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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 287 - Fall Sports Wrap Up 10-6 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is see I'm senior cross country owner Nick Gargano,
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Speaker 1: and you're listen to the Walking Past podcast with Tylan
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Speaker 1: Roynd Go many greetings and welcome into the Walko Preps podcast.
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Speaker 1: This is episode two hundred and eighty seven, a Fall
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Speaker 1: sports weekly wrap up. I am Tyler Anderson on solo
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Speaker 1: once again as Ryland Spencer still recovering from an illness.
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Speaker 1: We hope to have him for tomorrow's podcast. He's resting up.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I know it's serious. When he's not going
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Speaker 1: to the Seahawks game, he's not coaching in his games,
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Speaker 1: it is serious. So hopefully a speedy recovery for him.
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Speaker 1: We got to give a thank you to Nick Gargano,
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Speaker 1: Seahome senior cross country runner for the intro Boy every
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Speaker 1: year in cross country and track and field, the long
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Speaker 1: distance running, he's right up there near the top and
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Speaker 1: as part of the best team in the States. So uh,
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Speaker 1: really really cool for that that team and that individual
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Speaker 1: and it's a it's pretty intense watching those races because
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Speaker 1: it's just so many Sealme runners. They can all join
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Speaker 1: right into it with cross country speaking to sponsors. Stoff
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Speaker 1: Front Street and Lynden go see Carter the Dog and
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Speaker 1: then check out Marty and his crew and they're just
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Speaker 1: so you know, as they always say, they're happy to help,
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Speaker 1: and it's that they are unbelievable in there. They always
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Speaker 1: do a great, great job. On Wednesday, there was nine
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Speaker 1: total races, five events, and I was there at Hovander Park.
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Speaker 1: There was a five K at Hovander Park where Squalkum
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Speaker 1: was the host team, which was I thought was kind
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Speaker 1: of kind of cool. I didn't know that they host there,
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Speaker 1: but that was really cool. A four K at Meridian
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Speaker 1: High School, a three point six k at Nuksack Valley
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Speaker 1: Middle School, a five K at Fort Nugent Park, and
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Speaker 1: a five K at Burlington Edison High School. So let's
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Speaker 1: go right into the girls event at Hovander. I was
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Speaker 1: there again. It's much like the boys where a lot
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Speaker 1: of the girls top runners group up and run together
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Speaker 1: and they can you know, I think it works really
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Speaker 1: really really well when they're pushing each other and they
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Speaker 1: could just go like that. Seeom takes first place, followed
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Speaker 1: by Squalkum in Mount Baker. Samantha Nip from Seahome she
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Speaker 1: takes the first place individual, and there was the top
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Speaker 1: eight finishers were all from Sea Home. Dahlias Strutz from
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Speaker 1: Squalakum was the top non Seaolm finisher in ninth place.
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Speaker 1: On the boys side, Seahome took first place, Squalicum second,
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Speaker 1: Mount Baker third. Same results there Parker Norman from Seahome.
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Speaker 1: He took first place. The top nine runners were all
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Speaker 1: from the Mariners. In tenth place was Joseph Solomon from Squalicum.
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Speaker 1: So that's your result there. That's a really cool track
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Speaker 1: there at Hole Vander Park. How they do that and
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Speaker 1: running around the the farm and everything, and they're going
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Speaker 1: all over the place. Out at Meridian High School, Bellingham
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Speaker 1: and then Anna, Courtis and Meridian were all there. Bellingham
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Speaker 1: taken first place, but in first place in the individual
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Speaker 1: it was Logan Ignacio from Meridian who took first. You know,
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Speaker 1: she's always up there. She takes first quite a bit.
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Speaker 1: Norah Alexander from Bellingham took third place. And on the
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Speaker 1: boy's side it was Bellingham, Anacordis and Meridian. Same results there.
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Speaker 1: Berkeley pass another first place finished the Bayhawk runner. On
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Speaker 1: the boy's side, Ruben Taveldi from Meridian took fourth place
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Speaker 1: in that. At Nuxack Valley Middle School, Linden. On the
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Speaker 1: girls side, Linden took first place, followed by Lynden Christian
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Speaker 1: and Nuksack Valley. Individually speaking, it was Sloan Dixon once
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Speaker 1: again finishing in first place. Ella Voss from Lynden Christian
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Speaker 1: finished in fourth place, and Noe Furtado from Nuxack Valley.
