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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 208 - Week 10 Recap · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  This is Ferndale senior Connor Walker, and you're listening to the Walkcam Preps podcast
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  with Tyler and Ryland. It's a matter of pride. Greetings and welcome into
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  the Watcum Preps Podcast. This is episode two oh eight, a recap of
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  week ten. I'm Ryland Spencer along with me as always Tyler Anderson Watcum Preps.
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  Tyler, how are we doing? Doing pretty good? I got to
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  see a lot of football over the weekend. It was all spread out,
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  so always happy about that. Sad that there's a lot of players that we're
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  not going to see anymore after that, but at least we still get to
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  talk about him for a little while. Yeah, and we need to give
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  a thanks to one of those guys that we get to continue to talk about.
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  It's Connor Walker, Ferndale for the for the intro, and Tyler,
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  you broke the news to me just a couple of minutes ago. This is
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  the first time we've had him doing intro. Huh. I couldn't believe.
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  I'm always trying to find people that haven't done one yet, and I think
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  I just had in my head that, oh, of course he's done one
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  before, and usually I just kind of look over like, you know,
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  messages through Instagram and stuff, and I'm like, I don't think he's ever
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  done one. That's ridiculous. Uh so yeah, so, and he had
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  a big weekend. It was a really meaningful game. So who better to
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  do an intro than Connor Walker? So thank you very much for that.
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  I know I know why you picked him. Why is that because he was
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  on your fantasy team twice this week? Yeah? Times too. Yeah,
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  it was all about it. And we will get to the fantasy a little
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  bit later. We've got all kinds of things to talk about, but before
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  we go too far, we need to give a thanks to Kurt Mayberry Farm
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  berries. Those are strawberries, blueberries, raspberries. As far as we know,
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  they haven't invented any new berries that they're growing out there at the Kurt
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  Mayberry Farm. But if you want to visit their website's Kurt with a C
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  and it's Mayberry m A B E r R Yfarm dot com. Tyler.
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  Before we get into the box scores, we got something that we do every
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  week now, and maybe it will become a little bit harder once we get
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  deeper into the postseason here, because there's not gonna be as many teams and
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  things to talk about. But yeah, we we do a thing called what
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  did we learn in? Tyler? Last week? I think I had two
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  of them and you had one of them maybe, And so this week,
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  why don't we let you start? What do you got anything? I learned
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  that by being completely off in the pick them in a game, I can
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  gain a ton of followers on Instagram. Uh, you know, we were
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  all a little off on one of the games, and by virtue of that,
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  that graphic on Instagram was shared multiple times and stories and all sorts of
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  things, And so I just got a ton more eyeballs on the walk the
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  preps on the Instagram. So thank you very much. I appreciate it.
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  Yeah, shout out Skeadget County. Yeah, the the fighting big scoops down
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  there in the old College Way or whatever it is down there, Tyler,
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  I got one. What's that? I'm convinced the seating committee just doesn't care
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  anymore. I Mean, there are some things that make you go huh.
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  I mean some things. There's two there's two teams in the one A Tyler
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  that are playing each other. Again. That's supposed to be a big no
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  no as far as the seating committee goes. But for a first round game,
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  Yeah, somehow it slipped through the cracks. Apparently. The other thing
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  look Sack Valley and Lennon Christian being seated where they are makes absolutely no sense.
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  Those two teams should not be playing each other until the finals. And
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  I mean, if you wanted to, you know, I don't want to
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  go too far here, Tyler, because I feel like I feel at least
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  the sis, yes, but but I also I feel a rant coming on
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  here, and I don't want to do that because because it'll maybe derail the
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  beginning of the old podcast here. But you know, we can talk about
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  this more on the preview podcast because there's so many things that go on,
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  and maybe by the point that we get to the to the preview, maybe
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  I'll have a list of names of people that were on the seating committee,
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  because nobody can tell me who was on it. It used to be you
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  could find it right there on the website. WIA had it right there,
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  But now I mean, I can't find it at all. And I've got
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  coaches that are seated and they can't even tell me who was in there,
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  who was their league representative, you know, And there's a lot of questions
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  and I'm sorry, but like, uh, yeah, you know, Tyler,
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  this is one of those things where it's scary now as a coach because
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  you feel like if you say something, you could screw your team later on
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  down the line. But also, I'm a firm believer that if you have
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  something to say, that silence is a lie. And yeah, well I'll
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  tell you this. I can tell you're fired up. And the biggest reason
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  why is because nobody pronounces the wiaa like you do. You're very wi a
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  when you say it, and you and you you just like two minutes ago,
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  said the w i a a like you were. I haven't heard you
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  say it that way before. So that's how I know you're fired up.
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  Yeah, I'm actually sweating right now, like yeah, and it's it's always
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  cold in my office because I've yet to, uh, because of football season,
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  I've yet to take the the air conditioner out of the window, you
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  know. So I've got a nice little draft coming down the backside. And
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  uh yeah, I'm I've got a little sweat here. It's a and if
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  you can't tell I am a little sick too, like, uh, there's
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  gonna be a lot of uh, I'm gonna have to do this and like
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  cut myself off, like, uh, hey, how's it? Yeah,
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  because I had to cough, you know, And it seems like it happens
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  usually every year about this time. So Tyler, let's move on because I
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  had another thing that I learned actually really quickly. Oh yeah, what have
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  you learned? What else? I also learned that Ferndale does not hand out
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  paper rosters at games? What virtual rosters? Oh? Come on, I'm
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  sorry. Okay, here's the rant. That is a stud supidest thing I've
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  ever heard. So Tyler, you're going to tell me that grandma and grandpa.
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  How did grandma and grandpa get it? Because most of them don't have
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  the phones that that'll that are going to do that. I can tell you
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  right now, if my dad went to a game up at Ferndale, he
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  would have no roster and he would not be happy about that. So what's
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  what's the solution there? Yeah, I'm just going to take my phone and
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  look at it. Because guess what he's not going to do take my phone
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  and look at it. I I was shocked by it because I collect these
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  rosters. I mean, yeah, I just I love them. I stupid
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  And And there was a moment when one of the Timberline coaches walked by.
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  I was talking with Craig Parrish, who's his dad was the coach at North
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  Kitsapp for forty years or something like that, and him and I used to
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  work together at the Bellyam Herald years ago, twenty five years ago, and
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  he's he's writing for a few different publications online in Snohomish County and he he
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  you know, he was he had the weekend off and he wanted to come
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  up and watch for He used to coach at Ferndale as well as an assistant
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  during the Matthias Wilson Day. And so we were standing on the sidelines together
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  and he had a cougar hat on and they were they were coming out of
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  the break at halftime, and one of the timber Blind coaches looked at him
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  and said, are you are you a scout for Wazoo? And he's like
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  no, no, no, and he goes and he looked at him and
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  he pointed to himself and he goes, he goes rolls Bowl ninety eight,
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  and then he kept walking and we looked at her like, who was that?
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  But we don't have a roster. Yeah, so we don't know.
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  And I ended up texting you and You're like, I can't find one online
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  and I'm like, well, well I see. And that's just it makes
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  me so mad because look, I you know, for what the better part
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  of well over a decade, I went to fifty sixty games a year.
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  I went to almost six hundred high school fotball games in a decade. Almost
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  every place that I would go to would have a roster, and they would
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  almost all have some form of advertising on it. Because one of the things
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  I always hear is like, oh, you know, it costs money to
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  do that, not if you put advertising on it. Right, as a
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  matter of fact, you make money doing that. You know something that actually
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  blows my mind and I didn't know it until recently. At BAFEL, you
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  know what we do. We print a hundred programs every game, that's it,
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  and they sell almost a hundred. They don't they don't necessarily always sell
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  a hundred, but they say they get close, and I'm like, wait
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  a minute, so like that's the only way, Like, what what are
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  we doing? Why do we need to have these big extravagant programs that are
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  like seven dollars, Like people don't want those. They just want the damn
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  roster. Give them a roster and put I don't know, put the locker
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  room on it, right, Like I don't know, I don't know.
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  It drives me nuts when you show up to a place they don't have rosters
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  available. Hey, guess what, here's a way to do it, Tyler.
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  What do you think it costs you used to I would assume you would
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  have to print off some stuff when you were working at the chocolate place and
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  stuff. What do you think the average copy cost? Oh? Like like
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  I don't like actual cost or like if you went to like a place to
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  get them made. I mean, even if you went to a place and
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  got them made, what does it cost? What do you think I would
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  say, ten to fifteen cents a copy? Okay, charge of buck?
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  Charge a dollar for rosters you're getting people will buy them for a dollar.
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  Yep, at least they're there. Yes, that's it's so frustrating. It
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  is so frustrating. I mean, like I know the players for FURNI yeah,
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  but you don't know anybody on the other side, anybody for timber Line.
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  But like, you know, like, but now here's the podcast.
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  What if what if we want to talk about somebody, you know what I
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  mean? Or if you're a if you're a writer for you know, the
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  Bellingham Herald and you want to write a game report where you're covering both teams
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  a little bit, you know what I mean? Like no offense, Tyler,
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  but we all it's you know, walk them, perhaps is slanted to
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  walk them. Sure, yeah, but if somebody from the other it almost
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  jokingly ye, yes, well you know Tyler and a chortus. They they
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  don't like it that you do it. They took me to task. Yeah,
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  one one guy, total clown show over there, Tyler. Let's move
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  on. Let's talk about the game. Yeah, okay, all right,
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  we got seven games to talk about this week, Tyler. You were out
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  at Squalcum Baker, Bellingham, Sultan, Ferndale, Timberline. Now those are
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  right in a row, right, like you went. Those are three days
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  in a row, three days in a row. Yeah, it was perfect.
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  One game a day, three days in a row, coach would he
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  was out at two games. He was out at Seahome Mount Vernon. He
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  was also out at Ferndale and Timberline. H But we're going to bring him
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  on right now to talk about the Seahome Mount Vernon game. So let's jump
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  into the coach's corner with our head coach, Jeff Wood. Coach, how
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  we doing, I'm doing great, Railan. You were down Stadget County Major
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  way down to Mount Vernon High School to see the Seahome Mariners in Mount Vernon
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  Bulldogs battle in a Week ten contest, and you know, things did not
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  go the way of the Mariner in this one forty to three win from Mount
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  Vernon. Probably not the way See Home envision finishing the season. No,
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  you know, they came out a little flat, and you know, coming
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  sometimes that crossover game and you don't have anything to play for. Sometimes that
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  can happen. On the other end of the stick. Mount Vernon was at
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  home and they were definitely motivated and they're playing playing really physical and fast and
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  just first quarter came out and had a good long drive that was stopped by
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  Sea Home and then See Home turned it right back over with Nolan Wright interception,
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  and from there it just kind of kind of spiraled. Mount Vernon scoring
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  quite a bit, and see Home turning the ball over, bad snaps,
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  just kind of a multitude of things, and they're a little thin this time
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  of year. They're always, you know, not a not a huge roster,
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  and they've had some injuries and some other things. So it was just
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  it was it was a tough way to end it, for sure for the
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  Mariners. Yeah, I'm just kind of looking over some of the numbers here.
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  I mean, see Home puts up, you know, fairly decent numbers.
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  They ended up with what'd be two and seventy seven yards. I mean,
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  I think maybe the thing that kind of stands out the most though,
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  coach twenty carries for just thirty seven yards on the night. Yeah, the
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  Seahome wasn't able to run it very effectively and then had to throw it quite
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  often. I think Nolan Right had thirty eight pass attempts, so so quite
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  a few, and Mount Vernon had a lot of different looks for him,
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  kind of confusing him into some some throws in completions and then some intercepts as
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  well. So so credit credit to those guys at Mount Vernon for for doing
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  that and you know, keeping the foot on the gas. And in the
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  second half, the Sea Home got it coming out of halftime and had a
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  I believe it was a fumbled fumbled snap that kind of snuffed out that drive.
