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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 239 - Winter Sports Wrap Up 1-29 to 2-3 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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This is Welcome Senior Guard Mariy Benning, and you're listening to the Welcome Preps
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Podcast with Tyler and Ryland roll Storm. Greetings, and welcome into the Wacom
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Preps podcast. This is episode two hundred and thirty nine, a winter sports
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weekly wrap up for Monday, January twenty ninth through Saturday, February third.
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I'm Rylan Spencer. Along with me as always is Tyler Anderson of Wacom Preps.
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Tyler, how are we doing? I am tired and loving life at
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the same time. It's a crazy mix. But you know exactly what I
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mean. I know you know more than anybody, So doing good, man,
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doing good. And you're about to be even more tired tomorrow morning,
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Tyler, because you're waking up and heading down to Vegas for a little little
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meet and greet some Super Bowl action and not actually going to the game though,
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right No, no, no, no, no, I just I'm
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gonna go do the Super Bowl Experience thing and that's gonna be cool. I'm
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gonna hang out with the guys from the Dan Patrick Show and uh, you
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know, just relax for a couple of days and come right back. I
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don't want to miss too much of this playoff action for basketball, and I'll
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be back before you know it. Yeah, Tyler, before we go too
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far, we need to give a thank you to Mari Binning Skullcomb girls Basketball
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for the intro. We'll be talking about her and her teammates here in just
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Farm dot com. Tyler, we got all kinds of stuff to talk about,
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so let's get right into it. We're gonna start off with boys wrestling
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like we always do, and we're gonna go to the three A West Coat
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Championships. Ferndale finishes sixth with one hundred and ninety seven points. Arlington they
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are the winners three hundred and twenty eight points. But really we're just talking
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Ferndale here, so let's just go through the list really quickly, Tyler,
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I see three four, five, six guys who finished at least in the
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top five in their weight class. Let's start off with fifth place tyler.
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Who we got there? Yeah, Caiden Eldridge, junior, one hundred and
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seventy five pounds. He took fifth place. We saw him in the football
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season take over the kicking chores and stuff like that. So so yeah,
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he'll be moving on as the fifth place right, one seventy five no kicking
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allowed in wrestling. But Caid Eldridge finishes fifth place. How about fourth place
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again? Another great football player, Jacob Gandy. Kind of a surprise here.
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I figured he'd be in the championship at one. He is one tough
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dude. He's a guy that is probably not happy with fourth place either.
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I'm sure he's gonna show what he can do at the next round. How
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about second place? Yeah, Mason Philippini, sophomore at one hundred and twenty
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six pounds. When I saw the name, I got a big smile because
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one of my closest friends in high school is his uncle, Brennan So who
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is a great, great wrestler. So that's a really cool deal. He's
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got a bright future. Just sophomore, and I'm seeing three west Coat champions
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out of Ferndale. Yeah, really really cool. Gabe Rio Scordia, you
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don't see this very often. A one hundred and six pounds senior. Yeah.
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So you get those lower weight classes and you have a senior out there,
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Holy cow, that is that is that spells disaster for everybody else you
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usually Alex de pass, a junior at one thirty eight, was also champion
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and whyatt straight a big lineman for Berndale during the football season at two hundred
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and eighty five pounds. He is just a junior as well. Well,
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he's had an amazing season where he has done really well in tournaments and stuff
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like that. So not surprised to see him take first place herear that boys,
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lots of wrestlers there from the football program, just saying multi sport athletes.
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It's a good thing. Let's talk to a District one tournament Bellingham.
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They are the highest place to Watcome county team two hundred and eleven points.
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Ana Chordis wins the overall with three hundred and twenty seven. Lots of names
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here, Tyler, let's start with how about we start with sixth place and
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work our way up. What do we got for sixth place. Yeah,
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these are the alternates here. So you got Finnchase, a freshman from Squalk
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him a one hundred and six pounds. Hugo Contreras from Lyndon, a senior
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at one hundred and twenty six pounds. Gage Leggett, at sophomore from Seahome
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won sixty five. Ryan Hernandez from London at one seventy five, Tristan Hunt
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from Seahome won ninety. Logan Rogers, a freshman from Seahome at two fifteen.
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You're gonna like him in football too, Bryan, And I tell you
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he's gonna be a good guy to look up to look at going forward.
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And Logan Ostrie from Linden, just a sophomore at to eighty five. You
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know he played a lot of football too in that nose tackle spots too.
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So a lot of guys there. How about fifth place? What do you
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got there? Yeah, Alicio Ortiz Lopez, a sophomore from Linden at one
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thirteen. Connor Rodriguez Stiff who had a pretty good year at Bellingham junior at
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one thirty eight, Colin mcgivererin from Seahome, a sophomore at one hundred and
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forty four pounds, Simeon Blast from Squalk Him at one hundred and fifty pounds,
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Carlo Lockinen from Bellingham at one seventy five, Julian Montoya from Bellingham,
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a sophomore at two fifteen, and then Finigan Jensen who we know from football
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as well, at two eighty five from Bellingham. I see three guys that
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finished in fourth place. What do we got there? Yeah, all Bellingham
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BayHawks here. Jacob McCarty at one six, the freshman, Nate Loss at
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one forty four, the junior, and Alexander Scott, a freshman at one
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fifth fifty seven. Six guys finished in third place, Tyler Yes, Aiden
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Borchert from Bellingham at one twenty six, Griffin Smith from squalcumb I saw him
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wrestle a little bit at the Mount Baker Tournament. I was pretty impressed at
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one forty four, Grant Oliver from Seahome at one fifty, Clarence Valaderis from
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Lyndon at one fifty seven, Aiden Holmes from Seahome at one sixty five,
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and the heavyweight from squalcum A just a sophomore, Isaac Lowry. Seven total
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Watcom County wrestlers made it to the championship. Five of them came away with
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a loss, meaning they finished in second place. Who do we got there?
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Yeah, Dylan Road from Bellingham, another senior at one oh six.
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That's like we said, that's pretty tough. Christian Velaskaz all year he's been
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kind of Linden's leading guy at one twenty six. He's a senior as well.
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A junior from Seahome. Levi Riley at one forty four, Caleb Davis,
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a senior from Seahome at one fifty seven, and Sonny Powell from Bellingham
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just a soft two fifteen. Another guy to keep your eye on for the
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football season. Let's see here, Tyler, and we got two District one
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champions. Yeah, Lucas Hansen from Squalkham is from one hundred and fifty seven
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pounds, he's a senior. And pad Bel Shintar from Bellingham at one point
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fifty. He's a guy that I was told about before the season even started
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to keep an eye on, and he's done pretty well. He's met some
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really tough opponents in some tournaments during the season, but he's a district champion
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for Bellingham. Now the one A Northwest district has the four schools from Wakam
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County, and then there's also four schools from outside the county that a couple
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we know from football and one that we don't really talk about very much at
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all. Granted falls South wildby Sultan, and then Seattle Academy, a school
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that is growing in size and they're getting much bigger. It's kind of crazy
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how fast that school is growing. But Blaine comes away with the championship two
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in ninety three points, Mount Baker right behind him at two seventy six,
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Meridian at two hundred, and then Knooksack Valley finishes with seventy points. There
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are a lot of names, Tyler, and I mean a lot of names.
