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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 243 - Winter Sports Wrap Up Basketball State Championships · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  This is senior Hayley Coochy from the state champion Linden Lions, and you're listening
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  to the waltcom Preps Podcast with Tyler and Ryland. Go Lions. Greetings and
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  welcome into the watcom Preps Podcast. This is episode of two hundred and forty
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  three, a winter sports weekly wrap up for the state championships of basketball.
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  I'm Rond the Spencer along with me as always as Tyler Anderson of WATCUM Preps.
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  Tyler, how we doing? You know? And pretty well? It
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  was an awesome week something I had never really experienced before I'd been to the
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  tournament. It was twenty nine years ago. I was sitting at the drum
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  set for two and out. You know. It was a completely different atmosphere
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  where you know, we were there. The boys and girls were there that
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  year, which was cool. I remember that, but it was at the
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  Tacoma Dome. This was very different doing awesome. It was great. Need
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  to give a thank you to Hailey Kouchi of Lyndon. We won't say how
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  they did, but she might have. We also need to give a thank
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  you to Kurt Mayberry Farm and Kurtaberry Farm dot Com is the website. They
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  are a fourth generation, family owned and operated berry farm committed to growing the
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  highest quality berries, strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries. It's coming time.
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  Kurtaberry farm dot com. That's Kurt with a C, M, A B
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  E R R O y farm dot com. Tyler. Yeah, spring sports
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  just around the corner. Sponsorship opportunities are available. You're gonna be working on
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  a lot of that stuff this week. If somebody would like to reach out
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  to you. Well, first off, what has already taken basically just track
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  and field, the the recaps for track and field is taken. Stuff for
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  insurance, jumped all over that quite a while ago. I have talked to
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  local business owners about the spring but nothing's been really set in stone. This
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  was done back in you know, November, and they you know, they
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  were just said, you know, come talk to me and this is what
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  and that's what you know this will be for. But but things are definitely
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  open and there'll be all sorts of things. They'll be Players of the Week
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  again, they'll be you know, there'll be a walk the Preps Athlete of
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  the Week for all sports and things that will be voted on and it'll be
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  a lot of cool stuff. You know, they'll be scoreboards again and daily
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  recaps for multiple sports, so a lot of opportunities to get your logo out
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  there and be seen. And and you know, right now, you know,
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  the social media stuff is blowing up. Facebook is over fifty four hundred
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  followers, Instagram is nearing five thousand. Right now. In the last thirty
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  days, it says that my Instagram has reached over seven hundred thousand accounts.
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  So psychotically, a lot of yeah, a lot of a lot of stuff
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  is being seen. So if you want your logo out there and you want
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  to support youth, local youth athletics, which is always huge, it's a
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  good way to do it, and yeah, looking forward to it. Yeah,
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  And just to give you an idea of some of the stuff, Tyler,
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  I asked you. I said, hey, I need to know what
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  graphics you needed me to make, So we kind of put some stuff together.
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  We've got baseball scoreboard, fast pitch scoreboard, Boys soccer scoreboard, Baseball
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  player of the Week, Fast Pitch Player of the Week, watcom Preps Athlete
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  of the Week, a new one. It's new. It's gonna be out
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  there. But people, they're gonna they're gonna have a chance to vote.
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  I mean, this is gonna be huge. Baseball stat leaders, which you
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  know as well as I do, lots of crazy stats in baseball, fast
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  pitch stat leaders, every one of them for baseball, got it for softball
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  too, Boys soccer stat leader, Tyler. There are so many different opportunities
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  for people to get on board. All they got to do is reach out
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  to you, and you know, and even if they maybe don't have that
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  in their budget, but they want to be a part of something, there's
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  plenty of opportunities. Remind me, Tyler, who's the fishing thing. What
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  was that one? Yeah, Eagle Rock Fish? Yeah yeah, Eagle Rock,
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  Eagle Rock Lodge or something right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  I meant fish or something, Tyler. We talk about it all the
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  time. Kurt may Roy Farm. Absolutely. I mean that's another one,
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  right, Like you know, So that's the thing if if you want to
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  get involved, you want to help out. I mean, it's not free,
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  you know. I mean everything's free, right, everything on the website
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  free. But there's a reason it's free. It's because you got to have
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  sponsorships. So we do need help with some of that. Next week,
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  Tyler baseball, maybe a fast pitch preview. Why am I saying this because
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  we need a little help with that. We need basically, we need rosters.
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  If if if you are a baseball player, if you are a baseball
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  if you are a baseball coach, if you are a basketball coach, but
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  you know the baseball coach, whatever it is, please do us a favor.
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  Reach out to your baseball coach or your fast pitch coach and just say,
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  hey, have you sent over a roster to walk them preps? And
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  when they say, what the heck are you talking about, then you can
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  tell them what it is and the reason we need it. Tyler's got all
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  the stats from last year, but if there's a third baseman that decided,
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  well, what was the example we gave, Like Landon Hatchett didn't play last
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  year or the year whatever it was, didn't play because he was already at
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  U dub or Ethan Larson and somebody else flipped over and played another sport,
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  right, if that's happened, we need to know. So, yeah,
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  we don't want to be talking about some great baseball player and then find out
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  he's not even playing this year. Yeah, Spence, you just need to
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  know what the rosters are and then we can go forward and do a fun
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  preview. It would be awesome. Yeah, spend you know, five or
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  ten minutes talking about how Land and Hatchett fills out some catcher's gear, only
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  to find out he's not even at the school anymore. You know, like
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  that, that would be brutal. We need to know what we're talking yeah,
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  exactly. And the thing is, Tyler knows what he's talking about.
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  We just need to know who it is we're talking about. And you know,
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  are there any kids. Maybe there's a basketball player that all of a
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  sudden decided to come out for baseball, And Tyler goes, hey, I
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  don't know if this guy's played before, but you know what, he scored
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  twenty two points a game over there on the basketball court. Maybe Anthony Canalis
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  is playing baseball? Is he? I don't know, but so yeah,
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  we need a little help with that. So baseball, fast pitch, all
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  we need is rosters. If you can get us rosters of the varsity.
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  We don't care about the JV or the freshman or whatever, like, no,
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  no offense to them, but we're not We're not gonna talk about it
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  on a preview podcast. We don't. We ain't got time for that.
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  And I'll tell you what, Tyler, it might be one of those things
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  that we look at and we go, yeah, we probably need to do
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  two. We probably need to do a baseball and a fast pitch on their
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  own. Just thinking about it, we probably do need to do that.
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  But we'll draw it up on a on a little you know, document here,
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  we'll see what it looks like, and maybe we just do one,
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  maybe we do two, who knows. That's the beauty of this week right
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  now. I mean there's no varsity sports until Friday. There's no varsity games
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  this week until Friday. So we got this week to kind of prep or
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  to walk and prep as well. Excuse me, you get this week to
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  kind of do that because I just set it all up basically. Yeah,
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  yeah, I can get all the information ready and then but you and I
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  we could talk about, okay, maybe we'll record two of them. Maybe
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  we need to record one on Thursday night, one on you know, and
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  who knows, and we'll get them out. And I mean, it's crazy
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  because baseball and fast pitch, man, those games are starting this week and
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  it's a it's a quick turnaround and of course weather permitting and all that,
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  but uh, it's fast, it's fast, it's coming right up. Well,
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  and since we're talking about it, Tyler, we might as well also
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  say, if there is an easy way for us to get pictures of everybody
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  that doesn't involve Tyler going out to every single place. Somebody's got an idea
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  for that, that would be huge because we need pictures. We need to
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  be able to do you know, players of the week, you know,
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  stat graphics, stuff like that. Like, if there's an easier way to
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  do it, you know, that'd be great. I mean, if there's
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  a team, let me put you this way. If there's a team that
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  this week they're doing their team photos and they're getting the headshots of everybody,
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  if we had access to that, that would make our lives a heck of
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  a lot easier, you know what I mean. Now, I get it
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  there's photographers they want to get paid for like I don't know, but if
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  there's any heck, if there's a parent that has a really good camera and
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  they want to just go throw the kids up against the fence and take pictures
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  from the waste up, that's all we really need. Waste up. We
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  can make it work, you know what I mean? Any help like that
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  is huge because look, for the football season, Tyler, all you're doing
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  is going to one practice taking a bunch of head shots. It's a little
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  bit different when you got to do softball and you're trying to coordinate. You're
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  trying to coordinate ten teams. Yeah, and it is a little different.
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  Yeah, it is different for football because they're practicing in August, like we
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  before there's a game. Yes, so I can go out and get those
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  and then all of a sudden, I have all ten schools done, and
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  then I can go out and get volleyball done. You know, but right
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  now I basically have four days to get twenty teams done. Yeah. Well,
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  let's face it, like I mean, I think a little different.
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  I would assume we're not going to have a Players of the Week this first
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  week, right and they will have only played one or maybe two games or
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  something. So but once games start, and it's like, it's like it's
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  kind of hard to I don't want to go to a practices once games start.
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  Yes, well, and it's not as it's not as easy to just
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  grab a kid after a game and take a headshot of it like it is,
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  but it's also not like, yeah, it's I don't know, it's
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  it's it's totally different with baseball as opposed to football, where yeah, you
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  know, everybody kind of stands around for a little bit and you're able to
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  do it like I don't know, it's it's just we need a little bit
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  of help here. It's basically what I'm saying. And if you are somebody
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  that can help or something like that, I mean, heck maybe uh oh,
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  you know what, before I forget since I'm on this topic, or
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  since I'm thinking about this really quickly, I was gonna say, if you're
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  like a photographer in the area and you would like to donate your time and
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  do something like that, that could help as well. We maybe set some
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  things up there. Yes, Tyler, we do need to mention people are
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  hearing this on Monday. You know whose birthday it is? My sisters?
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  Oh okay, her two Randy Small. Oh yeah, at least according to
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  according to Facebook, it is Randy Small March fourth. It says beautiful,
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  yeah, him and my sister's share birthday. He wants to march forthward.
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  You know, if I would have been smart about this. I would have
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  had like a little Randy Small highlight video or like a highlight clip of like,
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  Hey, everybody's Randy Small. Hey, Randy Small here. Hey,
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  the weather's gonna be the same this week. Eh, the weather's gonna be
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  the you know, Like I should have done something like that. I should
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  have made like a little Randy Small like highlight clip of all the stuff that
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  he said over the year. That would have been funny because it would have
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  basically been the same thing for the first ten weeks. It was so funny
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  because over at State I was talking with Connor from you know, Cascade of
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  Daily News, and we were talking about Randy. Were like, is there
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  is there not a nicer person in the world, Like we were just we
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  were talking about different people, and we were like and then we both looked
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  at each other and we're like, Randy's ball as the nicest person in the
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  world. It's just it's so cool to be able to see these these guys,
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  you know, and and girls at these events and and and you kind
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  of it's walking County kind of took over Yakama. I mean it really,
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  you know, it just it fills up. Yeah, Zilla travels really well.
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  There are certain teams that awesome right down street. Ellensburg is close and
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  they do the same thing too. But man walking County and you know,
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  all share some stories once we get into it. But uh, yeah,
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  it was really cool. But it's awesome to be like courtside and and see
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  see Randy and taking pictures, see yeah, Janelle court Lever taking pictures,
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  seeing Michael Cainan taking pictures. See almost like you were at home. Yeah,
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  yeah, exactly. It's like being in the Jake Maybury Gymnasium. Here
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  we are everybody's it's all the same people and now we're just you know,
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  four and four hours away. Now it's it's it was. It was really
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  cool. I do got to say, Tyler, I'm a little disappointed that
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  I wasn't in this nicest person conversation but or debate. But also just really
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  quickly, did you watch the uh the Zilla championship game. Well I'll get
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  into that too once we get to talk Saturday, because I saw the ending.
