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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 247 - Spring Sports Wrap Up - 3-24 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  This is Mount Baker junior Darius keel Strap and you're listening to the Walkham Preps
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  Podcast with Tyler and Ryland. Go Baker. Greetings, and welcome into the
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  WATCUM Preps podcast. This is episode of two hundred and forty seven, a
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  Spring sports a weekly wrap up. I'm Ryland Spencer along with me as always
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  is Tyler Anderson of WACOM Preps. Tyler, how we doing doing pretty good?
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  A little more awake than usual when we record this, so that's a
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  bonus. Yeah. Yeah. As a matter of fact, the sun is
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  even out. It is, yeah, two twenty eight pm as we record
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  this on Sunday, which is about what six hours earlier than normal at the
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  earliest, like I mean maybe even seven, sometimes eight, nine, ten
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  hours earlier. Ye, So yeah, we Tyler, you told me you
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  said no baseball games yesterday, that everything was rained out, lots of old
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  Then hey, let's record a little early here, Let's get it out of
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  the way and maybe we can actually get some sleep here and start the week
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  off grade. That's kind of where we're at. That being said, we
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  need to give a thank you to Darius Gilstrap of Mount Baker Track and Field
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  this is a young man that Tyler. He takes to direction. I guess
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  if you will, because I said, we need to get this guy,
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  we need to get him. He needs to do an intro. And then
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  boom, he's doing an intro for us. And he reached out to you.
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  Yeah. Yeah, he was listening to the podcast last week and said
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  he said, Hey, I was listening and I heard where Ryland said that
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  I need to do an intro. So I'm here to do an intro if
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  you need it. And I said great, and gave him, gave him
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  a little script what to say, and and that was the earliest I've ever
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  gotten one. That was awesome. I got it, I think Wednesday or
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  Thursday. And usually I'm scrambling at around this time of day on a Sunday
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  to try to figure out who I can get to do it. So that
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  was that made it a lot easier for me. Heck, there's been multiple
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  times where at this point on a Sunday, you don't even know what you're
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  doing, you don't even know who you're gonna get to do it, and
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  you're kind of scrambling. So yeah, so thanks to Darius for that.
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  Tyler. We need to give a thank you to Kurt Mayberry Farm, fourth
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  generation family owned and operated berry farm committed to growing the highest quality berries,
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  strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries. Kurt Mayberry Farms. That's Kurt with the
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  C M A B E R R. Y Farm dot Com is the website.
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  We've got two new sponsors, Tyler, Yeah, two. I mean
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  they're they're rolling in hot and heavy, super fast right now. But there's
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  still a lot of stuff left to sponsor, Tyler. If somebody wants to
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  get ahold of you about sponsorship, how do they do that? Well,
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  what's been happening really well now is just texting me three six zero six eight
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  four four three zero six. People just reach out that way and just say
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  hey, and and they introduce themselves and I call them right back and we
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  just go from there. So that's that's been a great way a lot of
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  people. Text makes it easy because not everybody's even on social media. If
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  you're on there, you could you could search for walking preps and just send
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  a message that way. But but texting me that kind of gets my attention
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  pretty easily. You know, everyone's got their phone pretty close to them.
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  I get you know, about twenty to twenty five messages on social media day,
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  so it's hard for me to sometimes decipher or even see it in time.
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  But text, I don't get a lot of texts, So that's that
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  could be a that's a really strong way, and that's that's been happening recently
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  and it's worked. I think the only time I ever text you is when
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  I'm at the high school, and that's because I can't get internet there.
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  Yeah, I mean it's crazy, but yeah, there's still some stuff to
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  sponsor Tyler. As a matter of fact, I guess going up later today
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  or maybe some of them. We've got standings going up now. Yeah,
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  for baseball and for fast Pitch, and I think those are going to be
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  big, big time views on those things, Yeah, especially because I think
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  they're they're pretty. I think they're good looking. But there is still some
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  stuff. I know, the Fast Pitch Player of the Week, Yeah,
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  it's still available. Yeah. I think that's one that's gonna get jumped on
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  pretty quickly. I just think that every single Player of the Week we've ever
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  done has been sponsored, So I think that that's something that's gonna get yeah
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  pretty quickly. I would imagine, Yeah, what about what about the the
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  daily recaps or whatever you want to call it, from the day before.
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  What are those teams? Those are available for baseball or I'm sorry, no
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  baseball is taken out fast pitch and boys soccer and tennis and golf those so
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  they're still available for those four sports. And we got two new sponsors,
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  as I mentioned, one of them a new boys soccer sponsor. And I
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  assume Tyler remind me they're doing the scoreboards. They are doing the scoreboard,
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  that's right, scoreboards. North County Alliance FC. Ncalliancefc dot com is their
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  website, and I was looking at over, Tyler. It's it's like youth
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  football or excuse me, soccer is what most people would call it, right,
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  it's youth though. So I'm looking over their website. I go to
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  NCALLIANCEFC dot com backslash tryouts and the first thing I see here is a twenty
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  twenty four calendar. They've got tryouts coming up in the next month or so.
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  April fifteenth is when they start for boys and girls, and then they
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  end early May May eighth and ninth, and that is now. This is
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  what's always interesting to me, right when you start hearing this stuff girl.
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  It's birth year, right is when it's based on two thousand and nine through
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  twenty seventeen. Oh my goodness, twenty we're talking twenty seventeen birth dates now,
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  Tyler. And granted it's a sponsor, we're not dealing with these kids,
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  but you know what I mean, like it still kind of blows me
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  away at times. But yeah, if you have a son or a daughter
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  that was born between two thousand and nine or twenty seventeen and they want to
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  play some soccer, this is the place to do it. North County Alliance
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  FC. Yeah again. Ncalliance FC dot com is their website and they've got
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  all kinds of stuff. The tryouts are up there at Bender Fields in Linden,
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  so h not too far from pretty much anywhere in the county. I
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  mean pretty much anybody listening to this is within a little bit of you know,
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  not too far from it. I think anybody listen to this has been
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  there multiple times too. It's a very very popular spot for a lot of
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  youth sports and adult sports. There's high school soccer being played there, So
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  yeah, Tyler. New baseball sponsor Dick Bedlington Farms. What is Dick Bedlington
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  farms. What are they sponsors? It's the daily recap they do, Yeah,
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  the daily baseball recaps. Yep. Wow. And that's one that again
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  we're talking things to get really good numbers. So Dick Bedlington Farms the website
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  Bedlington Farms dot com. That's b E, D L I N G t
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  O N farms dot com. Now Dick Bedlington Farms. I'm like, all
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  right, there's all kinds of stuff going on here, right, because we've
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  got kurk Mayberry Farm with the with the strawberries and blueberries and raspberries. What
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  was the other farm there's another one we got right or wasn't there another one
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  that we were or no it was Edeline Darry was doing farm stuff as well,
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  right, But now Dick Bedlington Farm. We're talking potatoes. I'm a
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  I'm a big fan. I'm a really big fan Hash Browns, I mean
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  just French fries in general. You got like all baby, that favorite potato
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  right there. Yeah. You know it was funny Tiler. I was driving
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  across I ninety one time and uh, you know, like you're driving through
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  towards Moses Lake and you got all these farms on either side of the freeway.
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  And they always have signs that tell you what's being grown there, you
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  know. And one of them said tater tots. And I was like,
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  there's no way they're growing tater tots, like you don't grow tater tots,
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  Like it's so funny, but it said it literally said tater tots. But
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  it's not that hot there, No, no, it's not. Yeah,
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  they're cooking right there in the fields. But Tyler, I'm looking at over,
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  and I mean, I guess I always knew that there was a lot
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  of different types of or excuse me, they're called varieties of potato. But
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  Bedlington Farms they're cooking up all kinds of them. I mean we've got one,
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  two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
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  nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen fourteen. It looks like seventeen
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  eighteen. I mean a ton of them. They've got a ton. And
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  by the way, never heard of any of them. You know why,
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  because I just go to the store and buy potatoes. Honestly, I didn't
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  know. But I'm looking at them. I mean, the banana fingerling.
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  Pretty sure I've eaten some of those before. Like I'm pretty sure I have
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  cowl white. This looks like kind of what it is that I usually buy.
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  I mean, I from being completely honest, I don't really know.
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  But that being said, Bedlington Farms dot Com is the website, and yeah,
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  they're gonna be people are gonna be hearing that name a lot now.
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  People in the county Tyler. They might have heard of Dick Bedlington before.
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  Huh, absolutely, I mean in the he's in the Central Watchton University Hall
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  of Fame. Graduated from Linden, placed second in the javelin the nineteen sixty
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  nine NAIA National Meet, and he was fourth in nineteen seventy. At Central.
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  He won the District one title in nineteen seventy and was invited to the
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  Olympic training camp. He held the school record at Central for the javelin throw
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  of two hundred and forty one feet and eleven inches, some big time numbers
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  he you know, he puts every year. He's the main sponsor of the
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  big Bedlington Twilight Invite out at Linden. It was at Lyndon Christian this year.
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  Just a just a really like a kind of a staple in the community.
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  Everybody knows who he is, and a really cool deal that we get
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  to celebrate him and his potato farm and stuff like that and talk about it
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  and kind of bring it full circle because there might be people who don't know
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  so and I love the his history. I love stuff like that, and
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  you could bet there'll probably be a legacy supporter page of his high school career,
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  you know, and talking about what he did in college and the Olympic
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  stuff. So a really really cool deal. And I've never met him in
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  person. I'm sure I will soon. I did go out to the Bedlington
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  invite on Friday, but I was just kind of walking around taking pictures doing
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  my thing. There was a picture taking to me again walking Prep spotted shout
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  out, but I did not meet him, but I hope too soon,
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  because this is a it's a pretty cool deal. Yeah, And I'm just
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  looking over their website a little bit more here, Tyler. You could buy
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  potatoes right there on the website. As a matter of fact, if you
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  wanted to buy a fifty pound bag of chief and potatoes right now, you
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  could what you and miss Walking Preps would do with fifty pounds of potatoes.
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  I have no idea, but you could do it, Tyler. I'm telling
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  you. The other thing that I think is cool I'm going to go through
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  and watches later. They've got a whole video gallery here harvesting warehouse and sorting
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  the greenhouse lab. You know, they've got shipping videos which you might be
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  at any your shipping. Yeah, yep, you know, uh four row
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  potato harvester. I've never seen any of this, so at some point here,
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  I'm gonna go through these videos like I may. I might even have
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  a report for you next week on the Bedlington farm videos, Tyler, but
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  we might have to make that a segment like I will. I will react
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  and analyze one Bedlington farm video a week for the next What do we got
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  here? Two, four, six, eight weeks? Tyler? We got
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  eight weeks of Bedlington farm videos. I'm gonna I'm gonna a'll let you know
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  next week what the uh the blooming Fields video is all about? All right,
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  all right, sounds good. We will do that. So yeah.
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  Thank you to North County Alliance FC and Dick Bedlington Farms for hopping on board.
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  And again there are more things to sponsor, but Tyler, we got
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  track and field. We've got boys and girls. By the way, we've
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  got boys golf, We've got girls golf. We've got girls tennis, boys
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  soccer, and fast pitch and baseball to talk about. So in the you
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  know, in the in the best interests of the time for the world,
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  here we gotta get going. So let's talk track and field, which is
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  sponsored by Staffer Insurance. Our guy up there, Marty Staffer, nineteen o
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  three Front Street in Lindon three six zero seven four six eighty eight oh three.
