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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 340 - 2025 Fastpitch Team Previews · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Blaine's senior Shaley Daniels, and you're listening to
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five Fast Pitch Preview on the Walk
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  Speaker 1: and Preps podcast with Tyler Ryland Go Boarder Rights.
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  Speaker 2: Greetings and welcome into the watcom Preps podcast. This is
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  Speaker 2: episode at three hundred and forty, the twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 2: Fast Pitch Preview. I'm Ryland Spencer. All along with me
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  Speaker 2: as always is Tyler Anderson of WATCUM Prep.
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  Speaker 3: Tyler, how we doing doing great? Doing great? We talked
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  Speaker 3: some baseball and now we're going to talk some fast pitch.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's that time of year. It's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, overhand, underhand, we got them both. They're all covered.
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  Speaker 2: We need to give a thank you to Shale Daniels
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  Speaker 2: of Blaine. She is a senior and she gave us
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  Speaker 2: the intro there, so we will be talking about her
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  Speaker 2: and her teammates and the other nine teams around the county.
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  Speaker 2: We do need to mention that there will be no
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  Speaker 2: weekly wrap up this week, just not enough games being
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  Speaker 2: played so far, so we will just I guess I
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  Speaker 2: was gonna say double up, but it's not even really
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  Speaker 2: double up. It's like one and a half up with
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  Speaker 2: this week and next week next Sunday, Well, we will
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  Speaker 2: record on Sunday, it'll go out Monday morning. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: could listen to the baseball preview that went out as
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  Speaker 2: Tyler and I are recording on Sunday, that went out
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  Speaker 2: this morning at eight am. So be sure to go
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  Speaker 2: take a look and listen at that one.
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  Speaker 4: Tyler.
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  Speaker 2: One thing we need to talk about here is sponsorships,
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  Speaker 2: and as of right now, kind of almost everything in
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  Speaker 2: the spring has been taken up, but there's still ways
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  Speaker 2: that people can get on board. I mean, they could
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  Speaker 2: sponsor a school, they could sponsor maybe even a sport.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to sponsor all fast pitch. How can
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  Speaker 2: I do that? Can I just get my name on
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  Speaker 2: some things? I'm sure there's other ways that we can
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  Speaker 2: find them a way to sponsor something if they want
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  Speaker 2: to do that, or somebody knows somebody, how do they
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  Speaker 2: get ahold of you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And the best way is through social media. Just
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  Speaker 3: search for walk the Preps and send a message over
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  Speaker 3: and just ask how they can get involved.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Another way is just to have your ad right there
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  Speaker 3: on the you know, on the website, like just you know,
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  Speaker 3: right on the side there, and a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: do that, and that's really quick and easy, and it's
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  Speaker 3: super cheap and it gets a lot of eyeballs. So
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  Speaker 3: it just kind of throw all those things together and
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  Speaker 3: you kind of get what you're looking for after all that.
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  Speaker 3: So but you're right, there are something. There's a few
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  Speaker 3: things still available. You know, there's golf related stuff, tennis.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's been one golf match so far that
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  Speaker 3: the only tennis thing was rained out, so there hasn't
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  Speaker 3: been a tennis match yet. But I get all that
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  Speaker 3: information from some some some great people around the county.
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  Speaker 3: So I post all the results, all the numbers, all
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  Speaker 3: the names and every and and that's multiple times a week.
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  Speaker 3: So if you want to jump on that to get
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  Speaker 3: some eyeballs, that's a that's a great way to do
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  Speaker 3: it as well, you know, pushing Now seven thousand followers
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  Speaker 3: on Instagram just went up to over seventy two hundred
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  Speaker 3: on Facebook, so there's a good following. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: I keep bumping into people all the time that say
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  Speaker 3: They always ask are you Tyler? I say yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: then the next thing they always say is I love
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  Speaker 3: the podcast. So even if you wanted to be just
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  Speaker 3: like the main sponsor of the podcast. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 3: so many different things. So it always just kind of
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  Speaker 3: you know, it happens at drive throughs at fast food
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  Speaker 3: restaurants a lot, you know, because I usually order with
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  Speaker 3: an app so that then you so you have to
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  Speaker 3: give your name and then you pull up and you know,
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  Speaker 3: like I don't know, a third of the time they
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  Speaker 3: go Tyler Anderson from Welcome for Reps like that. So
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  Speaker 3: it's just it's it's just it's crazy how it's it's
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  Speaker 3: getting bigger and bigger, and now is the time to
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  Speaker 3: jump on board, so you know, reach out and ask
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  Speaker 3: how you can be involved and we'll make something work. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I just went on the website real quick and
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  Speaker 2: went to the main page and chiren up boom a
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  Speaker 2: couple advertisements right there. Then I clicked on boys soccer Boom,
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  Speaker 2: same two advertisements right there. I mean, you want a
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  Speaker 2: way to get your your face and school and you know,
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  Speaker 2: get it. I mean it's right there. Yeah, you just
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  Speaker 2: put it right there. I mean the logo is is
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  Speaker 2: right there. And by the way, if you touch the logo,
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  Speaker 2: bam you go right to the website. So and I
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  Speaker 2: mean that is on literally everything everything. So yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: reach out to Tyler on all social medias. He'll get
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  Speaker 2: back to you. He's not always the fastest. I tried
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  Speaker 2: to get back to him to sponsor some things and
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  Speaker 2: and he knew that I wasn't telling the truth. So anyway,
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  Speaker 2: so yeah, reach out to Tyler, who gets taken care of.