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  Yeah, and wow, wow, what a final play to win that
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  one. I mean, oh my goodness. But yeah, Tyler, we
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  got a lot of stuff to talk about here. Well, it's weird we
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  don't have a lot to talk about, but we have a lot to talk
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  about. So there's not a lot of games, but there's a lot to
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  talk about, if that makes Yeah, yeah, it's weird hear when you
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  say there's not a lot of games after I just spent the last four days
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  well, constantly watching games. But it's also a little bit different. You
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  basically just watched games back to back to back to back to back, Like
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  yeah, right, but you're you're right. But at the same time,
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  I'm thinking like, yeah, well I'm usually watching all this on games like
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  film. Now I'm watching it all live. It was crazy nine nine girls
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  games and that would mean what ten boys games? No, I think there
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  was. I think there was sixteen games total for you to watch. Yeah,
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  oh did I read? Oh you know what I know? Oh yeah
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  yeah yeah, oh well then it would have been well nine girls games.
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  How did you have how would you have had less? Was it? Was
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  it just nine girls? Yeah? Well because there were there was more.
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  There was more girls teams there because uh oh yeah, so it was nine
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  and seven is what it was. Oh that's right. Yeah, I was
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  thinking that the fact that there was a second Boys or Meridian was there.
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  But Meridian didn't go far enough. They only played the one game. That's
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  right, Okay, yeah, so yeah, anyway, that's uh yeah,
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  because it was one Wednesday, three or five Thursday, five Friday, five
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  Saturday. Yeah, so sixteen games to talk about. We're not necessarily going
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  to go in depth into each of them because people can go to walkompreps dot
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  com and find a write up of these games. There's a lot of stuff
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  that Tyler had going on there. You were posting way more than I've ever
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  seen you post, and I had to do it with a laptop. I
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  hate laptops. I was using my darn phone. I hate that. And
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  there was people around you. There were it was crazy. And I'm writing
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  like while I'm watching the next game, and you were spotted multiple times,
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  multiple times, yes, multiple times walk the prep. That being said,
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  Tyler, let's start with the girls basketball, and this is sponsored by Edilne
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  dry. All basketball has been sponsored by Eilin Dairy. Really the scoreboards,
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  I've seen their logo all over the dang place. You talk about people that
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  are getting their money's work, Ellie and Darry's getting their money's worth. But
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  we're gonna start with the one A State tournament on Thursday. Quarterfinals, Lyndon
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  Christian sixty three, Kings fifty, Nooksack Valley sixty, Seattle Academy twenty two.
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  Tyler, Yeah, the Linden Christian Kings. I mean it's a great
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  matchup, traditional powers Kings King. You know the boys obviously has boys been
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  really good. The girls team, they're young. They had a really good
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  player, Kaleo Anderson. She's she's already scored over a thousand points in her
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  career and she's just a sophomore. That sink in for a second, what
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  she's a six foot guard. She is going to be a heck of a
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  player, or she already is, but she's you know, there's a trajectory
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  there. Linda Christian just they just kind of did what they do. You
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  know, they outsized them. Alison Shoemate had a great game, Grace Heines
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  had a great game. Ella Fritz. It was just just a little bit
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  better. And and that was kind of that. In the Nuksack game,
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  it was it was dominance, and I'm talking big time dominance. They allowed
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  three points in the second half to Seattle Academy, held them scoreless in the
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  fourth quarter. It was and that and that's what nuzak Vy does. You
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  see a lot of good girls teams and they play like six or seven players,
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  you know, Max Yeah, and Nukxak Valley will go nine deep and
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  spread it out and sub frequently. So by the time the second half rules
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  around, they kind of lean on you and it's it's tough because the other
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  girls are sucking wind and Nukzak is just getting started and they just they're so
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  efficient, and that's kind of happened outscoring him twenty four to three in the
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  second half, and Knuksack Valley that were top ranked, moved on to the
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  Semis. Speaking of the Semis on Friday, and by the way, all
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  of this going on Yakama at the sun Dome, and we didn't even talk
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  about majors and the fact that you went there a couple of times, Tyler.
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  And by the way, I was right, way better, way better,
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  way better. That being said. Friday semi finals, Noksack Valley with
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  a sixty six fifty six win over Wappato and then Living Christian they fall forty
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  three to forty two to Deer Park. Tyler, talk about those two these
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  were these were great games, uh, Nuksack Valley beating Wapta. Wapto led
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  seventeen to ten after the first quarter. Uh Knoksack came back and scored twenty
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  in the second and the third started their comeback. But it was a it
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  was it was just a really tough game for Nuksack. You know, they
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  haven't been tested a ton during during the year. You know, they made
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  only three three pointers that game, which was uncharacteristic for Nuksack Valley. But
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  they're really good at when things aren't going well, they'll they'll go completely to
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  another way. They'll and they'll spot it right away and go right to it
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  and then just do try that. You know. Devin Coppinger, you know,
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  she scored nineteen points in that game, Tanna Hookuma scored fourteen, Laney
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  Kimball eleven, and they did what they needed to do. Wapatou had a
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  great player, Trinity Wheeler. Holy cow, she's maybe about five to four.
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  She's so quick, great dribbler. She gets shots off really quickly and
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  they look like their shots that no one would want to take, like kind
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  of kind of awkward, but she made them all the time. And she
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  scored twenty seven in that game. But it just wasn't enough. Wopata was
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  really impressed by them. Niksac Valley wins that game, and then it was
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  just a tough one for Lindy Christian because winning this one would put them in
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  the state championship game for how many years in a row now, it's crazy,
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  And it would have been a rematch for the third year in a row
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  against look Sect Valley. But they fall by one point to Deer Park,
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  who was undefeated going into that one. And deer Park lives and dies by
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  the three. They can shoot the lights out, and it was they were
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  kind of starting to die by in that game. They missed twenty of them.
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  Elsie's defense. Elsie, we talked about it in the last podcast about
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  you know, they're five to nine and taller throughout their whole starting lineup,
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  and you get those long arms out there, you can deflect some passes and
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  block some shots out in the perimeter. And uh, but Deer Park is
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  scrappy. Uh. They got the one point victory to send Lennon Christian to
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  the third fifth place game. Did you just say that Deer Park missed twenty
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  three pointers? Yeah, I mean they shoot way more threes than they do
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  twos. Yeah, yeah, that is a top How many did they shoot
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  total? Do you know? Twenty eight? They were eight for twenty eight,
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  eight for twenty eight. They and they, so they just kept shooting.
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  Yeah, and they and they were five for eighteen and two pointers.
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  Wow. Yeah. I mean you talk about like when you say live and
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  die, you aren't jogging around right, No, no, no, they
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  And what's crazy is that you think about teams that shoot a lot of threes
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  and it's either like, man, they can score a ton of points and
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  they win big and then they have some have a few stinkers where they'll lose.
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  Yeah, they were undefeated, so it's it's really rare to see an
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  undefeated team that shoots that many threes. That's yeah, you know it kind
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  of it kind of struck me as like, wow, that's and and people
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  always talk about shooting at the at the Yakamas Sundome is tough with the different
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  backdrops and everything, and and and they came out and you know, yeah,
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  it sounds weird that they missed twenty of them, and but still,
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  you know, shot pretty well well. I mean, at the end of
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  the day, half of their points over half of their points were from three
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  point. Now tell me this, Tyler, do they do they like rebound
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  well offensively, like I mean, if they Elsie rebound, Elsie out rebounded
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  them by nine, you know, which usually when you're in the rebound battle,
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  you win the game. And it didn't happen that way, you know,
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  And and and you know, they both made nine foul shots. So
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  it wasn't about like they got fine a bunch more or anything like that.
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  It was just it was a close game. And you know Gray, since
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  you know, she scored eleven in that one, she didn't shoot particularly well.
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  She was four for sixteen, which was unusual for her. But yeah,
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  it was just at Deer Park's very good defensively, they just really really
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  scrappy, like I said, undefeated and you know, second ranked. I
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  mean, there was a reason they were very very good. Now, the
• 21:23
  interesting thing, because you have two teams in the semi finals, it means
• 21:27
  that if one wins and one loses, the two teams basically just switch opponents.
• 21:33
  Right, So in the three five game on Saturday, which is earlier
• 21:37
  in the day, you end up with lynnon Christian and wapatou Lynn and Christian
• 21:41
  comes away with a seventy two sixty four win to finish in third place.
• 21:47
  Yeah, and you watch those Day three games and you could see certain teams
• 21:51
  get tired, and that might have been kind of what happened to Wapato because
• 21:56
  I was so imp i the way they played Knoksack the day before. I
• 22:00
  thought, I thought they were gonna really test Linnen Christian and might get them.
• 22:06
  But Elsie, again, they play a lot of girls. They played.
• 22:10
  They probably went nine deep in that one again, and it was they
• 22:15
  got a lot of steals in that one. They did really really well and
• 22:19
  they win seventy two to sixty four. Big second half went pretty well Wapito.
• 22:26
  Wapato led by one at halftime, but Lennon Christian Grace Heins scored twenty
• 22:33
  nine points. She really showed up in that one. You know, she
• 22:37
  was an all state player last year as a sophomore. She really went off
• 22:41
  in that one. Tabby de Young in her final game, the lone senior
• 22:45
  on this Lennon Christian team scores scores ten points, gets nine rebounds. It
• 22:49
  was a good send off for her. They finished third place. That's a
• 22:53
  top four finished for the twentieth year in a row. Just such an impressive
• 22:59
  program, and this was you know, coming into the year, everyone kind
• 23:03
  of looked at each other and said, well, you know, this will
• 23:04
  be a down year for Lynden Christian. And you know, they had eight
• 23:10
  losses. They hadn't had eight losses and I don't know, probably twenty one
• 23:15
  years, uh, And but they still had twenty wins, you know,
• 23:19
  And it was you know, because they only you only had one senior,
• 23:22
  and you had your best player recovering from ACL surgery and and she, you
• 23:27
  know, she started late in the year and u and they still end up
• 23:32
  finishing third in state. And that's that just says a lot about the coaching,
• 23:36
  how the girls came together when Heinz came back, how did they adjust
• 23:38
  and everything went pretty well, and it's going to be a really strong team
• 23:42
  next year. Tabby Dejung is a great six foot one center in the middle
• 23:48
  that can deflect shots, block shots, altar shots, get rebounds and all
• 23:53
  those things. But but Alison Schuemate is about six feet tall and she is
• 23:59
  she can take up that spot and there's there. I think they had a
• 24:02
  six to one freshman that didn't play at the end of the year, so
• 24:04
  they have some size coming back, but you virtually returned the whole team,
• 24:08
  a great coaching staff. So look for Linden Christian next year to be right
• 24:12
  back in that same spot. State championship game, big time crowd, big
• 24:18
  time atmosphere. Nucksack Valley, they are your one A state champions after a
• 24:25
  seventy to sixty seven win over Deer Park, Tyler, I mean this game,
• 24:32
  deer Park, you said it scrappy. I mean they just they stay
• 24:34
  in these games, they play hard, and yeah, Nukzack Valley though,
• 24:38
  comes away with a win in the end. Yeah, this was Deer Park
• 24:42
  was ahead after each of the first three quarters. It was not looking good
• 24:47
  for Knuckxack Valley. The big thing that really kept Nuckxack Valley in the game
• 24:51
  was Kayleie Anderson. You know, she gave us the intro last week,
• 24:53
  and she's their designated sharpshooter. Basically, she can hot and she can start
• 25:00
  making them. And every time Derek Clark would be ahead by like eight ish,
• 25:04
  let's say, it was when she would hit a three and he'd be
• 25:07
  like, Okay, that was huge because now you're only within five. You
• 25:11
  know, it was those were big moments. When she would hit those because
• 25:15
  Deer Park, like I said, live and die by the three. They
• 25:18
  made nine threes in the first half. They were nine for fourteen and for
• 25:22
  threes in the first half, and it was like they can't miss, and
• 25:27
  they were way up and I just kind of thought, you know, if
• 25:30
  they they can't keep shooting like this the rest of the game, I mean,
• 25:34
  the averages are going to average out. And but boy, Kaylie Anderson,
• 25:41
  she hit six of nine from deep. She had the all six of
• 25:44
  the team's three pointers. But Nook Sac Valley hung together at the end,
• 25:51
  Devin Coppinger took over and put the team on her back. She end up
• 25:55
  scoring twenty seven points, making nine of ten from the foul line, which
• 25:57
  was huge, especially four of them in a row to kind of close out
• 26:03
  the game and pick up the win. Really really impressive team end game.