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Uh, let's talk sixth place. I see seven wrestlers in sixth place.
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Yeah, Brecken Fowler from Mount Baker one hundred and twenty pounds, Samuel
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Baldwin from Blaine at one hundred and thirty eight, Ethan Balaco from Meridian at
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one forty four, Jackson Miller also from Meridian at one fifty Axel Shelton,
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who is a guy to keep the eye on for football, just a freshman.
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It's cool from Blaine. Yeah, from Blaine one hundred and fifty seven
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pounds, Reese Milligan from Blaine at won sixty five, and Alejandro Moser Hernandez
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we remember from football at Blaine at two fifteen. He's also a very good
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first baseman on the baseball field. Tell you what two fifteen almost seems like
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a surprise. I thought that guy was a lot bigger than that. Yeah,
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well he's about sixty five, so you don't And that's the thing you
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just don't see on the wrestling Matt bury Offen a guy six foot five,
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you figure he's probably gonna play basketball, So it kind of that can really
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take some guys by surprise. Let's see here, what do we got?
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Seven guys finish in fifth place? Also, yes, so from Meridan you
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got Wyatt Lewinberg at one twenty six, Jackson Hurlbut at two fifteen, which
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we know him from football, and Jason Gilfolen from Meridian at two eighty five.
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From Nuksack Valley, Abraham Nunez at one thirty eight, and Owen Cunningham
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at one fifty seven, Hugo Beckfed from Blaine at one fifty and the freshman
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Gunnery McGrath from Mount Baker at won seventy five. He's another guy to keep
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your eye on for football. He did play some varsity football. He kicked
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a little bit. He's gonna be a running back for the future. I
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think looks like, uh, what do we got here? Seven more in
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fourth place? Yeah, they just keep they just they just keep coming.
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Blaine with three of them, with Denali Deming at one twenty, Jayden Constance
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at one thirty two, and Max Wiederspone at one seventy five. And then
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uh, Meridian has the other four, Marcus Montgomery at one twenty six,
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Liam Wolfman at one thirty eight, Dane Beachlan at one forty four, and
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one of our favorites from the football field, Landon Downey at one ninety and
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then a pretty disappointing only six finishing the third place Tyler not seven. What
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do we got for those guys? Yeah, Meridians got a couple smaller guys,
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Trace and Lewis Kelly at one o six, Jamison Ladd, Alexander at
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one twenty and then Mount Baker with a few guys Sean Dugger won thirty two,
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Vance Lawrence at one seventy five and Dylan Moa from one ninety. Of
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course we know those names pretty well. And then from Nukxacvalle Julio and Nelasko
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Martin at one fifty. Now we're back to seven guys finishing in second place,
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and uh, we'll get to first place here in a second. There's
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a ton of guys that picked up championships, but uh, seven second place
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finishers, Tyler, Yeah, five of them from the Blaine border rights,
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that's incredible. Christopsimudio at one o six, Aiden Hancock at one twenty,
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Vini Saiah at one twenty six, Blake Goltz at one ninety, and Otto
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Shelton at two eighty one five out of Shelton, another pretty good lineman there.
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And then Mount Baker with alder Giardi at two hundred and fifteen pounds.
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He was their right tackle this year. And Meridian with Carson sat All just
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a sophomore at one thirty eight, one, two, three four. Is
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it twelve? I think it's twelve. It's I'm twelve guys wolf champions.
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Yeah, twelve out of fourteen weight classes from Watcom County in the one A
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Northwest. I guess it's one A district Onetrescelling Championship so give us those twelve
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names. Tyler, Yeah, well from Blaine got Colvoy at one thirteen,
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Daniel Joner at one thirty two, Cal Fitzgerald at one forty four. He's
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a guy I'm looking forward to the postseason. And of course Victor Gerval two
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eighty five. Mount Baker's got ikeda Creek at one oh six Andrew Monteeth at
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one twenty six. Both those kids are freshman. Gavin Compton at won thirty
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eight just a sophomore, another big time future for him. Daniel Washburn at
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one fifty seven and Wyatt Freeman at one sixty five and uh Meridan with with
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one champion or I'm sorry to both football players joshton Elmer at one fifty and
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Rhett Dirsh at two point fifteen, just a sophomore these he is as strong
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as it gets. And of course at Knoksack Valley you had the solo champion.
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We've been talking about them all year, Wyatt Bacon to sophomore at one
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hundred and ninety pounds. So if I'm seeing it right here, we had
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a Blaine versus Blaine in the uh in the championship at two eighty five.
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Huh yes, we did. Wow. I mean that is a like a
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fifth fight there right in the back out as a heck of a practice.
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Yeah. And though and that's also was you know, the center and right
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guard on offense, there were the two defensive tackles on defense. Uh.
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Yeah, there was a little inside zone on the mat. Yeah, well
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so we got there a little double team action. Uh, that's awesome.
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Lots of lots of champion Uh, lots of guys moving on to the next
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round. So we will definitely keep an eye on that moving forward. Tyler.
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talk. Let's talk three A first here, and we've got Ferndale. Now
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it's a little bit different with them, or excuse me, not with them.
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With swim and dive, you're talking about times, you're not really talking
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about, Oh, the top four guys move on like we just did in
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wrestling. So kind of keep that in mind here people. That being said
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for just Ferndale in the three A ranks. So let's talk about who are
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the top Who are the top swimmers from Ferndale in each of the swims.
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Yeah, So in the two hundred medley relay there the Ferndale team is ranked
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is ranked eleventh going into this going into this district tournament. In the two
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hundred freestyle, Odin Overson is ranked seventeenth. The two hundred individual medley,
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Cole Hankin is ranked twenty eighth. The fifty freestyle, Boomer Dalstrom is nineteenth.
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The one hundred butterfly Luke Mitchell is twenty first, the one hundred freestyle
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Marcus Little is twenty sixth, five hundred freestyle Odin Overson is twentieth. Again,
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they have the eleventh ranked two hundred freestyle relay team and they're eleventh in
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all three of the relays. The four hundred freestyle as well. The one
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hundred backstroke Boomer Dallstrom is ranked twenty fifth, and then the one underd breaststroke
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Cole Hankin has ranked twenty seven. So you're seeing a lot of these same
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names kind of here and there, kind of you got to pick and choose
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what events they're going to be doing. So this is kind of where it
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all evens out. Yeah, a little bit more strategy, if you will.
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You gotta, yeah, make sure you get them in the right spot.