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  So that kind of put the end to any momentum coming back there in
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  the second half. And that's the where it goes sometimes, you know.
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  But they're pretty young teams, so they got a lot to look forward to
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  in the future. One thing I'm just noticing here, coach, I'm looking
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  at the box score two and forty passing yards Nolan right two hundred and six,
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  Grady Evans won for one for thirty four. What the heck went on
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  there? Yeah, it was. It was a double pass that was probably
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  the best play of the game there for Sea Home. And you know,
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  Nolan got it and threw it out to his right to Grady on kind of
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  a you know, a bubble look, and they had it blocked well,
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  so he had enough time to get off the deep pass to Braddock Duckworth who
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  made it, got tackled in the red zone and unfortunately no points were scored
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  on that drive for Sea Home. But yeah, it was a good,
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  good little trickeration play there. Solomon McAllister ten carries forty one yards, leads
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  the way. Nolan Right has mentioned. Fourteen completions two hundred and six yards
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  receiving, Juice Watson seven for ninety five, Brad Duckworth four for fifty nine,
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  Evans two for sixty five, and then one of my favorite names,
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  Steal Quiggle two catches twenty one yards. Tyler, you got defensive numbers for
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  me over there? Yeah, there was. They were on the field quite
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  a bit, making a lot of plays too. Bradick Duckworth had a pretty
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  good game. He led with nine tackles, also had one and a half
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  tackles behind the line of scrimmage. He's coming off that edge and he's so
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  long that there was a lot of plays where it'd be like a just a
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  kind of a you know, a dive or something, and he would just
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  run in and dive in and just make a stop. He just he's just
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  so long and athletic he could make those plays. Carl Bach at inside linebacker's
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  been doing it all year long. He had six tackles. He had a
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  tackle for loss as well. His running mate inside Cooper mcadee had seven tackles
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  and a Hudson ne F had five and a half tackles and a pass broken
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  up. Those were kind of the Those were kind of the big four.
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  I'd say. Grady Evans also had a pretty good game defensively as well at
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  safety. I think I had Hudson Ef in the fantasy this week, right,
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  I think you did. Yeah? And then and I almost took who
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  is the who is the one of the inside linebackers, you said, carl
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  Bach. Yeah, I almost took him too, I was I almost did
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  the double dip there. Yeah, coach, you mentioned youth on this team,
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  and you know there's not a lot of guys returning next year. Now,
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  there are some premium guys. We'll talk about him with Tyler here in
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  a minute. But you know, who are some of the guys that you
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  think, you know, maybe need to take an extra step next year to
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  see this team get into the state tournament. Well, I would just say
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  kind of that. Uh, you know, both both fronts. Uh,
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  they got Cole Terrell kind of leading the way. He's only a sophomore,
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  but there's some other younger linemen that, uh, Cole can probably get in
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  the weight room with him and and get those they've got some good experiences,
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  you know, freshman sophomores. So getting those guys bigger and stronger will help
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  the running game and protect Nolan Wright obviously coming back, and Andre Watson and
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  uh, you know the other skill guys coming back, theo Quiggle and Solomon
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  McAllister and some of the linebackers and some some younger kids coming in. So
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  so that's kind of the next step I believe that that Seahome has to take.
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  Uh and Uh. I think they're they're primed for taking that next step
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  if they're able to work hard over the offseason. Now, Tyler, I
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  believe you said there was four seniors on this team, and we'll go away
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  in depth. We do it every year after the season is over with our
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  kind of a I think we call it saying goodbye to the senior class.
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  Who are the four seniors? And you know, do you have anything you
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  can give me about those guys? Yeah, it's funny because they're all four
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  they're very different players and only four of them. You got the big lineman
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  Baxter Arps, who's really good size, about six three, maybe two hundred
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  and forty pounds, two hundred and fifty pounds. He's the second year starting
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  on the offensive line and offensive tackle. He played a little bit more defense
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  this year. He's just a big, strong kid. That's that just would
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  would make plays constantly and just use his size. Another one is Alden Jacobs,
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  who we talked a lot about. As a sophomore, he was a
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  you know, he came in there and played corner and and was all over
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  the place. I think had three interceptions. And I believe you drafted him
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  in our in our WFL draft and when we had that, you know at
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  legend, really you're right. And then he and then he was out of
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  the state or I think he was down in California somewhere for a year and
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  then he moved back up uh and played in that defensive backfield again, just
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  plays defense. Played some played corner as a sophomore and played a lot of
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  safety this year, but sometimes he bounce out to corner. And then a
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  kicker, Kyle Daifel, who I believe this was his first year playing football.
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  He was a kick. He's been the kickoff guy for most of the
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  year. There was that big game against Squalkum where he was kicking the extra
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  points and stuff like that with a dude to an illness to Grady Evans and
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  uh, and he proved he could do it easily. But a very good
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  kickoff guy. And then as well, obviously Braddock Duckworth, who we've talked
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  about for years now. It seems like, you know, moving into play
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  some tight end, he'd still stand up and and but he was pretty tight
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  to the line most of the time. A matchup nightmare, a physical player,
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  great hands and and a great defensive player too. He really when you
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  know, when Tommy Funk got injured a few years ago, sure woolie,
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  he came in and had that great game on defense, and he's been kind
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  of a stalwart on defense ever since. He played some safety last year,
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  got moved backed out side linebacker this year. You know, just it seems
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  like we've been talking about him forever, and it was because that Week one
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  game of sophomore year he blew up and had this amazing game, and it's
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  just kind of been ever since then, he's been on our radar. So
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  it's been a lot of fun watching him. So, yeah, those are
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  the four guys, and like I said, we like you said, we'll
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  talk about them a lot more when we say goodbye to all the seniors in
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  Walking County. Yeah, that'll probably be the shortest senior thing we've ever done.
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  I mean last year, last year was it Nuksack Valley had like five?
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  I think Knuksak had six and I think Blaine had five. Yeah,
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  yeah, oh that's what it was. Yeah, that's right because there was
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  a young man last year. It was five originally, but then there was
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  a young man that joined the team about halfway through, right right, yep.
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  Yeah. He was really good athlete too, by the way, Yeah,
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  Bennett DeLange, Yes, yes, I remember that kid, but he
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  was it would have been nice to have him for a couple of years.
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  But yeah, anyway, coach, before we let you get out of here,
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  we always do a thing called what did we learn? And you were
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  out of two games this weekend, and I know you follow football around the
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  county, so do you want to give us a little something? What did
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  you learn before you head out? Uh? Well, you know, I
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  was at that Ferndale game and they just have it rolling again, and you
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  know with that wing t offense, they're just grinding away and executing well.
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  And they I believe have another home game with their draw, so so that's
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  good for them. So we got that, and then at that Seahome game,
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  I was just I was impressed with the Mount Vernon. I learned their
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  program looks like they're on the upswing a little bit with that that win and
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  kind of a new coaching staff and some good athletes, so they might be
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  able to take another step in that West Coat. I think they're probably gonna
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  stay three A next year, so yeah, I would think that they'll day
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  three A. But yeah, it's good to I mean, I was like,
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  uh, I was like traveling through Malvern and as Tyler knows, the
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  the old birthday cake share shake there at the Big Scoop. So maybe the
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  Bulldogs can start defending the old Big Scoop, the the honor of the Big
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  Scoop if you will, all right, coach, Well yeah, we'll let
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  you get out of here. You told me that you're headed. You're headed
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  down to watch some football next weekend, but you will be a game or
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  two on Friday. Right. Check out both those Linen games at Civic.
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  I guess that's supposed to be a double header, so it'll be great to
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  see coach terpstra Uh and the Linen Christian links there. Yeah, at their
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  game. So and we can obviously talk about those games and preview those games
• 21:45
  coming up later this week, so be sure of subscribe to the podcast.
• 21:47
  But uh, yeah, you've been listening to Coach this Corner with Coach Jeff
• 21:49
  Wood. Coach, thanks for your time, Thanks for having me. All
• 21:55
  right, Tyler, Well let's talk about uh Thursday night games. Squall come
• 21:59
  up out Baker. Now, this was a game out there at Bob Tisdale
• 22:03
  Field in beautiful, the budding metropolis of Deming, Washington. Tyler Squalcum comes
• 22:10
  away with a twenty one fourteen win over Mount Baker and they were up twenty
• 22:15
  one nothing at halftime before Baker kind of kicked it in the gear and looks
• 22:18
  like they Squalcumb was able to I guess I'll say it, Tyler, hang
• 22:21
  on for a win. Is that what it happened out there? Yeah?
• 22:23
  Pretty much. I mean it was very very much the tale of two halves.
• 22:27
  It was. It was and in many ways not just the scoring.
• 22:33
  There was lots of different things. The weather was completely different in the second
• 22:36
  half. My attendance was completely different in the second half. There was a
• 22:41
  lot of different things that happened, and I'll get into him here, but
• 22:45
  Squalicum right off the bat was just running the ball and picking up huge chunks.
• 22:51
  First play of the game, DeAndre Dunmore runs for fifty seven yards and
• 22:56
  he gets he gets caught from behind. He's not a speedback is back.
• 23:00
  He does have some speed, but Tanian state and is faster. And a
• 23:06
  few plays later they just punch it right in and boom, touchdown. Right
• 23:10
  after that, force a punt, do it again, run run, run,
• 23:12
  get down there, score a touchdown, and it was looking like my
• 23:15
  goodness, Like I thought this was kind this was the one game in the
• 23:18
  pick them where there was different picks, so I kind of thought this was
• 23:22
  the game that was going to be the closest. And it was running away
• 23:25
  from Baker early the rest of the second quarter or the again going into the
• 23:30
  second quarter, it was a little bit more even back and forth. Squalcumb
• 23:33
  did score late right before halftime. They had a really good drive where they
• 23:40
  only had like a minute and fifteen seconds to go about eighty yards, and
• 23:42
  they were completing passes, getting down the field, getting out of bounds,
• 23:48
  very very efficient. And then Marcus Nixon and him such a good athlete.
• 23:52
  He ducked out of some guys, threw it down the field and it was
• 23:55
  almost like he is like, and you'll know this exactly how it is when
• 23:59
  I tell you you can see it in your eyes like or in your brain,
• 24:03
  like it was underthrown and so waking Ortiz had to like come back like
• 24:08
  six or seven yards to get it, and like by doing that, it
• 24:11
  was almost more effective, you know, like he's almost catching it on the
• 24:14
  run coming back and and where everybody else is going the other way. So
• 24:18
  he kind of eluded some guys, was able to, you know, go
• 24:21
  back upfield and score a touchdown on that play. And it was just a
• 24:25
  huge play. It was only like nine seconds to go until halftime when they
• 24:27
  scored that, So that was a kind of a big backbreaker right before the
• 24:32
  half. And just like that, like you said, it was twenty one
• 24:36
  nothing at halftime, I was not feeling very well. I needed to go
• 24:40
  home and I'm like, well, I'll catch the end of it on the
• 24:44
  NFHS network. So it was not on the radio, so I didn't really
• 24:48
  know what was going on in the second half. Now I did see the
• 24:51
  film. The second half was was completely different. So Mount Baker started to
• 24:55
  run a different I mean, they like to run the ball a lot.
