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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 210 - First Round State Tournament Recap · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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This is Lyndon junior Isaiah Audman, and you're listening to the Walcome Preps Podcast
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with Tyler and Ryland. Go Lions, Greetings and welcome into the watcom Preps
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podcast. This is episode two one zero, a recap of the first round
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of the state tournament. I'm Ryland Spencer. Along with me as always is
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Tiler Anderson of watcum Preps. Tyler, how are we doing? Oh?
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Doing great? All smiles, tired but loving it and uh yeah, I'm
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excited to talk some football. It's weird because I just I feel like I
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haven't seen football in a long time. And we'll get into that a little
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later. Yeah you didn't. We need to give a thanks to Isaiah Audman
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for the intro. We're going to talk about him here in a little bit.
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Linden had a nice little win this weekend, so we will talk a
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little bit about him and some of the other guys there. We also need
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to give thanks to Kurt Mayberry Farm. Kurt Mayberry Farm is a fourth generation,
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a C M A B E r R y farm dot com. Tyler,
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let's start off with what did we learn this week? And I've got one.
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Yeah, every volleyball match can only end three to one, or three
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to two or three zero. I guess I never really thought about it until
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you're over in Yakama this week and you said to me, hey, computers
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acting a little wonky here, something's not going right. And I said,
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all right, let's figure it out. What can we do to make this
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work? And basically what I did is I went in and made every single
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possible scoring graphic for every game that was played. I did it. What
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what would that have been Thursday night and then Friday night? Ye? Yeah,
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Thursday night and then Friday games, Friday and Saturday. And I wake
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up Friday morning, Saturday morning and open up this folder and see dozens of
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graphics that you created, going through all of them, give you the big
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thumbs up. Everything looked great. If people don't realize, I mean it's
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the undertaking. It's pretty incredible. Uh it is. You couldn't have made
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them like I was not. I yeah, I just I couldn't create a
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graphic that gave the scoreboard, which is sponsored. So I was like in
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a hole there and uh so you back at home, created every single possible
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outcome of every single possible matchup, of every single possible round it could happen.
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Then, so it takes, for instance, the first round, Meridian
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and Knooksack Valley played, you know, two teams, I don't remember who
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off the top of my head. But then if they both won, they
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would play each other, but that would be in the second round. If
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they both lost, they could play each other in the consolation. But if
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Meridian won and Niksack loss, then there was a whole other set of possible
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games. So basically, you and I put out every possible scenario and I
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went and made all well, there would be six per game because it could
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be three one, three, two, three zero for either team. So
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I went in and made six for every single game. And now once I
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got on a roll, I hammered them out pretty quickly. Yeah, but
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it was one of those things where it was like scramble, we'll figure it
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out, and yeah, I mean, it's pretty crazy, but I think
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I guess you know, and you know, I've watched I've watched a lot
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of volleyball over the years, I used to go to a lot of University
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of watching volleyball, but I kind of never really thought about it. They
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can all only end three two, three one or three zero. Yeah.
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I mean it's funny because every time a match, whenever a team that I
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was watching had two sets one, yeah, then I would dig into the
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folder and go like, let's say it was two zero, I would dig
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in and find that three zero graphic. Yeah, I download it, have
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it ready, and usually I would use it now if another if the other
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set, you know, the other team won a set, that I'd have
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to find the three one graphic. Yep. And there was only a few
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times where I had to dig in and find the three to two graphic for
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both teams because yeah, then wine, I have to be ready for either
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one to win the third or the fifth one. Yeah, it was.
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It was a little different. You just to make sure you post the right
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one, yeah, exactly. Yeah. It was pretty wild when I when
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I transferred it over from my computer to drop box so that you could grab
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them, I uh, I you know, click and drag everything, and
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it was like, oh, this is how long it's going to take.
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And I was like, whoa like, that's a lot more than I was
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expecting. I didn't realize how many there were, you know, because obviously
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it uploads each one individually. That was just like whoa like I was not.
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I did not realize I made that many. And it didn't take me
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all that long to do, especially once I got on a roll and everything.
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You know, you start to get used to your muscle memory, right,
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three two three, one, blah blah blah blah, and it just
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kind of moves. But yeah, anyway, Tyler, what did you want?
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I learned how awesome that tournament is over at Yakama. I was fifty
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to fifty about going. I know you were pushing me. Laura was pushing
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me, like, hey, you should go do this, and I you
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know how I am. I don't like to leave the county very often.
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I'm very you know, I just kind of like, I don't know,
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like if it's a place I've never been to before, I'm very, very
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very iffy, and I'm I'm freaked out about everything. What about the past,
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what about the how far is the hotel going to be? Where am
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I going to stay? At? All these things? And you you told
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me a great place. I took I took advantage of that. It's a
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good spot. It's perfect spot, you know it. It was great price,
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not yeah, great price. It was like three miles away, three
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and a half miles away, five six minutes. It's not far at all,
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No, not far at all. And you hop on the freeway and
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you go like one exit. Yeah, it's it was just right there.
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And and you know, having Eric Trent down there was awesome. It was
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cool to have someone there that was kind of doing the same thing I was
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doing that I know, somebody you know, he's been in the situation before
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and everything. Yes, and he you know, and I had the w
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I a a vest On and it was it was it was, it was
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just it was just cool. And I've seen so much volleyball this year.
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I mean I've seen more, you know, this year than before this year,
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you know, tried at least and and I there these were some great
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teams. So I just I just I just learned that that's an event I
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want to go to every year. And and uh with District one for one
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A being all Walking County, Uh, they were guaranteed teams in the tournament.
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So I mean, there's no reason why I shouldn't go. I loved
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it. It was awesome. I'm really glad I went. Uh, everything
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was safe drive travels there and back, And now that I've done it,
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I'm gonna feel so much more confident going again. And I'm excited to go
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for basketball, so, uh, you know, first weekend of March,
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that'll be cool. I think it was. Was it Monday, Tyler when
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the schedule kind of came out for the for the football games. Yeah,
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And I had kind of floated to you the idea of like, man,
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you know, have you thought about going over there for volleyball, like you
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know, there's three teams over there, And then the schedule came out and
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I was like this, thinking schedule Tyler, go to Yakama and you yeah,
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you were basically pretty adamant about it, and I was, and I
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kind of was like, yeah, you're right, because if they were going
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to do one Friday night in a tripleheader Saturday, yeah, and then it's
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kind of bring I would like, man, I really want to stick around
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for that. Yeah, but well you would have been able to go to
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all four games, like if you had been able to go complete yeah,
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yeah, fully complete all four games, and you know, really you wouldn't
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have to even you know, probably potentially leave the stadium. But yeah,
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I mean, you know, once I saw that, I was like,
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no, like, you gotta go over there, because one, you've put
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in so much effort into volleyball this year, you can't just leave it out,
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you know, you can't just not go to the state tournament. But
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also the fact of the matter is is all three teams that were there had
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legitimate state championship you know, capabilities. Yeah, exactly, and and and
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it was. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. I definitely am
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excited that I went, and I'm going to go again, no doubt.
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Yeah, I learned something, Tyler. What's it? If Tyler Anderson isn't
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in Wackham County football still gets played, Yes, without question? Yeah,
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yeah, anything else? Do we learn anything else? Tyler? No?
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I think you know that was that was the big That was the big big
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thing. Oh. I learned that I need a new laptop. Yes,
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yes too, And especially if I'm going to be covering things on the road
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and staying somewhere where I don't have my office here with my desktop and everything
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hardwired and goes so fast, I really need a good laptop if I'm going
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to be covering things on the road. Absolutely, And here's the thing,
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though, you probably don't need something too crazy, you know, Like the
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laptop I have is is kind of tailored for what it is for all the
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graphics and stuff that I do. You probably don't need something too crazy.
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But you need something that's capable of being able to edit graphics, you know.
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Not How do I say this, edit graphics, not create graphics,
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if that makes sense? Yeah, you know, because I sit here and
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I make these templates and then you know, you go in and you edit
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them, and making them and editing them are two totally different things that you're
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trying to accomplish. So sure, yeah, I mean end of the day
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though, Yeah, you definitely need a new laptop, that's for sure.
