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- 0:12Speaker 1: Greetings and welcome into the Whatcom Preps Podcast. This is
- 0:15Speaker 1: episode 452, the Week 5 Fall Sports Recap. I'm Tyler
- 0:21Speaker 1: Anderson of Whatcom Preps. This podcast is dedicated to all
- 0:26Speaker 1: the fall sports being played, except football, as that podcast
- 0:29Speaker 1: will come out tomorrow. I'm going to talk about Walton
- 0:33Speaker 1: Beverage for a second, as Walton Beverage has been a
- 0:35Speaker 1: staple in our community for 95 years. And I will
- 0:38Speaker 1: continue to work harder every day to make the fantastic
- 0:41Speaker 1: people of Walton Beverage proud to sponsor youth sports in
- 0:44Speaker 1: our community. They deliver superior quality and commitment, and I
- 0:48Speaker 1: plan to do the very same. All right, let's start
- 0:51Speaker 1: off by talking about Cross Country. Of course, Cross Country
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- 1:09Speaker 1: to help. All right. Well, again, all the teams raced
- 1:13Speaker 1: on Wednesday. And Whatcom County, you know, another great showing.
- 1:18Speaker 1: We're going to start off with the girls' races. And
- 1:21Speaker 1: out at Hovander Park, I was out there for this one.
- 1:25Speaker 1: 5K race. Squalicum takes first place. Cedro Woolley, second. Nooksack Valley, third.
- 1:31Speaker 1: And Squalicum, one, two, three, four placers all out. All
- 1:36Speaker 1: Storm Runners finished first through fourth. Audrey Blue finished in first.
- 1:40Speaker 1: Sandra Voigt, second. Dahlia Strutz, third. Heidi Knutson, fourth. Layla
- 1:46Speaker 1: Bloomquist of Squalicum took eighth. And Anita Rogers of Nooksack
- 1:49Speaker 1: Valley took tenth. Out at Skagit Regional Airport, there was
- 1:54Speaker 1: another 5K race. And it was Seaholm's Avon Bates that
- 1:59Speaker 1: took first place, followed by Claire Badgma of Linden. Michaela
- 2:03Speaker 1: McBride of Seaholm took third. Maria Knutson Park of Seaholm
- 2:07Speaker 1: took fourth. Audrey Dalton of Seaholm took fifth. Lucy Penner
- 2:11Speaker 1: of Linden took sixth. Bailey Harry of Seaholm took seventh.
- 2:16Speaker 1: Ryle Miller of Linden took eighth. Jonah Gillum of Seaholm
- 2:21Speaker 1: took ninth. And Hazel Enfield of Linden took tenth. As
- 2:25Speaker 1: Seaholm finished in first place in that one as a team.
- 2:28Speaker 1: Out at the Deming Log Show Grounds, another 5K race
- 2:31Speaker 1: as Meridian... Got the top, wow, six runners. That's pretty incredible.
- 2:38Speaker 1: Mount Baker second, Lakewood third, Blaine fourth. Bria Remp of
- 2:43Speaker 1: Meridian took first. Lane Dixon of Meridian second. Aerie Thompson
- 2:46Speaker 1: took third. Adeline Nosti fourth. Ridley Struts fifth. And Lila
- 2:51Speaker 1: Van Golen sixth, all from Meridian. Hazel Grout of Mount
- 2:55Speaker 1: Baker took seventh. Bridger Jacoby of Mount Baker eighth. Carrie
- 2:58Speaker 1: Balbach of Blaine took ninth. And Cassia McKimmick. Meridian took
- 3:06Speaker 1: 10th out at Linden Christian High School Bellingham wins this
- 3:12Speaker 1: one and Nora Alexander finished in first place one second
- 3:17Speaker 1: out of her teammate Nora Seltz Elise Holland in third
- 3:20Speaker 1: and teammate Leah Wagner took fourth all from Bellingham fifth
- 3:24Speaker 1: place was Larkin McConnell of Linden Christian seventh was Layla
- 3:27Speaker 1: Melima of Linden Christian eighth Grace Wells of Bellingham ninth
- 3:31Speaker 1: Malia Frizzle of Bellingham, and 10th was Avery Ostlund of Bellingham.
- 3:37Speaker 1: And then out at Fort Nugent Park, it was a
- 3:40Speaker 1: 5K race. The top finisher from Whatcom County in that
- 3:43Speaker 1: one was Ferndale's Kayla Lee, who finished in 18th place.
- 3:47Speaker 1: On the boys' side of things, out at Hovander Park, again,
- 3:50Speaker 1: I was out at this one, Squalicum. They take the
- 3:54Speaker 1: top prize as they have the second-place runner in Taylor Rush,
- 4:00Speaker 1: Fourth place, Evander Burley. Fifth place, Jack Leon. Sixth, Efren Wolfe. Seventh,
- 4:05Speaker 1: Efren Mayer. Eighth, Kallax Jeffrey. Ninth, Parker Mason. And tenth,
- 4:10Speaker 1: Luca Burley. So they finished with, what, eight out of
- 4:15Speaker 1: the top ten? That's pretty incredible. So they win as
- 4:18Speaker 1: a team. Cedra Woolley second, Nooksack Valley third. At Skagit
- 4:22Speaker 1: Valley Airport. Another 5K race there. As a matter of fact,
- 4:26Speaker 1: I think these are all 5Ks now. There's been a
- 4:28Speaker 1: few 4Ks. and then the laps around Lake Padden, which
- 4:34Speaker 1: is 2.6 miles. But this is another 5K that Seaholm
- 4:38Speaker 1: took first place in, Lyndon second. Judson Barrett of Seaholm
- 4:42Speaker 1: took first individually. Luke Zollner took third of Seaholm. Luke
- 4:47Speaker 1: Skolton of Lyndon took fourth. Jack Rybsik of Seaholm took fifth.
