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- This is Murdy and Senior Tern Brooks, and you're listening to the Walk com Preps Podcast with Tyler and Ryland. Go Trojans, Reetings and welcome into the watcom Preps Podcast. This is episode of two and fifty five Spring Sports, a weekly wrap up. I'm Ryland Spencer along with me as always is Tyler Anderson of whatcom Preps. Tyler, how are we doing doing awesome? It was such a great week last week. The weather got better and you know, postseason stuff going on, and got to you know, catch up with Casey Bauman and man, just so many cool things. I got this awesome contraption machine that I sent you a little video of, yeah, where I could Yeah, I could take old reels like old eight millimeter film and transpose it into I can dig it, which is so cool. So, man, if you're listening to this and you got old game film from way back when when Grandpa played or something like that, I'll digitize it for you. I am so excited for this, and it's going to open up to a bunch of new, well new old stuff that I'll be able to see. So it's been an awesome week, man, It's been awesome. Yeah, it looked like a pretty cool little thing you had there. Did you Did you post the picture at all or did you post the video so people could see it? Like not not what I sent you. I just I posted like a little like four play highlight reel of some stuff. Because I was watching it, I was like, that is really cool. The way that it works, Like it's crazy. Yeah, Like it just it takes the reel and it and it goes through this machine where it it basically catches. It goes click click, click click, and it looks at every single yeah, you know piece like digital file. I mean yeah, it makes it into it an actual video where it's just these individual pictures. That's like a flip book. You know, that's exactly what it is. I've yeah, it's like that's exactly what it's doing, is it's taking thousands of pictures, Yeah, making a video. So yeah, I'm pretty excited about that. And uh yeah, so a lot of a lot of fun stuff going on. Yeah, there's got to be people out there that have old football, I think maybe even old baseball maybe you know who knows, Like, yeah, I was gonna say, you bet, I bet Linden's got a ton of old basketball stuff from the sixties and I mean they were so dominant back then, and yeah, maybe anybody's got to reach out. I mean, yeah, there's probably generations that haven't seen, you know, some of these legends play, you know, and so a lot of it'd be really cool to see. You might have to start like a watcom preps like video page, you know what I mean, where it's just like follow this and every week we're gonna do you know, a couple of old videos or something, you know, old sports and show them live type thing. You know. Yeah, right, yeah, there's a walk them. There is a wakam Preps YouTube page. I've talked with District Brewing, who just opened up a new restaurant on the corner of pol And Meridian, and we're talking about doing like a weekly like game like I bring in game film and people can vote, Like I'll have five different games to vote on. People can vote on which one it is, and then you know, come in and watch the game like on a big screen TV and you know, all sorts of different things like that. So there's lots of possibilities in the air that we've been talking about. So it's been the District brewing. There is one in Ferndale that just opened up, a brand new one. It's technically in Linden, but it's on the corner of Pole and Guide Meridian or I'm sorry, no, no, no, not pulling pollingd Hannigan and Han again. Yeah, and that's that's one that goes like right through the middle of of what's it called the right through the middle of Linden all the way down and like, let's saye it on sunset? Is that the one? Yeah, yes, that is randomly and didn't know where I was right right. I was just following the school bus and I was like, oh, I hope they know where they're going. Yeah, So so yeah, not pulling Guide Marian pulling hand again when there a few weeks ago, and kind of checked out what they got going on. It's really cool they're open now. So yeah, so excited for a very very highly potential partnership with them, and and they want us to like come out and do a live show from there, all sorts of cool things. Yeah, so we'll we'll see, we'll see what we got going on. You said it's a brewery. Yeah, well it's like a restaurant, like they got like pizza and and stuff like. Yeah, right, and argument they got they got a burger. I mean I could be had. Yeah, it takes a little bit to get you up de Waukee County, but not as much as people might think. No, not at all. I mean one time, one time, what's the name Whitman got me up there by having a double cheeseburger and some waffle fries ready to go. That's right, remember the name of the place. But it was fabulous. I think it was Underground Burger. Underground Burger, It's exactly what it was. Yeah, boy was that good. And and they they found out that I was going to do a review or something and gave him a bunch of extra fries and even Dan Teeter got some fries out of it. There you go, see sitting there next to me. Those fries were great with that burger. I'm telling you, yep, oh yeah, baby, Tyler. We need to give a thank you to Tyler. I'm just thinking about I don't know why this came up. What this is? We got a soccer player, right? Yeah? So is the intro sponsored by North County Alliance FC made it must be they sponsor everything soccer related. Absolutely, I mean they do. So I don't know, Tyler, I mean do we I mean, I guess I already said it. So Karen Burks Uh Meridian Senior boys Soccer with the intro, Tyler, they're going to the state tournament. We'll talk about it here in a little bit. Uh. We got all kinds of stuff to talk about. We I mean, there's districts in a lot of different things going on, and then we've even got state tournament now lined up for what boys or yeah, boys soccer? What's it called baseball? Yes, softball is still a week away, but we got districts and softball, Tyler, you're gonna be driving back and forth. We're just wearing out. I five headed down. It might even have to give yourself a scadget Valley Burger Express a little stop over there, right. I mean, there's all kinds of stuff going on this week, Tyler. But before we get into it, let's give it thank you to Kurt Mayberry Farm Kurtmayberry Farm dot com. They are a fourth generation, family owned an operated berry farm committed to growing the highest quality berries, strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries. You can find them online at Kurtmayberry Farm dot com Kurt with the c M A b E r R Y Farm dot com. Tyler, if anybody wants to reach out, there's all kinds of stuff going on. I mean, how about this, Tyler, I'm gonna throw you on the spot here a little bit. I know you love it when I do this. Yes, I do. Baseball Top fifty, yeah, Softball top fifty, yeah, Soccer top twenty five. I mean that one is gonna be tough. Thirty. I just I feel I really, I honestly feel like I would almost do it a disservice because I just I just don't know the sport well enough. I really don't all the coaches and say, give me the top ten players in the county. Yeah, and you just kind of do it off of that, you know what I mean. Yeah, that's tricky because like Meridan didn't play Sea Home, you know what I mean? Yeah, But they though, trust me when I say this, the coaches they kind of know, you know what I mean, Like they know these coaches know you know they do, And actually that might not be a bad thing that they didn't play, because maybe the Seahome coach doesn't list any Meridian kids, but maybe they list a couple other kids from other teams. You, Yeah, it's a possibility, I think. And here's the same thing I should do is send them, send all of them a message and say, hey, this is what I want to do. I just want you to list the top ten kids. Don't list your school, give me the top ten kids, and then say, I may or may not do this right, and when you get the results back and Italian all up. If it looks, if it looks, if it looks doable, yeah, if it looks, if it makes sense, then if it doesn't make sense, you don't. But Tyler, the reason I bring this all up because sponsors. Do we have sponsors for those Yeah? Right, well, we don't have sponsors for any of those things as of yet. So right now somebody could sponsor. They could call you and go, hey, I want to get into that top fifty for the baseball Yeah hey, yeah, absolutely fifty for softball, right, I mean, they're wide open. Yeah, And in theory, they should kind of start coming up here soon, you know what I mean, like, oh yeah, not too far away. So if they want to reach out to you, how do they do it? Who? What what do they do? Do they go to walkompreps dot com. That that's you know, that's one way. There's the best way is through social media. Just search for walk them preps Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, send me a personal message and go from there. You could you could email me at mister mohawk at hotmail dot com. It's mister spelled out underscore mohawk at hotmail dot com. And uh and we could we could talk about it. You know, what's what's crazy when you think about it. This will be the third year I'm doing the Top fifty for baseball, and I have never done one for softball. And yeh and which I've watched. Yeah, I've watched a ton of games for the last six years, but I always felt like I didn't watch enough, like I would really really get in, Like I think last year I saw like five or six and then I went into it heavy in the playoffs. Yeah, and and but this year, I mean, I've seen every team at least four or five times. So you feel good. I feel I feel a lot better about it. I'm really so. I'm excited to do the softball Top fifty for the first time, which means I need to make it graphic. Yes, yeah, but I think the baseball softball you can kind of make them kind of similar, make some subtle changes. And I've used the same one for baseball the last two years and it's a really cool one. So yeah, I like the baseball one. Actually, I like the baseball one maybe even more than the football ones. Yeah, the baseball one. Football ones are cool, but the baseball one has just it's very baseball y, you know, yes, exactly, it's very like kind of I don't want to say boring, but like classic old school kind of look to it. Yeah, we could probably just change some colors or something, sure, make it, make it a softball one or something. I don't know, We'll figure it out. But but yeah, I mean, Tyler, here's the other thing too. I mean I hate to say money talks, but if somebody said, hey, I would love to sponsor a top twenty five for soccer, that might motivate you a little bit more to get or done, huh, and then I would probably have to do it. The thing is is, I know in my head this is what this is interesting. What happens is once it gets to be about yeah, you know, like may first ish, I start thinking about like, oh, I got to kind of start getting I start prepping for the top fifty for baseball and softball, So I start thinking, do I have good shots? Do I have good pictures of each kid that's possibly gonna make this list? So what will happen is I start going to these games where I'm taking like like they're standing at left field and I'll zoom in and taking a good picture. Yeah, yeah, because I'm like, I don't know if I have a picture of this kid, and I'll zoom in and click one and and and I have not been thinking about that for soccer, but I tell you what, I've been to more soccer games this year than maybe any sport. It it'd be like I'm talking the old calendar year. Yeah, I went to a lot of basketball games. You did go to a lot of basketball, but that's also boys and girls basketball exactly. I probably went to we're talking just boys soccer. So yeah, I probably went to five games a week. You know, boy soccer so crazy. It was. It was nuts and like just you know, just this pat Like Saturday, I was at two different games. Yeah, I was at two different baseball Saturday. I went to a tennis I went to tennis stuff. Saturday was a busy day. I got some pretty good sun on that day. But oh boy, it was a busy week. Awesome week, Tyler. It was so hot in my house when I got home Friday, I shaved my head and my face. No are you serious, not completely the face, but I I'm down to a goatee. Holy it was so hot. I walked in the house. It was like one hundred and eight degrees in my house, Like, I'm not even kidding you. And I went in and started making dinner, which ended up just being a couple of sandwiches because I didn't want to use the stove or anything. I was like, oh, yeah, going to make a couple of sandwiches here. And I sat down on the couch and I had like a thing of sweat playing Plinko in my beard, and I was like, all right, it's time to get rid of this thing here. So yeah, yeah, I haven't been I've been this cool in a while, let me say that. But yeah, actually, as a matter of fact, I think the last time I cut my hair, and like, I think the last time I did exactly what I just did was the day before football camp last year. Yeah. Yeah, so like August seventh, teenth or something. But Tyler, we have a lot of stuff to talk about. We kind of mentioned that already. We've been talking sponsors. And by the way, track and Field sponsored by Staffer Insurance nineteen oh three Front Street and Linden at three six zero seven four six eighty eight oh three. Online is Staffer Insurance dot Com. That's s t a u f F e Erinsurance dot Com. Head in there. Talk to our guy Marty and just be like, hey, look, Anderson sent me this way. I don't know what you got going on, but I need insurance. And he's gonna be like, sweet, sweet, good stuff. Let's put the guy in a commercial, Tyler, Let's see what have we got. We got a new three hundred meter hurdles time here. Huh yeah, Tate Hanson from Meridian and he just edged out he because it was a sea home runner for a while. Tate Hanson forty two point zero four seconds. Uh. So that that's the new leader in Walkin County. I tell you I Meridian just as a team they I mean, I don't want to jinx anything, but boy, they have a good shot at yet putting a lot of points up at State they just have so many competitors and state quality competitors and uh they have never won a state title as a team, and boy, it's it's looking they're just very strong up and down the board. They also have the new four by one relay time best relay time and and it's and they had their own, but they switched around some runners. So uh so it's a new it's a new team and squalic them four by four hundred. They switched around some runners. They have a new a new time three two, which is just crazy. I mean, I that's that's you're looking at maybe top ten walking County all time. Uh, really really good time there. So uh and then you know a lot of guys just kind of upped their their their numbers. You know, he in Tyler really quickly. When I'm looking at the sheet here and I see a star, that means the same guy new number, right right. Yeah, So there's a lot of them. I mean, yeah, you got one, two, three, seven, yeah, seven seven and three new times. Yeah. So it's and a lot of that. I mean, there's a lot of different things you can look at. The weather was just fantastic, phenomenal Wednesday and Friday, you know, at Lyndon Christian they had the one a's Wednesday and Friday, at Civic they had the two a's and Wednesday Friday at Ferndale they had the three a's and it was just three off huh. Yeah, so well but it was it was just the three three A schools in Northwest Conference. So yeah, it was it was just Mount gotcha okay, wow? And yeah, so there was just this just subdistrict stuff kind of get ready and then and yeah, and it was yeah right, and it was a lot of big time times. I mean Key and Coppinger again besting his shot puts and shot put in discus times or distances, I should say, which are you know, you started looking as in a lot of time in the air. Yeah, I mean you start looking at like one A