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Yeah. And let's see, you got an oil change, so you don't
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need one of those. Now, I'm good. How about did you get
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any food down there? I mean, I know you didn't have a whole
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lot of time. Did you get to the little Tamali place I told you
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about? I did not watch. Eric got enough for both of us,
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that's what I heard. Yeah, you grab something. He got something to
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take home too, no, I you know, I just when I didn't.
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And this is how silly I am. If it's a place I've never
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been to, the place I don't know very well. I don't really like
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driving in the dark. And I got there, yeah, and I yeah,
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and I got there and I it wasn't dark out yet, but I
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needed to kind of get set up and everything in the hotel room. And
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and uh, once I got everything set up, you know, I needed
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to eat. And it was dark by that point. And it shares it
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shares a parking lot with Denny's. Denny's, you know what, I don't
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even know where the like, I don't even know where the nearest Denny's is
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to me anymore. Yeah, some of them have closed down up here too.
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There was one in Ferndale, it's closed. There was one in Blaine
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that's closed. There's still one in Bellingham. Uh but I think three that
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are now chick fil as. Oh wow, yeah, yeah, but but
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the but the hotel shares a parking lot basically, like it's so I just
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walked over there and eight and then you get to the Grand Slam. No.
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I got Actually, they had a really good deal on like a bacon
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cheeseburger for eight ninety nine with fries and everything. So I was like,
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that's not that you can't you can't beat that price. So I'm just going
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to have that and then and then I ate at the Dome on Friday and
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Saturday because you know you're there there. And then but I did get miners
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on Saturday on the back. Yeah, I know, I got the wrong
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place, and I you know, although the Majors, although I did when
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I was driving there because I just looked up for like like burger place close,
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like on my Google Maps. Yeah. I mean, like you don't
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have my phone number and can't text me, but go ahead. Yeah.
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Well you were pretty busy Saturday and I I was driving and then all of
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a sudden, I see a Krispy Kreme, and uh, so I pulled
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into there because we don't have Krispy Kreme within for you know counties up here,
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but you do have two importants right across the border, which was way
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better. Yeah, and but miss walkam Preps loves her some Christpa Kreme,
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so I was excited to surprise her with that. So uh grabed some of
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those and then went and got my burger and fry or tots and got back
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to the hotel and went to bet so very nice. It was fun.
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I loved it. It was awesome. I'm excited to go back. Let's
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talk a little volleyball here really really quickly. We're not going to go too
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crazy in depth here. A lot of this stuff you can find at walkompreps
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dot com. If it's not up there right now, Tyler's working on it,
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trust me. Ye. Uh. Ferndale, they lose, Ah,
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they lose a losers out game. So they lost a losers out game on
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Saturday against Shotcrest, right, Tyler. Yeah, it was out at Marysville
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Pilchuck. It was kind of It was their final game of the district tournament
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winner to state loser out, and those are tough winters state loser out.
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That's you know, boy lot. Yeah, and Uh and Ferndale. I
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think they overachieved this year. They were have our young team and to get
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that far was pretty special. So a really good season of them. Tough
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to see them go out like that, but a really good season. Now,
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the two a state tournament over in Yakaman, Tyler. This was Friday
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and Saturday. Linden comes in with some very high, very high hopes,
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and they end up with a third place trophy. I mean I think,
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I don't. I don't think anybody's turning down a third place trophy. But
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that being said, you know, there was definitely a lot of talk that
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they could potentially win the state championship, and they were right there in it.
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Made it all the way to the semi finals before losing, losing a
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game and then winning another one to finish third. Yeah, they started out
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great, you know, going to get some amish. Took care of business
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pretty easily there in the two fifteen game. Then took on tomb Water Friday
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night and looked pretty solid in that one too, won that one three sets
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to zero to go into the semis. Then things are and things are all
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kind of setting up as it's supposed to be. They went against a Ridgefield
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team that had a six' five player that's committed to Stanford. Wow.
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Her names. Her name's Lizzie Andrew and I when I saw her play and
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I knew she was committed to Stanford, I googled her while I was at
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the stadium. She plays on the U nineteen national team. She is she
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is the best volleyball player I've ever seen at the high school level. And
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she does like that serve when you throw the ball like one hundred feet in
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the air and then run up and have no idea. It's like it's like
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I've only seen that in college, you know, and she does that,
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you know, she blocks everything. She was a force. Lynnen won the
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first set, but then Ridgefield you know, bounced him after that. It
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was a tough one, but Linden bounced back to face Arlington Edison who you
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know, and for the three four game and they win that one in three
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sets. Burlington's only three losses other than their semi final loss to Columbia River,
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who has a player going to Auburn by the way to wait, they're
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going going to like Auburn Alabama. Yeah. Wow, So Columbia River won
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at all. They beat Richfield, who they're in the same district. Oh
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yeah, so I think so. I think Ridgefield's only losses all year were
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to Columbia River and then in the state title game to Columbia River. And
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but yeah, Linden beat Burlington three sets to zero to get third place.
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Burlington's only losses all year were to London and that one in the semis to
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Columbia River. Burlington has no seniors hotly, Wow, that's gonna be a
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really good squad next year. But Linden, like Eric Trent said, he
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goes, it's not a state tournament unless Lyndon wins like their final game.
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That's just that's just the way it is in Washington. It seems like,
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you know, it's kind of that's how we started his story. And so
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that team is really special. You know, six seniors very very close to
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each other and four of them going on to play college volleyball. We talked
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about that in the last podcast. So it was an awesome way to end
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the season. Uh you know, yeah, you want to win first place
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at least play for the championship game. But to finish it with a win
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and get third pretty cool. Yeah. I'm just looking over you mentioned Ridgefield
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they had They had five losses on the season, four to Columbia River.
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Oh well there you go. Yeah, yeah, I mean that's unbelievable.
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They lost twice in the regular season. They lost in what I would assume
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was the district championship, and then they lost would it be in the state
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championship? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean that's unbelievable,
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Like that is wild. And those two teams are in the same conference.
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I mean, wow, Yeah, I mean I feel really bad for the
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other teams in that conference. Well, the people that did the committee at
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least set it up right kind of. I mean, they could have put
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they could have put Ridfield at number two. Well yeah, but you know
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what I mean, like they were on the opposite side of the brackets.
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Oh yeah, Unlike, we'll talk about it right here. How about that.
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You want to do what you want to go there? Tyler? Yeah?
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Uh so yeah, let's talk one A then Nuksack Valley and Meridian.
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Nuksack Valley the five seed, Meridian the four seed, and they both come
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out swinging them both, you know, win three zero in their first match,
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and then it sets up a knooksack value Meridian. What would this be
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the third time they played? Yeah, the rubber match they each you know,
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Nuksak beat him in the regular season at home. Ridian beat nok Sack
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at the district championship, which which was at Meridian. So now on the
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neutral court, and it went it went the distance. I mean you kind
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of expected that. I was talking to Eric about that. He said you
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know, if they match up against each other, who do you got?
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And I said, I, you know, this is about as even as
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it gets. So I understand why they're one seed ahead of each other.
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But man, it was you know, against each other there. You know,
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Walking County was having a great day. Walkin County went five and one
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on Friday and the only loss was because they went against Underwalkin County teams.
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So yeah, Meridian took that one to get into the semis Nuksack Valley Falls
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to Constellation, but Nuksak Falley on Saturday. They don't have to avoid eliminations,
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so you have to win. They played in Lakes nine mile Falls got
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them, uh you know, really emotional win. You could see it on
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the girls faces because it's like this could be their last match. It's just
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that it's just that feeling and so but yeah, they won that one,
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and Meridian earlier in the morning faced Shelan in the in the Semischalan top ranked
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team. They were they they could they could dig anything, and they every
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time they would hit a deep one, it would like hit the line and
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be in. I mean they were so precise. Uh. Theyre always have
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a strong fall or strong showing at the state tournament, so no surprise there.
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Sheland went goes on to win the state title. Meridian fell to them,
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had to bounce back and playless center for the third fourth game. They
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took the first set and then drop the next three. Uh it just you
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know, and it's a game of momentum too. So Meridian ends up fourth.