• 26:07
  I'm seeing some posts a tournament awards here in the one A Tyler, what
• 26:12
  do you got for me? Yeah. Devin Coppinger was named the tournament MVP,
• 26:17
  second year in a row two state titles. Grace Heintz was named First
• 26:22
  Team. Really impressed by her. I mean, you know, she doesn't
• 26:26
  she looks like she's just recovered fully from that knee surgery, which is awesome
• 26:30
  to see. And Tannah Hookama center from Niukxack Valley was named to the All
• 26:33
  Tournament second team. A great, great senior player, another six foot one
• 26:38
  player. It's very active under the boards, but really good interior pass or
• 26:42
  two and plays well with her teammates. A lot of fun to watch.
• 26:47
  Let's talk two a state tournament. The first game on the book, Thursday,
• 26:52
  Quarterfinals, number two. Lindon fifty to thirty four, doing what they
• 26:56
  seem to always do here over Columbia River. Tyler. Yeah, I was
• 27:00
  really curious how their defense would try, you know, go you know people
• 27:03
  say defense travels right like you like you can take that anywhere. And I
• 27:07
  was really curious how this was going to be against these big time teams now
• 27:11
  once you reach the state tournament. And yeah, they had a little hiccup
• 27:15
  in the second quarter, gave up thirteen points, but every other quarter it
• 27:18
  was single digits. And the big thing about this game was Lyndon, who
• 27:22
  usually shoots the lights out. I think they had probably four different players shoot
• 27:26
  over thirty eight percent from threes on the year, four different players, and
• 27:33
  they were one for eighteen in this game from three three wow. Yeah,
• 27:37
  and that's sounds like your part but only one and it was and it was
• 27:44
  that's tough to overcome. But they have really good size, and so they
• 27:48
  kind of changed their game plan a little bit and started going inside and you
• 27:52
  know, just keep doing what you're doing and uh, and that's what they
• 27:55
  did. Peyton Mills had a double double fifteen and eleven. Fin Departure had
• 27:59
  thirteen point points and Keky York had eight and it was you know, it
• 28:03
  was, it was, it was. It was kind of closer in the
• 28:06
  beginning, but they really took care of business in the second half. Now,
• 28:11
  Tyler, with that win, the ladies move on to Friday in the
• 28:12
  semi finals against Clarkston, where they come away again with a sixty one to
• 28:18
  forty three win. Yeah, and I think the game plan this was,
• 28:22
  okay, forget about the three be half size, We're going to go inside.
• 28:27
  And again they were down at the end of the after the first quarter
• 28:30
  and it was a really close game at half. But the second half,
• 28:33
  again Lynden plays nine players constantly and you can start to you know, take
• 28:41
  care of some business in the second half. If you play it right,
• 28:44
  and they did that. They did not make a three in the entire game.
• 28:48
  They were zero for seven. Wow, it was it was so Now
• 28:49
  you're one for twenty five at this point, but you're going into the state
• 28:52
  championship game. But you're so you're really relying on your inside play from Peyton
• 28:56
  Mills and you know, Finley Parcher, Ryan Stephen off the bench. You
• 29:03
  know, all three of these girls are six one, six to two,
• 29:06
  So use that size advantage. You know, most teams don't have a player
• 29:10
  that size, or if they do, they have one player that size,
• 29:12
  keep a rotation on, keep leaning on them. And they just did really,
• 29:17
  really well and earned a trip to this championship game. Yeah. In
• 29:21
  that championship game, I mean when you talk about a tough team to play,
• 29:26
  I mean, Ellensburg had not lost in quite a while, and I
• 29:30
  would think that's got to be like a state tournament or like a state record
• 29:33
  or something, right like seventy five wins in a row. They hadn't lost.
• 29:38
  The last time they lost, no one knew what COVID was. Let's
• 29:41
  just put it that way. Yeah, Yeah, the last time they lost,
• 29:45
  we had yet to even put a mask on Tyler. Yeah, I
• 29:48
  think that, I think and I don't know, I don't I need to
• 29:52
  double check this, and I should have double checked this, but I think
• 29:53
  the last time they lost was in the state tournament against Lynden before the one
• 30:00
  the year before COVID. How about this, Tyler, I'll look that up
• 30:02
  while you talk about Linden's forty three to forty win over the Allensburg Bulldogs to
• 30:07
  take the two way state championship. It was crazy. The Bulldogs are impressive
• 30:11
  obviously, you know, with all the seventy five wins in a row,
• 30:15
  really well coached. That coach does not believe in the coaching box. He
• 30:21
  likes to be way outside of it. Was never called for it, totally
• 30:23
  fine. I've noticed that's something that's like sometimes called sometimes not. One thing
• 30:30
  I noticed this year is a lot of the times it's like, hey,
• 30:33
  coach, can you just get up, you know, just move back in,
• 30:33
  and they'll remind him a couple of times and then it kind of goes
• 30:36
  away. And then there's some coaches, man, they just don't care.
• 30:40
  Yeah he he. I don't know if I've ever seen a coach sweat that
• 30:44
  much. He's super intense. I mean, obviously he does a great job.
• 30:47
  I mean, like, like I said, these girls, for the
• 30:49
  most part, none of them have ever lost in their high school career,
• 30:52
  right, so it's it's it was really impressive. They have a girl who's
• 30:56
  six foot four, she's not super dominant, but she gets the job done.
• 31:02
  She does what she needs to do. And Lyndon got ahead early thirteen
• 31:06
  to seven. Ellens Bird held the lead at half, and then it was,
• 31:10
  you know, really close at the end of the third quarter, and
• 31:12
  at the end it was it was crazy that Lyndon was able to pull that
• 31:17
  out. I'm starting I called her the fourth quarter freshman Finley Parcher or maybe
• 31:22
  I'll kt calling her fourth quarter Finley, but she kind of took over in
• 31:26
  the fourth, started getting some lay in. She assisted on another one to
• 31:30
  Keiki York and they ran out to a thirty nine to thirty two lead,
• 31:33
  which was a you know about with five minutes to go in the game,
• 31:37
  they led by seven. Then the Bulldogs went on an eight to eight to
• 31:40
  oh run which was culminated by a three point bucket, and then Ellensburg had
• 31:45
  the lead forty to thirty nine with a minute forty to go. Keky York
• 31:49
  tied it at forty with a with a foul shot and Peyton Mills got a
• 31:53
  steal which was huge, and that's when Hayley Kochi hit a four foot jumper
• 31:59
  with about thirty seconds left to give Lynden the lead forty two to forty.
• 32:02
  And after that it was the foul game. Peyton Mills hit a foul shot
• 32:07
  and that and that left it at forty three forty. It was so impressive.
• 32:09
  Ellensburg did have a chance to win it. At the very end.
• 32:13
  They got a good look at a three. It rimmed out, looked good
• 32:17
  from where I was standing, and as soon as it was missed and the
• 32:21
  buzzer went off a millisecond later, running on the court, it was crazy,
• 32:28
  so much fun to witness it. And and you know, I was
• 32:34
  hugging people that I'd never thought i'd hug. I mean, it was it
• 32:37
  was, you know, and I think it's because I know it's might be
• 32:40
  unprofessional being a part of the media, but I feel like I'm part of
• 32:44
  a family with a lot of the community. And and it was just so
• 32:47
  much fun. I mean, I was getting messages, I'm getting all sorts
• 32:50
  of airtime on NFHS Network and I wore my red, my red Hawaiian shirt
• 32:57
  for you know, like Tiger Woods, where was red on Sundays like I'm
• 33:00
  out, I'm We're Malcolm County is out for blood on this on Trophy Day
• 33:04
  and uh, and it was. It was awesome. It was. It
• 33:07
  was so cool, so happy for Rob Adams, the head coach, because
• 33:12
  you know, I've known him forever and you know, he started coaching at
• 33:15
  Linden and Linden had never won a state title in girls basketball before he got
• 33:20
  there, and it was it was a program that was always pretty good,
• 33:23
  but it didn't have the success that the boys had. It didn't have the
• 33:27
  success that the LC girls had. And he kind of brought them to prominence
• 33:31
  and worked them hard and that he he got three state championships. And he
• 33:36
  left on a state championship team, you know, three or four years ago
• 33:40
  and uh, right right before COVID and he came back this year and boom
• 33:46
  state championship again. And you know, they hadn't placed at state last few
• 33:51
  years and it was super impressive to to take that team and and uh,
• 33:57
  you know when I first talked to him, I you know, I him
• 34:00
  when he was on the bus to game one, and I think I even
• 34:02
  called him up. I said, hey, you know, just so you
• 34:05
  know, I'm gonna be covering basketball. He's like, oh, that's great.
• 34:07
  And then you just go went right into the coach to speak. You
• 34:09
  know, Ah, you know, we're young. Uh, you know,
• 34:13
  we'll see And I'm just like, man, Rob, it's me. You
• 34:15
  like, settle down, Bob Ames, Yeah, and uh, but he
• 34:20
  had it down and and uh and maybe maybe he didn't know exactly what he
• 34:24
  had in the beginning of the season, but I think I think he kind
• 34:28
  of knew. And it was, uh, it was and it was great
• 34:31
  because as the team all ran to each other and everybody's going crazy, Rob
• 34:36
  went straight to the crowd, pointed to the crowd. There's some great videos
• 34:39
  of it online. You can check out Randy Small's video on Facebook. And
• 34:44
  and uh, it's it was super impressive just to be just to witness it
• 34:49
  and and uh man, what a what a game. So, just looking
• 34:53
  back, Tyler the twenty twenty girls to a state basketball tournament. It would
• 35:00
  have been right before COVID Allensburg was the number two seed. Yeah, and
• 35:05
  they lost in that regional round. Which put them into the bracket, where
• 35:09
  again the two all of a sudden ends up in the same side as number
• 35:13
  one. Right, So Allensburg plays Lyndon in the quarterfinals, loses sixty two
• 35:19
  to forty four. Then they go down and they and they beat Port Angeles
• 35:23
  to get into the four to six game, where they lost. Okay,
• 35:28
  so their last loss was in that four to six game to East Valley of
• 35:31
  Yakama, who, by the way, was a thirteen seed. They lost
• 35:36
  that game. That's the last time they lost. So March seventh of twenty
• 35:38
  twenty is what you're telling me would have been the last time they lost.
• 35:45
  Maybe they lost in the twenty twenty season at some point, I you know,
• 35:47
  but I guess not, because you know, you would have only played
• 35:51
  a couple of games anyway. But regardless, Yeah, I mean unbelievable.
• 35:54
  Yeah, I mean, it's seventy five in a row. Is super impressive,
• 35:58
  and it's crazy. Things have to end at some point, and you
• 36:01
  know, as a walkin County fan, you're open it's that game, and
• 36:06
  it was it was It was impressive. It was so cool and so glad
• 36:12
  I got to be courtside for it. A couple of post tournament awards their
• 36:16
  title. Yeah, Peyton Mills had had a really good tournament. She she
• 36:21
  had she had some big time foul trouble in that championship game. And boy,
• 36:27
  so many of their top players had four fouls at the end of the
• 36:30
  game. Her and Haley Koochie and and I think I think Keky York might
• 36:35
  have had four fouls. It was, it was. It was kind of
• 36:38
  crazy. There was a lot of fouls being called early and it was and
• 36:42
  it's a really good thing. Lyndon has a deep bench because they were able
• 36:45
  to do it the right way and and move players around and keep kind of
• 36:50
  players how they needed to. Ryan Stephan I thought had a great game off
• 36:52
  the bench to to kind of fill play a little bit more minutes maybe than
• 36:57
  needed than usual. But Peyton Mills had a great quarters and semis double doubles
• 37:02
  in both those games. And she becomes she's the tournament MVP. Just a
• 37:06
  sophomore, really really impressive, and Finley Partcher was named the second team All
• 37:12
  Tournament team. Just a freshman six foot one player that can handle the ball
• 37:17
  really well and that is scary. And when she took over as as fourth
• 37:22
  quarter Finley in that championship game. That was because a lot was put on
• 37:27
  her with with Peyton and foul trouble, and she really stepped up and kept
• 37:31
  that team together and Man super impressed, and again the future is bright.
• 37:37
  We talked about the LC girls future and and it's so man for Lindon.
• 37:43
  It's the exact same way. How many people, Tyler, do you think,
• 37:45
  looked at the All Tournament team and said, wait, wait, wait,
• 37:47
  hold on. Mvpe is a sophomore. This one here, freshman.
