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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 465 - Week 9 Football Recap · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Greetings and welcome into the Whatcom Preps podcast. This is
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  Speaker 1: episode 465. It's the week nine football recap, and I
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  Speaker 1: am Tyler Anderson of Whatcom Preps. Do you live in Whatcom,
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  Speaker 1: Skagit Island, or San Juan County and want to become
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  Speaker 1: an official? Officiating is a great way to give back
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  Speaker 1: to your community and ensure our youth have an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to compete in athletics. All right, go to nwofficials.com and
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  Speaker 1: find out how you can get involved. Well, let's take
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  Speaker 1: a look at the games that took place over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: They were kind of spread out all over the place
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  Speaker 1: with a lot of games happening Thursday night at all
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  Speaker 1: different times, four of them locally. I was able to
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  Speaker 1: make it to three of them, which was great. I
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  Speaker 1: kind of miss standing on the sidelines and getting– you
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  Speaker 1: just see so much more. You hear the intricacies. You
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  Speaker 1: hear the coaches talking. You hear the players talking. You
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  Speaker 1: hear the officials talking. You just pick up so much
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  Speaker 1: more on the sideline. And, you know, the earliest game
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  Speaker 1: was Thursday night. That was out at Civic Stadium as
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  Speaker 1: Burlington Edison came to town to take on the host
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  Speaker 1: Sehome Mariners. And the Tigers got the win there. But
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  Speaker 1: our coach, Jeff Wood, was at the game. Coach, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for joining me today. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Doing good, Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this one was, well, I mean, especially early. You know,
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  Speaker 1: those three touchdowns on eight plays of offense. by Burlington
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  Speaker 1: Edison really set the tone and, you know, from there
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  Speaker 1: on out relatively even, but boy, quick touchdowns there by
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  Speaker 1: the Tigers. And was there something that was just working
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  Speaker 1: for them or was it kind of just, they just
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  Speaker 1: looked like they were poised to, you know, go out
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  Speaker 1: there and take care of business. And there was just,
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  Speaker 1: they were just going to be hard to stop.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they've, uh, been building for a couple of years, uh,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, you tell their, uh, their programs on the
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  Speaker 2: upswing and their execution was pretty crisp and, uh, they, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they had some intention to, to get a win and
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  Speaker 2: they definitely took that in the first, uh, quarter and got,
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  Speaker 2: like you said, the quick scores and got an interception
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, just were able to move the ball effectively
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  Speaker 2: and had some big plays as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And then for those that are listening that have,
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  Speaker 1: you know, been around forever, you know, back in the
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  Speaker 1: seventies and eighties at Burlington Edison was the team. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they were, they were the team that everyone tried to emulate.
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  Speaker 1: Glenn Rickert was when he retired, I think in 87,
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  Speaker 1: was the state's all-time leading winner for coaches. And they
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  Speaker 1: kind of fell off in the 90s a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: but they've had moments ever since then. And it's the
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  Speaker 1: young coaching staff they have right now where they're really
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  Speaker 1: starting to kind of, like you said, they've been building
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  Speaker 1: for a while, really strong run game, kind of old
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  Speaker 1: school football style, even though they're out of shotgun and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that, but they still want to jamming up
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  Speaker 1: the middle and just go, go, go kind of very
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  Speaker 1: much like Linden, very, very, you know, comparable to them
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  Speaker 1: that both are used to playing on grass. And so
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  Speaker 1: that's always fun to see them go. But one thing
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  Speaker 1: that really stood out to me in this one was
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  Speaker 1: even though Sion was down early by, by three touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: they stayed dedicated to the run with cash Barnes. And
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  Speaker 1: when you look at their two wins from earlier in
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  Speaker 1: the year, In both those games, Barnes had, you know,
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  Speaker 1: roughly 30 carries, roughly 200 yards. And they really were
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  Speaker 1: dedicated to that run in this game was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: is that hard to do as a coach when you
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  Speaker 1: know you're down by three scores? Or is it early
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  Speaker 1: enough in the game where you could say, hey, this
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  Speaker 1: is what's been consistent for us. Let's just keep doing this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you can't always just play to the scoreboard.
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  Speaker 2: You got to play to your strengths and definitely the
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  Speaker 2: strengths are running the ball for see home this year,
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  Speaker 2: you know, up front, that's kind of their better, you know,
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  Speaker 2: offensive line blocking. Those guys seem to block better downhill
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  Speaker 2: and cash is Barnes is a good runner, also downhill runner.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, so, and tied to that good blocking tight
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  Speaker 2: ends as well. So yeah, you gotta, you gotta stick
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  Speaker 2: with what you're good at and, not try to get
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  Speaker 2: away from that even if you're down on the scoreboard.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, knowing that, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, building for the next season, that's kind of part
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  Speaker 2: of it too. There's a very small likelihood that Seaholm
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  Speaker 2: was going to make the playoffs. So, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: just keep working on that stuff that you're going to
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  Speaker 2: take into the next season.
