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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 204 - Week 8 Recap · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  This is Lyndon Christian linebacker Tredy Bossman, and you're listening to a Walk and
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  Press podcast with Tyler and Ryland. Go links. Greetings and welcome into the
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  Watcome Preps podcast. This is episode at two zero four, a recap of
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  week eight. I'm Ryland Spencer all along with me as always Tyler Anderson of
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  What Come Preps. Tyler, how are we doing doing good? Oh man,
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  what a weekend it was. And uh, small amount of games,
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  but some really good ones to talk about here. Yeah, just looking at
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  the box s course a little bit, and uh, we're gonna have some
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  fun tonight. We're gonna seriously have some fun tonight here because there's a lot
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  of stuff that went on and you were out at two games. We had
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  coached wood for Coach's corner. He was out of a game, and we've
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  got the pick ems where we almost all went, you know, undefeated this
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  week. I mean, it was a very good week in the pick'ms.
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  And then we've got the players of the week and we also have the fantasy
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  So we got a lot of stuff to talk about here, Tyler. But
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  before we get going too far, we need to give a thank you to
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  the intro today, it was Trey Big Bosman, right boss Man, boss
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  Man, Big boss Man, I don't even know. Yeah, Trey Bosman
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  from LC is. We had another great week defensively. I keep going back
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  to the beginning of the season where he's he sent me a message I know
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  where this said, I love the preview, but I'm going to be the
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  breakout player this year. Hey, and I love that kind of competence and
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  attitude. And I even told him, I was like, that's awesome,
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  man, just go do it. And yeah, we'll talk about him a
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  little bit coming up in the game he was in. But thanks again to
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  Trey Bosman for the intro. Tell me this title. Who was your breakout
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  player for them? It was Mick Owen, who's done a really good job
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  out at corner, and I guess I thought he was going to be used
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  a little bit more offensively, but but he, you know, he's there's
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  so many weapons that they have offensively, he just hasn't gotten into that rotation.
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  But he started all year at corner, and I, you know,
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  I'm pretty happy with who I chose. But Trey Bosman's having one of those
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  all conference type seasons at linebacker. Good for him. That was not snarky
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  either. Good for him. Good for him. Guy like, yeah,
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  hey, I wouldn't need to give it thanks to Kurt Mayberry Farm Kurt Mayberry
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  Farm dot com, fourth generation, family owned and operated berry farm committed to
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  growing the highest quality berries strawberries, blueberries, or raspberries. Tyler, I
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  had a piece of blueberry cheesecake the other night. Oh nice, oh baby,
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  Let me tell you was that good? Or you know the blueberries were
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  good. I just love cheesecake, I really do. I don't know what
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  it is. I love me some cheesecake. It's just and all the amount
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  of cheesecake in the world that's dedicated towards me you can have because I am
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  not a cheesecake fan. I believe we talked about this a little bit.
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  Maybe I don't know, but I'm really excited about that. If you ever
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  get one, just let me know, yeah, you got it. So
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  anybody wanting to help out with the show, Tyler would love some cheesecakes just
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  shipped right on to Kirk. Yeah, and if you could put them in
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  a container that you know has like some what is it like dry ice or
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  something or I don't even know how you keep stuff cold. I don't even
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  know what it is, but I used to know from shipping chocolate for fourteen
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  years. But I've kind of put that behind me. I mean, but
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  you know, you got to make sure chocolate doesn't melt. Yeah, yeah,
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  but you still know how to do it. Yeah, but I'm trying
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  to put that in the past, you know. I mean, you're not
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  that busy. I could give you my address. Let's see here, Tyler.
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  We've got a lot of stuff to talk about, as I mentioned earlier,
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  but we want to start with what we always start with now, and
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  that is what did we learn this week? And you know what, before
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  we go into that really quickly, Tyler, if somebody wants to sponsor anything
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  having to do maybe they want to sponsor what did we learn? It's a
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  new segment here what did we learn? And you know what, I'll just
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  say it right now, We're going to do a what did we learn later
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  on with coach would So maybe somebody wants to sponsor that, they want to
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  do it, how do they do it? Well, they get a hold
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  of me through social media. That's the best way. That's either through Facebook,
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  Instagram, or Twitter. Just look for Walkome preps on all three.
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  That is by far the easiest way. If you're not on social media,
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  then what are you doing? No? Then you can email me at mister
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  mohawk at hotmail dot com. It's mister spelled out m I S T E
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  R underscore mohawk mhawk at hotmail dot com. Those would be the easiest ways.
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  So Tyler, let's talk about it. What did we learn this week?
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  And we'll start with you this week? What did what did Tyler Anderson
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  learn? Well? I learned to never pick against my alma mater on homecoming
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  against their big rival, especially if I'm going to be at the game.
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  That's a that was uh, you know, I I learned the hard way
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  after the game when when when when coach left found me and it was reminiscent
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  because it was it was like twenty years ago when I did the same thing
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  and I picked against them, picked against Baker when I was working for the
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  Herald and we used to do a pick them and and and this was like
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  two weeks later that I went to a Baker game and he still gave me
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  a hard time about it, but no, it was, uh, that's
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  that's definitely what I learned. Myself, Tyler. Yeah, I learned that
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  when needed, Nolan Wright has got a little Josh Kraft in him and he
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  can take over a game. That's what I learned because this young man,
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  and we'll talk about it later with Coach would because he was out there at
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  the See Home Squalicum game. This young man is really I mean, Tyler,
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  we're talking about a sophomore, right, Yeah, he's starting to put
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  his mark, you know what I mean. Like we've seen it this year.
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  The improvements from freshman to sophomore year have been tremendous. Yeah. Now,
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  obviously, you know, maybe state championships don't end up being there.
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  But when you start talking about who this kid is as an athlete, as
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  a player, maybe even as a leader, I think you start talking about
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  Josh Kraft in Now. Maybe the numbers aren't the same, right, but
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  it's the same type of a player where I don't know that his future is
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  at quarterback, but I'll tell you what his future is in college football if
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  he wants it. That's what I'm saying. I learned that for sure this
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  week. Yeah, he's a great, great kid, and I agree with
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  you, Tyler. You got another one. You got another one for me.
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  What do you got anything? Yeah, well, I learned that the
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  local games on the radio use a pre recorded segment just as the first half
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  ends that says, and now we go to halftime, let's take a look
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  at the nwc athletics scoreboards. So maybe I should stop texting the guys in
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  the booth all the scoring updates until that little clip gets changed, because into
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  the nwc Athletic scoreboard. But their gift. But they're getting the picks from
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  me, or they're getting the scores for me, then something needs to be
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  a little different there. So I learned that this weekend, I didn't know
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  that that they were getting their scores from the nwc Athletic scoreboard, which is
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  not updated usually at that point during halftime. I'm the one definitely not updated.
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  So I you know, I got a little, uh get some conversations
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  to be had, a little a little bone to pick in the all what
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  have we learned this week? We learned we got a bone to pick?
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  Or you do not me so much on Friday nights, I'm a little bit
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  more busy to pick bones, if you will. But yeah, yeah,
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  interesting, interesting, Uh yeah, well hey that's three bones this week.
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  Oh wait, no, three? What did we learn? One bone?
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  We will have it again next week and again if you'd like to sponsor,
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  just reach out to Tyler. He'll take care of you. And actually,
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  you know what, we'll have another one later in the show with Coach Wood.
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  So that's going to be something new every week we'll get a little what
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  did we learn from Coach would Actually he doesn't even know it. I'm just
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  gonna throw it at him here in the in the show this week. So,
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  Tyler, we have what do we have? Six games? All?
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  On Friday? You were out at Lynden Christian Blaine and then you made your
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  way over to Mount Baker and Meridian where Ron Lepper from Mount Baker High School
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  accosted you after the game. We'll talk about that. And then, yeah,
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  as mentioned earlier, coach what was that at Sea home? Squall comes
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  and we'll get his take on that game. But Tyler, let's start with
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  the Lennon Christian Blaine game at Lyndon Christian and it's a forty eight fourteen win
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  for the Links. They stay undefeated in league play and moved to six and
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  two overall. Tyler, what'd you see out there? Yeah, it's kind
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  of you know, what you expect is a tough one for Blaine. I
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  went out there, walked over to the Blaine sideline, and you know,
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  you see Riley Id and Hunter Vazzetti and their leather letterman's jackets and and you
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  know and leg braces and stuff, and it's like, oh boy, that's
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  that's it's tough. You know, you got your two best guys, skill
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  guys anyways that are out, so you know, you start off with that,
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  and that's a really tough, tall task and and uh but you know
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  they they play hard and and Lenny Christian is just is just too big,
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  too fast, too physical, you know. And and right off the bat,
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  Lenny Christian, you know, scores a couple of touchdowns, uh you
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  know, probably fifty seconds apart from each other. The first the first touchdown
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  was a seventeen yard haulis Owen run off the left end. And then the
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  kickoff right after that. Don't think it was designed this way, but Jacob
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  Penner kicked a line drive that hid an up man and went right back to
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  Penner who just caught it and fell on it, and so boom, Lelsey's
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  got the ball right away again. Score a couple of plays later, Jeremiah
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  Wright runs went in from forty seven yards and it just continued. In the
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  second quarter. Three more touchdowns, you know, one was a passed to
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  Kitten Stite on a slant, but Jeremiah Wright had his second touchdown of the
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  game. And then right before half, uh Blaine goes back to punt.
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  Matthew Hayes's back to punt and it gets blocked by mister intro Trey Bosman and
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  he gets picked up by Leve Levi to Coosta who gets stopped about the three
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  yard line. And then I thought this was beautifully done by the Links coaching
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  staff to reward Da Costa, who just plays nose tackle, doesn't play hardly
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  any I mean, I haven't seen him line up on offense all year.
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  They leave him in there at running back and he scores the next play on
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  a three yard touchdown run. He's not your normal nose tackle. Put it
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  that way. He is runny no who did score his Shah touchdowns honestly,
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  but but no Levi di Costa that you know, Elsie likes to get those
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  little guys and was tackle and just cause havoc and so it was real a
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  senior get a scores farsty touchdown. That was right before the half ended.
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  Thirty five zero coming right out, you know, Els scores right away,
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  this time a sixty two yard touchdown run by Jeremiah Wright, which triggered the
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  running clock. El Blaine gets the ball back you know, a snap kind
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  of gets mishandled near the goal line and Jeremiah Wright picks it up and scores.
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  This was This comes one play after Wright sacked Colin Davis. Jeremy Wright
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  had one of these freaky overall games. I mean, he scored. He
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  ran the ball three times and scored three touchdowns. He also threw a touchdown
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  pass, scored, went on defense, had three sacks, forced to fumble
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  on a different play which was another sack. It was. It was really
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  a not a coming out party, obviously because Jeremy Wright's been doing some good
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  things for a while. But it was probably his best overall game. Which
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  was pretty cool because I was standing on the LC sideline at one point in
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  the second quarter next to a guy from Idaho Football who I believe was there
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  to watch him, so so that was kind of neat good for him.
