been, it's it's been amazing.
• 36:53
  You know. Lennon struggled a little bit earlier in this year. They changed
• 36:58
  some things up about halfway through the year and struggled with kind of the new
• 37:01
  format of things and and boy I saw them against Bellingham on Monday and it
• 37:07
  wasn't looking good in the beginning, but it was definitely one of those tales
• 37:09
  of two halves where they it was you know, they were down three to
• 37:14
  nothing at half. They came back and it was three to two and they
• 37:16
  had possession for most of the time in the second half. You know,
• 37:20
  that's one of those where you play, you know, just an extra five
• 37:22
  minutes they could have tied that up. Uh. So they've been playing really
• 37:27
  well after that, two shutouts in a row, so they're still alive in
• 37:30
  the playoff hunt. They're doing really really well. You said it with Lyndon
• 37:34
  Christian right now. They are. What makes them so good and we I
• 37:37
  think we talked about this in the last in the last podcast is their defenders
• 37:42
  are so big. They're just they're just big and they just get in the
• 37:45
  way and it's hard to get anything, even get a shot on goal.
• 37:49
  And their home field is pretty small, and so it's just it's different,
• 37:53
  you know, it's a little bit different format. You know, Uh,
• 37:57
  what's the word I'm looking for, Uh like not yeah, gosh, what
• 38:01
  different layout or whatever? But tyther is is that their soccer field that is
• 38:06
  that the fields that are just on the other side of the football field from
• 38:08
  the like the stadium. Okay, right, yeah, and and and it's
• 38:13
  a smaller field and a lot of you know, other teams will say that
• 38:16
  is a that is a home field advantage for them because they know how to
• 38:20
  do it, they know where, this's how to do it with the spacing,
• 38:22
  and they're bigger players. And uh yo, so right now they've been
• 38:25
  they've been playing. They've been playing great. Bellingham and Squalk them had an
• 38:29
  awesome game against each other on on Friday. Bellingham had a tie with Burlington
• 38:36
  Edison in the rain. That was I was standing out there in the rain
• 38:38
  for thirty minutes. Uh that was during the NFL Draft And uh wait where
• 38:43
  was that at? That was at Bellingham High School. So Tyler, do
• 38:46
  you have like a walkam preps like like jacket. I don't have walkam preps
• 38:52
  rain gear. Yeah. We need to get you some like golf gear,
• 38:54
  you know what I mean? Yeah, right, the all weather gets you
• 38:58
  like a bright You know what we could do. We could just go get
• 39:00
  like a tarp, like a bright green tarp and just sew it. Yeah,
• 39:05
  it would have to be some sort of bright color obviously, but yes,
• 39:08
  but yeah, so there was there was all sorts of things going on
• 39:12
  soccer wise, but you know, see home those two big wins, uh,
• 39:15
  they're only you know, blemish was a tie against Mount Vernon, who
• 39:19
  was fantastic, and so just a really great you know, Meridians been playing
• 39:23
  great. There's you know, earlier in the year, there was there was
• 39:27
  a kind of a really I don't know if you want to, you know
• 39:30
  say, like an easy separation, but there was a clear cut like these
• 39:34
  are the top teams, these are kind of the middle teams, these are
• 39:36
  kind of the lower teams. And right now you're seeing some of these middle
• 39:38
  teams play into those top teams. And uh and they're again peaking at the
• 39:45
  right time along with Linden getting into the you know, uh right at the
• 39:49
  right time as you know, district playoffs right around the corner. We'll talk
• 39:52
  about that a little later on. But uh yeah, just really really fun
• 39:57
  to see, uh some of these teams do their thing and and uh,
• 40:00
  I had a lot of fun out at Bellingham High School. Right after a
• 40:02
  goal was scored, they were cheering, they were doing everything, and they
• 40:06
  knew right away where I was, and there was some posing getting ready,
• 40:08
  you know, take my picture. It was awesome. Uh, getting a
• 40:13
  lot of love from from a lot of these players and coaches, and they
• 40:16
  just really enjoy the coverage right now from walking preps and something that that they
• 40:22
  deserve because it's a it's a lot rougher sport than I remember as a kid.
• 40:28
  It's, uh, there's a lot of physicality going on out there,
• 40:30
  and and you know, it's fun seeing the the Malachi Canan's and the land
• 40:35
  and Downies and the guys that we know from the football field. Yeah,
• 40:38
  that can that can lay a lick and that now they're out there without pads
• 40:42
  on that are throwing their body out there and and and using like how they
• 40:45
  use their body to to like shield off and get the ball, and it's
• 40:50
  it's, uh, it's pretty impressive. It's it's uh Wake Kuresky obviously,
• 40:55
  I mean there's Phoenix Thinker. I mean these are guys that are big time
• 40:59
  deep defensive players that that do it on the soccer field. Well, and
• 41:04
  it's like, okay, so what you're talking about, how like it's you
• 41:07
  know, more physical and like and in all honesty, the games better really
• 41:10
  one thing I've noticed, and it's in the two sports I've noticed it in
• 41:14
  our hockey and soccer. Is growing up as a kid, did we have
• 41:17
  those sports? Yes? Were they taken all that seriously? Not really,
• 41:22
  you know what I mean. And so now that you've got these year round
• 41:25
  programs or you know, people are really dedicating and putting in a lot more
• 41:30
  time, and a lot of the people that we grew up with have become
• 41:32
  coaches, you know what I mean. And so the coaches are people that
• 41:36
  have played a lot, and you know, the sport just in general has
• 41:39
  just gotten so much bigger, and so that the competition has gotten so much
• 41:43
  better, and it's yeah, boys, soccer at the high school level has
• 41:46
  gotten way better than it was. I mean, way better than it was.
• 41:50
  It used to be almost like guys running around just kind of like kicking
• 41:52
  a ball around. Now it's like they're really setting up formations and plays and
• 41:57
  you know, doing the you know what do they call like a one to
• 42:00
  two where like you know, you pass to a guy and you sprint and
• 42:02
  the guy sends it further ahead and boom away. Yeah, it's like a
• 42:06
  give and go, yes, exactly, a give and go in basketball.
• 42:08
  Yeah, and so that's yeah, it's it's it's pretty cool to see.
• 42:13
  But uh, that's a boys soccer wrap up. Let's talk leading scorers Tyler
• 42:16
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  last week Judah Strate Simon Egner they were tied this week Judah Strate looks like
• 42:28
  he had himself quite the week, Tyler. I mean, I don't I
• 42:30
  don't really know here, but as we get down to the bottom, a
• 42:32
  couple of new names I haven't even seen before. Yeah, there's there's a
• 42:36
  little bit of jockeying going on here, you know, along with Todd and
• 42:39
  Fasani. Still just super consistent every single week, putting in two or three
• 42:45
  goals. Now he's in third place by himself after being tied for fourth,
• 42:50
  and uh, yeah, there's a couple of news. There are a couple
• 42:52
  of new names in the in the top ten here. Skyler Rowe, just
• 42:55
  a sophomore from Meridian, really really impressive player. I didn't play in the
• 43:00
  first few games, and once he came on, Meridian has been playing really
• 43:05
  well with him and he's so he jumps to a tie for seventh place with
• 43:10
  eleven goals, and then Isaac Grimes, who had a bunch of goals earlier
• 43:15
  on in the year, kind of cooled off a little bit. He had
• 43:17
  a he had a hat trick I believe it was against Sedro Wooley and and
• 43:22
  one of those goals was from over one hundred feet out. I was watching
• 43:24
  it on NFHS. Yeah, and it kind of came back to him and
• 43:30
  he just took his shot and it would just sailed perfectly over the goalie's head
• 43:35
  into the goal. I mean that's over thirty yards away. Yeah. So
• 43:39
  because the goals behind is on the back of the end zone, you know,
• 43:43
  like, yeah, it's like that, like the crossbar is right above
• 43:45
  the Yeah. Yeah, no, it was like, isn't it like halfway
• 43:50
  or about halfway into the end zone. No, it's all the way back.
• 43:52
  So the so the actual the crossbar of the goalie of the goal is
• 43:58
  right below the crossbar for the for the field goal. Really kicked, yes,
• 44:02
  and so and so he and he kicked it from you know, it
• 44:07
  was like the thirty four yard line or something like that. So it went
• 44:12
  forty four yards you know, So it was that's a long shot, Yeah,
• 44:16
  it was. And then he had like a kind of a more of
• 44:19
  a railar goal and he had a header, so scoring in all sorts of
• 44:22
  different ways, three phases, right, you're right, Yeah, yeah,
• 44:24
  just a sophomore too, so good future for him. And uh so,
• 44:29
  yeah, a lot of these same names. I mean, Jude Decker's really
• 44:31
  come on strong recently. It's had some big games, you know, he's
• 44:36
  and he's still tied for fourth, just what he was with the week before.