overall as state and he's you know, he's up there. You know he's gonna be competing. He's in that top five range. He's throwing the disc almost as far as Joey Brown's throwing the javelin. It's crazy. It's crazy. And you know to think about all the times that he threw a football between his legs to him. Uh, it's those two been you know be awesome. Yeah, oh man. And then Adam Perry just keeps getting better at the triple jump. I tell you it's so impressive. You start getting into the forty three feet for triple jump, that is ridiculous. And he just broke forty three feet. Adam Perry at sea home really excited to see what he can do and see I mean to see him won state last year. As as the team and so they have you know, they graduated some big time sprinters and some big time long distance runners, but they still have a lot of good athletes and and they're definitely not to be counted out. And and you know what's funny is you look at the boys and girls and all these relays teams got better, got better times. And I tell you, relay is one of those, you know events where you're going to be so much better two months into the season than you were when you started because of just the the continuity and the timing and the handoffs and everything where you work on it so much and and so it's no surprise that all the relay times have been bettered. Uh. Sloan Dixon at Lindon has the new sixteen hundred meter time five, two ninety six and uh and then, like I said in the four by one hundred relay, Linen and Seaom have been going back and forth on that all year. Lindon re recaptures it with just a hair over fifty seconds readA Vandermy, Keiky York, Eve Ellis and Mia Engeldau, and then Lyndon as well bettered their time with a with a with a different runner, having Olivia Holmes in there instead of Keiky York, along with Sloane Dixon, Faith van Brockman and Ella Ferricks. Just over four minutes on the four by four hundred tabid Young it's clockwork. Every every week she just puts up a new pr in the shot put. That's just you could set your clock by it. Kate Chintappers, you know, still leading in the javelin, but she broke the school record in the pole vault last weekend, so that was that's pretty cool. So you know, big time athlete. They're doing lots of different things. Saw her on the basketball court, two times state champion basketball player, and now she's you know, she's running relays and doing pole vault and she's the county leader in the javelin. Just a junior as well, really really impressive, and I want to give a shout out to my buddy aj Bennett from Blaine. He's a junior or I'm sorry is I think he's a sophomore maybe long jumper. And it's just really really impressive because he's a huge fan of walking preps, Like he'll message me all the time. He's like, are you gonna come out of the track? Me? Are you going to come out? And he had a personal best of almost twenty one feet in the long jump, so he beat his best time by like two feet, which is an incredible feat. No fun intending, but it was the first time in ten years that a blame long jumper jumped that far. So I just I'm just really proud of him because he's a kid that will dap me up anywhere I go. He's always excited to see me around at different events, and and you know, he's always like, can you get a picture of me? All I want is just to be on walking preps, you know. And so I just thought that was so cool to see him have a huge jump and gonna move on to the next round. And oh, he's a good athlete. He's just gonna keep getting better runs the hundred and runs in the relays as well. So just to shout out to him for being a loyal fan of walking preps but also putting forth the effort and doing some big time things in track and fields. So again, so much fun to go to these events. Man, it was so hot. I went to the one in Lennon Christian on Friday and it was just baking down. Man, it was so so hot. But there was so many kids that put up prs and you know, the you know, the weather has a lot to do with it. I see here Tyler. He was listed as a sophomore last year in Okay three so okay, yeah, so he's a junior this year. Okay, yeah, yeah, I mean I know he punted a little bit on the football team and yeah and uh and did did a few different things. But I know he's big with the like the long jump is his thing and and uh man he just put out just at that jump of almost twenty one feet, it's just incredible. So it was really Tyler, maybe you need to have a competition with him. Yeah, right, No, I think I know what it is, Tyler. Yeah, he gets to run backwards and then jump backwards. No, it's a uh jump and punt jumping punt. So I put the distances together, you're combine the distances. Yeah, I like you might have a shot. I mean you'd have to get into one. And I don't know how good he is. I've never seen him punt. And then if he just gets up there and really booms one, you're in a lot of trouble. Maybe get coach coach Olsen to set this up. I think I think this this could happen because Uh, I like that we're just sitting up all these events to take on high school kids when we're in our stinking forties or something. Here like, yeah, come on, like like we have a shot. Uh, Tyler. That is boys and Girls Track and Field again, brought to you by Staffer Insurance up there and Lyndon give them a call. Three six zero seven four six eighty eight oh three. Uh, let's move on and we'll talk about girls at tennis. Uh. The postseason has begun, Tyler. Singles and doubles. Is this district's tournament? Yeah? This is just this is the two way three day starts next week and uh and two A they've been held. They held it at sea home, and it's you know it just get all the girls together. It's like a's like a four day thing and they're halfway through it right now. Okay, so so kind of adds of now it's not finished yet, but we do know a few things. So in the singles in the finals in singles it's Maleia Hanks of Bellingham against Annison Mukovic from London, and uh boy, that's a that's a really good matchup because I mean there were times when Malia was like the number three for Bellingham when they take their when their two doubles competitors would be in singles competition, and so I thought, she's just had an awesome tournament. I mean, she's such a good soccer player, basketball player, so now a seeing her on the tennis court, she's just a great competitor. Did they face off in the regular season, That's the thing. I really want to find that out. I don't know for sure. I should have done my homework, but uh it's very possible that I really don't think they did, because I think when Bellingham and Linden played each other then they took that there took their top doubles team Bellingham did and they put him in singles one, two, and so I think that Malia was probably number three when Anna was number one for Linden, so I don't think they matched up in the regular season. And then still in contention or Claire Stadola and Aaron Lynn of Seahome, mie La van Wyck of Linden, and Bernadine south Tierra of Squalicum. So so out of the six players left, uh, that's the thing. I think it's the top four go on to the next round, so or if it's just going right on to state after this, I'm not one hundred percent sure it could be the top three actually, because I remember thinking that last year, going wow, only three, But but we'll see. I don't know if there's another round in between or what. But but out of the sixth, out of the six players still in contention, all six are from Walkham County. So that's a really really cool deal there. In doubles competition, Ella Morrow and kill Kira Carlson from Bellingham are going to face the Newcombe sisters Kolanie Nwcomb and Rolana Newcomb of Lindon for the district district championship. This was kind of the matchup that we're all expecting for this. Uh. Like I said, when they played each other in singles, I believe Ella and Kira played, or when they played each other in regular season, Ella and Kira played in the singles competition, so this matchup never took place. They I think they got second in state last year and Kalonnie Newcomb and Rowana Newcombe were undefeated during the regular season, So this is the doubles match that everyone's gonna want to see. So that's for the district championship. Still in contention are the combination of m J. Kaiser and Caroline Law of Seahome, Grace Rice and Maya vander Yacht of Linden, and Siharshergel and Liz Rosen of Bellingham. So three out of the four doubles teams still in contention are from Walkham County. I believe Anna Chordis has a team that's still still in there as well. So really really good tennis being played. I was there Saturday morning watching it. They were kind of starting to get to like the quarterfinal round stuff like that. There was a lot of doubles competition going on at that point. I was watching Morrow and Carlson against Grace Rice and may Evander Yacht for a while. That was a really good matchup and and just some really good high end tennis being And it's really I'm really curious to see once they get into the state how they compete against some of these other competitors that are from around the state that I have no idea about. I know how good they are here, but how does that translate to the next level. Plus the interesting thing to remember is that once we get to state for tennis, then the boys join in as well. I mean we didn't really talk. We weren't doing full on stuff in the fall, but I was covering boys tennis. But you know, there's a few names state championships. Yeah, yeah, So so there's some names that are kind of in my head of like Jacob Kuhn from Bellingham and Leo Kuhn from Bellingham. Like there's a few names in my head that I remember, And it's to be interesting to see how they do at the state level. But it's been months since I've recovered that bracket, Right they might, I mean I would imagine right why they've done everything else, so that has to be pretty much set up. But you know that's gonna be that's gonna be really cool. I know some of those guys placed last year's so boys and girls state tennis coming up, still have to finish off the districts for girls tennis, and that'll be early this week out see high school. I'm just looking at the w i AA site here, Tyler, and yeah, they're not they're not real updated here they I mean, I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Well, they don't follow you to a they're lost not mine. Yeah, it actually says you do not have access to view this bracket. Really wow on your web Probably I was. It's probably just from your surfer. Yeah, probably they probably blocked you. It blocked my IP. So, Tyler, I'm just looking at at a bracket I found here of the girls to a singles m h. And I'm only seeing two go to state tournament. Really, yes, because what I'm seeing here is the championship is uh tomorrow, well today, right, yeah, the thirteen today tomorrow when you and I were recording today when people are hearing it, yep. But at the same time, there are some losers bracket matches going on and the winner of the loser's bracket will play the loser of the championship for the second berth. Yeah, and then the girl that loses that match is the alternate. Yeah, so it was Samukovich and who Malia Hanks from Bellingham, Leah Hanks. Okay, so then yeah, so then yeah, Malia Hanks and honest Mukovich, whoever loses that one will still have to play another match, is what I'm saying. Between one of the four players still left in contention. Yeah, okay, does look like that one might be on the fourteenth, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, they played the next okay, yeah, because all those other matches have to take place. Yeah, and if and so whoever, whoever the loser is going to have to play, will have already played two matches to sure one day they basically like a semi final of the loser's bracket, yeah, and then the championship of the loser's bracket, if you will. But and then it says that the winner or the loser gets fourth place and then they'll have to play a little playoff there. That's what I'm saying. That's what it looks like here. It's crazy now. I remember thinking that, like, wow, only so many got went into state. I didn't realize it was two. I thought it was three. Wow, well I guess the third is an alternate. Yeah, and it looks like it's the same in in in doubles as well, So okay. Yeah, and now that being said, this is not updated at all. Sure it's just the initial bracket for the district or yeah. Yeah, the district won girls tennis there, so so yeah, I mean that's as much as we know. I mean, that's pretty much the best we can do at this point. Yeah. Uh so that's girls tennis, Tyler, boys golf, and girls golf. I mean, I guess we can kind of tag team this here. Yeah, they had a the is it was? It was it just the district? Is that what it was? Yeah? I mean it was just the one A schools from the Northwest Conference playing and it was and they were both out there at the same time Thursday afternoon, one beautiful day. I mean, the weather was awesome. Yeah. I walked a ton Tyler, just so the people understand you. Yeah. Yeah, so, which, which, by the way, you walked a ton means that's twice as many steps as everybody else usually takes. But yeah, yeah, Tyler when when when we were preparing last week for the show, you said, uh, what is You said something along the lines of like can you look can you just look up golfer? Yeah? Sure not boom, I bring it up. I go it looks like the one A is taking place at North Bellingham golf Course. And you go, okay, great, what time? And I go Thursday at a one thirty and you go great, well, what goodness? And you said boys and girls. I said, uh, yep, it looks like both of it. Oh my good I mean you were so fired up because you were like, that's perfect. I can go watch from blah blah blah blah blah. And then I go to softball here you started naming all kinds of stuff off and I'm going simmer down, guy, simmer down. So they got out there to North Bellingham Golf Course, you got your walking shoes on, and the way you went, oh, it was awesome. I mean it was like I said, the weather was great earlier the time I went out there earlier to watch an event. I mean it was just horrible weather. It was cold, windy, rainy, wind, I mean it was horrible. This was complete one eighty Uh and it was so cool. I kind of got there right as and right as a boy's foursome. I think it was. It was either three or four were coming through on whole nine, because that's kind of the one you see. I mean, yeah, there's a whole one where it goes out the whole nine's coming in that goes off to their side and I and I saw. I saw our buddy Corey on one out there golfing and the eventual winner, Daniel Blankenberg from Meridian, and so I was able to take pictures there. It's kind of tricky pictures with golf. I want to make sure the etiquette's right. I don't, you know, no snapping pictures in their back, swinging stuff like that. Yeah, anybody mad? No, no, you know. I mean I've seen Corey only you know, hit somebody from the safety position. I don't want to be on the other side of that. And he's got a club in his hand. Yeah, you don't want to have to intercept a golf ball coming right at your head or something. Right, So, uh so I got and then I and then I. But it was like a bunch of groups of boys coming through, so I had to walk around till I found the girls, but they were way ahead of me and I had to walk back and then I caught like the second group of girls going from nine to ten. Took some shots there. But man, it was just it was just it was really really cool event, and it had some had a really good finish, especially on the girls side. If I would have stuck around till the end, I would have been able to catch that. But like you said, I had I was heading off to some more stuff, you know, later on in that that afternoon. But I just I loved that it was at one thirty just because of the availability of it, right, it was the one it was the one thing going on at that time. They're all local, I