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  Speaker 1: I heard someone talk about this. I can't remember if
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  Speaker 1: it was on an NFL pregame show. I heard this today, actually,
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  Speaker 1: where I heard an analyst talk about self-scouting. It might
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  Speaker 1: have been Drew Brees. And it really made me think
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  Speaker 1: about that as far as a coach, where you're used
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  Speaker 1: to scouting other teams, but talk about self-scouting where you
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  Speaker 1: look at your own team and that's how you kind
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  Speaker 1: of find out what you're good at. Is that a
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  Speaker 1: thing or is it Is that is there any truth
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  Speaker 1: to that or is that a thing in high school level?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yes, you have to self scout to know
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  Speaker 2: your own tendencies so that you're not, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: definitely want to do what you're best at. But you also,
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  Speaker 2: you know, want to break some of your own tendencies
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  Speaker 2: in terms of. running to the right, running to the left,
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  Speaker 2: what you're doing on, you know, first and 10, third
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  Speaker 2: and short, all those situations, you run all those numbers.
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  Speaker 2: And then again, you don't want to get away from
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  Speaker 2: what you're good at, but at the same time, you
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  Speaker 2: don't want to be overly predictable because that's what the
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  Speaker 2: opposing coaches are doing. They're scouting you.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're.
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  Speaker 2: Always doing the same thing in the same situation, right,
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  Speaker 2: they can load up and try to stop that.
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  Speaker 1: So It's definitely it's chess, not checkers. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it really I mean, it's stuff that I kind of know.
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  Speaker 1: But when I heard it said when they were talking
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  Speaker 1: about it, I just thought, oh, I'm going to talk
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  Speaker 1: to Coach Wood about this because it makes a lot
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  Speaker 1: of sense. And and for those reasons you just said,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, when it's third and short, what do you do? Right.
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  Speaker 1: What it's. You know, if it's when you come out
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  Speaker 1: of a timeout, maybe what do you do when you
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  Speaker 1: line up in trips? What do you do? All those
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  Speaker 1: kinds of different things. And so it was really interesting.
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  Speaker 1: And and there's just so many layers to it that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, people in the stands are just kind of
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  Speaker 1: watching and just having fun. And there's there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: that goes into it. And boy, it's it's pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 1: And the other thing I've really realized, too, is from
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  Speaker 1: talking to coaches, especially this year and watching all the
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  Speaker 1: film and everything is. Boy, how, like, let's say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: let's just say on offense, you know, you call whatever,
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  Speaker 1: 60 plays a game, roughly something like that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: how many of those plays do all 11 people actually
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  Speaker 1: do exactly what they're supposed to do? It might be
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  Speaker 1: like less than 50%. It's hard to get everybody on
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  Speaker 1: the right page. You know, kind of talk about that. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how do you get 11 guys to all
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  Speaker 1: do the right thing?
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  Speaker 2: It's just that's where the game's won is throughout the
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  Speaker 2: week and throughout the offseason and the camps in the
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  Speaker 2: summer and the spring and, you know, seven on seven.
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  Speaker 2: So the players, you know, know it doesn't matter how
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  Speaker 2: much the coach knows. It matters what the players know
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  Speaker 2: and what the players can execute. So, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: can be on the whiteboard drawing up everything under the
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  Speaker 2: sun and, winning that, but that, that doesn't matter on
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  Speaker 2: Friday nights. So how much can you transmit to those kids?
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  Speaker 2: How much can they, uh, you know, know and execute
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  Speaker 2: and be able to, you know, do it, especially on
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  Speaker 2: the defensive side, right. Playing fast, right. You don't want
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  Speaker 2: the defensive guys thinking too much, uh, slows you down offense, uh,
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  Speaker 2: You know what you're doing, so yes, you have to think,
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  Speaker 2: but you have your play going in. So if you
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  Speaker 2: have that and you've run it however many dozen times,
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  Speaker 2: you should be able to do it in your sleep.
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't mean you're always going to do it correctly,
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  Speaker 2: but if you're able to, that's going to bode well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. In this game, too, sophomore Caden Kirk got
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  Speaker 1: in there, played a handful of snaps at quarterback. What
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  Speaker 1: did you see from him? And, and you know, the
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  Speaker 1: one thing I noticed from him, I remember seeing him
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  Speaker 1: as a freshman and thinking, boy, he's a pretty small kid.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's out there. It looks like he's over six
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  Speaker 1: feet tall. That's the magical thing about freshmen to sophomore
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  Speaker 1: year is a lot of guys get a lot bigger.
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  Speaker 1: How did he look at quarterback?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's definitely grown a bit and he's, He's got
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  Speaker 2: a good arm, and he's a cerebral kid, so he
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  Speaker 2: knows where the ball should be going and can execute well. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he got in there and took advantage of
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  Speaker 2: that situation and had some real nice plays, led the offense,
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  Speaker 2: also had, you know, couple not-so-good throws, and that's what's
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  Speaker 2: going to happen, especially on your first time under the
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  Speaker 2: Friday Night Lights. But, yeah, that bodes well for Seaholm
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  Speaker 2: going forward to get him some reps and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: under center.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right. Exactly. Yeah. And, and, you know, the Mariners,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, a really slim chance of making the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs going into the game. There was all sorts of
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  Speaker 1: crazy things going on about this and that, and all
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  Speaker 1: the archbishop stuff and who knows, and you got to
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  Speaker 1: win this. And then it comes down to this. And
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  Speaker 1: if not this, then this, and, But they had to win,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, to throw a wrench into all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't happen. So now they have a Thursday night
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  Speaker 1: game at Mount Vernon. Mount Vernon, a 3A school with
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  Speaker 1: a lot of athletes, but not a ton of wins.