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  Staffer Insurance dot Com is the website s T A U F F E
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  Erinsurance dot com. Now, last week we talked about every potential uh top
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  score time, whatever you want to say for boys and girls track and field.
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  This week, what we're gonna do is, we're just gonna update kind
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  of the new ones. Who who took over? Is there a new best
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  time in the one hundred meters? Tyler's gonna give it to you. And
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  actually, as a matter of fact, there is the best time in the
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  new in the one hundred meters. We're gonna talk boys first here one hundred
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  meters, Tyler, I see a new time here. Yeah. There was
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  only two track meets this past week, so both happened on Friday, where
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  a lot of the county schools were out at the Bedlington invite and Lenny Christian
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  and the City schools were out at Civic Stadium for the Light in the Ham
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  so with a lot of other bigger schools that showed up. So so there
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  are some new times. Teagan Daughters at Squalicum ran an eleven point one point
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  two to take over that spot. This could be going back and forth a
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  little bit with him and Clint Camera as the season goes on. And speaking
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  of Clint Camera, Tyler, I see a new time here in the four
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  hundred meters. Yeah, he broke he has that one now too. I
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  don't think he even ran it last week, but he ran it this week
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  and now he has the new time at fifty point nine to seven seconds.
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  We talked about it last week. You break fifty seconds in the four hundred
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  and that's just ridiculous. You start talking about big time state placeholders there.
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  Yeah, that is absolutely cooking. Thirty two hundred meters Tyler, which is
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  what do we say two miles? Right? Yeah? Right, it's really
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  really close to that. It's eight laps owen Voight at Squalicum nine and a
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  half minutes basically nine minutes thirty one point five to seven seconds I'm not sure
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  if he ran it last week either, but he he broke this one by
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  quite a bit. And that's again the long distance stuff. Every single week,
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  it seems to get uh slimmed down or it'll get broken every single week,
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  or it should be. It usually is. We got a new time
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  in the four by four hundred relay and it's a name I recognize, and
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  then the name that we've already talked about. Yeah, there's there's Yeah,
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  it's it's a really good, you know, squalkum. They're starting to make
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  a little dent into this list here, Uh Marcus Nixon, Ty Hoffman,
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  Tay Hoffman. I saw it on the basketball team, Uh, Chase Chase
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  Bartlett, who is kind of their main you know, distance guy, and
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  or as far as kind of middle distance and teaking daughters they're they're they're a
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  sprinter. So it's a it's a group of a lot of different people,
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  but three minutes twenty nine point five to three seconds, that is cooking.
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  I'm gonna start looking into some all time like Wakam County type records because that
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  is an unbelievable time that's gonna be pretty tough to get to be beat.
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  Yeah, that is. I mean, that is really really moving right there.
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  And you mentioned and Bartlett, yeah, he's got the eight hundred and
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  the sixteen hundred meters best times as far as the county goes. Already adds
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  the four x four hundred relays part of that group. Let's talk shotput.
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  I see the the young man who throws the discus further to anybody else has
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  taken over the shotput now too. Huh yeah, no surprise there. I
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  got to see this throw Kean Coppinger through a forty nine feat three and a
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  half inches. I was he was throwing it right towards me and I was
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  sitting there taking pictures and it looked really close. I mean obviously close to
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  the fifty fifty line there that was in the sand. But man, he's
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  just so powerful and it's just been fun watching him do this throughout the years,
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  of course watching him play football. And no surprise that he's getting close
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  to that fifty foot marker. He's gonna he's you know, I think I've
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  seen videos of him throwing about fifty four feet during practice. So you know,
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  it's all about just executing it and getting it done. And like I
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  said, no surprise over the lead there. We got a new long distance
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  in the javelin. Huh yeah. I watched a lot of the javelin.
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  There's some really good throwers. That's one of those events that you know,
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  we joked about it last year that that's something I want to try. My
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  goal would be one hundred feet and who knows if that could happen. But
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  but that's where Darius gilstrap led last week. He actually broke his time or
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  his time his distance. But Joey Brown threw one one hundred and sixty feet
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  and eight inches during the warm ups. I saw him throw one over one
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  seventy and it was kind of it was I think it was this very very
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  first warm ups throw and everyone you could just hear everyone go whoa because they're
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  because they're like in the third heat right, all the all the top throwers
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  are throwing at the end and people have been standing there for a while watching
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  what's been going on. They haven't seen these kinds of throws. So that
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  was a lot of fun watching the big time guys throw at the end there.
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  And in the high jump, we had two guys that had already jumped
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  five foot eight we're adding a third one too. Yeah, squalk come again,
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  Jacob Trumper at five foot eight. This is another one of those things
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  that I you know, someone's gonna clear six feet. It just it just
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  it's another one of those events that as the year goes on, h it
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  just gets you know, that the heights get higher and higher, and all
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  of a sudden you'll see people jumping six feet six two and it'll be it's
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  you know, with these three guys with Luke Smith and Benjamin Sandholm as well,
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  all of them have jumped five eight so far. Which one's gonna be
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  the first one to jump six feet? I don't know. So, Tyler,
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  I had a curiosity. I wanted to see what is the four x
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  four hundred relay state record for the for the two A and boys. The
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  entire state record. Yeah, it was says here, well, and is
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  this I don't know if this is just the state championship or if this state
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  record right right, but it's on the wi's website and it says the time
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  is three twenty twenty five. So so yeah, I mean, so they're
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  nine seconds off, but that's still when you talk about four by four hundred.
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  Yeah, nine seconds is you know, pretty close. Like it's a
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  lot closer than people probably realize some of the other stuff that I'm looking at
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  here. Tyler just blows me away. Cason Williams jumped fifty feet nine inches
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  in the triple jump. Holy cow. Yeah, and actually that was in
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  twenty eleven, which would have been his junior No, that would have been
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  his senior year. Yeah, that's wild, Like that is just crazy because
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  when I look at the triple jump here for the boys in Walkame County right
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  now, No offense to Jared McCrory, but thirty nine feet, I mean
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  that's the heck of a jump. But Cason Williams, I mean wow.
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  I mean yeah, plus Cason Williams exceptional obviously exceptional athlete, but still,
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  like that number is just kind of shocking when you see it, you know
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  what I mean. The Walkham County record in the triple jump is forty six
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  feet and six and three quarters inches and that was done forty five years ago.
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  Holy crap. Forty Larry Larry Plagerman at Lyndon Christians. So that's that's
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  pretty Uh, it's pretty crazy. Croy Pets, I think he jumped I
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  think he did like forty three eight somewhere around there. Troy Pets is anything
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  that guy can't do? I know, I know it's crazy. Uh,
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  And I was looking. I have the Walkham County record for the four by
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  four hundred somewhere in near I know it'll pop up here. Good do have
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  you gone back and looked at all this stuff? Tyler? Is that how
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  you got these or where where'd you get them from? Yeah? I have,
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  That's what I do in the summer. Yeah, you're crazy. Three
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  minutes are here? Here you go, three minutes, twenty seconds, three
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  twenty point six y three? Wow? So what was the one that you
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  had? Well, that was the two A boys and that was three Uh
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  where did it go? Three twenty twenty five? Okay, so this is
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  four tenths of a second off and this was Wollokam in twenty thirteen. I
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  don't have the individuals. I mean I could find it, it wouldn't take
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  too long. But yeah, but that's the that's the Walkham County record.
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  So then I'm looking at three A boys. Three A boys is three eighteen,
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  which is wild. Yeah. Yeah, four A boys is three fifteen,
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  three fifteen twenty six, Tyler, I mean that is unbelievably fast.
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  Yeah, let's talk girls, Tyler. We've got some girls. We've got
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  what do we got here? Five of them looks like five new five new
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  top times and distances. And yeah, the first one we're gonna talk about
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  here is eight hundred meters two laps around the track. Yeah. Uh mar
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  Marcella Alita from Sea Home two minutes twenty four point twenty nine seconds. That's
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  one where you could if you I mean, breaking two minutes in two laps.
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  That's really really tough to do. The Walkham County record is two minutes
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  and eleven seconds by Becka Friday and by and Bellingham. That was about fifteen
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  years ago, so so about thirteen seconds off that right now, Becca Friday,
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  That's that's a really cool name. Yeah, thirty two hundred meters Tyler
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  on the boy side and now the girls side. Yeah. Sydney Harry from
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  Seahome, not to be confused with Harry Sydney who used to play running back
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  for the forty nine ers in the early nineties. But eleven minutes and twenty
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  nine point five to four seconds, uh, Seahome is just I mean,
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  you see all the state champions and cross country it's it's it. You're gonna
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  see this a lot with Seahome runners having the best time at the thirty two
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  hundred meter what I have for the best for the Walkham County record. These
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  are unofficial. This is just me going through old newspapers and finding what I
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  can. Bronwin Crossman from squal him in two thousand and seven, ten minutes,
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  thirty five point nine to six seconds, bron Win Crossman. There are
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  some great names, yeah, like that is a that is a first off.
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  That name is a mouthful, but there are some really great names here.
• 22:03
  One hundred meter hurdles tyler one of my favorite ones to watch. Yeah,
• 22:06
  definitely. It's always right there in front of the stands and it's it's
• 22:10
  it's a lot going on, and it is really fast. It is really
• 22:14
  really fast. Elena Veldt camp h sixteen point seven four seconds. I got
• 22:19
  to see that one up close. Uh that was that was really really cool.
• 22:22
  You see a really good hurdler and it's just it's calling. It's kind
• 22:26
  of mesmerizing because they're like you could come up do you go to a hurdler
• 22:30
  and be like, how many steps do you take in the whole thing?
• 22:32
  And they know like the whole thing. Yeah, they're like, yeah,
• 22:34
  that's wing brings. Yeah, it's they know every single step, every single
• 22:38
  jump, where they got to be. They know if they're gonna they're off
• 22:41
  a little bit. Uh So that's that's a that's an incredible time sixteen point
• 22:47
  seven four as well. So uh, really really cool there. Yeah,
• 22:51
  that is definitely cool. Tyler. We have new distances in the shot put
• 22:59
  am the discus on the girl's side, and it's the same person and it's
• 23:04
  a name that I recognize from basketball season. Yeah, and volleyball too.
• 23:08
  She was a defensive Player of the Week for volleyball. One week she was
• 23:11
  the lone senior on the Lynden Christian basketball team. Tabby de Young just such
• 23:17
  a such a great kid. I mean, she's always all smiles. I
• 23:21
  mean I remember telling her the great job. Like we were in the hallway
• 23:23
  out at Linden High School and they just you know, qualified for state and
• 23:27
  she's just smiled. She's like, oh, thank you. She's she's she's
• 23:32
  just you know, such a kind hearted person. And I've gotten to know
• 23:36
  her a little bit, and but man, you put a shot put in
• 23:37
  her hand or a discus, and she could really throw that thirty six feet
• 23:42
  four inches and the shot one hundred and fifteen feet and two inches in the
• 23:48
  discus. That is that's those are some big, big time numbers. You
• 23:52
  start getting over thirty feet and over one hundred feet and the girls for those
• 23:56
  for those two and you start in and she's putting in, she's she's you
• 24:02
  know, she's putting some distance with that too, some addition to that,
• 24:06
  I should say. So I'm really excited to see what she does, especially
• 24:08
  in the postseason. Yeah. I remember last week when we were talking about
• 24:12
  like the hammer throw and like how they how do they know when to let
• 24:17
  go and stuff, because once you start spinning, I started breaking it down
• 24:19
  and I watched a little bit of it on YouTube. It actually makes all
• 24:22
  the sense in the world. It's like you're you're rotating over like an axis
• 24:27
  and you're kind of come down. Yeah, and then as your two feet
• 24:32
  come down and you start to spin, you know how many times you've done
• 24:34
  it, just like the hurdler, right, you know how many times you've
• 24:37
  done it and then boom you let go on the fifth one or whatever the
• 24:41
  number was. I was watching it, I was like Okay, it actually
• 24:45
  makes a lot more sense once you really sit down and break it down.