mean there's ten local teams right there. Yeah, and North North Bellingham Course is like, you know, about six miles away from my house. Yeah, I mean it was perfect. So it really worked out well to to where I could be there and take a lot of pictures and and cover those athletes because you know, they just they just don't get the coverage you know that that they should. And and it was just it was really really fun to see and and uh, but boy, I just I hate I always feel like I'm in the way. When it's such an intimate sport like that, you know, it's like everything's really quiet, and then there's this guy that's wearing a bright green hoodie and is you know to take like take a picture. Yeah, if it happens to go long and they got to like turn some lights on or something, so they don't have lights on a golf course, they're just like just trying to flashlight off of you and just light up the all stinking place. Yeah, it's no, it's no problem. I'd be happy to do it, but but it wasn't It wasn't awesome an event on the On the boys side, Daniel Blankenberg took it a shot a seventy six, four ahead of his brother Matthew Blankenberg. Uno Navarez of Blaine shot in eighty two. I think that might have been one of his better rounds of the year. We saw in place of point guard earlier on for the basketball team, Nathan Larson Meridian with an eighty four. Hayton Abdia from Mount Baker eighty eight, time tied with thomasin Hartog. Both shot in eighty eight. Payton Bauma, Blaine ninety one. Lance Van Berkham, who as a kid you're gonna really like on the football field next year as a as a right tackle, most likely for Knuksack Valley right ninety golfer. Huh yeah, yeah, he got a power swing on that. And Ellis Griffin from Blaine tied with Austin Weeks of Lyndon Christian to shoot a ninety four. On the girls side, boy came right down to the end. Madelyn Angles and Jovi Jensen Battlin Angles of Lyndy, Christian Jovie Jensen and Meridian both shot in ninety one, an unbelievable score, so they tied, so they had to play a playoff and after two holes two extra holes of golf, Madeline Engles won that one. I got a few different pictures from each of their parents sent to me, which was really cool. They were super proud. It was an awesome picture of both the girls standing together after the event. They both shot in ninety one. Thora Engen of Blaine shot in ninety seven. L A. Tan Wakio of Blaine one oh one, KaiA van Reiswick of Blaine one O two, Rhys mcintee of Meridian one O four. Kaylee Anderson a one oh five from Niksac Palley. Emily Young of Lyndon Christian, and Ava Drafts of Mount Baker each shot a one oh six, and rounding out the top ten was Esther Irvine of Lenny Christian who shot a one eleven. So some really really good scores out there. The weather was was great. Wind can play a factor in golf more than people think, but that wasn't that. That was calmed down pretty well as well. So, uh, really really cool event. Now we're gonna move on to the next stage, and and hopefully some of these local golfers are going to be able to keep on playing. Uh So, Tyler just really quickly I used the old copy and paste feature, uh huh, and I went over to h Van Berkham's huddle page. Oh okay, yeah, first clip I see is him just driving somebody all right like around. And that's a kid who did not start last year because of that huge offensive line from an exact vally. But when they went to that that eight offensive lineman on the field at once, you know formation, oh yeah, he's coming in. So you know, obviously Brady Ackerman coming back, and uh he's the lone starter coming back. But you're gonna bring Van Berkham in. I know, I know Adalie Whitworth is going to be definitely in there. And it's gonna be interesting to see how they routed out the rest of that offensive line. But uh, but he's a guy that I think, you know, we'll be talking about in the fall. Definitely. Yeah. I mean, only a couple of clips here on his honest not Yeah, not a ton of time. He just didn't get a ton of time. Yeah, this one here, he's just running boom, good night, all right. That's Boys and Girls Golf Tyler. Yeah, And I was looking at the state tournament and one a I believe Boys and Girls both is down sha Halis. Okay. Which which weekend is that that they're doing? Is that this upcoming one of the weekend after? It's a great question. We pull it back up again, Sorry about that. Spring Golf twenty one, twenty two. Oh, it's a Tuesday Wednesday? Is that what it is? Yeah? Twenty first, twenty second is Tuesday Wednesday. Yeah, boys and Girls at Riverside Golf Club in Schehalis. And then two way Boys and Girls is out in Liberty Lake between Spokane and the Idaho border. That's it. Two different golf courses, but they're right next to each other. Actually they might even be like the same course, just different courses, you know what I mean, the same you know place. And then three A. I don't know if we have anybody from Ferndale, but that's down in the Lacy DuPont area at a couple of really nice courses. Oh yeah, you guarantee Baylor Lerabi will be in that. Oh that's right, state champion last year. So yeah, that's right. I forgot about that. Yeah, so he'll be playing at Hawk's Prairie nice course down down in Lacy Links Course by the way too. Yeah, so that is boys and girls golf, Tyler. Let's move on and talk about boys soccer, which is brought to you by North County Alliance FC. They are sponsoring everything and literally everything, including the intro this week. Not on purpose, but they just were only three Wakam County teams remained, Tyler. Three teams headed to the state tournament, by the way, which we will talk about a little bit. We got some brackets to talk about here though. Yeah. Let's start with the two A bracket and last week three days worth of games on May seventh, ninth, and eleventh. That was Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Tuesday, there was one loser out game. That was Bellingham Archbishop Murphy. The BayHawks defeated Archbishop Murphy five to three in penalty kicks. I believe that was at Archbishop Murphy, right, yes, yeah, that was down at the actual at their high school. And then Squalal come and see Home in the district championship match. That one five four in penalty kicks goes to squal Comb. We'll talk about that, Tyler. There's also even a couple more games. Bellingham had to play two more games after that. They had to play Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. They got a win over Anna Chordis, which set up Saturday against the loser of Squalal Coum See Home obviously, the Mariners. I mean wild week of soccer as far as Walkam County goes in the two ways it was, it was awesome. I mean I saw three out of those four games. I did not go down to Archbishop I was being played at the same time I'm as the district championship game, and uh, but it was cool because they were kind of giving us updates through the loud speaker of how that one was going, because that was you know, that was to too going into penalty kicks. And I was talking with Chad Larson, who was running the event, but he's the adea of belling Am, so he has a vested interest on how that's going, and he was getting updates. A lot of people did, right. He had sure to see home the two city schools along with Bellingham who was playing on the road. I think there's a lot of people that probably wanted to know. Oh, absolutely so it was but that you know, that Tuesday district championship game was unreal. I mean it was first of all, the lineup going like to get in. It was like, you know, it was probably had forty people in it, like outside the stadium trying to get in. When I when I got there, I mean a football game. Huh. It was awesome. That was really really cool to see. And uh, you know so because both local district championship game state birth on the line. I mean, it was just awesome. Seven o'clock at night. You know he's gonna finish up under the lights. I'm down there and you know there's other photographers there and Andy Bronson from cascade of daily He comes up and he goes, what's your prediction for this one? I said, I said, man, I think Sealm's gonna win, but it's going to be close. And uh after regulation zero zero, they played two five minute period like two short five minute overtime periods, still zero zero. And now it's like, this is my first time being at a high school game where there's penalty kicks. So I'm trying to figure out, Okay, what's the deal. Is it five or is it all at the same goal? Is it alternating? And it turns out it was all those things. So I kind of lined up and was taking pictures and then I made sure there was and they were just scoring back and forth boom boom boom, boom boom boom. But then there was a save by Blue Davis of Squalicum and that turned out to be a huge save because Squalkum was kicking last. So by the time they went up there with their fifth player, it was four to four, and uh, boy, that was just Sebastian Cruz put it through. I was, I was, I was smart enough to put it on video live and knowing that if he makes this, that's it and if he misses it, they're probably gonna, I guess, do more penalty kicks, I would imagine, and so after that, I think it would just be one and one, okay. So yeah, so then I I just I rolled and it happened, and I ran out on the field with the team and they were running off to the corner there and caught about a twenty second video and it did pretty well on social media, as I be and I thought it would because that was a big, big moment. I spot too. Yeah, you get yeah, you get in the right spot. I didn't want to stand, you know, right behind the goal. I don't even know if I can. I mean, you could stand anywhere as long as you're outside the media area, but you don't want to stand it right behind because you don't want to kind of get in the view of the exactly. Yeah, I didn't, right and so directly behind the catcher as far as baseball. Yeah, so you don't want to right right, So I you know, I I just kind of was in the right place right time. Went over, took the team picture afterwards with them holding the trophy, and and it was cool too because I could hear some some squalk and kids like walking preps on the scene, you know, as I'm running over there and and uh like yeah, you know it because I was probably at three other games before that, and uh, that was just that was a moment that I mean, that was my first time like seeing a district championship game. That was my first time seeing penalty kicks. That was my first time seeing see Home lose. It was the first time they've lost all year. I mean, this was just it was just a crazy game. Congratulations to Squalicum. They earned it. It was uh, you know, they probably had possession forty percent of the game maybe and uh and but they they just played so well and the defense was fantastic. Uh. And then on Thursday, Bellingham beating Anna Chordus won nothing. Uh that was that was an extra time as well. Uh. And the crazy thing is it was a it was a JV kid that scored. He I guess he had like nineteen goals on the JV season. Wow. And then there and then their season is done and he comes up and he scores his first ever versity goal. It's the it's the ends up being the game winner in extreme talk about Bellingham. You know you lose, uh to Ana Chordis in that first in that first round, and then you had to win three loser out games to get to play on Saturday. And now you're playing against Sea Home, who's top ranked in the state, and they've they've had they got to rest some extra days when you were playing. And I caught the very end of that on Saturday, and uh, you know a Sea Home up. You know, they won two two to zero. Uh uh, Rudy Zurcher and and Riley Berry Brown with the with the goals in that one, and and so Sea Home and Squalk him are going to go to state. And it's a shame that they don't get three berths because Bellingham is a state caliber team. Judas Strait, you know, ends this season with twenty five goals, just unbelievable. But they have some other really really good players Aiden McGuire and and Carson Brethauer and Titus McMurtry, and I mean they have some really really good players. I know their goalie is going off to play college somewhere, Ashawn Baker, and yeah, so it's it's a shame that their season is done. But I think Seelmis Skulkam will both show up pretty well in the state tournament and we're all gonna be rooting for them. That was just a that was a fun tournament to be a live, and you know, I just I'm just so glad that this was a year I jumped into it because it looks like it was a good year to do it. Really good teams. Yeah, and let me pull it up again really quickly, just to see if if it's been updated. But as of us starting to hit record here, it had not. There have not been any locations set on that stuff. I still don't see it for them for the one a's and the two a's are still not on there either. So why there's no locations at this point when there's games potentially on Tuesday and Wednesday, I'm a little surprised, But I mean it's like I wonder if the schools know, but they just haven't put them on the sheet. Well, and you know, Tyler, this is where it might be something that's normal and you and I just don't know what the heck we're talking about. So that's true. Yeah, that being said, Tyler, let's talk about well and we will talk about the two A state tournament here in a little bit. We will also talk about the one a's, but Tyler, before we do that, we need to talk about the one a's and what went on just one game last week? Correct? Yeah? Yeah, just the championship game Saturday, seven pm at Blaine High School. Was this at the same time as the the Seahome Bellingham game? No, because no, that was at one pm on Saturday and on Saturday. Okay, so so yeah, did you go to this one too? Oh? Yeah, this one. I was there. I was there for the from from the opening kick to the last second. Did the same thing hit record at the end, and but it wasn't like a game winning shot or anything. It was just a celebration that hey, we won. This tournament goes by in a blink of an eye. Man, you lose, you're done, and that's it. Only five teams. Uh, it's really fast. And it was the top two teams playing each other. Lendny Christian Meridian. Lenny Christian hadn't they started the year to four? Yeah, I remember that, and and their next boy, I don't know how many games twelve games they went, you know, eleven or something like that. I mean, it was just it was crazy. They just went on this tear and hadn't lost the game since March twenty first, and so they were looking really really good. And Meridian, you know, they they they just have so much potential. They they have they have a lot of firepower. Like I don't know if I don't know if a team has more goals by different players than Meridian, if that makes sense, Like they've had a lot of different guys that have scored. And uh, boy, right off the bat, I mean Skyler Rowe scores a goal. I want to say it was less than ten minutes in. It was just you know, uh, there was a I don't even know see I should look up soccer terminology to be describe it. It was well, it was like on the throw in from the sideline. I guess that's just called a throw in. Yeah, yeah, so but I don't know, maybe it's called a you know, over the header. Who knows. I don't have no idea. And so it was like right off that it's like they had a play design and it just like two seconds later there was a goal scored. It happened so quickly and it was a great place. Skyla Rosee scored. The leading scorer for Meridian. Uh you know, Tarren Burks has been the leading scorer for most of the year. Skyl the Rode just kind of overtook him about two weeks ago and and just has been on a tear. He was the player of the week last week. And uh he's scores that goal, and it was just kind of like okay, like they're they're they're in this. This is going to be a game because I think LC was probably the favorites in this one. And it goes into it goes into halftime, still won nothing, and it's going in the second half. You know, shout out to Meridian's goalie Daniel Larson, who's about six three six y four, covers a lot of ground but very athletic, can jump, made some plays and and he he was definitely keeping Meridian in it. Lindny Christian has some big time strikers that can score. And Meridian came down in the second half and I think it was Roy Marquez took a shot, it deflected off a Lindon Christian player and went into goal and it kind of threw their goalie off. And then when that one went into nothing, that was you know, I want to say, ten to fifteen minutes into the second half, and then it was you know, okay, he's a little bit of frustration going on. Uh there was some yellow cards going on, even a red even a red card at one point. Really yeah, little hockey playoff action there on the eye. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's I mean, you talk about think about all the sports, and soccer is one of those ones, maybe more than any other sport, where you start at the youngest age, right. I mean there's players out there at three o'clock or three o'clock, three years old, four years old, and some of these players might be playing in their final ever like regulated soccer game, you know, and and it's and it's emotions can run high, and I totally get it, and and uh times running out, times running out and then it's over. And you know, Merading captures that one spot that's allowed, and and uh boy, Maradian got them twice this year. And you know there were I think I think it was like three to two and two to zero. I think we're the two scores and and uh but Meridian came out on top. And you know, you look up and down the roster and I think Tarren Burks is the only senior on that roster. Wow. So you know, I mean, he's a really important player. And his passing is so effortless. He's such an unselfish player that you know. I mean, I think that I bet that if he took the ball himself a lot more, he'll probably have scored more goals. But he's so in tune with his teammates and getting his teammates involved. And he's such a willing passer. Uh, he can make his teammates around him so so much better. But boy, he's he's the glue to that team. He never ever comes out of the game, just like basketball. Just always surprised, not surprised me, but amazed me with basketball. Just that one hundred percent energy all the time. And and uh it's it's showing on the on the soccer field, and and excited for the Trojans to go on to state tournament and see what they can do. Uh. And we'll talk about that and who they're playing and all that stuff a little later on, but uh, congratulations to the Drougans and congratulations to the Links on an unbelievable season starting zero to four and then going that far and showing the improvement that they did. And coach Bakama really had them going on just a complete tear during the season. It was really fun to see Tyler. You said, you start at like the youngest age, right, Yeah, So I'm on nc Alliance FC dot com backslash tryouts just because I was curious. Yeah, twenty seventeen birth year, which would be seven, right, yeah, yeah, and fourth graders are ten. So then was that first grade? Yeah, in eighty seven. Yeah, you start in first grade for soccer, I mean you can right, Like, It's not like you like, it's it's hard to play baseball at like a really young age because the bat is so sinking heavy and throwing up all you got to play t ball and running around and kicking a ball like I don't want to say it's easy, but it's it's a little less. It's something you could pick up at a younger yeah, and it just didn't. Yeah, And so that's what I was talking about, Like there's seniors out there that could be playing their last ever like you know, regulated game, and they've been doing it for so long, like so long like and there's parents in the stands that are i mean going to their eighteen Tyler. Yeah, and they started at the age of seven. They've been playing for eleven out of eighteen years, over half their life, right, I mean, think about all the weekends that parents drove you to and think about all that. I mean, it's just it's it's insane to go, Holy cow, that's it's over now. And and that's what's great about sports really is that you capture the emotion and and being there for these kind of play these games where it's the last game of the tournament and you lose and you're done and you win and you move on, and it's just there's not a lot of tournaments like that, uh, and this one happened to be that way and then the Trojans went out. It's very uh cutthroat in a way, right, one mistake could be it could could end at all in the one as as far as it goes. But yeah, so yeah, we will talk about what Meridian is up against in the state tournament here a little bit later. But that is the uh the one A district tournament there, Uh, Tyler, let's talk leading scores really quickly again. Sponsored by North County Alliance FC. You can find them NCALLIANCEFC dot com. Uh. I have a feeling Judash Strate's gonna end up on top when it's all said and done, even though they don't have any games left. He's up by eight goals. Tyler. I mean, yeah, now going against the competition, you're gonna be going again. It's gonna be a little tougher. I mean if Squalicum, let's say that Squalicum makes it to the state championship game, Yeah, they will have played for Simon Simon Simon Agner would have to score average two goals a game in the state tournament just to tie him. Yeah, against sixteen of the best teams, you know, like or fifteen I guess because they're one of them. But exactly. Well, so, I mean you're right, it's really tough to catch. See Yeah, Noah, Allen is is nine away, but nine away man and see them is very spread out with their scoring. Yeah, so it's yeah, it's going to be really really tough. Judas Straight, you know, scored a couple more goals to Okay, did that in the Archbishop game to push you know, to push his lead out a little further. Sky The Rogue got one to tie Katata and Fasani for fifth place down Walka County and and uh, and that was all the movement in inside this top ten list. You saw some other guys score goals that are kind of in that eleven through sixteen, eleven through seventeen range. But but yeah, that was really the only movement. But there is still some soccer to be played, so you never know how it's gonna you know, all finished out. But yeah, you're right, Judas Strait, that is going to be tough to catch. Twenty five goals in a season. Super impressive by the senior tether. One thing I meant to ask and I totally forgot and the boys and girls goal. Yeah, is there like a team title for the districts? Yeah, I'm pretty sure I would think Meridian probably think I think Meridian won. I think Meridian won both. Okay, I was gonna say it looked like Meridian and then maybe Blaine on the girls side, because they had three girls in the top five, right, and then Meridian had second and sixth. So but then I don't know anybody else in the top or outside the top ten s, right, I think, yeah, I think Meridian, But it was really close on the girls, like we're talking, you know, between Meridian, Blaine and LC I think it was all within like ten strokes. Okay, it was super close between those three for the top three spots. Nook, Sack and Baker didn't fill out teams. They didn't have at least five golfers, so that can really you know, change your score there and yeah, stuff like that. But but yeah, very very close within the top three. And the Meridian Boys did pretty well, uh you know with their overall score and I think they were ahead by oh boy, something like twenty twenty five strokes something like that. Yeah, I mean sure, look like it just from the first three guys they had there, right, Yeah again boys. Soccer brought to you by North County Alliance FC. We will mention them a little bit later because we still got more to talk about as far as soccer goes Tyler, let's talk fast pitch. Scoreboards are brought to you by Mana Insurance seven Grover Street and Lindon three six zero nine two two zero one four nine Mana Insurancegroup dot Com. Just call them up and say, hey, let me talk to Blake Whitman and then go wah wah, wah wah when he when he says, hey, what's up, it's Blake stats are brought to you by line Drive Northwest two zero five to nine West Main Street, Sweet Sea in Lindon. Find them online line drive n W dot com. Tyler, Lindon and Seahome. Uh. They advanced to the district tournament in two A. Mount Baker edges Blaine for the top seed in the one A classification. Lots of action coming up this week, Tyler. But what was going on this last week? Yeah, just kind of the the finishing out of the regular season. I saw Ferndale Mount Baker on Monday. That was a That was a game. Ferndale was up eight to one after two innings and it was just they just were just slugging the ball. I think. I want to say. I want to say in the first three innings they had four home runs and uh, but Baker is just you know, they kind of lay in the weeds and all of a sudden they get hot and they can score a ton of runs. I know they scored. They had a couple of home runs themselves. Ella Molowly, you recognize the name Molowly. She hit her first home run of her career. She's a center fielder, speedster type player. And uh, that she she she just got a hold of one. And boy, it was so funny because I was joking with coach Lepp about this later on that you know, I was trying to re up and get my camera out because I wanted to get the celebration at home plate. But by the time I got it out, like she was already rounded the basis. She's so fast and it was he it was her first ever home run, so I mean, you kind of you kind of want to get her on the basis quick because you know, you want to say, act like you've been there before. But that was our first and part of that comeback there huge huge game for Mount Baker to win that because what was happening a little later in the week was Lakewood defeating Blaine, so that gave Baker the edge. Both finished eleven and four in conference records, but Baker beat Blaine earlier in the year, so they take that one seed, you know, just as lake would, you know, beat Blaine six, six to zero. And and but boy, that's going to be this upcoming week, that tournament. We've been talking about it for months now about only one team's going to get out of that. It's going to be Crazy Bend and Christian finishes above five hundred as well. Ferndale their seasons over they finished nine to nine overall. Meridian and Knooksack will be playing in a playing game. We'll be talking about that a little bit. And SEEHM defeated Squalakum to get into the district tournament. I was out of that game. Holy cow, it was hot that day. That was Friday. UH and then uh Anacordus beat Bellingham and so Bellingham and squalk them their seasons come to an end. So there's still seven schools still going. But after this upcoming week, it's gonna be narrowed down to a minute number. We'll see exactly what that number will be. Linden and Seahome joining that two way bracket, which we're gonna talk about in a little bit. That's a loaded bracket, man, I'm telling you. Burlington is awesome, Laquid is awesome, Sidrow Woolly is state championship material awesome. So it's gonna be that's gonna be a really, really tough bracket to come out of. They only get two teams, so Linden has their work cut out for him. I think they're the three seed and Uh, but boy, that's gonna be a fun week going down to Janickie Fields and Sidrow. Uh, four days in a row. I cannot wait. Yes, I will load up on the sunscreen or miss Walking Preps will kill me. And you need to get like a bright green up umbrella just like walk around them, like one of those ones that like drops down really far, you know what I mean, Like, yeah, yeah, I got to get one of those like Fisherman's hats, like a Walk the Preps you know, the hat, like the golf hat like covers the brim all the way around, you know. And cause I don't think, I mean, if the weather's nice, I can't wear my hoodies anymore because they're just way too warm. I tried on Friday, and I had my sleeves pushed up. I looked like Belichick out there. It just it just was not gonna happen. So Saturday, I went to five or six different events, and I just wore my Walking Preps T shirt because it was so unbearably hot. But uh, it was just a draw hat, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, picture hat. I'll take that with too neat with a Walk the Preps logo on it. And like a like a bright green stripe around it, like you know how like the like you know I'm talking about, like how the bill of it have like a usually a color. Yeah, that's what you need. And then just to like you know, just to like really play into it, you need like a like a piece of wheat sticking out of your mouth or something like. Well, I did work on a dairy farm for a while, so I you know, I mean, why does that not surprise me? They cant handle that? Yeah, So what a great year with fast pitch. It was very man, it just went fast. And I tell you it's no yeah, no, no, no, no pun intended. But those gadget teams are so strong and uh it's gonna be it's gonna be tricky in that two way. But again with the one a's i mean Meridian and Nuoksac having to play each other to get into that, I really like both their offenses. Yeah, and we'll get into that in a little bit. But uh, just a really really good week, uh you know for these schools, Linden with a couple more wins, and and Baker finishing out strong and and and Blaine is right there, man, they are right there. And and don't push over Linden Christian just yet. You cannot count them out because I think I think Blaine got him by a couple runs, and so did Baker. Those were not blowout games, So you can't just look at the one and two seed and say, well, it's going to be down to those two because the Links are really really good and they're a team that has loaded with a ton of freshmen on it, and usually when that happens is you just find steady improvement as the year goes on, and all of a sudden they could just go on a tear. So and they have a great picture, and so much of it is about pitching, and Cassidy Van Sos is a really good picture. And Roxanne Lenning is a good picture too, just a freshman. So yeah, it's boy it. I love it. I love it. I can't believe I get to do this. This is this is so awesome. I don't have to worry about going and working it those stinking chocolate factory. I could just ride about sports, go to these games, say ay to the coaches. I mean, this is uh, this is every day is a super Bowl. Man. I love waking up and doing this yeah, I'm part of the reason you can do that is because of people like Man Insurance and Line Drive Northwest who do sponsor Fast Bitch. And we will talk about the district tournaments and the schedules here in just a few moments, but let's talk baseball, Tyler. Baseball scoreboards and stats are brought to you by j e KK Sports Cards in Ferndale two zero one to six on Main Street three six zero three zero three, seventeen eighty nine je kkcards dot Com. Tyler really quickly, I was watching TikTok Uh because I was bored waiting for practice a couple of days ago, and all of a sudden they started this thing popped up with this guy opening packs of cards, you know what I mean, yeah, right right, and he's he went to Walmart, and you know how they have like those boxes of cards, you know, yeah, yeah, So he buys like a couple of them, and he's like, all right, these are two things that make a lot of you know that I could sell for a lot of money out of this fifty dollars box at Walmart. And I'm like, first off, fifty dollars at Walmart, you buy like all of Aisle twenty four, but he's opening it up and then Boomy hits a Victor Wemannana rookie song. Then I don't know, Honestly, I don't know much about basketball. Uh. I know that women Nana was the number one overall pick. He's like nineteen feet tall and weighs about a buck ten, but he turned like a fifty dollars box into like an eighteen hundred dollars card