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Knuxac Valley in their final matchup went against Cedar Park Christian who Cedar Park
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Christian took the first two sets and it wasn't looking good for the Pioneers,
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but they won the next two, which kept it going, kept it going,
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but they just couldn't, you know, pull it out in the fifth
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one. And and there was some there were some immediate tiers. Uh,
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not just from seniors either, This were from underclassmen who maybe feel bad for
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the seniors they don't get to play together and anymore. And it was it
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was it was heartfelt, and it was hard and there all three teams were
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playing at the same time, so we were running back and forth and getting
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pictures with trophies and uh but yeah, it was a wild time, really
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strong showings. All three or all three teams come back with hardware, which
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is awesome. There was some great volleyball being played there, and yeah it
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was. It was a lot of fun, kind of wild, Tyler,
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when you look at the at the one A bracket, because all of the
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upper seeds other than Kings moved on from the first round, so one,
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two, three, four, five, six, seven, and nine mm
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hmm. And then the two and the three got ousted in the second round.
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I mean you had number six versus number seven in the semis and one
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versus four. Yeah, I mean that just shows you how much parody there
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really is at certain levels. It's pretty crazy. I mean it really is.
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But yeah, I mean it sounds like you had a good time over
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there, Tyler. Just to recap, Linden finished his third Meridian, fourth,
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Nooksack Valley sixth. As you mentioned, they're all bringing home hardware,
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so that's obviously a really good thing as far as Walkom County goes. So
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congratulations to everybody over there, Tyler. Do you have any kind of like
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final thoughts on volleyball or are we ready to move on and to talk about
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some football. Well, just really quickly, just I thank you to all
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the coaches for helping me out, sending me stats whichever way they did it
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through an email, text, Instagram. I got them all. I was
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able to total them. It was awesome. The Top fifty list, which
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will be coming out shortly, it's something I'm really excited about. I've done
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the top one hundred now. I think this will be my seventh year doing
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it for football. I've done two top fifty baseball lists, and I always
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feel like I don't feel qualified to do this unless I've seen every team.
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I mean I think I saw every volleyball team at least six times. So
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I feel like, okay, I really feel like I know all these teams
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now, so I feel comfortable actually creating the list. The list is created,
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uh, and everything will be ready to go, just waiting on a
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few more things from some coaches, and once that happens, those will start
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getting posted two of them a day. And uh, yeah, it's it's
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pretty exciting. You know. A parent came up to me and she said,
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you know, my daughter was so excited. She goes, she had
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three goals this year to make varsity, uh, to be mentioned in Walkham
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Preps, and to have her picture on a Walkam Prep story. And I
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started laughing. I go, that's awesome because she's only a freshman. And
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then she goes, I thought she'd say, like, you know, to
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go to state to come back with the Troy, but no, no,
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no, So it is cool and it's made a difference. You know.
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Even coach Elsener Lynnon said, you know, she said, thank you so
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much for doing what you did with walk them preps for volleyball. She goes,
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What it's really done, especially is doing stuff on Instagram, is it's
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getting those younger players, the JV players, the junior high players are noticing
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these girls that are getting mentioned in things and it makes them excited to play
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volleyball at the high school level. So that made me feel really really good.
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I'm not rated writing these crazy stories. I'm just doing, you know,
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just doing kind of a roundup of what happened. But being able to
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highlight with graphics and shows, stat leaders and all those different things really makes
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the difference for these younger players too coming up and something to strive for Tyler,
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do you have a sponsor for the top fifty? I do not have
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a sponsor for the top fifty count and this is going to get a lot
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of views. Yeah, so you know, if it's it's something that could
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be had and I know that, so I made the graphic, the graphics
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ready to go. I don't even know if you have it yet. You
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have it, right, Oh? Yes, okay, so you have the
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graphic. I don't even think we went through and talked about it. But
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it's pretty simple. You can figure it out. That being said Tyler,
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there's a spot up there in the upper right where we can eliminate one of
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the walk Them Preps logos and put somebody's logo in there. So if somebody
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wants to sponsor the top fifty volleyball, how do they get a hold of
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you? Yeah, you could send me a message through social media through either
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email me at mister mohawk at hotmail dot com. That's mister spelled out underscore
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mohawk at hotmail dot com. And or heck even give me a call three
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six zero six eight four four three zero six. I got a call today
23:34
from someone that's never called me before, someone that you and I both know.
23:37
And all he was asking was when was the last time Ferndale and Bellingham
23:41
played a football game against each other? That was his question. He called
23:45
me. You know, I don't know how I got my number, maybe
23:48
from the podcast, but I said, we had to look it up,
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but it was twenty thirteen, was the last time. So yeah, just
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you know, so it's cool. I love listening or love hearing from all
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everybody, and if you're interested in sponsoring, that would be a fantastic idea.
24:06
Let's start talking about some football here, Tyler, what do you say?
24:08
Yeah? Sounds good. So according to the sheet here, you went
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to no games, none zero. We've got four games to talk about.
24:15
One of them is going to be Coach's Corner with coach Jeff Wood. That
24:18
will be the Leny Christian Connell game. But Tyler, you and I are
24:22
going to start off with the Friday night games, and the first one we're
24:26
going to talk about here is Ferndale. Mountdahoma does not go the way of
24:30
Walking County in this one. Mountdahoma comes to town twenty one to seven win
24:34
over Ferndale. Tyler, I mean, I'm just looking at the numbers here,
24:37
and you know, a Ferndale offense that had been really clicking and doing
24:41
some great things and then boom, one hundred and seventy four total yards.
24:45
So yeah, what went on here? Well, you know, Mountdahoma's big
24:52
and physical athletic, and they were just they could stop a lot of stuff
25:00
inside the hashes. It just seemed like with their size and Berndale doesn't go
25:04
outside the hashes a whole lot, and then when they would, they had
25:08
the athleticism to get to him. You know, the you know Mount Tahoma
25:12
did. Boy, I was really impressed with them. You know, I
25:18
know it's an eight nine game, so you got to face Yelm. But
25:21
boy, Yelm who was down by the way early against Marysville Pilchuk. Yeah,
25:26
but but yeah, but they took care of business. But boy,
25:30
that Mountdahoma team had a lot of great I mean, the offensive line is
25:33
gigantic. They got they have to average three hundred pounds at least. And
25:38
their quarterback was had a really quick release, could throw on the run,
25:44
used his legs, but was not a runner. He could make guys miss,
25:48
but then he would slide, he would get out of bounds. He
25:49
was smart. He was very accurate with his passes down the field even but
25:56
the defense is what really just stood out to me. They had they had
26:00
a defensive end who was like six seven eighty five or something like that.
26:03
I mean, they just had some big dudes, and uh, Ferndale's not
26:07
really you know, they're down twenty one nothing in the third and they're not
26:11
built to you know, air it out and spread it out and get back
26:15
in the game. With the passing game, that's just not what they can
26:18
do. You got to rely on some passes, but then some double handoffs
26:22
or some you know, interesting type sweeps or and it's just, uh,
26:26
all that stuff was snuffed out. The Ferndale did never had the big play.
26:30
You know. It seems like this year they would churn out yards,
26:33
but they'd have a big play like, you know, two or three times
26:36
a game, and it just it just wasn't there. There was just no
26:40
big plays to be had. And and Mount Tahoma played. They played great.
26:44
First time in the playoffs in a long time, and and they played
26:45
awesome. Yeah, I'm just looking at their roster here. I think the
26:49
guy you're talking about is I believe Malachi Nelson Nielsen six seven two sixty junior.
27:00
And then they have Marquis Thorp Taylor sixty six three oh five. He's
27:03
headed to UCLA. But then they've got another one six five three thirty sophomore.
27:11
I mean, I don't know what they're put in the water down there.