• 24:57
  But there's a few plays that they run that you know, they try every
• 25:00
  once in a while. Well, one of them was the one like last
• 25:03
  year. It was a huge player they always ran with Brady West was at
• 25:06
  the wing. He'd go back in motion and then and then go forward and
• 25:10
  lead block between the right guard and right tackle, and Marcus George picked up
• 25:14
  a lot of yards on that play. They'd run that a lot. Well
• 25:17
  in this time. When they do it, they did it. They do
• 25:18
  it every once in a while. Bryce and Moa would be there and he'd
• 25:22
  go back and then he'd go up the field and they'd hand it off to
• 25:23
  Dylan MOA's cousin. They'd pick up some yards. Well, they picked up
• 25:26
  like ten or eleven yards. So next play they do it again, ten
• 25:30
  or eleven yards. Next play, do it again, seven or eight yards.
• 25:33
  They did it like down the field the whole way down scored a touchdown.
• 25:37
  It just kept running the same play. Now, there were little variations
• 25:41
  every once in a while, but for the most part, it was the
• 25:42
  same thing over and over again. And they've so they found something that worked.
• 25:48
  Now it's getting rainier, it's getting muddier, so the athleticism is tougher
• 25:52
  now for Squalkum. Now, Marcus Nixon, you know, got banged up
• 25:56
  last week, so he wasn't much of a running threat at or as much
• 26:00
  this time, so he had to rely on some other guys. And now
• 26:03
  with the weather and everything, it's starting to turn into Baker's game. But
• 26:04
  it's hard to come back when you're a running team. But they just kept
• 26:07
  doing it. They did it again their second possession of the second half,
• 26:11
  running that play. Running that play, they get in the end zone again
• 26:12
  right at the beginning of the fourth quarter, and then it was like,
• 26:15
  okay, they're starting to come back. Baker was able to get the ball
• 26:18
  with probably about three or four minutes to go. They were faced with a
• 26:25
  couple different fourth downs that they converted on passes out of all things, and
• 26:32
  so they were able to move. They had a few chances too where they
• 26:34
  had a deep ball that was just dropped. I mean, you know,
• 26:37
  it was rainy, but there were a few touchdowns that they had that were
• 26:41
  just dropped passes, which which you know, was too bad for them.
• 26:45
  And then they come up. They they're up there with another fourth down,
• 26:48
  they throw an interception, The ball goes off the hands and off the helmet
• 26:52
  of another player, Reese Nolton picks it off, returns it past the fifty.
• 26:56
  They kneel it down from there on out. But uh, yeah,
• 26:59
  it was very much a tale of two halves and Baker just kind of ran
• 27:03
  out of time at the end. But it was a good matchup. But
• 27:06
  two teams that haven't faced each other in twelve years, two really good coaching
• 27:10
  staffs. It was it was cool. It was cool to see. You
• 27:14
  know, an unnamed Squalicum player came up to me in the late in the
• 27:18
  second quarter and goes, you went to school here, right, And I
• 27:21
  said yes, sir, and he goes, man, I'm sorry, and
• 27:22
  then he goes, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. But you know, those
• 27:26
  guys were having fun out there, and and uh, you know, a
• 27:30
  lot of players playing their last football game and a couple of three and six
• 27:33
  teams that usually aren't three and six this time of year. So it was
• 27:36
  just it was just kind of a weird feeling with all that, but it
• 27:38
  was a good game. Squalicum three hundred and forty yard forty one yards Baker
• 27:44
  two hundred and nine, Tyler. That almost doesn't even sound right. Yeah,
• 27:48
  two hundred nine yards now, just a pure guest Tyler. What would
• 27:55
  you say the discrepancy of that two on nine was between our first and second
• 27:57
  half? Oh my goodness. Yeah. I mean Baker did not move the
• 28:03
  ball very much at all in the first half, and and so I would
• 28:07
  say, you know, second yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean,
• 28:12
  I mean, yeah, it was it was just different. It was just
• 28:15
  different. It was a different game. First half, second half. It
• 28:18
  seemed like DeAndre done Moore nine carries one hundred and fourteen yards, two touchdowns,
• 28:23
  Joaquin Ortiz six carries for forty nine yards. Excuse me, Marcus Nixon
• 28:32
  six of nine passing maybe his most efficient weekend. Oh yeah, for sure.
• 28:38
  With that and the yards per attempt and everything, and the touchdown pass.
• 28:42
  He looked pretty good back there. And I think part of it was
• 28:45
  like a lot of times he's he's looking to run a lot, and this
• 28:48
  one he just he was looking to pass more. And I think it was,
• 28:52
  you know, being good a little banged up last week. It was
• 28:53
  wasn't in his head that he was gonna run too much, even though he
• 28:56
  did carry the ball nineteen times. Uh, he he was set up to
• 29:00
  pass and and threw the ball well down the field one hundred and twenty four
• 29:06
  yards passing also, and he did have the one touchdown pass too. Ortiz
• 29:10
  who did lead in receiving four catches one hundred and six yards and the one
• 29:15
  touchdown for Baker. Dylan Moa on the ground twenty four carries hundred and nine
• 29:21
  yards. I mean, that is that is like lunch pail, you know
• 29:25
  what I mean? Twenty four carries for a bucko nine. Yeah, that's
• 29:27
  at least eighty percent of that was second half on that one. That's a
• 29:30
  certain play. Is awesome to see. Brady Brulan eight carries thirty eight yards.
• 29:37
  Yeah, that's about it. I mean, I guess Daniel stateon three
• 29:41
  catches for forty three. Oh and Dylan Moa did have two touchdown runs as
• 29:44
  well. I don't think I mentioned that when I mentioned his yards. Yeah.
• 29:48
  All in all, Tyler squal come twenty one to fourteen win over Mount
• 29:52
  Baker out there Indemning on Friday night, Thursday night, Oh excuse me,
• 29:56
  Thursday night. You know what we're bouts around all over the place this week.
• 30:00
  I can't remember what days? What I know? All right, where
• 30:03
  are we at here? Bellingham, Sultan? What day was this one?
• 30:06
  On? Tyler? It looks Friday night at Civic Stadium. Friday night,
• 30:10
  Civic Stadium, Bellingham and Sultan Bellingham forty seven to twenty one win over the
• 30:15
  Sultan Turks. The Sultan Turk Wendels as we found out. Yeah, Tyler,
• 30:21
  when I look at this one, it looks like, how do I
• 30:25
  say this? It kind of looks like the game that we expected Bellingham to
• 30:27
  have. Yeah, I mean a lot of scoring early, they're you know,
• 30:32
  they're they're very much like they could score on a one play drive as
• 30:36
  well as anybody. Uh, and they did a lot of different things really
• 30:42
  well, Sultan. You know, I think they were kind of shocked in
• 30:48
  the beginning. You know, they were, what were they six and or
• 30:52
  seven and two coming in this game, or six and three or something.
• 30:53
  They had a good they had a better record than Bellian did. And but
• 30:59
  right off the bat, I mean, Bellingham just moved the ball down the
• 31:02
  field. You get if they get inside the five, they're gonna give it
• 31:03
  to Tyler Frost. Nobody wants to tackle him. You only have three carries
• 31:07
  on the game. Two of them went for short touchdowns. But Holden Bates,
• 31:12
  man is just so fast and you get him. And they were doing
• 31:15
  a lot of good things where they went trips and I hadn't seen them go
• 31:19
  trips all year. And they did that with the tight end on the you
• 31:22
  know, with the other side, and they just pitched it outside to Bates
• 31:26
  and if they're in man coverage, Man Baits is just so fast. He's
• 31:29
  gonna pick up twenty yards on that play alone. It's almost like a play
• 31:33
  that you do like in Madden when you're eleven years old, Like you see
• 31:34
  that, you're like, oh, yeah, this will work. And it
• 31:37
  was working for Bellingham Wyatt Stephan. I know I keep saying it, but
• 31:44
  that is the fastest kid I see in Walkaan County with football pads. On
• 31:48
  his kickoff return, you know, he kind of got it and then he
• 31:52
  went around the edge to where you're like, no, you're gonna lose yards.
• 31:56
  But then it's like, oh, you're white, Stephan, because he
• 31:59
  just came around and he was just at a different speed that everybody ran down
• 32:02
  the sideline. I mean every like three or four guys had an easy angle
• 32:07
  on him and he just kind of split it. It's like that like when
• 32:09
  you saw Layton Smithson with that run. You're like, those two guys had
• 32:13
  that angle and he just split them. That's what it looked like. It
• 32:15
  was Holy cow, just a different kind of speed. Really excited to see
• 32:21
  him on the basketball court again and running track. Really happy they turned out
• 32:24
  for football. And then Leonard I mean just dumping around Josh tole. I
• 32:30
  mean it was the JT Musclebeat Show. Fourteen catches, you know, breaking
• 32:37
  a school record. It seems like every week there's a new school record for
• 32:38
  Bellingham. He also returned a ninety yard kickoff return. I know that he
• 32:44
  went off strictly for you for fantasy, which is not fair. No,
• 32:47
  I'm just kidding, but he's very aware of that. Yeah, he's very
• 32:52
  aware of that, and he just had an awesome game. He also had
• 32:54
  a pick six that was called back where he just kind of just jumped up
• 32:59
  in the middle of nowhere, like you know it was it would have been
• 33:01
  like a probably like a twelve yard pass, but it only went like two
• 33:05
  yards, Like he just jumped up and grabbed it and he went through I
• 33:08
  mean, he broke some many tackles. He's so fun to watch. Like
• 33:13
  I said, the running game was great, the passing game was great.
• 33:16
  The special teams two kickoff returns for touchdowns and they allowed to kick off return
• 33:21
  for a touchdown. It was just one of those weird games where everything happened.
• 33:24
  And really happy to see Bellingham close the season out with a winning record.
• 33:30
  It's exactly what that program needs. And I really hope they play games
• 33:35
  within the conference next year. I just, man, I just I'm really
• 33:38
  really pushing for it. I don't know if they will, but they should.
• 33:43
  Three hundred and eleven yards for Sultan, four eighty five for Bellingham.
• 33:47
  Tyler, is it easy for you at all to pull up the total yards
• 33:51
  on the season or like total yards per game? Yeah, it might take
• 33:57
  me a little bit. You can go through the rest of the stats.
• 33:59
  Yeah, go through the rest of it. I'm just intrigued to know,
• 34:01
  like kind of like what they averaged on the season as far as like yards,
• 34:06
  sure, because I mean we kind of didn't know what we were getting
• 34:09
  out of Bellingham, but I feel like it was maybe a lot better than
• 34:12
  what we expected overall, because even in some of the games that they lost,
• 34:15
  they still put up some yards, you know what I mean. So
• 34:19
  yeah, let's go over some of these numbers here, Belling him twenty carries
• 34:22
  for one hundred and seventy four on the ground, led by Holding Baits fifteen
• 34:27
  carries for one to seventy one. Tyler Frost three carries for three yards,
• 34:31
  and one of them was a touchdown run for three. Nor let's say one
• 34:37
  of them was a touchdown run for three, the other one was a touchdown
• 34:38
  run for two, So then the other carry had to have been a loss
• 34:42
  for a couple of yards. Here it was they were back in their own
• 34:45
  territory, like at their own five, and he had a hit. They
• 34:46
  knew they were going to him, and they stopped him. Gotcha. Okay?
• 34:50
  Well yeah, I mean, although I still think he should be gained
• 34:53
  some yards on that, so not not good on him. But yeah,
• 34:58
  Holding Base, though I mentioned one hundred and seventy one yards on fifteen carries,
• 35:01
  also had a twenty five yard touchdown run. Excuse me, Josh Leonard
• 35:07
  twenty four of thirty three for three one hundred and eleven yards. I mean,
• 35:13
  yeah, that is a that was a great How do you say it
• 35:16
  ending to a high school career right there for sure. Yeah, let's see
• 35:22
  here. He also had what did he have? Two? Yeah, two
• 35:24
  touchdown passes, two touchdown passes. Receiving Josh Toll fourteen reception fourteen Wow,
• 35:32
  I know, I tell you man, he's like, give me the ball.