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Speaker 1: I believe she's just a freshman in sixth place, so
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Speaker 1: it was a pretty future for her as well. On
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Speaker 1: the boys side, it was Lyndon Christian who took the
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Speaker 1: team win there and then Lynden and Nooksack Valley. Nicholas
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Speaker 1: Loose from Lynnon Christian took first much like he does
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Speaker 1: a lot of the time, he might be aiming for
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Speaker 1: that state title. On the one A cross country race,
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty excited about that. Peter Taminga from Lyndon took
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Speaker 1: fourth place. We had to Fort Nugent Park now I
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Speaker 1: believe that's out by Oak Harbor. And on the girl
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Speaker 1: side it was Oak Harbor that finished first, Seeder, Woolie
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Speaker 1: second Lake with third Ferndale fourth. The top Ferndale finisher
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Speaker 1: was Kayla Lee on the girl side, she took sixth place.
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Speaker 1: On the boys side, it was Spencer Hamilton who took
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Speaker 1: eighteenth place out at Burlington Edison High School, just a
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Speaker 1: boys race here that involved walking county teams. Blaine took
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Speaker 1: third place, following Mount Vernon and Burlington Edison, and the
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Speaker 1: top finisher from Blaine was Tucker Green who finished in
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Speaker 1: thirteenth place. So you can read all about these events
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Speaker 1: and see a full list and over at walkompreps dot com.
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Speaker 1: You know, i'd give the top ten finishers and everything
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Speaker 1: like that. So yeah, it's a pretty pretty exciting season
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Speaker 1: for cross country. It's some really really good teams and
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Speaker 1: great individuals as well. So I'll pay some big time
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Speaker 1: postseason stuff. We'll jump to boys tennis now, and boy,
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Speaker 1: there was a lot of tennis this past week with
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Speaker 1: makeup matches due to rain the week before. Obviously, the
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Speaker 1: big one was the five to sea home win over Bellingham.
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Speaker 1: I was there for that one. I saw belling him
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Speaker 1: against Squalkham earlier in the week as well. But I
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Speaker 1: mean the big match, you know, the big singles match
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Speaker 1: was Jacob Kuon of Bellingham defeating Harley Kaiser six to
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Speaker 1: two then six to one. That was just I mean
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Speaker 1: watching that was like watching Wimbledon, man, I mean it
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Speaker 1: was awesome. I call it Walkamdon instead of Wimbledon. I mean,
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Speaker 1: these two guys were just fantastic. It was great tennis
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Speaker 1: back and forth. The next quart over Zachary Chai from Seaholme.
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Speaker 1: He defeated Leo Kuhn in three and three sets. You know,
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Speaker 1: Leo won the first one six to four, Zachary won
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Speaker 1: the second one six to one, and then he won
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Speaker 1: six to zero in the third one. Justin Barrass of
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Speaker 1: Seaholme over Aaron Mintor sixt three to six two. And
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Speaker 1: then in the fourth singles it was Jay youn Lee
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Speaker 1: of Seaholme beating Marcus Hnderman sixty three and six to
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Speaker 1: one on the double side. Uh, this is another tremendous matchup.
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Speaker 1: Christian Leon and Sean Lane of Sea Home beat Caleb
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Speaker 1: Imbach and Nate Lyons six to two and six three.
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Speaker 1: That was one I thought would I mean, I thought
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Speaker 1: I would go more sets. I thought that I kind
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Speaker 1: of favored Bellingham in my head in that specific matchup.
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Speaker 1: So I was not that I was shocked, But that's
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Speaker 1: a great outing by Seahome to to come out on
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Speaker 1: top of that one. Joshua Friesan and Quinn Crotran from
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Speaker 1: Sea Home wins the second double set. Bellingham's Kayden Whitmore
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Speaker 1: and own Bloom wins the third, so uh five to
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Speaker 1: win by seome. See them now ten and zero on
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Speaker 1: the season Bellingham ten and one. So some big time
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Speaker 1: competition there Anacortis or Carver Mount, Vernon, Burlingtonnis and all
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Speaker 1: above five hundred and squallalk them right there at four
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Speaker 1: and four, Ferndale two and seven. I'm sorry Lynden two
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Speaker 1: and seven and Ferndale two and eight. So yeah, really
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Speaker 1: good tennis being played a lot of tennis this past week.