- 4:53Speaker 1: Aidan Batt of Seaholm sixth. Lucas Cannizzaro of Seaholm seventh.
- 4:57Speaker 1: Jonah Burdick of Seaholm ninth. and Benjamin Havens of Seaholm
- 5:01Speaker 1: took 10th place. Out of the Deming Log Show grounds,
- 5:04Speaker 1: Lakewood won as a team, Meridian second, Blaine third, or
- 5:07Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Mount Baker third, Blaine fourth. Meridian's Colton Valentine
- 5:12Speaker 1: took individual honors in first place, Ruben Taveldi of Meridian second,
- 5:17Speaker 1: Wesley Baalbach of Blaine took eighth, and Quentin Hernandez of
- 5:21Speaker 1: Mount Baker took ninth. Out at Lyndon Christian Bellingham, with
- 5:27Speaker 1: a ton of runners in the top 10 here. Jack
- 5:29Speaker 1: Stoddard of Bellingham took second. William Sherfy of Linn and
- 5:33Speaker 1: Christian took third. Tarver May of Bellingham, fourth. Abel Ray
- 5:37Speaker 1: of Bellingham, fifth. Parker Osk of Bellingham, seventh. Quindry Pass
- 5:42Speaker 1: of Bellingham, eighth. Eric Dennis of Bellingham, ninth. And Mason
- 5:46Speaker 1: Mon of Bellingham, tenth. And then out at Fort Nugent Park,
- 5:49Speaker 1: the top finisher for Whatcom County was Caleb Wonshak of Ferndale,
- 5:53Speaker 1: who finished in seventh place. So there you have it
- 5:58Speaker 1: with all the races that took place on Wednesday and
- 6:00Speaker 1: the Stauffer Insurance Runner of the Week. You know, I
- 6:05Speaker 1: was noticing that Sehome girls, all their top runners were
- 6:09Speaker 1: not participating in this. They were probably out running in
- 6:12Speaker 1: some big national event or something. But still, Sehome won
- 6:17Speaker 1: as a team, which is pretty incredible against Linden and
- 6:20Speaker 1: Burlington Edison. And finishing in first place by 17 seconds
- 6:25Speaker 1: ahead of the pack. was Avon Bates of Sehome. And
- 6:28Speaker 1: so congratulations to Avon Bates. You are the Stauffer Insurance
- 6:32Speaker 1: Runner of the Week. All right, let's go to Boys
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- 6:54Speaker 1: a C. M-A-B-E-R-R-Y farm.com. All right. So there was a
- 7:01Speaker 1: lot of matches throughout the week. I think there was one,
- 7:03Speaker 1: I think it was Tuesday was rained out and then
- 7:05Speaker 1: everything just got pushed to Wednesday from that Tuesday. So
- 7:07Speaker 1: a lot, a lot happening. They played Monday, Wednesday, Thursday,
- 7:13Speaker 1: and Friday. So a lot of tennis that was played
- 7:17Speaker 1: on Monday. Squalicum beat Linden six to one. Bellingham beat
- 7:20Speaker 1: Anacortes six to one and Sehome beat Burlington Edison six
- 7:24Speaker 1: to one. Pretty incredible there. Burlington Edison, a very, very
- 7:27Speaker 1: good team. I think that was the Tigers' first loss
- 7:30Speaker 1: of the season. On Wednesday, Sehome beat Anacortes 6-1. Linden
- 7:35Speaker 1: over Burlington Edison 4-3. Squalicum beat Mount Vernon 5-2. Ferndale
- 7:40Speaker 1: over Lakewood 6-1. And Bellingham blanks Oak Harbor 7-0. On Thursday,
- 7:46Speaker 1: Bellingham beat Burlington Edison 7-0. Again, pretty good there. Burlington
- 7:50Speaker 1: Edison dropping points. I think that was their third straight
- 7:54Speaker 1: that week. Linden beat Cedar Woolley 7-0. Squalicum over Sehome
- 7:59Speaker 1: 4-3 in a great matchup there. And then Ferndale over
- 8:03Speaker 1: Oak Harbor 4-3. And then on Friday, Linden beat Lakewood 7-0.
- 8:08Speaker 1: Bellingham over Sehome 6-1. Squalicum beat Anacortes 6-1. And Mount
- 8:14Speaker 1: Vernon beat Ferndale 4-3. So you look at the ratings now,
- 8:18Speaker 1: or sorry, the standings, And Bellingham, 10-0 in conference play,
- 8:26Speaker 1: leading the way right now. 64 courts won to just
- 8:29Speaker 1: six loss. Squalicum, 8-1. Seaholm, 7-2. Burlington Edison, 6-3. Mount Vernon, 6-5. Linden, 5-4. Anacortes, 3-5. Ferndale, 3-7.
- 8:41Speaker 1: Oak Harbor, 2-8. Cedar Woolley, 1-8. And Lakewood still looking
- 8:45Speaker 1: for their first win. There's a really, really cool website
- 8:50Speaker 1: that has been designed. by Brian Lynch and Andrew Robinson.
- 8:56Speaker 1: And this is a really cool deal where it's, it's
- 8:58Speaker 1: actually taking the count every single thing about boys tennis
- 9:04Speaker 1: and it's creating rankings for each player. So this is
- 9:09Speaker 1: a really cool deal. So I can talk about this
- 9:12Speaker 1: on the podcast, which is awesome. And right now it
- 9:15Speaker 1: has the top 10 players in the conference rank. So
- 9:20Speaker 1: we're going to start at number 10 and moved up.