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  It was also the helicopter did not show. But there was tons of people
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  from the Sheriff's office to police, you know, border patrol, all sorts
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  of things. And and I missed this because I left before halftime, but
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  I evidently they all went out there and did a punt pass kick competition,
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  all these different people from armed forces. And I saw Dante Alexander, who
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  was a great player at Lyndon years ago, and Anthony Reese who was a
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  great player at Niksac years ago. I saw these these guys out there,
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  which was really cool to see. You know, they were warming up in
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  the second quarter, throwing passes on the sideline, kind of getting kind of
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  getting ready, and you know, they had the cop cars all lined up
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  and they would throw the sirens on after a touchdown and it made for a
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  really fun environment. Blaine was able to get a couple of touchdown. One
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  was actually was in the third quarter on a fourth down play from Colin Davis
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  who dropped back to pass, scrambled a little bit. He can move really
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  well. You saw him on that big fifty yard run to open up the
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  game down to Cedar Park Christian. But he you know, he scooted out
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  there and scored on a twenty three yard touchdown run. He's got some pretty
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  good wheels, and then they passed to Justin Minoirrez on a kind of a
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  ten yard hitch that Minoir has made the rest, you know, the other
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  fifty yards up on his own, spreading away from everybody. But you know,
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  a tough one for Blaye. It knocks them out of playoffs. Lynn
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  and Christian very much in control of their fate right now, being the only
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  undefeated team in the one A Northwest Conference, and they'll have a big matchup
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  coming up next week. Blaine two hundred and twenty one yards of offense,
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  Lynn and Christian just two hundred and eighty one. But I mean, when
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  you look at it, it's kind of easy to figure out why a couple
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  of short fields. You know, I FuMB overturn, three yard run,
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  two yard run. I mean, you know, some some big n numbers
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  in terms of scoring, but you know, two hundred and eighty one yards
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  when you consider they put up forty eight points. Some people look at that
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  and go, wow, what the heck is going on there? But Jeremiah
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  Wright, it's interesting you mentioned Tyler because and I haven't admitted actually I haven't
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  looked ahead to see who the players of the week are. But it's almost
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  one of those things where you know, sometimes there's guys that maybe have a
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  huge game, but they don't win a player of the week, you know
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  what I mean. But if there was like ever a overall player of the
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  week, like if we ever did something like that, it sounds like this
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  is the type of game I mean, this sounds like one of those games
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  where you know, they say, ah, he does a little bit of
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  everything. No, he did a lot of everything, because he's got some
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  numbers just absolutely impressive here. But let's take a look at some of the
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  individual numbers here. Jade and Pias thirteen carries for forty yards, leading Blaine
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  in rushing, and then on the Lennon Christians side, Jeremiah Wright just three
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  carries one hundred and eleven yards rushing, Hollis Owen eight care for forty Jeremiah
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  Wright also had three rushing touchdowns on the game, and then the one fumble
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  return as well through the air Jeremiah Right eight of fourteen ninety four yards and
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  did he have a touchdown past one? Was it good? Yes? Yeah?
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  Just oh yeah, okay. There to Caden's site from thirty four yards
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  out site on the game, three catches for fifty eight yards, Jesse Deming
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  four catches for fifty eight leading the way for Blaine. Yeah, I mean
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  just kind of a I mean, I don't know how you say it,
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  kind of a just you know, a nice solid win for Lennon Christian.
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  Like it's what you should do to a team like Blaine. No offense to
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  Blaine, but that's what you should do if you're Lynnen Christian and you get
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  out of there, and you know, you hope your injury free, because
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  you got a big one this week, as Tyler mentioned, and we'll talk
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  about it on the podcast. If you're subscribed, you can get that on
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  Wednesday. If not, there are some Thursday games this week, I believe,
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  including the game that we're going to talk about between lynn Christian amount Baker,
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  but that would be yeah, Wednesday, if you're subscribed to the podcast
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  Thursday. If you are not, so be sure to subscribe. Blaine falls
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  to two and six on the season, one and two in Northwest Conference play,
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  Lennon Christian six and two overall. They are three and oh in Northwest
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  Conference play down at Lakewood also on Friday that I was just going to really
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  quickly just what's that? What's that? Also, Trey Bosman, I have
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  to say this earlier in the year. I want to say, I'm trying
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  to remember which game it was. I think it was the Bellevue Christian game
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  where he had two pick six's and it sounds like a Bellevue Christian thing.
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  Yeah, and in this game he had two interceptions, both of them almost
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  went for touchdowns as well. You talked about those short fields and stuff like
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  that. He had two interceptions I believe returned a total of ninety nine yards.
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  Oh my man. One was a returned to like the twenty and the
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  other one was returned to about four. So he had a couple. I
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  mean, that would have been something if he would have been able to score
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  both those. That four defensive touchdowns in one season. I don't know if
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  that's ever happened in Walkin County in a season. I know there's been three.
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  Well, no, Javenski schlam Baker scored four defensive touchdowns in his senior
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  year, so so it has happened, I guess. But but hey,
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  Trey Bosman, another great week, and thanks again for the intro. Yeah,
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  I mean, decent time to get him for the intro. Yeah,
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  yeah, good work on that one there, Tyler. Let's see here,
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  where were we? Oh yeah, Linden Lakewood. Linden went down to Lakewood.
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  What do they consider that? It's like Smoky Point LT. Arlington.
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  I think it's an Arlington address, but I think they actually call it North
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  Lakewood. I don't know. All I know is they've got some really good
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  food right there off the freeway, which shouldn't surprise you that I know that,
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  right right. But yeah, Linden fifty to two win over Lakewood in
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  a game that was over pretty early when you look at the stats in the
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  numbers here, forty to nothing at halftime, Tyler. So always nice to
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  start the second half with a running clock. Yeah, you know, I
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  mentioned in the story after the first quarter it was, you know, Linden
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  had twenty six points and Lakewood had negative two yards. So it was it
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  was very evident right off the bat Lynden did not look rusty at all,
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  and after not playing last week, and and so they came right out,
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  drove right down the field. That touchdown pass from Brent Hepner to Isaiah Audman.
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  I mean it was, you know, Branch just rolling out to his
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  right. He could have ran for a first down probably, but he decided
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  to throw it and it was an Audman made a break to the out like
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  to the kind of the corner as soon as it happened, and it was
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  just like they've been doing this forever and it made it for an easy touchdown.
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  Right after that, they get the ball back again and it was a
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  It was a more methodical drive the second time. Took up most of the
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  first quarter, but Max Aussink scored from eight yards out and then right after
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  that Audman had a strip sack on the Lakewood quarterback. The ball bounces right
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  into Charlie Ayres' hands, who picks up rumbels twenty twenty one yards for a
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  touchdown. So I was like that was that third one was was quite quick
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  and u and then Cooper Moore catching the ten yard pass from Hepner to end
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  the first quarter. It was just kind of boom boom, boom boom.
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  There was a play in the second quarter when Hepner threw a deep pass to
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  Danny Danny Bowler down the left sideline that gained a big chunk of yards.
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  But as I'm watching the film, it looked like, you know, where
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  they were where he was tackled and where they started. The next play was
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  another fifth was another fifteen yards, and so I thought, Okay, there
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  must have been some sort of personal foul or something that happened. And I'm
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  I'm wondering if it was roughing the quarterback because I couldn't really tell from the
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  film, but I think Hepner may have taken a shot because he wasn't in
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  there. The rest of that drive they put in, they put in Charlie
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  Ayres and they just did like power, you know, they just went Cade
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  Slayton offense, you know, yeah, and double tight, two running backs,
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  shotgun and and just everybody in the middle and just have Charlie Ayers pound
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  it three three runs later, he scores a touchdown. Hepner does come back
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  in again, back into the game again, throws a thirty yard touchdown pass
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  and and Malachi Canan kicking a forty yard field goal for his first field goal
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  at the varsity level. Was quite impressive. That was done in the fourth
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  quarter by Lindon. Lakewood scored a you know, they got a lot of
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  passing yards, but that most of that was I think they had eighty passing
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  yards on their final drive against backup players, and so that was a big,
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  big chunk of it. But Linden looked really good. And Ill,
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  I know you're gonna go over the stats, but I want to talk about
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  Max Austinc really quickly. You know, he's a guy who is as a
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  sophomore, was not a starting running back. I think he was the third
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  string running back and he has proved himself these last couple of weeks and he's
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  really played well. He has a big game here, a career game,
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  has a bulk of the carries, twenty six carries. The only two carries
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  that Heppner had was the neel downs and and that that was I think at
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  the end of the first half. It wasn't even at the end of the
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  game. And uh so Hepner, you know, they were they were wanting
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  to give the ball to Austinc. And I've never seen a game where a
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  guy ran for as many yards and never had a run of double digit yards
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  yardage. Wow, that's really hard to do. It is really hard.
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  But I tell you, I don't think he had one under three or four
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  either. It was like every carry was between five and nine yards. And
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  they were. It was just great. It's perfect for that Linden offense.
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  You know, it's just staying on the field, and they found something that
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  was working. And I really really really like him as a running back and
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  just a sophomore too. Lindon has had some really good sophomore running backs that
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  you know, develop into these three year starters that become these great players.
• 21:55
  And I think of TJ. Bush right right away. He's their all time
• 21:57
  leading rusher, and and you know, Ben Wall and all these guys,
• 22:03
  and I think that he's going to be a really really good player. And
• 22:07
  I just loved what they did. And again defensively, you know, Jlavier's
• 22:14
  Avalla came back. He's missed a few games, he had a couple of
• 22:15
  sacks, Kuyper Austin had a sack, Isaiah Audman had that strip sack that
• 22:21
  landed right in the hands of Charlie Charlie Errs. They're just so opportunistic,
• 22:25
  they know what they're doing, they're well coached, and and they got the
• 22:27
  big win on the road. So Tyler, one thing I noticed here.
• 22:32
  You said, Brant Hepner took a couple of knees and you put zero yards.
• 22:37
  Is that you just don't count? Yeah, I just yeah, I
• 22:41
  usually just put zero. Yeah, yeah, I don't blame you. I've
• 22:44
  always thought it was like not exactly fair, but also at the same time,
• 22:48
  it's like kind of who cares. But I bring that up because I
• 22:51
  just wanted to mention this. I saw a tweet a little bit ago,
• 22:53
  and it says a sports better would have won twelve hundred dollars if Jalen Hurts
• 22:57
  hadn't kneeled the ball out three straight times to go under twenty five yards rushing.
• 23:03
  Yeah, so he had, Like I mean, they don't show the
• 23:06
  whole thing, at at least I can't see it. But it's like aj
• 23:07
  browne hundred over one hundred yards, Tyreek Hill over eighty, Raheem Mostert over
• 23:12
  forty rushing yards, Jalen Hurts over twenty five rushing yards, and with those
• 23:17
  three nil downs he went under twenty five and finished at twenty one. I
• 23:22
  mean, talk about your all time bad beats. My goodness, that's brutal.