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Speaker 1: When the weather, you know, when it can stay nice
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Speaker 1: like this, it's uh, you're able to get some in
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Speaker 1: so and what I like about it too is they
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Speaker 1: always start at like four o'clock, so I can run
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Speaker 1: out there and check it out before I go to
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Speaker 1: the events in the evening. Uh. Speaking of evening events.
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Speaker 1: Girls soccer sponsored by North County Alliance. You can check
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Speaker 1: them out at NC Alliance FC dot com. What a great,
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Speaker 1: great sponsor. They jumped in on everything soccer. We're talking,
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Speaker 1: you know, players of the week and stay leaders and
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Speaker 1: the weekly roundup and the scoreboards. And they heard the
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Speaker 1: daily round up and the scoreboards, everything they are all in. Uh,
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Speaker 1: it's fantastic. They do such a great job. They're so
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Speaker 1: positive and and uh and give me such belief that
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Speaker 1: I'm doing the right thing as well. So uh, they
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Speaker 1: understand that I don't know soccer very well, but they
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Speaker 1: love that I'm trying and I'm giving it all my efforts.
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Speaker 1: So let's talk league standings right now. Lyndon still undefeated.
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Speaker 1: Eight no, this is just league standings now. So Lyndon
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Speaker 1: eight no on the season sealm seven and one. Bellingham
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Speaker 1: dropped a six and two. I mean they lost to
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Speaker 1: Lindon the week before, uh, in that big time matchup,
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Speaker 1: and then and then Ana Chordis got him last week
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Speaker 1: in a really really close match there. Then a Quarters
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Speaker 1: jumped out to a three zero lead, Bellingham came back
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Speaker 1: and and I think they lost four to three. So uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, a really really good season for all three
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Speaker 1: of those teams so far, all in the two way
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Speaker 1: as well. And as you know, you talk by Anacordus
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Speaker 1: being as good as they are, so boy, the district
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Speaker 1: tournament is going to be crazy good. And I'm curious
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Speaker 1: how some of these other two A teams that'll come
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Speaker 1: into the district tournament. How well they are or how
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Speaker 1: good they are, I should say, as far as Archbishop Murphy,
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Speaker 1: Cedar Crest and those kind of teams, I'm really curious.
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Speaker 1: I do not know, but I would imagine Lynden CE
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Speaker 1: and Bellingham is kind of the cream of the crop there,
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Speaker 1: kind of that next wave. Lennon Christian now at five
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Speaker 1: and three, and they've had this They've had a really
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Speaker 1: good season and they've beaten every single other one A team,
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Speaker 1: so that really gives them the advantage in that case.
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Speaker 1: So they're gonna be the heavy favorites going into the postseason.
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Speaker 1: For one A district tournament squal come at five and three,
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Speaker 1: so another really good team. They're a very young team,
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Speaker 1: but they picked up a couple wins this week, so
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Speaker 1: they jump up to five and three, so they're going
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Speaker 1: to be a tough out as well in the district
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Speaker 1: tournament when that comes around in a month. Uh Ferndale
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Speaker 1: at four to three and one, so still with a
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Speaker 1: record above five hundred, and then the other one A
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Speaker 1: schools they've all been struggling a little bit. Blame two
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Speaker 1: and six. They lost to Meridian one zero Meridian's first
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Speaker 1: conference win of the year. They're won six and one,
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Speaker 1: uh Nooksac Valley one and six, with their win coming
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Speaker 1: against Lakewood. Mount Baker's still looking for their first wins.