- 9:23Speaker 1: These are just singles players. So Gabe Harrison has an
- 9:27Speaker 1: 8-2 record, and he is ranked 10th out of Squalicum.
- 9:32Speaker 1: Eighth place is Wesley Miller of Bellingham. He's 4-0 in
- 9:36Speaker 1: singles competition. Ranked seventh is Nolan Dickinson of Bellingham. He's
- 9:41Speaker 1: got a record of 9-2. In sixth place is Noah
- 9:44Speaker 1: Schmidt of Squalicum. He's got a record of 9-2. In
- 9:48Speaker 1: fifth place is Bronco Cook. who's also from Bellingham, he
- 9:52Speaker 1: is undefeated with a record of 11-0. But the reason
- 9:55Speaker 1: why he's, you know, there's players that have losses ahead
- 9:58Speaker 1: of him is because based on who he's played against
- 10:02Speaker 1: and stuff like that. That's why this ranking system is
- 10:04Speaker 1: a really cool deal. In fourth place, or ranked fourth,
- 10:07Speaker 1: I should say, is Squalicum's Ben On, who's got a
- 10:10Speaker 1: record of 9-2. In third place, it's Michael Yeh of
- 10:17Speaker 1: Sehome with a record of 10-1. And then the top-ranked
- 10:20Speaker 1: player in Whatcom County is Leo Kuhn, who is 10-0
- 10:24Speaker 1: on the season, the defending state champion. And then in
- 10:28Speaker 1: doubles players, it doesn't necessarily have the doubles teams. It's
- 10:31Speaker 1: just individual doubles players. And there's a lot of them
- 10:37Speaker 1: that are outside of Whatcom County that are in the
- 10:40Speaker 1: top 10. But a tie for sixth place is Braylon
- 10:45Speaker 1: Savage and Luke Swanson, both of Squalicum. And then in
- 10:49Speaker 1: fourth place is Hudson Daughters of Squalicum. Third place is
- 10:53Speaker 1: Jack Gabbart of Bellingham. And the top doubles player is
- 10:57Speaker 1: Wesley Miller of Bellingham. So it's a really, really cool
- 11:01Speaker 1: project that these guys are working on. And it gives
- 11:04Speaker 1: great insight for boys tennis. I'm sure they'll have it
- 11:07Speaker 1: for girls tennis as well in the spring. So really,
- 11:10Speaker 1: really cool deal. And it's something that I think a
- 11:13Speaker 1: lot of people are going to start using from around
- 11:15Speaker 1: the state, stuff like that, which is, which is fantastic.
- 11:18Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a great way to
- 11:21Speaker 1: go moving forward. All right, let's talk girls swimming and diving,
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- 11:47Speaker 1: of the big things that happened this past week was
- 11:50Speaker 1: the Northwest Conference invite where all the teams got together
- 11:55Speaker 1: and had like this big, it's basically, you know, just
- 11:58Speaker 1: the Northwest Conference championships, if you want to call it that.
- 12:01Speaker 1: All the teams got together and swam against each other.
- 12:06Speaker 1: I heard that there was a lot of athletes that
- 12:08Speaker 1: were out due to sickness, but still, it's probably a
- 12:12Speaker 1: good ranking that we have. Anna Cordes took first place
- 12:16Speaker 1: with 310 points. Bellingham was second, Mount Vernon third, Linden fourth,
- 12:21Speaker 1: Squalicum fifth, Seaholm sixth, Oak Harbor seventh, Burlington Edison eighth,
- 12:25Speaker 1: Ferndale ninth, and Coopville tenth. In each event, I'm just
- 12:30Speaker 1: going to, you know, every week I talk about, you know,
- 12:33Speaker 1: who's got the best time to this point, but I'm
- 12:36Speaker 1: just going to basically talk about this event here. And
- 12:40Speaker 1: if you look at it, we're going to talk each
- 12:45Speaker 1: event and who took first place or who was the
- 12:47Speaker 1: highest placing out of Whatcom County. So in the 200-yard
- 12:53Speaker 1: medley relay, it was the Bellingham team of Carmody Beattie,
- 12:57Speaker 1: Amanda Buck, Jasmine Garcia, and Jordan Ebeling. They took first place.
- 13:02Speaker 1: In the 200-yard freestyle, in third place was Lyndon's Madeline Honkoop.
- 13:09Speaker 1: And the... 200-yard individual medley, Jordan Ebeling of Bellingham. She
- 13:15Speaker 1: took first place there. In the 50-yard freestyle, Jasmine Garcia
- 13:19Speaker 1: of Bellingham took first place. In the– boy, there's a
- 13:25Speaker 1: lot of swimmers in the 50-yard freestyle. There were 71
- 13:28Speaker 1: swimmers in that. That's pretty crazy. In the 100-yard butterfly,
- 13:33Speaker 1: the top-placing athlete from Whatcom County was Claire Thompson of Sehome,
- 13:38Speaker 1: who finished in fifth place. In the 100-yard freestyle, Jasmine
- 13:43Speaker 1: Garcia of Bellingham took second place. And, of course, a
- 13:47Speaker 1: lot of swimmers in that one, too. Looks like 61
- 13:49Speaker 1: of them. 500-yard freestyle. This is the big one. Jordan
- 13:55Speaker 1: Ebeling of Bellingham took first place. She was 12 seconds
- 14:00Speaker 1: ahead of the next swimmer, so very good job there.
- 14:03Speaker 1: 200-yard freestyle relay. It was the Linden team of Claire Fleming-Butella,
- 14:09Speaker 1: Avery Rutledge, Xochitl Jobes, and Madeline Honkoop. They took second place.