• 23:26
  Lyndon three hundred and sixty six yards of offense two hundred and thirty nine
• 23:30
  from Lakewood just kind of threw the numbers really quickly. You mentioned Max Austink
• 23:34
  twenty six carries, one hundred and twenty nine yards and two touchdowns. Let's
• 23:41
  see here, Brent Heppner twelve of eighteen for one at ninety four through the
• 23:45
  air, and I see one, two, three touchdown passes. I believe.
• 23:49
  Yeah. And then let's see and you mentioned oh no, yeah,
• 23:56
  you mentioned Danny Buller. We didn't mention his number. So six catches for
• 23:59
  one hundred and two yards and somehow doesn't score a touchdown. One of the
• 24:02
  craziest things I've ever seen. Let's see here, Brady Elsner three catches forty
• 24:08
  seven yards, and you mentioned Cooper Moore did have a touchdown of ten yards.
• 24:14
  He finished the night with two catches for ten yards. Isaiah Audman one
• 24:17
  catch for thirty five. Yeah. I mean, just a good all around
• 24:21
  efficient win for Lindon fifty to twelve. With the win, the Lions go
• 24:25
  to seven to one on the season, six and oher in Northwest Conference play
• 24:29
  Lakewood two and five. They are now one in four in Northwest Conference play.
• 24:33
  And again, subscribe to the podcast because we're going to talk about Lindon's
• 24:36
  big game this week on the Preview podcast for week nine, so be sure
• 24:41
  to subscribe. Ferndale at Home thirty four to seven over Stanwood. Yeah,
• 24:47
  Tyler, I mean this is a game that you know, when you look
• 24:51
  at it from you know, a statistical standpoint, it looks like total dominance.
• 24:55
  I mean it really does. Connor Walker, Connor Walker, Connor Walker.
• 24:59
  I mean this this guy just had himself quite the night, Tyler.
• 25:03
  He is so good, I mean, great analysis, Tyler. He is.
• 25:10
  He's like a different species, you know, like just watching the game
• 25:12
  field and you you've seen so much game film and you've seen these guys where
• 25:18
  one guy looks completely different than everybody else and runs at a different speed.
• 25:22
  I mean, there was a there was a tackle for loss he had he
• 25:26
  like, you know, speaking of the Big boss Man earlier, looked like
• 25:27
  he gave him the boss Man slam where he just kind of picked him up
• 25:30
  off the ground and just threw him. And he's just so strong and fast
• 25:36
  and athletic and and uh it makes me think back to that Getchel game where
• 25:41
  we were like, yeah, well, you know, it's just one guy,
• 25:45
  and but man, he is such a difference maker on both sides of
• 25:48
  the ball. Very first play of the game a really good kickoff return by
• 25:55
  Eli Kennerley gets him out to midfield. First play of the game, they
• 25:57
  run a play pass where Connor Walker was lined up as a half back and
• 26:03
  he runs out of the from the right side. He runs out to the
• 26:06
  left side on the on the flat and just keeps going, running a go
• 26:10
  and and Bishop Boozzi just puts it in there perfectly for him. And you
• 26:15
  know, with him running full speed and if a corner on that side is
• 26:18
  not ready for it, you have to turn and go. There's no way
• 26:22
  you're going to catch him. He just catches it on on the fly,
• 26:25
  scores a fifty yard touchdown at seven to nothing very early. You know,
• 26:29
  Ferndale, they were rare and to go for this one, you know they
• 26:33
  knew that they you know, by taking care of business and winning this one,
• 26:37
  it kind of lined up well for for the Week nine matchup and they
• 26:41
  just they had to do this. Uh, they did it. You know.
• 26:44
  I spoke with Camden Raymond during the week, kind of had a nice
• 26:48
  you know talk with him about like how the urgency of needing to win this
• 26:52
  and how good it was to get that week that that when last week and
• 26:56
  and you know, he's he was really excited about how the team's looking right
• 27:00
  now. And yeah, Connor Walker again with some of these different touch I
• 27:06
  mean, you know, he only carried the ball six times and he scored
• 27:07
  three touchdowns. Stan would return the second half kickoff for a touchdown. And
• 27:14
  you know, there's been a few kickoff returns for touchdowns against Ferndale this year,
• 27:17
  and and it's just it's been kind of weird to see. Sometimes when
• 27:23
  you see one, you're like, okay. You see a second one,
• 27:26
  you're like, okay, there might be something that's not working or whatever.
• 27:29
  But the Spartans got on the board. That was their only touchdown, so
• 27:33
  the defense held them out of the end zone. For Ferndale, Phoenix Pink
• 27:37
  Bonner scored on a sixteen yard touchdown run in the third courter and then Tallon
• 27:41
  bung Guard scored his touchdown in the third quarter. Not a lot going on
• 27:45
  the fourth quarter, just running the clock, get get getting the game over
• 27:48
  with one of those rare games where Ferndale rarely possessed the ball, a lot
• 27:53
  of big plays where they were able to drive right down the field. I
• 27:56
  mean, only running thirty six plays in a game, is that just doesn't
• 28:00
  happen unless it's a it's like, you know, a blowout game where it's
• 28:04
  the running clock the whole second half. Well, this wasn't a running clock.
• 28:07
  It wasn't, you know, really too much of a blowout. It
• 28:11
  wasn't like fifty to nothing or anything. And it was just kind of odd
• 28:15
  that way. How you know, Ferdil just didn't possess the ball very much.
• 28:19
  I mean you look at every single one of their wins, and they
• 28:22
  carried the ball over fifty times in every single one of their wins, and
• 28:27
  this was a little different. But when you're averaging almost ten yards of carry,
• 28:30
  you don't need as many carries. So really excited for the Golden Eagles.
• 28:36
  Defensively, Camden Raymond probably had his best game defensively for the year at
• 28:40
  eight and a half tackles, two and a half behind the line of scrimmage.
• 28:42
  I talked about Connor Walker with his little souplex tackle. He had eight
• 28:47
  tackles, three of them for a loss. Jacob Gandy, who's an undersized
• 28:52
  linebacker but he's probably going to be one of the top wrestlers in the state.
• 28:57
  Really super tough. He played. He just shoots those gaps as an
• 29:02
  inside linebacker and does such a good job. He had eleven tackles to lead
• 29:04
  the team. Kell In le Fave had a couple more stops behind the line
• 29:07
  of scrimmage, as did Fink Bunner bung Guard had eight tackles. It was
• 29:11
  weird because usually when I look at the Ferndale stats, they usually tend to
• 29:15
  not have a lot of tackles because they're not on the field very long they
• 29:18
  control the clock. Was this was completely different. They were on the field
• 29:22
  for fifty eight plays when they only had the ball for thirty six of them,
• 29:26
  So it was it was just a little bit of a flip flop and
• 29:29
  that point, but a really good win for the Golden Eagles opens up their
• 29:34
  playoff possibilities down the road, and they're looking good right now. Yeah,
• 29:38
  it's kind of interesting when you look at the potential or the playoffs here for
• 29:45
  West Coast three A. I mean, there's a lot of teams that are
• 29:48
  kind of bunched together on both sides, you know. But you've got the
• 29:52
  two teams at the top, which is Arlington and Monroe, and then both
• 29:56
  the North and the South have just a lot of good, solid football teams,
• 30:02
  so it's gonna be pretty cool to watch. But yeah, overall,
• 30:06
  Ferndale three hundred and forty two yards of offense. Stan Would one seventy three.
• 30:10
  Connor Walker six carries one hundred and sixteen yards and two touchdowns. He
• 30:15
  also had one reception for fifty yards which was a touchdown. Bishop Boozzi only
• 30:19
  completes the one path for fifty yards and a touchdown. I mean that's efficiency,
• 30:25
  well kind of. He did throw five total passes, so maybe not
• 30:27
  highlid. Let's see hear talent bung Guard thirteen carries seventy yards and a touchdown.
• 30:33
  Phoenix Fink bonn Or seven carries sixty two yards and a touchdown. So
• 30:37
  yeah, good all around dominating performance if you will, from Ferndale. It
• 30:42
  wasn't maybe like when you think dominating, thirty four to seven, Yeah,
• 30:45
  that's kind of dominant. When you say it, it makes you think it's
• 30:48
  like sixty to seven, you know what I mean. But yeah, all
• 30:52
  in all, I mean when you look at it, they really did do
• 30:56
  a number here. So thirty four to seven Ferndale goes to six and two
• 30:59
  on the year. Four and two in Westco three A North play Stanwood falls
• 31:03
  to three and five and two and four in Westco three and north. So
• 31:07
  yeah, let's move on and talk about Bellingham's thirty three to twenty win over
• 31:12
  Friday Harbor. A game that much closer than you would think it might be,
• 31:18
  but Bellingham gets another win. I mean, I'm just gonna say what
• 31:25
  it is, Tyler. They were down into the fourth quarter and Holden Bates
• 31:29
  just kind of decided, you know what, guys, enough of this.
• 31:30
  Let's go get on my back. I'm going to take you to the promised
• 31:33
  Land. And that's where they ended up with a thirty three to twenty win.
• 31:37
  Yeah, you know, good for him. You know, he was
• 31:38
  out last week and it was funny because and talking with coach Leonard, you
• 31:45
  know, just talking about last week for a second. You know, they
• 31:48
  went into the game at Blaine pretty you know, feeling feeling pretty good on
• 31:52
  a winning streak, and then I think it was like ten minutes ten minutes
• 31:56
  before the game, it was when they find out that Holden Bates is not
• 31:59
  going to play, that he's injured. And then right as the game started,
• 32:04
  the rain started coming down. So you're thinking, man, we just
• 32:07
  lost our running back and it's rain and yeah, and they reacted well and
• 32:13
  they won the game. Having him back in this one on a field that
• 32:20
  is natural grass, which I don't think they've played on all year, and
• 32:23
  Bellingham is very much predicated on speed, and it kind of was tough,
• 32:30
  and there was a lot of weird things that started, you know. I
• 32:34
  talked to coach Leonard a little bit over the weekend about how it all went,
• 32:37
  and I even said to him, I was like, you know,
• 32:39
  it's one of those weird things. You take the ferry. It's just not
• 32:43
  normal. It's not part of the normal routine, you know. And he
• 32:45
  said, yeah, he goes, we got there super early. He's like,
• 32:49
  we got you know, the game of scheduled to start at six thirty.
• 32:52
  They got there really early, I think like three hours before game time.
• 32:55
  Wow. So it was kind of you know, because the way they're
• 33:00
  was and everything, and and then and the referees are late because of the
• 33:05
  fairies, so they started later than they were supposed to. And it's scary
• 33:08
  because they got to get to take the ferry back. So you're there for
• 33:12
  three hours, the game is starting late. It's just a lot of these
• 33:15
  you know, kind of weird things happening that they're not used to, and
• 33:19
  he just kind of said it was a weird it's just a different environment and
• 33:22
  and uh, it kind of took some getting used to in the beginning.