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Speaker 1: So so it's it is kind of spread out here
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Speaker 1: and and that's tough for a lot of these smaller
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Speaker 1: one A schools because you're having to play the Lindens
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Speaker 1: and Seahomes and Bellingham's and Squalicums, and it's it's tough.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's uh, there is a dispar a disparity there,
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Speaker 1: but they're playing hard and and I tell you what
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Speaker 1: if you just you know, if you just PLoP someone
11:37
Speaker 1: down and just to watch a soccer game with five
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Speaker 1: minutes with any of these teams, you could see that
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Speaker 1: both teams are are, you know, doing a ton to
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Speaker 1: get better and and and do everything they can and
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Speaker 1: the efforts always there. So it's a it's a lot
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Speaker 1: of fun to watch. And I try to get out
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Speaker 1: to as many games as I can, and it's uh,
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Speaker 1: it's been a it's been a ton of fun. So
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Speaker 1: if you're talking about goal leaders now on the seat
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Speaker 1: and again brought to you by North County Alliance. Evelyn
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Speaker 1: Saldibar from Linden still holds that really strong lead with
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Speaker 1: seventeen goals on the year. I believe she has scored
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Speaker 1: at least one in every single game. There's been some
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Speaker 1: high scores lately where they scored. I think this past
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Speaker 1: week they had like nine goals in a game and
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Speaker 1: then five, but she only scored like one in each
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Speaker 1: of the games. So a lot of the other teammates
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Speaker 1: are getting involved. It's really turning into an offensive fire
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Speaker 1: you know, firepower show for the Linden Lions. Really really
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Speaker 1: cool to see there. Siri Hogman, the freshman from Squala
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Speaker 1: come up to nine goals now on the year, she's
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Speaker 1: in second place. And then a bunch of players with
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Speaker 1: six goals. Hannah wa Wasln from Ferndale, Ivy Newell of Bellingham,
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Speaker 1: Kayla Yun from Lyndon Christian, and Faith van Brockland from Lindon,
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Speaker 1: all with six goals on the season, and then with
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Speaker 1: five Ella Morrow from Bellingham, Kira Reeves of Seahome and
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Speaker 1: Vivian rom Ross of Seaholme all with five and so
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Speaker 1: are Bibian Moss I should say, so, uh yeah, just
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Speaker 1: a lot of goals being scored there's and there's six
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Speaker 1: players tied at tenth place with four goals, Hattie Hendrix
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Speaker 1: and Andy Anderson from Lendy Christian along with Nayla Spear,
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Speaker 1: Ayla Woodworth of Seahome and Beckett Ferry of Bellingham and
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Speaker 1: Meg Clark of Lynnon, all with four goals on the year.
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Speaker 1: So a lot of offensive firepower. And I tell you what,
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Speaker 1: these goalies too, are amazing. I mean I watched some
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Speaker 1: saves that Sarah Eisenheart had with Nukxack Valley. It was
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Speaker 1: against Squalcum. I was, I was back there on that side.
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Speaker 1: I was behind the goal a little bit at one point,
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Speaker 1: and man, I mean it's unbelievable. And Knooksack has you know,
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Speaker 1: has struggled this year win loss wise, but she's a
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Speaker 1: great goal and there's some there's some unbelievable saves out there.
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Speaker 1: So the defensive units are really good. So it's really
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Speaker 1: impressive to see, uh, these these numbers up here. We
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Speaker 1: jumped to girls swimming and diving and it was another
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Speaker 1: busy week with you know, Tuesday and Thursday and the
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Speaker 1: league meet or kind of the all everybody in the
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Speaker 1: conference over the weekend. We do have some new times
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Speaker 1: and scores here in the diving now, Laura web from
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Speaker 1: Seahome has the best score at one hundred and eighty
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Speaker 1: point five h that's really really impressive that, you know,
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Speaker 1: that jumped way up from I believe it was one
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Speaker 1: thirty something one thirty three before. Hayley Ferrell from from
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Speaker 1: Blaine has put forth the first time under a minute
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Speaker 1: in the one hundred freestyle at fifty seven point sixty
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Speaker 1: two seconds. In the long distance one five hundred freestyle,
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Speaker 1: Elsa ethel Ball from Sea Hoome five minutes forty four seconds.
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Speaker 1: That's that is cruising, so that's really really impressive to
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Speaker 1: get that time. The two hundred freestyle relay has a
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Speaker 1: new team and it's a Sea Home team Parnia Gaa
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Speaker 1: Reel Hicks, Elsa ethel Ba and Prianca Costanzo from Sea
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Speaker 1: Hoome at just under two minutes one fifty nine point
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Speaker 1: two to three. Really really impressive there, And like I
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Speaker 1: said earlier, Haley Ferrell from Blaine as the new one
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Speaker 1: hundred freestyle. She also has three of the other times
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Speaker 1: the fifty freestyle, the one hundred backstroke and the one
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Speaker 1: hundred breaststrokes. She's got the best times in all those,
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Speaker 1: but there's a new one in the four hundred freestyle relay.