- 14:16Speaker 1: And in the 100-yard backstroke, it was Amanda Buck of
- 14:20Speaker 1: Bellingham who took third place. And the 100-yard breaststroke, Squalicum
- 14:26Speaker 1: Soleil Rubito took first place. And in the 400-yard freestyle relay,
- 14:33Speaker 1: the Bellingham team, and it's the same swimmers again, it
- 14:35Speaker 1: looks like Jordan Ebeling, Carmody Beatty, Amanda Buck, and Jasmine Garcia,
- 14:39Speaker 1: they took first place. And then in the diving results,
- 14:44Speaker 1: it was Fiona Runnels of Sehome that had the highest
- 14:48Speaker 1: score 174.95. So that's how it went. Um, as far
- 14:54Speaker 1: as just that meet on Saturday went and a lot
- 14:58Speaker 1: of swimming still left to go about another month of
- 15:01Speaker 1: it or so. And then there'll be post season and
- 15:04Speaker 1: state and all that stuff. And, And yeah, really, really
- 15:09Speaker 1: fun to follow that all year and be able to
- 15:12Speaker 1: continue to keep up with it. In girls soccer, we're
- 15:15Speaker 1: going to move to girls soccer now. And of course,
- 15:17Speaker 1: girls soccer sponsored by North County Alliance FC. Visit them
- 15:21Speaker 1: online at ncaliancefc.com for all sorts of different levels, club, competitive, recreation.
- 15:29Speaker 1: Look for dates to sign up by, age registration, all
- 15:32Speaker 1: that stuff. And, you know, get your little one out
- 15:35Speaker 1: there playing soccer the best way they can. And the
- 15:39Speaker 1: way to do it is through North County Alliance FC.
- 15:42Speaker 1: We're going to take a look at the scores from
- 15:44Speaker 1: this past week here. On Tuesday, Mount Baker beat Blaine 1-0.
- 15:48Speaker 1: It was the first time they beat Blaine in nine years.
- 15:51Speaker 1: So Mount Baker definitely on the up and up here
- 15:54Speaker 1: as sophomore Macy Kamanga scored the lone goal of the
- 15:56Speaker 1: game in the second half on an assist from Kalen Neely.
- 16:00Speaker 1: Nooksack Valley beat Meridian 4-3. And great job there by
- 16:06Speaker 1: the Pioneers. You know, these two teams, Mount Baker and
- 16:09Speaker 1: Nooksack Valley, their improvement has been rapid from last year
- 16:13Speaker 1: to this year. So it's really cool to see everybody
- 16:16Speaker 1: kind of in the mix of things there. Ferndale beat
- 16:18Speaker 1: Oak Harbor 3-2. Bellingham beat Burlington Edison 3-1 on a
- 16:24Speaker 1: hat trick from Sophia Dion. She's usually the one getting
- 16:26Speaker 1: a ton of assists, but she flipped the script there
- 16:29Speaker 1: and scored all three goals in that game. Squalicum beat
- 16:32Speaker 1: Linden 4-3, and Sehome and Anacortes came away with a
- 16:35Speaker 1: 2-2 tie. On Thursday, Sehome, they beat Squalicum 4-1. Meridian
- 16:43Speaker 1: beat Blaine 1-0. Tough week for the Borderites with two losses,
- 16:46Speaker 1: both of them being 1-0 against the Northwest Conference 1A opponents.
- 16:52Speaker 1: Bellingham beat Lakewood 1-0. Linden Christian blanked Nooksack Valley 4-0.
- 16:57Speaker 1: Ferndale beat Mount Vernon 3-0. Granite Falls over Mount Baker 2-1.
- 17:02Speaker 1: And Brompton Edison beat Linden 2-0. And then on Saturday,
- 17:06Speaker 1: a couple losses for Whatcom County against some pretty good teams.
- 17:09Speaker 1: Nooksack Valley went down south, lost to Kings 5-1. And
- 17:14Speaker 1: then Bush came to town and beat Linden Christian 2-1
- 17:17Speaker 1: in a matchup of a couple teams with playoff aspirations there.
- 17:21Speaker 1: So if we take a look at the soccer standings
- 17:24Speaker 1: right now, Ferndale, they've won seven in a row. And
- 17:27Speaker 1: they are 7-1 on the season. They are 5-0 at home.
- 17:32Speaker 1: So they are really on a tear right now, as
- 17:34Speaker 1: is Bellingham, who is eight wins, zero losses, and two ties.
- 17:38Speaker 1: But at home, they are 5-0 Seaholm. They are 7-1-2,
- 17:44Speaker 1: and they are 5-0-1 at home. Those three teams are
- 17:48Speaker 1: really standing out right now in Whatcom County. Squalicum, 6-2-2.
- 17:53Speaker 1: Linden Christian is 6-4. They are 3-2 at home and
- 17:56Speaker 1: 3-2 on the road. Meridian, 7-5 on the year. Mount Baker, 4-3.
- 18:01Speaker 1: They are 4-1 at home. Nooksack Valley is 4-5-1. Linden
- 18:06Speaker 1: is 4-7 as they've dropped four straight now. And Blaine
- 18:11Speaker 1: is 2-6-1 after going out to a great start. They
- 18:15Speaker 1: have lost six in a row. So... That's too bad
- 18:19Speaker 1: for the borderites. They're going to get things going in
- 18:22Speaker 1: the right direction here. We take a look at the
- 18:25Speaker 1: goal leaders now, and we're going to do the top 10.