• 44:39
  Blake Kresky scored a couple of goals again, So it's a lot of
• 44:42
  these same guys kind of moving around. But nineteen goals now on the season
• 44:47
  for Judas Strait to break out ahead, to be to lead by himself.
• 44:52
  Now the Belling BayHawks senior I got and I've been and I've been seeing him
• 44:55
  a lot in person recently and and he's really clicking it just the right time.
• 45:01
  Yeah. They've played what sixteen games, thirteen fifteen games, fifteen games,
• 45:07
  so he's got nineteen goals in fifteen game. Yeah, incredible. Yeah,
• 45:10
  I mean I don't know a lot about soccer, but I know that's
• 45:13
  pretty good. That's great. So yeah, again, uh, North County
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  Uh Tyler fast pitched Lindon bounces back, they go three and oh.
• 46:13
  This week Blaine they go two and oh with two shutouts and uh Ferndale,
• 46:16
  big extra inning thriller over Ana Chordis Oh Man that game, that extra inning
• 46:22
  game that was I think it was like three and a half hours long.
• 46:25
  Wow, And it was crazy. It was crazy because they had a six
• 46:29
  pm start already, so it started a little later than usual. I remember
• 46:34
  there were there were baseball games that started at like six forty five that same
• 46:37
  day that were done well before this softball game. And I'm working, I'm
• 46:43
  getting the I'm doing scoreboards and stuff, and I'm like, we'll all have
• 46:45
  the softball one ready before the baseball one. And that game just kept going.
• 46:51
  And I was on, all the baseball games are getting finished, so
• 46:52
  I have to go back over, flip it around, do the baseball scoreboard,
• 46:55
  do all those come back. It's still going on. This wasn't credible
• 47:00
  now because it was the only one left. Now I'm watching it on game
• 47:02
  Changer, and it was. It was just so crazy, back and forth.
• 47:07
  Anacordis is at home. So in the bottom of the seventh, uh
• 47:13
  Ferndale was up like seventeen fourteen. You know, they just have to get
• 47:16
  three outs, They just have to hold on. Anacordus scores a run,
• 47:21
  scores a run. Get there's an out, scores a run. Now the
• 47:24
  game's tied. Okay, so get this bottom of the seventh tide game.
• 47:30
  Anachordis has a runner on second base with one out. Wait and what was
• 47:34
  the score? Seventeen all in the seventh In the bottom of the seventh defense
• 47:38
  optional, All right, go ahead, Yeah, and and so now you
• 47:45
  say that until the defensive play of the game happens. Yeah, tiede game
• 47:50
  run around second, one out, Anachordus drives when the right center field.
• 47:54
  Now what was really cool was Ferndale had Madeline sleven and right and right field,
• 48:00
  and she's she's a pretty good player. She usually plays first base,
• 48:04
  but they've they've kind of moved things around all year and try to find and
• 48:07
  think things that work. She's a left handed player that was happened to be
• 48:09
  in the outfield. She gets it on one hop, fires it in to
• 48:14
  her cutoff man who was Mallory button Show in the picture who we've talked about
• 48:17
  forever from volleyball basketball. So she catches it five and the runners already rounding
• 48:23
  third. I mean, you and I know these softball fields, the bases
• 48:27
  are close, right, So she catches it. She catches it, Yeah,
• 48:30
  she catches it and just fires it home. Kylen Blakely catches it,
• 48:34
  takes and you know, there's there's a play at the play and she's out.
• 48:37
  And that was a huge I mean that was the game winning run.
• 48:40
  Yeah, I mean that is a you hit a shot to the gap with
• 48:45
  the runner on second, that is game over. But it was fielded perfectly
• 48:49
  and h that kept the game going. Button showing strikes out. The next
• 48:52
  batter they come around, score four runs in the top of the eighth,
• 48:55
  and then one, two, three, and you know, against anacord in
• 49:00
  the bottom of the eight. The game's finally done. Whoa, whoa one.
• 49:02
  You said that that game took how long to play? I want to
• 49:06
  say they were. It was well after nine o'clock when it got done.
• 49:08
  It was I think it was like three and a half hours. And it
• 49:10
  went and it was only eight innings. It went eight innings, but there
• 49:15
  were runs, yeah, thirty five hits. I think there was like thirteen
• 49:20
  errors and uh, you know, a handful of walks. See that's how
• 49:24
  you play a three hour game or and you know what I mean, like
• 49:28
  Major League Baseball, they got to figure something out, right, you know
• 49:30
  at times, because you know, they had to go do a pitch clock
• 49:34
  to try to speed things up. Instead fast pitch, they just go out
• 49:37
  there and hitting the ball all over the place, having a good old time.
• 49:39
  But that game was just like as soon as I saw that hit,
• 49:44
  I was like, it's over like I actually, and I hate to admit
• 49:46
  this, but like I had changed, I'd done. I got my scoreboard
• 49:50
  prepped and ready, like I was, like, I changed it right there
• 49:52
  eighteen seventeen boom and then out and I'm like, oh, that was an
• 49:58
  awesome play. Take it go back to So you need to apologize right now.
• 50:02
  I I hate. I am sorry. Mattelin, Slevin, Mallory,
• 50:07
  Button Show, Kaylin Blake. You guys made the play and it and it
• 50:12
  it. You know it changed me on how I make my scoreboard. I
• 50:15
  am not gonna because I'm always trying to stay get ahead a little bit.
• 50:19
  I think they the first stickers in the next batch of the walk them prep
• 50:22
  stickers, Like, I think you're right, you owe them. Oh,
• 50:27
  but it was just it was a great way. Like Linden had a They
• 50:30
  struggled last week. They went one in three, a couple of games that
• 50:32
  were against you know, some pretty big schools, uh non conference games.
• 50:37
  Come back and and go three and o. This week, big big week
• 50:40
  for them, Blaine again with a couple of shutouts, big big win down
• 50:45
  at Burlington. Heard from our buddy Andy Olsen, it was in attendance for
• 50:47
  that game. He has a you know, obviously a Blain guy now,
• 50:52
  but he's got Burlington ties obviously, so he was there and and he enjoyed
• 50:57
  that one. Shayley Daniels with a Grand Slam in that game. Uh.
• 51:00
  Just some really really good softball with some big matchups coming up this upcoming week.
• 51:07
  I you know Mount Baker, Yeah, they're they're in third place right
• 51:10
  now of the Walking County teams, but the two teams ahead of them,
• 51:14
  they haven't played yet, so there could be a lot of some stuff going
• 51:16
  on right now. You never hear off here, absolutely absolutely so. Yeah,
• 51:23
  just a lot of a lot of good stuff. I was so pumped
• 51:27
  for Saturday squal compelling and playing each other in the game back canceled. I
• 51:34
  wanted that to happen so bad. But uh, and I don't know if
• 51:37
  it's gonna get rescheduled. I haven't seen it yet for the reschedule, but
• 51:42
  but yeah, but when that happens, I'm gonna be there for that one.
• 51:45
  Uh, you know, just fun to see all the teams doing well.
• 51:50
  And and uh Lyndon Christian Lyndon Christian I saw them a little bit on
• 51:53
  Saturday playing against Sea Home and uh, got out to a big, big
• 51:58
  lead. See home came back. They have some really good hitters, played
• 52:00
  some played better defense that I'd seen them play all year, and that kind
• 52:04
  of helped them get back. And it just they just ran out of innings
• 52:07
  and see ho Olynty Christian got him thirteen to ten. There's just been some
• 52:10
  really good games recently. And and but boy as the season wears on,
• 52:15
  now, uh, it's gonna be a lot of There's some really good Skadget
• 52:20
  county teams. I mean, Mount Vernon's good, segre Woolley is legit state
• 52:24
  contender good, you know, Burlington is very very good. Lake WHATD is
• 52:29
  fantastic. I mean, so there are some really good teams down there as
• 52:32
  well. And and with only one team from one A going to going over
• 52:37
  to Richland in the state tournament. You know, I've gone over there three
• 52:44
  times four times now, and there's always been like two teams to cover.