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Speaker 1: It's a different Bellingham team this time with Jasmine Garcia,
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Speaker 1: Madeline Nie, Annika Holland and Grace Sorenson at four minutes
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Speaker 1: and thirteen point four to seven seconds and again swimming
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Speaker 1: and diving. I mean, as the season goes on, you're
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Speaker 1: going to start to see these times just kind of
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Speaker 1: clip away, clip away. You start seeing, you know, times
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Speaker 1: that will qualify for districts, qualify for state, stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: So we're getting closer to that and it's going to
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Speaker 1: be interesting because on the boy's side, we saw some
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Speaker 1: great individual performances at the state meet. I can see
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Speaker 1: this happening on the girls side as well, because there's
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Speaker 1: some fantastic athletes here, so good luck to all of
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Speaker 1: them on the girls swim and dive. Uh, really really cool.
16:02
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Speaker 1: extraordinary advantage. Uh, volleyball has been boy, it's been flying around. Man.
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Speaker 1: It's it's that's the thing about like soccer's use usually
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Speaker 1: Tuesdays and Thursdays generally, and you might get a spare
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Speaker 1: game here and there that kind of jumps around. But
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Speaker 1: volleyball is every night Monday, Monday, Wednesday, you know, Monday, Monday, Wednesday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
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Speaker 1: And then sometimes on Saturdays they're going east of the
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Speaker 1: Mountains like they did this week, and some teams played
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Speaker 1: in the tournament and like a round robin thing. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's just it's intense, it's it's it's awesome to see.
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Speaker 1: And uh, and there's been some really really good play
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Speaker 1: uh in the league standings. Again, this is just league.
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Speaker 1: This is not overall. Lynden is still undefeated at seven
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Speaker 1: and oh and but there followed really closely by Seahome
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Speaker 1: at six and one, Ferndale five and one, and Linden
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Speaker 1: Christian is five and two. Chris Ferndale dropping that match
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Speaker 1: to Burlington Brington's undefeated as well. But again this is
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Speaker 1: not skeatget preps. This is walking preps. So some really
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Speaker 1: really good standings in there. Lennon Christian struggled a little
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Speaker 1: bit this week. They were undefeated in conference play at
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Speaker 1: five and oh they dropped when anti Chordus and then
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Speaker 1: they got beat by Meridian. Meridian now up to four
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Speaker 1: and three, even though they have a record that's lower
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Speaker 1: than Linden Christian. They won the head to head and
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Speaker 1: they won it in three sets. I was there for
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Speaker 1: that one. Meridians Meridian at the service line is really impressive.
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Speaker 1: They have four or five different girls that could just
17:48
Speaker 1: hit bullets across the net and I'm talking just barely
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Speaker 1: over the net. Like as soon as the surf happens,
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Speaker 1: I say, oh, Like in my head, I'm like, oh,
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Speaker 1: that's not gonna wait a minute. It just it did
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Speaker 1: go over the net. They're just such line dry. It's
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Speaker 1: really really impressive. And so they kind of got hot
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Speaker 1: at the service line and found some things and they
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Speaker 1: picked up that win there. So I'm Riady now four
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Speaker 1: and three, Nusack Valley three and three, and Squalicum two
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Speaker 1: and five. They had an outstanding three sets earlier in
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Speaker 1: the week out at Nuxack Valley High School that I
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Speaker 1: was there for that one as well, and I've never
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Speaker 1: seen a three to OH match that was so close,
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Speaker 1: I should say. Usually when you see a three to oh,
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Speaker 1: it's like, okay, they win twenty five eighteen, twenty five fourteen,
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Speaker 1: and twenty five seventeen or something like that. I mean
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Speaker 1: they were all they were way one by two, I
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Speaker 1: think in all of them. So, I mean it was
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Speaker 1: it was as close as it gets. And I got
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Speaker 1: there and I thought, this is as the possibility of
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Speaker 1: going five. And it didn't. It went three, but it
18:47
Speaker 1: had that feel. So and then all looking for their
18:51
Speaker 1: first conference wins Bellingham, Blaine, and Mount Baker. Bellingham's made
18:54
Speaker 1: a lot of changes. They've played more girls on the varsity.
18:59
Speaker 1: You know, they've bringing up JV players. They're trying a
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Speaker 1: different setter now, and they're trying to find ways. But
19:05
Speaker 1: and they're going, you know, some extra sets. I think
19:07
Speaker 1: they went four against Oak Harbors, so I think they're
19:10
Speaker 1: starting to really improve and figure some things out. Blaine,
19:14
Speaker 1: as you know, they they take teams to extra sets
19:17
Speaker 1: as well, but they haven't got that conference win yet.
19:19
Speaker 1: And Mount Baker is much improved as well, you know.