- 18:28Speaker 1: We have a two-way tie for ninth place with seven
- 18:30Speaker 1: goals each. That's Tegan Ambrose of Ferndale and Avery Warnock
- 18:34Speaker 1: of Meridian. And then a big, there's a huge tie
- 18:37Speaker 1: for second place. Lots of players with eight goals on
- 18:40Speaker 1: the season. Sophia Dionne of Bellingham, Kylie Ivcevic of Sehome,
- 18:45Speaker 1: Vivian Moss of Sehome. Kaylin Hinton of Linden Christian, Luz
- 18:49Speaker 1: Lane of Meridian, Mia Collins of Ferndale, and Addie Wilson
- 18:53Speaker 1: of Squalicum all have eight goals on the year. And
- 18:56Speaker 1: then leading the way with 16 goals so far this
- 18:59Speaker 1: year is the freshman from Meridian, Ella Kratsoff. If we
- 19:03Speaker 1: go to the assist leaders, there is a one, two, three,
- 19:08Speaker 1: six-way tie for first place. Sophia Dionne, Vivian Moss, Kaylin Hinton,
- 19:13Speaker 1: Luz Lane, and Mila Kratsov and Sophia Guzman all have
- 19:16Speaker 1: five assists on the year. And what's crazy is that
- 19:19Speaker 1: those four, those first four are named all have eight
- 19:22Speaker 1: goals on the year. So that's really doing it in
- 19:24Speaker 1: every single way. Let's see if we can see. Yeah,
- 19:28Speaker 1: there is another five players with four assists so far
- 19:32Speaker 1: on the year. Hannah Wynn of Ferndale, Lexi Yoon of
- 19:35Speaker 1: Linnik Christian, Sophie Koch of Bellingham, Maya Reed of Seaholm
- 19:39Speaker 1: and Siri Hoagland of Squalicum all have four assists on
- 19:44Speaker 1: the year. So very excited to keep track of assists
- 19:48Speaker 1: this year. And, boy, you take a look at the
- 19:52Speaker 1: player of the week, and there were some really, really
- 19:55Speaker 1: good performances. It's, you know, with the 1As, now they're
- 19:58Speaker 1: starting to play each other. All the conference stuff is
- 20:00Speaker 1: starting to happen. So things are starting to.
- 20:03Speaker 2: Get a little crazier. Kaylin Hinton had a great week.
- 20:06Speaker 2: Mia Collins had a great week. Vivian Moss had a
- 20:08Speaker 2: great week. but I am going with Sophia Dion of Bellingham,
- 20:15Speaker 2: you know, getting that, getting the three goals against Burlington
- 20:19Speaker 2: Edison was huge. And that three to one win Burlington Edison,
- 20:22Speaker 2: pretty good team. And, and then, you know, she was a.
- 20:26Speaker 1: Big part of the one zero win over Lakewood too. So,
- 20:29Speaker 1: Bellingham's still the only team in the conference without a
- 20:32Speaker 1: loss so far. They do have two ties.
- 20:35Speaker 2: But a very good job by the Bayhawks, led by
- 20:39Speaker 2: Sophia Dion.
- 20:39Speaker 1: So congratulations, Sophia Dion. You are the North County Alliance
- 20:43Speaker 1: FC Player of the Week. And now let's go to volleyball.
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- 21:24Speaker 1: And we're going to check out the scores here from
- 21:33Speaker 1: this past week. On Monday, some big volleyball being played there.
- 21:38Speaker 1: Mount Baker getting the win over Blaine. Three sets to zero. 25-12, 25-17,
- 21:41Speaker 1: and 25-10. And we're going to check out the scores
- 21:43Speaker 1: here from this past week. I was at this game,
- 21:46Speaker 1: and it was a big deal. It was a big
- 21:48Speaker 1: deal for the Mountaineers to get the win here as
- 21:51Speaker 1: they picked up their first conference win in four years
- 21:53Speaker 1: and their first win against Blaine in five years. So
- 21:56Speaker 1: Mount Baker definitely on the rise here. Linden beat Squalicum
- 22:00Speaker 1: 3-0 as Squalicum's five-game winning streak came to an end.
- 22:06Speaker 1: But that's just kind of the way it goes with
- 22:08Speaker 1: the Lions. They were led by Hadley Lamp, who had
- 22:11Speaker 1: a career-high 15 digs. And then Ferndale, they defeated Oak
- 22:16Speaker 1: Harbor 3-0 in three straight sets. Svetlana Badek was on
- 22:20Speaker 1: target all night, and she finished with 20 kills to
- 22:23Speaker 1: go with her nine digs and also a 500 hitting percentage. Great,
- 22:28Speaker 1: great job by the Golden Eagles there. Then we go
- 22:31Speaker 1: on to Tuesday, where Meridian beat Nooksack Valley 3-1 in
- 22:35Speaker 1: a great matchup every single year. These two have awesome matches.
- 22:39Speaker 1: I don't know if they've ever played each other where
- 22:41Speaker 1: it only went three sets. Um, I remember last year
- 22:44Speaker 1: in the regular season and went five sets. This one
- 22:46Speaker 1: went four sets. I was out there for a big
- 22:49Speaker 1: chunk of it. I had to hurry up and get back, um,
- 22:52Speaker 1: to do an interview with a, with, with a coach
- 22:54Speaker 1: on zoom. So I needed to leave early. Um, but
- 22:58Speaker 1: it was, it was every single, every or I should
- 23:06Speaker 1: say it was at Nooksack Valley, but the Trojans came
- 23:08Speaker 1: away by winning the first two, 25-23 and then 28-26.