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  Speaker 1: So there's some similarities between the two teams. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you've coached teams where the season is still going, but
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  Speaker 1: playoffs are out of the picture at that point. How
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  Speaker 1: do you keep the kids going for the the final
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  Speaker 1: game when they know that there's no postseason. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I know we've talked about it. You just, you know,
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  Speaker 2: want to give those seniors one less chance to play, uh,
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  Speaker 2: put the helmet on and have all the other guys
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  Speaker 2: motivated to play their best game to send those seniors
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  Speaker 2: out on a, on a high note and get that experience.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you only get 10 of them if you
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  Speaker 2: don't advance past week 10. So that's, you know, 10%
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  Speaker 2: of your season. You're not, uh, you know, playing club football. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You're doing some seven on seven stuff, but, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so those, every rep is super important going forward.
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  Speaker 1: And, uh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then on a high note, it's always a, a
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  Speaker 2: great thing to do. So, you know, you take it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it is a grind, right. And those practices
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  Speaker 2: maybe are, you know, a little different pace that last week,
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  Speaker 2: but hopefully they can, uh, you know, stay together as
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  Speaker 2: a team and, go down there to Mount Vernon and
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  Speaker 2: come out with a win.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it'd be great to see. And I know they
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  Speaker 1: did play them a few years back on a, in
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  Speaker 1: a week 10 game when they were not going to
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  Speaker 1: be making the playoffs. Of course, this was back when
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  Speaker 1: only two teams came out of the two way for
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  Speaker 1: Northwest conference. So it was really tough to get in there.
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  Speaker 1: I think it might've been three, four years ago, something
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  Speaker 1: like that. But yeah, so good to see that they
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  Speaker 1: were able to find an opponent matchup, get the game in.
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  Speaker 1: That'll be Thursday night at Mount Vernon. Coach, thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much for joining me on The Coach's Corner, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll be talking to you next week. All right. Great. Thanks, Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: Always great to talk to the coach, and yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think he'll be at the Ferndale game this upcoming weekend,
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  Speaker 1: so as the crossover games are starting now, so a
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  Speaker 1: lot more weighing on these games is the next game
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk about took place at Sid Lambert field out
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  Speaker 1: at Nooksack Valley high school, but Nooksack Valley did not
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  Speaker 1: play in this one. This was Meridian playing host to
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  Speaker 1: Mount Baker and, uh, the Mountaineers win 35 to 20.
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  Speaker 1: This was basically, uh, a game to see who's going
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  Speaker 1: to be second place in the conference in third place.
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  Speaker 1: Both teams already going to the round of 24 to
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  Speaker 1: play in the crossovers. Um, A lot weighing on this
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  Speaker 1: was probably seeding. You know, you're playing for seeding and
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to do some good things there. And it
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  Speaker 1: was a really close game right off the bat. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it was just kind of back and forth, back and
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  Speaker 1: forth as Mount Baker scored, then Meridian scored, then Mount
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  Speaker 1: Baker scored, then Meridian scored. And it kind of looked
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  Speaker 1: like it was going to be a 14-12 game at
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  Speaker 1: the half. But late in the first half after Meridian's
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  Speaker 1: second touchdown run by Trey Alexander, The ball is kicked off,
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  Speaker 1: and Knox Smith gets a good return on it, and
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  Speaker 1: a really, really strong return past the 50-yard line. And
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  Speaker 1: a few plays later, quarterback Tyson Barksdale was able to
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  Speaker 1: hit tight end Pepe McAvoy Salgado for a 40-yard touchdown pass,
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  Speaker 1: and that gave them the 21-12 lead at the half. Also,
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  Speaker 1: right before the first half, Trey Alexander was knocked out
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  Speaker 1: of the game for precautionary uh, things. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: the severity. I don't know if he'll be available next week. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I know he's okay. I know that, but, uh, as
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  Speaker 1: far as playing and stuff like that, uh, going forward,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure as he is, you know, obviously
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  Speaker 1: a big deal to what they do on offense. And
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  Speaker 1: the first half, he was 11 for 18 for 116 yards.
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  Speaker 1: He also had 40 yards on the ground and ran
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  Speaker 1: in two touchdowns. That was all before the injury in
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  Speaker 1: the first half. Um, and then Baker came out in
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  Speaker 1: the second half, scored the next two touchdowns on touchdown runs,
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  Speaker 1: and get a pretty big lead there, 35-12 lead. Meridian
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  Speaker 1: did score late on a 32-yard touchdown pass from Pierce
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  Speaker 1: Brzozowski to Trevin Crabtree, and the two-point conversion was good,
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  Speaker 1: and the final score was 35-20. Meridian did have a
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  Speaker 1: chance late to try to tack on another touchdown. They
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  Speaker 1: had a deep pass to Casey Brennan that got them
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  Speaker 1: to about the two or three yard line. And then
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  Speaker 1: on four plays, Mount Baker was able to stop the
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  Speaker 1: Meridian offense there, turn the ball over at the one
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  Speaker 1: inch line. And that was essentially your game at that point.
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  Speaker 1: Mount Baker ran the ball for 217 yards and passed
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  Speaker 1: for 81 yards. Andrew Monteith, 18 carries for 87 yards.
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  Speaker 1: Noah Nicole Mills, 10 carries for 52 yards. Gage Smith,
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  Speaker 1: five carries for 50 yards. Tyson Barksdale, 29 yards on
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  Speaker 1: Six carries through the air. Barchdale was three of seven
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  Speaker 1: for 81 yards. And McAvoy Salgado has the big target there.