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Now two a's a little bit different. We've got a lot more teams,
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a lot more swimmers in the two A classification, Tyler, So we'll
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go through, I'll name it off. You kind of tell me who the
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top three are from Wakam County at each of the swim and the dive in
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this one. So let's start with the two hundred medley relay. Yeah,
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well, coming into this, this is a clean sweep for the Belliam schools.
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You got Squalk them the ranked first, Sea Home second, and Bellium
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third. So these are team that have gone against each other during the regular
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season and they are the top three ranked teams in the two hundred medley Reidway.
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How about the two hundred freestyle, Yeah, Miles Kratzenberg from Bellingham is
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ranked first, Matthew Awesome from squalkm is seventh, Jackson Rodgers from Seahom is
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eighth. Now, this is one of those ones where Dylan Fisk, you
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know, could be in, but he's that you gotta pick and choose.
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And and Miles Kratzenberg, Man, he's a guy that you got to look
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for come in coming into state. He's one of the best swimmers out of
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walk Them County. Yeah, that's a name that we've talked about a little
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bit here or there. Some of these some of these names we haven't really
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said very much of, right, mostly because Dylan Fisk has just been a
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name that we've said over and over and over. That being said, I
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need this young man from Squalicum Tyler, I need him to play more sports
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because I just want to say, Matthew awesome. Isn't that awesome? That
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is a ridiculous name. I love it, Matthew Awesome. Now, I
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really hope that's how you say it, you know what I mean? A
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U S S E M. I don't see how it's anything other than and
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awesome. I can't imagine it could only be awesome. Yeah, because if
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it was like as seem, there'd be too ease, you know, So
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it's got to be awesome. I mean, that is an awesome name.
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I mean it, just ridiculous name. Let's move on to the two hundred
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individual medley tyler. Who do we got there? Yeah? Dylan Fisk first,
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the number one ranked guy from Squalkum. Ki Arthur from Seahome is fourth,
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and Liam Deheim, freshman out of Sea Home, is fifth. What
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about the fifty freestyle? Yeah, and this is the one, the quick
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one, right. Gunnard drost Cubits from Bellingham is second. Cohen Matthew from
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Seahome is third. I believe, go and play some football too, and
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Jake Champagne from Seahome is fourth. Yeah. If I was doing any swimming
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events, it would be the fifty free style, Like, let's not pretend
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like anything is gonna happen here in the hundred. No, well I'm hitting
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that fifteen. We're done. Yeah, now that being said, it wouldn't
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be a very good time. You can probably time it with a sun dial.
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Let's see, what about six dives, Tyler? What do we got
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there? Yeah, this is what I'd be competing in. I love diving.
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Jack Leagan from Sea Home is first. He's kind of been that guy
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all year, the diving specialist out of see him. Cayden Schmidt from Seaholm
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is ranked second, and Nolan Whitman from Squalkum is ranked fifth. Hopefully no
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relation to old Blake there. Well, we finally were able to get that
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in. You know what I just realized too on my on my board,
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you know, everything's color coded and it's just kind of random, like I've
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never taken the time to you know, like I just have the spot.
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I know where they're at, you know, like take for instance, I
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got like two or three of Coach Lepp not a single one of them is
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red. You know what I mean? You think I would do that to
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make it easy on myself. No funny thing is that Whitman one. It's
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like a bright green. I mean it's very this is very much a Linden
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green, it really is, and it's actually right next to a gold also.
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Let's see here. One hundred butterfly Tyler. What do we got there
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again? Dylan Fisk ranked first for Squalicum, Michael Ciotti Squalicum is third,
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and Scottie Lee from Seahome is fourth, So they got some pretty high ranked
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Walking County guys in that event. One hundred freestyle Gunnard Droves Cubits from Bellingham.
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Again, he's the third rank, so he's gonna race in the fifty.
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In the one hundred. Finn Smith out of Squalicum is eighth and Jake
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Champagne from Seahome ninth. I love the name Finn for a swimmer. There
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are a lot of Finns in Walkam County. We've talked about this before,
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and I mean they like, I don't know what happened, Where did that
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name come from? All of a sudden, Just everybody up there they love
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that name. Uh. Five hundred freestyle Tyler, This is a long one,
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Yeah, smiles Kratzenberg. He's gonna he's gonna do his best to take
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it. He's the first top rank guy from Bellingham, Leon Deheim from Seahome
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fourth, and Rock o'cahn, who goes to Mount Baker's ranked fifth. And
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I don't think there's any one A, you know, swimming type stuff.
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So so the one A, if you go to a one A school,
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you compete with the two a's interesting. Let's see here two hundred freestyle relay.
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Yeah right now, Squalicum was they're the second ranked team. Seaholme is
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third, Bellingham is fifth. So not as not quite the way that two
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hundred medley relay is, but not bad. Now this one's a little bit
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more in my wheelhouse. Maybe hundred backstroke because like I feel like that's me
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just like flailing, you know what I mean? Like, who do we
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got top three in the hundred backstroke but you don't want to get your beard
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wet. I think that's true, you know. So you got Hayden Nelson
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from Squalkum at third, ki Arthur Seaholme fourth, and Micah Flint from Bellingham
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is seventh. So you got three different guys from three different schools in this
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one. What about the hundred breaststroke? Yeah, Cohen Matthew from Seaholms ranked
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third coming into this. Colby Nosbush from Lyndon a first, Lindon Guy is
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seventh, and Colton d Mars from Seahome is eight and the last, but
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certainly not least here the four hundred freestyle relay. Yeah, Squalicum again has
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been very good with the relays all year. They have the second ranked team
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see Holmes fourth and Bellingham is fifth. Now, a four hundred freestyle relay,
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that's going to be one hundred each, right, yeah, right,
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because I'm sitting there thinking to myself four hundred in a row, like each
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guy going, No, that's a lot. Like that would be a really
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long race. Yeah. I think it's a they swim there and back and
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then it's a new new guy there and back, new guy there and back,
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new guy there and back. Yeah all right, that's uh, that's
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not one that I don't know if you remember, there was like the Michael
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Phelps video where like the US came back and beat I think it was France
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and like they were way behind coming into Vienna and then beat him by just
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a hair and the whole place went absolutely bonkers. Yeah. Uh so,
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yeah, that is a boys swim and dive at the three A and two
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A level. Uh and I guess one one a swimmer and again brought to
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Three six zero seven four six eighty eighth three. Tyler, we got
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a lot of basketball to talk about here. Some teams basically played every night
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of the week. I don't know how they did it. But Linden here,
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I mean the two Linden schools, they played like forty games this week.
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Is unbelievab. Yeah, let's start with the girls basketball and the scoreboards
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watcom. Perhaps, Tyler, let's start on the girls side with Meridian,
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Mount Baker and Bellingham. What do we got there, Well, it was
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a rough week for all three of them, you know, but Meridian Bellingham
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had some wins. The week before Meridian lost to Lakewood fifty one to forty
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four, then lost a squalkum a really close one forty seven to forty three.