• 24:47
  But I still don't think I could pull it off because I would let that
• 24:49
  thing fly it probably the wrong time, like I would probably hit the guy
• 24:53
  holding the camera or something. I don't know what would happened. But yeah,
• 24:57
  that is Boys and Girls New Leaders, Tyler. And again thank you
• 25:03
  to stoff for Insurance for their continued support of boys and Girls track and field
• 25:07
  here in the spring. And they had what boys women dive in the in
• 25:11
  the in the winter, and I'm sure they're gonna have something in the fall
• 25:15
  because they are big sponsors and big supporters. Excuse me of of what we
• 25:19
  got going on here at Walkam Preps. So let's talk boys at golf,
• 25:23
  Tyler. Did we talk boys girls? Did we talk boys or girls golf?
• 25:27
  Last week? Not at all. This is something that I was hoping
• 25:32
  to do. A few different people have reached out to me asking me if
• 25:34
  we're gonna do golf, and I said, yeah, I go. I
• 25:37
  just need I just need results. I need info. Once I get that
• 25:40
  kind of stuff, I need pictures because I can't be at all these events.
• 25:44
  Spring is just crazy with all the different sports going on, and it's
• 25:47
  every single day, and and lo and behold, I got events. So
• 25:52
  it's it's you know, every basically every team golfs once a week and it
• 25:57
  could be at different events and then you kind of keep your average score over
• 26:02
  eighteen holes. And so we have the top golfers here for boys and girls.
• 26:06
  Yeah, and the boys and girls golf Tyler, no sponsors. So
• 26:08
  if somebody wants to go on board, heck, you could be a golf
• 26:11
  course. If you know somebody over at a golf course and you would like
• 26:15
  to sponsor Watcom preps for boys and girls golf, This is perfect opportunity to
• 26:18
  do it because we're gonna start talking about it every single week here. I
• 26:21
  mean we really are. So let's talk boys first, Tyler. Now,
• 26:27
  Tyler, I'm just gonna admit so I'm pretty good at golf. Like I'm
• 26:32
  okay, you know what I mean? Yeah? Yeah, these kids would
• 26:33
  kick the crap out of me. Yeah, on both both sides. Say
• 26:37
  what, we're gonna talk boys, the top Watcom county golfers. What do
• 26:41
  we got here? We got three six, we got eight names listed,
• 26:45
  Tyler, So why don't you go ahead and give me the eight names.
• 26:48
  Yeah, so Baylor Larrabee from Ferndale's kind of leading the pack there is.
• 26:52
  It shoots an average of sixty eight, which is just ridiculous. I mean,
• 26:56
  that's that's a crazy score for I can't do that putt putt, Yeah,
• 27:00
  I mean I can't even do that on the video game. That's that's
• 27:04
  really really good. Right behind him, Daniel Blankenberg seventy three and a half
• 27:10
  average, Travis Brockie at Ferndale eighty along with Josh Cummer from Seahome both are
• 27:15
  averaging at eighty. Matthew Blankenberg eighty one and a half. Thomas den Hartog
• 27:21
  who remember from football, one of the backup quarterbacks there outside linebacker eighty three,
• 27:26
  Jack Stapleton, all six foot seven of them starting center on the on
• 27:29
  the Linden basketball team eighty three and a half. And I wouldn't want to
• 27:33
  use his clubs. I don't think. I don't think you could. I
• 27:36
  don't think you could see over his clubs. And then Gabe Quick at Seahome
• 27:41
  shoots as averaging in eighty five. Let's see hear the girls side. We've
• 27:45
  got three, six, nine, we got ten ten listed here. I
• 27:48
  believe yeah, so leading the way Cassidy Hogan from Seahome. Seahome last year
• 27:53
  was the state champions at two way. So as as a team, they
• 27:59
  did graduate a lot of a lot of their players. I know one for
• 28:02
  sure that went off to play college. But Cassidy Hogan from Sea Hoome averaging
• 28:06
  ninety Kinsley Rector from Lyndon ninety two, Madelin Angles from Lyndon Christian ninety eight,
• 28:12
  Marley McMahon from Sea Home one oh four, Lucy Jones from Linden averaging
• 28:18
  one oh six. Kaylee Anderson, who gave us an intro a few weeks
• 28:21
  ago from the Knuksack basketball team averaging one o eight. Uh, boy,
• 28:26
  this name. Yeah, we're gonna butcher one here. Somebody at Blaine is
• 28:30
  gonna help us out in the future. As a matter of fact, Tyler,
• 28:33
  if this girl's listening, why don't we get her to do an intro
• 28:34
  so we know how to say it in the future. Yeah, Uh,
• 28:41
  I'm gonna I'm gonna take a stab at it. Then I'll have you take
• 28:42
  a stab at it. You want to try this, sure, I'll go
• 28:45
  first, I'll go, I'll go. Hija Van Reiswick. Yeah, see.
• 28:52
  I think the jay is gonna be silent. I think it's gonna be
• 28:55
  Keia Okay van ry Wick, Yeah, I think he might be right.
• 29:00
  Kia van Rywick from Blaine averaging one oh nine. Mattie Taylor from Bellingham won
• 29:06
  ten, Dallas Ranky from Meridian at one twelve, and her teammate Job Jensen
• 29:11
  from Meridian one thirteen. So there's a lot of different schools represented here.
• 29:15
  It's really early in the season too, so you're you'll start to see some
• 29:18
  little jocking for position. I'm sure. Yeah, somebody at Blaine help us
• 29:22
  out there. If you know her, tell her to reach out to Tyler
• 29:27
  on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter wherever. Tell her to reach out to him
• 29:32
  because i we'd love to get an intro so that we know how to say
• 29:34
  in the future, because I'm sure Tyler's gonna have to say it a few
• 29:37
  more times. Probably. That's Boys and Girls Golf again. Sponsor needed if
• 29:41
  you would like to sponsor at Tyler. What's the best way to get a
• 29:45
  hold of you? Yeah, just text me three six zero six eight four
• 29:48
  four three zero six, or you can get a hold of me on social
• 29:52
  media Like you were just saying, just search for walking preps. Yeah,
• 29:56
  and if you if you know the girl and you're standing next to her,
• 30:00
  just record her really quickly and text it to Tyler. There you go.
• 30:03
  Let's talk girls tennis. Tyler. Girls tennis also does not have a sponsor.
• 30:07
  But uh, I'm looking at some standings here. We've got, uh,
• 30:10
  what have we got six teams? Is that is it? Is it
• 30:12
  only six that are playing? Yeah? Yeah, the the four it's all
• 30:18
  the bigger schools. The only one a school's playing is Blaine. Okay,
• 30:21
  so it's just the Yeah, just the bigger schools. Okay, we've got
• 30:25
  let's see here, we've got Ferndale and Blaine. They are oh and three
• 30:27
  on the season. Tyler, what's the second number you've got here? For
• 30:30
  me? That's basically courts won, So every so everybody's played twenty one courts
• 30:37
  basically. Yeah, so you always have four singles matches and three doubles matches
• 30:42
  for each event. Let's say, so you know it's uh, it's I
• 30:48
  mean, so that's basically what that number means. If you won an overall
• 30:52
  court, then you have a win there. Yeah, Okay, I see
• 30:55
  what you're saying. So Ferndale Blaine they're both oh and three on the season,
• 30:59
  Bellingham two and one, and then we've got Sea Home, Linden and
• 31:02
  Squalicum they're all three and oh. Now I assume those three schools are gonna
• 31:06
  be playing each other here soon huh oh yeah, and we'll be talking about
• 31:08
  that later on in the podcast with the what to look forward to in the
• 31:11
  upcoming week. But yeah, those three schools have been playing really well,
• 31:15
  so as Bellingham. I mean, seventeen courts won and just four lost.
• 31:19
  And those four that they lost was a four to three loss against Lyndon,
• 31:25
  so that's you know, so that's that was that was their one loss,
• 31:27
  which was a really really close match. So those those four schools at the
• 31:32
  top are very very evenly. Uh, you know, the talent wise is
• 31:37
  very even. I think Sea Home has got that edge though. Uh.
• 31:41
  And and it's crazy because like I'll look at Linden and who they play,
• 31:45
  like as their four singles and their three doubles, and it's the same.
• 31:48
  It's this, it's the same lineup like every week, like they know exactly
• 31:52
  who that is. See Holme has been moving it around. That tells me
• 31:56
  another thing that tells me they have depth. They can, they can,
• 31:59
  they can like Matty, you know, it's a little differently. Yeah,
• 32:01
  you'll see a singles player play doubles, then go back to singles and they're
• 32:06
  still undefeated on the year, twenty one to zero on their court. So
• 32:08
  that is really really impressive. I got to see some Seahome tennis and I
• 32:16
  got to see Bellingham and Ferndale play against each other as well, so with
• 32:20
  some tennis this week, So it's really really cool. I mean it's crazy.
• 32:24
  I grew up with a tennis court in my backyard. It was just
• 32:28
  one of those things. Yeah. My grandfather and my dad built the house
• 32:31
  that I grew up in back in the seventies and they did a lot of
• 32:35
  custom stuffy they and one of the things they did is they had a tennis
• 32:37
  court in the backyard. So Baker didn't have a tennis team, but it
• 32:42
  was one of those things that I really enjoyed playing growing up. And so
• 32:49
  it really brings me back when I watch it because it just makes me think
• 32:52
  about, you know, my youth and stuff like that and having friends coming
• 32:55
  over or playing with my brother, and so it is really really cool to
• 33:00
  see and there's just there's some really good players out there. So I'm excited
• 33:04
  for the postseason as well. So a couple of things. Tyler won squal
• 33:08
  Coum and Bellingham both have won seventeen and lost four one three and oh one's
• 33:14
  two and one, which is wild when you think about it. But you
• 33:16
  said Bellingham lost four to three to Lindon. Yeah, so Lindon's only three
• 33:25
  courts lost on the season all came in that one to Belling, right right.
• 33:30
  Wow, that's and Bellingham's only four losses of the courts game. Yeah,
• 33:35
  that is so evenly matches what I'm saying, like thoth, like those
• 33:39
  four are all very well. You figure it was probably a couple of points
• 33:43
  either way, and it could have been the other way. You know,
• 33:45
  yes, very very easily. Now, Tyler, you did say that you
• 33:49
  used to play some tennis. Yeah, a little bit. I played some
• 33:52
  tennis growing up too. I think when we when we do this pros versus
• 33:55
  Joe's thing, instead of playing against some of these girls, because we don't
• 33:58
  want to look totally, we just play against each other. Oh okay,
• 34:02
  okay, that's what that'll be like the the end all, you know,
• 34:06
  like the big finale if you will. You meets pickleball. We're gonna play
• 34:09
  full on tennis. Now we're gonna play full on tennis and probably tearing a
• 34:13
  cl Let's talk boys soccer, boy soccer. Oh wait, boy soccer does
• 34:17
  have a sponsor or kind of yes? Uh? North County Alliance FC.