• 37:52
  They're both at Lyndon. Yeah, uh oh yeah, it's scary. Yeah,
• 37:58
  no, like, are you kidding me? And then they probably looked
• 38:00
  over the roster and went, oh crap, yeah one six two one six
• 38:06
  one yeah, Ryan Stefan just a sophomore six to two yeah, Keky York's
• 38:13
  coming back. Yeah, it's Lexi hermanut Scott at her time, as the
• 38:17
  season war on, just got more and more important, and her minutes got
• 38:22
  bet bigger and bigger as the season war on. And she's a pretty good
• 38:24
  ball handler that might take over the point because she's just a freshman, she
• 38:29
  might take over a lot of the ball handling, you know, for next
• 38:31
  year. Kind of takeover where Mallory Villers was this year, and and uh
• 38:36
  yeah, really good players. Back Diggie Bowler off the bench. There's there's
• 38:40
  some hotel right now, Tyler. Yeah, yeah, well you bet it's
• 38:45
  gonna happen. So it's really really cool. Uh that's it for the girls.
• 38:50
  Let's talk boys basketball again. Sponsored by Edeline Darry thanks to them,
• 38:53
  huge sponsors. Uh, they do tremendous things over there, and the best
• 38:58
  the best of it all, Tyler, you and the uh and and miss
• 39:02
  Walking preps. Big fans of edielin Derris. Oh, huge, huge,
• 39:07
  huge fans. Yeah, I mean we love. It's not like it was
• 39:09
  like this is like me being sponsored by a Burger place. Like we're not.
• 39:15
  We're not beating around the bush here, We're not like, oh Tyler
• 39:16
  likes Edelin dere No, this is it. Like could you imagine me being
• 39:21
  sponsored by like a vegan restaurant. Yeah, I would have to lie to
• 39:24
  everybody. We're not lying, Yeah, we're not. No, no,
• 39:27
  no, this is this is this is legitimate, genuine good stuff, really
• 39:30
  good stuff. Let's talk Boys State Tournament one A. To begin with,
• 39:36
  We're gonna talk the round to twelve Tyler Wednesday, just the one game Seaton
• 39:40
  Catholic seventy two, Meridian sixty Trojans one and done over there in Yakama.
• 39:45
  Yeah, it seemed like it was a long time ago that Wednesday morning.
• 39:49
  Uh and uh. I got there early. This was a ten thirty game,
• 39:52
  but I made sure I got there about eight forty five. Just wanted
• 39:54
  to kind of I didn't know what the setup was gonna be. I wanted
• 39:59
  to get it was cool. I bump into Rick Todd, who's working the
• 40:01
  radio locally, and and we got to stand et each other during the you
• 40:07
  know, the anthem, and we're getting ready for the whole day, and
• 40:09
  to the big row of tables and I sit down. I look behind me,
• 40:13
  I see Coach Stacy and the Meridian team walking. I'm like, man,
• 40:15
  this is I'm here. This is so cool. And and the first
• 40:21
  thing I thought, I was like, man, you know you travel this
• 40:22
  way, you play a game at ten thirty in the morning, it's just
• 40:24
  kind of a it's kind of different. I know these players are playing in
• 40:29
  tournaments in the summer and all these things, and they're used to it.
• 40:31
  But but to me, in my head, I'm like, this is just
• 40:34
  different and it was a tough one. I mean, we saw Seaton Catholic
• 40:38
  against Lendy Christian, you know, in the regional round, and they're very,
• 40:44
  very very impressive. That kid, I think his name is Kayden Wilson
• 40:50
  or boy. He is so talented and he, you know, a six
• 40:57
  or four freshman. He was named all you know, tournament first team and
• 41:01
  they kind of held him in check a little bit and he only made one
• 41:04
  field goal, but they sent him to the line a bunch. He was
• 41:07
  twelve for sixteen at the line. But Meridian, I just the shots were
• 41:12
  not falling early. Talon Jenkins though, man, he's just he's a beast.
• 41:17
  Twenty five points, eleven rebounds, he made five threes. It just
• 41:22
  wasn't enough. But him and Jager Fife and and you know they're going to
• 41:28
  be coming back next year, but you know they lose some really important guys.
• 41:31
  Tarren Burks was just he's just a beast. Defensively, He's all over
• 41:36
  the place. I'm so impressed with his his his energy and his ability to
• 41:43
  not turn it off, not switch it off for the all for the whole
• 41:45
  thirty two minutes. Christian Klauss in the big six five center. It'll be
• 41:50
  gone Cohen Fuller, you know, emotional leader kind of guy coming off the
• 41:54
  bench, only five eight that hit that game winning lay in. You know,
• 41:58
  Alex Short providing depth off the bench. You know, there's some good
• 42:02
  seniors that'll be missed. But yeah, Jacob Auminson was another sharpshooter. But
• 42:08
  they'll be all right. They got some good freshmen. They'll be okay.
• 42:12
  Shane Stacey's a great coach. So but it was tough to see them kind
• 42:15
  of come all that way and play one game and then have to go back.
• 42:19
  Now. I hate to, like I don't know what the word is
• 42:22
  I'm looking for here, Like dwell on, do you think that before that
• 42:25
  game? Like do they check out of their hotel? Like I mean,
• 42:29
  because if you lose, you're going home, so like, yeah, you
• 42:32
  stay all night? Like and and who books these hotels? Does the WI
• 42:36
  give them like a block of rooms or something? I don't I have no
• 42:38
  idea. I just I know that, Like I mean, it's it is
• 42:42
  weird because of the time of the game. Yeah, like you're playing it.
• 42:45
  If you're playing a night game, you don't have to worry about you
• 42:46
  You're gonna stick around no matter what. Yeah, but you're gonna all the
• 42:50
  way home, most likely at night, like the ten thirty game. It's
• 42:53
  sticky. And I don't know how that works with the Wii. I don't
• 42:57
  know if they Yeah, I don't know. It's kind of weird. I'll
• 43:00
  tell I'll tell you what though. The hotel I stayed at all of a
• 43:02
  sudden, like on like a couple of days into the tournament, all of
• 43:06
  a sudden, a ton of NOOKSEC fans showed up. I don't think they
• 43:09
  were there earlier. Yeah, but they started showing up. And and uh
• 43:15
  because did we say where you were staying? Not the team? No?
• 43:19
  No, No, did we say where you were staying? No, we
• 43:22
  didn't tell everybody like this is where Tyler stays because we kind of get I
• 43:25
  kind of gave him the hot tip on where to stay. Like no,
• 43:29
  because I even got recognized at the hotel by a few people. Yeah,
• 43:31
  well, I was just thinking to myself, I preps, well, you
• 43:35
  got spotted in the hotel. I was thinking though, like maybe in the
• 43:37
  future we need to hit up that hotel and be like, hey, how
• 43:39
  about a couple of free nights there if we Uh, you know, pump
• 43:43
  it out and the Linden the Knouksack Valley or whoever else is making it like,
• 43:45
  oh, that's a good idea, but no, it was. It
• 43:47
  was crazy because they eat and build. Girls were in The girls team were
• 43:52
  there and they were, you know, a thirteen seed and they were they
• 43:54
  were kind of the same boat, one and done and and all of a
• 43:58
  sudden they were all gone, and there was a bunch of Kooksack fans that
• 44:01
  were there. So it's interesting how that all works, how you have to
• 44:05
  kind of book it. But yeah, well, I mean for like like
• 44:08
  that's what I don't I guess we need to get an answer on that.
• 44:10
  Somebody's got to know, like do the teams book their own rooms or is
• 44:15
  it like the w i AA says, hey, we've got you know,
• 44:19
  X amount of rooms at a hotel and you're a you know, whatever seed
• 44:23
  you get these days. Because that's like if you're if you're a if you're
• 44:28
  Knooksack or well, okay, if you're Meridian, do you book for one
• 44:32
  day? Do you book for four days? Like if you book for four
• 44:35
  days, then you're not paying for the rest of them, are you?
• 44:37
  Yeah, I have no idea. I wonder how that works. I mean,
• 44:39
  they've got to have deals with hotels that are like known that, Hey,
• 44:44
  we're gonna need you know, we're gonna put all these teams that play
• 44:46
  Wednesday into one hotel and half of these rooms are going to become available the
• 44:52
  very next day, right, I mean you would think that's the thing.
• 44:55
  Is that right? Well, that's the thing is eat eat n Bill girls
• 44:58
  were in the same boat and they were in the hotel I was at.
• 45:00
  Yeah, so that's interesting. I don't know. I wonder how that works.
• 45:06
  Anyway, Let's talk Thursday, Tyler Quarterfinals number two, Lynnon Christian take
• 45:12
  on Kings. By the way, Lynn Christian and Kings, I mean they
• 45:15
  played in the Boys and the Girls, and Lynn Christian got them both times.
• 45:17
  Because the Lynnen Christian boys sixty one to thirty two, nearly double up
• 45:22
  the Knights there. Tyler, Yeah, that doesn't happen too often state basketball.
• 45:25
  And the thing about this one was it's the game that's been the state
• 45:30
  title game the last I don't know how many times, two, three times.
• 45:34
  Yeah, and these two teams have played each other for the state titles,
• 45:37
  so it's a little different. They played each other earlier in the year.
• 45:39
  The game was at Kings. I think that I'm pretty sure, like
• 45:44
  Cayden Stite was out for that game. I think Jeremiah Wright wasn't ready yet
• 45:47
  from his football injury, and Elsie's still got them, so you kind of
• 45:51
  thought, okay, they'll be fine, and they took care of business,
• 45:54
  you know. Jeremiah Wright scored eighteen points. Gannan Dyster scored thirteen points.
• 46:00
  Luke van Coten came off the bench and scored nine. He hit three threes.
• 46:02
  They just kind of did their thing, you know, exploded in the
• 46:07
  third quarter, scoring twenty seven points, and that kind of took care of
• 46:09
  business. Yeah, I'm looking it up here. Last year Lynn Christian fifty
• 46:15
  seven Lynn Christian Christian fifty seven forty seven over Kings. In the year before
• 46:22
  it was Lynn Christian's sixty one fifty eight over Kings. M Yeah, they
• 46:30
  seem to play a lot, don't they, Tyler, Oh my goodness.
• 46:31
  And then the time what about the year before that one? Did they play
• 46:35
  in that one too? They did? They could, Yeah, yeah,
• 46:37
  except that one King's Kings a keen seed that was fourteen versus number six.
• 46:43
  Tyler. Yeah, how that heck the end up with Well, that's the
• 46:45
  thing is these two teams, you know, they just have that they have
• 46:50
  that state tradition power kind of you know, and sometimes they could be seated
• 46:55
  wherever they are, but once they get there, they feel comfortable. They've
• 46:59
  been there before, they done it, and that's you know, that's just
• 47:01
  certain teams are like that. And actually the year before that they played also
• 47:07
  they played in the quarterfinals. The year before that, King's got him seventy
• 47:12
  three to fifty, I mean, unbelievable. And then King's played King's Way
• 47:15
  Christian in the semis unbelievable. Let's see here that was what was that?
• 47:21
  That was Thursday, Tyler, So Friday, semi final number three. Annie
• 47:27
  Wright comes away with a win over Lennon Christian forty eight forty six. Real
• 47:31
  close game there, Tyler, Holy cow, this one was intense. The
• 47:37
  thing about Anny Wright that really stood out to me was they played five players
• 47:44
  the whole game, really and now it didn't last the entire game because one
• 47:49
  player did foul out and it was really late, but I mean it was
• 47:53
  they have five super athletic kids that played the whole game, and I was
• 48:00
  kind of they kind of just took me back because I was like, Wow,
• 48:05
  that's really impressive. And it was a really close game all the way
• 48:07
  throughout, tied at the end of the first. Any Wright led by seven
• 48:10
  at halftime, but then Elsie took the lead by three at the end of
• 48:15
  three quarters, and then any Right beat him by five points in the fourth
• 48:21
  to take the two point win. I mean it was any Wright is very
• 48:24
  good defensively and then they slow it down offensively, and that's a good part
• 48:28
  of how you can keep everybody kind of, you know, not from running
• 48:32
  so much, basically, and they did a really good job on like help
• 48:37
  defense. They just kind of did all the things. But they're just really
• 48:38
  athletic and they could pester you. Jeremiah Wright scored fifteen points, Thanks just
• 48:45
  scored thirteen, Dawson Bauma twelve. It just wasn't the normal like eighteen,
• 48:51
  seventeen and sixteen. It was, you know, it was a little different.