• 33:27
  For now, Friday Harbor scored first on a deep touchdown pass that as he
• 33:32
  split two defenders on like a jump ball and the two defenders collided and he
• 33:37
  scored. It was kind of a weird, fluky play. And Friday Harbor
• 33:39
  does not throw the ball a ton, but they did on that one.
• 33:44
  They do a lot of guys, you know, a guy in motion really
• 33:45
  slowly and then they'll hike it while the man in motion might still be between
• 33:50
  the tackles and he'll be a lead blocker. A lot, you know,
• 33:52
  a lot of it's very very just two three yards at a time. And
• 33:57
  uh, they ran the ball a lot, you know, average about five
• 33:59
  yard to carry just doing what they do. You know, they're undefeated in
• 34:02
  their conference. Yeah, they are a two B school, but they're they're
• 34:06
  gonna be go to the playoffs and they're gonna do some stuff. They're they're
• 34:07
  a good football team. And this was a good different kind of game for
• 34:13
  Bellingham to you know, to play. You know, they're you're riding this
• 34:15
  four game winning streak, You're playing all sorts of different teams, and this
• 34:20
  was a different atmosphere, different style of play, different you know surface.
• 34:24
  Uh, and they rose to the occasion in the second half. Uh,
• 34:30
  they were you know, the Wolverines had White Stephen double covered basically the whole
• 34:34
  night. And uh, you know, he did catch the one long touchdown
• 34:38
  pass and they caught a few short passes as well, just trying to get
• 34:42
  him to work something, work some magic. But you're right, in the
• 34:45
  second half holding Bates, Uh was able to do some good stuff. Aaron
• 34:49
  Illigan had an interception. Uh that that helped Bellingham possess the ball one extra
• 34:53
  time in the second half. Uh. But yeah, it was it was
• 34:58
  a it was a it was a fun game to watch. Josh Leonard scored
• 35:01
  his second rushing touchdown of the game. Good to see him. And it
• 35:05
  was came right after like a fourth and two from the three yard line where
• 35:09
  he ran a quarterback sneak to get the two yards and then ran it again
• 35:14
  right after that to score touchdown. Uh that how they scored. That was
• 35:17
  their only touchdown in the first half. But and Josh Josh Tole had to
• 35:23
  you know, he went out to play the Z spot Bli Henderson hurt his
• 35:28
  finger. So Josh Tole is usually in the in the slot, goes out
• 35:32
  to play wide what he was doing earlier in the year, and he caught.
• 35:37
  He had some great catches down the field. Man. Just another one
• 35:42
  of those guys. And we talked about this every year where man, we
• 35:44
  wish we got to see him for four years. You know, he comes
• 35:45
  out his senior year and does some great, great things. But again,
• 35:51
  it was it was good because you know, Bellyam had those games earlier in
• 35:54
  the year where the second half was just miserable, the first half was great.
• 35:59
  Well, he kind of flipped it a little bit here and showed that
• 36:00
  they could do it on the road against a team that's gonna be in the
• 36:04
  playoffs at the two B level, and you know it was it was good
• 36:08
  to watch, and it's gonna be a good springboard for them coming in and
• 36:15
  going to Meridian next week or this week, i should say. And the
• 36:17
  Bayowks are on a five game winning streak. Man, it's just they've been
• 36:22
  fun to watch overall. Friday Harbor three hundred and twenty yards of offense Bellingham
• 36:27
  four hundred and eight yards one hundred and eighty seven on the ground, two
• 36:31
  hundred and twenty through the air. We talk about this from time to time
• 36:36
  about the balance, and then that is pretty good balance for Bellingham, which
• 36:39
  they haven't necessarily had recently been a little more pass heavy. But that's good
• 36:45
  balance for those guys. So that is good to see. Holden Base fourteen
• 36:49
  carries, one hundred and seventy nine yards and the three touchdowns I mentioned earlier.
• 36:54
  Josh Leonard sixteen completions, two hundred and twenty one yards and just the
• 37:00
  one touchdown pass. Yeah, yeah, touch and he scored went on the
• 37:05
  ground. Yeah, he did run for one. Actually, the first score
• 37:08
  of the game for Bellingham was a one yard touchdown run from Josh Leonard.
• 37:15
  Let's see here, you know what, Tyler, I deleted some stuff here.
• 37:20
  I don't have the receiving numbers. Do you have the receiver? Yeah?
• 37:22
  Yeah. Josh Tole seven catches for ninety two yards. Another really good
• 37:25
  game of him and Wyatt step in five catches for seventy five yards. He
• 37:30
  did score the touchdown despite double coverage all night. Gave Ben Hofwagen the tight
• 37:34
  end two receptions for thirty five yards, and Bli Henderson two receptions for nineteen
• 37:38
  yards. So again all four of those guys getting involved and doing some good
• 37:43
  things. Yeah, and this was this is one of those games where a
• 37:46
  little closer game, so they were able to or it's kind of the kind
• 37:51
  of the names we all know if you will, you know, making the
• 37:53
  plays there. So that's it's a good thing to see on the season.
• 37:57
  Now, Friday Harbor falls to four and three Bellingham. You mentioned it,
• 38:00
  Tyler, five game winning streak. Now they are five and three on the
• 38:05
  season. Again, thirty three to twenty Bellingham over Friday Harbor out on the
• 38:10
  island. Final game. Before we get to Coach's corner here, Tyler,
• 38:15
  you went to this game, Well you went to the Well, what time
• 38:19
  did you get there, Tyler? I got there as the second half started.
• 38:22
  Okay, so you saw the whole second half here of Meridian and Mount
• 38:25
  Baker and the hometown Mountaineers come away with a thirty to twenty seven win.
• 38:32
  Tyler, this is a game that was very, very close all the way
• 38:36
  through, and the only scoring in the fourth quarter is a ten yard pass
• 38:40
  from Luke Smith to land In Hanstead get some the w tyler. What did
• 38:44
  you see? Oh, this was a great, great game. You know
• 38:47
  I didn't. I missed the first half, but I did get to see
• 38:49
  it on film. Dyla moa fifty five yard touchdown run on the first play
• 38:52
  from scrimmage after Caden Mosher returned the kickoff to the forty five yard line of
• 38:58
  Mount Baker. Off the bat, Dila Moa up the middle, bowls over
• 39:01
  a would be tackler and then sprints fifty five yards per touchdown on a big,
• 39:05
  big play. Meridian answers back with some big pass plays and a long
• 39:08
  run by Landon Downey to get inside the five yard line where joshn Elmer scores
• 39:13
  from three yards out And that was his first touchdown of the game on his
• 39:15
  first carry. And it was seven to seven with a minute a half done
• 39:19
  in the game. So, uh, the crowd was going to be buckled
• 39:22
  in for a really good one here and then that you know, then that
• 39:25
  starts happening where you get some you get some punts, you get some turnover
• 39:29
  and downs, you get all sorts of different things. Both teams are you
• 39:31
  know, that's set. That happens a lot where two teams score twice quickly,
• 39:36
  the defenses both, you know, make some adjustments. You're able to
• 39:39
  you know, hone in after that, Landon Downey scores on a sixteen yard
• 39:44
  touchdown run. He kicks the extra point to make it fourteen to seven Meridian,
• 39:49
  and then Baker drives down They and they weren't throwing the ball down the
• 39:52
  field very often. Toga Tiglau, who's their starting quarterback with a collarbone injury,
• 39:59
  was out for the game. You mentioned Luke Smith, who had the
• 40:01
  touchdown pass late his first varsity start. You know, he's more of a
• 40:07
  he could throw a little bit, but he's definitely more of a running threat
• 40:09
  than Tiglau is. And he ran for some good yards. But he did
• 40:14
  throw one deep in the second quarter. It was intercepted at the two yard
• 40:17
  line by Jager Fife. And on the very next play they give it to
• 40:22
  Elmer and and he breaks one tackle on the end zone and then all of
• 40:24
  a sudden he gets hit by Vance Lawrence and and Bryce and Moa in the
• 40:29
  end zone and that ended up being a safety. So you know, you
• 40:31
  get that, you get the turnover, But if he would have caught it
• 40:36
  in the end zone. It would be a totally different game. Is that
• 40:38
  the first safety of the year in Wacome County. No, there's been a
• 40:42
  few of them. There's been a few of them. There's probably been about
• 40:45
  three or four. Uh. But uh, but that one, uh kind
• 40:51
  of changed things a little bit. And Riddan had a chance to kick a
• 40:54
  field goal at the end of the first half, but it was a low
• 40:59
  snap from center kind of you know, kind of skipped to the holder who
• 41:01
  was five, who then picked it up and tried to roll out and throw
• 41:05
  a pass. It was incomplete. So Meridian hell the fourteen to nine edge
• 41:08
  by the time I got there. The third quarter was completely back and forth.
• 41:14
  Baker goes down scores a touchdown. Luke Smith that I said, like
• 41:17
  I said earlier, was you know, can be a running thread. He
• 41:21
  rolls out to his right, everything's covered perfectly. He decides to run forty.
• 41:24
  He runs past a few guys and then he has to go through a
• 41:29
  few at the two yard line, which he does, scores the scores the
• 41:31
  touchdown to give Mount Baker the lead. Now, and it's weird because when
• 41:36
  there's a safety thrown in they seven seven fourteen seven fourteen fourteen. You throw
• 41:45
  that safety in there, and then everything gets thrown out the window because and
• 41:49
  it's you know, you want to you want to go for two. That
• 41:52
  is that's you know the book says to do that, right. So they
• 41:55
  go for two. They don't get it. Meridian scores, they go for
• 42:00
  two. They don't get it. Mount Baker scores. Uh, they go
• 42:04
  for two. They do get it on a really creative play kind of looked
• 42:07
  like one of Ferndale's runs with Connor Walker where uh, they kind of do
• 42:10
  a reverse play to Hanstead coming around end. Uh it's not like a true
• 42:16
  reverse, it's more like an end around, but like a pitch to him
• 42:19
  as he's coming around and he's so fast and he can get that edge gets
• 42:22
  into the end zone to give them a seven point lead. Uh. Once,
• 42:25
  so now you're back on your on your sevens Uh. Elmer scored late
• 42:30
  in the third quarter on a play where uh he got hit at the end
• 42:36
  zone. His helmet popped off, But they did he did score the touchdown
• 42:40
  and kick kicked the extra point or I'm sorry I did. It wasn't a
• 42:45
  seven point lead, but that but that they they kicked the extra point to
• 42:50
  give them the lead by uh geez four. It was so back and forth.