• 35:37
  Ryanley picked me for fantasy. Give me the ball. Hey, I
• 35:39
  don't know who's calling the places, but I like him. One hundred and
• 35:43
  forty three yards and he did have two touchdowns, as you mentioned, though
• 35:46
  one of them was a kickoff return. The other one was an eighteen yard
• 35:50
  reception. Wyatt Stephan six receptions, one hundred and six yards, and he
• 35:55
  also had two touchdowns, but he also had one that was a kickoff return,
• 36:00
  which I feel like doesn't happen very often, Tyler. Two guys on
• 36:04
  the same team with kickoff returns, I know. And the crazy thing is
• 36:07
  that neither of those guys have been kick returners for hardly any of the year.
• 36:10
  They just did it for the senior night. Wow. That I mean,
• 36:15
  shoot, I mean, I mean, I'm should have been doing it
• 36:17
  all year. I'm dead serious that I think that if you were gonna find
• 36:22
  like the four fastest guys to do like a four by one hundred on the
• 36:24
  football field, like with full pads on everything. I think three of them
• 36:28
  might be from Bellingham. It's those two in Holden Bates. I mean,
• 36:30
  they are so fast, unbelievable. Let's see here. Yeah, blick Henderson
• 36:37
  two catches for forty yards, gave van hofwag and two catches for twenty two
• 36:42
  yards. So yeah, all in all, good win for Bellingham. Tyler.
• 36:46
  Do you have the numbers that I was asking for? Yeah, so
• 36:49
  they they went over four thousand yards of offense this year, So they averaged
• 36:54
  four hundred and six yards again offensively this year. Wow yeah, wow,
• 37:00
  I mean that is really really good. I mean this is a team that
• 37:05
  just a couple of years ago they were having problems even finishing the season.
• 37:07
  Yeah, you know, to you know, last year there was there was
• 37:12
  some promise, but you know, just kind of never really got a lot
• 37:15
  of things going to here we are, I mean, this is a massive,
• 37:17
  massive improvement for that program. And now granted they lose some serious talent
• 37:22
  this year, but they do also return some guys, so we will talk
• 37:27
  more about that later on down the line. But yeah, definite, you
• 37:30
  know, Bellingham. You feel like they're at least somewhat moving in the right
• 37:35
  direction right now, and so that's a really really good thing to see.
• 37:37
  Yeah again, forty seven twenty one over Sultan. That was Friday night at
• 37:44
  Civic Stadium. Let's see here, Tyler. This is where we start skipping
• 37:47
  around from what the sheet shows me. So we're not talking about Knoksack yet.
• 37:52
  Let's go talk about Cedar Park Christian defeating Meridian down here in my old
• 37:57
  stomping grounds at one High School twenty four to twenty one. I'll tell you
• 38:00
  what. Not a good year for Wakam County teams playing at one eat of
• 38:06
  high school. Let me tell you that. But twenty four to twenty one
• 38:08
  Cedar Park Christian over Meridian, Tyler, and it looked very similar to the
• 38:14
  to the Mount Baker game where it took to the second half of Meridian to
• 38:16
  really get things going or well what was going on here? Because they didn't.
• 38:20
  It was ten nothing Cedar Park Christian at halftime. I mean, it
• 38:24
  was just a strange game overall. And when it was, it was three
• 38:29
  nothing with probably two minutes to go until half, and then Cedar Park Christian
• 38:37
  completed like a twenty two yard pass and then a thirty eight yard pass for
• 38:40
  a touchdown. And with those two plays at halftime, Meridian had out gained
• 38:47
  them one hundred and eighty two yards to seventy five yards. So fifty of
• 38:52
  those seventy five yards came on those last two plays, and you're just thinking,
• 38:57
  man, you scored, You've gained one hundred and eighty two yards.
• 38:59
  Hemps to point yet and Cedar Park Christian they kicked the early field. By
• 39:02
  the way, Seedar Park Christian's kickers pretty good. I mean, he's like
• 39:06
  a he's a legit, like he's a he's really good. When you start
• 39:10
  looking like one a level. If they were ever you know, gonna put
• 39:14
  together all state teams and stuff like that, again, then he'd be one
• 39:15
  of those guys you'd consider. And then he tried to even a longer field
• 39:20
  goal, like a forty six yarder, and he was wide left, and
• 39:23
  so even oh yeah, and so they even had another opportunity. They just
• 39:30
  they were getting short fields and it just, you know, it just was
• 39:34
  not going Meridians way. And it was weird because I even I even texted,
• 39:37
  you know during the you know, I was out at Civic Stadium,
• 39:40
  and I was texting a parent of a player, saying, hey, you
• 39:44
  have a Meridian score. It's got to be around halftime, and she wrote
• 39:46
  back, yeah, ten nothing and it's not us. She goes weird game.
• 39:52
  And I was thinking, okay, like weird game, Like I wonder
• 39:55
  what she meant. And when I watched the film, it was just it
• 39:58
  was it just had a weird field to it. Uh. And then in
• 40:00
  the second half it was just Okay, you score, I score, you
• 40:04
  score, I score, you score, I score, And it was just
• 40:06
  kind of back and forth. But Meridian was going longer, you know,
• 40:10
  chunks of yards to score, and because of that field goal, that was
• 40:16
  really the difference that, you know. And and Meridan did get the ball
• 40:22
  bat Meridian scored last to make it a three point game, but they tried
• 40:27
  it on side kick they didn't get it. And this was really strange because
• 40:30
  when I'm watching the film, I don't know, well how much time's left,
• 40:34
  and but I see Cedar Park Christian taking knee, so I'm like,
• 40:37
  oh, this this is this was it. And then the next play they
• 40:42
  quarterback kind of runs, rolls out to the right and tries to stay in
• 40:45
  bounce its like, oh, they just need a little more extra time to
• 40:49
  kill. And then the next play he kind of steps back and just stands
• 40:52
  there and Joshin Hummer comes around and tackles him and uh, like they were
• 40:57
  going to take a knee, but they're trying to take more time doing it.
• 41:00
  And then they punted, so it wasn't really victory formation time just yet
• 41:07
  they were able to you know, the punted the way and Meridians still had
• 41:08
  the ball for like three more plays, but it just you know, they're
• 41:13
  on the other side of the field and it wasn't gonna happen. You know,
• 41:15
  Meridian gained you know, you know you're gonna go over the numbers,
• 41:17
  and it's shocking that a team could lose and put and do that well,
• 41:22
  but it was you know, it just was one of those weird Like I
• 41:27
  said, it's just one of those weird games. You know. Freshman Casey
• 41:29
  Brennan had an awesome game. I love his future, um gonna be excited
• 41:34
  about that. At The defense was was lights out. I mean they had
• 41:38
  four sacks on the game and over ten tackles for a loss. Wow.
• 41:44
  So the Maridian defense came to play, they just gave up three really odd
• 41:50
  you know, almost broken coverage type things for touchdowns, and that was the
• 41:53
  difference. Yeah. So, Tyler, when I look at the box score,
• 41:57
  the first thing that stands out is I see negative thirty yards rushing for
• 42:00
  Cedar Park Christian. Yeah. So I had to do a little math because
• 42:04
  I had to go backwards on this one. Three hundred and fifty seven yards
• 42:07
  for Meridian, one fifty six for Cedar Park Christian, I mean two hundred
• 42:14
  and one more yards. Yeah, that is yeah, I mean especially when
• 42:17
  you hold him to one hundred and fifty six. That's that's tough. That
• 42:22
  is that is really really tough. Landon Downy twelve carries sixty two yards.
• 42:27
  Joshton Elmer nine carries for forty two yards. Tyler, you mentioned it to
• 42:30
  me something about Joshtin Elmer and Landon Downey not scoring, and it seems really
• 42:37
  strange. And I mean, I guess technically Downy did score because he did
• 42:39
  have an extra point sure, but two yeah, well yeah, or yeah,
• 42:45
  three of them, but still, I mean to not getting the end
• 42:47
  zone either of those two guys, is it's a strange looking box score.
• 42:51
  I mean, it was weird, especially when they score twenty one points.
• 42:53
  It's not like they got shut out, you know what I mean? Right?
• 42:57
  But yeah, then Jagger five eighteen come two hundred and thirty seven yards
• 43:01
  and two touchdown passes. And then let's see here, Casey Brennan, the
• 43:08
  uh we got to come up with a nickname for this guy, Tyler.
• 43:12
  Yeah, no kidding, he's he's he's different. And uh, you know,
• 43:17
  I I almost want to say, like Sputnik, the squirrel, the
• 43:22
  squirrel, the spider monkey. I don't know, man, he's just so
• 43:28
  quick. He's just like man, he's he's uh. And what's crazy is
• 43:32
  like in the beginning of the year, like I thought I talked about,
• 43:35
  you know, coaches like I just wish he was a little bit bigger because
• 43:37
  I'm just, yeah, I don't want him to get hurt. I mean,
• 43:39
  he is you know, the old the Maridian Rosters haven't put heights and
• 43:44
  weights on there for five or six years, but we all remember how the
• 43:46
  old Meridian Rosters would be. And he is a legit one hundred and fifteen
• 43:51
  pounds. Yeah, and and and he would have been as a senior under
• 43:54
  the old rosters, sure, and he might have been actually as a senior.
• 44:00
  Yeah, but the thing is is that like as the season wore on,
• 44:02
  they just needed him to play, to start on at offense and start
• 44:07
  at corner. And he's been doing it the last three or four weeks and
• 44:09
  playing well. He had an interception in this game as well, So I
• 44:14
  just you know, and I'm sure he had a huge mentor in Josh Elmer,
• 44:19
  who's not the biggest guy out there either, and and seeing what he
• 44:22
  can do at his size and and they you know, there was a really
• 44:27
  you know, kind of heartwarming almost Instagram post that Casey Brennan put, you
• 44:30
  know, thanking Josh Melmer and saying, you know, I wish I could
• 44:34
  play with you more and this was an awesome year and love you, bro
• 44:37
  and all that kind of stuff. And it's, you know, it's he's
• 44:40
  kind of he's a he's a heck of a player, and he's a lot
• 44:43
  of fun to watch. And he's got something about the way he runs.
• 44:45
  It's very fluid and easy and he can break away from some guys. So
• 44:51
  he yeah, he was fun to watch. We really sure should have gotten
• 44:53
  a picture of you two or those two with you Tyler. Yeah, you
• 44:59
  know, you know, they're both about an inch or too taller than me
• 45:02
  still. But yeah, but if you take it from the right angle and
• 45:06
  like have somebody kneel down, you can make it look like you guys are
• 45:08
  really tall. That's true. That's true. Brennan on the night though,
• 45:13
  six catches one hundred and four yards and the two touchdown passes or two touchdown
• 45:15
  receptions one from thirty three, one from six. But it's not enough.