• 48:55
  Cayden Steit missed a couple of dunks early, and I think that might
• 48:59
  have kind of got the momentum a little bit towards Anny Wright a little bit,
• 49:02
  because dunk's in high school basketball. You know, we talked about it
• 49:07
  off the air. It doesn't happen very often, but when it does,
• 49:08
  it could really throw the momentum. But it missed. Dunk can really go
• 49:13
  the other way sometimes, and and he usually throws those down pretty easily.
• 49:17
  Missed a couple, and it just kind of it just wasn't You could just
• 49:21
  tell that Elsie just wasn't quite there. You know, they're just and it
• 49:27
  was tough because they were going for the three beat and you know, hadn't
• 49:31
  happened in school history for the boys, and and the girls did it in
• 49:35
  the early nineties. But uh, you know, it's just it just happens
• 49:39
  that way. Anny Wright got him played for their first ever state championship game
• 49:44
  the next day, and Elsie had to settle for going playing for third.
• 49:47
  Just looking at Annie Wright's roster, Tyler, they're young, dude, Yeah,
• 49:53
  just two seniors. I don't know if if both of them played.
• 49:55
  One of them says here is a captain, so I would assume he's playing.
• 49:59
  But then the the other one was number five. I don't know if
• 50:00
  he played Calvary Sui. I think that's how you say his last name.
• 50:05
  Yeah, he didn't play, right, No, he didn't play in the
• 50:07
  game. Well, then who is the who was the captain? T J
• 50:09
  Marshall? Yeah, yeah, he played. Yeah. So the other thing
• 50:14
  that's interesting is they only have two guys under six feet I mean they have
• 50:20
  six two six two six four six four six three six six six one six
• 50:24
  four six six. That is a lot of really tall guys, like,
• 50:29
  I mean, that's pretty impressive for a for a team that only has two
• 50:32
  seniors and Coppinger, Coppinger like Kalupinger and Yeaster Martin k A U p A
• 50:39
  and yeah, yeah and Lester those are there. Those are two main guys
• 50:44
  particulars to Coppinger or Campanger, I don't even know six' four. And
• 50:49
  then you said breed Love, what a great last name, Amaur Breedlove six
• 50:53
  foot four, sophomore. Yeah, so those are the three kind of main
• 50:58
  guys. Yeah, and then there Return was a junior. Yeah, and
• 51:01
  Coppinger was a junior also. I mean wow, Like so they could be
• 51:07
  very good again next season, very very impressive. Yeah, not a lot
• 51:12
  of nice things to say to me on social media, but you know,
• 51:15
  I would say, act like you've been there, but they hadn't been there
• 51:19
  before. It's fine, Oh had to delete a few comments, but sorry,
• 51:22
  I never understand that stuff. Like it's it's always funny to me when
• 51:25
  I see people that, like, like people come after us for our predictions
• 51:30
  at times, and it's like, if you really think we actually care that
• 51:34
  much, like we're just making predictions, settle down, Like it's yeah,
• 51:37
  no, it wasn't about me, it was it was No. I'm just
• 51:40
  saying like, like, but they're just coming after you because you're the one
• 51:44
  reporting on things, and it's like, just settle down, settle down,
• 51:46
  it's not that big of a deal. Like, by the way, you're
• 51:49
  about to lose tomorrow night three five games on Saturday, Tyler, Yeah,
• 51:54
  Lyndon Christian against Seattle Academy. And it seems like we've heard Seattle Academy a
• 52:00
  lot recently. But yeah, the links come away. Seventy forty four over
• 52:06
  Seattle Academy on Saturday. Yeah, Now, really quick question, Annie,
• 52:10
  right in private school? Yes, yeah, I kind of I thought so
• 52:14
  so the gamest they're actually starting football next year, Tyler, Oh, I
• 52:17
  think they played like a like kind of a JV type schedule this year,
• 52:22
  kind of getting getting ready for stuff. Yeah, but I've had some people
• 52:25
  tell me. They said they think Annie Wright could actually be pretty decent in
• 52:29
  that one A level, because you know, Bellerin Prep is down there,
• 52:34
  Life Christian is down there. But both of those schools have never exactly taken
• 52:37
  football super serious, and it sounds like Annie Wright is maybe wanting to take
• 52:43
  it a little more serious. You know, so maybe a team that we
• 52:45
  hear from on the football side of things. Yeah. So yeah, So
• 52:52
  three games in a row against three private schools and Seattle Academy. You're right,
• 52:58
  Elsie got him earlier in the year pretty easily. I think that was
• 53:01
  at ELC, Like on a Saturday, Nuksac Valley went to Seattle Academy and
• 53:06
  beat them too. Yeah. Uh. And yet I looked at that I
• 53:09
  was kind of confused because I looked at their schedule. I was like,
• 53:12
  who else did they lose to? They lost a bunch of games early.
• 53:15
  They were like two and five at one point, and then they really got
• 53:17
  on a tear, which really which made me think maybe they added some players
• 53:21
  in the season, or maybe they had guys that were hurt in the beginning
• 53:23
  of the year. Yeah, and maybe that's why they lost so many of
• 53:25
  these early games. Seattle Academy did have a six to ten kid and a
• 53:30
  legit six ten kid. He made Jeremiah Wright look small, which does not
• 53:36
  happen. And just looking at their schedule here really quickly, just yeah,
• 53:42
  they lost to can't win a four A school. Yeah, lost of Lennon
• 53:45
  Christian, lost the Sultan. I don't know anything about Sultan. Sultan was
• 53:49
  Sultan was there at the tournament? Okay, lost in nuk Zach Valley,
• 53:52
  who we know they're good, but not they didn't make they say tournament.
• 53:57
  They lost a Ballard who is a three A school, and then they lost
• 54:00
  to North Kitsap who was went deep in the two A state tournament. I
• 54:06
  mean they lost to some pretty good teams here. Yeah, but yeah,
• 54:09
  yeah, eight losses in a season is also quite a few losses for a
• 54:14
  team to even get, you know, to that point. Yeah, and
• 54:16
  so, but I was really impressed with them. But you know, Lenny
• 54:22
  Christian starting the second quarter, Dawson Bauma just just started heating up. He
• 54:25
  didn't hit anything in the first first quarter. He just started hitting shots in
• 54:30
  the second quarter and took over. Scored twenty points in that game. Jeremiah
• 54:34
  Wright scored nineteen Gann and Dykster scored eighteen. And you get three guys with
• 54:37
  eighteen or more points in a game, you're probably gonna win. They do
• 54:43
  really well defensively, get that third place trophy, not how they envisioned how
• 54:49
  it would go going in as the number two seed, but still a really
• 54:53
  really good season. You know, Jeremiah Wright was the tournament MVP last year,
• 55:00
  and and what a great career. He went over a thousand points this
• 55:05
  year. And and Dawson Bauma, I just I could watch him shoot all
• 55:10
  day. He's just got such a great pull up jump shot and it just
• 55:15
  perfect form and and uh a great shooter as well. But you know,
• 55:20
  he'll be missed. Caden Stit came back to play basketball this year after missing
• 55:22
  last year and and leading rebounder Walking County and he graduates. And Brody Bowman
• 55:29
  another another guy that a baseball guy, really good football player too that didn't
• 55:32
  play basketball last year, came out this year supply some supply, some depth
• 55:37
  off the bench. Him and Trevin Blair, same thing, Trevin Blair,
• 55:39
  who I believe is gonna go play college football. So those are the seniors
• 55:45
  that will be missed. But man, they got some good young kids,
• 55:49
  Dawson Heins and other Heins. It's just a freshman. I can shoot the
• 55:52
  lights out. He's got a great vertical too. You see him block shots
• 55:55
  all the time. So they got some really good guys coming back. You
• 55:59
  know. Gannon Dykstra is a great, great point guard. He can light
• 56:04
  it up to but he's a really good assist guy. Caden Veldman was just
• 56:07
  a freshman. Guys like Oak Oakhowell and Luke Van Coten and you know Tyler,
• 56:13
  Uh yeah, Bossman comes back. I mean they you know, they'll
• 56:17
  be all right, awesome coach. I mean Zilstra's you know, some crazy
• 56:23
  thing like eighty two wins and seven losses in his career. So, uh,
• 56:27
  it's just a great, great program. And they'll be back a couple
• 56:30
  of postseason awards there, I see, Tyler. Yeah. Uh. Jeremiah
• 56:36
  Wright was first team for the for the whole for the whole tournament. Uh.
• 56:40
  I think he was like second place in the voting too, so he
• 56:44
  almost won the MVP for playing for the third place game. Uh. And
• 56:47
  Gannon Dykstra just the Junior point Guard All Tournament second Team. I did get
• 56:52
  to vote on this one. Uh, and I. I also threw uh
• 56:57
  Dawson Bauma in the in the mix on my sheet, but I didn't didn't
• 57:00
  get the votes. But uh man, just a lot of fun watching them.
• 57:06
  It's a it's a it's a machine, and they did some really good
• 57:09
  things. Let's talk to a state tournament quarterfinals Thursday, top ranked Linden fifty
• 57:16
  eight forty one over the Samamish RedHawks out of Bellevue Real actually right down the
• 57:22
  street from my house. Tyler, Yeah, this was. This was a
• 57:25
  good game. Sumamish was. I watched them the day before and I'm trying
• 57:32
  to remember. I can't remember who I watched them against, but I remember
• 57:35
  I was just there and you know, and just watching some basketball. And
• 57:39
  I think I because I went, I what, yes, that's right,
• 57:44
  Rogers, I was. I was. I was there early for the Marite
• 57:46
  game. I ended up uh after that, I went and got majors because
• 57:50
  I'm human, And then I went and wrote about the Marite game. And
• 57:53
  then I was like, you know, I'm going to go back and just
• 57:55
  watch some more basketball. So I went back and and and uh and I
• 58:00
  wanted to see Anna Cordislo. I want to see Davis foge will play and
• 58:04
  and uh just kind of sat there and you know, pretending like I was
• 58:07
  working and and uh and just why but I but I saw some maamage play
• 58:12
  and they really really impressed me. But it's just different playing Linden. Uh
• 58:17
  boy, Lindon's just they got it going on. You know. Heppner had
• 58:22
  a great game that game, twenty five points, uh and he hit three
• 58:28
  threes. But he's so but he's so good at and it's so simple.
• 58:34
  And I know he's six foot six and and he's wide and that goes a
• 58:37
  long way, and he's very athletic and he's smart. But when he gets
• 58:39
  the ball deep like deep like underneath, he's so good at pump fake and
• 58:45
  then laid in. He's so good at just getting guys off their feet and
• 58:49
  then going up and lay and like I mean, he's you watch it and
• 58:52
  you go, how come nobody else does it like that? But he's just
• 58:55
  so smooth and does it so well all the time, and and man,
• 59:00
  it's huge, it's he just he did great. That win moves them onto
• 59:07
  the semi finals on Friday, where they had a real test. Livin comes
• 59:12
  away with a fifty three fifty two win over eleventh ranked Bremerton. Tyler,
• 59:16
  you told me there was a kid on Bremerton though. That was unbelievable,
• 59:21
  My goodness, gracious, Yes, oh man, I'm trying to I'm just
• 59:25
  trying to remember his name. I know I have it here, but he
• 59:30
  was, yeah, so impressive. He kept them in the game. I'm
• 59:36
  trying to remember exactly what his name is. I want to say his last
• 59:38
  name is Davis or something like that, but he is. He's the coach's
• 59:43
  son. I know that he kept Bremerton in the game. Like you said,
• 59:52
  Jalen Davis, Yes, Jalen Davis twelve of fifteen shooting, scored thirty
• 59:58
  three points, made four of six from three point line, five of six
• 1:00:02
  from the foul line, and he just couldn't be stopped. And that kid
• 1:00:08
  is gonna go somewhere. He is. Was unbelievable. It was really hot
• 1:00:14
  shooting in the beginning, you know, nineteen and nineteen. After the first
• 1:00:16
  quarter, Lyndon you know, does what they do. But they you know,
• 1:00:22
  they adjusted their defense, stepped up and they had a pretty good lead
• 1:00:28
  thirty five to twenty eight at the half. Things are looking pretty good.