• 52:47
  I think one year, like the first year I went there, there were
• 52:50
  three, but now there's only gonna be one. I might have to find
• 52:53
  a place kind of between Richland and and where the two a's are played,
• 53:00
  trying to remember where exactly they're played. I want to say it's in the
• 53:02
  Sila area or something like that, so I know there's probably a halfway point
• 53:07
  somewhere in that spot. I hopefully there's a hotel room La Prosser grand View,
• 53:12
  Sunnyside. Yeah, so like in that area. I might go kind
• 53:15
  of pop back and forth between the two a's and one a's because I think
• 53:19
  Lennon's got a good a good chance. So it'll be we'll see, it'll
• 53:22
  be interesting and then hope I could buzz back. So a one A or
• 53:25
  two A baseball team will be playing at Joe Martin Stadium for the state finals
• 53:30
  at the same time for baseball, So we'll see how it goes. And
• 53:31
  maybe i'll pop into track field state tournament over. I think that's in Yakama,
• 53:37
  So yeah, you never know, we'll see how it goes. Let's
• 53:40
  see here, two A is in Sila. Yeah, one A and four
• 53:45
  are at Columbia Playfield. Hey, if Bothel gets there, you could you
• 53:50
  could keep an eye for me. Yeah, and you said, what was
• 53:53
  the other one? You said, oh, track track and field. Yeah,
• 53:55
  I'm pretty sure that is there at at Zephyl's in Yakama. That's all
• 54:02
  somewhat close, isn't it kind of Yeah, I mean than an hour and
• 54:06
  a half of each other. Yeah, I don't know off the top of
• 54:08
  my head how I mean, I can tell you this much. It's not
• 54:10
  that far because I've done that drive many a time. Well, not that
• 54:14
  specific drive, but I've driven through Yakama on my way to tri Cities I
• 54:17
  don't know, a billion times. It seems like, let's see any any
• 54:22
  any reason to stop by majors again. Hey, you're speaking my language,
• 54:27
  Tyler. I think I have to you know, you're speaking my language there.
• 54:30
  Yeah, let's see here right now, from Sila to Richland is an
• 54:37
  hour fourteen, it says, which, yeah, I mean that's if you
• 54:42
  like, I have a hotel in between there though. Yeah, well a
• 54:45
  hotel in between would basically be like Sunnyside, which, by the way,
• 54:49
  I can give you some great Mexican joints in the Sunnyside Granger, grand View.
• 54:54
  I got some. I got some spots for you there, Tyler.
• 54:57
  Nice. Yeah, one of them, one of them, I'm telling you
• 55:00
  right now. You would drive up to it. You'd go, why did
• 55:02
  Ryland send me here? You'd be like, this place looks like it should
• 55:07
  come with a tennis shot or something right, and I'm just telling you it's
• 55:09
  gonna be the best Mexican food you've ever had in your life. It's I
• 55:13
  love it. Yeah, it's incredible. Let's see here, Tyler. That
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  I talked about it before the show started. The new sponsor, the uh
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  I mean it's it's right there. Yeah. Yeah, Go pick up
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  some I don't know, some Julio Rodriguez cards, then go across the street
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  and get a gift card for the wife. Well, yeah, I mean,
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  yeah, this way to do it. Let's see here, Tyler,
• 56:21
  Lyndon, Blaine, Meridian. All three teams went three and oh this week
• 56:24
  Lyndon Christian junior Austin Angles blasted his fourth home run of the season, and
• 56:29
  Mount Baker their season comes to a close. As the regular season comes to
• 56:35
  a close, Mount Baker season does because only four teams are moving on out
• 56:38
  of that one A conference there in the Northwest Conference. So yeah, Tyler,
• 56:44
  what what are we looking at here for the baseball We're kind of getting
• 56:46
  into the nitty gritty now. Yeah, there's a few regular season games left.
• 56:51
  Berndale playoffs on Monday. Blaine is still scheduled to play a game on
• 56:54
  Tuesday against over Lake, and then it's you know, we're pretty much right.
• 57:00
  They're into district playoff time for one A, two A, and three
• 57:05
  A. So it's a little crazy. Ferndale will not be playing in the
• 57:08
  three A district tournament, so when they play that game against Burlington on Monday,
• 57:13
  that will be it. Uh. They will be trying to win that
• 57:15
  game to become to hit the five hundred market ten and ten. And it's
• 57:20
  so crazy when you look at these records. Right now, you see four
• 57:22
  teams that all have a seven and eight league record and another team, you
• 57:27
  know, and Lindy Christian has it eight and seven. It's just so close.
• 57:30
  I mean during the week last week, I was talking to some different
• 57:34
  parents and they were like some one A parents and it was just like they
• 57:37
  were like, we need this, we need this for seeding for the one
• 57:40
  A. You know, and you go out there and you see Lynn Christian
• 57:44
  and Nuksack Valley both beat Sedro Woolley. It's like geez Louise, like they
• 57:47
  are playing because of the seeding, like they they they need these games,
• 57:52
  and and it's it's crazy because you looked at I mean all year we've been
• 57:57
  talking about how Meridian Lennon, Christian Blaine, and Knoksack Valley are just all.
• 58:02
  You know, it's like every single week I kind of had them ranked
• 58:05
  separately, like like differently. It was I couldn't tell you which one was
• 58:08
  the best team. Every week it was different and it was all four of
• 58:10
  them, you know, it was it's you know, I it's really hard
• 58:15
  to say. I mean, nuk Sac is super aggressive and they have a
• 58:16
  really good senior leadership. ELC has you know, got big time offensive power
• 58:22
  obviously with angles and and and Brody Bowman and Eli Mayberry and and and Blaine
• 58:28
  returned the most, the most players, the most varsity experienced and and with
• 58:32
  the new coaching staff and stuff like that. They were beaten teams by ten
• 58:36
  earlier on in the season. And Meridian, I mean we you know,
• 58:37
  we talked about how their four freshmen came up and and they're all play really
• 58:42
  important roles and Jonah Ossi was unstoppable and and uh so you just man,
• 58:47
  you just never know. And and this this tournament, and this will be
• 58:52
  my my goodness, seventh year in a row going to this tournament, either
• 58:55
  you know, announcing for the Doug Lane Network or just being a fan or
• 58:59
  actually covering it for Walking Preps. I love the one A Baseball District tournament.
• 59:04
  I've I've gotten to know a lot about Cedar Park, Christian and over
• 59:07
  Lake, Bear Creek and Kings And I mean, I know these teams show
• 59:13
  up, I know what the coach looks like, I know these players.
• 59:15
  I shouldn't know these guys, but I always do. And it's broken up
• 59:17
  between Seahome High School and Joe Martin Stadium you know, it's only you know,
• 59:22
  a mile and a half apart from each other. You can buzz back
• 59:23
  and forth. And uh, and I'm gonna be at four games, no
• 59:28
  doubt about that. Just depends on who wins, who loses. You what
• 59:31
  bracket are you going to? Remember last year I got to stick around at
• 59:35
  see Home High School for the whole day and just kind of fell that way.
• 59:38
  We're walking kind of teams kept playing there and boy, really just crazy.
• 59:44
  Seeom won a couple of games, went to and one this this past
• 59:46
  week, so they'll be that they're you know, they have they still have
• 59:51
  to play a playing game in the districts. But but they're playing really really
• 59:54
  well right now. And so many of these games that they've lost, they've
• 59:58
  been by one run. So there's just a lot to like about them right
• 1:00:00
  now. But Linden is you know. I I popped over to to get
• 1:00:06
  a sub sandwich their day at Porto Subs, and and uh, the girl,
• 1:00:09
  the girl asked me what my hoodie was. What's walking preps? Is
• 1:00:13
  that like a sports team or something? I said, No, I I
• 1:00:15
  cover I cover all the local high school teams. And and then she kind
• 1:00:19
  of looks at me, and she goes, so, what's the best team
• 1:00:21
  like Lyndon, And she didn't even ask about like a specific sport, you
• 1:00:25
  know, and I just kind of said, well, yeah, and she
• 1:00:29
  goes, when I played in high school and we play against Lindon, they
• 1:00:32
  were just like adults. They're all tall and big and strong and fast,
• 1:00:38
  and I was like, yeah, I know it's crazy, but but yeah
• 1:00:43
  it's Uh, Baseball's was just zipped by, and uh, knowing that these
• 1:00:47
  tournaments are coming up pretty soon, Like I said, we'll talk about it
• 1:00:50
  a little bit, but uh, it was a really it was a really
• 1:00:53
  crucial week this past week for some for some of these teams for seeding and
• 1:00:58
  and uh, really impressive to see Blaine kind of come back. They've been
• 1:01:00
  sliding a little bit to go three and know this past week and Meridian and
• 1:01:05
  Lyndon, who going into the year, I kind of felt like these were
• 1:01:08
  the two teams that had really good chances for postseason success and they're finishing really
• 1:01:14
  strong, two going into the postseason, so uh, it's it's starting to
• 1:01:17
  kind of pan out. But you see a lot of that mush in the
• 1:01:20
  middle. A lot of those teams are they you know when these teams play
• 1:01:23
  against each other, it's like, man, it's it's a pick them.
• 1:01:27
  I mean, I don't. I mean I saw a lot of these games
• 1:01:29
  against that you know each other, Blaine, Bellingham, Bellingham, Nuksack Valley.
• 1:01:31
  I was in the dugout for that one. A lot of really good
• 1:01:35
  games between these really good teams. Well, Tyler, what's your uh,
• 1:01:38
  what's your go to with the port of subs? Oh? The number one
• 1:01:44
  two foot? But I sub out profloon cheese and I get smoke each eddar.