or something like that. Yeah, it's like it's crazy. It's it's it's gambling, but it's you know, it's investing, and it's it's following trends and it's it's a ton of fun. I love. I love just going into those stop those stores. I mean, I walk into JKK Cards and the first thing I do is I just look at like the the weird stuff, you know, like aud you know, the autograph Joe Namath helmet or something. It's like, man, that is awesome, Like where the heck did you get that you know helmet? Like right? And then and I love looking at like the cards from like the seventies and eighties, like you know, seeing like a lou elsindor rookie card or you know, like, oh yeah, there's the there's the John Elway Rookie card. I remember having that of the Dan Marino rookie card, and you know, I know that in the eighty dollars and you're like wow, and I bent mine through a bicycle spoke. Yeah, you know, it's crazy because the eighties and cards were very saturated, right because yeah, overproduced them and they made so many of them and it wasn't there's certain ones that have a ton of value and you're like sure, You're like, you know, sure, I had that Tom tupa like uh oh slash p. The daily recaps for baseball are brought to you by Bedlington Farms. You can find them online Bedlington Farms at dot com. Uh. We got brackets to look at here, Tyler. And we'll start in the two way district tournament. And we're going Tuesday, Tuesday, Thursday Saturday, right, yes, yeah, Thursday Saturday. I said that, right. And the big game of the week really that I mean kind of anticipated was Lyndon and a Chordus that was in the district championship game down at all these games were Daniel's field as a matter of fa. But that game also went extra inning Tyler, Well, we'll kind of wrap our way back around to that one. Yeah, on Tuesday down to daniels Field, Bellingham and Burlington Edison played. Burlington Edison gets by nine to three. They also had Archbishop Murphy defeated Cagral Woolley six to three, a sedial wooie team that at one point I thought a lot of people were pretty high on. Yeah, and they were eliminated a little bit earlier than probably expected. But Burlington Edison then defeats Archbishop Murphy to set up a game against a team that would lose the district championship game. Tyler, So we need to go to that one. Now, let's talk about that district championship game and a Chordus five four over Lindon. The Seahawks got the got the Lions number in a couple of different sports this year, but it seems like they are just playing in everything. Yeah, it was crazy and shout out to Bellingham you know, going this far, first double digit win season in ten years. Wow, So that's Tom coach coach Tom Lewis, I mean to get that far. They they really they really hung it out with especially with losing their best player and and you know, two winnings or three innings into the season. It was crazy. But but you're right that that district championship game was was was crazy. I was keeping tabs on it while I was at the soccer district championship game. Special huge shout out to Mikayla, my intern, for being down there for all these games. Uh, you know, she was religiously going down to Anacordus and and taking pictures and covering these games, taking videos, doing all sorts of things and and uh but yeah, I was. I was, you know, keeping an eye on this one as Lynen was up most of the game and then uh Anna Anna Chordis scored. Uh. I want to say Lennon was up like three to nothing and Anaccordas scored four runs in the sixth I believe it was They knocked Lane Simonson out of the game. There was a few defensive miscues early on, then there was a walk and it just kind of got out of hand from there and Simonson hit the pitch count. They're bringing Matthew Carroll's stud sophomore third baseman, but he's been their closer. He's got five saves on the year. But by this point they're losing and they put him in, but Linden scores a run and put puts it in an extra innings and they just keep going. Matthew Carroll kept pitching. He pitched the rest of the game. I want to say, it's the most innings he's pitched in an outing all year. Yeah. And uh, but Anti Chordis is on top. And you're right about talking about this this rivalry here with other sports, even with you know, football and basketball, but you know Antacurtis and Linden and uh, you know, a really special year for the Seahawks. I saw them in person at Ferndale, and I tell you what it's. It's they have they have everything. I mean it was they have speed, they have they have power, they have pitching, their defenses all over the place. Outfield was diving football. They looked awesome and so best of luck to them going on and Linden. You know, it didn't not lock Linden out, but they still had to do some work. Uh, facing Burlington Edison, who who kind of like the Bellingham soccer team, had to go through a ton of these loser out games and then they face each other again. Burlington Edison was a team that early on in the year was not looking good at all. I mean they were getting ten run, fifteen runs. I think Blaine beat them fifteen to nothing. I mean it was they just did not look that great. But boy, they have such a rich tradition. Things got better. I don't know if they I don't know if they got a kid back or something, but all of a sudden they started winning games. They get this tournament, they get on a run, and then they faced Lyndon and I think they saved their star pitcher for this game against Lennon, which was huge. Linden had to go with their number two, Kale Stapleton, who would be a lot of teams number one. We talked about him last week being the player of the week and Lynnen jumps right out. They're up free nothing right away first inning, and that was huge because then they could Lynden's so good defensively. I haven't met, I haven't I don't have the stats in front of me, but I guarantee you they have the least amount of errors in Wakin County. They're just so sound, deep defensively, and I know coach Corey White praises he really works hard at that and he and and he puts a lot of pride in his defense. And you want to do that when you have really good pitching too. I mean just you know, just pitched to contact and played played defense. Lyndon Christian is very much the same way. And and they they just held on and and got that win, secured that state berth. They were there last year, they got all you know, they were in. They were a pitch away basically from uh from from winning the state title last year. And and uh and now they're going to be back into the state tournament. So congratulations to them getting that, getting that second berth. Man it's it's only only two there as well. Uh. I don't know if I don't know if I would say Burlington is a state caliber team, but I think the way they finished they were. I don't think their record would show that, but I think the way they finished they were pretty darn getee Archbishop but always a really strong team as well. So uh, but Anacortus and Lyndon, I think they're going to do Northwest Conference pretty proud. Uh And uh, yeah, it's just really again Linden, they don't they don't balloup you. They just they just beat you every time. Like I said, it's these games look like baseball scores, you know when when when Lynden plays, I mean you look at the whole tournament two zero, five to one, five four, seven to two. Yeah, you know, yeah, so many times you see games that are, you know, fourteen to one or something like that, and Burlington ten to one over Archbishop, Yeah, Bellingham, you know, ye, Lakewood's ten nothing, you know, like, yeah, it's it's uh, it's for some reason, Uh, Linden will, but they always seem to come out on top of these. Yeah, they did lose that championship game to Anti Chortus, but yeah, but still gaining the sixth seed not too bad. And and uh hope, but they get to keep playing. And that's that's the most important part. And and coach Corey White, this is this is his thirty first season as the head coach out at Linden, and hand boy, I mean, and I think he's got I think he's got a good run in him still to go. He's he's still relatively young for being a coach for that long. And and uh, it's so fun to watch him coach because he's just he's just on top of everything so fast, and nobody gives signs faster. I tell you what at third base, to do whatever you can do. I mean, you have to really know what your indicator is if you're watching and you cannot blink because it happens early fast. So congratulations to the Lions on moving on and to go to the two A state tournament. Yeah, and we'll talk about the state tournament here in a little bit now. The committee was smart enough, Tyler, And they're not always smart, very rarely, I will say, Uh, they were smart enough to put Linden and a Chordus opposite sides of the bracket so they could work their way through to each other. We will talk about it more though a little bit later. Uh, that's two A baseball. Let's talk one A baseball, Tyler, And yeah, one ah. We kind of knew basically that we were going to get two teams in as far as Walkome County goes. It was just a matter of what two teams and who was going to win a few games. Because Meridian and Cedar Park Christian they played on Saturday at three point thirty pm at Joe Martin Stadium. Before that, though, at one PM out at Seahome, Lynnen Christian and Nuksack Valley played a winner to state game. Loser goes home and it looks like it was a heck of a baseball game. Tyler Lynn and Christian comes away with a one nothing victory. Tell me about that one. That was crazy. I saw every pitch. That was a great game. Big, big rivalry here. I mean you're talking, you know, in the football season, a lot of these guys that get win against each other. The head basketball Yeah, yeah, there was a little I mean I else kind of had their number, but so it wasn't as as even there, but that definitely played each other and they were now they were looking to go toe to toe, is what I'm saying. Like, yeah, uh yeah. And in baseball, I mean that you look at the Linden Christian head coach is Noah Rawls. He played at Nuksack. Last time Nuksack got to State was was led by Noah Rawls as a pitcher and one of the assistant coaches, Kirk Veldman, one of those former Nuksack linemen back in the day. Uh you played a little first base over there at nuk Sack. And now he's coaching with Lyndon Christians. So you got some you got some some some cross guys here both you know, got their hand dipped in both schools and really good rivalry. And uh yeah, Jonah Turshow pitching for Lyndon Christian against Evan Brown, the sophomore at Nuksack Valley, and boy, it went really fast. First five innings just blank, just putting up blank zero zero, not a lot of base runners. Uh, really really good game. I was able to get a lot of good pictures. The weather was was cooperating, and and and after five innings, Uh, they went to Casey Newton on the MA who's kind of been their ace all year, but he didn't start the game. He started at shortstop. Put him in there to pitch the final two innings and they were able to get He was able to get an out and then Brody Bauman walked and then there was a pop up and then a bock and that was really important because the back got Bauman to second. And I could see him over there flashing signs to the hitters because he's reading the signs from the catcher. Yeah, and there was a lot of gamesmanship going on and it was you know this is is still zero zero and you're in the top of the sixth here and and you got to a three to o count on Trayson Johnson, who's a really good hitter for Lyndon Christian. He's batting sixth in the lineup and the seventh batter as a kid Eli Stamps, I believe his name was who. I don't know if he was a JV player or not, but he just started playing varsity like last week. And and so you got seven, eight nine. After that, he had two outs and I heard and I'm standing two feet from coach to whistlelair and he's he kind of says to one of his assistants, he's like, should we just put him on? You know, it's two outs, you got a really good hitter up, and you got some young guys behind. Count said yeah, yeah, right, and so and and and then he fires in a strike. Next one's fouled off. Now you've got a full count. You're kind of well, okay, and you know you don't want to second guess yourself. And he's flashing signs over there. Evan Brown now playing shortstop. He's trying to stand in front of him. A lot of gamesmanship going on, and all of a sudden, the next pitch is hit right down the right field line and you know it gets you know, it gets cut off by the right fielder, but the throw home is too late. Brody Bauman scores and that's the game. I mean, yeah, that wasn't the sixth inning. But but Jonah Turpstra Jonah Turpstrow allowed one hit through under seventy pitches, one hit, shutout, and that's exact. I mean, he's been doing this all year where you watch him pitch and you go, you know, he's not he's not thrown that hard, but he throws strikes, He hits the corners, and yes, he pounds the zone. And his stat line looks the exact same all the time. Seven innings, you know, three hits, no runs, no walks, one strikeout. You know, it's just like he is a senior and it's just kind of you just and you watch him, you go, how come they're not hitting him? But he pitches to contact. The defense plays great, and I think a lot of Nuoksac followers, Knuksack valley batters were kind of loading up on him because the pitch looks so good and it's not coming in super hard, so they would kind of like load up and swing and pop it up, or you know, top it and you know, or roll over on it and ground out, and it just it just it just wasn't in the cards. And there was a there's a little bit of base running airs early on too that could have perhaps maybe gotten Nuxack Valley a run earlier in the game with one of their courtesy runners as freshman kid. But uh, you know, that's just the way it goes. But Nukzack Valley, much like Bellingham, I've been kind of comparing them the whole year where they were, you know they were, They've been different down for so long, and then to get to where, you know, one run away from going to state was pretty cool. But Lindy Christian secures that state birth at that point. So then at that point, you're right, now, we know it's Meridian, we know it's Linden Christian. Meridian loses the district championship game to see to Park Christian, who was just loaded with talent. My goodness, Meridian came out there with ninety percent of their team with bleached hair. Now, so they all have the black jerseys with gold numbers and gold locks coming out, so it's kind of a neat team unity thing there. They threw their freshman Nate Payne, who's been great all year and a really really good athlete. I you know, I loved him on the basketball court, I mean, playing firsty basketball as a freshman, kind of that first post off the bench, doing some really good things. Kind of hoping he plays a little football because I think he would be a dynamic tight end. He's probably you know, he's about you know, I don't know, six three one eighty five as a freshman and a really good athlete. And I and a freshman, yeah, so and and Meridians loaded with him. They have those fab four freshmen that all play a ton And and Jonah Assi, who we've all been talking about. You know, he got there. He pitched like an inning and a third last week. Uh, he came in in the third inning in this game Cedar Park. Chrishian was up for nothing after two winnings, so they put in Jonah Ass. He shut him down after that, didn't allow a run after that, and he hit a two run home run out of the stadium at Joe Martin Stadium. So so that accounted for the two runs. So Meridian looked pretty good. But Cedar Park Christian very very strong. Both teams go into State, Lyndon Christian plays over Lake Bear Creek. Who That's how the season that, that's how the tournament started. Those tea, those two teams went at it. Lyndon Christian beat him eight zero in that