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  Speaker 1: Two catches for 77 yards and the touchdown. And for Meridian,
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  Speaker 1: Alexander carried the ball for 40 yards, like I said earlier,
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  Speaker 1: which was half his team's rushing yards. Pierce Brzozowski, 21
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  Speaker 1: yards on the ground. Ethan Valich set 19 yards on
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  Speaker 1: the ground. Alexander, 11 of 18 for 116 yards through
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  Speaker 1: the air. And Pierce Brzozowski was 11 for 26 for
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  Speaker 1: 194 yards through the air. Casey Brennan hauled in seven
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  Speaker 1: passes for 120 yards. He has over 100 catches now
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  Speaker 1: in his career. I think he broke that mark last week.
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  Speaker 1: And I think there's only like 25, 26 players that
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  Speaker 1: have ever done that in Whatcom County history. And he's
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  Speaker 1: still moving up the charts now. If he can get
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  Speaker 1: up to 110 or so, 111, 115, somewhere in there,
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  Speaker 1: he's going to go pass some big time receivers all time.
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  Speaker 1: Lincoln Brzozowski, five catches for 77 yards. Pierce Brzozowski, three
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  Speaker 1: catches for 27 yards. Ethan Valich and Knox Gooden each
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  Speaker 1: had a couple of receptions as well. And yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it was a hard fought game, a lot of hard hitting, very,
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  Speaker 1: very extremely physical on defense. Ethan Valich led the Meridian
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  Speaker 1: defense with 14 tackles. He's just a tackling machine. There's,
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  Speaker 1: Anytime they play a run-heavy team, he just loads up
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  Speaker 1: on tackles, and he's very, very good at that. Ryan Wynn,
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  Speaker 1: playing with a club or a cast on one of
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  Speaker 1: his hands, still was able to get five-and-a-half tackles, and
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  Speaker 1: he forced a fumble as well. So good to see
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  Speaker 1: the senior get back out there and play a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: The defense for Mount Baker, led by Ramsey Mitchell, the
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  Speaker 1: defensive end. He had six tackles, two quarterback sacks, a
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  Speaker 1: tackle for loss, and multiple hurries as well. Also on defense,
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  Speaker 1: Silas Maple, six and a half tackles, a sack, a
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  Speaker 1: tackle for a loss. And then a lot of other
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  Speaker 1: guys just doing some good things. Noah Nicole Mills, four
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  Speaker 1: and a half tackles, an interception that he returned, I
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  Speaker 1: think like 35 yards. Zion Paglia, six and a half tackles,
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  Speaker 1: a pass broken up. Andrew Monteith, four tackles, a pass
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  Speaker 1: broken up and a fumble recovery. And Kel Reardon had
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  Speaker 1: five tackles, one and a half tackles for loss and
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  Speaker 1: a half a sack as well. So Really strong job there.
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  Speaker 1: Both teams going into the round of 24. And we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about their matchups and stuff like that in the
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  Speaker 1: next podcast. But big, big win for Mount Baker there. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Meridian was on a hot streak there. And
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  Speaker 1: they still played extremely well. But, yeah, it'll be interesting
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: to see what both teams do in the playoffs. Next up,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: out at Civic Stadium, Squalicum all over Bellingham 56-7. As
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: a matter of fact, it was 35-0 after the first
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: quarter as things just kept rolling for Squalicum over and
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: over again. They returned the opening kickoff 95 yards for
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: a touchdown. That was Maddox Strickland. And then I think
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: they forced a punt, and then Strickland ripped off a
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: 49-yard touchdown run. And then all of a sudden, Bellingham,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: I think, fumbled on the very next play from scrimmage.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Squalicum capitalizes. Tucker Hofstett runs in a two-yard touchdown run.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Then they get a hand on a blocked punt. And
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: that was Asher Osbjornsen who blocked the punt. And then
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: a few minutes, and then I think like three or
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: four plays later, Osbjornsen scored on a 28-yard touchdown run.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: And then they get a fumble recovery. Ball is stripped
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: by Brock Scamo, who also recovered the fumble earlier. Osbjornsen
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: returned the stripped ball and returned it pretty, you know,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: about 28 yards. Mason Sone scores on an eight-yard touchdown run.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: All of this happened in the first quarter. So it
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: was just everything that could happen for Squalicum did. They
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: had 35 points, and I don't even know how many
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: plays they'd ran on offense, probably less than 10. It
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: was just... constant, and they couldn't stop the firepower. It
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: was like they couldn't turn off the water on the
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: water faucet is basically what it was like. Bellingham in
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: the second quarter had possession. They moved the ball. They
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: got past the 50. Things were going well. And then
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Ray Hoffman intercepted a pass, went 77 yards. for the touchdown.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: That was a big pick six. And Asher Osbjornson also
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: ran in a 39-yard score just before halftime. So it
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: was 49-0 at the half. So you had the running
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: clock going in the second half. Bellingham continued to move
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: the ball. They just couldn't make any stops. There was
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: a fumble recovery by Calvin Van Hofwegen at one point.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Logan Huntley did score a touchdown run for Squalicum to
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: make it 56-0. And then the last play from scrimmage,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Ben Leonard hit Matthew Steele on a 75-yard touchdown pass.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: And that was the big play for Bellingham. You know,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Bellingham did throw for 233 yards. Ben Leonard, 23 of
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: 39 for 233. Lucius White, nine catches for 79 yards.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Matthew Steele, six catches for 116 yards. Calvin Van Hoffwing,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: five catches for 36 yards. So a lot of guys there,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: you know, catching the ball and moving the ball. But again,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: it didn't result in that many points. And then on defense,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: it was just really tough, tough to stop anybody. Asher
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Oz Bjornsson, 81 yards on the ground on just four carries.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Strickland had 45 yards on the ground on two carries.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Tucker Hofstadt, seven carries for 32 yards. Mason Sone, two
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: carries for 28 yards. A lot of backups getting some
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: carries as well. Phoenix Price, I think he only played
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: half the game at quarterback, only attempted two passes. Grady