27:12
Dallas Tua. He's sixty five three twenty sophomore. Yeah, I mean,
27:18
good Lord Tyler. Here, here's two more guys, Uh, Damarion
27:22
Sawyer six four two, Andrew Savaneau Wait, Andrew Sania. There was this
27:29
Andrew Saviania that graduated a couple of years ago from Graham Capausen. Oh,
27:33
that's where they's getting you guys, they're just re enrolling. No, this
27:36
guy's at Florida, Uh, six four, three hundred sophomore. I mean,
27:41
yeah, some large individuals over there. I mean they even have a
27:47
middle linebacker six two forty five. What in the world. I mean,
27:51
there's a middle linebacker up here that's six three two fifty five and he does
27:55
pretty good. John Stremler I was about to say, are you trying to
27:57
strembler here? Yeah? But yeah, I mean they were just they're big,
28:02
physical, athletic and they looked pumped to be there. They just yeah,
28:07
it was it was It was good was good football. Connor Walker twelve
28:11
carries thirty seven yards. He did have one nine yard touchdown run, the
28:18
only score of the game for Ferndale Bishop Boots. He five carries for thirty
28:21
yards, telling bung Guard thirteen for thirty Bishop Boots. He also completed four
28:26
passes for sixty two yards. Three of them went to Connor Walker for forty
28:30
nine. Yeah. I mean just kind of one of those games where you
28:33
look at it and you know, I kept seeing some you know, people
28:37
kind of posting some things every now and then, and I'm just going,
28:38
man, Mount Tom was going to pull this one out, you know.
28:41
And yeah, they end up with three hundred and seventy seven yards of offense,
28:45
and you know that was what two hundred more than Ferndale. I mean,
28:49
that's yeah, kind of just the way that it went. You know.
28:53
One of my good friends is on the coaching staff over there, and
28:56
he just told me straight up. He goes, I think we're gonna in
29:00
this game. He says, We've had a great week of practice. Yeah,
29:03
you know, and now that I've now that I've been in you know,
29:07
coaching for a year, I know that feeling. You know, sometimes
29:11
you show up on Friday and you just go, man, we feel great
29:14
right now. Yeah, And That's what I always if I get to a
29:15
game early enough and I talked to coaches assistants on the sideline, you know,
29:19
forty five thirty minutes per kickoff, first thing I'll say is how how
29:23
was practiced this week? That's always the first thing I asked, because you
29:26
can get a really good gauge on it from that. So, yeah,
29:30
it's pretty cool. Let's move over and talk about Bremerton and Lyndon. The
29:36
Lions continue. They're winning ways forty one to seven over the nights of Bremerton
29:41
Tyler. This is one that looks like I mean, it looks like it
29:45
was kind of going the way that we all expected to go, and it
29:49
kind of went that way from the start. Yeah, this one was I
29:53
was listening to this one on the radio and they kept talking about how windy
29:57
it was, especially right kickoff, and I guess right before kickoff the goal
30:03
the goalpost padding came off and just started flying down the field. So it's
30:11
you know, and you and I have Bennett Civic Stadium when the wind picks
30:12
up and all the leaves go flying across the field. How they been to
30:17
the game. I think it was last year or maybe the year before.
30:21
You know, like during warm ups, Lindon will like have all those balls
30:23
like placed on the field. I know exactly what you're talking about. Yeah,
30:27
and I remember my guy Brick. Yeah. I remember at one point
30:32
a ball starts rolling and that guy got on his horse and he chased that
30:37
ball down. But then there was like two or three other balls that took
30:38
off and he went and chased them all down. I'm like, this guy
30:42
has a motor. I mean, he looked like Jared Allen out there.
30:45
You know, Yes, yeah, it was unbelievable. But yeah, I
30:48
mean I know the wind you're talking about because I've been up there for probably
30:52
two or three games where the wind. Do you remember was it a Ferndale
30:56
game? Was it Frindale squal Come maybe one year that had a low score
31:00
and I think it was if I remember right, it was. I remember
31:03
there was a game that was just incredibly windy, and it was one of
31:07
the worst football games I've ever seen because the wind was just it did so
31:11
much it affected everything. It was crazy. Yeah. I remember Squalicum hosting
31:15
like it was like a non league game against Snawhomish or something. I remember,
31:22
like Jeleek Martin was playing that one year he was playing at Squalicum.
31:26
Was it Central Kit No, And I remember that one being really windy.
31:30
Yeah, I remember I remember being at a Squalicum game at Civic and it
31:33
was unbelievably windy, like yeah, like scary to drive in on my way
31:37
home type ony yeah, yes, yeah yeah. And this one was like
31:41
that in the beginning. So of course opening kickoff, you know, it
31:45
goes for touchback, and it was very much a you know, if you
31:51
were going in that direction, how are you going to do? And this
31:53
is how This is what's kind of funny about that was when Lindon in the
31:59
first quarter was going in that direction. I don't recall them passing at all.
32:02
It was just and then and this is what Linnon likes to do.
32:05
If they think they go into the wind. No, there they were going
32:08
with the wind, so they didn't want to pass with the wind that they're
32:12
back. It was funny. It was like it was something that you would
32:15
expect. They kind of did the unexpected. So they get the ball and
32:17
it's it's uh, you know, they run to the left, they get
32:22
a lot of they get seven or eight yards. They do it again six
32:23
or seven yards and they're they're very much like if it's working, they're not
32:28
going to stop it. And they just drove down the field score a touchdown.
32:31
Then the exact same thing happened like five minutes later. It both ended
32:35
with one yard touchdown runs by Brent Heppner. Now they're going into the wind,
32:38
and so the big six to six quarterback is just thrown and just whipping
32:43
it tight spirals right through the wind for touchdowns. So he throws for two
32:46
touchdowns in that second quarter against the wind. Yeah. Uh, it's just
32:51
you know, just so you'd never know what to expect. I mean,
32:53
you have a guy like that that can throw it. That's a huge advantage
32:58
in a game like that. You know, Bremmer and uh was outmatched,
33:01
you know, to put it bluntly, they had a great season, but
33:05
it just it was it was just different. Uh. Linden looked to be
33:09
pretty much full health. Brent Hepner looked great. He had the ankle you
33:14
know thing going on for a little while. Uh, Luke Human's back playing
33:17
outside linebacker and running back. So that's good. Uh So things are looking
33:22
like Linden to get you know, Linden first round Civic stadium over the last
33:27
you know, five or six years, is they've all been the exact same,
33:30
uh, you know, kind of blow them out in the first half,
33:32
and they get freshmen that have never played under the lights, they get
33:36
to play in a state playoff game for their first time. That's just kind
33:38
of the way it's always been. The difference now is that in week two
33:44
you're going on the road, and they haven't done that in week two in
33:45
a little while, so, uh, you know, and they're gonna play
33:50
a familiar opponent. We'll talk about that in the next podcast, but uh
33:55
a bit. Yeah, just a just a classic Linden win where uh,
34:01
you know, it just went really really well, didn't have to punt,
34:05
uh, you know, everything just kind of went the way it's supposed to
34:07
do, supposed to be. You know, Bremerton only threw four passes,
34:10
two of them were picked off. You know, it was uh, it
34:16
was very much, you know, the Linden kind of game that we all
34:22
we all are used to up here. It's interesting you mentioned, you know,
34:27
Linden having to go on the road, and I'm sitting there thinking about
34:29
it. The last real road trip they had other than state championship would have
34:34
been w F West. Oh, as far as like a distance, yeah,
34:39
I mean like, let's going to Ana Chortus isn't exactly a road trip,
34:45
right right? Yeah? Within the conference. I mean the furthest team
34:49
away is probably Archbishop Yeah, that's not far right. And then and then
34:55
they and they all they're not they they're non league games. This year we're
34:59
at home. So yeah, I would say last year against WF West was
35:02
the last time they actually took a deep road trip. Yeah, yeah,
35:06
which they'll have to do this week. I would assume they're going to take
35:07
a ferry this week too, so that'll make things a little bit different.
35:12
But yeah, Tyler, looking over the numbers here, Lynden three hundred and
35:15
seventy one yards of offense, Bremerton one ninety seven. The most impressive part
35:21
just fourteen passing yards allowed. Tyler, do you do you have defensive stats
35:25
in front of you? Because I got I got a question, Yeah,
35:29
I do, go ahead. So two interceptions for Linden, mm hmm.