one. I saw that one. All four runs or all eight runs were scored in the fourth inning. Over Lake gets a little bit of revenge there, but but yeah, it is uh you know, Lindy Christian, you know they've they've already punched their their their ticket. So congratulations to the Links. Very much like last year where they they punched their ticket late in this tournament last year by beating Meridian and then and then they went on to State with a sub five hundred record and started winning games, and it was kind of like, okay, this is this is pretty cool and uh so a lot of fun for the Links to go on and and the Trojans, you know, super really strong overall team. I just there's something about them that I love where they only have you know, you were talking earlier off the air with me about your the battle team has got you know, eighteen kids and five coaches and stuff like that. You know, you look at the Meridian roster and they'll they'll suit up twelve for thirteen. They have two coaches. It's very it's very bare bones but very Oh yeah, you don't have a lot of extra space, especially with me in there. So yeah, I mean it's uh, it's pretty cool. And to see the tem unity with the with the bleaching of the hair and all that is really fun. But it was good to see Jonah go out there and throw throw well for four innings against Yeah, against one of the best hitting teams in the state. Gave up four hits and four innings and struck out four. I don't think he walked anyone, didn't give up any runs, so he looked pretty sharp. I think that I think he'll be definitely good to go for for state coming up. And and uh, that's gonna be really really tough for the opposing teams, especially if he's at a p's at one hundred percent. So I really like, uh, the chances for both these teams to to you know, get some you know, have some really competitive games. And and Lin Lennon Christian, I mean Austin Engles. He won the triple Crown in Walkin County. Uh so he can he can. He can just hit a ton and just a junior second baseman. I really like their offense as well. But Jonah Tursh is on some sort of thing right now where he just he's just he's just dotting that strike zone. Man. And uh, you can ride that defense and that and that pitching and and you can go a long way. Uh And Tyler, you know, kind of gave a little praise to the to the two A committee, and you know, we can say bad things about the one A committee because Meridian and Theodore Park Christian they're on the same side of the bracket. Oh yeah, and then Lenny Christian and over Laker on the other side. So how that makes any sense? Yeah, I don't know, but but yeah we will. We'll talk more about that bracket here coming up, Tyler. Let's see is that it is that all we got for? Like this? The sports is far yeah, okay, so now we are onto Players of the Week, Tyler, and let's talk the no sponsor yet fast pitched player of the week. Who is it? You say yet like it could still happen. It's pretty funny might come in for the final couple weeks here Tyler, Right, Yeah, well, hard to not give it to Calen Blakely again. I mean, she's won earlier on in the year. Out at that game against Mount Baker, she hit a couple more home runs, then she hit another one later in the week, finishing with you know, you start losing count. I think thirteen on the year now, goodness, you know, you know, flirting with a seven hundred average all year, well, flirting with eight hundred earlier in the year, but I think finishing with around seven hundred, maybe just south of that. But watching her hit a ball is just it's different, man. It's everything is technically sound. She's so quick with the she's so quick to there's no wasted motion. Again, I compare it to Paul Paul Mallator if you remember the the Igniter back in the day with the Brewers. Uh, so quick to the ball, no wasted motion, has a lot of power and and there's not a lot of there's no holes in her swing. There's not a lot of swing and miss at all. You know, I think maybe two or three strikeouts for on the year, maybe, uh, just an just overwhelming base or softball players just and uh second time winning the award this year. Just a junior and uh, just another really strong week. Unfortunately her season's done, so uh so that'll be that she's gonna, you know, go and play her club ball in the summer and and continue to get better. But just one of those athletes. This has been such a joy to watch this year and and and and again. And what she does behind the plate as well. I mean, you know, you don't want to run on her. She's got a cannon for an arm. Uh, she's just and she runs the bases really well. She she'll steal bases for you. She has to lead the lead the county. And intentional walks, I mean I've personally witnessed at least six of them, and more intentional walks and strikeouts oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, one of those things where when she strikes out, you're almost like, whoa, really it's yeah, no, it's crazy. I mean I think she went like the first you know, half of the season without striking out, and and I think when I saw the first one, I was kind of shocked. But but yeah, just a tremendous player and again just a junior too, so really really excited to see what her future brings and everything she'll be able to accomplish going forward. Sigg's Funeral and Cremation Services sponsors the baseball Player of the Week. You can find them eight zero nine West Orchard Drive a Sweet two in Bellingham three six zero six five six fifty four fifty nine or online at SIGs Funeral Services dot com. Tyler who is the SIGs Funeral and Cremation Services Baseball Player of the Week. Yeah, to win a game to get into the state tournament, you needed him, he did it. Jonah turbstre F and Wynny Christian the senior pitcher. When he's not pitching, he's playing short stop, he's leading off. He does a lot of things. But to throw a one hit shutout in a game that you it's win or go home, it's to go to state or go home shows me a lot. And you know, he's been playing a lot, He's been playing a ton of varsity baseball and and always been a good leadoff hitter, good shortstop. But I think his pitching really elevated this year, especially in the second half of the season where he had this complete game where he threw like sixty pitches. You know, it broke a school record for least amount of least amount of pitches in a seven inning game. And it seems like ever since then he's been he's been, you know, getting really close to that record, and every game since, like he's always flirting with it. And he's shut out over Lake earlier earlier on in the tournament, and then he does it against Nuxac Valley, shuts them out. I mean when I saw the matchup and I saw that it was Turpster pitching against Nuxack Valley, I thought that's gonna favor the Pioneers because they're very aggressive. They'll jump on that first pitch fastball. They always seem to out hit their opponents, even when they lose, they're gonna have like ten or eleven hits. And I just thought this could be a this could be a mistake here. And boy did he prove me wrong. He just attacked, attacked, attacked. He got the curve ball over for strikes and allowing just one hit. That was by Jesse Tressel, the leadoff second basement for the Pioneers, and boy he looked good. And uh, you know they're going to ride him going into the state playoffs, and and I think he's got a lot more left. I don't think he's gonna run out of anything because he's he's like a It's like watching Greg Maddox out there. You know. It's not the power guy. He's a guy who knows how to pitch and dot the corners, and he could pitch a complete game and do it. I mean that game was over in an hour twenty minutes. I mean I was able to buzz over and catch the end of the Bellingham and of course a soccer game or now I'm sorry, the Bellingham Seahome soccer GAMECAO. Both games started at the same time. I was able to buzz over and still catch the end of the soccer game because because Jonah Turpster just you know, was blowing him down, so uh he did so Jonah Turpsher wins the six Funeral and Cremation Services Baseball Player of the Week. As we know Tyler boy soccer. Everything here on watcom perhaps is sponsored by North County Alliance FC. Ncalliance FC dot com is the website and they sponsor the player of the week. Tyler so who is the North County Alliance FC Boys Soccer Player of the Week. There's a lot of guys to choose from here with three teams going on to the state playoffs. But you know, to beat Seahome, the top ranked team in the state, and to do it by not allowing a goal in regulation or extra time. Blue Davis, the goalie from Squalicum, just really really impressive and he got that one key save in the penalty kicks and that was huge. I mean, he was so jacked up after that because I think he knew, now we got one up here, we can continue through and you know, that's all we need to do, and then we got this one and so yeah, it could be I could give it to Sebastian Cruz on making that fifth kick, but all five kicks were made. The one big difference was Blue Davis on that one save he's and then you know the goal in the distance without allowing a goal. No one has done that against thee him even when they played Mount Vernon that was a one to one tie. No one had shut out Sea Him all year. Blue Davis did it. Congratulations to him. He's the North County Alliance FC Boy Soccer Player of the Week. Those are the players of the week. Let's move on and let's take a look ahead. Tyler. We are going to talk soccer. We are going to talk well, we kind of already talked to tennis because you mentioned that there's a big match on Monday, actually potentially a few of them. But we're gonna talk soccer, We're gonna talk baseball, and we are going to talk fast pitch here. And so let's start with the two A boys State soccer tournament. And in this one we have Squalicum and we have Seahome. Now the interesting thing is, Tyler, you mentioned Squalicum beat and Seahome see home gets in is the number one seed and Squalicum they are the number seven seed. Now, the good thing is they are on opposite sides of the bracket. The bad thing is we don't have dates and times or anything yet because somehow that's not happening. I don't know if anybody knows. I don't know if they're ever going to know. They might just show up and play online for all we know, Tyler. But Squalicum they will take on r A long Now they are the home team, so I would assume that this the game is going to happen the fourteenth or the fifteenth, one of those two days, we don't know. But they're gonna take on R. A Long out of Longview, down along the Columbia River down there, kind of on your way to Vancouver, Portland. The Lumberjacks they are, and then actually I think their girls seems called the lumber Jills. Maybe I don't know, But that being said, Tyler are a Long, Squalicum, we don't know anything about R. A Long. We will be very honest about that Sea Home. They are the number one seed that they will be taking on the tomb Water Thunderbirds, a name that we are all very familiar with in a sport that we don't know anything about. So we can't talk about the tomb Water Thunderbirds either, Tyler. But Squalicum seehome. I mean there's a possibility they could meet up again in the in the finals. It would be uh, it'd be quite the thing if that did happen, though, huh, oh man, that would be amazing. I mean, it's it's laid out for that to happen, obviously. I mean squal can get in the seventh seed, that's tough. I mean, they were ranked, you know, pretty high most year and then you beat the number one team. But uh yeah, it will have to see what they do. I mean, if they if they can get by Ara Long, they will be likely playing Franklin Pierce, who's the number two seed. So that's really really tough. But uh you know, I heard the Tumwater has a defenseman named Aughton Might. No, I'm just kidding, I say what. I just like thought they're all gone, right, yeah, gone, but not forgot Aughton. Oh that was a real bit oft Did I try to force that in there a little bit? Yeah? Uh so, yeah, you're right. It would be really cool to see them playing each other out on the on May twenty fifth there for the championship or and uh boy, both these teams. It's cool to see home. I mean, yeah, it's it's too bad that they lost, but they had to win still to get in. So you're kind of riding a little bit of a wave to get in. Uh see, hoom used to be known as the green wave back in the day, back in the sixties and seventies. Really yeah, so for them to to do that is gonna be awesome. Squawk. I'm obviously riding on a high right now. But they haven't played since Tuesday, so I'm sure they're staying sharp and they're gonna be ready for for ara long coming up and and uh yeah, just big time games. It's it's gonna happen fast, man. It's because like like you said, Tuesday, I mean right around the corner, and uh, you know, it's it's either gonna be that or Tuesday, or it could be Wednesday. So we'll see when they actually have the actual date, time, location, all that stuff coming up. And and good luck to both those teams. Tom Water gotta take it right on the wave, Tyler. For all I know, these two games could be. It could be back to back days at Civic. Yeah, I mean, I don't know why it wouldn't be if they're the higher seed in the opening round in the quarterfinal rounds aren't at like, you know, locations is as like how baseball is, sure, I would think that's what it could be. I don't know, I don't really understand it. I couldn't tell you that. Being said May twenty fourth, twenty fifth, that is the semi finals in the finals. If either of those two teams get there, we'll be all over it. But that's down there at Renton Memorial Stadium. Really nice renovations they did on that stadium a few years ago. Actually, I think Lynn Christian played there a couple of years ago. Yeah, yeah, And you know, when the time comes, if we got teams in the semi finals and the finals, I'll be sure to, you know, give some food recommendations to people. Tyler, We'll have that all ready to go. Let's talk one a's now. Now one A is a little different, yeh, Meridian. They're basically they got a play in game is kind of what it is. That'll be on either Tuesday or Wednesday. They got to play Kingsway Christian. Now, we don't have a date and time for that one either. There are some dates and times for some other matches going on, but we don't have a date and time for this one yet. But yeah, I would assume they're going to have to travel somewhere down that way. Maybe it ends up at tom Water, I don't know. You know, it is on the way, but not all the way, I guess that's a good way to say it. On the way, but out all the way, and then the winner of that will head over I assume out east to take on Royal The interesting thing in the one A bracket, Tyler is it's back to back after that. So seventeenth, eighteenth would be the round of sixteen and then the round of eight the quarterfinals. So Meridian if they want to, if they want to go deep here, they're going to have to win three games in about five days. Who knows, who knows, We'll see, but yeah, Meridian gonna head down somewhere to take on Kingsway Christian. It's kind of all we know as far as the one A state tournament goes. Yeah, I did King Kingswick Christian. These two teams met up in football earlier this year so or I should say last fall. But yeah, you're right, who knows. And for only one team getting in and getting the nineteen seed out of twenty teams, uh a little. It's just the way that goes. And and you know, I'm sure they know stuff that I don't, so who knows. But winner having to take on the third seeded Royal Nights, that's, you know, obviously gonna be tough for whoever gets out of that. But the Trojans Trops have been riding high for a little while now. They they're kind of they're clicking pretty well. Really like the addition of Daniel Larson in goal. He wasn't he wasn't in there earlier on in the year, and I'm not sure if he was just he was on