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Smith came in the second half, was two for two
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: through the air. for 49 yards as Tucker Hofstadt and
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Elias Laranaga each had first down receptions. On defense, leading
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: the way for Squalicum was Brock Scammell, five and a
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: half tackles, a forced fumble, a fumble recovery. Those happened
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: on two separate plays. Like I said earlier, he was
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: also in on a half of a tackle for loss.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Asher Osbjornsen kind of all over the place, two tackles,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: a tackle for loss, an interception, a blocked punt. knocked
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: down a pass and had a fumble recovery that he
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: returned 28 yards. And then, like I said, Ray Hoffman
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: earlier had that pick six. So those were kind of
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: your main leaders on defense. For Bellingham, Silas McGurr, four tackles,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: a tackle for loss, and a forced fumble. And Calvin
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Van Hoffwagen, four tackles, and he recovered that fumble and
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: returned it four yards. Those were the main guys on
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: defense for Bellingham that had some good things going. Squalicum
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: with the win. They get into the round of 32,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: and we know their opponent. They will be on the
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: road at Eatonville. We'll talk about that in the next podcast.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Bellingham was able to find an opponent for Week 10,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: and we'll talk about that as well on the next
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: podcast as Squalicum beats Bellingham 56-7 in Week 9. Also
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: in Week 9, down Thursday night, this was a pretty
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: crazy game. I was there for the first half. as
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Lyndon Christian defeated Blaine 42-28. But Blaine was up 21-7
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: at one point, and LC, they flipped it in the
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: third quarter. They outscored Blaine 21-7 in the third to
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: make it a 28-28 game going into the fourth, where
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: LC scores a couple touchdowns and shut down Blaine. And
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: There was a lot of big plays in this game,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: a lot of emotional back and forth, a lot of
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: emotions on the field as far as just big things
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: that happened. Opening kickoff, much like the Squalicum-Bellingham game, the
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: opening kickoff was returned 95 yards for a touchdown. And
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: on both returns... The same thing happened where it wasn't
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: cleanly fielded, but they were able to finally get it
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: while the pursuit was, you know, you could say maybe
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: there was some over-pursuit in that play, and then the
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: guys took it off. Sehu Kanagi took it back 95 yards,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: and that was a huge play for the borderites to
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: get things going. Lyndon Christian was able to counter with
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: a nine-yard touchdown run by Kellen Blankers, and things where
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: you thought might go back and forth a little bit,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: LC gets a big first down on a diving catch
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: by Wyatt Camphouse. But on the very next play, Blankers
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: rolls to his right, tries to dump it off. Hunter
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Candenoza picks it off and goes 67 yards for a touchdown.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: And then he kicks the extra point to make it 14-7.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: And then after that, there were some fumbles and different things.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Blank gets the ball back again. They drive down and
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: they score another touchdown before halftime. Connor Brown hits Hunter
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Candenoza on a two-yard touchdown pass. and Blaine is up
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: 21-7 at the half, and so that just kind of
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: shows the parity in the Northwest Conference, especially the 1As,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: where Lyndon Christian has already clinched the top as the,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: you know, the number one team, and they're the conference champions,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: and Blaine couldn't do any better than fifth place out
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: of five teams, and they still came out and played
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: hard and took it to the links, and, you know,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: even Coach Terpstra said before the game, he He talked
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: about it on the podcast where he said, we know
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: how good Blaine is. We saw them at camp out
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: at Richland, and they can play with anybody. And he
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: sure wasn't wrong. They played with a lot of emotion,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: did some really good things. But in the second half,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Lynn and Christian came out. They drove right down. Justin Kiewik,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: who is not typically a running back, he ran really
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: hard in that second half, had a four-yard touchdown run
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: to make it a one-score game. Then Blaine was driving.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: but they are intercepted by Will McImer, the sophomore. He
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: goes 41 yards for the touchdown interception return, and that
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: tied the game and really swung that momentum back to
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Lyndon Christian. And then Lyndon Christian takes the lead on
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Kewick's second touchdown run of the game. Blaine then ties
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: it up again as Connor Brown hits Isaac Bauma on
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: a 12-yard touchdown pass, and they go into the fourth
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: quarter tied. But like I said earlier, the Lynx scored
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: two touchdowns in the fourth quarter. Jackson Yoon on an
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: 18-yard reception from Kellen Blankers and Justin Kiewik on a
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: 14-yard touchdown run. So that was Kiewik's third touchdown of
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: the half. He finished with 16 carries for 122 yards
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: to lead the way on the ground. Kellen Blankers, 14
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: of 20. for 140 yards. Wyatt Camphouse, nine catches for
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: 83 yards. Jackson Yoon, Caden Feldman, each had a couple
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: of receptions as well. For Blaine, Connor Brown on the ground,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: 16 carries for 34 yards leading the way there. Also
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: through the air, I should say, he was 14 of
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: 27 for 178 yards. Isaac Bauma, another huge game. You
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: look like his last three or four games, their numbers
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: are crazy. 11 catches for 157 yards. Hunter Cananoza had
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: two catches, including the touchdown. And, yeah, it was all
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Lyndon Christian in the second half, outscoring Blaine 35-7 to
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: eventually take the lead and the win. And on defense,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Lyndon Christian, led by Caden Veldman, last year's Northwest Conference,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: won a Defensive Player of the Year. He had six tackles,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: a quarterback sack, two passes broken up, and half a
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: tackle for loss. Will McImar with that pick six was