• 1:01:47
  Whoa did you say? Two foot? Oh? Yes, two feet
• 1:01:52
  long? Yeah, and I and uh, if you eat it all in
• 1:01:55
  the sit in that one sitting, then they take your picture and put it
• 1:01:58
  on the wall there. Oh yeah, I mean there was an old port
• 1:02:01
  of subs where I had that, but I haven't done it since because I
• 1:02:05
  usually don't have the time. But but I'll get it and I'll eat a
• 1:02:08
  foot and then I'll put a foot in the fridge and then I'll have that
• 1:02:10
  the next day. Yeah, I see, I'm I'm more of a hot
• 1:02:15
  sandwich. Well, I just love sandwiches and subs in general. But if
• 1:02:20
  if I've got a chance to get a hot one. I want the hot
• 1:02:22
  one. Like, that's just me a strawmi melt. Yeah, the guy
• 1:02:25
  in front of me got the starry melt. It looked pretty good. Yeah,
• 1:02:29
  absolutely delicious. You said two feet and they'll they'll put your picture on
• 1:02:34
  the wall. Yeah if he if he eat all of it, yeah,
• 1:02:37
  and see, you know what I would do. I would just have some
• 1:02:39
  fun with it, and I would go in there like twice a week for
• 1:02:43
  like six months straight and just get my picture all over the place. That's
• 1:02:47
  awesome, Like that's like, that's the type of thing that if I found
• 1:02:52
  out, because I'm not gonna lie two feet of it, that's nothing.
• 1:02:55
  I mean, yeah, I would, I would hammer that. That would.
• 1:02:59
  I fell in love with port of Subs in high school because they sponsored
• 1:03:04
  Mount Baker football and so on Thursday on Thursday nights after practice, the whole
• 1:03:08
  team would go to Porta Subs and we'd get sandwiches for free. Yeah.
• 1:03:13
  That's that one. That's it's right across the street from Civic right or like
• 1:03:16
  that area. Yeah. Yeah, well that's that's the one that I went
• 1:03:20
  to the other day. But the one we used to go to was in
• 1:03:22
  Sunset Square and that's long gone now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but
• 1:03:27
  yeah, there's a few of them in Walking County. There's a there's like
• 1:03:30
  probably three or four of them. Yeah. I've been to that one a
• 1:03:31
  couple of times when i'm you know, either I'm up there for a game,
• 1:03:37
  or I'm maybe I'm coming from another game and I'm headed there and I
• 1:03:38
  just want to grab something that's that's easy to bring into the stadium, you
• 1:03:43
  know what I mean. Or going the other way where I go to a
• 1:03:45
  game up there and maybe I'm just trying to get out of town quick,
• 1:03:49
  or you know, there was actually one time I stopped and got a sub
• 1:03:52
  on the way in. I ate six inches and then went to the game
• 1:03:55
  and then ate six six six inches again in my car, then drove home.
• 1:04:00
  Yeah exactly, it's perfect. I love how that works. Yeah,
• 1:04:02
  really good. Yeah exactly. There's actually some like sneaky good food in that
• 1:04:05
  little area over there. Yeah, and the seven eleven where you can get
• 1:04:11
  a road soda and maybe and a Vega season be gone you going. Let's
• 1:04:16
  talk players of the week Tyler no sponsor yet. Fast Pitch Softball Player of
• 1:04:25
  the Week Tyler, Who is it? Oh? This was I know,
• 1:04:30
  I always say this, it's tough. I mean there's just at this point,
• 1:04:34
  yeah, big time numbers being put up, and I always try to
• 1:04:38
  look at you know, did you put up numbers, like what was the
• 1:04:41
  competition that you went against? All that stuff? Yeah, And when I
• 1:04:44
  really boiled down to it and looked at it, Casey Thomas from Lyndon,
• 1:04:47
  the senior catcher, had an unbelievable week. She has to be and I
• 1:04:51
  don't know yet it's gonna come out later today, but she has to be
• 1:04:55
  leading in doubles. I mean, she hit so many extra base hits I
• 1:04:59
  think she might. She's really close to be leading in RBIs as well.
• 1:05:02
  The number three hit her on that powerful Linen team, you know, having
• 1:05:05
  Campbell to Young and Melanie Anderson hitting in front of her. They get on
• 1:05:10
  all the time. They are is straight up, Thievery on the bass pass
• 1:05:15
  really good players, the two middle infielders, and then Casey Thomas comes up
• 1:05:17
  and she's hitting doubles left and right, and a handful of home runs here
• 1:05:20
  and there, and and they just it just gets that machine going. And
• 1:05:26
  she was very close to winning it, like in the week two of the
• 1:05:29
  year, and there was her teammate and the battery mate Trinity Andrew that ended
• 1:05:33
  up winning it. And so I'm glad that Casey had another phenomenal the week
• 1:05:38
  to where she could come through and get it. She also she did an
• 1:05:42
  intro for US a while back too, earlier on in the spring. So
• 1:05:46
  and a really really good volleyball player too. She but she's going to she's
• 1:05:50
  going to go on and play. She's gonna go play college, fast bitch.
• 1:05:56
  So and I don't know if you end up catching in college or she
• 1:05:58
  might be playing some third base. A really really good player and just a
• 1:06:01
  really quick bat. I mean, obviously you have to have a quick bat
• 1:06:05
  and fast pitch. I mean, but it's there's no wasted motion, you
• 1:06:09
  know what I mean, Like it is bat to ball almost like Paul Mallider
• 1:06:13
  remember just that, Yeah, there was no waste of motion. He would
• 1:06:15
  just boom, just swing right to the ball. There was no dilly dally
• 1:06:19
  in that swing. And that's what I see with Casey Thomas on her fast
• 1:06:23
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  six Funeral and Cremation Services Baseball Player of the Week. It was between a
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  couple of players, you know, Lindon's Kale Stapleton had a really good week.
• 1:06:53
  He has thirty stolen bases this year. What thirty? Yeah, holy
• 1:06:59
  crap, that is yeah, pardon my French, you know what Like that
• 1:07:03
  one caught me off guard here, Tyler, you said thirty and they've played
• 1:07:06
  what twenty, like nineteen twenty games. Yeah, he and he's off hitter
• 1:07:12
  and and he gets on he's going and and he had another really really great
• 1:07:19
  week. And but when I looked around and I saw what what Alejandro Moser
• 1:07:26
  Hernandez did from Blaine, or as they call him, Rico Suave. He
• 1:07:31
  he is, first of all, the presence that he has at the plate
• 1:07:36
  is just scary. You're talking six five, two hundred and twenty five pounds,
• 1:07:41
  you know, looking like you know Frank Thomas up there at the high
• 1:07:45
  school level. It is, it is, it is. And he hit
• 1:07:49
  he hit one out last year and I remember when that happened. I think
• 1:07:53
  his confidence grew a little bit. And uh, he did it again this
• 1:07:57
  this week out at Bellingham High School. Not an easy place to hit,
• 1:08:00
  hit one out at. That's also where Austin Ingles hit his out at and
• 1:08:05
  Bellingham, you know, staying in the thick of this now they have a
• 1:08:09
  playing game coming up. But uh, he was a big reason why when
• 1:08:12
  they beat Bellingham four to one. He had all four RBIs and he did
• 1:08:15
  it like he didn't do it with one swing. He did it with three
• 1:08:18
  separate hits. So when you have all your team's RBIs and three separate plate
• 1:08:23
  appearances, you are the reason right there. And uh, and it wasn't
• 1:08:27
  just that game. A really great game, great week all the way through.
• 1:08:31
  Play some good first base and the only thing that I can the only
• 1:08:36
  thing that's gonna stand out. And you're probably thinking this exactly right now,
• 1:08:40
  is fitting that name on the graphic? And oh yeah that you know what,
• 1:08:45
  Tyler, I don't have to do it, so I don't care.
• 1:08:46
  I know, I might just put Rico sab I'm not. I don't know.
• 1:08:50
  Yeah, but but congratulations to him. Alexandra Moser Hernandez, the senior
• 1:08:56
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• 1:09:00
  of the week. North County Alliance FC, who else sponsors the boys at
• 1:09:03
  soccer player of the week Tyler? You can find them online NC ALLIANCEFC dot
• 1:09:09
  com. As I mentioned earlier, there are still tryouts left, and I'm
• 1:09:13
  sure that you know there's some other things going on that I would check out
• 1:09:15
  their website. There's all kinds of stuff going on over there. But Tyler,
• 1:09:18
  who is the North County Alliance FC Boys Soccer Player of the week.