• 1:00:30
  But Bremerton just kept coming back, kept coming back. Lyndon got a little
• 1:00:34
  cold, and and Heppner was, you know, you also goo to eleven
• 1:00:38
  points in that game. But Anthony Canalis did some really good things. Scored
• 1:00:44
  twenty four points, and you know, he hit three threes, and and
• 1:00:49
  Charlie Ayers hit a couple of threes. And then they looked they looked pretty
• 1:00:52
  darn good. And but at the very end, I mean, it was
• 1:00:55
  it came right down to it. Brian Hepner hit a foul shot with thirty
• 1:00:59
  three seconds to go, which ended up being the game winner. But there
• 1:01:02
  was some back and forth after that, and uh man, just it was
• 1:01:07
  really good basketball. The old guy sitting next to me just every every time
• 1:01:12
  Davis make a shot, he'd shake his and he goes, he's just a
• 1:01:15
  ninth grader, which sounds so much better than a freshman, like ninth grader,
• 1:01:19
  year ninth grader, and it sounds really it almost sounds demoralizing in a
• 1:01:22
  way, like, yeah, he's just a ninth grader. They have double
• 1:01:27
  digits if six ninth graders on the on the roster, yeah, I mean
• 1:01:32
  they have they have more ninth graders than they do seniors that they actually have
• 1:01:37
  twelve guys total on the roster, half of them are freshmen. What great
• 1:01:43
  is Bolmer? Bolmer Trenton Bohmer is a senior. Okay, he was the
• 1:01:49
  only other player and sing in double digits in that game. The next guy
• 1:01:52
  had four. So it was I mean, it was really Davis and then
• 1:01:54
  a little bit of Bolmer, and then it was just kind of you know,
• 1:01:58
  but they have you know, they had an upset the day before and
• 1:02:04
  it was they're kind of running on fumes a little bit. Man. I
• 1:02:07
  wanted to find that Davis kid after forwards and just get a selfie with him
• 1:02:10
  or something, because I mean, he there was a lot of respect.
• 1:02:14
  Like once that game was over, you know, he was consoled by Heppner
• 1:02:17
  and Charlie Ers and it was, you know, the respect level was extremely
• 1:02:22
  high. Yeah, they went down. They eventually they won their first two
• 1:02:28
  and then lost their next to and ended up fifth. But I mean they
• 1:02:34
  lost to Linden and North Kitsapp. I mean yeah, right when you talk
• 1:02:37
  basketball, those are two of the best basketball programs in the state. I
• 1:02:42
  mean North Kids App actually have a buddy that coaches at North Kids App and
• 1:02:45
  they are. I mean, they're always there. They won state a couple
• 1:02:47
  of years ago. Yeah, very very impressive. Yeah, there, it's
• 1:02:52
  a great program for so for them to have two losses and one of them
• 1:02:55
  to be to the eventual state champion by only one points. Matter of fact,
• 1:02:59
  you could argue they played better than the state championship did. Yeah,
• 1:03:02
  you know which, by the way, I guess we can kind of seguay
• 1:03:07
  our way into that one. But yeah, with that win over Bremerton Linden,
• 1:03:10
  they head to the state championship game against Grand View the Hounds, and
• 1:03:15
  they do win that one eighty five fifty four. I mean, yeah,
• 1:03:21
  that is a that is a butt wepon there, Tyler. Yeah. The
• 1:03:23
  night before, graham View had a huge comeback and it was the late game,
• 1:03:29
  and I think that they it was so emotional that win that it was
• 1:03:35
  going to be really hard to you know, compete. That's so weird to
• 1:03:39
  me, how, Like I get it. You're playing one at a time
• 1:03:44
  at that point, but they go from playing a nine pm game to having
• 1:03:47
  to play at three pm the next day. Yeah, I mean Linden Linden
• 1:03:52
  was only what like an hour and a half better, but still like that's
• 1:03:55
  that's pretty wild to have that quick of a turn around to be for the
• 1:04:00
  state championship. Yeah, it's just the way it is. And but but
• 1:04:08
  I know there's not much they can do about it. But you know what
• 1:04:10
  I mean, Like that is pretty wild. Yeah, Linden was only up
• 1:04:13
  by one after the first quarter, but then it was just you know,
• 1:04:16
  they were up. They were up by fifteen a half, so it was
• 1:04:21
  really starting to tear away at that point. A lot of really cool,
• 1:04:26
  you know, stat nerd stuff for me in this one that just happened to
• 1:04:30
  fall in place, which it seems like it's just the way it happens for
• 1:04:32
  Linden at times. Anthony Canalis hits a shot in the fourth quarter and they
• 1:04:41
  called time out right after the shot to take him out. He's emotional and
• 1:04:47
  he knows because the game's in hand, he's coming out for the last time.
• 1:04:51
  But that shot broke Derek Crofts your buddy there school record for single for
• 1:04:59
  points in a single season. Wow. So he broke the career record earlier
• 1:05:02
  in the year, he broke the single season record. And he knows he's
• 1:05:08
  gonna win. Yeah, he's gonna know he's gonna win. State for the
• 1:05:11
  third year in a row, something that no team in Linden has ever done.
• 1:05:15
  And and you know, he was the tournament MVP the final the previous
• 1:05:19
  two years. And I mean it's just it's all lining up into place,
• 1:05:23
  and you start looking back at you know, just now now you start talking
• 1:05:27
  about the greatest players, not just in Linden history, but walkin county history.
• 1:05:30
  You know, when you start talking about Luke ridden Hours and and John
• 1:05:33
  Kinlocks and those kinds of guys. I mean, it's it's it's an impressive
• 1:05:39
  list, and he belongs right up there. It's it's just I was so
• 1:05:45
  lucky to witness it up close, because there's something special about just the way
• 1:05:51
  he plays and every single thing he goes all out. He scores twenty nine
• 1:05:55
  points in this one and all those things. And then you and then I
• 1:06:00
  find out it was also Lindon's one hundredth win at the state tournament. Oh
• 1:06:06
  wow, I mean, how're talking about stat geek stuff like that? Is
• 1:06:11
  wow? Like, just think about that one hundred wins at the state tournament.
• 1:06:15
  I mean, most teams do not have a hundred games, not even
• 1:06:18
  close. Yeah, if you combine the boys and girls about when eat it,
• 1:06:23
  it doesn't have it. I mean, it's just it's crazy. And
• 1:06:28
  you know, they had this one in well in hand. I think Grandview,
• 1:06:31
  you know, Lyndon definitely had the size advantage, not even close,
• 1:06:35
  and Grandview was scrappy, but I think they just kind of ran out and
• 1:06:40
  just did everything they could to get to the finals. And I think their
• 1:06:43
  best player, I think he tweaked his ankle in the semis. He played
• 1:06:46
  in the finals, but he was you know, not probably not one hundred
• 1:06:51
  percent. And just you know, Brent Hepner, he scored twenty seven points
• 1:06:58
  in that final game. He's he's special. There's just something about him.
• 1:07:05
  And you think about this, the Heppner name. You know, you go
• 1:07:09
  back to the sixties, Howard Heppner. They won back to back titles with
• 1:07:12
  Howard Heppner. That's his grandfather now and for a long time, most consecutive
• 1:07:17
  wins in a state tournament in one a is Lynden was fourteen and that was
• 1:07:23
  from sixty to sixty eight. Yeah, so he would have been one that
• 1:07:27
  I would assume, yeah, Howard Heppner. But now that's well, no,
• 1:07:31
  I guess that wouldn't be broken because they only played three games each time.
• 1:07:34
  Huh yeah, well but that was you know, that was one that
• 1:07:39
  was when they were one a oh yes, core, so you know.
• 1:07:43
  But but but listen to this. So his grandfather, Howard Hepner back to
• 1:07:46
  back titles, his dad Brian Heppner back to back titles in the early nineties,
• 1:07:53
  his brother Brock back to back titles five six years ago. So just
• 1:08:00
  won a few state championships in this family. Well and then I find out
• 1:08:03
  his mom, oh, Sally, she won back to back to back with
• 1:08:09
  a Lindon Christian in the early nineties. And so but no Linden team had
• 1:08:14
  whoever repeated and now he's done it. But every other team that had had
• 1:08:19
  a repeat champion, the the only teams that had ever done it, they
• 1:08:25
  all had Heppner on it. Wow, it was either his brother, his
• 1:08:28
  dad or his grandpa. I mean, that's that is just like legacy on
• 1:08:32
  top of legacy. Plus you know, he's won multiple the football and he's
• 1:08:38
  he's any not that I know of. I mean, they might be in
• 1:08:42
  a back to back drought for a little while. Well, well they still
• 1:08:45
  got one more year though, I guess exactly. And that's what's scary is
• 1:08:49
  that he's three pad now he's got another year, and it's just it's just
• 1:08:54
  so cool. I mean all the things. Coach Roper is just a few
• 1:08:58
  wins away from his four hundred and uh you know at London. I'm sure
• 1:09:03
  he's coached somewhere else, but this is just at Lindon and uh yeah,
• 1:09:09
  just it's a special program and and uh, seeing the emotion just just come
• 1:09:15
  out of all the seniors, you know, Brady Elsner and Weston Van Dalen
• 1:09:19
  and and and Ti uh Ty Holloman and and you know Charlie and Anthony embracing.
• 1:09:27
  I mean I was a foot away from them when it was happening,
• 1:09:30
  and I just took a good close up picture of I wanted to catch the
• 1:09:33
  emotion on their faces because it was it was real. You know, these
• 1:09:40
  guys are been doing it since they were in first grade and did win screen
• 1:09:44
  in a row. And you know it was anti climactic a little bit,
• 1:09:47
  but man, it was it was. It was dominating. And you know
• 1:09:53
  they went into this as the one seed and last year they were they had
• 1:09:57
  to do all the planes and all that stuff to get into it, and
• 1:10:00
  I think they were maybe like the sixth seed or something like that. And
• 1:10:04
  man, this is different. It was awesome. So Brian Roper, Uh
• 1:10:14
  yeah yeah, I think so. Yeah, can I think of his first
• 1:10:17
  name? I'm a little tired. Okay, yeah, no, no,
• 1:10:20
  no, it is because it says here after twenty twenty two seaed title.
• 1:10:24
  So I'm just reading something here, Tyler. I assume this is maybe the
• 1:10:27
  Western Washington University like website or something. It says it says front front.
• 1:10:32
  What is it for? The front? The Western Front? Yeah, the
• 1:10:34
  Western Front. Okay, uh, this is amazing. It says here head
• 1:10:40
  coach Brian Roper led Linden High School to win four of the last five to
• 1:10:44
  A state championships. Thirty years ago at North Mason High School, Roper coached
• 1:10:47
  his first season without winning a single game. They went ohen twenty so his
• 1:10:55
  first season of coaching high school basketball as a head coach. Boom, and
• 1:11:00
  now here he is doing what he's doing. That's I never knew that,
• 1:11:02
  you know. Bob Ames wenth to ten his second year, Wow, I
• 1:11:06
  mean, and he went probably should have fired him on the spot, and
• 1:11:10
  way oh nine his twentieth year, so wow, wow, I mean that
• 1:11:15
  is just that's crazy. I mean it really is. And it says here
• 1:11:18
  he grew up in Boise, attended Seattle Pacific. Yeah, I mean,
• 1:11:24
  wow wow. And it actually it says hold On what says he worked at
• 1:11:28
  Boeing for a long time. Well, I mean I don't know coach Rupert
• 1:11:31
  that well, yeah, I'll tell you what. He's The State of Basketball
• 1:11:35
  knows him pretty well because he's oh yeah, in a lot of games now,
• 1:11:40
  and he's such he's such a nice guy. And I just I there's
• 1:11:44
  certain people that I if I haven't been, like if I've gone this far
• 1:11:47
  and I haven't really gotten to know them, I try not to really push
• 1:11:51
  it. And and uh, you know, I know the assistants pretty well.