the JV or you know, playing a different position or something. But ever since he's been in there, uh, there's been a there's been a few clean sheets there and he's been a lot of fun to watch, and he was he was a big time difference maker in that game against Lenny Christians. So sometimes you can write a hot goalie and see how far it takes you and we'll see how it goes from there on out. But I know there's a lot of really good schools. You know, saw teams in the one A and the one A level, so you know, we'll see how it goes. It's been a while since a one A team is one state I think for boys soccer, I think that boy I want to say, like Lynnen Christian in the late nineties, but there might be some other ones since then. I think Meridians had a few runs here and there. But yeah, we'll be all everyone in Walking County be cheering on the Trojans as the lone team in the one A state tournament. Yeah, and if they do win three games this coming week, they too will head to rented Memorial Stadium the following week for the semi finals. So we will have all of that on next week's podcast, and obviously you can check walk them preps on social media's or the website and see everything that's going on kind of when it happens. Let's talk. Well, so Tyler, we go from state tournament to district tournament now, because soccer and baseball those take two weeks. Softball they do that in a much different time for him. Here, we're still talking district tournament as far as fast pitch goes, and there's already been a couple of games. Tyler, I assume you did you talk about these games? I can't remember. Yeah, really quickly. I was out there for the Sea Home Squalicum game. Sea Home wins ends Squalicum season, so they're into that kind of first round of the state tournament and Accordis ends Bellingham season. So Bellingham is done and Acordus is in and that will be uh well, it's basically gonna be two days is what's gonna be, and it's gonna be all down there at down in Cedral Woollie. So, uh yeah, Tyler, we've already talked about it. You're gonna be burning the old rubber. They're headed up and down I five and so we got some games here, let's talk, uh and and really it's what am I trying to say here, double double elimination is what I'm trying to say. Uh, So, win or lose, you're gonna play two games on the fifteenth and so Sea Home they're gonna start off. They are the seventh seed. They are gonna play Burlington Edison at four pm on what is the fifteenth? Is that Wednesday's Wednesday? Yeah? Yeah, so it'd be Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday for two A and one A is what it is all the same. Yeah, So Tyler's just getting juiced over there. So yeah, Seehome the seventh seed, Burlington Edison the two seed. That is four pm on Wednesday. The winner of that will move on to take on the winner of Archbishop Murphy the sixth seed, and Lyndon the three seed. That game also going on at four pm. So Tyler, you're just gonna be somewhere between field what three and four because there's nothing going on on fields one and two that you really care about, because that's Cedar Crest Lakewood and a chordis sedra wooeie. Those are the games going on over there, so heck with them. You're gonna be between fields three and four. Luckily, in a way, it's kind of like that because if it was like fields one and three or whatever, you'd have to be standing like right behind home plate to swing your head back and forth. Yeah. The cool thing about that place is they got the big net right in the middle. Yeah, you don't know where I getting hit right, But yeah, So if they win, see Home and Linden would be playing each other later that night, and I guess, well if they both lose, would they both be going to the same place there too to seven So yeah win, Yeah, I mean, let's hope, let's hope it's the winner's bracket. But yeah, see Holme Burlington, Edison, Archbishop Murphy, Linden. Those are the two games, and they will both be playing regardless win or lose. Another game that night and then the seventeenth, very similar kind of a couple of games. There's the district championship game. The winner will head onto State. The loser will have to go into a one game playoff against the winner of the loser's bracket. I think we've kind of mentioned how that sounds weird, but it makes sense if you look at a bracket, right. So, yeah, that's the one A district tournament, Tyler. And you've seen quite a few of these teams here. You know, what do you think of the like Linden obviously the three seed, but that Burlington Edison team. I know you've told me they're tough and siedgrow Willie. They look like they're really good. Yeah, I mean I think that you can pencil in sigeow woollie pencil. I think you. I mean they are legit. I think RPI ranked number one, I think they are. They're every bit. I mean, they beat I'm blanking on the team right now, but they won one to nothing earlier this week against the like the two time defending four A state champions Jackson. I think it was maybe I'll look it up. So they beat them one zero. I mean that's huge, and so you start looking at that and go, okay, Sie Drow can play with anybody in the state. You know, it doesn't regardless of classification. So that's that's pretty huge. So siege Willie look and the only two teams get in. So then it's a fight between you know, Lindon and Burlington. Like you said, but I tell you what, man, Lakewood is good. Lakewood is really really good. So that's and the benefit for Lyndon is that they're on the opposite side of the bracket of Si Drow. You know, Lakewood is in Sidrow's side of the bracket. So if Linden can at least get to that championship game, even if they can't handle Sidrow in that one, then they'll be a little bit more well rested to face you know, either Lakewood or Burlington or whoever it is in that final game. But yeah, Sidrow is really really good. But there's a handful of other teams. Like I haven't seen Cedarcrest, I haven't seen Archbishop, but but I've seen Burlington, I've seen Lakewood, I've seen Sidrow. These are fantastic teams. Lindon Linden's always good. I mean, they're well coached. You know, they always have some major top end talent, really good speed. Campbell to young is my goodness. I think she is the only player that has like at least five doubles, five triples, and five home runs. She's the leadoff hitder, She's stolen like twenty three bases. I mean, she's just crazy good athlete, and so she kind of gets that thing going. Then Melanie Anderson on the left side of the plate kind of continues it to Casey Thomas, to Children to Young and Trinity Andrew and they just kind of keep that thing going and they can they can get on some runs, and they have really good pitching too. But it's just going to be very, very highly competitive with all these really good teams. And you know, See Home getting in is awesome. I don't they might be just a little too young at this point for this this this level of play, but they have some really good players too, at least Krout, Rebecca Peterson, Sarah Kruzich. There's a lot of players on that See Home team that I really like, that can that can do some damage. But I don't know if the depth is there to be able to sustain scoring enough to keep up with some of these other teams. Just to give you an idea here, Tyler, and I know you know this well, you may or may not know it. Well, let's just talk about the best teams in Wakam County as far as fast pitch goes, Linden, Mount Baker, and Blaine. Right, yeah, yeah, Ceedge Willie seven to one over Lindon, four nothing over Blaine, and fourteen to four over Mount Baker. Yeah. You know, I was at the game against Blaine. That was a good game. So here's another one for you. In the last week, they played three games in three days. They won by a total score of thirty seven to two over Oak Harbor, Jackson and Bellingham. Yeah, I mean, whoa, Yeah, Jackson Jackson is the team, the four A team that's like one of the top ranked teams in the state. Yeah. I think they were the top ranked team for a little while. They are eighteen and two on the year, Jackson is Their two losses are to Skyview and to Siedgell Willie and Skyview is eighteen zero to one. How they had one I have no idea, but they tied Roosevelt somehow in eight innings. I don't know what happened there. Well, if it's earlier, if it's early in the year, they can call it from for darkness. Gotcha, and Roosevelt is sixteen to four and one, so they're no slouch. I mean, yeah, there's there's something to be said about that team. I mean that's borderline ridiculous. Tyler. Yeah, so yeah, lots of action gonna be coming from Cedral Woollie there for the two A state tournament. Let's talk one A or excuse me, district tournament. Let's talk one A district tournament, which also is going on down to Cedrol Wollie. Kind of seems weird, but it is going on down there. Just the five teams from Watkam County in this one. We start on the fourteenth, that'll have Nuksack Valley and Meridian. That's actually going to be at Meridian. Yeah, so that's a four pm game at Meridian. Then everything shifts down to Cedral Woolly but also double elimination once you get down there, Knucksack Valley, Meridian, that's a loser out game. Then it goes to double elimination. The winner of that game will take on Mount Baker on the sixteenth at four pm. Lynnon Christian and Blaine they will also be going on the sixteenth at four pm. The winners will play each other, the losers will play each other also on the sixteenth, that'll be at six o'clock right after. Basically, they're just gonna a couple teams will switch fields and a way they go, and then they come back on the eighteenth on Saturday, and we're gonna have a championship and a couple of playoffs if necessary, all kinds of stuff. So lots of action going on down there, Tyler. But it's the five teams that you know, you know everything about these five teams. What are you feeling here? I mean, this sounds like it's gonna be a lot of fun. Yeah, this is the one. I mean, like I said, we've been talking about forever, only one team advances. It is, it's gonna be it's gonna be crazy. I mean, I'm thinking about I don't know for sure about this yet, but the Knukxac Valley at Meridian game, I may set up camp behind center field and do a live broadcast of this game. I'm thinking. I did it last year for c for the Seahome Playing Game Baseball to get into district tournament. I did it from the dugout. It worked pretty well, and I was out at Meridi in high school last week when they played Ferndale and I was kind of in that kind of in that TV range, you know, kind of left center field where you can see stuff, and I thought, man, I bet if I set up shop here, I could probably call a game and do like a live broadcast with stats and everything and not graphics or anything, but you know, I have some information for it and stuff like that. So yeah, so I think I might do that in this game. And because that's that's a big one, right Whening you're in losing, you're done. And I know a lot about all these players, so I think that could be a lot of fun. But then you win that game and you get to play Mount Baker, and that's no easy task. Lindey Christian Blaine. I watched that game. I was on that Saturday. Blaine won that one. That was that was the game that was on my birthday. Uh, that's gonna be a really good rematch where you know, I mean, Lindy Christian has the ability to win that game. Blaine's gonna be favored, but they definitely have the ability to do some damage there. Uh Blaine Baker. Last year, that was the district championship game. Uh, Blaine Blaine got it. In a walk off win and in a really really exciting game, and and then Baker had to you know, drop down, and then Lindy Christian kept winning and then they ended up beating Baker to get that second seed and that was a that was a kind of a knockout blow for them. And uh, and now it's only one seed goes. So, yeah, you win that game, you win that championship game, and you still have to you still have to play if and that's the thing. It's like if this then that, and yeah, you know a lot of different things. So so they'll be ready to play whoever wins that game if certain things happened. But these are I'll tell I'll tell you this. All five teams can hit. All five teams have good pitchers that return from previous years. You know, there's not you know, there's not like a dud in the group. All five of them went down to Walla Walla, played in that big time tournament down there against the best one A schools around and and uh, you know, they all did pretty well. So I think that it's gonna be it's gonna be big, and I'm really really excited for this one. It's possible that a team will have to play three times on Saturday. It's possible. Uh so that would be really interesting to see, but yeah, we'll see. Uh it's gonna be it's gonna be a lot of fun. And I just hope, you know, kind of the weather stays somewhat decent and uh you know, uh yeah, it's it's it's one of the funner weeks, uh in high school sports. Is this tournament down at Janikee, and uh, I'm I'm really excited about and I just I just wish more than one team could move on, but that's the way the cards are dealt, and you just got to play them and go from there. Yeah, it's stupid, but yeah, there's nothing we can do about it, uh, Tyler. The one the one A state tournament will take place over in Richland. The two A State tournament in Sila. Are you making plans for something there? Yeah? I, uh, you know, I'm what I'm trying to do is and also State track is in Yakima at the same time. Yeah, so I'm trying to figure out kind of a centrally located place for all three, you know, so I can at least hit all three at some point. Is what I'm trying to do. I mean, obviously I won't know the schedules for you know, the softball stuff. I mean, you know, I hope Linden makes it fingers crossed, but if they don't, then Sela's kind of out of the you know, my thought process as far as all that goes. But then it's just between rich Linny Yakaba, which is a little further distance away. So we'll see. I mean, at least one team will mean only one team, I should say, we'll be going to Richland. I've never been to state track at something I kind of want to check out, so haven't booked anything yet, but but we'll see. I mean I've been down to one a state softball now four times, I think. I mean, Tyler, really, what it becomes is it's one of those things where if Lynden gets in, you probably try to book that same hotel you have been booking because you know you'll be able to go back and forth between the track and the and that softball and then you kind of play the other one by it, you know, by by ear and just hey there's a game here, I can get down there, you know what I mean, And you try to run. Yeah, and you just kind of go back and forth. It's probably what you end up doing. But right, I mean, every time I've gone to Richland, there's been two teams represented. One year I went down there, there was three, you know, there was you know, it was uh it was one. I got one. Everybody got sick and tired of them, all right. And the first year I went down there, twenty eighteen, I think it was, which I remember extremely well because that was when you created a Twitter account for me and I had Blake Whitman run it because I didn't have a smartphone yet. Yeah, so I couldn't I couldn't live tweet stuff and uh so I would have to. And he was over at Sila covering games for me for the two Way with Seahome and Linden, and I would have to text him score I'm scoring updates where I had to like press the three button like three times to get like the letter F you know, and it's take me forever, right, Yeah, I was doing it in twenty eighteen, and I was I was texting him kind of what, you know, what was going on so he could post stuff live and oh man, that that was an adventure. But but yeah, they went there was three teams at that point, but yeah, there's always been at least a couple of teams and so now, oh man, it just