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  Speaker 2: As we talk about fast pitch and Tyler, you and
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned it in the Baseball preview and we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: mention it again here kind of one of the you know,
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  Speaker 2: everybody knows the status. You say, oh, two home runs,
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  Speaker 2: Well that's two balls outside the park, right, we get it.
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  Speaker 2: The one staff that a lot of people don't completely
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  Speaker 2: understand is you're gonna throw out there. You're gonna say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: slugged this on base percentage that, and then you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: go with a you know, ten sixty six ops?
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: People sometimes get a little confused by ops. So Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: if you could give a twenty second explanation on ops,
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  Speaker 2: what do you got?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think you first you have to understand on
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  Speaker 3: base percentage and slugging percentage and so on. Base is
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  Speaker 3: basically the percentage of time you get on base, simple
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  Speaker 3: as that So if it's a four point fifty on base,
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  Speaker 3: that's forty five percent of the time. And slugging is
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  Speaker 3: total bases divided by at bats, so you might have
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  Speaker 3: a five hundred slugging percentage. That's a you know, so
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  Speaker 3: when you combine the two, that's all it really is.
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  Speaker 3: It's OPS is on base plus slugging. It's and it's
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  Speaker 3: a great it's a great tool to see kind of
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  Speaker 3: someone's patience and power. It's kind of a great overall
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  Speaker 3: offensive tool to see everything. And and generally in baseball
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  Speaker 3: you have over a thousand OPS that's that is outstanding
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  Speaker 3: and fast pitch. It's probably closer to like fifteen hundred
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  Speaker 3: just because there's more offense and fast pitch, believe it
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  Speaker 3: or not, even though there's really good pitchers, but there are,
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  Speaker 3: you know, some teams that don't have the pitching, and
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  Speaker 3: so sometimes the offensive numbers can become inflated a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: So so it's a little bit bigger number. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's kind of what that.
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  Speaker 2: Means, Tyler. The one stat you don't where's where's the
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  Speaker 2: war stat?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? How can we do war.
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  Speaker 2: Plus and all those other crazy right?
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  Speaker 3: Because yeah, that's because I don't know exactly where they
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  Speaker 3: were lined up on defense when they could have made
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  Speaker 3: the play and all that stuff, you know. But but yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there are some I mean, for people that love stats,
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  Speaker 3: there's some crazy statthead dot com. There's all this unbelievable stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And I love stats, but I don't delve too deep
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  Speaker 3: into some stuff because I'm also old school, and so
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  Speaker 3: some of these new things I'm kind of like, wow,
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  Speaker 3: Like the newest thing I probably got on with his whip,
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  Speaker 3: which is walks and hits per innings pitch.
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  Speaker 2: So and that one's even been around for a while. Yeah, yeah, right,
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  Speaker 2: I mean I.
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  Speaker 3: Guess that's probably the newest one for me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think whip is one of those ones
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  Speaker 2: like whip and ops are two that maybe we didn't
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  Speaker 2: hear very much about growing up, you know, and then
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden it was like, oh, yeah, those
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  Speaker 2: are two relevant stats. Like those those are two that
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  Speaker 2: like make sense. You know walks, well, yeah, walks and
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  Speaker 2: hits divided by innings pitched, Like, yeah, that's the stat
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  Speaker 2: that that makes a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 3: Like yeah, it's kind of runners that you've given up
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  Speaker 3: for inning, you know, and that's that's that's you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's it. And what I like about both of
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  Speaker 3: those stats is that you can go back to Babe
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  Speaker 3: Ruth or Christy Mathewson and get those stats. You can't
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  Speaker 3: go back and see what Walter Johnson's spin rate was,
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  Speaker 3: you know, So there's a little difference there. And so
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  Speaker 3: I like those numbers where you can take numbers that
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  Speaker 3: we were already had for one hundred years and still
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  Speaker 3: compute a new stat. So if we lost all of
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  Speaker 3: the audience so far.
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  Speaker 2: Tel, I got something for you. Here's a question. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and I know you hate it when I do this.
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  Speaker 2: Here's a question. So if if you throw a slider
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  Speaker 2: in your spin rate is whatever, right right? What if
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  Speaker 2: Christy Matthewson throws a screwball, is that a negative spin rate?
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  Speaker 3: Like because it's going the other way? Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 2: I've never thought about that. I wonder, I wonder what
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  Speaker 2: it is like if you throw a screwball. Is the
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  Speaker 2: spin rate still the same, like even though it's going
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  Speaker 2: the other way because it's a right handed picture, but
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  Speaker 2: it's going backwards right like?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, you could look at even a circle change.
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  Speaker 3: It does the same thing. It goes backwards and I
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  Speaker 3: would I bet they do that. I've I have noticed
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  Speaker 3: like there was something about you know, like launch you know,
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  Speaker 3: angle and all that stuff, and you and if but
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  Speaker 3: if you foul one, if you foul one down in
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  Speaker 3: a way, you know, it's like it gives like the
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  Speaker 3: negative launch angle. I kind of thought that, yeah, I I,
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  Speaker 3: well it does on MB the show, So yeah, that's
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  Speaker 3: so yeah. So I would imagine it does something like that.
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  Speaker 3: It would have to go kind of the other way there.