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: also huge. Gavin Van Lowe, he had an interception late
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: that really turned the tide. I think it was right
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: when Lyndon Christian had just gotten... They retook the lead
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, so that was a big momentum
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: stopper for them. He also had seven tackles. Trey Morlag,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: five and a half tackles, a tackle for loss, and
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: a forced fumble. He's becoming a really good blitzing safety
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: that teams are going to have to look out for. Yeah,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: so it was... It was a lot of really good things.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Justin Kiewik also five tackles, a tackle for loss. I
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: thought Dylan Haskell had a really good game, four tackles,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: a tackle for loss, and a forced fumble. So, yeah,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: the LC defense really, really stepped up, and they've been
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: doing a great job all year. Moses Hemnes also had
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: a fumble recovery. Blaine defense has also been great all year.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Axel Shelton, again, eight tackles, a tackle for loss, a
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: forced fumble, half a sack. Sehu Kanaji, huge game defensively,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: five tackles, two and a half tackles for loss, half
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: a sack there. Matt Campion, four and a half tackles,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: a tackle for loss. He had two fumble recoveries, which
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: is pretty huge. Freshman Dimitri Shavorak coming off the edge
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: with five tackles, two sacks, half a tackle for loss.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Leif Engen, who starts at center, he started all year.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: He played a lot more defense this past week, six
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: and a half tackles. He forced a fumble, had half
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: a sack as well. James loose six and a half
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: tackles with big, and then Hunter Canada knows it with
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: that pick six. So a lot of guys on that
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Blaine defense that did some really, really good things as well,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: but the links win and, uh, they, um, they are
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: going to the state playoffs while the, you know, the
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: round of 24 anyways, and Blaine, uh, will host Friday
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Harbor on Thursday. So that's where those two teams are
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: going next up. Um, is the final Thursday night game
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: that took place. This was Lyndon going on the road
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: to take on Archbishop Murphy. And it was all Wildcats early.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: They scored the first four touchdowns of the game. In fact,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: they were up 21, zero at the half. And, um,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: there was a long sustained drives. Um, they ran, they
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: had ran the ball or they ran the, well, they
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: ran the ball almost every play, but, uh, they ran first,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: they ran 60 plays, 58 of them on offense, but
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: they ran 60 plays total and to Linden's 34. So
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: it was a, it was time of possession and it was,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: you know, keeping the ball out of Linden's hands and,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: picking up first downs when they needed to. They ran
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: for 352 yards. Linden did score on a couple long
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: touchdowns in the second half. Dawson Van Dalen ripped off
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: a 62-yard touchdown run, and Gordie Bedlington found Lawson DeBoer
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: on a 65-yard touchdown pass. But those would be the
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: two big plays, and that would be that. Van Dalen
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: ends the game with 70 yards on the ground on
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: just six carries. Bedlington 5 of 11 through the air
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: for 120 yards. Sam Arango, two catches for 52 yards left.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: And DeBoer, Caden Brown, Austin Pease, and Van Dalen each
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: had one reception. But this was all Archbishop Murphy. And it's,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: you know, you have a feeling that they might meet
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: up again in the playoffs. We'll have to wait and see. But,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: you know, I really like Linden's chances if they meet
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: up again because that coaching staff will know exactly what
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: to expect this time around. And Archbishop will have three
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: weeks to game plan for a really good Linden team.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: when Linden had no clue who was going to be
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: available for Archbishop Murphy. So I think things will be
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: a little tighter in the playoffs. I'm not saying Linden's
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: going to win in the playoffs, but I think it'd
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: be a better game when they play in the playoffs.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: So if they play, we'll just have to wait and see.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: There's some other really good teams out there, obviously with
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: the Anacortes and Prosser and of course, number one ranked Tumwater. So,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: but both these teams going into the round of 32 defensively,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: I thought Landon Tolles made a good game, 12 tackles there.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Zach Dykstra, six and a half tackles, two tackles for loss.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Dawson Van Dalen, eight and a half tackles, half a
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: tackle for loss coming downhill from his safety spot. And
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Adam Holman, seven and a half tackles as well. You
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: know against that kind of offense, those guys in the
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: middle of the field will have big games, the linebackers,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: the nose tackle, stuff like that. And then Van Dalen,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: a converted linebacker playing safety now, so that kind of
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: bodes well for him being able to support in the
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: run game A lot of times going against a wing
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: T team, you'll kind of move up another safety, be
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: like that fourth linebacker. And that's kind of where he
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: was able to help out there. But Archbishop Murphy does
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: pick up the win. And like I said, both teams
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: going into the round of 32. Next up, Ferndale was
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: at home, I should say, hosting Oak Harbor. This was
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: on Friday night. And this was basically a playing game
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: where you had to play your way into the round
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: of 32. And it was all Golden Eagles. They did
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: allow one big play in the first quarter, a 90-yard
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: touchdown run. But other than that, it was just the
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: ground and pound, the really strong Ferndale offense that you
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: become accustomed to. Elliott Lenson, another huge game, 25 carries
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: for 268 yards and five touchdowns. and he is getting
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: closer to that 2,000-yard mark for the season for Ferndale.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Only a few players have done that. Of course, Matthias
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Wilson did it. He broke the state record when he