• 1:09:24
  Well, are some really good candidates here. I thought that I thought Ethan
• 1:09:28
  Cobb at Lyndon, you know, Johann Beltcamp at Lennon Christian. These are
• 1:09:31
  a couple of goalies that you know, we haven't given them a lot of
• 1:09:33
  love and but they've been doing really, really well. I know Sean Baker
• 1:09:40
  at Bellingham had a really good week. Another another goalie there, Skyler Rowe,
• 1:09:45
  and Isaac Grimes, a couple of sophomores had really big weeks. But
• 1:09:48
  I'm gonna give it to Judas Strait, the senior from Bellingham. This is
• 1:09:53
  you're getting right down to the nitty gritty here, playing against really good teams
• 1:09:57
  super important goals and he's he is the key igniter to that team for Bellingham,
• 1:10:02
  leading the county and goals right now. And yeah, just he is,
• 1:10:09
  they're going to really need to lean on him. And Aiden McGuire is
• 1:10:14
  a great, great player as well. And when you look at like their
• 1:10:17
  goals as a team, I think just between the two of them they have
• 1:10:21
  I don't know, eighty percent of their goals maybe more. And so there's
• 1:10:25
  a couple of guys that are going to be leaned on pretty heavily going into
• 1:10:29
  the postseason. But Judas Strait the senior huge week. I think he had
• 1:10:32
  four goals against really really good opponents. So yeah, he's your North County
• 1:10:35
  Alliance FC Boys soccer player of the week. Those are the players of the
• 1:10:41
  week. Now let's take a look ahead at next week. And usually we
• 1:10:44
  start with the boys, Tyler, but you and I are going to go
• 1:10:45
  over some playoff brackets, so let's start with the girls. And it looks
• 1:10:49
  like you got some tennis, some fast pitch. What are you looking ahead
• 1:10:54
  to over there on the girls side. Well, I'm really excited about today's
• 1:10:58
  match Bellingham at Lynn. And again this is at the this is at the
• 1:11:01
  Middle School of London Tennis Bellingham and Lindon. I know that Linden's undefeated and
• 1:11:08
  they just beat see them, but Bellingham has that chance to really match up
• 1:11:13
  with them. Well, don't be surprised if they If they get them here,
• 1:11:15
  Bellingham is loaded up and down with a ton of talent and uh,
• 1:11:21
  you know, hopefully the weather holds out again for this one. That'll be
• 1:11:24
  today at four o'clock out of London and then on Tuesday, Mount Baker at
• 1:11:30
  Blaine Fast Pitch. This is the one that a lot of people have been
• 1:11:32
  waiting for. Uh, this will be you know, you can almost I
• 1:11:38
  don't want to say you're gonna just like ride it with a pen or anything,
• 1:11:42
  but you're talking. Last year's district championship game was this matchup. Uh,
• 1:11:46
  you could look forward to maybe it being this upcoming district championship game again.
• 1:11:51
  But then if they you know, they'd have to beat each you know,
• 1:11:55
  they'd have to win twice. So you can almost guarantee that at some
• 1:11:59
  point at the district tournament this they will match up again and it will mean
• 1:12:02
  a lot more at that point. This is gonna be a really, really,
• 1:12:05
  really great game. You're talking about, big time pitching on both sides,
• 1:12:11
  a couple of you know, a couple of big strong coaches on each
• 1:12:15
  side, uh and uh, and two teams that give Walker Preps a ton
• 1:12:19
  of love. So uh so I love that, but boy, this is
• 1:12:25
  gonna be I really hope the weather is good for this too, because this
• 1:12:29
  could be like one of those like three to two games, two to one
• 1:12:31
  games with you know, but not like not like a game where usually when
• 1:12:36
  it's a game like that, it's like there's sacrifices and stuff like that because
• 1:12:40
  there's some big time boppers they get a hold of one. You might see
• 1:12:43
  a two to one game with a two run home run against a solo shot,
• 1:12:45
  like one of those kinds of games you're talking about. Pitching is really
• 1:12:48
  really good, but you got great hitters as well, and all all it
• 1:12:51
  takes is one sometimes so and you you would love it out at the Blaine
• 1:12:57
  Stadium. They got they got a Rick Flair fly. They got another flag
• 1:13:00
  that says whoo, They got a flag of a picture that I took.
• 1:13:04
  They got they got the banner there that says go to Walking Preps for all
• 1:13:09
  the stats, the scores and everything, it's all decked out. There was
• 1:13:13
  like thirty flags. It seems like it's they've really done a great job of
• 1:13:16
  making it, you know, really supporting their their lady border rights. And
• 1:13:21
  you know, this was a team that not that long ago was just kind
• 1:13:24
  of in the depths of nothing for fast pitch. I mean, they just
• 1:13:27
  couldn't get out of you know, going three and seventeen every year. And
• 1:13:30
  now coach Sean Miller has really turned that program around with a really great group
• 1:13:35
  of girls that have come through and you know, doing what they did last
• 1:13:41
  year getting fifth place at State and looking really good again this year. You
• 1:13:45
  know, they beat London at London. I mean that says a lot.
• 1:13:48
  And then now to play against Mount Baker and then Mount Baker right after that
• 1:13:51
  ass to turn around and they're going to host Lindon a few days later.
• 1:13:55
  So that's gonna be a really good game too. But the one I'm really
• 1:13:58
  looking forward to is Mount Baker at Blaine Tuesday, four o'clock. Let's talk
• 1:14:03
  boys. Look ahead, Tyler, and let's bounce through some of the brackets
• 1:14:08
  here, and we're gonna start with baseball, uh and and we're gonna start
• 1:14:11
  with one a specifically and on May one, that is what is that is
• 1:14:15
  that Wednesday? Yeah, Wednesday, Sultan Blaine. They're playing a It's it's
• 1:14:23
  essentially like a pigtail type thing where it's one team from each side and they're
• 1:14:27
  they're playing to get in here is essentially what it is, Sultan Blaine.
• 1:14:30
  Now Tyler says it's at D two. Yeah, we don't know what that
• 1:14:35
  means, so we're not exactly sure where the game is although the team,
• 1:14:40
  yeah, Blaine is on the bottom of the bracket or on the bottom of
• 1:14:44
  the line. I don't even know how you want to say it here.
• 1:14:46
  But Blaine actually plays the night before as well in a non conference game against
• 1:14:53
  is it over Lake if I remember correctly, And that's over there at Marymore,
• 1:14:56
  which is not too far from my house as a matter of fact,
• 1:14:58
  actually I was. I was just there the other day. Over Lake is
• 1:15:02
  kind of a school. It's like way back in the woods, beautiful campus
• 1:15:06
  if you got back there, but it's kind of off the beaten path a
• 1:15:09
  little bit. But so they don't I don't even think they have a baseball
• 1:15:13
  field, Like, I don't think they can practice at their school. They
• 1:15:15
  must have to drive all the way down to Marrymore. But that being said,
• 1:15:18
  Tyler, that's a big game for Blaine. I mean, they to
• 1:15:21
  think that Blaine is in that position is kind of interesting. But it just
• 1:15:26
  shows you the strength of Wakham County baseball right now, and really Nooksack Valley.
• 1:15:31
  I mean, they've been playing well, but that's Wednesday. Now.
• 1:15:38
  If they win there, then they get a play on Saturday against Cedar Park
• 1:15:44
  Christian at Joe Martin Stadium. That would be a ten am game, which,
• 1:15:48
  by the way, ten am that's tough for baseball. Man. I
• 1:15:54
  remember as a kid playing like the nine and ten am games and always just
• 1:15:57
  hating them. But then again, and you're playing playoff baseball, so you're
• 1:16:00
  really happy to be playing. So that's a good Yeah, that's true.
• 1:16:03
  Yeah, and that's gonna be a that would be a tough one. Ceedar
• 1:16:06
  Bark Christian traditionally pretty darn good. Else played him earlier on in the year.
• 1:16:11
  I think Cedar Park got him four to two. So always a really
• 1:16:15
  good program. Cedar Park Christian not too far from my house. Yeah,
• 1:16:19
  so that would be a ten am game at Joe Martin Stadium on Saturday.
• 1:16:24
  Now, the exact same time. Over Lake is coming up. They will
• 1:16:29
  be playing Lynden Christian at Seahome. That is also a ten am game,
• 1:16:34
  so gotta have to pick one or the other to go to. But then
• 1:16:40
  at twelve thirty nook Sack Valley they will be playing Kings over at Seahome and
• 1:16:45
  South Widby will be taken on Meridian over at Joe Martin Stadium at the exact
• 1:16:51
  same time, So Tyler lots of baseball action ten am and twelve thirty pm
• 1:16:59
  that is right there, and then the winners are actually gonna move on and
• 1:17:02
  they will both play at Joe Martin Stadium. So if you win a game
• 1:17:06
  at Seahome, then you got to just drive over maybe hit boomers on the
• 1:17:09
  way I would, but they played the same day. They'll play at three
• 1:17:15
  Yes and then at Yes Yeah. And actually, if you play, it's
• 1:17:18
  kind of interesting because you know, you just go from Seahome right over to
• 1:17:25
  there, and it's basically almost like the time in between you kind of just
• 1:17:28
  need to grab something to eat. I mean, it's not a far drive,
• 1:17:30
  but you gotta pack your stuff and then you gotta get over there.
• 1:17:32
  You gotta get a little something to eat or something in between, maybe catch
• 1:17:35
  a snooze if you can. But that's a three pm game at Joe Martin.