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  Speaker 2: The other day in our jamboree, and you'd have to
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  Speaker 2: look at it on Google Maps to see how far
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  Speaker 2: away it actually is. But like left field of our
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  Speaker 2: baseball field, if you hit it onto the football field
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  Speaker 2: or even to the track, it's a heck.
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  Speaker 4: Of a poke.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it is an absolute like bomb. One of
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  Speaker 2: our big guys he hit a home run the other
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  Speaker 2: night that I go. I looked at his dad, he
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  Speaker 2: was sitting next to me in the booth, and I go,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if he hits that at the at a
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  Speaker 2: better launch angle, that probably ends up on the football field.
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  Speaker 2: And he goes, better what And I go launch angle?
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  Speaker 2: And he goes, what are you talking about? And I go,
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  Speaker 2: Like the angle the ball came off the bat, and
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  Speaker 2: he goes, why don't you just say that? He's like,
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  Speaker 2: why did you just say if he didn't get under
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  Speaker 2: it so much? And I was like, gotcha, Like I
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  Speaker 2: know where we stand for the rest of the season, sir, Like, and.
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  Speaker 3: He's been watching too much baseball tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and it's totally true too, like he because he
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  Speaker 2: had a you know, decent little uppercut to his swing
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  Speaker 2: to begin with. If he hits the ball dead in
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  Speaker 2: the middle, I mean, that ball is literally going to
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  Speaker 2: the football field.
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  Speaker 3: And I've I've seen that.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen balls bounce a couple of times and maybe
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  Speaker 2: end up on the football field, but I've never seen
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  Speaker 2: But I'm telling you, like, that ball was so unbelievably
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  Speaker 2: high like it got it got way above the lights,
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  Speaker 2: I mean way above the lights. Yeah, and it was
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know what it is down the left
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  Speaker 2: field line, but it was probably out by fifteen feet,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And so you added, you know, a good
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  Speaker 2: quote unquote launch angle to it, and oh my goodness,
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  Speaker 2: I can only imagine what stat cast would have had
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  Speaker 2: on that one. All right, Tyler, let's talk fast pitch.
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  Speaker 2: We got ten teams to talk about here, and we
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  Speaker 2: got quite a few first year coaches. I'm seeing one, two, three,
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  Speaker 2: what four? Yeah, four first year coaches out of ten.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that I don't know that we've had a
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  Speaker 2: sport that we've talked about or done a preview or
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  Speaker 2: anything about.
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  Speaker 3: We've had four. Yeah, I can't remember ever that many
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  Speaker 3: in one season. You're right, Yeah, that was pretty wild,
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  Speaker 3: although volleyball had quite a few recently, whether it was
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  Speaker 3: this year or the year before. I think it was
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  Speaker 3: this year, there was a bunch Knooksack, LC Blaine. But yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you're right. I mean it's is unique. Four of them
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  Speaker 3: is a lot. Yeah, almost half, So that's pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 2: That's one thing I've noticed about Walkam County is like
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  Speaker 2: coaches don't there's not a ton of overturn, you know,
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  Speaker 2: or you know, new coaches. It just doesn't seem to
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  Speaker 2: happen all that much up there. But we're going to
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  Speaker 2: do this in alphabetical order, just like we always do.
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  Speaker 2: So again, Bellingham owes us a little bit of money
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  Speaker 2: for starting first. With the BayHawks, We've got head coach
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  Speaker 2: Cheyenne Osorio Newsome first year. Last year, the BayHawks went
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  Speaker 2: one and twenty one. No top fifty returners. So that's
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  Speaker 2: one thing we're going to talk about a lot in
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  Speaker 2: this preview is top fifty returners, and then other returning
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  Speaker 2: players and maybe and sprinkle in a little bit some
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  Speaker 2: players that were that were on the team last year
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  Speaker 2: that are no longer on the team, whether it's graduation
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  Speaker 2: or maybe they decided not to come out, and maybe
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  Speaker 2: they're like, who was it yesterday? Was it Mount Baker?
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  Speaker 2: I think you said the in baseball they had a
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  Speaker 2: lot of players that would move over.
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  Speaker 3: And do track. Yeah, guys don't have that this year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they were stealing from the track team this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was going the other way. The road was
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  Speaker 2: turned around, if you will. So we'll talk about all
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  Speaker 2: that stuff. But yeah, we start with the BayHawks, who
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  Speaker 2: have no top fifty returners playing but are returning. But
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  Speaker 2: there are some players returning that we need to know about.
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  Speaker 3: Tyler. Yeah, and this, and I don't know a ton
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  Speaker 3: about the program yet because this was the only team
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  Speaker 3: that I didn't get a ton of information from. I've
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  Speaker 3: reached out, tried to reach out to the new coach,
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  Speaker 3: just found out about the new coach yesterday, And and
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  Speaker 3: I tried to reach out to some players, but I
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  Speaker 3: just haven't had the luck. It's been a struggle for
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  Speaker 3: the BayHawks. They did get that one win over Squalk
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  Speaker 3: them in that marathon game last year. I think both
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  Speaker 3: teams both teams were in the twenties. It was like
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  Speaker 3: twenty one to twenty or twenty four to twenty one
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  Speaker 3: or something like that. And and but the players that
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  Speaker 3: I would imagine are going to return that are gonna
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  Speaker 3: be the main one. Sammy Stormo, who a couple of
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  Speaker 3: years ago, I think she hit like four forty it
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  Speaker 3: was a down year. Last year hit two o five
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  Speaker 3: scored ten runs. She also pitched nineteen innings kind of
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  Speaker 3: out of necessity, just because they didn't have pitching. And
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  Speaker 3: she's just, you know, good softball players, so you say, well,
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  Speaker 3: why don't you try and tow Strake And and then
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  Speaker 3: the twins Eden Johnson and Emma Johnson.