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: did it back in 1997, and a few years prior
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: to that, Ash Perrin, his cousin, was the first player
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: in Whatcom County history to rush for over 2,000 yards
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: in a season, and Elliot Linson now on the cusp. So,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: pretty impressive there. Wyatt Broyles also 17 carries for 152 yards,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: big game for him. And late in the game, Bobby
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Kelly was able to run in, get a touchdown run there. And,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: and it was, they knew what they needed to do
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: against Oak Harbor. I think last time when they played,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: it was something like 22 to six, something like that.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: And they turned the ball over four times, twice at
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: the one yard line. So they, You know, it was
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: just they needed to finish drives and take care of business,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: and that's exactly what they did. Oak Harbor did score
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: a touchdown extremely late. I think it was the last
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: play of the game when there was already a running clock,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: and so they didn't even attempt the point afterwards because
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: it was just, you know, there's no point in it.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Elliott Lenson, obviously the big game on offense, but he
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: did a great job on defense as well. Five tackles,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: a tackle for loss, forced fumble, and a pass broken up.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Brock Hoik as well had a couple stops behind the
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. Jacob Lindsay had the big quarterback sack
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: and a huge play early on in the game that
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: kind of set the tone. And the Golden Eagles are
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: going into the round of 32 now where they'll host
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Liberty of Renton at 7 o'clock on Friday. And we'll
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: be talking about that matchup as we get closer to
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: that time in the next podcast, I should say. And
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: the final game to talk about that took place, this
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: was Friday night crossover game. Nothing really on the line.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Nooksack Valley went on the road and beat Marysville Pilchuck
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: 21-7 and dominated in total yards and everything. But, you know,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: it was 7-7 going into the fourth quarter. So it
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: was kind of an interesting game as far as that goes.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: The scoreboard wasn't really telling the story. There were a
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: lot of plays. And, you know, I was joking with
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Jim Bring when we were doing the show on Friday
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: that every time Marysville Pilchuck would throw it deep, they
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: would just, you know, they would get 15 yards out
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: of it with a pass interference or something. And I
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: think that happened four or five times. And, um, but
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: there was, you know, Nookside Valley wasn't helping themselves out either.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: There were, there was a time where they threw one
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: into the end zone early. It was intercepted. Uh, there
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: was another, there was a second interception that Pilchuk returned
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: to about the five yard line. That's how they scored
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: their touchdown. So, um, so, you know, and, and the
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: pioneers were without a few key players, but, uh, they
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: still get the job done, um, winning 21-7. Trey Hutink,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: 13 carries for 109 yards and a touchdown. Max Lautenbach
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: on his final varsity game doesn't play much offense, but
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: he carried the ball one time. He got 38 yards
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: out of it. Lucas Woodrich carried more than usual, which
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: was kind of nice to see. He's been very much
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: a pocket passer, not much of a runner, but he
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: had four carries for 24 yards and a touchdown. Trevick McMillan,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: a He had what you call in the stat sheet
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: a 20-yard carry, but when you watch the play, it
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: was on fourth down, and it was a well-designed play.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Trevick McMillan, the big 6'4, 225-pound left tackle, went way
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: back like he's in pass coverage, goes behind the quarterback, Woodridge,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: who was rolling to his right, and then turns around
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: and throws it across the field, and it's a lateral
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: to McMillan, so he's eligible to catch that. And he
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  Speaker 1: took it 20 yards and had to get through some
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  Speaker 1: guys to get a first down in a key play.
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  Speaker 1: And that set up the first touchdown of the game.
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  Speaker 1: So that was kind of cool to see Eli King,
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  Speaker 1: two carries for 15 yards. And really cool to see
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  Speaker 1: Brady Ackerman line up at, took the snap from center
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  Speaker 1: on the last offensive play of the game for the
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  Speaker 1: Pioneers and ran in for a touchdown. Or I'm sorry,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: not Brady Ackerman, Dane Ackerman. I apologize. Did you imagine
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Brady Ackerman at quarterback? But really cool to see that
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  Speaker 1: for Dane. Finishes his career with a touchdown. Looks like Valley,
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  Speaker 1: you know, doing it the classy way there. Lucas Woodridge,
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  Speaker 1: 10 of 20 through the air for 112 yards and
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  Speaker 1: two interceptions. But like I said, those ones earlier were
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  Speaker 1: both pretty costly, kind of kept Pilchuck in the game.
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  Speaker 1: Receiving A.J. Woodridge, three catches for 48 yards. Ackerman, three
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  Speaker 1: catches for 27 yards. Ty Barron's two catches for 23 yards.
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  Speaker 1: And then Tyler Martin and Trey Hutink each had a
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  Speaker 1: reception as well. On the defensive side of the ball,
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  Speaker 1: Silas Tierna, I thought a really good game, five and
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  Speaker 1: a half tackles and a sack. Max Lautenbach, always a
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  Speaker 1: great game watching him. Four tackles, a tackle for loss,
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  Speaker 1: a pass broken up. Evan Laerle had two tackles, two
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  Speaker 1: passes broken up, and he also intercepted his fourth pass
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  Speaker 1: on the year. And then Eli King had seven tackles
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  Speaker 1: to lead the team. So Great overall game, a great
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  Speaker 1: season by the Pioneers who finished 6-3. And, of course,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: they cannot find a Week 10 crossover because that's usually
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: the case. Because, you know, teams that don't make the playoffs,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: that don't make the play-in to get to the playoffs, they're,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: you know, usually it's been a horrible season. They're way below. 500.