• 42:55
  I mean it was just every single time you looked up, it was
• 42:59
  this team and this team, this this team. And the fourth quarter was
• 43:02
  was again it was more of the you know, turnover on downs and punts
• 43:07
  and stuff like that, and it was like, okay, we're running out
• 43:08
  of you know, the times running out here for Baker. They they they
• 43:13
  do end up driving down. There was a big run by Dylan Mooe got
• 43:15
  about a thirty yard run. They get to a fourth and seven at the
• 43:21
  ten yard line. Coach left calls time out because at this point at fourth
• 43:24
  and seven, they had tried their counter run. They tried all their stuff
• 43:28
  and Meridian was was it was ready for every single time. So coach left
• 43:32
  call time out. He walked out there and I'm sure he just said,
• 43:35
  okay, we have to you know, this is it, this is this
• 43:37
  is the game. It was. There was about four and a half minutes
• 43:42
  left. It wasn't like it was crazy, uh you know, like the
• 43:45
  we're never going to get the ball back again, but this was their best
• 43:47
  opportunity. They draw up a play action pass that they hadn't I don't think
• 43:52
  they'd ran all day. And as soon as he faked the handoff, he
• 43:57
  had Jackson hurle, but in his face didn't fade. He threw it.
• 44:00
  He threw a pass to Landon Hanstead in the end zone, who was opened
• 44:04
  by about four yards, caught it and ended up being the game winning touchdown.
• 44:08
  Meridian end up driving down. They get a good kickoff return. Joshnilmer
• 44:13
  had over two hundred and fifty all purpose yards in this game. Uh,
• 44:17
  and he's you know, he's been the all purpose leader in Walking County all
• 44:21
  year and he just had one of those great games again. He has a
• 44:22
  big return. They get the ball, move it down the field and they
• 44:28
  get to about the fourteen yard line and they go for it on fourth down.
• 44:32
  It's it's it's a tough call. You're down by three. It would
• 44:36
  have been about a thirty one yard field goal from the left hash and I
• 44:39
  think Landon Downey has it in him to kick that. But you know,
• 44:44
  you're they you know, they tried it at the end of the first half.
• 44:46
  It was a low snap and they had to, you know, have
• 44:51
  a pass because of it. So they go for it. Here Jager five
• 44:53
  drops back. He throws one over the middle, it gets batted into the
• 44:57
  air by Alex Mololi, it falls incomplete. That gives the ball back to
• 45:00
  Baker. With a little under two minutes to go, Meridian has all their
• 45:05
  timeouts. Baker gets the first down run by Hanstead, which was a smart
• 45:08
  play staying in bounds. They were trying to force him out of bounds down.
• 45:12
  He hit him pretty good to try to get him out of bounds,
• 45:14
  but it was a great play by Handstead and a little landing on Landen play
• 45:19
  there and then after that, you know, that was it. I mean,
• 45:22
  what a game back and forth awesome. It's just a great rivalry game
• 45:27
  homecoming night. You know, it had everything that you wanted. And it's
• 45:32
  the exact same scenario as last year where Baker beat Meridian. You know,
• 45:37
  they lost in Nuksack. They beat Meridian and because of that they were still
• 45:42
  in the playoff hunt going into the Els game. They're in the exact same
• 45:45
  situation as they were last year. We know how last year turned out.
• 45:49
  We'll just have to wait and see how this year ends up. The thing
• 45:51
  I love most about this game, Tyler, both team's over two hundred yards
• 45:54
  rushing, absolutely beautiful ye mal Baker three hundred Night team total yards of offense
• 46:01
  Meridian three ninety five. Yeah, Meridian two hundred and seven on the ground,
• 46:07
  Mount Baker two seventy three, Meridian one eighty eight through the air,
• 46:12
  and Mount Baker forty six through the air. So yeah, I mean some
• 46:15
  really nice offensive numbers. Landed down He fifteen carries, hundred and two yards,
• 46:21
  Joshin Elmer thirteen carries for one hundred, Jagger Fife fifteen completions one hundred
• 46:25
  and eighty eight yards. Luke Smith just four completions but forty six yards.
• 46:30
  And when you tell, when you think about like what you do there at
• 46:35
  Baker, that's that's about what you just need. You just need, you
• 46:39
  know, to be able to throw the ball every now and then and just
• 46:43
  get some yards out of it. You know, it's nothing. We're not
• 46:45
  sitting here trying to get Brent Hepner, you know, three hundred and fifty
• 46:49
  yards passing or something, you know. Joshin Elmer five receptions for eighty yards.
• 46:53
  Cohen Fuller four catches for fifty six yards. Landon Hanson had two catch
• 47:00
  just for eighteen, but also pulls in the game winner from ten yards out.
• 47:02
  So yeah, real nice game. I mean that sounds like one that
• 47:07
  I would have really enjoyed being at until after the game when coach lab came
• 47:10
  and found me on the sideland because I also picked against him. Mault Baker,
• 47:15
  you want to mention. I want to mention too, Dila Moa twenty
• 47:16
  one carries for one hundred and sixty eight yards. That's a career high for
• 47:22
  him, and most carries in the game and most yards. He had a
• 47:25
  couple of touchdowns in that big run in the fourth quarter which ended up setting
• 47:29
  up the gaming touchdown. I thought he had a fantastic game. And Brady
• 47:31
  brilin with fifty yards as well on the ground and you know, playing through
• 47:37
  some pain right now, but man, it was that's what it comes to
• 47:39
  when you're in week eight. You know, everybody's nicked up and dinged up,
• 47:44
  and it's it's how you do at the end, and just the survival
• 47:47
  of the fittest type thing. And Baker played really tough. Yeah, everybody's
• 47:52
  fighting at this point, scratch and clogging anything they can. Yeah. Again,
• 47:55
  Mount Baker wins thirty to twenty seven. With the win, the Mountaineers
• 47:59
  moved to three five on the season, but most importantly, they are two
• 48:01
  and one in Northwest Conference play. Meridian also three and five, but they
• 48:06
  are zero to four and they have been eliminated at this point. So yeah,
• 48:12
  they will, I'm sure schedule a week ten game at some point.
• 48:14
  We'll talk about that here in the near future. But Mount Baker they've got
• 48:17
  a big one this week and we will talk about that on the preview podcast.
• 48:22
  Let's wrap up the weekend by heading over to Coach's Corner with our coach,
• 48:28
  Jeff Wood. Coach, how we doing doing great? Raylan, Good
• 48:31
  to have you back this week. You were out there at Squalcom's Sea home
• 48:35
  game at Civic Stadium on Friday night. This is a game two teams very
• 48:39
  familiar with each other, probably a lot of people that live close to each
• 48:43
  other. I'm sure that they've you know, maybe even played on some other
• 48:45
  sports teams together with each other outside of schools and everything, so you know,
• 48:51
  a matchup. Obviously, Tyler loves it because it's a you know,
• 48:53
  inner Wocom County matchup there, but even better, it's an inner Bellingham matchup.
• 49:00
  First half, go into the into the break. Twenty one twenty Squala
• 49:05
  coming. Looks like we've got a real tight ball game first half their coach,
• 49:10
  Yeah, it was a good first half, back and forth for sure.
• 49:15
  Seahome got on the board first with a a fade pass from Nolan Wright
• 49:21
  to Andre Watson and Marcus Nixon was covering great coverage just right on him.
• 49:28
  But Andrea's you know, got those great hands. He went went up and
• 49:30
  over and was able to make the catch and scored there. And then Squalcumb
• 49:37
  actually came back scoring the next two touchdowns. Mostly running the ball all night
• 49:45
  for squal Come. You know, coach Lucy's got that a lot of misdirection
• 49:49
  and a lot of you know, different guard poles, a lot of false
• 49:52
  polls. Actually, I was watching h so, you know, kind of
• 49:57
  tough for the Sea Home d read that a little bit. And Marcus Nixon
• 50:00
  only needs a needs a sliver of daylight and he was able to gain a
• 50:07
  lot a lot of yards on the ground and I think he scored four times
• 50:12
  four touchdowns rushing. So going into half, yeah, it was just a
• 50:19
  one point game because Sea Home had an extra point blocked, so it was
• 50:23
  twenty one twenty Squalicum. Now in the third quarter, Seahome gets a field
• 50:28
  goal Squalicum, they score a touchdown and get the extra point. Fourth quarter
• 50:32
  though, yeah, fifteen to six is the score in the fourth quarter if
• 50:37
  you will see Home Oversqualum in that fifteen to six, giving us a final
• 50:42
  score of thirty eight to thirty four. And I'll tell you what, from
• 50:44
  the looks of things here continued to kind of go back and forth, and
• 50:46
  it stayed real close right until the end when Nolan Wright breaks off a forty
• 50:52
  yard run on a play that from what I've seen online, I got tweeted
• 50:57
  from what was it Berryana Grande, I got tweeted of the video of the
• 51:01
  forty yard run, and I'll tell you what. It looked to me like
• 51:04
  it might have been a screen to the left side trying to get it to
• 51:07
  Watson. I don't know what was going on there, but yeah, Nolan
• 51:09
  right does what Nolan Wright does, and he breaks off a run and somehow
• 51:14
  tiptoes down the sideline and then I don't know who it is that came over
• 51:17
  to lay some lumber right at the goal line, but it was a pretty
• 51:20
  good collision, you know, no accident response team needed. But yeah,
• 51:24
  right there at the goal line, Nolan Right powers in from forty yards out
• 51:28
  and coach, we were talking off the air, you kind of said,
• 51:30
  you know, they got the ball and it was kind of a three minute
• 51:32
  offense. They had an opportunity. They got plenty of time and then it
• 51:37
  was a little slower than you might have thought of and then Right takes off
• 51:39
  and boom, forty yard run. Game over. Yeah, it was just
• 51:45
  a fantastic play by him. You know, players make plays, and he
• 51:51
  made that play and it was the difference in the game. Just a fantastic
• 51:54
  game back and forth. You know, see Squalkum kind of had the advantage
• 52:00
  definitely on the ground there in the second half as well. Nixon hit a
• 52:06
  hit a long pass to his tight end Lockey, who is uh a former
• 52:12
  Seahome guy, So that was that was good for them to take the lead
• 52:15
  and then see home coming back, got stopped in the red zone and decided
• 52:21
  to take the Fueld goal uh in the third quarter, which was a you
• 52:25
  know, kind of the difference in the game really, uh that choosing that
• 52:29
  Fueld goal. And the Fueld goal was kicked by Kyle Deifele because Grady Evans
• 52:36
  was under the weather he was sick and unable to play. You know,
• 52:39
  he's their kicker and a defensive back, so uh, that was that was
• 52:44
  a nice nice kick for for Kyle to step up and make that, and
• 52:49
  then uh, you know, Squalcum regained the lead, uh with a with
• 52:55
  a Nixon run. But then you know, no, when Nolan took over
• 53:00
  with that run, and it was just you know, it was a difference
• 53:05
  maker, like I said before, And Squalcom had one oh seven left with
• 53:10
  all their timeouts I believe, to try to come back, and they did.
• 53:15
  They got a good kickoff return and got a sixteen yard pass to done
• 53:22
  more I believe, and then their next series they just kind of bogged down.
• 53:27
  They're kind of in a hurry and had a couple passes falling complete and
• 53:31
  that was it. But just just a fantastic game by both those squads.