19:21
Speaker 1: I mean they played when they played against Lyndon this week,
19:24
Speaker 1: who's undefeated, and it wasn't a pushover. I mean last
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Speaker 1: year the scores were, you know, twenty five to six
19:31
Speaker 1: or something like that. Now they're twenty five eighteen. So
19:34
Speaker 1: Mount Baker's right there as well, so they are definitely
19:36
Speaker 1: not a pushover. There's a big improvement with that team.
19:39
Speaker 1: So even though the record doesn't show it, the league
19:42
Speaker 1: is much more tighter from top to bottom as it's
19:46
Speaker 1: been in years past. So that's a that's really really
19:48
Speaker 1: cool to see. And we're gonna look at the stat
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Speaker 1: Leaders now and we have a new sponsor. The stat
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Speaker 1: Leaders are now sponsored by Apex Northwest Volleyball Club And
19:56
Speaker 1: I love this because, boy, they've they've they share a
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Speaker 1: lot of my stuff on social media and they've been
20:02
Speaker 1: so great when being helpful with getting eyeballs on my stuff.
20:06
Speaker 1: So now this is so cool for me to be
20:08
Speaker 1: able to do the same for them and get there,
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Speaker 1: get them out there and known. Apex Northwest Volleyball Club
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Speaker 1: is a not for profit girls and boys volleyball club
20:18
Speaker 1: in Wakam County that utilizes competitive volleyball to develop stronger athletes,
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Speaker 1: nurture well rounded individuals, and provide resources to pursue volleyball
20:28
Speaker 1: at the next level. You can check them out at
20:31
Speaker 1: Apex NW Volleyball Club dot org. And I you know,
20:36
Speaker 1: I tell you what, there's some there's some awesome coaches there,
20:40
Speaker 1: the talent that has come out of there. A lot
20:42
Speaker 1: of these high school players play club volleyball for them
20:45
Speaker 1: and and and you know you talk about you know,
20:48
Speaker 1: even on the boys side. I mean, you know, for football,
20:51
Speaker 1: we've seen a lot of these Sea Home kids, the
20:53
Speaker 1: Braddock Duckworth and Alden Jacobs and theo Quiggle and they
20:56
Speaker 1: play in this club volleyball and you know they're gonna
20:59
Speaker 1: go and college volleyball somewhere and that's that's such a
21:02
Speaker 1: really cool deal. So for them to be able to
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Speaker 1: do this really really says a lot. And I'm so
21:07
Speaker 1: glad to be a partner with them, and and uh
21:10
Speaker 1: and they really helped. They're so helpful with giving me
21:14
Speaker 1: knowledge about volleyball as well. So it's a great back
21:17
Speaker 1: and forth. It's a tremendous partnership. We're gonna look at
21:19
Speaker 1: kills per set. And now the flying freshman Melanie Short
21:24
Speaker 1: has jumped up into the lead from Meridian. She's at
21:27
Speaker 1: three point ninety six kills per set. Oh she she
21:31
Speaker 1: just she had another big week and she jumps up.
21:35
Speaker 1: She was of course the offensive player of the week
21:37
Speaker 1: last week. And and and she yeah, she's just stayed
21:41
Speaker 1: the course and has played really well. Assists per set
21:45
Speaker 1: is still Ella Fritz from Lynn and Christian. She dropped
21:48
Speaker 1: down a little bit. She's got so many of them,
21:51
Speaker 1: eight point ninety seven assists per set. She's just got
21:54
Speaker 1: so many different weapons around her that she can go to.