- 23:14Speaker 1: So very close there. Nooksack Valley came back to take
- 23:16Speaker 1: the third set, 25-21, and Meridian closed it with a
- 23:20Speaker 1: 25-22 win. And the big one here for Meridian was
- 23:25Speaker 1: Sierra James. She had a career-high eight blocks. And if
- 23:30Speaker 1: you get eight blocks– in a match that is, I,
- 23:34Speaker 1: I don't know if I've seen that before. I think
- 23:36Speaker 1: I've seen five or six, a handful of times. I
- 23:39Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know if I've ever seen eight. So, uh,
- 23:42Speaker 1: she really had that, that timing down. And of course,
- 23:44Speaker 1: Melanie short at another huge game, 23 kills, 10 digs,
- 23:48Speaker 1: three aces. Um, and then, uh, the Nookside Valley was
- 23:53Speaker 1: led by Finley Mitchell, Elizabeth Delang, Allie Reynolds, Kendall Jurgens,
- 23:57Speaker 1: Mallory Mason, Carson only kind of the main players there. So, Meridian, though,
- 24:02Speaker 1: picks up the big win there over Nooksack Valley. Sehome,
- 24:05Speaker 1: they defeated Anacortes 3-0 to move up to 6-2 on
- 24:09Speaker 1: the year. Paige Flory had another huge game. Radler Rossellison
- 24:12Speaker 1: with a double-double. Jackie Hurley doing her thing on defense.
- 24:16Speaker 1: And Bellingham beat Burlington Edison for the first time in
- 24:19Speaker 1: 10 years as Estelle Oaks, she was all over the
- 24:24Speaker 1: court with 11 kills, 11 digs, and two aces. And
- 24:27Speaker 1: Bailey Burge, again, ton of digs. and three aces as well.
- 24:33Speaker 1: On Wednesday, the lone match was down in Mount Vernon,
- 24:36Speaker 1: so of course I made the trek down there. As
- 24:39Speaker 1: Ferndale went down there and took it in three straight sets,
- 24:43Speaker 1: winning 25-19, and then the next two were both 25-17,
- 24:50Speaker 1: Brooklyn Larrabee again had a great time setting up her
- 24:53Speaker 1: hitters to the tune of 35 assists, and Svetlana Badak,
- 24:57Speaker 1: she had 16 kills on the night, Teodubey Had 11 kills.
- 25:02Speaker 1: They also combined for five aces. And Ashley Pedig had
- 25:05Speaker 1: 12 digs. So great overall team win by Ferndale there.
- 25:09Speaker 1: And they have just been on a roll recently. On Thursday,
- 25:13Speaker 1: a lot of volleyball being played there. I was out
- 25:16Speaker 1: at Squalicum and I saw Sehome defeat Squalicum. Three sets
- 25:19Speaker 1: to zero. Kind of getting them back from last year
- 25:22Speaker 1: as Squalicum upset the Mariners last season. And Sehome... And see,
- 25:27Speaker 1: I came away with this one here. Paige Flory had
- 25:30Speaker 1: another huge game with 18 kills, 14 digs, and three aces.
- 25:34Speaker 1: Radley Rossellison had another double-double. Taylor Terrell, 37 assists. And
- 25:39Speaker 1: Jackie Hurley with another 14 digs. And Catherine Staten, who's
- 25:42Speaker 1: been playing a lot more as of late, she had
- 25:44Speaker 1: four kills and a game-high two-and-a-half block. So congratulations to her.
- 25:49Speaker 1: Squalicum was led by senior Bronwyn Jones, who finished with
- 25:52Speaker 1: 20 digs, and senior Alyssa Rosselli, who added seven digs
- 25:55Speaker 1: and 13 assists. Bellingham, they beat Lakewood 3-1. Hensley Hurlburt
- 26:01Speaker 1: had the biggest game of her young varsity career. She
- 26:03Speaker 1: finished with 12 kills, 19 digs, and a whopping 9 aces.
- 26:08Speaker 1: Morgan Brennan had a career-high 30 assists as well. So
- 26:12Speaker 1: great overall job by Bellingham as they're really starting to
- 26:15Speaker 1: come together now and play extremely well. Meridian beat Blaine
- 26:18Speaker 1: three sets to zero. Again, Melanie Short slammed home a
- 26:22Speaker 1: whopping 23 kills. and did it in an efficient way
- 26:25Speaker 1: as she posted a 538 hitting percentage. Amelia Koning had
- 26:29Speaker 1: a team-high 12 digs, and senior Eden Bernardi had five
- 26:33Speaker 1: aces and nine digs. Linden over Burlington Edison 3-0, and
- 26:40Speaker 1: it wasn't even close, 25-8, 25-10, and 25-9. And when
- 26:44Speaker 1: Izzy Steffen wasn't blocking Burlington Edison kill attempts, she was
- 26:49Speaker 1: busy running the offense with 39 assists to go with
- 26:51Speaker 1: those four blocks that she had. followed closely by Brooke McDonald,
- 26:55Speaker 1: who had two blocks. Lyndon Christian over Nooksack Valley, three
- 26:59Speaker 1: sets to zero, and Lyndon Christian's playing without some of
- 27:02Speaker 1: their key players, but Jocelyn Eslice led Elsie with nine kills,
- 27:05Speaker 1: four aces, and two blocks, and Ellie Pierce was close
- 27:08Speaker 1: behind with eight kills and two aces herself. Nooksack Valley
- 27:12Speaker 1: was led by Finley Mitchell, who had 13 assists and
- 27:14Speaker 1: nine digs, and Elizabeth DeLange, who finished with seven kills
- 27:17Speaker 1: and two blocks. So, we look at, after all that,
- 27:22Speaker 1: we look at the standings now, and of course, Linden
- 27:25Speaker 1: leading the way. They're 10-0 to start the season. They've
- 27:28Speaker 1: only played three matches at home. They've been on the road,
- 27:32Speaker 1: as of late. Ferndale, they dropped their opening match. That
- 27:35Speaker 1: was to Linden, and they've won six in a row
- 27:37Speaker 1: since then, so they're 6-1. Cedric Woolley's 5-1. Seaholm, 7-2,
- 27:42Speaker 1: as they've won three in a row. Linden Christian is 5-2.