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Mount Baker they just you know, they started the year three and zero,
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and it just they just have not found it since. They lost Oak
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Harbor sixty six to forty five, lost a Lake With seventy one to fifty
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five Bellingham. They had a tough one against a really good Burlington squad fifteen
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twenty two. They've played a lot better against Mount Vernon, took them to
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overtime but ultimately lost fifty two to forty seven. Let's see here, what
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do we got next? We've got to Blaine and Ferndale. What do we
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got from those two schools? Well, they played each other and that was
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a heck of a game. Blaine got them forty seven to forty three.
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Blaine also lost a Sea home fifty two to twenty six Ferndale. Other than
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that that lost to Blaine, they also lost to Linden earlier in the week
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seventy to twenty. And they finished the year of the regular season anyways by
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beating Anacordus forty six to forty in a pretty good game as well. Lynden
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Christian Squalicum and Seahome. Yeah, Lindon Christian I saw them a few times.
23:38
They beat Seahome sixty eight to thirty four, which was just a you
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know, I didn't expect it to be that big of a blowout. Lynna
23:47
Christian looked really good. I went and saw them at home at Squalicum where
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they beat them sixty three to twenty eight, and then but they lost the
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crosstown rival game to Linden sixty six to thirty three. Squalicum, who's has
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been looking pretty good, especially as of late. They lost to l C
24:02
sixty three to twenty eight, turn around and beat Meridian forty seven to forty
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three. Sealms had had a tough stretch lately. They lost to LC sixty
24:11
eight thirty four. They beat Blaine fifty eight twenty six, and then lost
24:15
to the heavily high ranked Pioneers seventy two to thirty. The two teams at
24:19
the top here Noksack Valley and Lyndon, both teams twenty and one on the
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season. Is what I got here. Big week for both schools. Tyler,
24:27
Yeah, Nuksack Valley beat Anna Chordis eighty three to thirty six, then
24:32
beat Sealms seventy two to thirty. These, you know, beat them both
24:36
by fifty ish. It's just unbelievable what they're doing. If you watched King
24:41
five Sports. The other day, Chris Seagan had a special on Devin Coppinger.
24:45
Was really cool. I made sure I recorded that. Just really impressive
24:49
what they're doing as a team right now. And and you know, she'll
24:53
be the first one to tell you it's not just her that they have a
24:56
lot of good players around. They have a good players coming off the bench,
25:00
great coaching staff, just awesome. It's it's just a great thing to
25:03
watch Lindon. You know, that defense that they've been twitting out there all
25:07
year. They played four games this week unbelievable. Beat Burlington sixty two to
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thirty nine, which says a lot because Burlington is very, very good.
25:17
They beat up on Ferndale by fifties seventy to twenty, same thing against Mount
25:21
Vernon seventy three to twenty three, and then they beat Lenny Christians sixty six
25:25
to thirty three, which is just kind of that extra stamp of approval of
25:29
how great they've been. You know, Rob Adams coming back to coach Lindon.
25:33
I think he won three state titles with them, took a step back
25:36
to do some to watch his kids play and stuff like that. Now he's
25:38
back to take them over and I remember sending him, you know, I
25:42
think I called him even. I just said, hey, man, congratulations,
25:45
I'm gonna be covering basketball this year. What does your team look like
25:48
right now? And he just kind of he's you know, he just went
25:51
straight up Bob Ames. You know, he's like, well, we're really
25:53
young, and I don't know, and da da da yah. And it's
25:56
just been a buzzaw. They're one loss all year was to Knooksack Valley,
26:00
So uh, it's it's been impressive to see what they've what they've done.
26:06
It's it's crazy because their two best players are probably a freshman and a sophomore,
26:12
but they have a great senior class that fills so many roles. You're
26:17
talking like a point guard, a shooter, a defensive specialist. You know,
26:21
a girl that can score, you know that could probably average twenty if
26:23
she was on a different team. So you have all these different weapons.
26:27
Both of those teams are going to be, you know, hard to you
26:30
know, to defeat, coming to the deep into February and hopefully into March.
26:36
What was the what was the coach's name there, Rob Adams, I
26:38
Like, I like people like that. Maybe it's just because well, I
26:42
like them like that now now that I'm not so much in media or it
26:45
doesn't affect me nearly as much like Bob Ames did the one time. But
26:49
yeah, I mean, and you know, Tyler, I like to stir
26:52
the pot. I like to have fun like that. So yeah, I
26:55
mean, but I've known Rob forever. He was my real estate agent,
26:57
you know, when I bought a house well years ago. That's fun.
27:00
So I know Rob pretty well. And he was a great quarterback at Blaine.
27:04
And you know, he was on a state championship baseball team and he
27:10
was a point guard of the basketball team. I think they got third in
27:11
state. So he's he's kind of a walking county guy that knows his stuff.
27:15
And yeah, he coached the Blaine girls for a while, did did
27:19
okay and one pretty good season, went transferred to Lyndon and just took that
27:25
program and made it special. And I'm glad to see that he's back.
27:30
He is he is. Any team he touches, it seems like it just
27:33
it just gets that extra oomph. You know. Yeah, I like that.
27:37
How's it going to be this year, coach? Well, I've got
27:41
you know, twelve girls and eleven of them only have one leg and they
27:45
both have you know, everybody's got right hands and no thumbs. But other
27:48
than that, you know, we should be pretty good. Well, we'll
27:51
see how it goes. You know, they are twenty and one just dominating
27:55
people the exactly this week they didn't give up more than thirty nine points in
27:57
Burlington Edison's. I think they're pretty good team, right, they're very very
28:00
good. Yeah, so thirty nine points and then everybody else twenty twenty three
28:04
and thirty three I mean, yeah, Christian thirty three. I mean the
28:07
Christian's amazing. Yeah, so it's unbelievable. Linden, the Linden girls this
28:12
year they didn't give up a single field goal to a team. Yes,
28:17
right, that's yes. They've held teams to single digits I think twice and
28:22
the two separate times, and there might have been a third time where it
28:25
was by they gave up it was like ten points maybe and there. I
28:30
can't even describe the defense, but they're just they're so fundamental. They always
28:33
have their hands up, they're always moving, they're always fresh, they're rotating
28:37
girls a lot, and yeah, and they've got girls that are just like
28:41
the best defenders Keiki York might be the best defender in the county and she
28:47
can just take over the other team's best best player completely shut them out.