35:34
How many return yards did they have? Oh those kind of stats? I
35:39
yes, I have that on a different thing. Let me just bring that
35:45
up. I'll tell you why I'm I got I got it right here,
35:47
Okta, Cooper Moore had a twelve yard return and Jaden Oaks had a seven
35:53
yard return, So Linden had more yards receiving from bremer than Bremerton did.
36:00
Yes, they did. That's where I was going with that, and that
36:02
is yeah, I kind of knew once I once you said I have something,
36:07
I was like, I think I know what it is. But yeah,
36:08
it's pretty crazy. Yeah, that is very crazy. Now I also
36:13
look at it and I go one hundred and eighty three yards on the ground.
36:15
You know, if you're you know, maybe you want to do a
36:19
little bit better, you know, if you're Linden. But I would also
36:21
assume a lot of those may have come kind of later or some of them.
36:23
Yeah, I was gonna say at least half of them came against the
36:25
backups. And they did have one really good drive in the second quarter and
36:32
they they got deepen in the red zone, but they had to settle for
36:36
a field goal, which was blocked by Cooper Moore and returned fifty nine yards
36:39
by Brady Elsner. So I mean that's kind of a backbreaker too, And
36:45
and you know they're still in the game at that point. It was thirteen
36:46
nothing. You know, you make that, it's thirteen three and you have
36:51
the wind at your back for the rest of the second quarter. But boy,
36:53
it just that just happened. And then you know, they drive,
36:57
they go all the way down and they score, and then I think they
36:59
they covered the kickoff on the next kick. It was just a kick that
37:01
went kind of, you know, across the field from left to right,
37:06
you know, maybe twenty twenty five yards, but it went really high.
37:08
Malachai Cane's really good at the pooch kicks that can kind of fall into an
37:12
unfavorable spot for the return team, not deep, and the returner kind of
37:17
had that moment of should I get it? Am I supposed to get it?
37:22
Oh? I am supposed to get that, And then it's too late,
37:23
you know. It just a high school kid, man. They they
37:28
sometimes they don't realize it's a kickoff, not a punt. And you know,
37:31
Lennon gets it, scores two plays later, and then it's on after
37:35
that, you know, and and boy, you don't see those kinds of
37:38
plays happen in the state playoffs very often, but it did. Lennon took
37:43
advantage and they got the w Max Austink eleven carries one hundred and six yards,
37:47
but somehow he doesn't get in the end zone. Tyler, what the
37:50
heck is up with that? Yeah, he did have a He did have
37:52
a He did set up one of Hepner's touchdown runs. Yes, and I
37:55
see Bran Hepner seven carries twenty seven yards, three touchdown on the ground,
38:00
and then he did have two through the air on eight of eleven passing for
38:06
one hundred and thirty yards. Overall, I mean, you look at it,
38:07
Linden thirty three carries two hundred and thirty eight yards and then nine of
38:13
fourteen passing one hundred and thirty three yards, and granted it was what one
38:20
of three passing from the younger guys. Yeah, So all in all,
38:28
I mean this is a classic Linden win here, and they come out with
38:31
a forty one to seven win. Tyler up there at Civic Stadium on Friday
38:37
night. We now wrap up Friday and we're going to head over to our
38:44
coach coach, Jeff Wood for coaches corner coach, how we doing doing great?
38:49
Ryland Lynn and Christian forty one to twenty over Connell. But you know
38:53
when I look at the the box score here looks kind of dominant by Lynnen
38:58
Christian. But then I look at the the overall numbers and I see two
39:01
hundred and seventy yards of total offense to Connell's two hundred and thirty three,
39:06
and you know, kind of some things going in my head. Is it
39:07
some turnover some short fields? What was going on out there at at Blaine
39:12
High School for the Lynnen Christian home game? Yeah, it was. It
39:16
was at Blaine and it was a little little windy second half the wind really
39:22
picked up, but the first first half was you know a little bit of
39:30
wins. So that hampered the passing games a little bit, but not not
39:34
too much. And LC, you know, they stopped Connell. Connell was
39:40
a solid team, you know, played really hard, had a running back
39:44
with these big, thick thighs and he was grinding out some yards, and
39:47
a quarterback that that threw a pretty good ball, and some some some decent
39:52
players. But overall, you know, Lynnen Christian just had a had a
39:58
deeper roster and better athletes across the board. And they Connell on that first
40:05
drive had to punt and a bad snap, so Elsie got it on the
40:10
eight yard line. One play later it was a touchdown. Jeremiah Wright,
40:16
who threw for four touchdowns and ran for two. He had a really nice,
40:22
nice night, and so that just kind of started started the onslaught and
40:27
in terms of yards, yeah, because they had shorter fields because their defense
40:30
and punts weren't going very far. And Connell actually went forward a few times
40:37
even in the first half on you know, their own side of the fifty
40:40
and ended up not making fourth downs. So that just gave Lynn Christians some
40:45
short fields. Now, from a coaches standpoint, we've watched Caden Stite and
40:52
we've watched Jeremiah Wright. We've watched these guys play both sides of the ball,
40:57
and they both excel defensively and offensively. If you're if you're a coach
41:01
watching film of that game against Connell, you know, what are you looking
41:06
to do to to kind of go after these guys, Because I mean,
41:09
I just don't know what you can do some sometimes you just kind of almost
41:14
have to admit defeat with a couple of them and maybe focus on some other
41:16
guys. But you know, from a coaching standpoint, is there things that
41:20
you would look at that maybe you'd be trying to do against these guys.
41:24
You know, it's kind of tough because they're both playing those outside linebacker spots
41:30
on defense, so you know they're playing that that three four, So those
41:35
guys are gonna prevent you from from getting around the edge. So possibly,
41:39
uh, if you're if you have a solid run game where you can run
41:44
a little bit more up the middle and underneath them. But they're also so
41:50
athletic that they can they can rally quickly to tackles on the defensive end.
41:54
And Lennon Christian is uh, you know, well coached and and pretty pretty
41:59
strong and quick across the board. So it's just it's tough to move the
42:02
ball on him and then uh, you know, trying to trying to shut
42:07
him down. You know, writes that dual threat that can you know,
42:12
either on design runs which he had some quarterback sweeps or on scrambles on a
42:16
pass, he can hurt you with his legs, uh, and then stit
42:21
also, I mean one of the there's an eighty yard drive and all four
42:25
pass plays were to him, and that I mean Connell had a little corner
42:30
out there and he was doing his best, but just the physicality and strength
42:36
and speed, uh was just too much for him. And you can,
42:38
you know, maybe put ah in the past, we've actually put a linebacker
42:44
out on a on a receiver that's that physical uh, and then maybe a
42:49
safety over the top. And then you're you're obviously going to give up some
42:53
some numbers in the box, but that's one way you can you can maybe
42:58
do that a little bit. And then you know, coach Chirp would just
43:02
go back to he sees that he'd probably just start running the ball some more.
43:07
So, Yeah, it's tough. You know, they're really good team,
43:10
good athletes, well coached. Jeremiah Wright on the night sixteen of twenty
43:16
two for one sixty seven passing and as coach mentioned, four touchdown passes,
43:22
three of them to Cayden Stite. Cayden Stite on the night six catches for
43:28
one hundred yards hundred even, And then I guess I should mention Jeremiah Wright
43:34
also led in rushing eight carries for sixty three, Hallis Owen nine carries for
43:37
thirty two. Yeah, Lenny Christian forty one twenty over Connell Tyler. Let's
43:43
talk about some of the defensive numbers because we're talking short fields and we're talking
43:46
some turnovers and things. So who are some of the guys that stood out
43:50
on that side of the ball. Yeah, there was a few guys that
43:52
were creating those turnovers. Malachi vander May, who is is a three four
43:57
defensive ends. He's kind of inside the tackle there on the line. It's
44:00
kind of a position where you usually don't get a lot of numbers. But
44:04
he's had a great year. He had four and a half tackles for loss
44:07
two or sorry, four and a half tackles, two tackles for loss,
44:09
a sack and on the sack it was a strip. It was a strip
44:14
sack. And on the one of his tackles for loss, it was also
44:16
a forced fumble where it was recovered by Jade and Hooliott, who's a backup
44:22
or i'm sorry, as a starting free safety. And so that you know
44:25
that was a turnover right there. There was also a a recovered kickoff by
44:34
Mick Owen and it got a short field that way. There was an interception
44:37
by Brody Bowman and return at fifty five yards to the one yard line that
44:42
creates another short field. Coach talked about the early punting situation where the ball
44:46
snapped over his head, Punter picked it up and was tackled at the eight
44:50
yard line by Malachi vander May. Again. So you know a lot of
44:53
these different guys making some big plays. Obviously, kitten Stite always is up
44:58
there. Seven and a half tackles, Trey Bosman on the inside. Uh,
45:01
he had twelve tackles on the night to lead the team. He had
45:05
a he had a pass broken up. He's a he's kind of an unsung
45:08
guy in the mid You know all those linebackers, they're all seniors. He's
45:12
the one junior, and he's the guy with four interceptions on the year,
45:15
two of them returned for touchdowns. He was named All Conference first team.