• 1:17:42
  So that would be the winner of over Lake and lynnon Christian they will
• 1:17:45
  play the winner of whoever plays at Cedar Park Christian. They will play the
• 1:17:49
  winner of that game. That would be three pm at Joe Martin. Then
• 1:17:53
  at five thirty pm there will be another game at Joe Martin. That'll be
• 1:17:56
  the winner of Nooksack Valley and Kings against the winner of South would be and
• 1:18:00
  Meridians. So lots of baseball action going on in the one a's over at
• 1:18:04
  Joe Martin Stadium. In a little bit over there at Sea Home. Uh
• 1:18:09
  what do you look at? The consolation is also the same day at the
• 1:18:12
  same time, three thirty oh, yes, and so yes, those would
• 1:18:16
  be at Sea Home games. Yeah, those will be at Sea Home.
• 1:18:18
  Those will be eight games all right there, all day long. Yeah,
• 1:18:24
  and then you just go home and sleep until Monday. Is what it IS's
• 1:18:28
  go home and do scoreboards, yeah, and then and then add up stats
• 1:18:30
  and then write the story of Sunday. Yeah, it's it's non stuff.
• 1:18:34
  See, Tyler, That's one where you kind of need to be able to
• 1:18:38
  do that stuff on your phone, right, Like you know what I'm saying,
• 1:18:41
  Like, although you know what we could, you know what I can
• 1:18:43
  show you how to do that, Tyler, there's an app for that.
• 1:18:46
  But yeah, So lots of action going on over there. Anything specific you're
• 1:18:48
  looking forward to here? Uh, let's just talk obviously the one a's,
• 1:18:51
  but anything specific you're looking forward to there. I a couple of things over
• 1:18:57
  lake. I've seen them last couple of years. I've always been really,
• 1:18:59
  really good. Have a really this tall kid. He's been playing third base
• 1:19:02
  last couple of years, but I think he's been playing shortstop this year and
• 1:19:05
  he can just absolutely pound the ball. And he's a senior this year.
• 1:19:10
  So I'm curious to see how he does against Lennon Christian. So I'll probably
• 1:19:13
  be at that game for the early morning. And uh, and I'm really
• 1:19:17
  curious to see if Jonah's arm will be healed to pitch. Jonah Aussi from
• 1:19:23
  Meridian because they could really use him. Uh. They've had some good you
• 1:19:27
  know, Silas Burshouwer's been pitching well, Nate Payne the freshman's been been pitching
• 1:19:30
  well. Even Ian Forbes, the catcher has been coming over and pitching well,
• 1:19:33
  and they've had some help out of the bullpen. Trey Alexander, the
• 1:19:36
  freshman could pitch a little bit. So, Uh, they've they've they've had
• 1:19:41
  that. But boy, it'd be nice to have Jonah Austi on the mound
• 1:19:44
  to kind of get that for sure win when you need it. Uh.
• 1:19:46
  So that's you know, I what I tend to do is I might bounce
• 1:19:53
  around in the beginning, but I you know, it obviously depends where the
• 1:19:56
  Walking County teams go. But if a Walking County team is playing in a
• 1:20:00
  consolation game in the afternoon out at Seal High School, I will definitely be
• 1:20:02
  there because you know, you want to be there for that loser out game.
• 1:20:08
  That's when a team plays a loser out game and they have to put
• 1:20:11
  all their chips in the in the middle. Uh. That's always interesting to
• 1:20:15
  watch and see the dynamics and it can get a little crazy. You know.
• 1:20:18
  It's like it's like we need we need you to pitch. We need
• 1:20:21
  you know, a guy that hasn't pitched in a month, or you know,
• 1:20:24
  we need this or that. Like the moves they make. It's so
• 1:20:27
  critical and and it's always interesting to see. So I usually end up in
• 1:20:30
  the afternoon out at Seal High School. Yeah, and if you win a
• 1:20:33
  couple of games, and I mean even if you lose one, and you
• 1:20:36
  win a couple more. Eventually, if you get through this week's Saturday games,
• 1:20:41
  you move on to next Saturday and those will also be at Joe Martin
• 1:20:45
  and uh seahomes. So uh we'll talk about that on next week's podcast once
• 1:20:49
  we have a better idea of who's going away and what's going on. That
• 1:20:55
  is the one as the two a's. They are doing most of their damage
• 1:20:58
  down at Daniel's Field and Anne courtis. But there are a couple of games
• 1:21:01
  on April thirtieth, which would be what Tuesday, yep, Tuesday, Squalicum
• 1:21:06
  they are headed down to take on Lakewood that is a play in game at
• 1:21:13
  Lakewood High School and then see home. They are hosting Cedar Crest that is
• 1:21:17
  a five point fifteen pm game that's easier said than done, and the Lake
• 1:21:23
  the game at Lakewood that is a four pm game. So luckily for the
• 1:21:27
  Squalicum kids they get out of school early. That being said, Tyler,
• 1:21:30
  win those games, you move over to May second which is Thursday. That's
• 1:21:35
  when the games start going over at daniels Field down there in Nanna Cordis.
• 1:21:40
  There are games. There's a lot of games. There's a ten am,
• 1:21:45
  twelve thirty pm, three thirty pm and six pm. Talk about getting out
• 1:21:49
  of school early, yeah, I mean if if Squalicum wins, they won't
• 1:21:55
  even have to go to school on right on Thursday, right, I mean
• 1:21:58
  they mighty actually have to go to school, like when they get back,
• 1:22:00
  you know what I mean, like just go to the last period of the
• 1:22:03
  day. But yeah, so Thursday, though, there are some Watcom County
• 1:22:12
  teams are already in guaranteed Thursday. That is Bellingham they're playing twelve thirty pm
• 1:22:19
  at Anna Cordis. Wait was that a game? Who did Anna Cortis just
• 1:22:23
  play the other day? No, that was softball. That was the big
• 1:22:26
  softball match, that's what. Yeah. Yeah. And then Lyndon they will
• 1:22:30
  host, i say host at daniels Field the winner of Cedar creston Seahome that
• 1:22:35
  they are already locked into that one. That is a six pm game on
• 1:22:41
  Thursday at daniels Field. Now, if you win those ones, you move
• 1:22:46
  on to well even if you lose you move on to Saturday, and those
• 1:22:51
  are also at daniels Field Linden they would be playing another six pm game if
• 1:22:58
  they win on Thursday, and then Bellingham they would be playing a three thirty
• 1:23:02
  game. So lots of action going on down there in Anna Cortus Tyler,
• 1:23:06
  anything specific you got you're looking ahead to there, Well, obviously I'm really
• 1:23:11
  hoping for Squalk come and see them to get wins so they can keep their
• 1:23:14
  season alive and and have some Walking County flavor to this, because it is
• 1:23:17
  very it's very non Walking County flavory, you know, if you start looking
• 1:23:21
  at the two way stuff, you know, See Home playing against Lyndon would
• 1:23:27
  be awesome. And this is one of those ones where pretty pretty sure that
• 1:23:33
  MICHAELA, my intern, will be able to make it down to these big
• 1:23:36
  I think she covered these last year because especially on the Saturdays where I'm going
• 1:23:42
  to be at Bellingham all day, going from Sea Home and Joe Martin's during
• 1:23:45
  the you know, the Semis and the consolation where a lot of Walking County
• 1:23:49
  teams will be playing, especially if Squalkam and See Home move on. So
• 1:23:55
  I'm sure that she'll be able to cover what she can on Saturday. But
• 1:23:58
  it's always a tough thing when there's games going on at the exact same time
• 1:24:01
  and I can't go back and forth. But that's where I'm blessed to have
• 1:24:04
  someone like Michayleey that can that can be there. I think I'll be able
• 1:24:08
  to go out on the on on May second, which is the Thursday,
• 1:24:13
  and I'll probably head over to check out Seahome when they host Cedar Crest on
• 1:24:16
  on on Tuesday there. So you know, it's uh, it's it's just
• 1:24:23
  a lot of action, fast and furious and and uh again for Stillman squaal
• 1:24:27
  Comb. They just just to get into that round. So then you can
• 1:24:30
  afford to lose a game if you if you, if you need to and
• 1:24:33
  this is so this is uh okay, so it's three going to state from
• 1:24:39
  here. Okay. I was just kind of curious if it was two or
• 1:24:41
  three or four whatever it was. But uh, but yeah, the championship
• 1:24:45
  game, they both go to state or no, I'm sorry, the loser
• 1:24:48
  winters thirteen, so it's only two yeah wow, okay, yeah, So
• 1:24:54
  lose the district championship, you still got to go play another one. So
• 1:24:58
  the district championship will be on main ninth, right, if you lose that
• 1:25:01
  one, you still got to play on the eleventh to get into state from
• 1:25:05
  there. Yeah, so it's gonna be it's gonna be interesting. And and
• 1:25:10
  and here's a thing where see seem this plays to a little bit to see
• 1:25:14
  Hom's advantage. I mean, I know it's tough for them because they have
• 1:25:15
  a play in game, but they possibly, if things go right for them,
• 1:25:21
  could play three games this week. And you know most high school teams
• 1:25:26
  have kind of their two stud pitchers. Yeah, see, Holm's pretty good
• 1:25:30
  with three. They they're they're one of those teams that have three really good
• 1:25:34
  guys. I mean, Ryder McGrath is is clearly their number one. He's
• 1:25:39
  he throws legitimate mid eighties, maybe eighty six eighty seven at times. And
• 1:25:45
  then and Hudson nep and Keegan Glennon are are a couple of sophomores that have
• 1:25:48
  had really good games. I mean, huts Nef just just threw a two
• 1:25:51
  hitter the other day. I know, he went he went almost completed nine
• 1:25:56
  innings against Bellingham, which is really hard to do, especially with count rules.