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  Speaker 1: Guys don't want to, you know, they don't want to
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  Speaker 1: practice for another week. Meanwhile, the Pioneers are sitting there
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  Speaker 1: 6-3 going, we'll play anybody. And everybody said no. So
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: that's too bad. And I know that they have to
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: look at it and go, well, we have to be
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: better in the conference. But, boy, they played everybody tough.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes that's just the way that it goes. And
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: there needs to be an at-large thing because when there's
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: teams getting in that are 2-7 and have fired their
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: coach and they're getting into this playoff, and Nooksack Valley
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  Speaker 1: is not, that's when you need to, you know, relook
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: everything and say, okay, maybe let's just take the conference champions, period,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: maybe the second place team, and everything else is at large.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: You know, something like that. You've got to get the
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: best 24 in there. If you're going to do 24,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: get the best 24. And if you want to say
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: that Nooksack Valley, who was ranked top 10 in the
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: state all year, is not one of the best 24s, then,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: you know, you have to look yourself in the mirror
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  Speaker 1: and deal with that because it's a pity. That's what
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Meridian had to deal with last year. Meridian went 7-3
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  Speaker 1: last year with multiple wins over teams that won playoff games. That's,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: you know, that's just, it just sucks. you know. And
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Nooksack Valley, you look at Kings. I mean, Kings deserves
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: to be in the state playoffs, no doubt. They only
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: had one loss all year. They definitely deserve to be in.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Their one loss was a 30-point loss at home to
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Nooksack Valley. It's stuff like that. So you've got to
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: get the best 24 in there. I don't care how
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: you do it. You're smarter than I am. You make
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: way more money. You guys figure it out. So anyways,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: I'll get off my soapbox that makes me almost six
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  Speaker 1: feet tall, and we will talk about the players of
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: the week. And the offensive player of the week is
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  Speaker 1: do the very same. the Walton beverage offensive player of
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: the week is Ferndale senior Elliot Lenson, 25 carries for
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: 268 yards and five touchdowns. You know, out of all
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: of these games, um, the one that mattered the most,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: if you want to say it was really that Ferndale game. Um,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: all of the other teams, they knew that, uh, win
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: or lose. They were probably, you know, they knew if
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: they were going to be in the, uh, playoffs or not. And, um,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: And so maybe, I guess Squalicum needed to win, but
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: I think even though they were still right there. But
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Ferndale had to. Ferndale had to. If they weren't going to,
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: that was that. And so for them to put that
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: performance in Elliot Lenson, with that performance, he is the
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• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Like if you look at the statistics for these defensive guys,
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: there were some pick sixes, but a lot of those
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: guys that had picked sixes didn't have a ton of
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: tackles or, you know, other stuff that happened. So there
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: was actually, yeah, there was three defensive touchdowns, um, And
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: there was really good performances even in teams that did
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: not have wins. You know, you're looking at like what
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Ethan Valich did or Axel Shelton did or Sehu Kanagi,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Matt Campion. But, you know, I rarely give it to
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: a team that didn't win unless they just had an amazing, amazing,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: you know, groundbreaking type of performance. but I'm giving this
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: one to Ramsey Mitchell of Mount Baker because there was
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: some times when he had a couple of quarterback sacks
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: and they came at really timely moments. He had another
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: tackle for loss, six total tackles. I didn't keep track of,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: I don't, I never keep track of hurries and that
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: can be a pretty important stat. I thought he did
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: a great job there as well. So Ramsey Mitchell of
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Mount Baker, congratulations. You're the Kirk Mayberry farm defensive player
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  Speaker 1: of the week. also we have this special teams player
• 42:36
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  Speaker 1: real estate.com. And, uh, there was a few, there's some
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: few big ones here. And, uh, I was looking at
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: Elias Laranaga once again, because not only was he eight
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: for eight on extra points, but he had a great
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: punt that was down inside the 10 yard line. Um,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: And he had touchbacks on kickoffs. He did a great job.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: But I'm going with his teammate. I'm going with Maddox Strickland.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: Starting out the game with a 95-yard kickoff return really
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: set the tone that was returned for a touchdown. And
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: they just kind of opened the floodgates from there. I
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: know Sehu Kanaji did the same thing in that game.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: But Elsie was able to right the ship and get
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: the win there. Bellingham was not. So I'm giving this
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: one to Maddox Strickland. Congratulations. You are the Pets for
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  Speaker 1: Real Estate Special Teams Player of the Week. And finally,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: it's the Offensive Lineman of the Week, which is brought
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, they are a fantastic company that's been with
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  Speaker 1: great thing. And I am giving this one, the Anytime
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  Speaker 1: Fitness Offensive Lineman of the Week, to Trevick McMillan. You know,
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: he did a great job all year, but then they
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: call your number, get you the ball, and you pick
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: up 20 yards on a fourth down play. Got to
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: love that. So congratulations to the senior left tackle of
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Nooksack Valley, Trevick McMillan. He is your Anytime Fitness Offensive
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  Speaker 1: on the Whatcom Preps podcast. This has been episode number 465,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: the Week 9 Football Recap. I am Tyler Anderson of
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Whatcom Preps, and I will talk to you in a
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: couple of days.