• 45:21
  Cedar Park Christian defeats Meridian twenty four to twenty one down at one of Too
• 45:24
  High School in Kirkland. Let's see here, Tyler, the last one that
• 45:30
  is not a playoff game that we need to talk about. Here, Blaine
• 45:34
  heads over to where was this? This was at Port Townsend, right,
• 45:37
  Yeah, it was like the Jefferson County Memorial Athletic Field. Yes, Jefferson,
• 45:42
  it's right there in the middle of Port Townsend. It's actually a really
• 45:45
  cool facility, old, old, old facility. But Blaine forty eight thirteen
• 45:52
  win over East Jefferson, the rivals who we talked about before. It's two
• 45:57
  schools combining for one. So it's Port Townsend in Chimmick, and uh yeah,
• 46:01
  Blaine just absolutely goes to town Tyler, this is the way. How
• 46:07
  do I say this? This is the way for a program that doesn't have
• 46:10
  a lot of seniors, that brings a lot of guys back. This is
• 46:14
  the way to finish the season on a high note. And and that's exactly
• 46:16
  what they did. Yeah, it's tough because you know, you get eliminated
• 46:21
  from playoffs and you have to scramble for a Week ten game and you know,
• 46:25
  you get one, you gotta take the ferry, you gotta do all
• 46:28
  that thing. You gotta do all that stuff. And man, if you
• 46:31
  win those games, it's great, like you said, because it's a big
• 46:37
  time bonding thing. You're you know, it's the last game. It's that
• 46:39
  feel, you know, it's that it's that you know, happier Yeah,
• 46:45
  and fairy ride. I mean all those things kind of combined, you know,
• 46:47
  because it's like it's it's just all those things and it's it's a huge
• 46:51
  momentum boost going into the following year. And and you know, I talked
• 46:54
  to a few of those Blank players earlier in the season, and they just
• 46:59
  they just love everything about how they're being coached and how they just you know,
• 47:05
  they're learning different things about football that they may not have known, and
• 47:08
  you know, they're they're really excited about the future. These were a couple
• 47:12
  of underclassmen that were big players for them and and it's been a tough year
• 47:16
  for Blaine. I mean, you know, you arguably your two best players
• 47:20
  seniors or both get hurt halfway through the season and they're done for the year.
• 47:23
  You know, Riley Id and Hunter Bozzetti. That's that's huge if you
• 47:28
  lose those two guys, and they luckily their deepest position was probably wide receiver,
• 47:34
  and you're able to get a seniors out there like Tyler Bauma and Justin
• 47:37
  Minyarez and Jesse Deming and ky Kerwin as a sophomore, you know, filling
• 47:42
  in the role at the slot receiver where Riley Id was and and you you
• 47:45
  could still put up points and put up yards and do those kinds of things.
• 47:49
  And and this was a great game where they scored their you know,
• 47:52
  their first five times out, you know, just go down their score,
• 47:55
  get some did some really good things defensively. Victor Gerval had another great game.
• 48:00
  He's just a beast in there too, and got good speed. Like
• 48:02
  if there's a play away from the ball, he'll run it down like from
• 48:06
  his defensive tackle spot. You know he'll he'll he's pursued as fantastic and uh,
• 48:10
  I just it was a good win for Blaine. Great way to end
• 48:14
  the year in nice springboard. The win against Meridian was huge too to get
• 48:19
  that conference when was big. But this is really big too, And I
• 48:22
  really like where they're headed for Blaine. Four hundred and twenty five yards of
• 48:27
  offense East Jefferson two fifteen, So Blaine getting it done on both sides of
• 48:30
  the ball really and they were they were That's what I'm looking for here.
• 48:37
  Balanced on offense two hundred and three yards rushing two hundred and twenty two through
• 48:40
  the air. I mean, yeah, it don't get much more balanced than
• 48:45
  that, Tyler. Let me tell you. Let's see here. Jadon Piez
• 48:49
  eleven carries one hundred and twenty four yards and two touchdowns. Colby Ship a
• 48:53
  guy who I feel like we've been talking about him for a while. Here
• 48:57
  Tyler six six carries sixty two yards, two touchdowns on the ground. Colin
• 49:02
  Davis twelve of eighteen for two hundred and fifteen yards, and I see three
• 49:07
  touchdown passes. Yes, I mean is he a senior. He's a junior.
• 49:13
  Wow. I mean that's I tell you what if that doesn't motivate you
• 49:15
  to having a heck of an off season, I don't know what's gonna Yeah.
• 49:20
  And then Jesse Deming leads the way as far as receiving goes three catches
• 49:24
  seventy three yards and the one touchdown pass thirty seven yards from Colin Davis.
• 49:30
  Tyler Balma, you mentioned him. He had one touchdown reception from nine yards
• 49:34
  out. He had three catches on the day for thirty five yards. Yeah.
• 49:38
  I mean, all in all, Tyler, this is a good win.
• 49:42
  This is a really good win and something that you hope springboards into a
• 49:47
  great offseason for the Border Rights. So yeah, congratulations to those guys.
• 49:52
  Forty eight thirteen win over East Jefferson. Now this is where it gets interesting.
• 49:57
  We're we're going back here. Nooksack Valley fifty six nothing over granted Falls,
• 50:04
  Tyler. Wow, Yeah, I mean this is dominance right from the
• 50:07
  start. Yeah, and it really was. I mean they possessed the ball
• 50:12
  seven times in the first half and easily scored seven touchdowns. Granted Falls looked
• 50:17
  really good to start off the game. They got the ball first, and
• 50:22
  I don't think they handed the ball off to a running back until the third
• 50:27
  quarter. They did do one pitch and the quarterback would run a few times
• 50:31
  on scrambles, but that was about it. They were really wanting to throw
• 50:37
  the ball and try to move the ball that way. They have that quarterback
• 50:39
  that we've talked about, and they spread it out four wide, so I
• 50:43
  get it. And it's really hard to run on Knooksack, really hard,
• 50:47
  and I think, actually, I think only one team all year has ran
• 50:51
  for over one hundred yards in a game against them all year. That's impressing.
• 50:55
  And I want to say it was Baker, but it's it's And so
• 51:00
  you know, the game plan is try to throw on them. So they
• 51:04
  did, and they moved the ball down the field. They got about the
• 51:06
  ten to start out the game. And then there was a play where the
• 51:09
  quarterback was being rushed. John Stremler got him from behind stripsack. The ball
• 51:15
  comes out and a duke Ki fell on the ball. It did not pop.
• 51:22
  Everybody's good, but he recovered the football. And that's kind of where
• 51:27
  it started, because you know, you have that long drive and it ends
• 51:30
  that way, and then Nooksack can just put up big chunks of yards at
• 51:34
  a time. They do that, they score the touchdown, and then it
• 51:37
  was just you know, force a punt, score a touchdown, Force a
• 51:38
  punt score, touch I mean, that's just all it was from there on
• 51:42
  out. And every drive they would go back and forth with running backs.
• 51:45
  Okay, this is Lens's drive, this is Wintern's drive, this is Lens's
• 51:47
  drive. And they've been doing that all year. They just go back and
• 51:50
  forth on possessions and it's funny because you're like, well, Lens has like
• 51:54
  twice as many carries as Skyler does, but usually and this is no slide
• 52:00
  on either guy. They're both averaging over ten yards of carry on the season,
• 52:05
  so it's not like they're not you know, picking up big chunks of
• 52:07
  yards. But there's been a few times when on Skyler's turn he just runs
• 52:10
  for a touchdown, like on the first play, so it's uh, and
• 52:15
  he did that again in this one too. You know, forty nine to
• 52:19
  nothing at halftime, so you're thinking, okay, running clock second half,
• 52:23
  you put your a lot of teams and you know, and being a coach
• 52:25
  now, you would probably agree with this. In the second half of a
• 52:29
  running clock where it's going to be a running clock. You kind of want
• 52:30
  your guys out there for just one possession, yep. You want to get
• 52:34
  them used to playing a playing a half, sitting at halftime, and then
• 52:37
  going back out there and playing. You just want to give them that.
• 52:40
  So they put it. They went back out there for one possession and first
• 52:44
  Place Sky Ridden runs for a fifty two yard touchdown. So okay, now
• 52:49
  we could sit him down. And that was the And I think they were
• 52:51
  gonna do that drive fully on with their power with their jumbo formation where they
• 52:57
  bring them the seven offensive linemen and put John Stremler at full back. Oh
• 53:00
  boy, so you're you're bringing actually have actually eight offensive linement on the field
• 53:05
  at one time and and I and I think they were going to do that
• 53:08
  for the entire drive, and it just took one play. So then it
• 53:12
  was the backups in the rest of the game. And I was really impressed
• 53:15
  with the backups on defense. They still shut granted falls out, and the
• 53:20
  granded falls you know, they're moving the ball on other teams. We talked
• 53:23
  about it last week about how they had a guy that had this many catches
• 53:27
  and this made touchdowns they've thrown for this many yards, and even the backups
• 53:30
  played really well on defense to preserve that shutout win. And this was a
• 53:35
  must win obviously. Joey Brown was perfect nine of nine for a hundred seventy
• 53:39
  one yards. There's a lot of things to like about their team as a
• 53:44
  as a hole in this one. Nooksack Valley five hundred and forty yards of
• 53:47
  offense granted falls two hundred and four. I mean, yeah, that's a
• 53:52
  butt weapon right there. Colton Lens eleven carries one hundred and seventy eight yards
• 53:58
  and I see three touchdowns runs fifty nine, eight and one. And then
• 54:02
  Skyler Winter nine carries one hundred and fifty two yards and I see one two
• 54:07
  three touchdown runs four, four and fifty two. I mean, those guys
• 54:13
  couldn't be much more even than that. Yep, let's see here. You
• 54:17
  mentioned Joey Brown. Uh, Corey only six catches ninety five yards, Jackson
• 54:23
  Bennett two for forty seven. Yeah, I mean kind of the the guys
• 54:28
  that need to step up now for Nixack Valley did just that. That's probably
• 54:31
  the way that I would say it. And when you look at when you
• 54:36
  look at the running numbers. Twenty eight carries three fifty seven. Really,
• 54:38
  this team is athletic, but they're built around that offensive line. They're built
• 54:44
  around the trenches and yeah, I mean they're looking at the new they do
• 54:49
  that. Yeah, there are a few Polling guards that were really just so
• 54:54
  fun to watch. I mean, I saw Stremler and HOLLIYAPIYAPPI just first of
• 55:00
  all, they're very good football players obviously, but they're big, they're fast,
• 55:05
  and and they could just get to that spot and take out that linebacker
• 55:09
  and just and just put them on the ground instantly like boom. It's just
• 55:13
  a holy cow. It's so efficient and it's no wonder those guys are putting
• 55:16
  up yards. It's it's so much fun to watch. And you're right that
• 55:20
  offensive line, you know, average is about two sixty five across at the
• 55:23
  one A level, and you just don't see it very often. They're all
• 55:27
  returning starters. It's and they get along great, and it's it's it's really
• 55:32
  fun to watch. You get those guys pulling and some of these kids want
• 55:36
  to transfer right in the middle of the game, just go to another school
• 55:39
  again. Looksack Valley fifty six nothing over Granted Falls on Friday night, down
• 55:44
  in Granted Falls. Now, Tyler, the final game of the weekend.
• 55:47
  Normally we'd go to coach would right here, but and he was out there.
• 55:52
  But you're gonna talk about this one because he talked about the other game,
• 55:55
  Ferndale forty two to fourteen win on Saturday over Timberline. And this is
• 56:01
  a game that when when you look at the box score, Tyler, it's
• 56:06
  it's seven for Ferndale, fourteen for Ferndale, fourteen for Ferndale, seven for
• 56:08
  Ferndale. I mean, very what is that? Is that a palindrome?
• 56:13
  I think, yeah, right, same thing forwards as it is backwards,
• 56:16
  and then for timber Line zero seven zero seven, So you know, kind
• 56:21
  of kind of even. I mean it looks like it's kind of like the
• 56:23
  same thing in each half, but the numbers are flipped around, I guess
• 56:27
  for Ferndale. But yeah, all in all, I mean, this looks
• 56:30
  like a game looks like very How do I say, a classic Ferndale win?