28:52
Yeah, and so you have all that and they're just it's everything. They
28:56
got it all right. Now, Well, let's talk boys basketball tiler and
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again sponsored by Edeline Barry. We'll start with Blaine and Mount Baker. Yeah,
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it's it's been a tough one for both those teams. Blaine lost to
29:10
Sea Homes seventy four to fifty nine. Then they lost to Ferndale seventy three
29:14
to fifty two. I've noticed the last handful of games they've been out that
29:17
we have been without their leading score Josiah Wieda. So I'm not sure if
29:22
he's injured or what's going on, if he'll be available for the postseason,
29:26
but he is greatly missed. They do have a kid, Landon Melton who's
29:30
kind of come on strong from the JV and and he's a six' four
29:34
sophomore that can shoot threes. And you know, sometimes you just sometimes there's
29:38
a kid on JB that's averaging like twenty five a game. You know,
29:41
they're just kind of dominating and you don't really know how that's going to transfer
29:45
once they get DI varsity. But he's scoring like eight points a game and
29:48
he's you know, he's a good shooter. So that's been a die addition
29:52
to them. Mount Baker they lost Okarver seventy two to fifty nine, and
29:56
then a really tough one against Lake with seventy five to thirty five. Uh,
30:00
they're gonna play each other in the in the loser out game coming up,
30:03
so it's gonna be a big game. They played each other the first
30:07
time. Blaine got them pretty good. But with if they if Josiah Weeda
30:10
is not playing, Uh, this is gonna be a really close game.
30:14
So we'll see how that goes. How about Sea Home, Squala, Coum
30:18
and Ferndale. What do you got for those three? Yeah? See Home,
30:21
They they've been kind of down, but they picked it up this past
30:23
week. They beat Blaine seventy four to fifty nine. Then they beat Niksac
30:26
Valley fifty five to forty one. They have really good players and when they're
30:30
all kind of playing together, they do really good things. They they've beaten
30:34
teams that you didn't that you wouldn't think they've beat like they beat Lakewood,
30:37
Lakewood beat Anachordus for crying out loud late. Lakewood's great. Yeah, they
30:41
beat Lakewood, but then they but they lost them Mount to Mount Baker,
30:45
you know, so it's hard to tell which team's gonna show up and and
30:48
you just kind of never know. But and then you look at it and
30:51
they're ten and ten on the season. It kind of evens out after you
30:53
go through everything. Squal Gam has been playing great lately, but they lost
30:57
a couple of them to some one A school lost a Linden Christian seventy to
31:00
forty one, then the Loston Meridian fifty three to forty six. Ferndale,
31:06
they had to play three games this week and they lost to Linden sixty one
31:10
to fifteen, a much closer game than people kind of thought. I was
31:12
listening to that one on the radio while I was going from one game to
31:15
another. That was a pretty good one. They beat Blaine seventy three to
31:18
fifty two, and then they took one. They took a really tough one
31:22
on the road to Anacordus one oh one to sixty seven. Not a ton
31:26
of defense playing that one, And yeah, it was it was a right
31:32
yeah, sixty seven points is pretty good. I had you watched seven and
31:36
lose. That's hard to do. Yeah, I was watching the game film
31:38
with that, like I was keeping the stat you know, there was smoke
31:41
coming from the pen. You know, I was just writing stuff down like
31:44
crazy. It was it was a it was a it was a crazy game
31:47
to watch. But I tell you, Ferndale, we talked about it all
31:49
year. You know, they only won a hand like two games last year,
31:52
I think. So, you know, you bring in you got a
31:56
new coaching staff, you got a lot of new stuff going on, kind
31:57
of revitalized everything. They got some good young players. So you know,
32:02
being seven and thirteen a good way to end the regular season. They're gonna
32:06
have to play a playing game in the postseason. Let's see here Bellingham,
32:10
Nukzack Valley, Meridian, Bellingham. You know, they beat Burlington fifty four
32:15
to fifty one, and then they lost to the Northwest Conference champion Mount Vernon
32:22
Bulldogs seventy four to sixty nine, and was probably their best game played all
32:27
year. Wyatt Stefan had thirty five points in that game. He went off.
32:31
It just wasn't enough on the road against the against the Conference champions Nuksack
32:36
Valley. It's been a it was a really tough week, playing a couple
32:40
of home games to Anacordis lost seventy six to fifty. I was at that
32:44
one see home fifty five to forty one. They've been without two of their
32:47
starters, Colton Lenz and Tristan camp House have both been out a couple of
32:52
starting forwards. So that's really tough. I mean, you're down too starters.
32:58
I'm hoping they'll be back for the playoffs. We'll find out, but
33:02
man, it's it's bad timing to lose come a couple of your key guys.
33:07
Colton Lentz is a bruiser obviously, UH does a lot of the dirty
33:10
work, rebounds, block shots, stuff like that. He can he can
33:14
go to the rack two UH. And then Tristan campus is a six to
33:16
five guy that can shoot the lights out from outside. So you're missing both
33:21
those guys. That's really tough Meridian. UH. They had a tough beginning
33:24
of the week, losing the Lake with sixty eight sixty three, and a
33:28
really good game UH to LC seventy two to forty seven. To turn around
33:31
and beat squalk him fifty three to forty six. I was at that one.
33:35
That was a really good game. Meridian is they're kind of an enigma
33:38
as well. Like they they can all of a sudden, they can go
33:43
out and just put up huge numbers and almost beat anybody. I love their
33:46
coaching staff. Shane Stacey's been the head coach for I think twenty years now,
33:52
and uh and he's a kid and he and he's he's a young I
33:55
mean, he's a young guy. We played high school football against each other.
33:59
He's not you know, he's he's been a coach for twenty years,
34:00
but he's not you know, he's got another twenty in him, is what
34:04
I'm saying. It's so it's a really cool thing. Assistant coach, they
34:07
have Rob Gray, who's Mountain Baker's all time leading coach. He's an assistant
34:12
from Meridians. So they have a lot of knowledge on that bench, which
34:16
I really like. For the postseason. You mentioned Colton Lentz also not sure
34:22
if you saw picked up an offer from Eastern Washington. I did. I
34:25
did, right football, that is really cool legacy. I like it and
34:31
we'll see how that goes well. So I'm sure there'll be some more offers
34:35
coming in. I would say there might be a little bit of an inside
34:38
opportunity there though they might know some people. Yeah, let's see here,
34:44
we've got Lynden Christian and Lyndon and I read somewhere that they played each other
34:47
this week, Hunt Tyler, Yeah, they sure did you know Lindon Christian
34:52
going into that game? They beat Meridians seventy two to forty seven. They
34:54
beat Squalk them seventy to forty one. Going into that game, Lyndon beat
34:59
Arlington sixty nine, beat Ferndale sixty one to fifty, lost a heartbreaker to
35:04
Mount Vernon sixty nine sixty eight, which basically gave Mount Vernon the Northwest Conference
35:08
championship. And they played each other and on Saturday. Awesome game. This
35:14
was a game where sold out right away because it was at ELC, so
35:19
it doesn't hold as many people. It's a very very it's a snug gym
35:22
if you will. It's like there's there's not even any like chairs for the
35:29
players to sit in. They're just sitting in the front row, you know,
35:31
on the bench. Yeah, you have on the risers, right,
35:35
and so it's very very snug. So it was you know, I had
35:39
heard through a third party even for media yet to be on a list,
35:45
pre approved list. So Mikayla, my intern, went out to that game
35:49
and I made sure she was on the list. She got in and everything
35:52
was great. So that was really cool. It was a tremendous atmosphere.