45:20
Uh. Just you know he's got the black shield on and and uh yeah,
45:23
it's uh, it's he's he's had a he's had a great, great
45:28
year and he had another big performance in this one. Uh, coach,
45:31
do you have anything that you learn? Tyler and I talk about it every
45:34
week. You know, what did we learn this week? You got anything
45:37
you learned this week, either from Lynn Christian or from around the county.
45:43
Just that I think Lennon Christian there is just on a mission. You know,
45:47
last year kind of ended ended early for him. And they return a
45:52
lot of a lot of guys from last year's team, and they they just
45:57
look like they're they they're on a mission to go as deep in as far
46:01
as they can. And sometimes when you lose, right, sometimes that focal
46:06
point right like a Kate Eldridge right who did get hurt as well, But
46:12
it makes the team everybody else kind of step up a little bit more and
46:17
makes you harder to defend and makes you a better team because everybody else is
46:22
rising to that challenge and up in their game after you lose your you know
46:27
a kid that's going to USC. So they've definitely done that this year.
46:31
So it'll be just a fantastic game I think this coming weekend against Nook Sac.
46:38
Is that a game you're planning on being at? Yeah? Yeah,
46:42
I think there's not going to be many empty seats. Yeah, at Civic
46:45
Field. That'll be pretty pretty full stadium. A lot of people will be
46:50
wanting to watch those two teams go at it. That is one of those
46:53
games I'll tell you what might even see me out there because I think back
46:58
to what I saw last year with Knooksack and Mount Baker and yeah, I
47:05
kind of want to be a part of that atmosphere, you know what I
47:07
mean, Like that was a lot of fun last year. Maybe not so
47:10
much fun if you're a Knucksack fan, but it was a lot of fun
47:13
to be at that stadium in that atmosphere. And yeah, it's going to
47:15
be rocking and rolling, so that'll be a fun one. We'll talk about
47:19
that game on the preview podcast here in a couple of days, but until
47:23
then, coach, Yeah, either we will talk to you next weekend or
47:28
maybe you get the weekend on. I mean, I don't know, we'll
47:29
see. We'll kind of figure some things out where we're going to go with
47:31
it. But yeah, coaches Cornered Jeff Wood, coach, thanks for your
47:36
time, Thanks for having me. All Right, so that wraps up Friday
47:39
night. Let's move into the lone Saturday game. Tyler and Yeah, Knooksack
47:45
Valley just absolutely going to town here, fifty nine nothing at halftime, Tyler
47:51
and they come away fifty nine to seven win over Cascade Christian. What did
47:55
you see here? Well, pure domination. And the funny thing was about
48:00
this was that, you know, Knooksack probably played as good of a first
48:06
half as you can play in football. But right off the bat it didn't
48:10
look good. First snap went way over Joey Brown's head and he had to
48:16
go run and get it and probably thirty yards behind the line of scrimmage.
48:22
He ended up running for quite a few yards to make it like a eleven
48:25
yard loss or something. Who whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa hold on a shotgun
48:30
snap and it went how far back? Well, it went over his head,
48:32
but it just hit that turf and it was going with the wind,
48:36
which was still going the next day. Gotcha, gotcha? Okay? And
48:37
it makes a little bit yeah, and you know, jitters or something,
48:43
I'm not sure, just to you know, a bad snap over the head.
48:45
Joey Brown was able to get it, so it wasn't horrible, you
48:49
know. They were able to you know, come back and make it like
48:53
a ten yard loss instead of like a thirty yard loss. And then the
48:57
next snap was low and on the ground. He had to pick it up
49:00
and give it to Colton Lentz and and so it was just kind of look
49:01
kind of rocky in the beginning, but once it got rolling, Holy Canoli.
49:07
That offensive line the running game they did. And what was funny is
49:12
they didn't go back and forth with the running backs every possession. These possessions
49:15
were so short, they just went quarters. You take the first quarter,
49:19
all take the second quarter type thing. That's what appeared to be. Anyways,
49:23
And there was a stretch in the first quarter where Colton Lentz had four
49:29
carries in a row that all went for touchdowns. So that's that's pretty scary,
49:37
I mean, you know, and they were all a little different.
49:38
They all kind of showcased something. Some was just incredible offensive or they were
49:42
all incredible offensive line plays, but like you know, different types of plays,
49:46
you know, speed, power, balance, vision, kind of everything.
49:50
He also had a catch for thirty yards and all in the first quarter.
49:55
Second quarter. They decided, hey, we got the we got the
49:59
win our back. Let's let's throw it deep and uh, Joey Brown launches
50:04
it probably fifty yards in the air right perfect to Jackson Bennett who gets underneath
50:08
it, catches it, goes seventy one yards per touchdown. And then right
50:13
after that, Jackson ben who kind of plays like a strong safety kind of
50:16
you know, the the in like the four two five kind yeah, well
50:22
cold Colton Lenz is more the rover, but he's kind of more like the
50:24
nickelback almost, I would say. And uh, but as a good tackler
50:29
can be kind of kind of be in the flat and tackle those sweeps and
50:31
stuff like that, and uh, they kind of you know, these deep
50:36
the offense kind of ran like a switch pattern and he jumped out on the
50:39
out on the on the other guy and and he just jumped in front of
50:43
a pass intercept it returns twenty nine yards for a touchdown. And then on
50:46
the on the kickoff right after that, he makes the tackle. It reminded
50:51
me so much of like the Terrell Davis uh preseason game where he made a
50:55
tackle on special teams uh, and where everyone was like, who's that guy?
51:00
And then you know that was kind of how he started making his name.
51:01
Remember this, Yeah, and that's that's what it looked like. And
51:05
I was like, man, that's that's basically three plays in a row where
51:07
he made a huge impact. In the second quarter, Skyler Wintern came in
51:12
and boomed, you know, sixty five yard touchdown run. Wells is new.
51:15
He averages over twelve yards of carrier for the season. I think he
51:19
may have upped it again or no, he just he may have lost a
51:22
little bit of yards per carry, even though he's still averaged over ten yards
51:25
of carrying this game. The team as a team, they're averaging over ten
51:30
yards per play on offense and for the whole season. And they did it
51:36
again in this game. And I need to look back and see how many
51:39
teams have done this. I think only I think it's less than five,
51:44
and probably less than three. That's increating. And they and they were all
51:46
state titled state championships, so team, so, you know, and to
51:51
do it in the state playoffs obviously is tough. And then later in the
51:54
second quarter, the Ryland Spencer special you put in, you know, the
52:00
have an offensive line, you kick John Strummler over to full back, so
52:02
basically have eight offensive linemen in there and you just plow ahead with your tailback.
52:07
But they did a little they did a little whoopsie counter gave the ball
52:10
to number fifty two and John Stremler looked like he had been running the ball
52:15
all his live, shot through the line and sprinting into the end zone for
52:17
a twenty one yard touchdown run, which first thing I thought it was you
52:22
thought it was pretty crazy. They had a couple interceptions in that game,
52:28
Evan Bravo, which I think it was his fifth of the year. They
52:31
had to pick six by Jackson Bennett Dalton Hickey. The defensive end was able
52:37
to pick one off two late in the second quarter, which set up Jorgan
52:39
Vigory's thirty yard field goal. He has eleven kicking points in one half.