• 56:35
  How about that? Yeah? This was a man, I don't even
• 56:38
  know how to explain it. It's almost like if you took like a like
• 56:43
  you look at like a major League. You watch a Major League Baseball game
• 56:45
  and the batting order, you know, is usually you know, a specific
• 56:49
  way where you kind of like have all your guys kind of there at three,
• 56:52
  four, five and stuff like that speed at the top or whatever.
• 56:54
  Sure, yeah, this was like and I maybe I'm making a whole analogy
• 57:00
  here as I think about this halfway through it, but this was almost like
• 57:04
  they kind of spread out their lineup, meaning like there was no gaps like
• 57:08
  Ferndale just every time they get the ball it was a long drive ended in
• 57:14
  a touchdown. Like. It was just very much machine like. And they're
• 57:21
  and in the during this season and in past seasons, Ferndale they they do
• 57:27
  they they they do this, but they'll break off those sixty seventy yard runs
• 57:31
  a lot. That didn't really happen in this game, and it kind of
• 57:34
  almost made it more demoralizing where you're they're picking up five, six seven yards
• 57:39
  every play and it's just kind of like, man, our defense can never
• 57:44
  get off the field. Now, if you give up a long play,
• 57:46
  the defense is coming off the field. Yeah, you gave up a touchdown,
• 57:50
  but you know what I mean. And it's just they just wore that
• 57:52
  defense down. Yeah, Well they a yards of carry in this game,
• 57:57
  Tyler. Yeah, exactly what you're talking about. Yeah, their longest run
• 58:00
  was probably less than twenty yards, you know. I mean, I think
• 58:04
  Connor Walker may have broke a long one, but it was it was just
• 58:08
  very much. You know, there's a lot of third and ones, let's
• 58:12
  just put it that way, and a lot of converted third and ones and
• 58:16
  just do that over and over again. And they're so used to now playing
• 58:20
  at home. This was this was my first time watching a game at the
• 58:22
  stadium. I know it took a long time, but it was fun to
• 58:28
  see. They do some crazy things with the lights after they score a touchdown,
• 58:34
  like the lights they do some strobe stuff and I don't know, I
• 58:37
  can't get used to it. But the scoreboard is amazing. Like even someone
• 58:42
  made it's a great tackle on his special team's play boom. It shows that
• 58:45
  player like like picture and graphic on the score bread. It's awesome. People
• 58:49
  in Walking County are not used to this. This is a brand new thing.
• 58:52
  I know that. Think about that, Tyler. There's quite a few
• 58:54
  places down here that I've seen that. This year was the first time I've
• 58:59
  ever seen the well, I've seen the LED lights, but this is the
• 59:02
  first time I've seen you know, flashing certain time doing all the crazy stuff
• 59:07
  that goes on at like baseball games nowadays, you know what I mean,
• 59:08
  Like that time. Yeah, it was the first time I've seen it at
• 59:10
  a high school stadium. Was this year? I saw it twice. But
• 59:15
  Tyler, this is exactly what you mentioned here though. You mentioned how it
• 59:19
  was kind of more of a grinded out type thing for front deal. Yeah.
• 59:21
  Yeah, if you average out their touchdown runs, six point one yards
• 59:24
  to carry or six point one yards is the average yards they scored from touchdown.
• 59:30
  Yeah, per touchdown and and and half or one of them is a
• 59:35
  twelve yard run, you know. The other ones are eight, five,
• 59:37
  six, four, and two. Yeah, I mean they didn't they didn't.
• 59:40
  They never did break one and and take off for massive yards and score
• 59:45
  from seventy five yards out. Jacob Brosel, you know what I mean,
• 59:47
  right right, It didn't have things like that score. But the score was
• 59:51
  very much the same as a lot of their other scores, like two points.
• 59:53
  You know, if you just looked at the if you just looked at
• 59:58
  the score by quarter and the overall score having watched Ferndale over the years,
• 1:00:04
  you would think there's probably one or two, you know, sweeps that went
• 1:00:07
  for a ton of yards. Sure, you know, and and you know
• 1:00:09
  there's gonna be a couple of crooked numbers in the in the column there.
• 1:00:13
  But yeah, I mean, it just it talk about just grinding it out,
• 1:00:16
  and it's I mean, you know what, sometimes that's how games are
• 1:00:20
  won in the playoffs, you know what I mean, because sometimes the weather's
• 1:00:22
  bad or you know, whatever it is, and you know, if your
• 1:00:25
  Timberline you played probably what Friday and then Tuesday and then Friday or you know,
• 1:00:30
  and I guess they didn't play a full game that Actually I don't know
• 1:00:32
  how they do the tiebreakers down there. Yeah, I can't remember how they
• 1:00:37
  do those. And I think that Timberline did have to play two sets of
• 1:00:39
  the tiebreaker. But either way, I mean, this is just a real
• 1:00:43
  thump them in the mouth and just run it right down their throats. Ferndale
• 1:00:46
  three twenty seven on offense, Timberline one eighty six for Ferndale. Connor Walker
• 1:00:52
  fifteen carries one hundred and twelve yards and two touchdowns. Phoenix Fink bond Or
• 1:00:57
  nine carries sixty nine yards and two touchdowns, Talon bung Guard fifteen carries fifty
• 1:01:02
  three yards and one touchdown, and Bishop Ootzy getting in the act five carries
• 1:01:07
  for thirty three yards, which I feel like we haven't said his name a
• 1:01:10
  whole lot as far as rushing goes. And then Jacob Gandhy, a name
• 1:01:15
  that I don't know. I think we've maybe heard once or twice on this
• 1:01:19
  podcast. He gets in the act with a two yard touchdown run, but
• 1:01:23
  he had five carries also for eleven yards, and then Ootzi five of five
• 1:01:29
  of six for forty one yards passing. I mean, if you're gonna tell
• 1:01:34
  me that he's gonna go five of six, I got a feeling. Jamie
• 1:01:37
  Plankovic was very happy about that. Lincoln Thomas leads the way and receiving just
• 1:01:42
  one catch seventeen yards, but then also bunk Guard had one catch for ten
• 1:01:45
  Walker had one for seven. So yeah, I mean, this is a
• 1:01:50
  this is a good win that now Ferndale gets a home game next week out
• 1:01:54
  of it. I mean, this is how do I say it? I
• 1:01:59
  mean, I feel like after Arlington and then after kind of the way things
• 1:02:02
  went with Getchel, you started to kind of think, oh, maybe this
• 1:02:05
  team, yeah, maybe this team isn't isn't what we thought, and then
• 1:02:08
  boom, here we are now. And you know, they're hotter right now
• 1:02:13
  than they have been all year. I mean, they're playing good football at
• 1:02:15
  the right time. Yeah. And and this is that was there now fourth
• 1:02:21
  game in a row home and now they're a fifth week in a row home.
• 1:02:23
  That's gonna be unheard of. Yeah, yeah. I mean about the
• 1:02:28
  only time you ever pull something like that is if you played, you know,
• 1:02:30
  if you played maybe two in a row at home to finish the season
• 1:02:34
  and then and then you're really high seed. Yeah, you're a really high
• 1:02:37
  seed and you just kept winning and then you you know, you kept playing
• 1:02:39
  a home game. That's about the only way you could pull that off.
• 1:02:42
  I mean, that doesn't usually happen for a team that's an eight seed.
• 1:02:45
  I mean yeah, and they man, that place gets rocking too, and
• 1:02:47
  that's a lot of fun to see. It does feel weird. I was
• 1:02:51
  talking to some of the guys in the Chain Gang, and you know,
• 1:02:52
  they've been doing a long time, and I'm like, does it I goes,
• 1:02:57
  does this feel right? And you go He's like it's still Ferndale,
• 1:03:00
  but it feels like we're doing the chain gang in an away game. Now
• 1:03:05
  tell me, because it's it's turf, right yeah, And do the stands
• 1:03:08
  face the same way? No, the other way? Yeah, So it
• 1:03:14
  really just kind of flips. So you're looking towards the woods. You remember
• 1:03:19
  the same it's in the same spot. No, it's not in the same
• 1:03:21
  spot. Okay, the school is where the stadium was the new and it's
• 1:03:24
  kind of more out towards the practice fields and yeah, okay, so the
• 1:03:29
  stadium would be then what a little west and maybe north Attad yes, okay,
• 1:03:32
  so so the stadium moved over that way and now it's facing it's facing
• 1:03:37
  what would be the old gym. Yeah, no, it's further north than
• 1:03:43
  that. Okay, all right, well yeah, yeah, so I mean
• 1:03:45
  it's it's still Ferndale because it's a Ferndale crowd, but it's a completely different
• 1:03:49
  stadium. And but you remember going up there. Yeah, you used to
• 1:03:52
  talk about when you go back there and like shaken and like the woods were
• 1:03:57
  right behind you. Yeah, you know, the train was like right there.
• 1:03:59
  Right, So now you're looking past, like if you're sitting in the
• 1:04:01
  stands, you're looking past the field at the woods, gotcha, okay,
• 1:04:04
  you know, yeah, yeah, which is yeah, I mean it's it's
• 1:04:08
  completely different, stadium, different, but it's it's still the I'm sure a
• 1:04:12
  lot of the same people. And oh, you know, because the Ferndale
• 1:04:14
  is that type of place where Ferndale, Linden, you know, some of
• 1:04:16
  these smaller places. It's it's crazy to think that Ferndale's a three A and
• 1:04:20
  as big as it is when it's still very much a small town, you
• 1:04:24
  know what I mean? And yeah, three a's do I say it?
• 1:04:28
  Three A? Typically Ferndale is not that type of a team and type of
• 1:04:31
  a city. You know, you're usually when you're in three A, you're
• 1:04:35
  part of a bigger area, you know. I mean all all three schools
• 1:04:39
  in the Bellevue School District are three A, yeah, you know, or
• 1:04:43
  and heck some Mammis might be two A, but which you wouldn't think because
• 1:04:46
  it's Bellevue, right, it's the I think the second largest city in the
• 1:04:49
  state. Yeah, is that right? Maybe Spokane, I don't know,
• 1:04:54
  but they got a ton of people there in Bellevue, I know that.
• 1:04:57
  And and Kirkland, I think we have close to one hundred thousand residents and
• 1:05:00
  we have two two A school or three A schools that are about to become
• 1:05:02
  four A. You know, so that's crazy. Yeah. Bellingham has has
• 1:05:06
  one hundred thousand, but there's three schools and they're all two A. So
• 1:05:13
  you know it's kind of tricky. Yeah, it is. But you know
• 1:05:15
  when you think of Ferndale, like I think of small town, small community
• 1:05:19
  in there, you know what I mean, I think it's just it's just
• 1:05:23
  a big area. Like the school district literally is a big area. So
• 1:05:26
  yeah, a lot of ground. Yeah yeah, Like I live in Ferndale,
• 1:05:30
  but I'm five miles from the from the stadium. Yeah yeah, yeah,
• 1:05:32
  yeah. I mean that's like we're not super close. It's like Royal
• 1:05:35
  I mean, if you if you look at the Royal City, the actual
• 1:05:39
  like coverage that they have is freaking massive. I mean it goes a long
• 1:05:44
  way. But there are one A school, you know what I mean.
• 1:05:45
  Mount Yeah. Mount Baker is the second largest after Okanagan. For as far
• 1:05:49
  as school district coverage in the state, well, well, hold on say
• 1:05:54
  that again. This was this was years ago that I saw this. But
• 1:05:59
  as far as the school district, like the area that it covers, ohch
• 1:06:03
  like square mile. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you're saying,
• 1:06:04
  because it goes all the way up into what is that Maple something up there?