• 34:22
  Yes, that's right, they're just sponsoring the scoreboard. Yes, they are
• 34:24
  sponsoring the scoreboard. North County Alliance FC again, Ncalliance FC dot Com.
• 34:30
  Lots of stuff going on over there, so be sure to check that out.
• 34:32
  They've got tryouts coming up here in the next Uh, let's see.
• 34:36
  The first one would be what it's less than a month April fifteenth. Yeah,
• 34:39
  yeah, it's really really close. Tax day, boy, that scares
• 34:42
  the heck out of me. And I gotta do taxes with the business and
• 34:44
  everything. Yeah, hold different type of taxes for you this year. Yeah,
• 34:47
  let's talk boys soccer. Tyler. I mean I'm looking at well,
• 34:52
  first off, you got it all. Now, you've got you've got all
• 34:55
  the all of the games recorded, you've got all the leading scores here,
• 34:59
  and it's not what's the word I'm looking for here? Not incomplete? Right,
• 35:04
  We've got it now because people are helping us out and that's huge.
• 35:07
  That is huge with some of this stuff because it's impossible to find some of
• 35:10
  these numbers and stats and different things, and you know, we want to
• 35:14
  be able to report this stuff and get it out to the masses, and
• 35:15
  we can't do it without some help. So that's great looking at it over,
• 35:21
  Tyler, anything from the last week we need to talk about. I
• 35:23
  mean, I see Lynn and Christian is one in four, Nook Sac Valley
• 35:28
  is one in three, Ferndale one three and one. Kind of anything with
• 35:31
  those three teams you want to talk about. Well, Lindy Christian got their
• 35:35
  first win. I got to see that. It was against Sultan on Saturday
• 35:37
  in the rain at home. Harvest Howell a freshman is really really good.
• 35:45
  He scored a goal earlier in the week, and then he scored three goals
• 35:47
  against Sultan. That was super impressive. Like I said, just a freshman
• 35:52
  and that's one of those sports where a freshman can come in and if they're
• 35:55
  super talented, they can they could make a difference right away. Nooksac Balley
• 36:01
  I got to see them as well. To play against Anacortis at home.
• 36:05
  That was a tough one there. They lost three zero. Ferndale getting their
• 36:08
  first win was huge. That was against Lyndon in a really good game,
• 36:13
  three to two against kind of their rivals. And that one was back and
• 36:16
  forth. That was like one nothing, then one one and two to one
• 36:19
  two two, and then it was three two at the end. So uh
• 36:22
  so there were some really I went to a lot of ten soccer games this
• 36:25
  week. I I think I was at one almost every single day of this
• 36:29
  week. Wow, that's more soccer in a week than you've probably watched in
• 36:31
  the years. Yeah, definitely. How about Meridian Linden and Squalicum Meridian Linden
• 36:38
  played each other Lyndon. Lennon got the shutout win there. It was their
• 36:42
  second one in two days, shutting out Lake with on Monday, shutting out
• 36:45
  Meridian on Tuesday. Uh Squalicum. Squalicum is really really good. Uh,
• 36:50
  but they you know, they played a kind of a tough schedule. They
• 36:52
  played against Lake Stevens. I was at that one. Uh that one was
• 36:55
  just you know two to one Lakes Lake Lake Stevens. I mean, you
• 37:00
  know, it could have gone, could have gone either way. I was
• 37:01
  also at the Lindon Meridian game. So it's a lot of soccer. Like
• 37:07
  I said, Yeah, And by the way, Tyler Lindon, clean sheets,
• 37:12
  Yeah, clean sheets, not shutouts, not shutouts. Yeah yeah,
• 37:15
  clean sheet Right, that's a hey, I'm gonna keep calling it softball.
• 37:20
  You keep calling them shutouts Sea Home, Blaine, and Bellingham Tyler Seahome five
• 37:27
  and oh, Blaine four oh and one and Bellingham five and one on the
• 37:30
  season. Yeah, this is definitely the cream of the crop here. Uh.
• 37:35
  Bellingham has just been super impressive. They lost their opening game that was
• 37:37
  against Seahome and they've won five in a row since then. So uh and
• 37:43
  and what's what's crazy is that the two teams that I haven't seen yet are
• 37:46
  Blaine and Bellingham. I haven't seen him in person yet. No. I
• 37:50
  meant to go see Bellingham on Saturday night they were hosting Lyndon. That was
• 37:53
  a really good game. I wasn't able to make it. Uh, but
• 37:58
  Bellingham when that one four to two, See Home, I got to see
• 38:00
  there. I think I I was against Siege Wooly earlier in the week.
• 38:05
  I think it was Tuesday night and watching Bay soccer. Uh, it's different,
• 38:10
  it's different than a lot of the other teams, the communication, the
• 38:14
  execution, it was like a machine. Uh so different than watching a lot
• 38:17
  of other teams. There was there was no questions, you know, there
• 38:22
  was no like confusion. It was it was you know, the coach was
• 38:25
  yelling at something and they just all like it was almost like if you played
• 38:29
  a video game and you just just moved them to where he wanted them to
• 38:31
  be moved. I mean, it was it was I could see why they're
• 38:36
  five and zero. They are very very good. They're very aggressive, and
• 38:42
  there's just a lot of talent. And it was a pretty good crowd too,
• 38:45
  out at that new football stadium behind the school that they play where they
• 38:49
  they played the soccer game, so that was that was really really neat.
• 38:52
  You know, they got the lights and everything, so you got they got
• 38:54
  to play the late game and and uh yeah, it was a lot of
• 38:58
  fun to watch. Well, Tyler, it's funny say this because I was
• 39:00
  just going to ask you where they play their games. Yeah, and so
• 39:05
  while you were talking about some stuff there, I went to Google Maps and
• 39:07
  I was like zooming in and I'm like, what is going on on this
• 39:10
  field? And then I realized, oh, like there's all kinds of stuff
• 39:14
  all over the field. And what it is is they're actually putting in the
• 39:16
  lines on the turf, is what they're doing. But then Tyler, I
• 39:21
  happened to see this sandwich place across the street. Have you ever been to
• 39:25
  this sandwich Odyssey? Yeah? Wow, this place looks awesome. Yeah,
• 39:32
  it happened there. Yeah, this like French dip looking thing here. Wow.
• 39:37
  And best of all, they serve squirt. Oh yeah, it's hard
• 39:43
  to find. Yeah, that's really hard to find. Man. Tyler.
• 39:46
  I was gonna say, let's give you the let's have you give us the
• 39:51
  ten leading scorers, but then I realized there's actually twelve of them, because
• 39:55
  five guys are tied for eighth in scoring right now with County Twler. Won't
• 40:00
  you give us those five names? Yeah, well, it's gonna start off
• 40:02
  with our guy at Phoenix, Fink Bonner. He seems like almost every game
• 40:06
  he scores a goal, and that's he's very very much in the head of
• 40:09
  that. When you watch, you could see he's got the ball a lot
• 40:13
  as a forward. Harvest Howell, the freshman from Lenny Christian who I just
• 40:15
  spoke about, he had three in that game against Sultan to bump him up
• 40:20
  to be tied in eighth place with four goals. Arren Burks and Roy Marquez
• 40:24
  they had four goals after one week, and so I expect them to kind
• 40:30
  of move up this after a silent week for them. And Noah Allen from
• 40:35
  Seaholm also has four goals. Yeah, and those two young men at Meridian,
• 40:38
  they're aftering a goal a game right now. They've only played four games
• 40:42
  as a team. I mean y, Yeah, they both had a hat
• 40:45
  trick in the first game, so they jumped out to a big start and
• 40:47
  they're still on the leader board list, but I would expect they're going to
• 40:51
  be moving up pretty soon. Yeah. They Well they better because if not,
• 40:54
  Phoenix Finkbonner or Harvest Tower a going to knock him off. Let's talk
• 40:59
  seventh place with five goals Tyler. Yeah, Rudy Zurcher from Seahome again,
• 41:02
  Seaholme is just loaded with a lot of talent in that front line and and
• 41:07
  uh and they and they sub guys too that are really good. I mean
• 41:10
  you talk about even like the kickers that we know, the Grady Evans,
• 41:14
  the Kyle Dieifels, these are these are soccer players too, so uh ris
• 41:19
  really talented squad there. Uh. Tied for third place are four guys with
• 41:23
  six goals from four different schools too. Yeah these are and these are the
• 41:29
  you know, these are the four top schools. Aiden McGuire from Bellingham has
• 41:32
  six goals. He's he's he started out like he'd have these spurts where we'd
• 41:37
  have these huge games. Uh. Blake Kuresky, he's good for it always
• 41:40
  seems like a goal or two a game. Uh we you know, we
• 41:44
  know him from the football team obviously. Liam Schumacher Seaholmes leading scorer with six
• 41:49
  goals, and Isaac Grimes He's the one who got the solo goal and the
• 41:52
  penalty kick against Lake Stevens. He also has six goals. Yeah. Seeholme's
• 41:55
  got three guys on this list. I mean my goodness in second place was
• 42:01
  seven goals Tyler. Yes, Simon Egner, he's kind of quieted off he
• 42:07
  was leading after one week, but I would expect him to still do some
• 42:12
  pretty good things. What was funny is I think it was the game against
• 42:17
  Mount Vernon or something. It was earlier in the week and I wasn't getting
• 42:21
  it. I couldn't get info from it, but it had it on NFHS,
• 42:24
  so I got to watch that and I got in and they didn't show
• 42:29
  the score, but I just sat and watched the whole thing and I saw
• 42:34
  him score a goal there, and then I got to see him in person
• 42:37
  a couple of days later against Lake Stevens and the leading scorer this week.
• 42:40
  He has eight goals in Bellingham, was first six games. Yeah, Judas
• 42:46
  Strait, that's pretty impressive. He had the hat trick against Lyndon on Saturday
• 42:51
  night. I have not got to see him in person yet. I'm excited
• 42:54
  to see him play. I'm sure there's some videos on NFHS, but I'm
• 42:59
  really looking ordered seeing him and the rest of the BayHawks boys soccer team in
• 43:04
  person. It's them and Blaine. They're the only two teams I haven't seen
• 43:06
  yet, so it'll be impressive to see and and we'll see how the schedule
• 43:10
  looks this upcoming week. I'm sure there'll be a way that I could get
• 43:14
  out there and watch them. Yeah, in Bellingham right now two of the
• 43:16
  top three scores in the county with McGuire and straight So yeah, pretty impressive.