52:44
It has to be a Walkham County record. I think his I think his
52:47
eleven kicking points in a game tied the school record. So he's got multiple
52:54
school records this year. So this was all done by halftime. It was
53:00
it was not even close. Uh, second half was all backups and by
53:05
the fourth quarter it was all C team in there, and and they were
53:07
still trying to hold that shut out, but it wasn't going to happen.
53:12
Uh. Knokzak is built for the postseason. They're built for November. And
53:15
you know, you look, you go back to preseason stuff and everyone's lauding
53:20
how great they are. And they had a few slip ups here and there,
53:22
but these were games that they were in the lead for, you know,
53:27
ninety of the game. So it's not like they're getting blown out or
53:30
anything, and now is kind of like, Okay, this is what we
53:35
thought they were, so you know, go forward with it and just keep
53:38
and just keep on rolling. And that's what they want to do, and
53:42
they they really showed it on Saturday night against a team that you know,
53:45
had a good schedule and is traditionally very very good, but they just got
53:49
outmatched up front and Kniksack Valley played maybe I wouldn't say their best game of
53:54
the year, maybe their best half of the year. Foighty yards from Lukxzack
54:00
Valley Cascade Christian just one sixty four now Tyler be most impressive and maybe the
54:06
one of the craziest things we've talked about and seen all season. When we
54:09
talk about balance, nobody has it better than what Casked Christian had this week.
54:14
Matter of fact, you can't have it better. Eighty two yards rushing,
54:17
eighty two yards passing, right, that's unbelievable. It is. That
54:22
being said, if you're a cascad Christian, you'd probably rather have three hundred
54:24
and three hundred, or maybe you'd rather have two sixty six and one forty
54:30
six, because that's what Nuksack Valley had and they absolutely pummel them. Yeah,
54:35
I mean just a great you know, a great win for Knuckzack Valley.
54:39
I mean when you when you look at it, kind of one of
54:42
those things where you know, Wintern over one hundred, Lents over one hundred.
54:47
You know, like if you're getting that, you feel really good.
54:52
If you're Nuksack Valley, you really do. You know, Joey Brown doesn't
54:55
have to go too crazy. Four of five passing for one twenty one,
55:00
which is a crazy number. He only played the first quarter. Well,
55:04
oh yeah, that's true too. And you know Bennett one for seventy one,
55:07
Lentz one for thirty. You know, you see this stuff, Tyler,
55:10
and you just go wow, you know, because it starts to make
55:15
a little bit of sense as to why the running game was so good,
55:17
or you know, the running game makes sense as to why they could throw
55:22
the ball with the efficiency that they wanted or that they had, even though
55:24
they didn't really need to. Colton Lentz has four touchdown runs runs of six,
55:30
fifteen, eighteen, and fifty. You mentioned the seventy one yard pass
55:37
from Brown to Bennett. Bennett's touchdown. Skyler Wintern gets in for sixty five
55:43
yard run and then obviously the most beautiful thing of the weekend, John Stremler
55:45
twenty one yard run. I hope he gets like a steak and potatoes for
55:50
that, because he deserves it. I'm lobbying for it and hopefully it happens.
55:55
Yeah. All in all, Tyler, I mean, just a really,
56:00
really good win for Knookzack Valley and it sets up an awesome game this
56:02
week. Yeah, we'll see, we'll see. I might be there,
56:07
I might not be there, but we will talk about it on the podcast
56:12
that'll come out Wednesday Thursday somewhere around there. Not really sure what we'll do
56:15
with that, but we'll have it up. The preview podcast will be up
56:19
here in a couple of days. So be sure. You mentioned you said
56:22
the word efficiency, and I just wanted to butt in really quickly that you
56:28
know, you have two running backs to average over ten yards to carry.
56:31
I don't think any team's ever had that in Waka County. Plus Wakan County
56:37
has never had a quarterback that completed over seventy percent of their passes on the
56:39
season, so they have that as well. So you talk about efficiency offense
56:44
and defense. Yeah, that's that's incredible and it and they help you and
56:50
I like, exactly like what you said. It helps each other out.
56:53
You know, you can pound pound pound and then all opens up the passing
56:57
game and you got athletes. I mean, it's it's something to see.
57:00
Yeah, Or you throw two three passes for some good chunk yards and before
57:05
you know it, they go, well, we got to move these linebackers
57:06
back a couple of steps and then guess what that does. Hello, you
57:09
know we're going right at you now and you don't have a choice. So
57:14
yeah, let's see hear that is the games. Let's talk about the pick
57:17
thems really quickly, and well we all picked the same games. So everybody
57:21
goes three and one. Yeah, everybody, Tyler, that means you're still
57:24
in the in last place. Yeah, Fifty three and twenty eight is what
57:28
you are now. Nate fifty nine and twenty two, Connor fifty seven,
57:31
twenty four. I'm now fifty eight and twenty three. The guests fifty seven
57:36
and twenty four. This week it was mister Andrew Olsen out there at Blaine
57:40
High School head head coach, and then Joe Consensus fifty six and twenty five.
57:45
I'm so mad at myself. I didn't trust my gut and go with
57:49
Mountdahoma. Just so angry with myself because I could be tied right now and
57:53
lost yourself out of it. Yeah, and you know what, Tyler,
57:55
I don't normally do that, right, Like I know normally I'm like,
57:59
nah, good about this. I'm just gonna go with it, like nah
58:01
na? And what did I do? I tucked myself out of it?
58:04
Yeah, it could cost me the championship, Tyler. Let's talk about players
58:08
of the week. Tyler. We'll start off with the offensive player of the
58:12
week. Is that that is sponsored by Zazen Salon SPA eleven bell weather Way
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and in Bellingham three six zero seven to one five one zero five zero,
58:22
Tyler, give it to me. Who is the Zazzen Salon SPA Offensive Player
58:25
of the Week. This was a tough one. I went with Colton Lentz
58:30
because of the efficiency. Touched the ball eight times, got one hundred and
58:35
thirty two yards and four touchdowns. There was four plays four touches in a
58:39
row where he scored a touchdown. Uh, you know there was there's some
58:45
really fun things to his game when you watch I mentioned it earlier with the
58:50
speed, the balance, the the vision and the power. It's just that
58:53
combination of everything is is lethal at the high school level, especially one A
58:59
level. Boy, it's gonna be a good game next week. I just
59:02
can't it just I know, I wish it was later in the tournament obviously,
59:07
but boy, I can't stop thinking about it. But but yes,
59:10
Colton Mutz, you know, only played a quarter. That was all he
59:14
needed, uh to be named the Zazz and Salon SPA Offensive Player of the
59:19
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59:28
who is the Max Hair Studio Defensive Player of the Week. And again this
59:31
was a tough one too. But Malachi vander May from Lyndon Christian. You
59:36
know, going into the season, we all knew Carter Sigmund All League guy.
59:39
He was their only really returning offensive defensive lineman. And when I was
59:45
talking to Turt before the season, he goes, you know, Malachi vanner
59:49
May is really improved in the offseason. And he was a guy that did
59:52
some things as a junior, but boys, he had an awesome season this
59:57
year and just man works hard. He forced a couple fumbles in the backfield,
1:00:02
one on a sack, one on a tackle for laws. He had
1:00:05
two tackles for loss, four and a half tackles. He was just there
1:00:08
to make plays. The ball that was snapped over the punter's head, he
1:00:10
was the one that brought the punter down deep in there a deepened Connell's territory.
1:00:15
And he just had a great overall game defensively. So. Malachi vander
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Nuksack Valley Senior kicker you Jorgan to Boom boom, a vigory eight for eight
1:00:45
on extra points and the thirty yard field goal. Boy, I you know,
1:00:52
I always look to think back of like man. I would have loved
1:00:53
to have opportunities to kick that many extra points. But we were a good
1:00:58
team, but we just didn't have the firepower like that. But boy,
1:01:02
he got on the field a lot, made every single kick he was supposed
1:01:06
to do. I think he's missed one extra point all season, and he's
1:01:08
kicked a lot of extra points over sixty. I think he's just missed one.