35:57
I got to watch the whole thing, listen to it live on the radio
35:59
and watch the stream, and I you know, that was awesome. I've
36:02
made popcorn and everything. I just sat here and enjoyed myself watching that one.
36:07
But Lennon got him sixty one fifty six. You enjoyed yourself because you
36:12
weren't there like and you got that red. You were there packed in tight
36:15
like sardines. Oh man, I just can't even imagine. I mean I
36:19
was looking. I was looking, now, you know, at all the
36:21
media members, and I mean, you know, there was everybody. I
36:23
saw Connor, I saw I saw Joe the new guy from the Linen Tribune,
36:28
and I saw the photographers, I know, you know, Dennis and
36:30
Andy and and I saw Mikaela there, and I saw Hayley Palmer was there.
36:35
I mean it was everybody. Of course Randy Yes, who was there
36:38
taking pictures Jim Carberry from Walk Them Hoops. Every single person was there,
36:43
no doubt. Alan Fie from Kpug was there. It was, but not
36:47
the biggest name of them all. Tyler Anderson, No way. I'm sitting
36:52
here in my onesie eating popcorn out of a bowl and just enjoying, enjoying
36:59
my solitude. All right, onesie. Wow, let's talk girls basketball and
37:05
boys basketball. Game of the week. Tyler, Again, this isn't what
37:09
was the biggest game. This is what was the best game you saw?
37:13
And let's start on the girl's side. What was the best game you saw
37:15
over there there? You know this was crazy because I tend to go,
37:22
like during the you know, every given night I go, I try to
37:24
make it to a half of a boys game and a girls game so I
37:28
can get a picture of each. But if Mikayla's gonna be at a boys
37:31
game, I'll go to a girl's game, or vice versa. She's gonna
37:34
be at a girl's game, I'll go to a boys game because she'll get
37:36
a picture. Yeah. So I was going to this girl's game out at
37:38
Blaine, and you know, a couple walking county teams playing each other,
37:43
and I kind of thought, well this, you know, I don't think
37:45
it's gonna be a great game, but I know all the players for both
37:50
teams, and what made it exciting was, you know, Blaine's hosting Ferndale
37:53
at senior night. Both teams really just play six or seven players, yep,
37:59
And so I was really kind of just I wanted to see how that
38:01
would do against with each other. And after the first quarter, Blaine was
38:06
ahead and it was kind of unexpected. I was talking to some of the
38:07
fans and they were like, well, we didn't expect this, and h
38:12
during the second quarter, I kind of walk over to the other side to
38:15
get pictures. During halftime, I'm sitting there with coach Olson. We're talking,
38:19
you know, all sorts of different things, and it just kept it
38:22
just stayed really tight all the way through, and we were kind of expecting
38:25
Ferndale to pull away. Blaine was making their outside shots and all of a
38:30
sudden, like they're in it. They're making you know, they have to
38:34
shoot freezos at the end. They'd make usually one of two, Ferndale would
38:37
miss a three, they'd get fouled again, and all of a sudden it
38:39
was over and the place went nuts. It was. I think it was
38:45
pretty unexpected, but sometimes on those senior nights you get some really emotional performances.
38:51
And you know, Blaine even though they have you know, eight players
38:55
on their whole high school basketball squad, We're talking there's no C team,
39:00
there's no jv and and four of them are seniors. Wow. So it's
39:07
kind of like, is there gonna be even a team next year? You
39:09
know, is this it? Is this the last time we're gonna see Blaying
39:13
basketball for a while. So it was it was kind of emotional to watch.
39:16
It was a great finish, Blain Border Rights pick up the win over
39:20
the Ferndale Golden Eagles, who was a pretty good team. What about on
39:23
the boys side, what is the game of the week over there? Well,
39:25
I mean it was it was the Linnen Christian that was. It was
39:30
so I mean right off the bat boom, you know, to you know
39:34
that they get a land, they get a land, they shoot a three,
39:36
they shoot a three. It was so much of it was you know,
39:39
whatever you do, I can do better, And it was just constant
39:43
one upsmanship, like shooting threes from like five feet beyond the line and then
39:46
that guy should from six feet beyond them and they're making all of them.
39:50
It was incredible. Anthony Canalis thirty two points and I think he scored the
39:55
last eleven points for his team in the fourth quarter to basically seal that he
40:00
had thirty two. He had half the points. Yeah, yeah, he
40:05
had more than half the points. Yeah, and it and he was just
40:08
unstoppable. He was He put it all on himself. Now, you keep
40:13
in mind, both these teams are two time defending state champions, both of
40:16
them, and Lindon's Anthony Canalis is the two time state tournament MVP. So
40:24
so he wanted as a sophomore. Yes, wow, So he's he is
40:30
on a mission right now and he has turned his game up. He went
40:35
through a little bit of a dry spell the last week and a half of
40:37
three point shots, but he answered it this week and he was great.
40:44
Charlie errors made three threes. You know. They would find a way to
40:46
kind of isolate on one side. He would squeak out and go into the
40:51
not not the corner, but the elbow there the three point line and and
40:54
be wide open. They'd throw the ball across the court and he'd just catch
40:58
it and shoot. Great form knows how to make that shot if he's not
41:01
covered. And sometimes when you're not covered at all and all eyes are on
41:06
you, that's a just a that's a hard shot to make because if you
41:08
feel the pressure. But Charlie Erres does not feel any pressure. Linda Christian
41:13
was awesome as well. I mean, Gannon Dykster had a huge game.
41:16
I think he had like twenty three points. Dawson Bama was nailing jumpers as
41:21
he always does. Jeremiah Wright had a big game, Kayden Steiche had a
41:23
big game. But they had a freshman Dawson Heins. So another heints here,
41:29
remember Jamison Hins. Yeah, so Dawson heints, yes, Gracie Heins.
41:36
I think it's all yeah. So they are a great basketball family and
41:42
Dawson just a freshman. He's been coming on strong lately. Makes a lot
41:45
of outside shots, play great defense, got unbelievable vertical, had an awesome
41:51
block on a shot and then lead up to you know, pass to a
41:54
three point shot that really turned the momentum. But it was just a great
42:00
you know, there's nothing really on the line as far as seating or anything
42:02
like that, but it was just it's just breaking rights of the city.
42:07
And what was so cool is like both cheerleading squads have you know, a
42:14
ton of cheerleaders male and female, lots of throwing the you know, the
42:17
cheerleader up in the air and all sorts of that, and they did a
42:21
halftime routine together both schools at this they they must have worked on it during
42:27
the week. I mean, that's that was awesome. And I was and
42:30
I'm sitting here watching the live feed and it shows it all, so I
42:32
got to watch that. That was really cool. It was just you could
42:37
tell that there's a huge level of respect. It got a little chippy at
42:42
times. You know, like a guy would come through the lane. You
42:44
see like a forearm in the chest and they knocked the arm away, and
42:47
you know, but these guys have been doing this forever with each other,
42:51
since they were little kids. I'm sure a lot of these kids you know
42:52
that were playing against each other have played on the same teams for you know,
42:57
there's different you know, three on three tournaments growing up and all that
43:00
stuff. So it's to you all that stuff, sure, of course.