- 27:45Speaker 1: Squalicum went from 6-1 to 6-3, but still doing very well. Meridian,
- 27:50Speaker 1: they started 0-3, and now they're 5-3 on the year. Bellingham,
- 27:54Speaker 1: they've won two in a row. They're now 4-5. Mount Baker, 2-3.
- 27:57Speaker 1: Nooksack Valley, 3-5. And Blaine still looking for their first
- 28:02Speaker 1: win of the season. Well, let's take a look at
- 28:05Speaker 1: the stat leaders now, which is brought to you by
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- 28:21Speaker 1: them out at apexnwvolleyballclub.org. All right, let's take a look
- 28:27Speaker 1: at this now. We're going to start off, as we
- 28:29Speaker 1: always do, with kills per set. Melanie Short, a Meridian,
- 28:32Speaker 1: still leading the way at 5.59 kills per set. She
- 28:36Speaker 1: is followed by Finley Parcher of Linden, Svetlana Badak of Ferndale,
- 28:39Speaker 1: Paige Flory of Seaham, and Elizabeth Delang of Nooksack Valley.
- 28:43Speaker 1: It's been pretty much those guys. Players Jocelyn Essice is close.
- 28:48Speaker 1: Taya Dubé, Eden Bernardi, Lexi Hermannutz, and Rebecca Soares all
- 28:52Speaker 1: finish out the top 10 there. And digs per set,
- 28:56Speaker 1: Bailey Burge leading the way, 4.83 digs per set. She
- 28:59Speaker 1: is followed by Jackie Hurley of Seaholm, Bronwyn Jones of Squalicum,
- 29:03Speaker 1: Peyton Zender of Mount Baker, and Svetlana Badak of Ferndale.
- 29:08Speaker 1: And let's go to assists per set. Brooklyn Larrabee of
- 29:12Speaker 1: Ferndale still hovering right over 10 assists per set. Izzy
- 29:16Speaker 1: Steffen really close there at 9.9. Taylor Terrell in third.
- 29:20Speaker 1: She's from Seaholm. Kendall Stacey of Meridian in fourth. And
- 29:24Speaker 1: Finley Mitchell of Nooksack Valley in fifth. And let's go
- 29:29Speaker 1: to aces per set. Eden Bernardi leading the way at 1.18
- 29:33Speaker 1: aces per set. Radha Rossellus in 1.03 from Sehome. Lyndon
- 29:39Speaker 1: Christian's Taya Vandercoy at 0.87. Hadley Grovo of Sehome at 0.79.
- 29:45Speaker 1: And Hensley Hurlburt of Bellingham, she makes it into the
- 29:49Speaker 1: top five here at 0.77. And then in blocks per
- 29:53Speaker 1: set leading the way, Rebecca Soares of Mount Baker, 0.73 aces.
- 29:58Speaker 1: blocks per set. Izzy Stephan of Linden, 0.61. Jocelyn Essice
- 30:03Speaker 1: of Linden Christian, 0.59. Avery the A-Train Kettman from Squalicum, 0.55.
- 30:09Speaker 1: And Sierra James of Meridian at 0.49 blocks per set.
- 30:15Speaker 1: So it's time to look at the players of the week.
- 30:21Speaker 1: The offensive player of the week is brought to you
- 30:22Speaker 1: by Angar Home Comfort. And boy, There were a lot
- 30:27Speaker 1: of players that were up for this. I mean, oh, man.
- 30:32Speaker 1: Melanie Short had another huge week. Paige Flory had a
- 30:35Speaker 1: huge week. You know, Radley Rossellison had another big week.
- 30:41Speaker 1: But I'm going with Svetlana Badak of Ferndale, keeping that
- 30:45Speaker 1: winning streak alive and seeing what she did against these
- 30:49Speaker 1: other 3A teams. And she's really on a roll right now.
- 30:53Speaker 1: So congratulations, Svetlana. To Ferndale Senior Svetlana Badak, you are
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- 31:28Speaker 1: That's E-X-C-E-L, accelerationdrivingschool.com. Defensive player of the week, I thought
- 31:42Speaker 1: Peyton Zender from Mount Baker had– they only played in
- 31:45Speaker 1: one game, but getting that win was huge, and she
- 31:48Speaker 1: was all over the court. She's moved her way into
- 31:51Speaker 1: the top five in digs per set. I thought she
- 31:53Speaker 1: had a great week. I thought Izzy Steffen had a
- 31:55Speaker 1: great week defensively, but I'm giving this one to Meridian
- 32:00Speaker 1: Sierra James. She had eight blocks against Nooksack Valley and
- 32:03Speaker 1: then picked up another few later in the week against
- 32:07Speaker 1: Blaine and– She just had a monster week. But that
- 32:11Speaker 1: game against Nooksack Valley was one for the ages. So
- 32:15Speaker 1: congratulations to Sierra James of Meridian. You are the Acceleration
- 32:19Speaker 1: Driving School Defensive Player of the Week. All right, let's
- 32:23Speaker 1: take a look at the upcoming week. The big, big
- 32:25Speaker 1: matches to take a look for and games and all
- 32:28Speaker 1: events and all those kinds of things. Monday night volleyball,
- 32:31Speaker 1: Lyndon Christian at Meridian, 7 o'clock. That's going to be
- 32:35Speaker 1: a good one. The way things are kind of– happening
- 32:38Speaker 1: right now, those look to be the top two 1A
- 32:41Speaker 1: teams in Northwest Conference, so I would expect that one
- 32:45Speaker 1: to maybe go a few extra, you know, might go
- 32:50Speaker 1: a few extra sets, might go four or five sets,
- 32:53Speaker 1: and that'd be really cool. Those are the two teams
- 32:57Speaker 1: that made it out of 1A last year to go
- 32:59Speaker 1: to the state tournament. It looks like it might be
- 33:01Speaker 1: the same again this year, so look for a really
- 33:03Speaker 1: great matchup there. Really excited to see Melanie Short trying
- 33:08Speaker 1: to knock them home and see Jocelyn Essise try to
- 33:11Speaker 1: block them. So I think that's going to be a really,
- 33:13Speaker 1: really fun matchup there. On Tuesday, Tuesdays and Thursdays are
- 33:16Speaker 1: always loaded with a lot of stuff. So on Tuesday,
- 33:19Speaker 1: get ready for this. Girls Swimming, Bellingham at Linden at
- 33:22Speaker 1: the Forge Pool. That'll be at 3.30. And I believe
- 33:28Speaker 1: there's no diving board there. So that will limit Bellingham
- 33:31Speaker 1: getting points from their divers. So this could be a
- 33:34Speaker 1: pretty close matchup. We'll have to wait and see. Also tennis.