1:01:13
And the funny thing was it was it was the one at the time
1:01:16
that would have broke the record for extra points in a game. Oh yeah,
1:01:22
and he missed it, and then they put him out there again because
1:01:25
he told me before that on the sideline, he goes, They're only let
1:01:28
me kick one more to break the record in this game, and then they're
1:01:30
gonna put in a backup. So then he missed it, and then and
1:01:34
then they let him go back out there again, and then he made it
1:01:37
to make his eleventh or whatever, tenth or eleventh extra point of that game.
1:01:42
But uh, boy, by the way, neither of us had him
1:01:44
in fantasy this week, like, oh my goodness, that's crazy. We
1:01:50
only had four guys to pick from right, and the one that goes absolutely
1:01:53
bonkers, neither of us picked him. Yeah, but eleven kicking points in
1:01:58
one half that's an unbelievable game, So great, great job for Yorgan Boom
1:02:01
boom Figory and I think think he got I know he got at least one
1:02:07
touchback. Doesn't He's not a touchback kind of kicker. He kind of places
1:02:12
it all over the place. But so he might have got his first touchback
1:02:15
too, so that's good, good for him. Let's see here, Belle
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Lineman of the Week. It is Lynnon's senior left tackle, Kuiper Assink.
1:02:47
Boy, he can just seal that edge like you would believe he's you know,
1:02:53
if I really had to think about it. Oh man, it's tough.
1:02:57
There's some great offensive lineman in Walking County, but he there is an
1:03:00
argument to be made that he is the best one. Camden Raymond Brady Ackerman.
1:03:06
There's some really good offensive lineman out there, but oh boy, he's
1:03:09
super good. And you know, just that run game early on, they
1:03:15
just kept going, you know, over him, and I would too.
1:03:21
I mean that left side, the Lynnen line, especially with Bennett Order to
1:03:23
his right, Isaiah Albman to his left playing tight end, they can get
1:03:28
a lot of damage done on that side. And Kuiper rossinc awesome job and
1:03:35
he's deserving of the Bell Anderson Insurance Offensive Lineman of the Week. Zazen Salon
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You can find him at wakcom Preps on any of this social media's or you
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can email him mister underscore a mohawk at hotmail dot com. Tyler, we
1:04:04
got one last thing to do here, Yeah, and it's basically your funeral
1:04:10
as far as fantasy football goes exactly. Yeah. I don't even think we
1:04:13
have to play the rest of the year. I mean, you know we
1:04:15
don't have to. Well, we're going to because I'm gonna finish. I'm
1:04:17
gonna finish like eleven and one, yeah, one seventy four point one to
1:04:25
one thirty four point three, Tyler. Uh, I am now eight and
1:04:28
three on the season. Seven in a row. Yeah, yeah, See,
1:04:33
you're yawning to try to like downgrade me, but I know the truth.
1:04:40
You and I are both exhausted right now. Yeah. Seven in a
1:04:43
row though, I mean there's no walking county team that has seven in a
1:04:45
row right now. I mean you know, of course, our buddies down
1:04:49
in Ana quarters listening and go, hey man, we've run like ten in
1:04:53
a row. Yeah. Well, uh yeah. Does Lennon Christian not have
1:04:57
seven in a row? There? They Royle in week four? Oh then
1:05:00
no, because they didn't play a week ten and they didn't play week ten.
1:05:03
Yeah, so they I think they have. Yeah, they have the
1:05:08
longest winning streak right now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So for me,
1:05:13
Jeremiah Wright forty one points at quarterback, Tyler. When I'm sitting there
1:05:18
watching the scores and I sent you a message, I said, you know
1:05:21
what, I joked around about it potentially being over. By the end of
1:05:26
the first game, it might be over. And I'll tell you what it
1:05:29
was almost over. Yeah. Joey Brown gets eleven for you, Colton Lentz
1:05:34
thirty seven point seven for you at running back, Connor Walker sixteen point one
1:05:39
for me, Cayden Stite at receiver for me thirty one points, Cory only
1:05:44
one point six for you, Lynden Christian's offensive line forty seven points for you,
1:05:49
Linden's offensive line fifty one for me. We both got eight points out
1:05:55
of our defenses. You had Linden, I had lynnon Christian front seven Cayden
1:05:59
style eleven points. John Stremler twenty three for you. I mean wow.
1:06:03
Uh. And that doesn't even include a touchdown, which wouldn't have helped you
1:06:06
one bit. Uh. Bishop Utzi five points in the back, seven for
1:06:11
you, Connor Walker eleven points from me. And then you had one point
1:06:15
out of Cayden Eldridge, the kicker over there at Ferndale, right yep.
1:06:19
And then it still blows me away seeing Cayden Eldridge instead of Kate Eldridge,
1:06:24
Like every time I see it, I have to like check my eyes really
1:06:27
quickly. And then Malchai Canon got me five points. So yeah, one
1:06:31
seventy four point one to one thirty four point three. And uh yeah,
1:06:35
I mean, Tyler, you can't catch me. But we're still gonna keep
1:06:39
doing it, have a little bit of fun because we know the we know
1:06:44
that some of the kids see it and they like it and they think it's
1:06:46
fun. And you know the fact that here we are picking some of these
1:06:49
guys, you know, it gives us a chance to talk about some guys
1:06:53
that you know, maybe we haven't talked about a ton of you know,
1:06:56
at times. So uh so, yeah, we'll keep it going. And
1:07:00
I mean, I guess after this coming week there will only be at most
1:07:04
two teams left, so it can it starts getting a little bit tougher at
1:07:09
that point. But uh yeah, we'll have some more fantasy stuff on Wednesday
1:07:15
or Wednesday Thursday, whenever it goes out this week. That'll be on the
1:07:17
preview podcast that you can find on WAKOM preps. Yeah, Tyler, we
1:07:21
got anything else we've done. I think we are. I think we're And
1:07:27
we talked a lot of volleyball. We've talked like twenty minutes of volleyball.
1:07:31
I know, it's crazy. I mean, I get all hyped up.
1:07:33
Man, it's like my favorite sport. It's just it's sad that it's over.
1:07:38
But uh man, it's it's yeah, it's I'm I love I just
1:07:44
love doing this. It's it's so fun. I'm so tired. It's like
1:07:48
you and I both we just love what we do and we're both so tired.
1:07:51
And I think I think it just it's like it fulfills our day.
1:07:56
It completes our days so much that we could just sleep so well, just
1:08:00
go right back at the next day. And you know, super lucky we
1:08:04
have an opportunity to sleep well. Neither of us do. We don't take
1:08:09
advantage of the point, but it is there at all times. Hey,
1:08:14
before we get out of here, we'll give another thank you to Kurt Mayberry
1:08:15
Farm. Visit their website Kurtmayberry Farm dot com. That's Kurt with A C,
1:08:20
M A B E R R Y farm dot com. Tyler, Uh
1:08:26
yeah, let's wrap it up right there, and we will be back with
1:08:29
the preview podcast here in a couple of days, so everybody be sure to
1:08:31
look out for that. Tyler's got all kinds of stuff going on over it.
1:08:35
Walk come perhaps if you're not following, it's walkom preps really easy,
1:08:39
walkom preps on all social media. Just look for it. You can find
1:08:42
it. You'll see the logo. It looks something like a upside down Montregal
1:08:45
expos logo because it basically is well it's a mirror image and upside down,
1:08:51
so it's fair. I think it's like an inverted image. Yeah, yeah,
1:08:56
I know, I know, although I did have a lawyer in the
1:09:00
family that looked into the trademark and she said that it's still She's like,
1:09:09
it's very iffy because they still own it, like the X it's still like
1:09:14
a thing even though they're a defunct team. Yeah yeah, yeah, but
1:09:16
you know, because somebody's got to be making money off of the hats,
1:09:19
right, like, because you can still buy an exposed hat. Yeah you
1:09:23
know. But yeah, I mean, we'll just pretend like we didn't talk
1:09:26
to that person that being said Tyler. This has been episode of two and
1:09:31
ten, a recap of the first round of the State football Tournament. I'm
1:09:35
Ryland Spencer. He's Tyler Anderson. You've been listening to the Watch Them Preps
1:09:39
podcast. We will talk to you in a couple of days, what that