43:02
Yeah, So it was just that's what was made it really cool. And
43:07
I know that they're both like telling each other, Hey, go go get
43:09
that gold ball, you know, because that's what they do. And then
43:13
at Yakamal they'll they'll pose together both teams with their championship trophies like they do
43:17
all the time. It's a really cool deal in Linden, just such a
43:22
rich tradition boys and girls. And I haven't been to the state basketball tournament
43:28
since nineteen ninety five and that was at the Dakoma Dome. So I am
43:35
excited that I've already booked my spot at the Yakama Sun Dome. I got
43:39
the hotel ready, everything's done. I'm excited. You're actually going to go
43:45
to majors this time and get a burger? Yes, I'm right. I'm
43:50
going to go to the right place. I'm going to make sure do everything
43:54
right there. I'm going to and say Ryland sent me. They're going to
43:58
say, we don't know what you're talking about. You're gonna go great,
44:01
give me the burger. Yeah, it's uh, I think it's it's gonna
44:05
be awesome. I'm gonna make sure my laptop is good to go so I
44:08
can find a spot at a table hopefully, and and kind of right as
44:13
I go, because there's it's just madness. There's gonna be a lot of
44:15
games, and I'm hoping that I can. You know, I know that
44:19
people have, you know, different media members have been like, are you
44:22
sure you're ready for that? And I'm like, bring it on, man,
44:25
I'm ready for I think anyway. It's such a blast at the volleyball
44:30
tournament. But I learned some things like I should have my laptop with me
44:34
like at the tournament. So I've learned some things that I'm gonna be ready
44:38
for for basketball. And and I'm hoping to see our buddy Eric Trent there.
44:43
That'd be really cool. So we'll see. But yeah, that game
44:46
definitely the game of the week. You know, I don't it could it
44:51
didn't. Couldn't get much better than that. We should mention. I forgot
44:53
to bring it up, I think maybe last week. But Charlie Ayers also
44:59
did pay up and offer recently for football from Arizona Christian a Christian. Yeah
45:04
that's all. I know that he's just been recently trying to get some stuff
45:07
out there, and and yeah, good for him because it and he's a
45:13
kid that you look at and you go, well, he played the linebacker
45:16
at you know one ninety's. I mean, nai they more than you can
45:22
definitely pull that off. Yeah, So it's it's but it's that it's just
45:27
that weird tweeter spot for him. But man, he's just got that heart
45:30
and desire like you cannot describe. And I'm just so pumped because I know
45:37
how much he loves football and I just am excited for his future because he's
45:43
he's just one of those genuine great humans that will come up, shake your
45:46
hand, look look you in the eye, all that kind of stuff that
45:50
you don't typically get out of a high school kid. So really excited for
45:53
him. Yeah, and there's already a uh, there's already a young man
45:58
down there from Linden as well, scouting Trajan Scouting. Yes, young man,
46:02
another one that'll look you into your eye and yes, exactly, great
46:07
kid. So that is boys and girls basketball Games of the Week, Tyler,
46:13
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the Anytime Fitness Girls Basketball Player of the Week. Tyler, give it to
46:24
me, who is it? Well, and this isn't like a you know,
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a lifetime Achievement award or anything, but Devin Coppinger from Kniokzac Valley.
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She won earlier in the year, she wins it again kind of closing out
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the year in dominant fashion. You know, it's it's it's it's constant.
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You know exactly what you're gonna get from her all the time. But it's
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not just the scoring, it's the leadership. She's defending the best player.
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She's gonna grab seven or eight rebounds, She's going to lead the team in
46:53
a sis, she's gonna get like five or six steals. It's everything and
46:59
that the team is. You know, there was a moment, you know,
47:02
when they were missing a couple of starters and they were playing against you
47:07
know, Mead, you know, and she can and then when when it's
47:12
called upon, she can put the team on her shoulders and just willhem to
47:15
victory. So uh so, yeah, Devin Coppinger from Nikzack Valley is your
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Anytime Fitness Girls Basketball Player of the Week. The boys side is also sponsored
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by Anytime Fitness Tyler, who is the Anytime Fitness Boys Basketball Player of the
47:27
Week. Exactly the same type of deal. Uh not a Lifetime Achievement Award.
47:31
But you're looking over the whole season, the dominance and this past week
47:36
of playing four games. Uh, with the you know that big one coming
47:39
against Lennon Christian who scored more than half points Anthony Canalis from Lyndon. He
47:44
also just won it just a couple of weeks ago. Uh. But again,
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uh, it's just a phenomenal week capping off a great regular season.
47:52
He's averaging well, he was averaging twenty two points a game on the Dot
47:57
coming into the LC game, so that that that's probably up close to twenty
48:01
three now with this thirty two point performance Linden is. It's crazy in that
48:07
two way because Linden's very good. Cedar Crest is phenomenal, really and yes
48:15
they are. They are great. I think I want to say that they
48:20
beat some really good teams already. I think they're the you know, they're
48:23
really highly ranked. Linden will be one. I think Cedar Crest is two,
48:27
then you got Annacordus is three, and only two teams are gonna come
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out of it. So there's gonna be a very very strong team that could
48:36
win games at State that will be staying home. I think Linden got third
48:39
last year in this tournament and they and they won state. But now this
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year they're only taking two, so they're gonna have the two A teams are
48:47
really gonna have to ratchet it up and and and really compete to take to
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get those top two spots. It's it's gonna be really really tough this year.
48:57
Wow, you're not kidding. Cedar Crest. They can put up some
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points. They are fantastic. Yeah, they put up like they consistently put
49:02
up seventies and I mean here's some eighties, here's a ninety four points.
49:10
Yeah. I mean you don't get into the nineties very often in high school
49:15
basketball. It just doesn't happen. There's just not enough time. Yeah,
49:20
right, right exactly, there's not enough time. And a Chordus has put
49:22
up one hundred twice and they're the three seed. I mean there's and they
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and christ Beat and a Chordus, Yes, sixty five fifty nine. I
49:30
mean yeah, wow, yeah, So it's they're they're very very good.