• 1:26:00
  A really good game is there as well, And Keegan Glennon's just a
• 1:26:03
  bulldog. I mean he just he just reaches back and throws and throws hard
• 1:26:08
  and and he's got a pretty good curveball too that has control of it.
• 1:26:12
  So you start talking about maybe having to play three games in a week,
• 1:26:15
  you got to rely on three guys to pitch. See them has three guys,
• 1:26:18
  so that's that's can be helpful going into this, Like Lyndon Linnen's loaded
• 1:26:24
  man. They got they got three or four guys that could pitch complete games
• 1:26:28
  and and there that's never been a problem for them. But sometimes some of
• 1:26:31
  these teams you only have, you know, two guys that you can really
• 1:26:34
  depend on to pitch five or six innings and and see them as three,
• 1:26:39
  so that could really help them. That is one A and two a boys
• 1:26:44
  baseball. Let's talk three a boy soccer Tyler. And really there's just one
• 1:26:49
  kind of thing to talk about here. And this is us looking at the
• 1:26:54
  at the brackets that are available to us online. So we're just kind of
• 1:26:57
  going with what they say here. It looks as though Ferndale should pretty much
• 1:27:02
  be getting a chance to play Shorecrest now they have a game this week already.
• 1:27:10
  Correct or no, excuse me, they don't play Oak Harbor is kind
• 1:27:14
  of the one there they're looking at. But oak Harbor plays Lynden, Right,
• 1:27:18
  that's what it is. So we're really looking at Ferndale. We think
• 1:27:23
  should be playing Shorecrest. That game would be at the higher seat. So
• 1:27:27
  Shoretcrest would get that home game at Shoreline Stadium, I would assume, and
• 1:27:31
  that would be May second. So that's kind of what it is there for
• 1:27:34
  Ferndale. There's not really a whole much more to it because they're the only
• 1:27:38
  three A team in the county. So and that's a winner, win or
• 1:27:42
  go home game right there too. Yes, that they lose that one,
• 1:27:45
  Good night, nurse. Let's move on. Let's talk one a boy soccer.
• 1:27:49
  Now, this is one's kind of interesting because Mount Baker they still get
• 1:27:55
  a shot to win something here. They will play No Luksack Valley at Blaine
• 1:28:00
  High School on Thursday seven pm. Tyler. The winner of that one will
• 1:28:06
  move on and play Linden Christian, who is hotter than anybody right now.
• 1:28:13
  But then also Blaine and Meridian. They will play at Blaine, which is
• 1:28:17
  interesting because Blaine is actually the lower seed here. But Blaine Stadium is hosting
• 1:28:24
  the turn in, which you almost kind of have to do at this point
• 1:28:26
  because you need to make sure you can play these games. And it's good
• 1:28:29
  conditions or not good conditions, but a good field is basically what it is.
• 1:28:33
  So Blaine High School is hosting all these games. Mount Baker, Nuksack
• 1:28:40
  Valley. That's Thursday Saturday. The winner of the Mount Baker Nuksack Valley game
• 1:28:44
  will play Linden Christian at seven pm at Blaine. Before that, four thirty
• 1:28:49
  at Blaine is Blaine and Meridian Tyler and then the two winners they will move
• 1:28:54
  on and oddly enough they get a full week off and then they come back
• 1:28:58
  on the eleventh and play again at Bla at seven pm. So when you
• 1:29:01
  look at it though, Tyler, Mount Baker, Nuksack Valley, Lennon Christian,
• 1:29:04
  Blaine, Meridian, they all still get at least one week left.
• 1:29:08
  We'll see what goes on from there. But what are you looking forward to
• 1:29:11
  here? Well, I mean the rematch Mount Baker and Nuksack Valley. You
• 1:29:14
  know there were the last time they played each other, it was a two
• 1:29:16
  to two tie, and that gave Mount Baker a lot of momentum, I
• 1:29:20
  think, and they were able to score a goal against Meridian. And I'm
• 1:29:23
  not saying they could, you know, go off and beat one of these
• 1:29:26
  other teams, but they know what they can do against Nuksack Valley. And
• 1:29:30
  they were without their goalie in that game too. They not that they didn't
• 1:29:32
  play one, they had a backup in there. But there's a lot of
• 1:29:35
  youth on that Mount Baker team, a lot of eighth graders doing some really
• 1:29:39
  good things, and and we could see what they could do there. Now
• 1:29:42
  winner of that game has to play against Lennon Christian. That's not going to
• 1:29:45
  be an easy task. Uh, that's going to be really you know,
• 1:29:47
  you can almost say Lennon Christian's got a pretty good advantage over both those teams
• 1:29:53
  to help them slide into the finals. That Blaine Meridian game is going to
• 1:29:56
  be awesome. You know, I think they've played each twice this year.
• 1:30:00
  I was at both games for a short amount of time. I know the
• 1:30:04
  last time they played, Meridian shut them out three zero and uh or three
• 1:30:10
  nail and uh. So you just never really know. Blank can score a
• 1:30:14
  ton of goals on you, but soa can Meridian. And it might be
• 1:30:16
  all about you know, how good is the defense going? And uh will
• 1:30:20
  the friendly confines of Plaining High school help out the border rights? I don't
• 1:30:24
  know, but uh, it's gonna be tough. Only one team advances to
• 1:30:28
  state here, and uh, those top three seeds I think all have a
• 1:30:32
  chance, a pretty you know, decent chance. So we'll see who walkin
• 1:30:36
  County can send a state out of all this. But it's gonna it is
• 1:30:40
  weird that you're right there. After they play, they're gonna have a whole
• 1:30:42
  week off before they play again, and and we'll see what happens hopefully everything.
• 1:30:46
  You know, I just hope there's it's all good play. There's not
• 1:30:49
  you know's no injuries or anything like that. And the best team is gonna
• 1:30:53
  come out. Obviously, right now, the hottest team are the Links.
• 1:30:56
  I mean, that's just that's just the way that it is. But now
• 1:30:59
  on a bigger field, can they take advantage of some space and get past
• 1:31:01
  those bigger defenders. I was just thinking about it, Tyler. Do you
• 1:31:05
  know what what the date was the last time Maridi or excuse me, Lynnon
• 1:31:11
  Christian gave up a goal, which was against Meridian. It was in March.
• 1:31:15
  I know that. It was Monday, April eighth. Oh, it
• 1:31:19
  was April eighth. Okay, think about how long ago that last time they
• 1:31:23
  even gave up a goal though, I was thinking the last time they lost.
• 1:31:27
  No, that was the last time they gave up a goal. Yeah,
• 1:31:30
  yeah, I mean because seven straight clean sheets. Yeah, it was
• 1:31:34
  right. It was coming back from spring break. Yeah, that was last
• 1:31:38
  That was the last time. Yeah, I mean, that's absolutely insane.
• 1:31:41
  I was still forty four at the time. It was a whole year ago
• 1:31:45
  as far as age goes for time. Yeah, yeah, crazy. That's
• 1:31:49
  one A Tyler. Let's talk two A really quickly, and two A is
• 1:31:54
  a little more. That's what I'm looking for here, convoluted, if you
• 1:31:57
  will. There's there's a lot of different things going on here. I see
• 1:32:01
  here, Tyler, And you explained it to me earlier, and I already
• 1:32:03
  forgot Lakewood. They will play a play in game on Tuesday against the Seed
• 1:32:13
  It says Seed seven. Who the heck of Seed seven? Tyler? Yeah,
• 1:32:16
  Well, it depends on how Linden does on Monday. If Linden and
• 1:32:21
  this is this is just probable, I don't know for sure, but what
• 1:32:26
  it looks like is if Linden beats Okarber, then they will be the sixth
• 1:32:30
  seed and they'll be playing against Bellingham. They don't have to play the playing
• 1:32:34
  game. If Okarber beats them, then they'll be the seventh seed and have
• 1:32:39
  to host Lakewood. So uh, then they'll have to play a playing game
• 1:32:43
  to try to get in, which would be a little you know, a
• 1:32:45
  little bit more difficult. So uh, and get it out of the way,
• 1:32:49
  Yeah, exactly. And they're on that two game winning streak right now.