- 33:38Speaker 1: Down the road, Linden at Ferndale at 4 o'clock. And
- 33:42Speaker 1: then also at 4 o'clock, soccer, Meridian at Linden Christian,
- 33:47Speaker 1: which is another great 1A matchup there. So a lot
- 33:51Speaker 1: of things going on there in the afternoon before all
- 33:54Speaker 1: the evening events get going. On Thursday, tennis again, Bellingham
- 33:59Speaker 1: at Linden. That's at 4 o'clock. Bellingham expected to win there,
- 34:04Speaker 1: but we'll see if Linden can come through with a,
- 34:07Speaker 1: a match here or there, or, you know, a court
- 34:10Speaker 1: here or there, I should say. In soccer, Bellingham at
- 34:14Speaker 1: Linden as well at 4.30. So if you're a fan
- 34:18Speaker 1: of Bellingham and Linden athletics, you can head out to
- 34:22Speaker 1: the middle school for tennis at 4 o'clock, and then
- 34:25Speaker 1: you can head out to Bender Fields for soccer at 4.30.
- 34:28Speaker 1: That sounds perfect for what I can do because then
- 34:32Speaker 1: I can hit them both. I'm right there. I love
- 34:34Speaker 1: seeing these kinds of things. Also in soccer later on
- 34:37Speaker 1: in the evening, Blaine at Nooksack Valley. That'll be at
- 34:40Speaker 1: 7 o'clock on the brand-new football turf there, which is
- 34:43Speaker 1: going to be cool under the lights there, which is
- 34:45Speaker 1: great for Nooksack Valley as they haven't been able to
- 34:47Speaker 1: do that as much in the past. And then also volleyball,
- 34:51Speaker 1: 3A matchup. This is big. Cedra Woolley at Ferndale at
- 34:54Speaker 1: 7 o'clock. Ferndale 6-1 on the year. Cedra Woolley 5-1
- 34:58Speaker 1: on the year. So this is a big one here.
- 35:01Speaker 1: Two of the top teams in the Northwest Conference 3A
- 35:06Speaker 1: And then on Saturday, a couple things here. Look, the big,
- 35:09Speaker 1: big race down at Lakewood, the hole-in-the-wall race at 8 a.m.
- 35:14Speaker 1: All the top cross-country teams from around the state will
- 35:17Speaker 1: be there. I think I'm pretty sure all of them
- 35:19Speaker 1: from Whatcom County will be there. This is an event
- 35:22Speaker 1: that I went to back in 1994 or 5. I
- 35:27Speaker 1: think it was 1995 was the first time I went
- 35:29Speaker 1: to it. And I've been to it a few times,
- 35:31Speaker 1: but it's a huge event. Tons of runners there. So
- 35:34Speaker 1: that's at 8 a.m. on Saturday morning out at Lakewood
- 35:37Speaker 1: High School. And then volleyball. Love this matchup as well.
- 35:41Speaker 1: At 1 in the afternoon, Sehome goes to Nooksack Valley.
- 35:45Speaker 1: It's the sinner versus the saint, husband versus wife, Clayton
- 35:49Speaker 1: Sin versus Holly St.
- 35:50Speaker 2: Marie.
- 35:51Speaker 1: I love this matchup. This is such a cool deal.
- 35:54Speaker 1: It's not a conference match anymore, but they made sure
- 35:56Speaker 1: they got it on the schedule as Clayton Sin, the
- 35:59Speaker 1: coach of Sehome, will be taking on his wife, Holly St. Marie,
- 36:04Speaker 1: the coach of Nooksack Valley. And just I just I
- 36:08Speaker 1: love the matchup. See home pretty heavily favored in this one.
- 36:12Speaker 1: But you never know. Nooksack Valley is as they're starting
- 36:15Speaker 1: to come together pretty well. So we'll see if they
- 36:18Speaker 1: can take a set at home. It'd be great to
- 36:20Speaker 1: see that about does it. So thank you so much
- 36:23Speaker 1: to our sponsors. Stauffer Insurance, North County Alliance, FC Acceleration
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- 36:39Speaker 1: Walton Beverage. You've been listening to episode 452, the Week
- 36:45Speaker 1: 5 Fall Sports Recap. I am Tyler Anderson of Wacom Preps,
- 36:48Speaker 1: and I will talk to you tomorrow.