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  Speaker 4: Emma.
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  Speaker 3: Emma is more of a pitcher. She threw twenty four
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  Speaker 3: innings last year. She could be the one relied upon
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  Speaker 3: to throw the most. And then her sister Eaton is
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  Speaker 3: a catcher, so they maybe they worked on that over
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  Speaker 3: the offseason. They could have some an influx of talent.
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  Speaker 3: I did hear about that, but that's really all I
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  Speaker 3: know so far about Bellingham. They did have a game
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  Speaker 3: last week, but it was it was postponed or canceled,
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  Speaker 3: so I and they don't have a game changer yet,
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  Speaker 3: so they haven't started. So there's just it. It's the
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  Speaker 3: biggest mystery to me right now, or as the Bellingham
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  Speaker 3: fast pitch team. So this is about all I can
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  Speaker 3: give you right now. The rest of the teams, I
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  Speaker 3: have a lot more information, but for right now, that's
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  Speaker 3: all I know. Didn't know Johnson and Johnson makes batteries, Tyler, Yes,
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  Speaker 3: battery is very good. Oh, very good.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's move on and talk about the Blaine
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  Speaker 2: border Rights, another first year head coach Riley Miller. Last
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  Speaker 2: season the border Rights fourteen and eight. And I'll tell
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  Speaker 2: you what, they return A lot of athletes from the
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  Speaker 2: top fifty countdown last year Tyler four at ten, twenty one,
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  Speaker 2: forty one, and forty six. Let's talk about them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that was a team that was loaded with
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  Speaker 3: a lot of seniors. Last year. They came up short
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  Speaker 3: in the district tournament. There was only gonna be one
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  Speaker 3: seed going and there was a lot of good teams.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Baker's always really strong, Elsie was finishing really strong.
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  Speaker 3: Nok Sack, you know, they they were they had to
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  Speaker 3: you know, play a play and just to get into
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  Speaker 3: it against Meridian and Nuksac you know, kind of came
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  Speaker 3: on strong at the end too, and they and they
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  Speaker 3: actually beat Blaine in that first game, and and or
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  Speaker 3: might have been the second one. It was the late one.
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  Speaker 3: I remember that because went extra innings and it was
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  Speaker 3: just and and all of a sudden, Blaine season was
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  Speaker 3: done and it kind of ended pre prematurely, and and
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  Speaker 3: so I know there's some unfinished business there. And they
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  Speaker 3: did lose a lot of talent, you know, especially uh
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  Speaker 3: Emerson Baker, who was such a great pitcher and for
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  Speaker 3: multiple years. And so that's gonna be their biggest question
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  Speaker 3: is who's gonna pitch. And the thing about what's great
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  Speaker 3: about locally with fast pitches, there's a lot of great
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  Speaker 3: youth programs out there, especially the Walk and Wolverines, uh
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: and there and jumped on as a sponsor this year,
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: and so there's like the nine U and eleven U
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: and all that stuff. So they they so that because
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: of that, you see a lot of really good freshmen
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: that come in and can play right away, So maybe
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: they're going to rely on a freshman pitcher. If not,
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: it might be Shale Daniels who gave us the intro.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: Shaley Daniels, who is just kind of a great athlete,
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: fast pitch player. Period. Where two years ago when they
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: got I think they ended up getting like fourth in state,
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: and she was a big part of that team as
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: a sophomore and she was playing, you know, all around
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: the infield basically. But then last year she caught out
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: of you know, necessity, like they just needed a good catcher.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: They had a great pitcher, they needed a great catcher,
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: and so she, you know, she she answered the call
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: and she did it. So I really don't know where
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: she's gonna be in the field this year, but I
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: tell you what, she can really hit. She added five
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: sixteen last year, five doubles, three home runs, twenty five
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: RBIs only seven strikeouts in sixty two at bats so
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: slugged seven seventy four thirteen eighty five on base percentage.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: So offensively, there is no doubt she will be the
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: main focus of that offense. So around her, Mason Pools,
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: who's just a junior, has a lot of varsity experience.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: She's she you know, usually is a kind of a
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: leadoff type player. Thirteen stolen bases, about a two forty
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: two last year, had sixteen hits, did have a home
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: run as well, and she'll probably, you know, probably play
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: in the outfield. I would imagine she's done that over
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: the last couple of years, but you never know. Things change.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: Breece Smith, who came on strong last year. Three sport athlete,
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: four point zero student. I just coached her in the
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: basketball in the All Star basketball game, and yeah, she's
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: just an amazing kid and she really gets after it,
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: so she will give everything she has. She'll probably play
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: in the outfield as well. She had she had a
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: two ninety nine ten RBIs. She had twenty hits and
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: an aggressive and this does not surprise me at all,
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: only five walks. She is aggressive. She's just an aggressive
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: athlete in whatever she's doing, and she will, you know,
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: she will give every single thing she has, which I
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: love that too. And Aleah Bowman was a great, great
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: player as a second basement last year. I could see
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: her playing shortstop. Unfortunately I was at the playing game
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: at the district tournament where she where she rolled her
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: ankle and it looked a little more serious than that
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: it might have been a break and that was the
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: very final game of the year for basketball, So I
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: would imagine that she's probably not going to be ready
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: to start the season, which is a huge blow because