21:57
Speaker 1: And boy, she's on the money every single time. So uh,
22:01
Speaker 1: you get a player like that, and and and it's
22:03
Speaker 1: not just that too. She will you have to be
22:06
Speaker 1: cleary of all those of all those tall players around her,
22:09
Speaker 1: but then she will have the touch kill every once
22:12
Speaker 1: in a while. She's very very good at that. So
22:14
Speaker 1: h you always got to watch out for that. Aces
22:16
Speaker 1: per set. Ryland Bernardi, the senior from Meridian, now up
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Speaker 1: to one ace per set. She had like eleven aces
22:25
Speaker 1: in a in a in a match over the weekend,
22:28
Speaker 1: and just in one, you know, in one match. I
22:30
Speaker 1: mean that is crazy. And like I was talking about
22:33
Speaker 1: earlier about the way that Meridian serves, and she is
22:36
Speaker 1: right up there. I mean, they are laser shots. There
22:39
Speaker 1: are there are some players where I don't know how
22:41
Speaker 1: they do it, but it's just the repetition and doing
22:44
Speaker 1: it so many times. I mean, you know, you asked
22:47
Speaker 1: Ryland Bernardi, how many times have you served a volleyball
22:49
Speaker 1: in your life? And she's gonna probably laugh and go,
22:51
Speaker 1: I don't know five thousand, and it's it's uh, it's
22:54
Speaker 1: it's incredible. And so all the practice that they do,
22:57
Speaker 1: it's really really paying off. And the Trojans are trending
23:00
Speaker 1: in the right way right now. Diggs per set per
23:03
Speaker 1: set is still the Seahome Junior. McKenna Andrews just such
23:07
Speaker 1: a weapon back there. And you know, the big reason
23:10
Speaker 1: the Sea Home only has one loss on the season
23:14
Speaker 1: is their defense, and that's McKenna Andrews. I mean, if
23:17
Speaker 1: you can if you can set up the rest of
23:19
Speaker 1: your offense because of what you're doing, that's that is
23:22
Speaker 1: that goes such a long way. And McKenna Andrews from
23:25
Speaker 1: Sea Home just a just a tremendous another tremendous week,
23:31
Speaker 1: four point two five digs per set on the season.
23:33
Speaker 1: She's really got a stronghold on that stat there. Blocks
23:37
Speaker 1: per set. We have a new leader for the first
23:39
Speaker 1: time in a long time, Leah Lockwood from Seahome the Senior.
23:44
Speaker 1: She's at zero point eighty eight blocks per set. She
23:46
Speaker 1: had a tremendous week, such a presence up there up front,
23:51
Speaker 1: and you know, with their offensive attack, it forces the
23:54
Speaker 1: other team to to you know, have to scurry around
23:57
Speaker 1: a little bit and try to get back, and then
23:59
Speaker 1: all sudden, Leah Lockwood's right there and just can can
24:03
Speaker 1: contain the net right in the middle there, And she's
24:05
Speaker 1: got great timing and great leaping ability and you put
24:08
Speaker 1: all that together and boy, she's up there now on
24:11
Speaker 1: the lead. So we're gonna go to the players of
24:13
Speaker 1: the week. Now, we're gonna go to girl soccer. The
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Speaker 1: Girl Soccer Player of the Week is sponsored by North
24:18
Speaker 1: County Alliance FC and Boy. The player of the Week
24:23
Speaker 1: this week is the freshman from Squalicum, sirih Hoglin. Four
24:27
Speaker 1: goals this week, including a hat trick against Mount Baker.
24:31
Speaker 1: You know, she goes on the attack and all season
24:34
Speaker 1: she's been very, very consistent, but this week four goals,
24:39
Speaker 1: really really aggressive. So congratulations to Siri Hogmin from Squalicum.
24:44
Speaker 1: She's the North County Alliance FC Soccer Player of the Week.
24:48
Speaker 1: Volleyball the Terpstra Law Offensive Player of the Week Turpstra Law.
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Speaker 1: You can find them at seven oh nine Grover Street
24:54
Speaker 1: and Lyndon. You can give them a call at three
24:56
Speaker 1: six zero three one eight nine to three zero zero.
25:00
Speaker 1: And there was this was a tough This was the
25:03
Speaker 1: toughest pick I've had this year. So many players out
25:08
Speaker 1: had these outstanding evenings or performances, you know one night,
25:12
Speaker 1: Oh this person had you know, this many kills or
25:15
Speaker 1: this many aces or or whatever. And but when I
25:18
Speaker 1: looked at the week as a whole, and I saw
25:21
Speaker 1: her twice in person, and I don't think I you know,
25:25
Speaker 1: I don't think she ever left the court. And it's
25:28
Speaker 1: that's what's crazy too. And and just her ability to
25:32
Speaker 1: to stay on and play hard and multiple sets and
25:35
Speaker 1: just keep on going. Uh. Jolie Pasz from Squalicum. She is,
25:41
Speaker 1: you know, not the tallest outside hitter, probably five to five,
25:45
Speaker 1: but man, she could fly around and she's constantly just
25:49
Speaker 1: she's like the energizer by I mean, she just keeps
25:51
Speaker 1: on going. Uh. Does a ton of stuff in the
25:54
Speaker 1: back too, leads and digs as well. But what a
25:56
Speaker 1: great week she had offensively. Uh. So Jolie pass from
26:00
Speaker 1: Squalicum is the turfstral Law Volleyball Offensive Player of the Week.