49:37
Uh, it's it's gonna be it's gonna be incredible. I Mean when I
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saw them week like very air week one, very first game against Squalicum they
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just I mean, I didn't know what to expect out of anything, and
49:49
they just they looked awesome, and uh that was the one time that I
49:54
actually watched the game film. But uh so, if they're gonna be they're
50:00
gonna be tough. I mean, we'll see it's gonna be a great two
50:02
way district tournament. You know. I'll be out of the state for a
50:07
few days, but I'll come back and watch as much of it as I
50:10
can. I can't wait till they you know, because they because they play
50:14
like you know, they host games for a little bit and then they just
50:15
go to Mount Mount Vernon and I just, yeah, it's just heaven for
50:20
me. I just want to because they'll they'll do like a quadrupleheader, you
50:22
know. I'm like, yes, and I just can't wait. I oh
50:27
man, that's one of the funnest times of the year. Well, Tyler,
50:30
let's talk upcoming games to look for now. Not as many games kind
50:34
of going forward, but obviously we're talking playoffs, so games are getting more
50:37
important, more intense, if you will, as of this moment. Though.
50:43
When we start talking about the upcoming games to look for on the schedule
50:46
right now, now, obviously some games Wednesday Thursday, stuff like that,
50:51
a team could win and maybe set up a great game, but it's kind
50:54
of hard for us to project anything. So when you start talking about the
50:58
games, you're looking forward to that on the schedule right now for this week,
51:01
what do you see? Well on the girl's side, the Squalicum at
51:06
Sea Home Thursday at seven fifteen. That's gonna be you know, I fly
51:10
back Thursday and I'm gonna come home kind of get some stuff ready, to
51:14
get everything set up, and I'm gonna head right out to that one.
51:15
I can't wait for that one. See Home Seehm got the better of them
51:22
the first time around, but Squalicum has improved so much since that early December
51:28
game. And that's gonna be a really really close game. You got a
51:31
crosstown rivals, Yeah, I mean see Home see Him is very very senior
51:37
heavy, but they've they've kind of had some ups and downs lately. I
51:44
just I think that one's gonna come down to it. That's that's gonna be
51:45
a fantastic game. I'm really excited for that one. Tyler. You ever
51:50
just like order me Mexico and like tell them to put it in a box
51:52
and like you snag it on the way to like a game at belling Ham
51:55
or something. I've not done that. I've I've ordered it probably like on
52:00
the way home, and I snag it and bring it home. But I've
52:04
never brought like a meal into a high school game, just like eat it
52:07
in the parking lot or something. No, I haven't done that. No,
52:12
what about it with fast food? But yeah, well yeah that's not
52:15
fair though, Like anybody can do that. You can just swing for shit
52:17
or it's a little more a little more fun and adventurous when you actually got
52:22
to get out and run inside and pay for something. Yeah right, yeah,
52:25
So yeah, what about the boy side, Tyler boys side, the
52:30
big one that I if I was. It's just tough to pick a winner.
52:35
Because Meridian at Nuksack Valley Wednesday at five point thirty. I wish I
52:39
could be at that one. I will not be in town. But that's
52:43
one where Nuksac got him the first time, got them by I want to
52:47
say, like twelve points. But the way things are going, the way
52:52
Meridian's playing right now, Jaeger Fife and Talon Jenkins, those guys are just
52:55
shooting the lights out and they got a couple six six guys on the inside.
53:01
So you got the you know, Talon Jenkins six' five, he's
53:05
playing guard. Jager five is six to two, could shoot the lights out.
53:07
You got a couple of six six guys inside, and then you got
53:09
a six foot guard Tarren Burks, who is just he is a men like
53:15
he's a pest. Like defensively, he's all over the place. I swear
53:20
he never gets tired. And they're they're all playing really high level right now
53:27
Nook Sac Valley. There's just something that's like it's like they're on light.
53:31
It's like they're light. It's like they built the car, but something fell
53:34
off and they're trying to figure out why it's rattling. And I know they
53:37
got a couple they're starters that are out right now, but if they come
53:40
back, that's gonna be a huge thing. But this car that they're in
53:45
is like a Corvette. Man. It's like once they figure out how it
53:49
could go, they can they can go farther than anybody. So it's it's
53:52
it's, uh, once they figure out what it is, they're gonna they're
53:57
gonna be just just fine. Really good coaching staff, as well. Coach
54:00
Shooting has done a great job in his first year. And you know,
54:06
it's I just can't wait for this one because it's another very very even game
54:10
where they know each other so well. I mean they again, they've played
54:14
each other so much and and it is I mean, Lennon Christian is you
54:20
know, the team to beat for the one A boys, and only two
54:23
teams will advance. And this game there there will be you know, later
54:29
on games. You know, there'll be games later in the tournament that will
54:31
determine who gets there. But this will be a big legs up on that.
54:36
So uh it's gonna be a huge one. It will be at Nuksack
54:39
Valley Wednesday at five point thirty, so uh yeah, it's gonna be It's
54:45
gonna be really really interesting. We got anything else to talk about, Tyler?
54:50
Nothing? Nothing, nothing, Well, before we get out of here,
54:53
let's uh Spring sports are coming up, Tyler. Lots of sponsorship opportunities
54:58
available. How can somebody get a hold of you if they want to get
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involved? That best way is through social media. Just look up Walking Preps
55:07
on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram and just send a direct message. I am
55:14
excited for the spring season. There's lots of opportunities, tons of sports going
55:17
on. Track and field has already been spoken for. I've gotten a few
55:22
verbal, you know, things about committing to different things for baseball and fast
55:27
pitch, but nothing in ink yet, so I'll have to revisit those and
55:30
then we'll just kind of go from there and see see what's left. Lots
55:35
of exciting things for the future coming up for Walk of Preps. So I'm
55:38
just yeah, just just loving it. And thank you all to everybody in
55:44
the community, especially those that I have been supporting and keeping Walking Preps alive.
55:50
Yeah. I already got my nooksack value baseball hat Tyler. Yeah,
55:53
I saw that. I'm ready to go. What was the name of the
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coach that gave it to me, Yeah, Joel the whisper Air. Yeah.
55:59
Yeah. Uh he hooked me up over the weekend at a football coaches
56:02
clinic and uh not gonna lie, looks pretty good on me, yeah,
56:09
you know, and it it just, uh you know, I look good
56:15
in a lot of colors, purple and gray. That's a good one on
56:16
me. So and what I've been told, I don't know, he might
56:22
not even be coaching football anymore because I think coach Bartell might have fired him
56:24
already because coach Bartle doesn't even have a hat. Yeah, I'm just saying,
56:30
just saying, there's a priority level in looks Zack Valley, and I'm
56:32
clearly at the top somewhere as far as baseball program goes. So I got
56:37
that going for me. If I ever make my way up there, I
56:40
might have to, I don't know, maybecome coach third or something because uh
56:45
yeah, I don't know, uh, but yeah, lots of sponsorship opportunities
56:49
available as far as spring goes, and it's it's not too early to start
56:52
talking about the fall either, So if if anybody wants to start hopping on
56:57
board with that, we can already get those conversations going. But uh yeah,
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other than that, he is Tyler Anderson of watcom Preps watcompreps dot com.
57:05
I'm Brylan Spencer. You've been listening to a Winter Sports weekly wrap up
57:09
here on the WACOM Preps podcast. We will talk to you next week. See you