• 53:37
  Like you said, a lot of kids that know each other and have played
• 53:39
  each other with or against growing up their whole lives. So a lot of
• 53:44
  emotion for sure. I'm glad you mentioned Kyle Difel because when you were talking
• 53:49
  about the first half, it occurred to me that I didn't know who the
• 53:52
  heck Difle was I was sitting there going, wait a minute, who wor's
• 53:57
  Grady Evans? And so that's tell you what. It's impressive to come in
• 54:01
  as a backup kicker in high school and hit him. I mean he hits
• 54:06
  him there, So that's good on him. Offensively. Numbers wise, Sea
• 54:10
  Home three hundred and thirty five yards Squalicum three hundred and seventy six, two
• 54:15
  hundred and forty two on the ground for Squalicum, one twenty two on the
• 54:19
  ground for Seahome, but overall very even statistically. Solomon mccowster eighteen carries sixty
• 54:27
  six yards and then leading the way for on the ground for Sea Hoome Squalicum.
• 54:34
  Marcus Nixon seventeen carries one hundred and ninety yards and as you mentioned earlier,
• 54:38
  coach four touchdowns on the ground, and then he did also throw for
• 54:44
  one correct yeah to Laki foga Atu. Yeah. I mean, just all
• 54:49
  around, it looks like a tremendous game. Nolan Wright eighteen of twenty nine
• 54:52
  passing two hundred and thirteen yards, four touchdowns through the air, and then
• 54:57
  the one on the ground that we talked about. Yeah, I mean,
• 55:00
  this is Tyler. When we talk defensively, there's maybe not Normally you don't
• 55:06
  think a thirty eight thirty four game is gonna have some good defensive numbers.
• 55:08
  But are there any guys that stood out to you over there? Well,
• 55:14
  I think on the Seahome side again, Hudson nef the sophomore safety. He's
• 55:17
  a He's a kid that is just he is the smallest kid out there.
• 55:22
  He's just so tough. He does has no problem getting his nose in the
• 55:25
  middle of things. And he has worked himself into a starting role earlier in
• 55:30
  the season and he just won't give it up. And this is a very
• 55:32
  talented secondary that the Mariners possessed, so to hold that job down is it
• 55:37
  says a lot right there. But he had eleven tackles. He also had
• 55:40
  a tackle for loss on a play, and that's coming from the safety spot.
• 55:45
  Andre Watson, who hasn't been used on defense that much this year,
• 55:47
  but with Evans being out, he was he was used a lot more in
• 55:52
  the defensive backfield. He had he had six tackles. He had a forced
• 55:55
  fumble earlier on that was a good momentum change. He knocked down a pass
• 56:01
  Alden Jacobs. He recovered the fumble. He had five tackles himself. Braddock
• 56:05
  Duckworth, who was limited to mostly just offense last week kind of still nursing
• 56:09
  an injury, played both ways this this week and had seven tackles himself.
• 56:14
  And he's always a terror on the out on the outside linebacker spot and on
• 56:17
  Squalicum's side. I thought that Nick Laughlin again, is you know a senior
• 56:22
  that has come out and has played really well as an outside linebacker. He
• 56:25
  had five and a half tackles. He had a tackle for loss. Locky
• 56:29
  fog Auto is you know he's he started out as an outside linebacker. Now
• 56:32
  he's more of a D N to three four Uh, and he just he
• 56:37
  just makes stuff happen. He flies around the field. He's got such great
• 56:39
  athleticism. Uh. But he's you know, he can hit man. He's
• 56:45
  as a little a little unpolished at times, doesn't you know, he's kind
• 56:50
  of reckless, but man on special teams and everything else, him and DeAndre
• 56:53
  Dunmore can just fly around and hit guys. And those two guys in Colby
• 56:57
  Lewis too. The interior of the defensive line. Squalcum did a really good
• 57:00
  job and Nick Watt had a really big interception. I'm sorry nick wa zak
• 57:04
  Watt. We've been saying nick Watt for so many years to say, wait
• 57:07
  a second, I thought he was gone. Yeah, Zaquat had a really
• 57:10
  really good interception. Uh you know, tracked the ball really well. It
• 57:15
  looked like it may have been deflected and kind of went behind him and he
• 57:17
  brought it in, kind of tipped it, kind of grabbed it like backhand
• 57:21
  with one hand almost. It was a really interesting play. It reminds me
• 57:24
  of Ozzie Smith playing short stop. When you see that play where that the
• 57:28
  ball hits the hits that rock in the infield and it goes off the other
• 57:30
  side and he grabs at barey hand and still makes the play. It kind
• 57:34
  of reminded me of that. And I also thought Hunter Callaway is a freshman
• 57:37
  corner at Squalkum that he's been starting in the defensive backfield ever since Nevaia Egging
• 57:43
  went out, and every week he just gets better. He had three passes
• 57:46
  broken up. He's a kid that you'll have to be we'll be ready for
• 57:51
  in the years to come. I know they don't want to rush him along,
• 57:52
  but he's been starting at corner for a little while now, and and
• 57:57
  I was really impressed with his athleticism and shot out to Grady Evans for forgetting
• 58:01
  the old Tyler Anderson fantasy football flu because I picked him as my as my
• 58:07
  kicker. I didn't even think about that. But no, no, but
• 58:09
  seriously, I hope he's doing better because he is an awesome kicker. But
• 58:13
  Kyle Deifel, you said it as a backup kicker to come in and make
• 58:17
  pressure extra points and a field goal and a game where you're depending on and
• 58:22
  and is he's a senior this year, a kid that came out. He's
• 58:25
  been kicking off the last few weeks. But but to kick the extra points
• 58:29
  in the field goal was really impressive. And I was listening to the game
• 58:31
  on the radio at different moments and heard that name, and I thought,
• 58:35
  oh, like, does something happened to Evans? I didn't know and and
• 58:39
  but yeah, no, it's yeah, it was an awesome game. Coach
• 58:43
  hit on it. That was and the announcers were saying it too during the
• 58:45
  game that they were like, you know, I know we get paid to
• 58:49
  do this, but this is this is amazing, this is we would have
• 58:52
  done this one over and over again for free. It was, and it
• 58:54
  sounded like it was just one of those great nights out at Civic Stadium.
• 58:58
  And and I'm glad to Coach was out there to witness it. You know,
• 59:00
  they really shouldn't be saying they'd do it for free, because next thing,
• 59:04
  you know, they're going to be doing it for free. Yeah,
• 59:07
  and and you know it's uh, I mean it's even more impressive, Tyler
• 59:10
  tell me this. Where as far as stifle goes, was that his first
• 59:15
  points on the season, Yeah, his first his first points and and uh,
• 59:19
  like I said, he'd been kicking off for a few weeks and he
• 59:22
  had some kickoffs that were that were pretty darn good. I mean, yeah,
• 59:24
  you're kicking it to some really some big time studs back there. But
• 59:28
  uh, and I don't I don't know if he's a soccer kid or not.
• 59:30
  Coach might know, but yeah, he's a soccer guy. Yeah,
• 59:34
  So I mean it makes sense he's a he's a kid that definitely knows how
• 59:37
  to kick the football. And uh, he was impressive. I mean,
• 59:40
  Grady Evans is a really good kicker, but it's nice to have another guy
• 59:45
  just in case. And and he was a big key component to their win.
• 59:50
  Seehome improves to five and three on the season, three and three in
• 59:52
  Northwest Conference place. Squalcom falls to three and five, one and five in
• 59:57
  Northwest Conference play with yeah, he I'm winning thirty eight, thirty four,
• 1:00:00
  you know, coach, Before we get out of here really quickly. Tyler
• 1:00:02
  and I last week we started a thing called well technically I started it and
• 1:00:07
  Tyler went along with it. It went out worked pretty well. We did
• 1:00:09
  a thing called what did we learn? Do you have anything you learned from
• 1:00:14
  this game? That I mean? This is totally throwing you on the spot.
• 1:00:15
  I don't know if you've even heard last week's podcast. I'm sure you
• 1:00:19
  did, because I know you're a loyal listener and you like to hear the
• 1:00:22
  sultry tones of my voice. But do you have anything what did we learn
• 1:00:25
  from this game? You know? Yes, And it's really something I relearned,
• 1:00:31
  And it's just the coaching depth and the quality of coaches in this conference
• 1:00:39
  is just really second to none, and just a lot of great coaches throughout
• 1:00:46
  the league, not only the head coaches, which everybody kind of knows about,
• 1:00:50
  but the assistants and the position coaches, and you can just see it
• 1:00:54
  in the quality of the teams and the quality of the players and how they
• 1:00:59
  get better throughout the year, the schemes, the leadership that the kids possess,
• 1:01:06
  uh, you know, and it's it's impressive. You know. I've
• 1:01:08
  I've coached a couple of different programs in the league, and you know,
• 1:01:12
  I'm always just uh impressed by the guys I've coached with and against. And
• 1:01:17
  uh, you know that's something I knew, but I relearned it on Friday
• 1:01:21
  night, and you know, that's it's what makes I think this league special,
• 1:01:29
  as well as the players. A lot of fantastic players as well.
• 1:01:32
  Yeah, it's uh, I mean I like that you mentioned that because you
• 1:01:35
  know, Tyler and I've talked about it over the years. You know,
• 1:01:37
  lost some great coaches in the last few years in terms of you know,
• 1:01:40
  Bob Ames and you know Dan kam Ink and some of these guys and I
• 1:01:45
  can't remember his name now, Coach Meyer, right, yeah, and the
• 1:01:49
  guys that have stepped in. I mean, you never want to say it's
• 1:01:52
  a you know, coach Meyer two point zero, you know me, because
• 1:01:54
  that means that this guy's way better than him type thing. You know,
• 1:01:58
  it's to upgrade a version. But I'll tell you what the guys have stepped
• 1:02:00
  in. I mean, very impressive is what they've done, some of them,
• 1:02:04
  you know, elevating some programs a little bit more. But also you
• 1:02:07
  know, kind of sometimes with coaching changes, things just completely fall apart,
• 1:02:10
  and that's definitely not the case right now in Wacome County. So it is
• 1:02:14
  really cool to see. I also like the fact that you basically went from
• 1:02:17
  coaches corner to talking about how good the coaching is in Wacom County. That's
• 1:02:22
  like me talking about how great the line play is at center, you know
• 1:02:24
  what I mean, Like, uh yeah, uh. Anyway, he's Jeff
• 1:02:30
  Wood from Uh he's Jeff Wood, our coach in Coach's Corner here on the
• 1:02:35
  Wacome Preps podcast. Coach, thanks for your time, thanks for having me.
• 1:02:39
  All Right, Well that's gonna do it for the well six games on
• 1:02:43
  Friday night and h yeah, some real exciting matchups last week, and I'm
• 1:02:47
  sure we've got more exciting matchups coming in the near future here and we will
• 1:02:52
  talk about a lot of that stuff on the podcast coming up in a couple
• 1:02:54
  of days. And then we get into the playoffs right after that. So
• 1:02:59
  still lots of games to talk about here in Watkom County. But Tyler,
• 1:03:02
  let's talk about the pick'ems really quickly. Here. You and I went five
• 1:03:06
  and one this week. Everybody else goes six and oh. For the season,
• 1:03:10
  Tyler, you are forty and twenty three, Nate forty six and seventeen,
• 1:03:15
  Connor forty five and eighteen. I am forty four and nineteen. And
• 1:03:20
  the guests this last week it was Eric Trent, our buddy, and they
• 1:03:24
  are forty three and twenty. The guests are overall along with Joe Consensus,
• 1:03:28
  who is also forty three and twenty. So, yeah, Tyler, you
• 1:03:30
  still got some work to do. You still got some serious work to do.