26:05
Speaker 1: And then when you go to Defensive Player of the Week,
26:07
Speaker 1: that's sponsored by Acceleration Driving School in London, which I
26:11
Speaker 1: love because you've got to be a defensive driver when
26:13
Speaker 1: you're driving. I tell you what, you you know, you
26:16
Speaker 1: you worry about yourself, but you've got to be on
26:18
Speaker 1: the lookout for other people and that's defensive driving. So
26:21
Speaker 1: this is a fantastic sponsor here because so many people listening,
26:25
Speaker 1: you know, are maybe starting to learn how to drive,
26:27
Speaker 1: or they have or their parents that are listening have
26:30
Speaker 1: kids that are starting to learn how to drive. Great
26:33
Speaker 1: place to go. Call my guy Kevin at three six
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Speaker 1: zero seven four six or five six seven in Linden
26:40
Speaker 1: Acceleration Driving School and they'll get you set up. And
26:44
Speaker 1: the defensive Player of the week is Lea Lockwood from
26:47
Speaker 1: Siome Boy. I was talking about her. She shot up
26:49
Speaker 1: that leaderboard in the blocks per set and you know,
26:53
Speaker 1: I've gone with Libero's usually for the for the Acceleration
26:58
Speaker 1: Driving School and Linden Defensive Player of the Week, but
27:01
Speaker 1: this week there was some big time stuff up in
27:04
Speaker 1: the middle. I mean, you talk about her h Mary
27:07
Speaker 1: Lockhart had a really big week from Bellingham, but I'm
27:10
Speaker 1: giving it to Leah Locke with a Seahome senior. She's
27:13
Speaker 1: your Acceleration Driving School and Lynden defensive player of the
27:16
Speaker 1: week again. You can give Kevin Austin a call three
27:19
Speaker 1: six zero seven four six four five six seven and
27:24
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's that's basically it. These go pretty
27:28
Speaker 1: quickly without my partner Ryland here to aid me along
27:31
Speaker 1: and and uh but I love talking about all these
27:34
Speaker 1: sports because it's such a big, big part of my
27:38
Speaker 1: week and it's so fun to go see all the
27:41
Speaker 1: different schools, all the different athletes, all the different coaches,
27:43
Speaker 1: all the different parents. Boy, it's it's so funny because
27:48
Speaker 1: every single you know, every single day, at about two o'clock,
27:51
Speaker 1: I get done with my writing and then I look
27:53
Speaker 1: at the schedule and go, Okay, where can I go?
27:55
Speaker 1: How can I hit the most things? And you know
27:59
Speaker 1: it's and then I find a route that works, and
28:02
Speaker 1: you know it's great because Linden and Linden Christian Soccer
28:04
Speaker 1: and sometimes Nuksact Valley, they play their soccer games a
28:07
Speaker 1: little earlier, you know, because there's no lights on the field,
28:10
Speaker 1: so I can go there. Mount Baker does that as well,
28:13
Speaker 1: and so I can go there sometimes before going to
28:16
Speaker 1: a volleyball game, or a lot of times at volleyball
28:18
Speaker 1: and soccer games are at the same time at the same school,
28:21
Speaker 1: so I can hit kind of both at the same time.
28:23
Speaker 1: And and uh yeah, the tennis. I mean, it's just
28:27
Speaker 1: it's it's just so much fun. So very thankful for
28:30
Speaker 1: all the sponsors again, so many of them. I mean,
28:33
Speaker 1: we got to talk about Acceleration Driving School in Linden,
28:38
Speaker 1: Turks dra Law North County Alliance FC now the Apex
28:44
Speaker 1: Northwest Volleyball Club of course, Stop for Insurance, my guy
28:49
Speaker 1: Marity over there, and and you know Kurt Mayberry farm
28:53
Speaker 1: dot com. So just so great that all these individuals
28:58
Speaker 1: and companies have come together and they're made so I
29:00
Speaker 1: can have my own company. And I'm extremely grateful. I
29:04
Speaker 1: want to keep doing this as long as I can.
29:06
Speaker 1: So thank you everybody for listening. And we'll talk to
29:09
Speaker 1: you tomorrow when we talk about the week five freecap
29:14
Speaker 1: of all the football games. See eleaven or everybody