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: she was probably their second best offensive weapon coming back,
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: had a couple doubles. A triple seven RBIs a nine
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: to seventy one OPS, which is pretty dang high. So
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: those are the those are the four main main players
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: coming back. They have a lot of experience. They all
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: reached the top fifty last year. Shayey Daniels was ranked
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: number ten, Bowman was number twenty one, Poulse was forty one,
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: and bre Smith was number forty six. So, like I said,
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: between them, I don't know if any of them are
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: going to pitch, but there'll be plenty of offense from
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: that group.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: You know, Tyler, the four returning top fifty members is
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: not even like like they're they're like tied for fourth
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: in terms of like teams how many they bring back.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Walker County brings back a ton of players this year
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: out of the top fifty. I mean, it's it's actually
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: pretty crazy when you I mean, we're gonna get into
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: a couple of teams here that have a ton returning.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: But yeah, let's see do we talk about the others
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: returning because you only got one listed here and doesn't
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: have a lot of numbers, Tyler, But that intrigues me
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: if if you've got her in.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: Here, yeah, well I put her in there just because
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: you're right, Matt. Matty Musto was on the you know
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: team the whole year. Blaine rarely subbed. I mean, they
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: they kind of had their like their set nine or
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: ten players that they used constantly. Maddy Musto did go
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: two for three with a double, so that's pretty promising.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: And you know, the rest of the team is filled
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: out with a lot of new names that I don't
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: know about whether they're they were JB players last year
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: or they're incoming freshmen. So we're gonna have to wait
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: and see. Riley Miller probably knows these kids. She's been
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: an assistant for a while. She was a great player
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: at Blaine not that long ago, so so she's been
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: she she knows the program. She's she's been with the kids,
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: you know for years now, so it's not like she's
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: coming into something new. But when you go on the
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: team roster, it is a lot of new faces. And
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: again that's the thing about fast pitches, that's the sport
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: probably more than any that I after like two weeks,
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden, I know a few dozen more names.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's it. It jumps on me fast, way
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: faster than any other sport. So so, and I would
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: imagine Blaine will be a team that will have a
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: lot of names like that, especially if Bowman is hurt,
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: because there's a lot of spots that are open right
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: now for you know that that were filled by the
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Jordan Vezzetti's and Taye Zadas and all these you know,
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Bella Vizetti, and there were so many great players that
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: they lost from last year. So and obviously Emerson Baker,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: who was the number five player on the Top fifty
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: list last year. So so yeah, so it was a
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: there's gonna be a lot of spots there. And it's
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: a really really tough, tough league and even the especially
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: the one A. And we don't know yet if twelve
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: teams are going to go to State or sixteen. We
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: don't know yet how many births are going to come
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: out of the district. I'm just talking one a here,
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: and and we don't know yet if you know, if
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: it's one, are they going to glue to another district
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: and try to you know, try to do like a
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: by district or try district type thing. And and uh
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: and they were supposed to find out pretty soon after,
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: you know, because they have to have so many teams
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: in the classification to see if you're going to play
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: twelve or sixteen at State. It's been twelve the last
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: couple of years, and it's really hampered Walking County because
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: you know, there's there's usually a couple of state you know,
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: caliber teams, and like last year, only one got to go,
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: you know, and it was a shame. I mean, Baker
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: went and they and they did pretty well, but like
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Lynn and Christian was right there. They had to they
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: had to come back and beat Lend and Christian twice
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: in one day just to get there. And and Blaine's
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: a really strong team. I mean, they're all pretty strong.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: So we'll have to say it's gonna take a blot,
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: you know, to get there if it is just one,
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: but we'll have to wait and see if it will
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: be more than one, and if and if so, Blaine
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: is right there in the mix.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: You know, honestly, Tyler, it's kind of ridiculous that they
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: just don't go with sixteen, you know what I mean, Like, sure,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: I get it if the numbers in the classification are
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: really low, but if it's like, yeah, we're waiting to
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: see we're right along that number, then you're like, one off, Yeah,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: just do it, Like you know, one of the things
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: that's always driven like kind of drives me crazy about
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: the WIAA is like on their mission statement or something
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: they talk about, you know, opening up opportunities for high
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: school athletes. Well then why are you shutting it down?
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Why are you making it less? Like you know what
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, Like, I don't know, It's just one of
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: those things that just drives me absolutely nuts. If if
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: it was thirty five teams in a classification, then yeah,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: I understand, right, But we're talking about what like the
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: fifties and sixties, like just go to sixteen.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Who cares? It's so dumb?
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Are are those extra couple of games really gonna change something?
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Like you did it with sixteen teams for how many years?
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: And it worked just fine, So what are we doing here?