• 43:22
  What's going on up there in Wakam County. Tyler, By the way,
• 43:27
  do you think Judas straight? Do you think like he doesn't kick the
• 43:30
  ball straight? Huh? I mean you don't score eight goals by kicking it
• 43:34
  straight. There's gonna be a little bit of a Judah curve, you know
• 43:37
  what I mean. Yeah, Yeah, we gotta, yeah, we gotta
• 43:38
  have them be the nickname the curve straight or something like that. Or yeah,
• 43:44
  a slider. There's something there. We'll figure it out later. Yeah,
• 43:46
  there's something there again. That is boys soccer. And the scoreboards are
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  I'm sure they've got more going on over there, but batting cages are what
• 44:37
  get you and I excited. So we're gonna talk about that every week because
• 44:38
  that's what we like. Let's talk about the teams and the games. We
• 44:44
  will start with Squalicum, Bellingham and Seaholme Tyler on the season. Squal coum
• 44:49
  oh and five, Bellingham oh to four, Sea Home four and two on
• 44:52
  the season. So it's kind of strange that they are kind of at the
• 44:55
  bottom of the standings, but it's because they are now zero and two in
• 45:00
  conference to play. Yeah, it's it's I've seen all these teams play and
• 45:04
  uh, it's gonna be a tough road for Bellingham and Squalicum just because of
• 45:08
  the youth and uh and trying to get the consistency in the circle as the
• 45:14
  pitchers. So uh, but I did see them again this week. Uh,
• 45:17
  they'll they'll start to come around. It seems like Squalicum keeps every like
• 45:22
  game. They seem to like have a new player that I didn't know about
• 45:24
  come in. So I think they had some players that maybe just didn't have
• 45:29
  enough practices yet or something like that, and all of a sudden, they're
• 45:30
  batting like third, So I think as the rosters continues to fill out,
• 45:35
  it's only going to help their their chances. They did score six runs the
• 45:37
  other day against Anacortus, which was really really promising, and seem see them.
• 45:44
  I mean, if I could get info from SEM, that'd be fantastic,
• 45:45
  But I uh, they keep playing other teams that aren't on the game
• 45:50
  changer apps. So uh when I I went and actually watched the whole game
• 45:53
  against Lakewood and took book because I needed I needed the stats. But then
• 45:59
  they play to Orchest Island over the weekend and they won seventeen to two.
• 46:02
  But I I'll figure it out. I'm going to talk to one of the
• 46:07
  assistant coaches and get and see if I can take some snapshots of the book
• 46:12
  from some prior games. So now, because now there's two games, the
• 46:14
  game against Marysville Pilchuck the game against Orchest Island, which were both wins that
• 46:17
  I don't have stats for. And I think that they because they got some
• 46:21
  big time players that could be up there in the stat leader board, that
• 46:25
  the line Drive Northwest stat leaderboard, that would be a lot of you know,
• 46:30
  I think a lot of people would enjoy seeing their name on there.
• 46:34
  So I'll get those soon. And I just have to I just have to
• 46:38
  gird up my loins to talk to strangers. That's all I gotta do.
• 46:42
  Well. And I mean, let's face it, if you've got seventeen runs
• 46:45
  going up in a game, then somebody's got to be putting some RBIs in
• 46:49
  there, and they could be on the leaderboard exactly. Yeah, I'm pretty
• 46:52
  sure that there would be some players on the leaderboard. Even last week at
• 46:54
  least Krout was up at the top, near the top of RBI's and there
• 46:59
  was a game that was missing. So so I would assume that she's the
• 47:04
  senior catcher, really really good hitter. I would assume she's she's probably over
• 47:07
  double digits now in RBI. So uh, but yeah, I'd love to
• 47:10
  get that info because then I could include it, and then we'll be complete,
• 47:14
  the whole county would be complete with their statistical leaders. Let's talk Meridian
• 47:17
  and Nuksack Valley. Both teams are one and one in conference play. Meridian
• 47:22
  two and two overall, Nuksack Valley one and two overall. Yeah, Meridian
• 47:27
  started strong to o then they they dropped their last two against some pretty good
• 47:31
  opponents. I think they'll be okay. Uh, you know, it's just
• 47:36
  the schedules, you know, it just hits you sometimes. And there's some
• 47:38
  really good team especially down in Skadget County. Uh, Secure, Woolley,
• 47:43
  Uh, you know, Burlington, these teams Lake was really good. They're
• 47:45
  they're fantastic there. It's gonna be a lot. It's gonna take a lot
• 47:49
  to beat those kinds of teams. Uh. Knucksack Valley dropped one to to
• 47:52
  Lynn and Christian. They did beat Bellingham earlier in the week, then they
• 47:55
  dropped onto Lynn and Christian. And it's I'm really interested to see kind of
• 48:00
  how they're gonna shape out because they're so well coached, and I just I
• 48:04
  don't know if they have enough enough pitching really. I mean, they they've
• 48:08
  just had these really young pitchers. They had multiple freshman pitchers last year.
• 48:13
  They're both sophomores. This year. I think there's another freshman pitcher, and
• 48:16
  so as they continue to improve, they could put runs up. It's just
• 48:21
  they have to be able to shut teams down as well. So, uh,
• 48:24
  it's gonna be it's gonna be tough. But I think both those teams
• 48:28
  are very comfortable with each other. Let's talk Mount Baker, Lynn and Christian
• 48:32
  and Ferndale. These three teams are one and one in conference play. Mount
• 48:37
  Baker four and one overall, Lynn Christian three and one. Ferndale also three
• 48:43
  and one overall. Yeah, they all took a loss this week after being
• 48:46
  undefeated after the first week. Ferndale lost to Oak Harbor. That was that
• 48:52
  was a tough one. Oak Harber, who played Blaine the day before.
• 48:57
  Uh, that was just I didn't see that one come that bad. And
• 49:00
  then Linny Christian lost. You know, they got beat pretty bad by Sidro
• 49:06
  Woolley and I know Sijo was pretty good, but it was close after a
• 49:08
  few innings, and then Sidro just put up one of those huge innings and
• 49:12
  they scored like thirteen or fourteen runs and that was kind of the end of
• 49:15
  that. So Lindy Christian very talented. I really liked their pitcher, Cassidy
• 49:20
  Van Sost. She's a good hitter too. But there's a lot of freshmen
• 49:22
  in that starting lineup, and you start and then all of a sudden you
• 49:25
  meet up against a really good pitcher that you've never seen and that can be
• 49:29
  pretty intimidating. So that's kind of what happened to the links Mount Baker.
• 49:34
  You know, they suffered their first loss of the year. That was on
• 49:36
  the road against Burlington, a very very good team. Mount Baker was up
• 49:38
  for nothing after the first inning. Gracy Zender, the catcher, hit a
• 49:43
  two run home run. They scored a couple other runs, and Burlington came
• 49:46
  back and scored for their own to tie it up. They and then I
• 49:51
  think they did that in the second inning, and then they scored another run
• 49:53
  here, another run there, and they just held on for the six to
• 49:55
  four win. That was a little bit surprising. I thought Baker would win
• 49:59
  that one, but Burlington's very very good. Uh. And I sometimes if
• 50:04
  it's a team that's that's pretty good like that, you need a little bit
• 50:07
  of that to kind of get in your crawl and make you just go,
• 50:09
  Okay, this can happen if we do. If we're not sharp, we
• 50:13
  can be beat. And especially when it comes to the postseason, we're only
• 50:15
  taking one team. Uh, They're gonna really need to be on their game
• 50:19
  because a loss will go a long way in that tournament. And uh,
• 50:22
  I would expect Baker to to you know, get things turned around. Uh
• 50:28
  coming into this upcoming week, and and I know, I think they play
• 50:30
  Si Drow this upcoming week. I think I could be wrong, but that's
• 50:35
  because that's gonna be a really really tough game as well. So uh yeah,
• 50:38
  we'll see what happens. High School Linden and Blaine Tyler. They're at
• 50:45
  the top of the standings. Linden two and oh in conference play, Blaine
• 50:47
  one and oh in conference play, Linden six and oh on the season,
• 50:52
  Blaine two and oh on the season. Yeah. I got to see both
• 50:54
  these teams this week. Monday, I went and saw Linden play against Arlington
• 50:59
  and and you know Linden, Linden played five games and six days this past
• 51:04
  week. Wow, So they they were they were busy. They were busy.
• 51:08
  The one time they didn't play I believe it was Wednesday, and that
• 51:10
  was the one game that Blaine played this week. Blaine's only played a couple
• 51:14
  of games just kind of how the schedule worked out. They had their game
• 51:17
  was canceled on on Friday, and so they've only played the two games.
• 51:22
  But the two teams they played are really good. Cedar Park Christian and then
• 51:25
  playing Oak Harbor. You know, I thought that Oak Harbor game, I
• 51:29
  thought that was gonna be a really good game. I think it was a
• 51:30
  three to one game last year that Blaine got him, but Blaine this year,
• 51:35
  Blaine got him ten to ten to zero. And I was there for
• 51:37
  the whole thing, and Blaine looked great. I was. I was really
• 51:42
  impressed. Obviously, Emerson Baker is a great pitcher, but the offense did
• 51:45
  did really well. Breece Smith with with a couple of hits, Shaley Daniels,
• 51:50
  the new catcher, had some good gap power. Taya Zadic at first
• 51:53
  base. She went oh for four in the first game. Then she went
• 51:57
  three for three in this one and did just absolutely great. So there were
• 52:01
  some really good things I liked about the Blading team. Obviously, they you
• 52:05
  know, went on a big run last year they were the conference champions.
• 52:07
  But Lyndon, Lyndon this week, my goodness, saw them against Arlington where
• 52:12
  they won twelve to six. Then they play a really good Lake With team
• 52:15
  and only win five to two. But you know, they have really good
• 52:20
  pitching and Casey Thomas in that game just went off. She went three for
• 52:24
  three in that one against Arlington. She went three for four with a home
• 52:28
  run in five rbish and then the next game against Bellingham, she went two
• 52:34
  for two with a double and a home run. She just kept it going.
• 52:38
  And then they went on the road to play Auburn and to play Peninsula
• 52:43
  Auburn. They you know, they won that one pretty handedly, fourteen nothing.
• 52:46
  And on Saturday, it was a whale of a game against Peninsula,
• 52:50
  the defending three A state champs. It was a basis loaded walk that won
• 52:55
  it. That was the walk off, literal walkoff. Anna Sour drew the
• 53:00
  walk and she had a couple doubles in that game. Trinity Andrew hit two
• 53:05
  home runs in that game. She hit one a home run earlier in the
• 53:07
  week as well, drove in four runs. Childrey the Young and Campbell to
• 53:13
  Young each hit a home run, so they hit four home runs in that
• 53:15
  fifteen to fourteen win. Just a thrilling game against the Seahawks. I watched
• 53:21
  a lot of it online. It was streaming live on Facebook, So that
• 53:23
  was really cool to see. Man, that's a that's a team that I
• 53:28
  mean, I you know, I got to see them in person on Monday,
• 53:30
  and it's just they can all hit. They can all throw, they
• 53:34
  can all field, uh, and it's a lot of camaraderie and the dugout.