• 1:06:08
  Yeah, Maple Falls in the past is glacier and like I remember,
• 1:06:12
  like it was pretty far south right, Yes, it goes like south of
• 1:06:15
  Lake Wakam. It's it's pretty crazy. Like if you go down Highway nine,
• 1:06:19
  like towards sed you're Woolley, Like right there on Caine Lake that's still
• 1:06:25
  like Mount Baker School District, And it's like if you're gonna get on the
• 1:06:28
  freeway from there, you get off at the Alger exit and it's right there,
• 1:06:30
  like you get off the Algerexit. Right there is Mount Baker School District
• 1:06:33
  and it's I mean, it's just it's huge. Like I remember going over
• 1:06:38
  to a friend's house, you know, and you know, after school and
• 1:06:42
  having dinner with their family and being like mom, can you come pick me
• 1:06:44
  up? And she's like, yeah, where are you? I'm like,
• 1:06:45
  well, I'm south of Caine Lake. She's like that's an hour away.
• 1:06:47
  How do you know that kid? I'm like he's in my math class,
• 1:06:50
  you know, I mean, I you know, it's crazy though, it's
• 1:06:54
  literally and it is one of those things. But Ferndale is it, you
• 1:06:57
  know, it's growing. I mean you drive around May like Main Street Ferndale
• 1:07:00
  at four point thirty on a weekday and you're sitting in traffic forever, so
• 1:07:05
  it is really it's Yeah, well, I guess it's just not used to
• 1:07:10
  handling. Yeah, they're not. That's what I'm looking for here, Like
• 1:07:15
  the area is just not used to being able to or needing to handle something
• 1:07:18
  like that infrastructure. Ye. Yes, yes, that's what I was trying
• 1:07:20
  to say. Good wait to pick me up there, Tyler. Yeah you
• 1:07:24
  bet. Yeah, that's very nice of you. Uh yeah. Anyway,
• 1:07:30
  let's see, is that it Tyler? Are we done? Yeah? That
• 1:07:31
  was it was. It was a statement win and then they needed it and
• 1:07:34
  they got it. Yeah, we're done with the box scores are there?
• 1:07:36
  So let's go on. Let's seehere? Are we at here? Oh?
• 1:07:40
  The pick'ems? Yeah, which, by the way, I went five and
• 1:07:44
  two, Jim Bring goes five and two. I feel like our guests have
• 1:07:47
  been hot lately. Our guests are picking better than the consensus pick. That
• 1:07:51
  has never happened. Yes, that's actually true. As of this week,
• 1:07:56
  our guests are better than consensus. Actually consensus is and if it wasn't for
• 1:08:01
  you, consensus would be in dead last. Well, tell you what kind
• 1:08:04
  of season it's been? Really weird? Well, everybody goes four and three
• 1:08:08
  except for me and Jim bring we go five and two, which, by
• 1:08:12
  the way, Jim brings me within one game of Nay, that was very
• 1:08:16
  good. I liked that. Tyler. You're at fifty and twenty seven on
• 1:08:20
  the season. I mean, at this point, Tyler, with four teams
• 1:08:24
  left, you better hope, Like, I mean, you better hope.
• 1:08:28
  So I need I need three of them to play playing for a state championship
• 1:08:30
  because you know the problem is, if if three of them were playing for
• 1:08:33
  the state championship, you're picking the same as everybody else. Eh, well,
• 1:08:38
  you know what I mean, Like, if Ferndale gets to the semis
• 1:08:41
  or they get the state the state title game, yes, I would have
• 1:08:44
  picked them all those weeks, but I don't know if anyone else would have.
• 1:08:45
  So they needed to you know what I mean, Like, I need
• 1:08:47
  them to get there. Yeah, that's true, that's true. So you're
• 1:08:50
  at fifty and twenty seven. Joe is at fifty three and twenty four.
• 1:08:57
  Let's see here the guests and Connor are at fifty four and twenty three.
• 1:09:01
  I'm now at fifty five and twenty two and Nate is at fifty six and
• 1:09:06
  twenty one. So I'm right on the heels. Yell. Tell you what,
• 1:09:10
  Tyler, I don't know what happened about Week four, but I've been
• 1:09:13
  hot. Yeah, and not only that, but uh yeah, we'll get
• 1:09:16
  to the fantasy here in a little bit. Uh well, we'll talk about
• 1:09:20
  that one in a little bit here, Tyler. But let's go on and
• 1:09:24
  let's talk about the players of the week. How about that sounds great.
• 1:09:28
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  zero zas in Salon Spot Offensive Player of the Week, Tyler. Yeah,
• 1:09:41
  there was a few ones again to choose from Josh tole had an amazing game,
• 1:09:45
  but overall getting to win, needing to win, and having a big
• 1:09:48
  game doing it. Colton Lentz Nuksack Valley, the junior running back, only
• 1:09:53
  eleven carries but one hundred and seventy eight yards on the game, and the
• 1:09:57
  three touchdowns. He had two runs of exactly fifty nine yards, one went
• 1:10:01
  for a touchdown, one didn't. Uh. You know, it was just
• 1:10:05
  an amazing overall game for him. And you know, those big time players
• 1:10:10
  will come out and play big, you know, when they need that win.
• 1:10:13
  And he you know, he's been kind of hampered with some stuff,
• 1:10:16
  you know, leg issues earlier in the year, but he looks one hundred
• 1:10:19
  percent they need him to be. There was a nice by week a few
• 1:10:21
  weeks ago. He had a great game this week. So Colton Lentz,
• 1:10:25
  the junior running back from Nicksack Valley, is your Zazen Salon SPA Offensive Player
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  six seven to one one six two seven Tyler who is the Max Hair Studio
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  Defensive Player of the Week. Well that's another junior this time Meridian in the
• 1:10:46
  loss. This is which is a rare thing, so you really got to
• 1:10:49
  stand out, but he sure did. Lincoln Hofer the senior or the sorry
• 1:10:54
  the junior defensive end six five two d and fifty pounds and runs like a
• 1:10:59
  cat, and boy, he he had one tackle behind the line of scrimmage
• 1:11:01
  where he just he just kind of reached out and grabbed like a sleeve and
• 1:11:05
  just slung him. Remember that, Like I could see, like Lawrence Taylor,
• 1:11:10
  like in my head, like there's that one sack that he had where
• 1:11:12
  he just grabbed a sleeve and flung him that. I mean, he had
• 1:11:15
  a tackle like that. He had six and a half tackles on the game,
• 1:11:17
  five of them for a loss. He also knocked a pass into the
• 1:11:21
  air. You know, the huge wingspan coming off the edge defensive end,
• 1:11:27
  he knocks a pass into the air. Went the pass went so far in
• 1:11:30
  the air, went out of the watching the film and went out of the
• 1:11:31
  shot, and then it came it came back down right on the sideline for
• 1:11:35
  Casey Brennan to intercept it right and just toe tap and stay in bound.
• 1:11:40
  So a huge play that caused a turnover. He's been quietly having a really
• 1:11:45
  big season defensively. He's their best offensive lineman as well at right tackle.
• 1:11:49
  But defensively he's really is using his speed and that overall size to really cost
• 1:11:55
  some havoc. So Lincoln Hofer, the junior defensive end from Meridian, is
• 1:11:59
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  the Week. Well, it could have been one or two players and they
• 1:12:17
  could be fighting over it. And the only reason Josh Toll from Bellingham got
• 1:12:21
  it over Wyatt Stephan, his senior running mate at Bellingham, was that his
• 1:12:27
  kickoff return went for more yards. That was that was really it and he
• 1:12:31
  did happen. Oh hold on, what were the yards? What was the
• 1:12:34
  difference here? N eighty four So six yards cost him unbelievable. Yeah.
• 1:12:42
  Toll also did to return a couple of punts, so that kind of helps
• 1:12:44
  him. But that ninety yard kickoff return for a touchdown, you know,
• 1:12:48
  you know, you were you were there, you were there in the house
• 1:12:53
  when Percy Harbin returned that kickoff return for touchdown in the Super Bowl, right
• 1:12:56
  at me. Yeah, And the thing about that was when that that started
• 1:13:00
  the second half, right yep. Yeah. And I remember when I was
• 1:13:03
  watching that, I thought, for I was like, what, he didn't
• 1:13:08
  pick it up right away. It kind of went it kind of bounced around,
• 1:13:11
  bounced, and it went right to him, is what the problem was.
• 1:13:15
  So they they if you listen to the micd up stuff, Denver knew
• 1:13:19
  that they could put it right in a spot and he wouldn't be able to
• 1:13:23
  get to it. Yeah. The problem for them was it hit and bounced
• 1:13:26
  straight up and then he was able to catch it like on the run.
• 1:13:30
  That was the problem for them. And and it's so weird because sometimes when
• 1:13:33
  a returner gets it kind of later than he you think he's going to you
• 1:13:39
  kind of the guys coming down or not really in the right spot. They're
• 1:13:44
  almost overran it a little bit, and or they're coming in too hot,
• 1:13:46
  you know what I mean? Yeah, right, and they just go right
• 1:13:48
  by it. And and uh boy. And I always watched like Deon Sanders
• 1:13:54
  his first ever punt return in the NFL. I could see it in my
• 1:13:57
  head. I Mean, he kind of bobbles it, picks it up,
• 1:14:00
  and by the time he picks it up, everyone's kind of past him or
• 1:14:01
  hitting him, and then he just takes off and runs for a touchdown.
• 1:14:03
  This was very similar with Josh Toley kind of bobbled it at the ten yard
• 1:14:06
  line and he allowed those guys to come forward a little bit more so we
• 1:14:11
  could run right past him, and he just went right down that right sideline.
• 1:14:15
  Josh Tole, what a great player, and I almost want to say
• 1:14:18
  what a great career, But it was just that one season. I mean,
• 1:14:20
  it was a magical year for him. And to top it off,
• 1:14:25
  the way he did that ninety yard kickoff return. It came in the second
• 1:14:28
  half too, so it was late in the game, and boy, he
• 1:14:31
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  Lineman of the Week Tyler It is the senior right tackle for Squalicum Colby Lewis,
• 1:15:03
  and I tell you what, when you get you know, squal Come's
• 1:15:08
  in a fun team to watch on film because of all the trickery and the
• 1:15:11
  offensive It always come up, seemed like come up with a new play every
• 1:15:15
  week and it's like, whoa, I haven't seen that yet. Oh look
• 1:15:17
  at that. And but when it comes down to grass field and it starts
• 1:15:21
  raining and it gets muddy, it's just nuts and bolts, man against man
• 1:15:27
  offensive line versus defensive line, and that's goes really good in the favor of
• 1:15:32
  a guy like Colby Lewis, who at six one, two hundred and seventy
• 1:15:35
  five pounds and athletic we're talking, plays baseball, plays third base. This
• 1:15:41
  guy can move. He this was that like that game was made for him.
• 1:15:46
  In his final, you know, high school playoff ors high school football
• 1:15:49
  game, he had a great one. Colby Lewis of Squalicum is your Belle
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  out to Tyler. You can find him on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
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  by searching watcom Preps, or email him at mister Underscore mohawk at hotmail dot
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  com. And Tyler will get just squared away. Let's talk about the fantasy
• 1:16:26
  Tyler and Uh, I mean, if I had the SoundBite, it would
• 1:16:30
  be all I do is win, win, win, no matter what.
• 1:16:33
  Another win for me, one seventy point six to one fifty seven point three.