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: But anyway, yeah, that is the Blaine Border rights. Let's
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: head down. I five a little bit, Tyler and get
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: into your neck of the woods here with the Ferndale
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Golden Eagles head coach Brittany Aredondo nine to nine last
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: year for the Golden Eagles, returning just one on the
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: top fifty countdown. But it's literally number one, Tyler.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Kalen blakely Is. You know, I've been following fast
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: pitch for a while and there's been some great players,
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: the McDowell twins at Sea Home, Riley Anderson Lyndon. You know,
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: there have been some super superstars. And she she is.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: I don't know if she's, you know, the best I've seen,
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: but she could be. And and I say that because
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: I haven't even seen her senior year net yet. The
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: funny thing is the other three I mentioned, I nabbed
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: him all from my co ed slow pitch softball team
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: and that's why we just whooped everybody. But but yeah,
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: I she is. I don't know if I've ever been
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: to a game where she didn't hit one out, and
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: I mean it's just happens every time. I've probably been
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: to three games where she's hit multiple home runs. I
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: think your parents have a tracker on how many she's hit,
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: like in club ball, and like everything combined and it's
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: it might be triple digits. I don't know, but she
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: just she just has a really quick bat and and
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: she has that ability to and you'll know what I'm
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: talking about, but I don't. I don't. I just don't
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: know if some people will. But like, like let's say,
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: like on an inside pitch, she has a way to
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: pull it down the line without hooking it. Does that
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: make sense?
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Like like.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Like that's really hard to do, and it'll her hands
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: inside really fast, right, and she'll do that and it's
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: like that one's hook and foul. No, it's gone, and
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: it's like what and and so you see things you
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: just don't normally see. And other than her, it's a
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: really young team and that one of the things I
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: kind of worry about is you know, how many times
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: is she gonna get pitched around and stuff like that,
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: But she keeps her cool. It happens a lot already.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: She's a catcher and and that's gonna be huge too,
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: because you know, if you look over on the side
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: of the stats. They're returning pitching. There isn't a ton
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: you know, last year they lost Mallory Button shown who
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: pitched the majority of the innings last year. She's off
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: playing college right now. And h and Jay and Jaysina
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Luan was number eighteen on the list, and I think
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: she I think she transferred to Lumby Nation because I
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: saw her playing some basketball this year. So, uh so,
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: there's there's some openings there, and there's a there's a
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: handful of players though to have varsity experience. It's just
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: which ones are gonna you know, step up and and
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: you know and be the top players for the Golden Eagles.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: Uh yeah.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: And then I mean, Tyler, you mentioned there isn't a
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: ton of pitching returning. I'm looking down here at the
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: other returning players and I see two point three total
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: innings returning. But offensively, these players have some serious experience.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: And you've got one, two, three, You've got seven listed.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: And I recognize one name here, Castleberry. Yeah, I do
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: remember that Castleberry. Was it Xander Xander Castleberry? I do
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: remember Xander Castleberry. But yeah, I mean, Tyler, these are
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: girls that have you know, I'm not gonna like when
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: you go down one more team here. This girl had
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: one hundred and four at bassets when had eighty five.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: But we're talking thirty forty. You know, quite a few
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: played appearances with these seven girls that are in the
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: others returning if you will.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then so there's a lot of experience there,
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: and there's something to like about all of them. I mean,
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: Madeline Sleven is a great leadof hitter. She did hit
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: a home run last year, so there is some potential
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: there for power. She hit three doubles, but really good patience,
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: sixteen walks she gets on base. See her, I could
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: see her leading off or batting at least one or two.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Haley Pavett, uh, you know she she scored twelve runs
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: and knocked in four and she had a handful of
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: at bats. Kate Johnston two, who I believe is a
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: left handed hitter, had two doubles, a triple, knocked in six.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: Hannah Swan had two hits, they were both triples. Has
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: a lot of speed that you can flash in the outfield.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Really good athlete. Sianna bob is a good third baseman,
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: hit two hundred last year. Salice Castleberry, like you said,
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: is another good infielder. Amaya Servinknock is a really intriguing
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: player because she I don't think she was on the
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: varsity roster early on in the season, and she came
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: on late and really started to hit the ball. Had
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: ten hits batt at three thirty three. She might be
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: providing that protection behind Blakely. She could pitch a little bit,
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: So it's gonna be really interesting. They have had one
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: game they played down in Stanwood. They lost eleven to one,
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: and uh, I mean, I have no clue if stan
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Wood's a juggernaut or what. I did watch a handful
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: of that game actually was going on while you and
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: I were talking on the phone a couple of days ago.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: It was actually happening at that exact moment.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Wait, weren't we talking at like three o'clock in the afternoon.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: I thought it, Well, maybe maybe I was, maybe I
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: was contacting a parent to get pictures for me down
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: there something that I think the game started at five.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: That's that's that's what it was. So so yeah, but
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: it was but you know, they they struggled in that one.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: They only had two hits. Of course Blakely had one
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: of them. Yeah, yeah, and uh so it's gonna be
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: really unique to see. Obviously the pitching where you know,
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: how is that gonna come along? And uh they did
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: have someone's start that I didn't recognize, and it could
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: have been a freshman or a player from JV last year.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: I believe her name is Charlotte Simon, and she pitched
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: the beginning of the game. Uh Amaya Suvenot came in
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: and pitched the rest of the game. But it might
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: be one of those things where it might be a
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: slow start for them as far as giving up runs
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: just because the pitching is going to have to catch up.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: But I think the offense will be there. Obviously, Blakely
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: is the big time player, but a lot of these
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: other players have potential to do some good things, and
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: if it starts all coming together at the right time,