• 53:39
  The chants are awesome. My favorite one is when their cleanup hitter children
• 53:45
  the young is batting and you hear someone go Chillie and it's like and it's
• 53:51
  just it's great. And then it's like, woo, you know, I
• 53:53
  got the deep boys going, and it's just I you know, sometimes the
• 53:57
  chance can get a little much, but I love the ones. You know
• 54:00
  that that that Lindon does, and they're you know, six and oh right
• 54:05
  now and playing really good teams and beating them. They're gonna be scary going
• 54:09
  on forward. It's just I mean, and it's Linden. I mean,
• 54:13
  you know, you can't be shocked. But just a lot of really good
• 54:16
  talent up and down the lineup. It's funny you say that stuff about the
• 54:21
  chants and stuff. Tyler. I was. I was. I do publican
• 54:23
  dress announcing, and on Wednesday, I'm sitting there doing I'm sitting there doing
• 54:27
  the game and I forgot that the our game started at five, and I
• 54:30
  forgot that the Bathel fast pitch team started at six. And then like the
• 54:36
  fifth inning, I'm sitting there, I'm going, what am I hearing?
• 54:38
  And the and the official scorer who's sitting to my left, he goes,
• 54:42
  I don't know what is that. We're like, what, like, what
• 54:45
  is going on? And we heard it for like a whole inning, and
• 54:45
  then finally I lean forward and I looked at I could see the scoreboard and
• 54:49
  I went, oh, our softball team's kicking butt over there, all right,
• 54:52
  like that's what's going on. They were up or I guess maybe this
• 54:57
  was Friday, whatever day it was, but they were up like thirteen to
• 55:00
  nothing at the end of two or something like that. Just spoking somebody I
• 55:04
  remember who it was, but uh yeah, anyway, Thank you again to
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• 55:36
  Yeah, yeah, the stat leaders, the weekly stat leaders, and
• 55:40
  the daily scoreboards. Absolutely and what day did the stats come out? Well,
• 55:45
  this past week, that came out on Monday, and I think that's
• 55:47
  what I'm going to continue to do. I think they're always going to come
• 55:50
  out on Monday. Year's fresh start to the week. Yeah, I've years
• 55:54
  past, I've done them on Sundays, but that was when I wasn't as
• 55:58
  busy as I am now, so I don't know I be able to have
• 56:00
  him ready on on Sundays. So definitely Monday kind of first thing. The
• 56:05
  podcast will come out, stat leaders will come out, Players of the week
• 56:07
  come out, stuff like that, and then boom right into some games on
• 56:09
  Monday afternoon. Exactly. Absolutely, let's talk about Uh, we'll start with
• 56:15
  Squalicum, Mount Baker, and Ferndale. Ferndale owned two in conference play,
• 56:21
  one and two on the season. Mount Baker owned two in conference play,
• 56:23
  owned four on the season, and then Squalicum owned two and oh and five.
• 56:29
  Tyler, let's talk about those three teams. Yeah, Ferndale, you
• 56:31
  know, they've all three of these teams have struggled a little bit, especially
• 56:35
  offensively this past week. You know, Squalicum is I know that they will
• 56:42
  turn it around. They just they they have all the talent to do it.
• 56:45
  It's just they've been playing some really, really tough teams. You know,
• 56:50
  they played that game against Meridian that we'll talk about a little bit laterunt
• 56:52
  Mount Baker. They had the same kid break up a no hitter both games.
• 56:58
  Tyson Reitmeyer hit a triple in one of the games, even though even
• 57:01
  though they they they lost twelve to four in a game, but they only
• 57:05
  had one hit in that game. All year, they've been drawing a ton
• 57:07
  of walks and so they are finding ways to get on base. Just the
• 57:10
  hitting has not come around just yet. There are some pretty good players on
• 57:14
  that team, but so I think some things will start to come around.
• 57:16
  Ferndale Ferndale had Ferndale went against like two amazing pitchers this week. They go
• 57:24
  up against Kieran Marcusson, who so far this year has struck out thirty and
• 57:28
  hasn't walked anybody yet. And then they go up against Lane Simonson a couple
• 57:31
  of days later, who you know is going to you dub and and he's
• 57:36
  got He got his twentieth win of his varsity career in that game. So
• 57:40
  that's really tough. And that's the thing. Man. Last year, you
• 57:44
  were a juggernaut. Everybody's gonna throw their ace at you. So that was
• 57:47
  a really tough week for Ferndale. You know, I think that the first
• 57:52
  game was a real pitcher's duel, you know. The second one, you're
• 57:57
  going against Lane Simonson and he's know Camdon Raymond had hit a double down the
• 58:01
  line and Colton Stembers had to pinch hit. But those were the only two
• 58:06
  hits in that game. So, uh, you know, they'll they'll get
• 58:08
  things turned around. Bishop Boots, he just returned to the team. He
• 58:12
  was out in centerfield. That that's gonna help a lot for Ferndale as well.
• 58:15
  At some point, Tyler, you're gonna about these three teams, You're
• 58:20
  gonna you're gonna go starting to come together, Pepper starting to come together,
• 58:23
  you know what I mean? Yeah, Pepper Leech the first base count,
• 58:28
  right, Yeah? And then who's the third base coach? It was Temple?
• 58:31
  Yeah yeah, yeah, But what is uh Duke Temple, Duke Temple,
• 58:36
  Duke Temple. What a move by that guy to send Willie Mays Hayes.
• 58:38
  I mean, if he doesn't send him, who knows what happens.
• 58:43
  Uh, let's see here, let's move on we'll talk about Bellingham, Nuksack
• 58:46
  Valley and Seaholm Tyler Bellingham. All three teams won to one in the league.
• 58:51
  Play Bellingham and Nuksack Valley, they are three and three overall, Sea
• 58:55
  Home two and four. Yeah, well a couple of these teams played each
• 58:59
  other. Knoksack Valley beat See Home eleven to ten on Tuesdays. Just a
• 59:04
  crazy back and forth game. At one point there was a big lead.
• 59:07
  Yeah, see Home came back and it was just it was uh, it
• 59:13
  was it was. It was a tough one. It was a really really
• 59:15
  good game. And and uh and then Knoksac after that had to play Anti
• 59:21
  Chordus, which was is loaded. Uh. They lose that one five to
• 59:23
  nothing, and I think both pitchers may have pitched the complete game. Pretty
• 59:27
  good game there. Uh see Home, Uh they beat they beat Blaine on
• 59:34
  Thursday, which was a huge win. Uh just you know, I was
• 59:39
  there for a little bit of that and it was a it was a really
• 59:45
  really good game where it was like a four to three game, so every
• 59:49
  run mattered. A lot of a lot of fun in that one. Again,
• 59:52
  they're just they're just running the bases like crazy. Uh, they get
• 59:55
  on the running and uh, and Blaine's a really good team. They have
• 1:00:00
  a lot of varsity experience and they're just the one thing I would say maybe
• 1:00:05
  is that they're striking at a little too much, but you don't that's not
• 1:00:07
  that's not a horrible thing because they're very, very aggressive and and uh,
• 1:00:12
  you know that was their first loss of the year. Yeah, it was
• 1:00:14
  an upset, but they'll they'll be just fine. Bellingham, you know,
• 1:00:17
  they lost to Mount Vernon. I stopped by for that one for a little
• 1:00:21
  bit, just for an just for an inning or two. It kind of
• 1:00:24
  had a good start time to where I could sandwich it in between some other
• 1:00:28
  events, so I got I got to see that they lost that one to
• 1:00:31
  Mount Vernon, a really good team. But then they turn around and beat
• 1:00:34
  Burlington four to three. So uh, Ky Nelson on the year is really
• 1:00:38
  has really taken on a role of being one of the top players, leadoff
• 1:00:42
  hitters, shortstop a lot of extra base hits. He did pick up the
• 1:00:45
  save as well in that game against Burlington. Uh. Jake Trust has been
• 1:00:50
  pitching well. He got his second win. I think he had ten strikeouts
• 1:00:53
  two in that Burlington game. So there's been some good things to see from
• 1:00:59
  Bellingham. Coach Tom Lewis has really turned that program around. I mean from
• 1:01:04
  where it was three four years ago. That was the game where you know,
• 1:01:07
  you'd go to pick up your win. You know, that's just kind
• 1:01:09
  of the way that it was, and it's not that way anymore. Bellingham
• 1:01:13
  is they're really starting to put it together. And one of their best players,
• 1:01:16
  even they're one of their best players being out for the year. Uh,
• 1:01:19
  they're really rallied around and and and and played well and and they've kind
• 1:01:24
  of, like I just had, these have a really good way of,
• 1:01:29
  uh, everybody getting on him, even even the nine hitters batting like five
• 1:01:31
  five hundred, you know, so they everybody is really good at getting on
• 1:01:37
  and doing the right things and moving runners and to pitch and play defense.
• 1:01:40
  So uh so these are you know, these are teams that have been playing
• 1:01:45
  really well, and these are these these are three teams that you know,
• 1:01:47
  I would say in the last two three years would have been in the bottom
• 1:01:51
  three, and they're really all three of them, and they're they're all starting
• 1:01:54
  to kind of move up now. And you start to see that when the
• 1:01:57
  varsity players gain more and more experience. Six teams in the county are one
• 1:02:01
  and one in league play. The three we just talked about. The other
• 1:02:05
  three are Blaine, Meridian, and Linden Christian. Blaine is five and one
• 1:02:08
  overall, Meridian four and one and Lynden Christian four and two. Yeah,
• 1:02:14
  the Blaine. You know, Blaine beat Ferndale early in the week, Kieran
• 1:02:16
  Marcuson went pitched a three hitter, struck out eleven. Didn't walk anybody.
• 1:02:21
  He still hasn't walked anybody all year. I came up to him during the
• 1:02:23
  fast pitch game and and and said hi to him. I know him pretty
• 1:02:28
  well. He came and worked at Totally Chocolate for a little bit with me
• 1:02:30
  in the shipping department a couple of couple of years ago, so I got
• 1:02:34
  to know him that way a little bit. And we were talking. I
• 1:02:37
  said, I go, so, what's the deal. You're not walking anybody,
• 1:02:38
  you know? And he just kind of laughed. He's like, that's
• 1:02:42
  the goal. Yeah. But uh, but you know, still to this
• 1:02:45
  you know, he still doesn't walk to anybody all year, and he's just
• 1:02:49
  he's he's just very efficient, uh, with his with his fastballs of hitting
• 1:02:52
  the corners, and he can repeat his delivery and that that can go a
• 1:02:57
  long way. That second game, you know, they lose to to see
• 1:03:00
  that's tough. You lose a one run game. So that's the first loss
• 1:03:04
  of the year. Meridian opened the week with the big thirteen to nothing win
• 1:03:07
  over Squalicum. Jonah Asse, I don't know if it's the first complete,
• 1:03:13
  our first perfect game in Walkham County history. There's been a lot of no
• 1:03:15
  hitters. I mean, it seems like even since I've been covering baseball the
• 1:03:19
  last four or five years, I've probably seen twelve of them. You know,
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  it just seems like there are a lot of no hitters. But a
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  perfect game is that's that's completely different. Even if you look at in the
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  majors, there's been I don't know, a couple one hundred, one hundred
• 1:03:34
  and fifty two hundred no hitters and perfect games less than twenty, right,
• 1:03:38
  So it is a big difference there. Jonah Asse six innings, they win
• 1:03:45
  the shortened game thirteen to nothing. He faces eighteen batters and strikes out seventeen
• 1:03:51
  of them. That is incredible, Tyler. I had people that hit me
• 1:03:53
  up that they were like, wait, that guy really struck out seventeen out
• 1:03:57
  of eighteen, and I was like, yeah, that's just it's true,
• 1:04:00
  but it's absolutely ridiculous. Yeah, and uh, and I was looking at
• 1:04:03
  that lineup and there's some good hitters in that lineup. The one out that
• 1:04:08
  was not a strikeout was Josh Kreta from Squalcum, the cleanup hitter. He
• 1:04:13
  popped one up to the first first baseman. That was it. Wow.