• 1:16:38
  Valian effort on your part. My guy's just a little bit better tell
• 1:16:42
  you what this is. I mean, that's a very high scoring week for
• 1:16:45
  both of us. Yeah. I was. Actually when I was totaling this
• 1:16:47
  up earlier, I was like, man, I think I did alright here,
• 1:16:50
  and then I was like, oh, whoops, I'm not gonna lie.
• 1:16:55
  I went through the box scores before he sent him to me. As
• 1:16:59
  I saw you post him this week, I clicked on him just to just
• 1:17:00
  to see how my guys did. And I saw Josh tolet and I went,
• 1:17:03
  oh, that's a that's a nice week. And I saw Colton Lanson.
• 1:17:06
  I went, oh, okay, that's a nice one there too.
• 1:17:09
  I saw a Jaggerfife and I went, okay, that'll work. I get,
• 1:17:13
  I get I can work with that Bellingham. I'm going, oh,
• 1:17:15
  baby, all right, we're we're doing good here. Looked at Meridians Defense
• 1:17:18
  and I went, all right, not the greatest, but my build to
• 1:17:21
  get something going here, like we could be all right here. That that
• 1:17:24
  minus thirty was interesting. And then joshin Elmer and Hudson nef Obviously I didn't
• 1:17:30
  know what they had, but I'm like, I know those guys, they're
• 1:17:32
  gonna come through with something, you know what I mean, Like, I
• 1:17:34
  know I'm gonna get something good out of those guys. And then boom boom.
• 1:17:39
  I mean yeah, I mean when when I looked at that, I
• 1:17:43
  went at a kid like that. The one thing I didn't need was like,
• 1:17:45
  oh, let's just try to go for two or oh it's crazy wind
• 1:17:48
  and he happened to slip or I didn't need that, you know what I
• 1:17:53
  mean, I just needed I just needed him to put up points. But
• 1:17:55
  then I'm also looking at yours, going wow, all every time Josh tole
• 1:17:59
  scored or every time Bellingham does you know the O line, it's also points
• 1:18:02
  for you at quarterback, you know, so overall, Josh Leonard at quarterback
• 1:18:08
  for you, Tyler twenty four point four, Jagger Fife seventeen point five for
• 1:18:11
  me, Connor Walker twenty four point Are you sure you got that right?
• 1:18:15
  Hey? Yeah? I was the same for both guys. I'll tell you
• 1:18:17
  what, twenty four point four and twenty four point four. You got to
• 1:18:19
  feel really good after those two. Yeah, I was feeling pretty good.
• 1:18:24
  Yeah. Colton Lentz though, thirty five point eight for me, waking Ortiz.
• 1:18:28
  Tyler, I'm gonna tell you what. When you picked him, I
• 1:18:30
  kind of went interesting, like not exactly what I was expecting. Twenty three
• 1:18:34
  point five. I mean he had a really good game. Yeah, that's
• 1:18:39
  the most of it in the first half. Yeah. Yeah, Josh Tole
• 1:18:41
  twenty seven point three for me. So shout out Josh Tol thank you.
• 1:18:45
  Uh And for those of you wondering, the young man did send me a
• 1:18:47
  direct message on Instagram, and I don't know he said he was I think
• 1:18:50
  he said he was appreciative of me picking him or something. I can't remember
• 1:18:54
  what it was. But uh, it would just do my best to score
• 1:18:57
  points for you. Yeah, something like that, which, hey, hey,
• 1:18:59
  I'm in Like, let's go Blaine offensive line fifty nine points for you,
• 1:19:03
  Bellingham forty nine for me, Blaine's defense got you six, Meridians defense
• 1:19:11
  got me six. Brady Ackerman in your front seven two points, joshin Elmer
• 1:19:15
  seventeen for me, Connor Walker fifteen, Hudson f ten for me, and
• 1:19:20
  then Grady Evans three for you, and Boom boom Vigory eight for me.
• 1:19:26
  So yeah, one seventy point six to one, fifty seven point three.
• 1:19:30
  Tyler, you're on the ropes now, I mean you are officially on the
• 1:19:33
  ropes. And we can talk about this for a second because I am now
• 1:19:36
  seven and three on the year, which, by the way, six in
• 1:19:39
  a row. Yeah, I meanetter than a pistol, Tyler. I tell
• 1:19:44
  you what, Here's here's the issue. Well, so if they would,
• 1:19:48
  if it goes all the way to state championships, right, the best you
• 1:19:51
  can do is yeah, yeah, But if that's what I'm going to say,
• 1:19:55
  it's like, somehow, some way, it doesn't you know, I
• 1:19:58
  mean, I don't even want to talk about this, but for some reason
• 1:20:00
  Walcome County doesn't get anybody in Tyler, you're done already, exactly. So
• 1:20:05
  I'm telling I'm talking to these four teams right now that are still in it.
• 1:20:09
  So you know what the problem though, Tyler? Every time they every
• 1:20:13
  time they win and move on, just another win for me. And that's
• 1:20:16
  that's the way it's been going. Yeah, exactly. But our tradition is
• 1:20:21
  if we happen to do get to the finals, I get to pick Walkom
• 1:20:26
  County guys, you get to pick the opponents. Yeah, I got to
• 1:20:28
  pick the opponent. And then what I don't even know, like what is
• 1:20:32
  I mean? This is where we need to do a better job next year
• 1:20:34
  of keeping our numbers. What we should do is we should just we just
• 1:20:39
  need to create a spreadsheet and just put in the numbers every week as to
• 1:20:43
  how much we score, and then whoever has the most points at the end
• 1:20:46
  in case there was a tie, you know what I mean, if there
• 1:20:49
  was a tie, whoever had the most points at the end total would would
• 1:20:54
  have to get the win. I would didn't you get like, didn't you
• 1:20:56
  get like over two hundred one week? So normally did I get over two
• 1:21:00
  hundred one week? I'm pretty sure I have like one ninety on one week
• 1:21:02
  call. Yeah exactly. So, I mean this year I would definitely be
• 1:21:05
  kicking your butt. But at the same time, I mean there's still still
• 1:21:11
  some football left here. Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah. I mean
• 1:21:14
  tell you you know what you need, like a motivational speak right now,
• 1:21:17
  you know, like somebody to come in and give you something. Not you,
• 1:21:20
  Jim, Not not Jim. We don't need him. Uh maybe how
• 1:21:25
  about Ron Lepper from Mount Baker High School? Give him a call, give
• 1:21:29
  him a pep talk there. I need the help, man, he needs
• 1:21:31
  the help because right now, boy, that's a lot of lemons. That's
• 1:21:34
  what you got going on, Tyler. He got six in a row.
• 1:21:40
  It's been tough. Yeah, the the Lepperheads out there, lemonheads. Is
• 1:21:46
  that it, Tyler? We've done? Yeah, I just got. I
• 1:21:50
  mean we were completely off the rails here for the last few minutes. But
• 1:21:56
  yeah, that's it. I mean, uh yeah, that's it. I
• 1:21:59
  guess for Week ten. Here's the crazy thing. Tomorrow we're as people some
• 1:22:03
  people may know, we're recording this on a Sunday night. And by the
• 1:22:09
  way, yep, tomorrow Monday will be the first weekday since basically school has
• 1:22:16
  started that I don't have an event to go to, you know what I
• 1:22:23
  mean. There's even been a lot of Saturdays that you've had stuff to go.
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  Oh yeah. The only day that you haven't had anything to go to
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  this year has been a Sunday, Right, And I usually am watching film
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  and I'm tabulating stats and I'm getting this ready and I'm doing the fantasy and
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  so it's always a busy Seahawks score and then come in and yeah, correct
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  and uh and so yeah. So I'm actually excited to kind of wake up.
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  I mean, every Monday, I do give a shout out to my
• 1:22:49
  legacy supporter of the week, and I always pick one every Monday and put
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  that out there. But other last week, last week it was somebody I
• 1:22:57
  knew. Last week, I think it was Addison parents. It was,
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  Yes, it was Addison parent, That's what it was. When I saw
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  that one, even, I was like, oh, here we go.
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  Yeah, somebody I know, not not doesn't always happen here on walk On
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  preps. Sure, and so I'll do that. But other than that,
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  I'm gonna kind of lay low a little bit. I think I might go
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  get some lunch with joking senses and uh and watch a movie with Miss Walk
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  and preps and and just just kind of take a breather for a second.
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  So it's starting to catch up to me a little bit. I wasn't feeling
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  good on Thursday, and but uh, but boy, I'm super excited for
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  postseason in all the sports and and uh but yeah, it's it's a it's
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  a fun time of year and and glad we get to keep doing this either
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  really quickly. Yeah, because well we'll go way in depth on Wednesday.
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  Volleyball mm hmm are the state? Is the state tournament set already? The
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  teams? It's yeah. They did the seating for it about an hour before
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  they did the football ones. Okay, I don't care too much about the
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  seating because we can get into that. What sure, No, Yes,
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  one A and two A are are they are ready? Meridian and Knuksack Valley
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  are both in it in one A and Linden is in it in two A
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  from Walking County. And is Ferndale still going in three A? Ferndale is
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  still going. They're gonna be at Meadowdale on Tuesday night to continue the postseason.
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  They had to play in game on Thursday. So they won that.
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  So now they're in Uh so now they're now they can you know, now
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  they're in like where they can lose and still go forward. But yes,
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  but now but yeah, so they're at Meadowdale. There's a lot of good
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  three A volleyball teams, so it's gonna be a tough road for them being
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  on the road uh from here on now, I think so yeah, but
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  they're very they're kind of away from everybody else. So yes, that's right.
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  So there are the those are the four teams that are still left.
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  So yeah, so it's really interesting because it's three out of the four in
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  football as well. You know, Meridian though for volleyball and Lynden Christian for
• 1:24:57
  football. Oh gotcha, yeah, I see what you're saying there. Wow.
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  Yeah, and Lennon Christian not so they they got knocked out at the
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  very end by Nooksack Valley for that second berth and that broke like a twelve
• 1:25:09
  year run of Linny Christian being in the state playoffs for volleyball something like that.
• 1:25:13
  That's pretty impressive. But well we'll get into that the next podcast.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll go and we'll go in depth
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  on that one, and I think we last week, didn't we put it
• 1:25:21
  at the beginning of the podcast, like didn we put like a note in
• 1:25:25
  there like yeah, to remind ourselves. So we'll talk about that one before
• 1:25:28
  we even talk about previews for football. Next you on the next podcast,
• 1:25:31
  not I guess not next week, but it'll be on the podcast that'll come
• 1:25:35
  out. Yeah, yeah, it'll be on the preview podcast comes out,
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  but usually Wednesday Thursday somewhere in that range, so it'll be out there this
• 1:25:43
  week, and yeah, you can. We'll go over the schedule, what
• 1:25:46
  it looks like over there in in Yakama, right at the sun Dome,
• 1:25:51
  the Mini Kingdome, if you will. We'll go over schedules, what times
• 1:25:57
  the teams are playing, and then obviously we only know the game, but
• 1:26:00
  yeah, we'll go over all of that, and then we'll get into the
• 1:26:02
  football talk on the on the preview podcasts coming up here in a couple of
• 1:26:06
  days. Other than that, Tyler, uh, I think we're done nothing
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  else. That's it. That's it. We're good already. Well, he's
• 1:26:13
  Tyler Anderson of wacom Preps wacom preps dot com. I'm Ryland Spencer you've been
• 1:26:15
  listening to episode two oh eight, a recap of week ten here on the
• 1:26:19
  walkcom Preps podcast. We will talk to you in a couple of days.
• 1:26:24
  What that a couple of days