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: that'll be huge. Now, the tough thing is, you know,
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: the Northwest Conference is loaded. It's got all these different
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: teams from different classifications in it, and then once the
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: postseason hits and it breaks off there, it's just three
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: a from there on out for Ferndale and that's where
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: it's going to be tough. So so we'll see how
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: they do in the conference last year they went five hundred.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Could be a similar year.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Charlotte Simon pitcher number eighteen freshman, Tyler, Oh, there you go. Yes,
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: so you were right, And even I had a schedule,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: you were right there. So all right, let's let's see
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: where are we at here Linden. I guess I should
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: say that's it for the Ferndale Golden Eagles. Now we
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: talk about the Lynden Lions. Ryan Dykstra, first year head coach.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Last season, the Lions twenty one and eight on the year.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: And when you talk about two returning players, Tyler, yeah,
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: I mean these are two premium players here. This is
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: a six and a fifteen. And I'll tell you what,
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: I don't know, if they're playing the right sport, they
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: might need to do track thirty four and twenty three
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: stolen bases, Like, that's a lot of stolen bases. When
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: I don't remember who it was, there was somebody up
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: here further somebody that had like thirteen or fourteen stolen bases,
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: and I was like, that seems like a lot in
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: fast pit, or you know, a good amount. And then
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: I scrolled down just a little bit and I went, oh,
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: never mind, Like this, it's not as many and both
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: of them over twelve hundred on the ops. I mean,
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: this is two very big time players that are returning
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: for the Lions.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know last year going twenty one and eight
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: that it was kind of a surprise year. I think
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: it was kind of supposed to be a year where, well,
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: let's see how they do, and things clicked pretty well.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: They gone all the way to State. I went out.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: It was my first time seeing those games over in
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: Sila and really, you know, cool kind of complex they
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: have there and it was fun to you know, pop
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: over and watch Stegal Woolly to compete against the other
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: best teams of the state. Segio Wollie went on to
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: win the state championship. And but yeah, those two players
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: are talking about Campbell de Young and Melanie Anderson. They've
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: been you know, they've been doing it since they were refreshman.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: Campbell is still just a junior. Campbell de Young. I've
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: said it a million times. I mean, she's the Ricky
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: Henderson of Walkin County. They have her batting third now,
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: so you know she because she does have some pop
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: in that bat. She had eight home runs last year,
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: eight doubles, four triples twenty five RBIs like you said,
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: thirty four stolen bases a four to seventy one average.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: I was talking to an opposing coach on Saturday afternoon
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: and we were talking about a few different teams and
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: Linden had played earlier that day and actually lost to
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: Port Angelus. They got kind of got roughed up by
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: the rough Riders. It was ten to zero, and it
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: was kind of it was just surprising. You just don't
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: see that with Lindon. And I was talking to that
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: about that with the opposing coach and we were talking
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: about Campbell de Young and she goes, well, she's a
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: if she gets on base, it's an automatic triple. Like
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: there's just nothing you can do about it. She is.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: She's just that good every single time. And and there
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: was the game against Burlington, you know, to get the
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: winner to state the loser done game on that. I
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: think it was like the Saturday afternoon and Joe consensus
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: and I went down there and this was it, this
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: could be it type game. And she was the catalyst
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: for that, what she did on defense as a second
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: baseman and then what she did on the bass paths
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: and scoring runs, winning that game of something like three
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: to one or something. I mean, she was the big
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: time reason why. And so she'll be back in that lineup.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: Melanie Anderson, she got moved. She's the shortstop. She got
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: moved to the to the leadoff spot. She was the
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: second hitter before. So yeah, brings the left handed bat.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: She can she can slap it if needed. But she's
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: got some pop as well. Three home runs, seven doubles,
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: two triples, thirty RBIs, twenty three stolen basis, So she'll
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: take off and run two. I've actually coached her in
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: two different sports, believe it or not. I coached her
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: in that game on Friday night and UH and she
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: also took second place in the three point shootout. And
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: at the same time, I coached her when she was
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: a freshman on the on that UH and that adult
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: co ed team just because her older sister, Riley was
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: on the team, and so she brought her younger sister
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: mel and she came out and played and played some
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: second base with us. And she was only a freshman
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: and and I didn't really know that much about her.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: And now here she is and and being one she's
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: one of the top players in walkin County, which is
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: pretty cool. So those those two definitely will be the
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: leaders now they're starting. They started out zero to two
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: playing against Port Angelis and Aberdeen, and they only picked
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: up three hits in those two games, all three of
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: them from Campbell to Young of course Tyler. Just so
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: you know, here looking at last year's state championship to
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: a bracket. Port Angelis finished fourth, okay, and they did
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: beat Lyndon. They knocked them into the consolation round and
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: Port Angels also knocked out Aberdeen in the game to
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: get to third fourth place game. Oh wow, so they
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: scheduled some tough opponents.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so potentially to tea. I mean, who knows what
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: they bring back obviously, but two teams that last year
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: were you know, at the end of the year finishing
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: I would say, you know, fifth place or better. So yeah,
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: they're playing on the last day. Yeah exactly. I mean
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: they were all the way down to it basically as
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: far as you can go. I mean that third fourth
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: place game takes place at the same time as the
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: championship game. So yeah, I mean Port Angelis and Aberdeen
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: two you would think formidable opponents to start the year.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: So it's always good to schedule like that, though. You know,
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: it's always good to schedule outside the county, and you know,
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: try to get in as many games against tough teams
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: as you can to find out where you're at or
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: where you need to improve. And as we look down
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: at other returning players, Tyler, I see a pitcher here