• 1:04:16
  And it was funny because the only other game he's pitching this year, he
• 1:04:19
  came out of the bullpen just to throw a couple of innings to get some
• 1:04:23
  work in in the during the first week. And this is just what I
• 1:04:27
  heard that, you know, he in the in the two innings he pitched,
• 1:04:30
  he struck out five guys, but he did walk a guy just to
• 1:04:34
  pick him off, just to work on his pickoff, and so he walked
• 1:04:40
  him and then he just picked him off and the other five were strikeouts.
• 1:04:42
  So uh, really starting the year off with a bang and so very very
• 1:04:48
  impressive. Linden Lennon Christian Man. They are. I I love what they've
• 1:04:55
  done so far. Their their loss earlier in the week was against Lyndon.
• 1:04:59
  It was or to two, a really really good game. Eli Mayberry went
• 1:05:02
  the complete game in the loss, but that that usually says a lot,
• 1:05:08
  you know, just just and he went three for four at the plate as
• 1:05:12
  well in that game. And and then in the second game, they played
• 1:05:15
  against Squalicum who they beat earlier in the year actually in a non conference game,
• 1:05:20
  but this time they were hosting them, and you know, Austin Engeles
• 1:05:25
  did it again. Another home run, another double he did that. He
• 1:05:28
  hit the Grand Simme against Squalkham earlier in the year, so against Squalcumb so
• 1:05:31
  far this year he has three doubles and two home runs against one team,
• 1:05:35
  so that's that's ridiculous. Brody Bowman also hit a home run. He's had
• 1:05:40
  multiple home runs in his career now. Brody Brownman also went the distance,
• 1:05:44
  got the win. Two and zero on the season now, which is kind
• 1:05:47
  of cool to see because he's not a guy I think of as a pitcher.
• 1:05:50
  He's a guy that can come in and throw a couple of innings late,
• 1:05:54
  throw hard, and but they put him out there to start the game
• 1:05:57
  and he pitched all five innings and got the win. So that was really
• 1:06:00
  cool to see that he has that ability to do that, which is going
• 1:06:03
  to be huge for them, especially in the playoffs and stuff like that,
• 1:06:06
  because I think that they are going to make some noise. I've really really
• 1:06:11
  liked what they've done. You know, coming into the year, I thought,
• 1:06:13
  well, they they return to kind of a lot of big time players,
• 1:06:17
  but how's the pitching going to be? And you know, Jonah Turpstrai
• 1:06:21
  Mayberry, Tracy Johnson, Brody Bowman, these guys have all pitched very well.
• 1:06:25
  So I'm I'm excited to you know, I feel like things happy are
• 1:06:30
  happening here, coming together a little quicker than I expected them to. So
• 1:06:36
  it's going to be a really good year for the Links. Really quickly,
• 1:06:41
  Tyler, you said we're talking about you know, no hitters and perfect games.
• 1:06:45
  Yeah, it says here there have been two hundred and thirty eight five
• 1:06:50
  hundred games played in Major League Baseball history. Yeah, there have been twenty
• 1:06:56
  four perfect games, and there have been and get this, three hundred and
• 1:07:02
  twenty two no hitters. Wow, way more than I would have thought,
• 1:07:08
  Like, I'm blown away by that number. But you start thinking about how
• 1:07:12
  many there have been in the last decade, and there's a ton of them.
• 1:07:15
  Yeah, which which doesn't totally surprise you when you start thinking about the
• 1:07:18
  fact that batting averages are way down. There was three or excuse me,
• 1:07:24
  four no hitters just last season. Yeah, and then the crazy thing is
• 1:07:28
  Tyler h twenty twenty one, one, two, three, four, five,
• 1:07:33
  six, seven, eight nine no hitters in twenty twenty one, twenty
• 1:07:41
  fifteen had seven, but then in twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen there was only
• 1:07:45
  one each year. Yeah, you know, kind of one of those things.
• 1:07:47
  If you look at it goes in waves a little bit. Yes,
• 1:07:49
  definitely, definitely, it's it's crazy. And then you start looking at I
• 1:07:55
  mean, I know, you're a huge Nolan Ryan guy. Yeah, and
• 1:07:57
  you start looking at he had seven, obviously, but how many one hitters
• 1:08:00
  he had. It's, oh, it's insane, it's crazy. Yeah,
• 1:08:02
  it's it's pretty. But never had a cy young, never had a perfect
• 1:08:06
  game. Yeah, let's see here really quickly, twelve one hitters is what
• 1:08:12
  Nolan Ryan had. He had seven no hitters and twelve one hitters, tied
• 1:08:15
  with Bob Feller for the most since nineteen oh one. He also had eighteen
• 1:08:21
  two hitters, tied with Walter Johnson for the most in that span. I
• 1:08:26
  mean, that's just wild, you know. And he is the career leader
• 1:08:30
  in walks too. And I think I think this was Jonah's third no hitter
• 1:08:35
  in high school. And he's just a junior because he had to last year
• 1:08:40
  in two games in a row. That's just but this was this was the
• 1:08:43
  first perfect game. Yeah. Tell when when I was out, uh at
• 1:08:45
  our game? What day was that game? Was that Wednesday? Tuesday?
• 1:08:53
  Tuesday? Yeah, So when I was out at our game, I think
• 1:08:55
  Wednesday or Thursday or Friday, whatever day it was. The players on our
• 1:09:00
  team we're talking about it, like now, I don't know how they saw
• 1:09:02
  it. I don't know, like I shared it, so maybe they saw
• 1:09:04
  it there. I don't know, but they were they were talking about it,
• 1:09:08
  and I go, you guys talking about the kid from Meridian. They're
• 1:09:11
  like, yeah, that's ridiculous and there and one of them said. One
• 1:09:14
  of them goes, yeah, I faced him like last summer or something.
• 1:09:16
  They're like, that guy is is stupid, Like it's stupid trying to hit
• 1:09:20
  that guy. Yeah, one team to talk about it here, Tyler Lindon,
• 1:09:24
  we haven't talked about them yet, right, Yeah, we have not
• 1:09:27
  two and zero in conference play five and oh on the season, yeah,
• 1:09:31
  it's and they graduated a lot of guys and so I didn't know how the
• 1:09:35
  season, especially early on, was gonna go. But man coach White,
• 1:09:41
  he gets those guys going early, gets them ready. And I've been to
• 1:09:45
  those practices and it is really efficient and it seems like everyone just looks awesome.
• 1:09:50
  It's just practices. You know, there's no standing around. Everyone knows
• 1:09:54
  exactly what to do next. Go go go. They got like an indoor
• 1:09:58
  place where they can go to if it's rain They had a rain out on
• 1:10:01
  Saturday, so they did like a simulated game in the indoor place, you
• 1:10:05
  know, where the pitchers got to throw and the hitters got to hit and
• 1:10:09
  it was and it was man, it's it's just they they are. It's
• 1:10:15
  just a great program, obviously. But but they did really good that that
• 1:10:18
  win against Lenny Christian earlier in the week, and then they beat Ferndale seven
• 1:10:23
  zero later. And they're not they're not putting up the gargantuan numbers, but
• 1:10:28
  they are that they but they win, you know, and a lot of
• 1:10:31
  times, yeah they're gonna win by four to two or five to three or
• 1:10:34
  whatever, But I'm really really impressed with their development early on in the season.
• 1:10:42
  I have not seen them in person yet. I know that my intern
• 1:10:45
  Mikayla has gone and seen them a few times, and uh it's been you
• 1:10:50
  know. It's I'm not surprised with how they've been doing and and I'm excited
• 1:10:56
  to see them with my own eyes here coming up. Uh, look on
• 1:10:59
  Google Maps, Tyler, the indoor Is that the place down the left field
• 1:11:02
  line. Yes, that's a good sized building down there, really nice looking
• 1:11:06
  field. And then I'm looking over here at the fast pitch diamond. My
• 1:11:10
  goodness, talk about some nice grass. Good lord, they got some nice
• 1:11:14
  grass over there. They I need to figure out who it is it's cutting
• 1:11:16
  the lawns over there at Linden High School because I could use some of that
• 1:11:20
  here at my house. Yeah. Again, thank you to j e KK
• 1:11:25
  Sports Cards in Ferndale for their continue to support j e Kkcards at dot com,
• 1:11:30
  sponsor and all things there. On the baseball side, let's talk players
• 1:11:33
  over the week, Tyler. And on the fast pitch side of things,
• 1:11:35
  no sponsored yet, So who do we got is the fast pitch player of
• 1:11:40
  the week. This was really tough because early in the week. It was
• 1:11:45
  a shoe in for Casey Thomas. You know, she did the intro for
• 1:11:48
  us before, and then I go out to the game and she's just she's
• 1:11:53
  just crushing it. I mean it was like home run double, home run
• 1:11:56
  double. It's just constant, constant, constant. And then all of a
• 1:11:59
  Sudd and her teammate Trinity Andrew, who's pitching these games, she hit a
• 1:12:03
  home run as well. Then she hit two of them against Peninsula, went
• 1:12:06
  four for four in that crazy game, and she got the win too.
• 1:12:11
  She pitched, and then she came out for a little bit and came back
• 1:12:13
  in and closed the game. And you could do that. You can do
• 1:12:17
  it if you if you reach the same spot, like right, there's certain
• 1:12:21
  things or you're in the field already or whatever. Yeah, and and so
• 1:12:28
  that was impressive. And so Trinity Andrew is the player of the week.
• 1:12:32
  She just had She had three home runs during the week. She also got
• 1:12:35
  three or no, I'm sorry she yeah, she picked up three wins during
• 1:12:41
  the week too, because a couple other pitchers got some other wins when they
• 1:12:45
  played against Bellingham and stuff like that. But man, just just an incredible
• 1:12:49
  week for her. And the big game was the was the Peninsula game.
• 1:12:55
  And uh, I think she still have some fun or now them knowing that
• 1:13:00
  her battery mate, Casey Thomas the catcher, was right there close. So
• 1:13:03
  and that's cool. When when teammates are pushing each other to be the very
• 1:13:06
  best that they can be, that that can go a long way. And
• 1:13:10
  they had a lot of players that put up some big numbers. But about
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  Well, after Tuesday night, it was pretty obvious to me and he
• 1:13:45
  wasn't gonna get knocked off. Jonah Aussi pitching that pitching that perfect game.
• 1:13:50
  He came around and played first base later on in the week and their game
• 1:13:56
  against Lakewood, which they did drop. It was their first loss of the
• 1:13:58
  year. But boy, I mean seventeen strikeouts in a game you face eighteen
• 1:14:02
  batters, that's just, you know, insane. I've seen games, I've
• 1:14:09
  looked at articles. There have been seventeen strikeouts in a game at locally,
• 1:14:14
  at high school level. I want to say Dave Zapian for Knooksack. In
• 1:14:16
  the early eighties, there was a guy with last name Smith for Baker in
• 1:14:21
  the kind of like eighty six eighty seven time time. He might have had
• 1:14:26
  seventeen strikeouts in a game. So I've seen that. But a perfect game
• 1:14:30
  is just is incredible, and so I'm not surprised. You know, Jonah
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• 1:14:41
  Let's take a look ahead, Tyler, at this next week. What are
• 1:14:45
  some of the things on the boy's side. What are some of the things
• 1:14:47
  you're looking forward to. Well, there's a few of them. On Tuesday,
• 1:14:51
  Meridian at Blaine Soccer. I've seen Meridian. They got off to a
• 1:14:57
  really, really hot start and they'd kind of been cooled down since then.