• 1:11:56
  You know, obviously Blake Van Dalen's an assistant, so it's not give
• 1:11:59
  him too much PUB. But it's you know, it's Blake and Blake show
• 1:12:02
  don't need any more PUB. Yeah that's true. Yeah, I mean it
• 1:12:06
  truly is impressive. Tyler. A couple of post tournament awards here. Yeah,
• 1:12:13
  Anthony Canalis surprise surprise third year in a row as the tournament MVP.
• 1:12:17
  Like, like I said, it's just stuff you don't see very often.
• 1:12:21
  I know Luke ridden Hour who was in the sun Dome. Good to see
• 1:12:25
  him, uh and his on his boys there. It was that was really
• 1:12:31
  neat. Got a picture of him and Michael Kanaan talking with each other and
• 1:12:35
  I was like, oh, that's kind of cool click, especially after Kanaan
• 1:12:40
  got one of you. Huh right, yeah, I got him back.
• 1:12:44
  But they graduated the same year. I always joke about how like, yeah,
• 1:12:46
  if Luke wasn't Luke Caanan would have been the big time three point basketball
• 1:12:51
  player back in the day. But or but yeah, if Caanaan was maybe
• 1:12:56
  Written Hour, it would have been the punter. Yeah right, yeah,
• 1:13:00
  I know Ritten there was a really good tennis player and he actually played.
• 1:13:02
  He actually played one year of baseball and hit like almost five hundred. I
• 1:13:05
  guess tennis does make a little bit of sense with the way he played basketball
• 1:13:10
  with the move side to side, and yeah, yeah, I think him
• 1:13:15
  and Matt Jones were doubles like they went. They went pretty far in doubles.
• 1:13:19
  Matt Jones basketball player as well. Not gonna lie. Yeah, but
• 1:13:24
  Anthony Canalis, you know, three time MVP at the state tournament. I
• 1:13:29
  mean, what more can you say? Brent Hepner also named first team.
• 1:13:32
  Uh which, and and it's funny because there were ballots that had him like
• 1:13:39
  on the second team that I kind of saw and what yeah, And and
• 1:13:45
  I was, I mean, there's a lot of good players, you know,
• 1:13:47
  and still like this isn't the Baseball Hall of Fame where they just leave
• 1:13:50
  guys off, Like what are we talking about it? I know? And
• 1:13:53
  I was kind of like, man, if he gets second team, and
• 1:13:57
  uh so glad that he was named first team. It was really cool.
• 1:14:00
  That's insane. Okay, So yeah, so Canalis and Heppner. That's awesome.
• 1:14:06
  That's it for the games, Tyler, Yeah, well kind of we
• 1:14:10
  still need to talk about the girls basketball game of the week and the boys'
• 1:14:12
  basketball game of the week. So let's start with girls. What do you
• 1:14:15
  got there? Yeah, there was a there's a few that were really really
• 1:14:18
  good. I ended up picking the Knuksack Valley Championship game over Deer Park,
• 1:14:26
  And I mean I could have been just because it was the final one.
• 1:14:29
  It's the most memorable to me. But they were down so many times in
• 1:14:32
  that game, and Kaylee Anderson just kept hitting those big time threes. The
• 1:14:36
  last one she hit tied the game, which was huge. But that Saturday,
• 1:14:42
  that that Trophy day, you know, it was just so weird.
• 1:14:45
  I'm just gonna go off subject a little bit. But those you know,
• 1:14:48
  Thursday and Friday there were multiple times when both courts had Walking County teams playing,
• 1:14:55
  Yeah, which kind of screwed me because I'm trying to go back and
• 1:14:58
  forth and take pictures and well by yourself, that's the key thing. Yeah,
• 1:15:01
  I don't have a photographer there, and I'm going back and forth and
• 1:15:04
  it was really tough. And when I saw how Saturday's schedule lined up,
• 1:15:09
  I was really happy because the games were at like eleven, fifteen, one,
• 1:15:15
  three, five. I mean it was basically back to back from the
• 1:15:19
  start yeah and nine. Yeah. So I knew I had four games in
• 1:15:24
  a row. Boom boom, boom boom, and I knew it was going
• 1:15:28
  to be like boys girls, boys, girls and then a break and then
• 1:15:34
  girls. Yeah. So it was like where do I set up and everything.
• 1:15:38
  And after the first four games, I you know, I got there
• 1:15:42
  early. I got there like nine in the morning, and now by this
• 1:15:45
  time it's about seven and I haven't eaten anything. I haven't had anything to
• 1:15:50
  drink wait really quickly, same court for all of them. No, I
• 1:15:55
  was going back and forth. Okay, that's what I thought. Okay,
• 1:15:58
  yeah, and yeah, because they have to celebrate and stuff, so like
• 1:16:00
  you right, yeah. So I you know, by seven o'clock, I
• 1:16:04
  got one game left, and I realized that I'm really hungry. I'm really
• 1:16:08
  thirsty. Yeah no, And I heard about this media room that people kept
• 1:16:15
  talking about. Oh yeah, you get stuff to drink and cookies and chips
• 1:16:17
  and sandwich, a little a little quiet thing they don't tell people very much
• 1:16:20
  about. Yeah, no kidding. And I learn about it, like on
• 1:16:25
  my last day. And by the time I go in there, it's closed
• 1:16:30
  because it was past seven, and I'm dead hungry and and I've got one
• 1:16:34
  more game to go, and I'm I'm exhausted and I so I go to
• 1:16:41
  buy some food and there's a line. So I'm like, okay, I'll
• 1:16:44
  just stand the line. I got a little bit of time left. I
• 1:16:45
  still need to finish the you know, the story from the Linden Girls game,
• 1:16:50
  and standing less hungry you can't think straight, no, And I'm like,
• 1:16:55
  I just got to eat something and drink some water, and I have
• 1:16:59
  my water bottle with me so I can fill it up. But there's little
• 1:17:00
  water stations that they have for the refs and stuff. So I fill up
• 1:17:03
  my water and and I can't lie, and the lady looks at me and
• 1:17:06
  she goes, I just sold my last burger. Oh holy cow, Like
• 1:17:12
  that's worse than he than like saying, yeah, maybe you know it just
• 1:17:16
  because you see you see them like they're going to get a burger. Wow,
• 1:17:21
  after the fact that you know you won't be getting one, I'm gonna
• 1:17:26
  watch them get it still, And and so I got nachos. Okay,
• 1:17:30
  well, at least got something. Now I'm sitting there at a table eating
• 1:17:33
  nachos and you know, and it's just I just looked pathetic. And then
• 1:17:40
  and then they close because they're out of food basically, and then they're handing
• 1:17:43
  out popcorn. So then I gave they gave me popcorn for free, and
• 1:17:45
  I'm sitting there looking like a bum, just you know, life, Oh
• 1:17:51
  my goodness, I was yeah, and I'm and I'm just oh, it
• 1:17:57
  was bad. And I go back to my seat. And but it's so
• 1:18:00
  weird because you just you're going off of adrenaline and it's so fun and that
• 1:18:04
  game kind of brought me back to life a little bit. And and uh,
• 1:18:10
  you know, I'm sitting there because I'm trying to write as it's happening,
• 1:18:13
  and and uh because I don't know how late it's going to be open.
• 1:18:16
  Because the Wi Fi at the Dome was actually great, much better than
• 1:18:19
  the than the hotel, So I want to write it there. That's pretty
• 1:18:21
  surprising. Yeah, and uh, and I but when it got down to
• 1:18:27
  the final few minutes, I needed to be on the court and get my
• 1:18:30
  pictures. And yeah, it was just it was just it's just cool,
• 1:18:33
  you know. And and Kaylee to hit those threes. I mean, I
• 1:18:35
  went to high school with her dad. Her dad's an assistant coach. Uh.
• 1:18:41
  So great to see him and congratulate him. I'm so proud of him.
• 1:18:44
  I mean we we played on a basketball team together in high school that
• 1:18:46
  was kind of like like a boys and girls club team for non varsity players.
• 1:18:49
  And yeah, we play We played at Hoopfest together, you know,
• 1:18:53
  I mean, it was it was just so cool to uh. Yeah,
• 1:18:58
  and we played in a six foot and underly which is basically everybody six feet
• 1:19:01
  except for me. And it was in under league I've never heard of this
• 1:19:06
  before. Yeah, the hoop well, the hoop Fest was, Yeah,
• 1:19:10
  there's definitely there's different divisions. I never thought about that though, Like I
• 1:19:14
  never thought about a six foot in under league, Like it makes total sense
• 1:19:16
  at hoop Fest, Like yeah, you know, you probably wouldn't do it
• 1:19:19
  at the y m c A. But at at hoop Fest, it makes
• 1:19:23
  all the sense. Yeah. It was like it was like six foot and
• 1:19:25
  under non as like non high school players, but they have like a uh
• 1:19:30
  what do you call it? Like you must be this tall, but like
• 1:19:32
  you must be this short to play on the court. No, no,
• 1:19:34
  no, no, but I did. I did compete in the in the
• 1:19:40
  they had dunk contests for different heights of people, no, and there,
• 1:19:44
  and there was like there was like divisions, like so I was in the
• 1:19:45
  five to one to five four. So it was like me and a I
• 1:19:48
  was a junior going into my senior years. A summer going into my senior
• 1:19:54
  year and I was five to four. Would you jump over a traffic cone?
• 1:19:57
  Oh? No, it was. It was crazy because the other kids
• 1:20:00
  were like sixth graders and and I was and I was going into my senior
• 1:20:04
  year. I mean it wasn't even fair. Oh did you win? Oh
• 1:20:09
  yeah, Oh, thank god, Tyler. I did six Yeah, no,
• 1:20:13
  I did. I did like a three sixty on an eight foot and
• 1:20:15
  then I threw it off the backboard and caught it on a nine foot and
• 1:20:18
  I won a T shirt and everything, and I had like a bright green
• 1:20:21
  mohawk. It was fantastic. That was a really fun trip to Spokane.
• 1:20:26
  It was it was like my first ever trip to Spokane. And uh so
• 1:20:30
  it's a really good time. Really happy for them, and and they really
• 1:20:32
  deserved it. And they're just a great group of girls. Like they're just
• 1:20:35
  really they're really tight knit, they're really kind, they've been there before,
• 1:20:42
  they'd done it. They were there for each other. It was it was
• 1:20:45
  really cool to see a lot of emotion, obviously, but man, just
• 1:20:50
  it was It was great. They really deserved it. It's kind of one
• 1:20:54
  of those things for them where like you're so excited to win the state championship
• 1:20:57
  and everything, and it probably doesn't hit you until like one thirty in the
• 1:21:00
  morning when you're sitting in your hotel room that, oh, by the way,
• 1:21:02
  we just played our last high school basketball or you know, yeah,
• 1:21:04
  a lot of them did you know. And it's like, wow, I
• 1:21:09
  think we're supposed to cry like actual sadness right now. But yeah, we
• 1:21:13
  also just want to state championship. So yeah, And obviously Knook Sac,
• 1:21:15
  you know, they had had four seniors they all started. Yeah, and
• 1:21:18
  they were all big time players. Kate Shintapper started, she's a junior.
• 1:21:23
  But they had two great sophomores coming off the bench, Peyton Bartell and Grace
• 1:21:27
  Dahoague and and uh and Jaylee Davis good don't have to Yeah, it's gonna
• 1:21:33
  exactly, it's gonna be tough, and and and and that was Shane Wickers's
• 1:21:38
  seven hundredth game coached. Oh my goodness. Really cool for him just a
• 1:21:43
  few games. Yeah, and to win his second state title and second in
• 1:21:47
  two years, and and coached seven hundred games, and just I love all
• 1:21:53
  those these numbers coming together. Really cool. Yeah, seven hundred, Like
• 1:21:57
  seven hundred games in any high school sport seems psychotic in a way, you
• 1:22:00
  know what I mean? Like that is I mean, do you do you
• 1:22:04
  know like when he got started, Yeah, it was uh, I think
• 1:22:08
  it was like my my senior year in high school. Oh my lord.