• 1:03:34
  You might have to take a chance or two on some things here,
• 1:03:37
  you know. I see, But Tyler, that can go one way or
• 1:03:39
  the other. I mean, you can all of the sudden be forty games
• 1:03:43
  out of first, you know what I mean? You could be the Oakland
• 1:03:45
  A's before you know it? Or you know, are you gonna move me
• 1:03:50
  to Vegas? Now? Is that what you do? No? Okay,
• 1:03:54
  although you'd get all the game films, so maybe you could still do your
• 1:03:57
  job from there. Just nobody would see you and they'd be a play a
• 1:04:00
  little blackjack on the side. You know, nothing wrong with that. You
• 1:04:01
  know what, maybe get sponsored by the Aria or something or Caesars Palace,
• 1:04:06
  the Caesars Palace Players of the Week. Uh. The box score is brought
• 1:04:11
  to you by the Flamingo. Yeah, yeah, by the Flamingo. Yeah.
• 1:04:15
  Get yourself a nice piece of primar hip over at Lowry's. Yeah.
• 1:04:19
  All right, Tyler, let's talk about the players of the week here,
• 1:04:21
  and we'll start off with the Offensive Player of the Week, which is sponsored
• 1:04:25
  by Zazen Salon SPA eleven bell Weatherway in Bellingham. Three six zero seven one
• 1:04:30
  five won the zero five zero Zazzen Salon SPA Offensive Player of the Week.
• 1:04:34
  Tyler, who is it? Oh boy? This came down. There was
• 1:04:38
  a lot of guys. It's it's funny because sometimes it's it's obvious. Sometimes
• 1:04:42
  it's it's really hard to pick. And this was really hard to pick across
• 1:04:45
  the board. And but offensively, when it came down to everything and the
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  game winning touchdown, I think Nolan Wright gets this award. He went eighteen
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  of twenty nine passing for two hundred and thirteen yards and four touchdowns and then
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  running the ball five carries for fifty one yards, including the forty yard touchdown
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  run with less than two minutes to go in the game to seal that win.
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  And just the way that he scored on that where he tightrope' the last
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  twenty yards or so, unbelievable play. I think this is the second time
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  this year he's won the award. Week two, he threw six touchdown passes.
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  Just so much fun watching him play. Nolan Wright, just the sophomore
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  zero six seven one sixteen twenty seven. Tyler who is the Max Hair Studio
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  Defensive Player of the Week. Well this doesn't happen too often, but second
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  week in a row for the same player, Jeremiah Wright. You know,
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  and I would say this week was even a better week than last week.
• 1:05:55
  This week five and a half tackles, three sacks, one of which he
• 1:05:59
  caused fumble on another play where he picked up a fumble and ran in for
• 1:06:02
  a touchdown. He you know, he every week defensively he just gets better
• 1:06:08
  and better and it's perfect timing for the Links going into this probable playoff push
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  for them, and he is a big time player for them. And another
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  big, big week. There was a lot of great guys. This teammate
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  Trey Bosman, who had twelve tackles, one for a loss and the two
• 1:06:25
  interceptions. He is in serious consideration. Kelly Gray at Meridian had fifteen tackles
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  and two and a half for a loss. He had a fumble recovery.
• 1:06:34
  Vance Lawrence had eleven and a half or ten and a half tackles, one
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  tackle for lost, two more sacks. I think he's getting close to almost
• 1:06:43
  twenty sacks in his career now. Camden Raymond, Connor, Walker, gave
• 1:06:46
  Van Hofwake and Huddy Neff, all these guys had really really good weeks defensively.
• 1:06:51
  But Jeremiah Wright just kind of put it all together and he is for
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  the second week in a row. You're a Max Hair Studio Defensive Player of
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  the Week. Have we ever had somebody win two different awards in one week?
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  Because here, yeah, he's Yeah, I don't think we have.
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  I think Schlenn Baker was. I think he was offensive, like two weeks
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  in a row, and then the next week he was defensive. So he
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  won three in a row. Right, he went three in a row?
• 1:07:18
  But he never but he won two of one and one of the other.
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  Never two in the same week. How about this? Have we ever had
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  two guys with the same last name? One one? And that's I was
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  thinking that too. I don't think that's happened. Two wrongs don't make it
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  right? Or I guess two players of the week do to two rights make
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  two players of the week. Yes, yeah, that's the way to say
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  their website at Petsreestate dot com. That's p E. T Z real Estate
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  dot com. Tyler, who is the Pets real Estate off or excuse me,
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  Special Teams Player of the week. Well, this was a battle between
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  a couple of different players, but I end up giving it to Malachi Cain
• 1:08:00
  and the freshman kicker out at London. Five extra points kicked and the forty
• 1:08:05
  yard field goal that showed that he has plenty of leg and it's a lot
• 1:08:11
  of fun for him, Joe, just to watch him play. And and
• 1:08:14
  he's a great punter as well, kickoff all those things he played, he
• 1:08:18
  played a lot of as you know when I was talking about when Charlie Ers
• 1:08:23
  came in there at quarterback, he was one of the running backs that was
• 1:08:26
  playing in that and they were just just full ahead, blocking straight at the
• 1:08:30
  middle. He was blocking for for Max asinc as well, got some playing
• 1:08:34
  at linebackers. So he's a he's a complete athlete. It's a really good,
• 1:08:39
  really good kicker with a bright future. And and so Malachi Caanan,
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  the freshman from Lindon, is your Pets Real Estate Special Teams Player of the
• 1:08:45
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  and medical insurance needs. Josh Wright went from protecting quarterbacks to protecting our local
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  businesses. Please reach out to Josh to see what makes his team an extraordinary
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  advantage for your company. Tyler, who is the bell Anderson Insurance Offensive Lineman
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  of the Week. Yeah, it's the senior left tackle out of Mount Baker,
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  Alex Mololi. You know this, It's it's tough. You know,
• 1:09:16
  you lose Jesse Harward as he transferred to Bellingham. You still have Vance Lawrence
• 1:09:20
  with you playing center, but he's really been Meloy's been really anchoring that offensive
• 1:09:25
  line all year. And you know, when you go up against a tough
• 1:09:29
  Meridian defense, which to scheme them, you know, defensively them on defense
• 1:09:33
  is always tough. They just they just will throw so many different things at
• 1:09:36
  you. They end up putting Lincoln hoe For at defensive end on in a
• 1:09:40
  three point stance. He usually kind of plays an outside linebacker spot, so
• 1:09:44
  mololily had to battle him all game. You're protecting the blind side of a
• 1:09:47
  first time varsity start at quarterback. All sorts of good things from him.
• 1:09:51
  Alex Mololey's just a beast at left tackle. He gets a ton of pub
• 1:09:56
  as a defensive player now with almost twenty stops behind the line of scrimmage this
• 1:10:00
  year, but he deserves a lot of recognition as an offensive lineman. And
• 1:10:04
  he had a great game. So Alex Mololi, the senior left tackle out
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  of Mount Baker, is your bell Anderson Insurance, Offensive Lineman of the Week,
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  Zazen Salon Spa, Max Hair Studio, Pet's Real Estate, and Belle
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  Anderson Insurance. Be sure to visit our sponsors and let them know you heard
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  about their business on the walkcom Preps podcast. And if you or somebody you
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  know would like to sponsor anything having to do with Watcomb Preps, from sponsoring
• 1:10:28
  a team, to sponsoring a sport, to sponsoring any of the various players
• 1:10:32
  of the week that we do, be sure to reach out to Tyler.
• 1:10:34
  You can find him on social media at any of the walkcam Preps social media's
• 1:10:39
  or email him at mister Underscore a mohawk at hotmail dot com. Tyler,
• 1:10:44
  let's wrap up the show by talking about the fantasy players that we picked this
• 1:10:47
  week. And I mean, I'm I'm on a hot streak here. I
• 1:10:51
  have one four straight now one seventy four point four to one thirty nine point
• 1:10:58
  eight on the season, and now I am five and three. You are
• 1:11:01
  three and five. I started off with a win, then you won three
• 1:11:05
  straight. Now I've won four straight. It's going in the wrong direction for
• 1:11:09
  you, Tyler. Let's see here. Brent Heppner nineteen point eight for you
• 1:11:13
  at quarterback Nolan Wright thirty five point six for me. Talon bun Guard got
• 1:11:17
  you thirteen at running back Landon Downey the first of three got me twenty five
• 1:11:21
  point eight. Receiver slash tight end Cooper More picks up eight for you,
• 1:11:27
  Wyatt Stephan sixteen for me. Offensive line forty six for you from Bellingham and
• 1:11:33
  Lynnon Christian got me forty seven. And that's why speaking offensive line is pretty
• 1:11:39
  dang important. And hitting is a good thing too. You got to hit
• 1:11:43
  that, you know, defensively a couple of big games defensively, I mean,
• 1:11:47
  it seems like it's pretty tough to score these two numbers here. You
• 1:11:50
  got fifteen out of Lindon, I got twenty one out of Lyndon Christian Kate.
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  I think a big part of that too, really quickly say, both
• 1:11:58
  those defenses scored a touch down, which is pretty impressive, and turnovers go
• 1:12:03
  a big way too. And you know, Elsie intercepted three passes. I
• 1:12:08
  think they recovered three fumbles, so that's when those points start really racking up.
• 1:12:12
  So but that's pretty interesting that we both picked defenses that scored an actual
• 1:12:15
  touchdown, which is pretty rare well, and if the old big boss man
• 1:12:18
  there and Lyndon Christian would have scored two more for me, this place would
• 1:12:21
  have gone bonkers. I might have been over two hundred again, tutten up.
• 1:12:27
  Let's see front seven. You had Caden Stit seventeen points. I had
• 1:12:30
  Joshin Elmer, he got me ten. Connor Walker in your back seven twenty
• 1:12:36
  one points, Landon Downy sixteen for me. That's two Landon Downy's. Grady
• 1:12:43
  Evans, no play, Tyler. You jinxed him land and Downy three for
• 1:12:47
  me. Landon Downy alone scored like a third of what you scored, Tyler.
• 1:12:55
  I'm just gonna start doing that every week now. Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:12:58
  well, I just I just I hope next time I pick a kicker he's
• 1:13:01
  he's feeling okay, and I hope Grady Evans gets feeling better soon. But
• 1:13:05
  oh man, I couldn't believe it. I heard on the radio the Evans
• 1:13:10
  was not kicking, and I just started laughing to myself, like of course,
• 1:13:13
  And you know this morning, you know, miss Walker preps was She's
• 1:13:16
  looking at her fantasy team and she's like, DK's out, and you know,
• 1:13:23
  and and the ten AM games had already started, so she was kind
• 1:13:26
  of you know, you know, it's a little bit of a mind at
• 1:13:28
  that point. Yeah, yeah, And I just said, you know what,
• 1:13:30
  I go, you know you're Gradyvans. Yeah, I said, you
• 1:13:34
  know, I was looking. She goes, she gave me your phone and
• 1:13:36
  I looked at it, and I said, it's not worth trying to pick
• 1:13:39
  somebody else up. You have just taken as just take a loss this week.