• 1:32:53
  They haven't allowed a goal since the first half on last Monday against Bellingham,
• 1:32:57
  so uh, they're on a roll right now. And take care of
• 1:33:01
  business against Okarver, so you don't have to worry about the Lakewood game.
• 1:33:04
  Go right up there and then rematch against the BayHawks and see how that goes.
• 1:33:09
  So on the other side of the play ins, this is on Tuesday,
• 1:33:14
  you've got Sedro Williams, Cedar Crass, no offense. We don't care
• 1:33:16
  about you guys. But then we move on. We talk about Thursday,
• 1:33:19
  May second, Bellingham will be hosting somebody and that game will be at Bellingham.
• 1:33:28
  They will be hosting somebody who we don't know yet. It looks like
• 1:33:30
  it will most likely or hopefully be Lyndon Squalicum. They will host whoever wins
• 1:33:39
  that Lakewood play in game from Tuesday that will be at Squalicum, Burlington Edison.
• 1:33:47
  They will play at Archbishop Murphy and then see Home they will play.
• 1:33:53
  They will host also the winner of that Sedro Woolle Cedar Cress game and all
• 1:33:58
  of these teams. If they win, they move on and play again on
• 1:34:00
  the fourth. If you lose, you also play on the fourth. You
• 1:34:02
  just go to a loser out game at that point, but they would go
• 1:34:08
  to the semi finals if they win there. That would be on Saturday,
• 1:34:11
  and those would also be at the higher seed, which I believe, and
• 1:34:15
  I could be wrong here, but I think the higher the highest seeds are
• 1:34:21
  what is it, it's Bellingham or no, excuse me? Is it Seahome
• 1:34:27
  and Bellingham? No, it would be it would be yes, excuse me,
• 1:34:31
  Sea Home and Squalicum is what is what is listed here? Which is
• 1:34:36
  also in a way kind of interesting because Archbishop Murphy technically they win their or
• 1:34:43
  excuse me, they finished fourth, right, yes, So I don't know.
• 1:34:46
  It's it's really interesting. The way to look at these brackets. But
• 1:34:49
  that being said, there's a lot of Wakham County flavor in the in the
• 1:34:55
  boys soccer compared to what there is in boys baseball or in the baseball side
• 1:34:59
  of things. But yeah, Tyler, lots of soccer coming up here.
• 1:35:02
  You know what is brutal for you, Tyler, that I'm looking at here.
• 1:35:06
  Everything is the thirtieth, the second, and the fourth. I know,
• 1:35:10
  I was just looking at that. I mean the two AA baseball is
• 1:35:14
  broken up a little bit. Yeah here, I think, But you're right.
• 1:35:17
  But hey, if Sea Home wins on the second and they host on
• 1:35:21
  the fourth, the time is still TBD. I'll probably be at Seo High
• 1:35:26
  School. I didn't even think about that. You will be. Yeah,
• 1:35:29
  yeah, Well potentially I can pop over and take some pictures, you know,
• 1:35:32
  so, so that could work out. I might be able to head
• 1:35:36
  out over to Squalkum High School if they're end up winning their their game two.
• 1:35:42
  So, but as I look at this one thing too, is again
• 1:35:46
  really really good teams. I mean I've seen se Home, Bellingham, Squalcum,
• 1:35:51
  and Burlington. These are all state playoff caliber teams. Only two teams
• 1:35:57
  are going to go to state. Yeah, that is just crazy. Uh
• 1:36:00
  there's and again I don't know as in compared to the rest of the state.
• 1:36:04
  I you know, they could get there and then just and just get
• 1:36:08
  walloped. I have no idea, but from what I've seen, there's some
• 1:36:12
  really really good teams, and boy, it's gonna be It's gonna be a
• 1:36:16
  lot of act there's a lot of games. And you start looking at all
• 1:36:19
  these open you know, the fourth, the seventh, and the ninth and
• 1:36:21
  eleventh, and and there's gonna be a lot of soccer being played these next
• 1:36:26
  couple of weeks with a ton of you know, it's a ton on the
• 1:36:32
  line for your high school career and could be your last game and all that
• 1:36:35
  stuff. So again, really good teams, like you said, a lot
• 1:36:40
  of Walking County flavor here and a lot of hosting by Walking County teams,
• 1:36:44
  which hey, I like that, you know, Tyler. As I look
• 1:36:46
  at this more, I kind of realize the soccer and the baseball two A
• 1:36:53
  tournament basically set up exactly the same with Dayton. Yeah it is, it's
• 1:36:59
  exactly. It's the exact same thing. Are no for two A baseball and
• 1:37:04
  soccer? Oh yeah, right, Yeah, it's the exact same tournament,
• 1:37:10
  just obviously different sport and different locations. Because for soccer, it's it's about
• 1:37:14
  you know, who the higher seed is and stuff. The only thing they
• 1:37:15
  don't have here is the district championship game where that would be. I would
• 1:37:19
  assume that would have something to do with you know, like if it's two
• 1:37:24
  Bellingham teams, I would think maybe they'll play it at Civic or you know
• 1:37:27
  what I mean something. I'm not really sure what they would do there,
• 1:37:29
  but I mean, I can tell you this much, tyler. If you
• 1:37:31
  have to play in the if you have to work your way through the Constellation
• 1:37:36
  bracket and and end up you know, going to that consolation winner to state
• 1:37:44
  game, you got to play a lot of soccer. Man. Yeah,
• 1:37:47
  you could potentially have to go the go two, four, seven, nine,
• 1:37:51
  eleven. Yeah, it's like every other day basically. Yeah. And
• 1:37:55
  if your Seagar, Woolle, Cedar Crest or Lakewood or whoever the seven seed
• 1:37:59
  could be, you might have to play thirty two for seventh. I mean,
• 1:38:03
  goodness, that's true. That's true. And it's and it's you know,
• 1:38:08
  after once you get to the fourth, it's whenter you go home.
• 1:38:12
  Yeah, and so it's a lot of pressure for all those over and over
• 1:38:15
  and over again. So you're right, it's gonna be some high pressure,
• 1:38:18
  high stakes soccer games. And you know, we'll see how it goes.
• 1:38:24
  It's it's gonna be a lot of fun. I will I will say this
• 1:38:27
  right now, and I'm being totally honest. I have never been to a
• 1:38:30
  soccer playoff game, and I've been to one. Yeah, and I can
• 1:38:35
  only imagine because you know, people talk about the best sport there is,
• 1:38:43
  especially live is playoff hockey game seven. Oh yeah, and so and I
• 1:38:48
  can imagine this is gonna be very similar where if you gotta you know,
• 1:38:51
  there's gonna be some really good close games. You know, with two decent
• 1:38:57
  teams, it's usually a one or two goal game. Yea, these are
• 1:39:00
  these are really good teams, so they're all going to be close. So
• 1:39:04
  you know, just like that, a game could change with you know,
• 1:39:08
  a goal here, a goal there, And that's what's going to be so
• 1:39:11
  crazy. It was going to be the emotions and and and seeing the players
• 1:39:15
  and being able to be a part of that and feel that electricity. I'm
• 1:39:17
  really looking forward to it. Yeah, it's a little different in like hockey
• 1:39:20
  and soccer where it's you know, typically fairly low scoring for the most part,
• 1:39:25
  as opposed to like basketball, where you know, you could score on
• 1:39:29
  five straight possessions, you know, and and so could the other team,
• 1:39:32
  you know what I mean. And whereas in like say, you know,
• 1:39:35
  hockey, sometimes you get up, you know, you get a two goal
• 1:39:38
  lead, and you sit there going, okay, well we feel good about
• 1:39:41
  this. One shot later, boom, it's a one goal lead. Now
• 1:39:44
  you're going, oh crap, Like now you're right on the edge of your
• 1:39:47
  seat again, going come on, boys, you know, and you're laying
• 1:39:51
  at every single shot is potentially something you know, and uh, soccer is
• 1:39:57
  the same way. I mean, every single shot once you get down there,
• 1:40:00
  you know, you don't even want to let him get the ball near
• 1:40:02
  the box, you know what I mean. Or if the one kid you
• 1:40:05
  know, kicking from dang near midfield or whatever he did the other day,
• 1:40:10
  you know, that's it's yeah, it's pretty crazy. I mean, in
• 1:40:14
  playoffs are playoffs are playoffs? I mean, one little tiny mistake could be
• 1:40:17
  the end of your season, you know, I mean, it's just crazy.
• 1:40:20
  But so yeah, that's a look ahead. I mean a long look
• 1:40:25
  ahead, Tyler, because we're at an hour and forty minutes is how long
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  this podcast is going. So literally the only person listening in right now is
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• 1:40:39
  No, just Blake, get get a little shut out and hopefully you
• 1:40:43
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• 1:40:45
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