we'll see what happens. But it's uh, it's gonna be cool. But you're right, it's depends on what happens this upcoming week at Janicke Fields to figure out kind of what I'm gonna be doing. But I would imagine I'm gonna be down there in some sort of fashion, you know, see what's going on. Yeah, exciting times really as far as fast pitch goes. Yeah, especially for you, Tyler, I know you're jacked. Let's see here, Tyler, let's talk two A boys, well two A state baseball tournament. Lindon. Is Linden the only one we're talking about here? Yeah, yes, Linden and Chordus, so uh and I'm gonna I guess we could say Ana Chordis as well. They are hosting still come at Daniels Field. They're at Anna Chordas in the same bracket with them, same quadrant of the bracket is Ridgefield and Sila. But let's talk about Linden. They are the sixth seed and the three seed in that quadrant is North Kitsap. Another one that I mean Linden and Ana Chordas and North Kitsap. It seems like Linden's just playing the same games in everythinking sport. But uh, North Kitsap is quote unquote kind of the host, if you will. But for some reason, that's being played down at Lincoln High School in Tacoma. Linden. They play at ten am on Saturday. They are the sixth seed going against the eleven seed Ellensburg, the Bulldogs who I feel like they've played maybe a couple of times in football. Ellensburg was really good in football for quite a while. Yeah. But then West Valley of Spokane they will take on North Kitsap. That is a one pm game and then I believe is it forty five minutes? Is that what it is? It's like something like forty five minutes after the second game, the third game will take place. So should Linden win the first one against Ellensburg, they will stick around and play the winner of West Valley of Spokane and North Kitsap. If you're headed down that way, Tyler, it's a little early to get breakfast. I mean, I got a couple of places, and you've been to one, I believe. Did you go to Dirty Oscar's Annex when you were down there? I'm trying to remember the place it was. I don't remember. Is that where I went? Where Travis and I went when we went down the statue. She probably went to Dirty Oscars, which is phenomenal. But I got the picture with the Tacoma you know on the side there. Yeah. Yeah. That being said, though, if you if Linden does win and you need something to eat in between, I'm telling people to go to Ms M. Deli, the Magical Sandwich Makers. That is what they are. Now you're gonna pull up and you're gonna look at it. You're gonna go Ryland. We're not going in here because this place does not look safe. No go in. It's really good. Get yourself the MIC's de Luxe with sprouts, or get yourself the Ruben, because both of them phenomenal. They are really really good. Tyler. Let's talk Linden baseball though. Tell me this though, Linden baseball traditionally, what are we talking about here? Are they always good? I mean it just seems like they always are. Oh yeah, I mean it's you know Linen baseball. They it's amazing that they haven't won a state title. I know it. Yeah, you know, a lot of it. No, I don't think ever, and they've won a lot of titles and a lot of other things. But it's you know, they've had some they've had some really good seasons, like last year second place. I know, the year when they had you know, I think when Josh Kraft and Zach VISs and those guys, I think they got second place when they were juniors. Maybe maybe it was their senior year. They were third in nineteen ninety eight, which was I look at just the you look like the overall stats and like like the run differential, like then ninety eight Linden team could be one of the best teams I've ever seen. And in the high school baseball ever. I mean that team was just loaded and so there's they're usually really really good, but they've been on a pretty good run lately. Yeah, it's you know, it's having that that that the same coach, you know, Corey White for so long is huge. And yeah, I mean last year they went twenty two and seven. Before that, last year, the year before that, nineteen and six, fifteen and six, eighteen and six, fifteen and eight, a couple of nineteen and four seasons. Yeah, they went twenty two and three that year when Craft and Biss and all those guys were seniors, twenty two and five. The year before that, that ninety eighteen, they went twenty three and seven. But I remember during spring break they went down to Arizona and played some really good teams and caught some spring training games stuff like that. So yeah, just always really really strong, and and they just they have that. They have a really good The Linden Lightning is a really good, like summer league team. It's all those same kids. You know, you don't have kids kind of joining other teams and playing and you know different. You know, they all play together all the time, and that's a that's a huge deal. I know Corey White's part of that as well. Uh, that's a different Just to just to give you an idea here at Bothel, we had five seniors this year and they were on four different Summer league teams. Yeah, two of them played on the same team and the other three were on different teams. Right, Yeah, I mean it's it's the continuity and and and it's it's just a really really good program and they you know, you go out to their practices and it's just constant movement and it's you know, they know what they're doing. Her Okay, hurry up, go to the next drill, Go go go, no wasted motions. So uh yeah, looking forward to seeing what what Linden does. And like you know, last year, they you know, they was a magical run there that just that lasted to the very end and and uh a little bit of unfinished business. You got some you know, seniors that were a big time part of that team from last year that want to take care of business here and and some really good careers that are winding down now for Linden baseball and and try to put their stamp on on history do do something that no other Linden baseball team has done. So I'm just looking at this twenty twelve state tournament Tyler. Mm hmm. Linden finished second that year tars Bishop Murphy. Yeah, a little interesting thing here. So Lyndon and Bellingham were in the same quadrant in the state tournament for that and they both ended up having to go to Yelm High School to play against WF West and Kingston. Very interesting, you know what I mean, Like it's I don't know who the like I would assume Kingston was the was the higher seed over Lyndon that year because it like the way the bracket sets up, you know, right, But there's no way for me to really know. But yeah, I don't know. Very interesting. And then Joe Martin was hosting Burlington Edison, North kidsap inner Lake and Archbishop Murphy and it looks like Burlington Edison was the was the highest seed and then they lost in the in the second round to Archbishop and I don't know, kind of weird. Uh. The championship was over at County Stadium in Yakama, which they don't do that anymore because the state championships are right there. Joe Martin now, but yeah, that is two a tyler. Let's talk one a kind of mentioned how one a little bit of like what are we doing here? Guys? Uh, Meridian and Cedar Park Christian are on the same side of the bracket. Meridian they will head down to Camus High School. They are the sixth seed. They will take on Keona Benton the Bears. I think they're the Bears. That is on Saturday one pm. If they win, they will take on either Seaton Catholic or Vashon Island. Then we head to the other side of the bracket where we mentioned over Lake and Lynn and Christian are Lyndon Christian. They're headed over the mountains. They're gonna head to Yakoma Parker Field, which I believe is at Yakama Community College. They will take on Nachies Valley, who I feel like they're good every year. Yeah, it seems like, yeah, yeah, one of those schools that every now and then has a you know, decent little football team, but never all that great. I don't know how good they are in other sports, but they will take on Natchi's Valley believe they are the Rangers. And then the other half of the quadrant there Lakeside nine Mile Falls, who Lynn Christian's kind of familiar with, and Ton I know the Beavers. So a couple of teams that we've heard on the football field quite a bit. That Yeah, Lynny Christian, they're going to get a shot at over there. That is a one pm game over at Yakamau Community College. Uh yeah, Tyler, I mean Lynn Christian Meridian, two teams you know they've they're they're kind of playing good baseball right now. But Meridian, especially if Jonahssi is ready to go, you got to feel pretty good about where they're at, at least in that first game. Yeah, I think you definitely want to throw your stud in that first game. You gotta, you know, lose her out right. You got to get that win and then go on from there, and then it's all hands on deck in that In that second game, I mean, Nate Payne, Silas bur Shower, Trey Alexander, Ian Forbes, all those guys can pitch. So we'll see what happens in that. In that second game, hopefully they'll be in the winner's bracket. And the good thing about Ossi is that when he's on, he does not walk batters. You know, I think this year he's struck out around sixty and he's walked four. So he definitely throws strikes, which can which I mean, when you're a strikeout pitcher, you kind of tend to rack up the number of pitches, but he tends not to just because he doesn't walk anybody. So I think if he can get through it by pitching a complete game, that can go a long way into the second game and using a few different arms to get through that if needed, and then from there, yeah, you never know. I mean it's just if you can win and go on and happen to play at Joe Martin Stadium. I mean, how cool would that be. I mean their coach, Steve slesk Is, I mean, he went to Bellingham High School. He's played a billion games at that field. He's coached dezillion games at that field. He I think he played with the Bells in the early eighties. He's you know, he's a baseball lifer and you know, he's never won a state title, and if he could do it coaching Meridian, that would be that would be such a cool feather in the cap. And Lynon Christian, Uh, yeah, they're gonna they look at they're looking at some better seated teams up ahead of them, but they they're kind of like a you know, we don't really care type team. I mean, they will just they they can. They play such great defense, and that's man, that goes a long way. And they have pitchers that don't walk people, and that goes a long way. And then you look at you know, Jonah Turpstra leading off. Eli Mayberry who never strikes out, just fouls everything off and he's always hitting around three point fifty left handed side of the plate, can move runners over, do all sorts of things. Is a great number two hitter. You got Austin Angeles, a Triple Crown winner who batted five hundred, hit four home runs, had like thirty something. Harby Eyes hitting third. You got Brody Bowman, who's who's a baseball prospect at six three two and ten pounds, big time, mighty swing there. Sam Cock at third base, really good on the left handed side. They have a lot of left handed bats in their lineup, but they got like four of them. Trayson Johnson's a really good hitter. The Hewliott brothers, Jackson and Jaden are both good. I mean, Carson Leibolt's good dh They can come off, he can come off the bench. Logan Prink. I mean, They've got some dudes, and so you just don't want to count them out. Really like Noah Rawls as a head coach. He's he's played in the state tournament. He knows what it's all about. Now he's coaching in it for the second year in a row, So you know, it's that Saturday is going to be crazy because I remember it so vividly last year because Ferndale was a part of it as well, and being at Janickie Fields and watching the district championship game for softball, and I got my game changer going on and my battery trying to hold on for dear life as I'm following like four different games at the same time. And oh man, it's a it's a wild day. But both those teams have you know, they had such a strong season and playing in a really tough league and you know, they had to face the Mount Vernon's and you know the Linden's and Anti Chordus and stuff like that. They were throughout the regular season. So they're battle tested. And we'll see what they do in this next few weeks. That if one of them or both of them even could come home to Joe Martin Stadium, oh man, that'd be just you know, it just makes it so much easier for everybody in Walkme County. Right, So we'll see what happens. Speaking of home to Joe Martin Stadium, Cedar Park, Christian Shalam, Lessener or Freeman, one of those is going to get a call at home here for the next three games, because those four teams are playing at Joe Martin Stadium this weekend and then there will be right back then one of them is going to be right back the next weekend for the semi finals. That being said, if they and if they lose that one, they'll play another one there third and well, yeah, so they're going to play four, no matter what, four in a row there Joe Martin, which is very interesting. I didn't I didn't think that they would do something like that because why should the team get to play there in advance of the state tournament like that, you know what I mean? And Cedar Park Christian they played there quite a bit the last week or so. Two is I was just gonna say, yeah, they've already played three games there in the last you know, week and a half now, and they might play more games there is the home team than the Bells. But Tyler, that being said, I mean, if if you know, if somebody's in the county, might as well head on over there and watching baseball if you've got nothing else going on this weekend, because you get a chance to see Cedar Park Christian and who knows about Shellanne le Center or Freeman. But how would you like to be Freeman? Come over here, win a couple of games, drive all the way back home, and then drive all the way back over the next week. I mean, I guess you're happy because you're still playing. But yeah, that is a heck of a drive. I mean, Freeman is four and a half or more hours from me, Tyler, Yeah, Joe Martin. I mean an hour fifteen. Well, depending on the traffic, an hour thirty let's say, Yeah, I'm Meridian heading down to Camus. That's a yeah, but that's that's all I five, I know, yeah, and that's three hours. That's four and a half, you know, maybe five, probably five. I've done that drive a handful of times. But Tyler, if they do that, if they go down there and win a couple of games, then they turn on and come back home, and they got to drive about seven minutes over to Joe Martin Stadium. They can hit me Mexico on the way, and absolutely, I mean, Tyler, we're over two hours. Oh boy, you know the last time we did we did a podcast over two hours is probably football season. Yeah, most likely at this a short one. You know, Well, they will be from here on out because there's going to be just such less to talk about. But it also doesn't help that I want to say, we didn't even talk about track and field until we were like nine minutes in. Yeah, we were talking about all kinds of stuff. We had little fun. Anyway, Are we done? We are good because I got to wake up early tomorrow. Tyler, Let's go through really quickly and say thank you to our sponsors. North County Alliance FC, SIG's A Funeral and Cremation Services, Bedlington Farms, j e KK Sports Cards, Line Drive Northwest, Man of Insurance, North County Alliance FC, North County Alliance FC. Uh, what do we got here? Stoffer Insurance. Tyler and Kurt Mayberry Farms, Kurtaberry Farm dot Com, the website Kurt with A C M A B E R r y farm dot com. He's Tyler Anderson from Watcom Preps wacom preps dot com. I'm Ryland Spencer. You've been listening to episode two hundred and fifty five Spring Sports Weekly wrap Up here on the Watcom Preps podcast. We will talk to you next week from high school