• 1:13:43
  I go, I think I did too. I think Ryland got me
• 1:13:45
  again. So I didn't even looked at You know, there's all the scoring
• 1:13:51
  for that, but it just happens sometimes. And you know, you're on
• 1:13:55
  a roll right now, and the Land and Downy train worked out pretty well
• 1:13:58
  for you. Yeah, I'll tell you what, Tyler. Between me beating
• 1:14:00
  miss Walkham Preps and the Pickham and now me on a four game streak here,
• 1:14:03
  not real good in the old Walkham Preps household over there. Yeah.
• 1:14:08
  Well, she did say before she went out to Harbor View again earlier today,
• 1:14:12
  she said to tell Ryland high and she goes, and do it,
• 1:14:14
  actually do it? Tell him? I said, Hi, don't just say
• 1:14:17
  that you will and then not say hi. So now I'm doing it on
• 1:14:20
  the air, So there you go. Well, which is good because you
• 1:14:23
  had yet to do it to this point. So that's true. I'm glad
• 1:14:27
  you mentioned it because if not, I wouldn't have got the message exactly.
• 1:14:30
  Yeah, and you know what, Tyler, somebody could sponsor the fantasy I
• 1:14:32
  mean, how about this, Tyler, you know who could sponsor it,
• 1:14:36
  like a mattress place, because you know what, I do most of my
• 1:14:40
  fantasy stuff at night when I'm sleeping, I'm off in fantasy land thinking of
• 1:14:45
  random things. Yeah, mostly cheeseburgers and bacon. And yeah, first off,
• 1:14:51
  why you gotta go with a fat joke? No, I just know
• 1:14:55
  that you love some burgers and I do love bacon, So yeah, I
• 1:14:59
  meant to say bacon cheese. I just threw the bacon in there. Later.
• 1:15:01
  I could go for a bacon cheeseburger right now, Tyler. Yeah,
• 1:15:04
  I bet I sure could. I'm not getting twelve o'clock. We're not going
• 1:15:08
  to say it's noon, but it is twelve o'clock. Yeah, it is
• 1:15:11
  officially. Oh hey, you know what it is now, Tyler? What's
• 1:15:14
  that it says? Everybody knows we record on Sunday. You know whose birthday,
• 1:15:17
  it's not anymore. Well, and since he's the only one listening,
• 1:15:26
  he got the message it's not your birthday anymore. Even on the podcast it
• 1:15:29
  is midnight. I just got the notification on my phone that says your bedtime
• 1:15:33
  starts at twelve fifteen. Get ready for bed soon. You want to know
• 1:15:36
  why it says that, Tyler, I have no idea. I don't remember
• 1:15:39
  setting it, but I don't know how to turn it off. Yeah,
• 1:15:43
  every single night it goes off and it tells me, oh, hey,
• 1:15:45
  it's your bedtime here in fifteen minutes, and I'm like, who are you?
• 1:15:47
  Like, did my mom like get into this phone, like what happened
• 1:15:51
  here? Coach Whitman shares a birthday with Jake and Jordan Mason. Jake and
• 1:15:57
  oh yeah he does with Jake Mason. That's right. I did see old
• 1:16:00
  j K. Puho had his birthday there. That's yeah. Oh good for
• 1:16:03
  them, Good for them, good for that. See, I really need
• 1:16:05
  to get I need to get all these birthdays back in there and get a
• 1:16:09
  thing set for Walkham Preps to give shout outs to these former players. And
• 1:16:13
  I'm gonna get that, going to get that. It was a fun time.
• 1:16:15
  About eight or nine years ago. When I did that every single day,
• 1:16:19
  there was always two or three players and I just kind of give a
• 1:16:23
  little ramble about their careers and and uh yeah, I got to start that
• 1:16:27
  up because September thirteenth is Walkham County Football Day and we've talked about this.
• 1:16:32
  Wait wait what September thirteenth is the birthday of four legit county football I thought
• 1:16:41
  you were saying, like the Wakham County, like I don't know, commissioner
• 1:16:45
  or something. No, No, no county football day. I was like,
• 1:16:46
  what where did I? Where was I at? No? And we've
• 1:16:49
  talked about this before. Yeah, I do remember this now. So TJ
• 1:16:53
  Bush all time leading rusher, lynnon over four thousand yards. BJ Salmonson former
• 1:16:58
  alignment xact value great, a badass. Uh huh yep uh, Ben Peterson
• 1:17:04
  decent. Oh yeah yeah yeah, and Donnie Finkbonner never heard of him,
• 1:17:10
  right, So all four of them, September thirteenth is their birthday. I
• 1:17:15
  just I don't know how that can ever be beat. So what you're saying,
• 1:17:17
  Tyler's if I ever have a kid, I need to move to Walkham
• 1:17:20
  County and make sure I go back nine Okay, what is nine months?
• 1:17:24
  Mind? I can't do the math. What is it like you need to
• 1:17:29
  have you need to have some fun right before Christmas two weeks before christ I
• 1:17:32
  do have fun right before Christmas. It's called Thanksgiving. Well between Thanksgiving and
• 1:17:39
  Christmas and then just hope and pray, hope and pray that it's the thirteenth.
• 1:17:44
  That's unbelievable. I mean those yeah, like you could talk about them
• 1:17:49
  being possibly the best player at their school's history. Yeah, and and and
• 1:17:54
  it's just one of those crazy things. Well, yeah, I got to
• 1:17:57
  do that top you know, or like let's say you did a top one
• 1:18:00
  hundred all time. Those four are definitely in there, right Oh yeah,
• 1:18:03
  yeah, I mean they're up there too, like they are Yeah, these
• 1:18:08
  are these are the krem Di that Kreme players. Yeah, you know what,
• 1:18:12
  like, what is Josh Kraft's birthday? Can you think we could get
• 1:18:15
  it legally changed and just moving just move everybody to the same day that Tyler
• 1:18:20
  your birthday post that day would be unbelievable. Oh yeah, yeah, that's
• 1:18:25
  true. It would be crazy. But I'm excited. I want to get
• 1:18:27
  that back up and going and maybe have a little like a highlight of each
• 1:18:30
  player or something like that. That's a lot of work, but at least
• 1:18:32
  if your happy birthdays, I think that would be really good. Yeah,
• 1:18:35
  well they get that going again for sure. Yeah, I like that idea.
• 1:18:40
  Before we get out of here, Tyler anything, what do you got?
• 1:18:43
  Oh, it's just it's that time, man, where games are getting
• 1:18:45
  moved to Thursday because of possible playoff stuff. And this is where it really
• 1:18:50
  really starts to get fun. You know, volleyball's got one more week of
• 1:18:56
  regular season play and all of a sudden the playoffs hit. There. It's
• 1:18:59
  just a lot, a lot of stuff going on right now where you know
• 1:19:02
  where I'm trying to get talked into going and picking up pumpkins and dressing up
• 1:19:08
  as barbieing Ken for a party, and and I'm like, I got stuff
• 1:19:11
  going on. I can't do all these things, but uh, I'm sure
• 1:19:15
  that you'll see a picture of me as as a rollerblading beach Ken, Which
• 1:19:20
  is funny because I did get the costume, and when it came in the
• 1:19:23
  mail, I actually kind of looked at it and went, oh, I
• 1:19:26
  could wear I could wear this like on Tuesdays, you know. Yeah,
• 1:19:30
  it's a it's pretty colorful and and but I like it. It'll be it'll
• 1:19:33
  be, It'll be fun. Tel, I just sent you a link on
• 1:19:36
  Facebook. Take a look at that one. That's what I'm thinking about being
• 1:19:40
  for Halloween this year. Thinking about ordering it tonight. Actually I was looking
• 1:19:45
  at it today and I saved it. Oh yes, this is yeah the
• 1:19:50
  ace vent for a psych ward Like he's yeah, I too with the Yeah,
• 1:19:57
  I've had it saved and and I've been keep looking at it. I
• 1:20:00
  might. The thing is is, I don't really go to you know,
• 1:20:03
  like Halloween parties or anything. And you know, I mean I could wear
• 1:20:08
  it to football practice. I don't know what coach Bayner would think about it,
• 1:20:10
  but I mean, yeah, you never know. All right, Well,
• 1:20:15
  let's uh, let's wrap it up right there, Tyler. What do
• 1:20:16
  you say? Sounds good? I want to give it thanks again before we
• 1:20:19
  get out of here. Too is as a Salon, Spom Max Harr Studio,
• 1:20:23
  Pet's real Estate, Bella Anderson Insurance, and uh you know what,
• 1:20:27
  Tyler, how about Anytime Fitness because they've been sponsoring the scoreboards all season long,
• 1:20:31
  and uh, yeah, it's it's really cool to see you know,
• 1:20:35
  Tyler, I guess I can say this really quickly before we get out of
• 1:20:39
  here, is when I made those graphics, you know, I made a
• 1:20:42
  template and now you've taken it all over and you do everything except what the
• 1:20:45
  uh the the pick'm's. But when I made those templates, the idea was
• 1:20:50
  like, let's make them within with the ability to add a sponsorship if people
• 1:20:58
  want to do it. You know, It's kind of like when they build
• 1:20:59
  some of the hockey arenas and stuff, and it's like we can expand if
• 1:21:01
  needed, you know, in this place. And so it's kind of what
• 1:21:04
  I did with it. So it's really cool to see the posts go up
• 1:21:08
  and see sponsors on there because people are definitely getting on board with Walkom Preps.
• 1:21:12
  And I mean they've always been on board, but now businesses are,
• 1:21:15
  you know, kind of putting their money where their mouth is. I think
• 1:21:16
  that's the thing, right and whereas you know me, I usually put my
• 1:21:21
  foot where my mouth is. But yeah, so's it's really cool to see
• 1:21:25
  that. And before we go though, we also need to given thanks also
• 1:21:29
  to Kurt Mayberry Farm and Kurt Mayberryfarm dot com. That's m A B E
• 1:21:32
  R R Y Kurt with a c. Mayberry Farm dot com. So h
• 1:21:35
  yeah. Thanks to all of those sponsors that we have and again, if
• 1:21:40
  you would like to sponsor, you can reach out to Tyler Waltcomb Preps on
• 1:21:44
  any of the social media's and he will take care of you. I'm rather
• 1:21:46
  than Spencer, He's Tyler Anderson of watcom Preps, walkompreps dot com. You've
• 1:21:50
  been listening to episode at two hundred and four of the Wakam Preps podcast,
• 1:21:55
  a recap of week eight. We will talk to you on Wednesday. The men