• 1:15:00
  Blaine is Blaine has been playing great and that would be a fun one to
• 1:15:05
  be at. They play on the football stadium under the lights, on the
• 1:15:08
  turf field, the new field there, and so I think that's gonna be
• 1:15:12
  a really really good game. You know, you look at the one A
• 1:15:15
  teams and you kind of go, yeah, I could see these kind of
• 1:15:19
  being the two from Walking County. So this is a big, big matchup
• 1:15:23
  for both teams. And then on Thursday, on the baseball side of things,
• 1:15:28
  Bellingham at Meridian. I think this is gonna be a really really good
• 1:15:30
  game. You know, coach Steve Slask at Meridian, he's a graduate of
• 1:15:35
  Bellingham. He went over the two hundred win mark as of the Meridian head
• 1:15:40
  coach has been doing it for a long long time. And I just I
• 1:15:45
  looked at all the matchups and I was like, this could be a really
• 1:15:47
  good one. You know, there's some probably better matchups that are against non
• 1:15:51
  Walking County teams, but I like seeing these Walking County versus Walking County teams.
• 1:15:56
  I don't know if Ossie will pitch this one. I think he'll pitch
• 1:15:58
  on Tuesday. So who will pitch on this Thursday game? Would it be
• 1:16:00
  Nate Payne. We'll have to see. And Bellingham, you know, if
• 1:16:06
  they've just been playing really really well lately that I think they could give the
• 1:16:10
  Trojans a game. I think it's gonna be a really close one. That
• 1:16:13
  would be Thursday at Meridian at four o'clock. What about on the girls side,
• 1:16:15
  what are you looking at over there? Thursday Tennis Linden at Sea Home.
• 1:16:21
  We kind of touched on it a little bit when we were talking about
• 1:16:24
  girls tennis. Both these teams undefeated. I think that Seome has the advantage
• 1:16:29
  in some of the singles matches. I think Linden has the advantage in some
• 1:16:31
  of the doubles matches. Well, there's four singles matches and three doubles matches,
• 1:16:35
  so that vodes well for Sea Home. But if Lindon can steal some
• 1:16:40
  on the singles, that could really help. This one's at Sea Home starts
• 1:16:45
  at four thirty on Thursday. A lot of these tennis matches start at four.
• 1:16:48
  See Home one start at four to thirty, so hopefully you can get
• 1:16:51
  a little extra time if you're going there to be able to see this.
• 1:16:55
  I think it's gonna be really, really good. I'm sure I'll stop by
• 1:16:57
  and catch it. It's that's the kind of the premiere matchup, if not
• 1:17:02
  the week of the year, I think it's gonna be really really good.
• 1:17:05
  And then on Friday, see home at Blaine fast pitch, see them was
• 1:17:11
  much improved. They've won twice as many games this year than they won last
• 1:17:14
  year already, but the league schedule has not been kind to them so far,
• 1:17:17
  and it's not gonna get any easier going against the defending champs and Blaine.
• 1:17:21
  But they are playing better. I you know, I think that I
• 1:17:26
  think if if Mallory or not Mallory Kruzich, Sarah Kruzich is is. She's
• 1:17:32
  been pitching pretty well. The one game I saw against Lakewood, they kind
• 1:17:36
  of squeezed her a little bit and so she started walking some batters. Lakewood's
• 1:17:41
  a really good hitting team. I think she was trying to kind of hit
• 1:17:43
  the corners and was and was missing. But if she's throwing strikes, this
• 1:17:46
  is gonna be a really really good game out of out of Blaine. You
• 1:17:50
  know what's cool is Blaine they have all these cool flags all over, like
• 1:17:54
  all around their field and they and they take them down after the game.
• 1:17:58
  But one of the flags they have is a picture that I took, oh
• 1:18:01
  really yeah, and I from when they won the district championship last year against
• 1:18:08
  my against Mount Baker, the winning run, you know, the all the
• 1:18:11
  dirts in the air, the girls jump jump and celebrating. I looked at
• 1:18:15
  it and I was like, I think I took that picture, So which
• 1:18:18
  is cool. I'm fine with it. Uh but uh yeah, it's uh
• 1:18:23
  so it's always fun going out to games out there at playing. You know.
• 1:18:26
  It's like I said, if Sea home, if they can just if
• 1:18:29
  they can throw some, if they can get the strikes going, that's gonna
• 1:18:32
  be that's gonna be a really really I think it's gonna be a better game
• 1:18:36
  than people think as well. I should say, Tyler, where is the
• 1:18:40
  softball field they're playing. It's not at the high school. It's a pipeline
• 1:18:43
  field, so it's about it's a little bit further east of the high school,
• 1:18:48
  probably by about a mile maybe maybe a little bit more, and you'll
• 1:18:55
  see soccer fields and some fast pitch and base that's where they play baseball too.
• 1:18:58
  Yeah. I see the baseball field off on its own, and then
• 1:19:00
  there's a what is that a soccer field in between? Yep, yeah,
• 1:19:03
  and then I see yeah for softball fields kind of together. Yeah, so
• 1:19:09
  the so yeah, and this uh soccer field that used to be where they
• 1:19:12
  played and before they had the new football stadium put in and and so yeah,
• 1:19:15
  that's a that's a fun that's a fun little area. We I remember
• 1:19:19
  there would be like my my freshman year we played in the mal Walton JV
• 1:19:24
  baseball tournament was held there. A lot of teams would come out. They
• 1:19:28
  that was that was a big thing for like thirty years was you know,
• 1:19:31
  that was a huge tournament. It was a cool thing that that mal Walton
• 1:19:34
  put together. Former Bellingham baseball coach coach at Baker for a little bit.
• 1:19:39
  I think he was in the Pirates organization as a shortstop and and that was
• 1:19:44
  you know, when you're at the JV level, you know, once the
• 1:19:46
  season's over, it's kind of a bummer. Well years ago he put together
• 1:19:49
  this JV tournament where all these all these uh you know teams would go there
• 1:19:55
  and play, and I just remember that was a really fun tournament where you'd
• 1:19:59
  play against some really really good teams and and that was that was That was
• 1:20:02
  I think first played at Pipeline Fields when that was opened, and so yeah,
• 1:20:09
  they've been doing that for a while too. It's really it's a neat.
• 1:20:11
  It's a neat complex. It's a fun place to go to watch games.
• 1:20:14
  Yeah. I look at it and I see the two big gravel parking
• 1:20:17
  lots, and it just, you know, like takes me back to childhood,
• 1:20:21
  you know what I mean, Like totally everywhere back then, every field
• 1:20:25
  you'd pull up to that was, you know, not part of a school,
• 1:20:29
  would would always have a gravel parking lot. Always. Yeah, you
• 1:20:31
  know, it was always these random fields kind of out in the middle of
• 1:20:34
  nowhere, and then all of a sudden, here's a gravel parking lot and
• 1:20:36
  boom, there you go. And then you know, your dad would drive
• 1:20:40
  in, drop you off as close to home play as he could, and
• 1:20:42
  then he'd go find a parking spot really far away so car doesn't get hit
• 1:20:45
  with the ball exactly. Yeah, you gotta be you gotta be kind of
• 1:20:47
  smart. Usually at the baseball game, I park beyond the right field fence.
• 1:20:53
  There's like some grass out there, and and so I park out there,
• 1:20:57
  and then you know, fast pitch Yeye park in the gravel very far
• 1:21:00
  away as well. And and I remember the same thing. Growing up.
• 1:21:02
  We played at the deming Log show Grounds. There was there was a bunch
• 1:21:05
  of baseball fields there, and same thing gravel parking lot park far away.
• 1:21:09
  You never know. I saw a car get hit this se fast pitch game
• 1:21:15
  and uh got a pretty good echo there, And same thing at this at
• 1:21:18
  the Seamed Baseball I saw one against Blay and I was a really good boom
• 1:21:24
  that I heard. But you know, the veterans, they know what to
• 1:21:26
  do. They know where to park. Those newbies, though, you gotta
• 1:21:29
  be careful parking at baseball games, fast pitch games. Yeah. Now I'm
• 1:21:32
  looking at the old Deming Log Show area, Tyler, and I see some
• 1:21:36
  fields over there that you're talking about. Huh, all right, they they
• 1:21:41
  they've added a few since I played there, but uh but the main four,
• 1:21:46
  uh, those are I think still there, which is weird because usually
• 1:21:50
  the four are all back to back with each other at the Deming Log Show.
• 1:21:54
  They're all facing each other, if that makes sense, Like, oh,
• 1:21:57
  yeah, you know, I know what you're saying. Yeah yeah.
• 1:21:59
  And then and then off the side they did they made a baseball field,
• 1:22:02
  which is where you know they the Junior High would play their home games a
• 1:22:08
  lot for for Mount Baker because they only had the one field at the High
• 1:22:11
  school, so you had to find time to play games. So when I
• 1:22:15
  was in Engineer High, we didn't have a home field. We played every
• 1:22:16
  game on the road. Really, so yeah, I mean we were the
• 1:22:20
  home team. Yeah, but we played every game on the road when I
• 1:22:24
  was in junior high. Just the home team in the score book is all
• 1:22:27
  your were basically yep. Yeah, wow, that's pretty cool. I'm looking
• 1:22:30
  at the I mean when you look at the dog or the Dog Show,
• 1:22:34
  the log show facility here, you know, if you put home plate in
• 1:22:38
  the right spot, you might be able to use those stands. Is for
• 1:22:41
  a field here. You have to cut down some trees in the outfield,
• 1:22:43
  but it's a log show. You can come down real easy. Yeah,
• 1:22:45
  that's true. You get a lot a lot of people that know what they're
• 1:22:48
  doing how to cut down trees out in that area. Absolutely, I've done
• 1:22:51
  it. We've all done it. That went throughout to Mount Baker, We've
• 1:22:55
  all cut trees down. Yeah. I mean, as a matter of fact,
• 1:22:57
  Tyler, if you just had them cut it down during the log show,
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  I mean, do you get killed two words with one stone basically exactly,
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  Hey, who can trim these trim these branches off? And cut the
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  trees down so we can put a baseball field in this night. Everyone raises
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  their hand. Yeah exactly. It'd be a bunch of people doing it real
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  real fast too. Yeah. Stop watches out and ware you go. Uh
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  anything else we've done? I think we're good. Alrighty Again, thank you
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  to all of our sponsors, including the new Ones, Dick Bedlington Farms and
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  North County Alliance fc UH, and as always, thank you to Kurt Maybury
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  Farm at Kurt Maaybury Farm dot com Kurt with A C M A B E
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  R R y farm dot com. He's Tyler Anderson of Watcompreps wakompreps dot com.
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  I'm Ryland Spencer. You've been listening to episode of two hundred and forty
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  seven US Spring Sports, a weekly wrap up here on the wacom Preps podcast.
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  We will talk to you next week.