• 1:22:12
  And he yeah, and he was he was. He was young. He
• 1:22:15
  was twenty four when he got the job, and I always joke about it,
• 1:22:20
  like he looks the exact same now. He's just he's just one of
• 1:22:24
  those guys. He played at Sea Home, was kind of a three point
• 1:22:26
  specialist. And and and uh and got the job and started coaching, and
• 1:22:30
  knook Sacks always been really good. They had some really good teams in the
• 1:22:34
  early two thousands, Devan Dykstra, Shelley Harder, Uh those, they had
• 1:22:39
  some really good, really good teams Portia Jackson and I covered a lot of
• 1:22:44
  those teams for the Herald. I remember one team. I think they were
• 1:22:47
  undefeated going in the state tournament, but they lost like in the semis or
• 1:22:50
  something like that. Like I said, Devan Diksher was their best player.
• 1:22:54
  She married Michael Kainan and so yeah, really athletic kids in that family.
• 1:23:00
  But uh yeah, Elena Dykstra too, who's related that. She was on
• 1:23:04
  the Knuksack Valley team and she'll be back. So yeah, they will have
• 1:23:09
  some good players back. Uh yeah, it's just Shane. Shane Wickers is
• 1:23:15
  a class act, super nice guy, always helpful with if I needed anything
• 1:23:19
  or you know, I go I can't. I wasn't able to get the
• 1:23:23
  film. He's like, oh here, I'll send you all the stats.
• 1:23:26
  You know. It's just he's great and he gets it, you know,
• 1:23:29
  he doesn't uh, he understands kind of you know, some coaches are kind
• 1:23:33
  of you know, uh, and he's he's not that. Like, he's
• 1:23:38
  not like that at all. He wants to help and it's he's been awesome.
• 1:23:42
  And just to give you an idea, Tyler, Yeah, uh the
• 1:23:45
  one loss Knooksack Valley had this year to Lake City, right, Lake City
• 1:23:50
  number two uh seed in the Idaho girls basketball tournament, by the way,
• 1:23:57
  the highest level of play that they have in Idaho. Yeah, five A
• 1:24:00
  yeah, five A. The they were the number two seed and they ended
• 1:24:04
  up losing in the state championship game to their rival cord Alane, who was
• 1:24:10
  the four seed. Now, the crazy thing is they beat Cordelaine earlier in
• 1:24:13
  the year and then lost to them, which what looks like maybe in like
• 1:24:16
  the league tournament, right, Yeah, and then somehow Quadline ended up with
• 1:24:21
  a lower seed than them, and they ended up meeting in the in the
• 1:24:26
  championship game, and and Quarterline got him again. Fifty eight forty nine.
• 1:24:29
  So their only loss was to a team that was the runner up at the
• 1:24:31
  highest level in their state. Yeah, that's saying something. Yeah that really
• 1:24:36
  Yeah, and and Linden only had one loss the girls, and that was
• 1:24:41
  to Knooksat Wow. You know, so it's it's really really impressive. What
• 1:24:49
  about the boy side, Tyler, You got a game of the week from
• 1:24:53
  over there? Oh, definitely. The one that sta stood out to me
• 1:24:56
  was the game against Bremerton in the semi finals. Uh. It was they
• 1:25:01
  had to fight and scratch and claw, and what was neat about that game
• 1:25:05
  was the fans were really into it. And on the girl's side, the
• 1:25:13
  game that was going on, as I believe that was when Nuksack Valley was
• 1:25:16
  playing Wappato at that exact same time. That game gets done with about three
• 1:25:21
  minutes to go in the boys game, and all of a sudden, you
• 1:25:26
  can from where I was sitting, you could see a lot of purple on
• 1:25:29
  the on the far side, uh, in the in the stands yea,
• 1:25:33
  And all of a sudden, all of a sudden, well, well they're
• 1:25:35
  all over there from watching the Knooksack get the girls get Yeah, and they're
• 1:25:40
  still they're still sitting over there because there's no seat to be had both,
• 1:25:44
  I mean, Walkin County has got the whole side completely covered. There's not
• 1:25:46
  an empty seat. And all of a sudden, you hear let's go Glyndon
• 1:25:54
  and it's coming from the Knuksack fans, and that you could just all of
• 1:25:59
  a sudden, like the hair on the back of my neck because I don't
• 1:26:01
  have much on my head anymore, just started rising up and it was like
• 1:26:05
  wow, like Washington County, Walkham County is completely taken over on that side,
• 1:26:11
  and it was just it was a huge game. And you're gonna have
• 1:26:15
  those, I mean, like, like you said, that one was way
• 1:26:18
  better than the championship game, and you're gonna have those throughout the tournament.
• 1:26:21
  You need to win those close games and because you're gonna trip up a little
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  bit. And boy, that kid for Bremerton, Jalen Davis, is special
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  and it's a good thing they got him when they did, because it's gonna
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  be hard to get them in the future. It's a that was an awesome
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  game and Linden, you know, and they they've been tested. They played
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  some really tough games this year. Really, you know, they lost some
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  close ones and uh, you know, and they but they were tested against
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  like Lynden Christian and they came out on top. So they weren't there weren't
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  a team that like had all these blowout wins and they didn't know how to
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  play close game. They knew how to do it. They did it.
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  They did a great job against Bremerton, got the job done and then took
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  care of business the next day to bring home the big gold ball for the
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  third year in a row. Let's talk Anytime Fitness Basketball Players of the Week
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  Tyler Anytime Fitness Linden North and Ferndale, And this is a girls and boys.
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  Now here's the thing. It's kind of almost obvious who to pick for
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  this week. But the problem is there was three kind of obviouses, if
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  you will, Because for the first time I can ever remember with watkom perhaps
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  here we've got two on the girls side, Tyler, who is it?
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  Yeah? Devin Coppinger from Nixsac Valley and Peyton Mills from Lyndon both had amazing
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  weeks. Both were named state tournament MVP, and so how can you go
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  wrong? They were both gonna be your girls Anytime Fitness Basketball Players of the
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  Week. It's you know, they both won it multiple times in the past.
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  This year and and to close out the season both being tournament MVPs,
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  it's fitting that they're both gonna be a girls Anytime Fitness Basketball Players of the
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  Week. And if you haven't figured it out, State tournament MVP might be
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  a little bit of a theme. But on the boys side, Tyler,
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  give it to me. Yeah. Anthony Kanalis, I mean, my goodness,
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  especially in that championship game, he was he was hitting everything, and
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  it looks different when he shoots the ball. It's it's uh, it's smoother
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  or it's crisper. He reminds me of like Kobe Bryant, very emotional,
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  but in a great way. Hits the big shots really big time quickness,
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  kind of a one he could just one step, boom dunk it. It's
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  so impressive, and he's all about winning, and it was just so cool
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  to see it get done and and he's he's We're not going to see the
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  likes of a player like him for a while. And like I said earlier,
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  just just blessed that I could stand next to him, you know,
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  and just watch him do his thing and and uh in a sport that you
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  know, like I I mean, I talked about it earlier. I played
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  like one little year of Boys and Girls Club and I went to hoop Fest
• 1:29:16
  and that's about it. I haven't It's a sport that I just didn't really,
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  you know, I was not going to be great at at five to
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  four, and I you know, but I loved the game, and you
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  know, and I wrote about what made me love it about the ninety four
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  Mount Baker team from thirty years ago, and well I got a lot of
• 1:29:35
  positive feedback from that. But and it's just I've seen a lot of good
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  players. I covered Luke rid now and but Anthony Canalis is special and just
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  a lot of fun to watch him play. And and I hope he gets
• 1:29:51
  a chance to play at the next level. I can't imagine that he wouldn't.
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  Yeah, Tea, I I only played one year about grown up?
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  Yeah, you know it was. The thing is I loved the Sonics growing
• 1:30:04
  up. I've always loved college basketball. I've always been a huge North Carolina
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  fan. My favorite player of all time Rashid Wallace, Eric Montrosse back in
• 1:30:14
  the day, Like I loved that guy ninety three team with Eric Montrosse is
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  champions. Yeah, yeah, I loved it. I loved everything about North
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  Carolina basketball, and you know, always been a fan of Gonzaga too,
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  and they've always been fun to watch, and you know, but getting into
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  basketball more this year, I've had I've had a ton of fun with it.
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  You know, it's just been it's just been fun to kind of get
• 1:30:35
  it's you know, basketball and football are like totally different in the way that
• 1:30:39
  like basketball is just kind of like NonStop action, you know what I mean.
• 1:30:43
  It's like you go down one side, boom something. Oh, but
• 1:30:45
  down to the other side, boom something. It's just kind of like back
• 1:30:46
  and forth, back and forth a lot of times. And so it's been
• 1:30:49
  a lot of fun. But but yeah, I mean I only played the
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  one year, and we were really good. We were called the mob Masters
• 1:30:57
  of Basketball, and we were very, very, very good. I mean
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  we just we used to just run the floor like crazy is what it was.
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  That was like sixth grade. Nobody else was doing that, you know
• 1:31:05
  what I mean. Everybody else is kind of like lolly gag down there,
• 1:31:09
  and we were like, nope, get it, pass past, past layup.
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  And by that point they didn't even have a guy on the other side
• 1:31:14
  of the court, you know. So yeah, I mean it's it's it's
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  been fun doing that and yeah, I mean that that that's it as far
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  as the Winter Sports Weekly wrap up, so we don't have anything else left
• 1:31:27
  to talk about. But there's still gonna be more basketball coverage coming Tyler,
• 1:31:30
  and you know, then we're right into the spring. I mean we are,
• 1:31:33
  We're right into it. I mean it is it is pretty quick here
• 1:31:38
  next week. As we said, basketball or excuse me, baseball and fast
• 1:31:41
  pitch previews. Uh. You know, if we can get the help that
• 1:31:44
  we need, you know, and Tyler, if somebody has rosters that they
• 1:31:47
  want to email over to you, what's the best way. Yeah, any
• 1:31:50
  anyway send me a message on uh on social media to find walk preps.
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  You can email them to me mister ohawk at hotmail dot com. It's mister
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  spelled out I S. T E. R underscore mohawk at hotmail dot com.
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  You can text it to me if you know my number. I don't
• 1:32:10
  know if I want to throw my number out there, but but yeah,
• 1:32:13
  it's it's just super helpful. I have all the stats from the last few
• 1:32:16
  years, even for baseball and fast pitch and so if I have a roster
• 1:32:21
  that kind of gives me an idea I can go from there and and uh
• 1:32:27
  and you know, get up, get a preview ready, and it'll be
• 1:32:29
  fun to talk about that. We we've never really i mean, we talked
• 1:32:32
  a little bit about the top fifty for baseball last couple of years, like
• 1:32:36
  once we got to like the top five, we'd kind of talked about a
• 1:32:40
  little bit, but it was kind of something we haven't really done. And
• 1:32:42
  it was a lot of fun doing the weekly stuff. So doing the spring
• 1:32:45
  stuff is going to be great and and uh yeah looking forward to it.
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  Yeah, I'm excited. Uh baseball is uh something I love and let's face
• 1:32:54
  it, fast pitch is basically the same game. Just I mean it's still
• 1:32:58
  stats and all kinds of crazy stuff. So yeah, excited to talk about
• 1:33:02
  all the spring sports Tyler. And again, if you would like to get
• 1:33:06
  on board and help out with the sponsorship, just visit any of the Waltcomes
• 1:33:11
  preps social media. Reached out through a direct message, Tyler will get you
• 1:33:14
  taken care of. Other than that, Tyler, anything left to say before
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  we ended for the Winter Sports Weekly wrap ups, Just thank you to everybody
• 1:33:24
  in the community. There was a lot of people behind the scenes that helped
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  me, you know on you know, they just helped me this week and
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  I'm not I won't get into it, but it was a great deal of
• 1:33:40
  help. I had to borrow a car to get over there, I had
• 1:33:43
  to you know, all sorts of things, and just super thankful for the
• 1:33:46
  generosity of some individuals that allowed me to do this and excited to do it
• 1:33:54
  again next year if you as will have me, because that was something else.
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  It was a lot of fun. And you know, having six teams
• 1:34:04
  over there and five of them playing all three days, it was really cool.
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  And sixteen games going thirteen and three not too bad. All righty,
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  well, let's wrap it up right there. He's Tyler Anderson of Watcompreps watcompreps
• 1:34:18
  dot com. I'm Brylan Spencer. You've been listening to episode at two hundred
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  and forty three Winter Sports Weekly wrap up for the State Championships of basketball here
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  on the watcom Preps podcast. We will talk to you next week. What that