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: with forty seven and a third innings, and then I
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: see quite a few at bats from some of these players,
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: some players that put up some pretty solid numbers over
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: the year.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there are a few players that are returning that
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: were kind of near the bottom of the lineup that
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: will be moved up a little higher now. Kaya Toll
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: was a nine hitter, left fielder, left handed batter. She
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: could bunt really well. She'd probably get moved up to
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: the two spot now, and so, you know, as her
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: game improves, she'll be kind of in between Melanie Anderson
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: and Campbell Dey Young in the lineup. Most likely, Rebecca
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Powell will probably do the catching. She can provide a
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: little bit of pop. She had three doubles seventeen. RBI's
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: Callie Raymerman was the second pitcher last year, but she
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: ended up pitching quite a bit. Trinity Andrew would did
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: did most of the pitching, and then Calli would come
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: in and do a little bit here and there. But
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: she went two and three. She had a couple saves,
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: four point one four e Ra struck out seventy four
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: batters in forty seven and third, so she does bring
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: it a little bit. And those are kind of the
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: three with the most experienced. There are some other players
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: with experience, you know, Sierra Lankar or Lady Asama have
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: just just a few at bats, but they got to
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: you know, got to got to ride that and see
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: that state run and stuff like that, which is always nice.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: And then you got you know, the the mcve's, there's
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: just coming out of their ears. With mcve's, Emily McVie,
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: Sarah McVie, Kylie mcvee, Emily clown Car, they just keep
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: coming out. Yeah, Emily can pitch a little bit. She
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: struck out eight batters in three innings, didn't even allow
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: a hit or run. And then Sarah mcvih and Kylie
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: m they each had a handful of at bats. They
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: each had three hits. Kylie mc you know, they did
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: a lot of pinch running. Kylie mcviee had ten runs scored,
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: Sarah had six, so so there there is a handful
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: that have some experience, there's a handful that has a
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: lot of experience, and then you have you know, the
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: two superstars, so it's it's kind of a it's kind
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: of a unique group ed Bomber stepped down as the coach.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: Ryan Dykster comes in longtime assistant, so it's kind of
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: the same deal as it is in Blane. You have
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: a longtime assistant that's taking over, so you know, he
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: knows the kids. There's not gonna be any issues there.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: So it's uh, but it was just it was just
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: strange to see them start zero to two, just because
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: you just don't see that very often. But you know,
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: Lions aren't afraid. They're gonna go play anybody, and they
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: proved it and they took their lumps a little bit
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: in those first two games. But you just don't you know,
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: you don't really doubt Lindon. You know, it's in pretty
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: much anything, right, you know, they'll be they'll be good.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know they will. Well, they just have
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: too much talent and there's too much tradition and if
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: things aren't going well, they're gonna get it straightened out
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: pretty quickly. That's kind of how I look at it.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: And there were some big time players they lost, Children
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: de Young, the right fielder, Casey Thomas was unbelievable. She
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: was the number three player on the list. She was
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: the catcher. She's playing college right now, Sierra Alexander the
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: center fielder, Trinity Andrew the pitcher. All those players were
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: in the top fifty last year that are gone now.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: So you know, some tough players to replace. But you know,
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: that's why you know that. Every year, you know, some
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: players move up in the lineup and then you see
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: who fits where and you make a run at it.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: That's why you play the game, Tyler, That's why yeah
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: play that game.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, play to win that game. Yeah.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: All right, that's Lyndon the Lions. Let's talk about Lynden
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: Christian the Lynx head coach Tom Zilstra. Last season fourteen
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: and ten for the Links, as you mentioned it, team
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: that you know, probably should have had a better end
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: to the season, but they weren't able to get past
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: Mount Baker and only that one team gets through.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: So this is a team that.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: When we talk about returning some talent, Tyler, we've got
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: six players from the top fifty. We've got seven, seventeen,
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: twenty four, thirty one, thirty five, and forty three. I mean,
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: and and you've got a mix here. You've got some hitters,
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: you've got some speed, and you've got one hundred and
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: twenty one innings pitched coming back as well.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just from one player, yeah, and actually from another.
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: As they say, one hundred and forty six innings overall,
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty one from one one girl.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: Right, And if you look at their combined record and
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: you look at this last season's record, it's you know,
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: it is what it is. It's the same thing. I mean,
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: they basically bring back, you know, ninety percent of their team.
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: And that's what's scary is because by the end of
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: the year they were really really coming to get I mean,
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: they had some few bumps here and there, but then
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: at the end, especially the offense. And you know, I
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: tell you what, it was unique thing because they played
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: out at bender Fields, which is not it was there
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: was just some stuff going on and they moved the
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: tournament and that. Yeah, so they end up playing them
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: all there, which was closer for everybody. It's much closer
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: than Segar Woolley. I mean, they're all county teams, so
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: they're playing out of bender Field out in Linden. The
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: one unique thing is that there, even though there there
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: is a home run fence, it's more of a home
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: run fence for like slow pitch softball. I mean it's
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: a short one for slow pitch softball, don't get me wrong.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: I mean I've even me I've accidentally hit hit one out,
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: like you know, when you've hit too many and it's
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: an out and a run for the other team. It's
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: happened a couple of times where you're just trying to
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: hit it hard up the middle and then it just
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: just goes off the bat. So it's not like super close,
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: but it's further away than you know, any regular fast
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: pitch that you in high school. So because of that,
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: there were a few times when Elsie had some deep
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: shots in the gaps that ended up as a double
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: or a triple when they would have been a home run.
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: And then there were times when they didn't take up
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: or they didn't and it was just that's what that
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: that's kind of what happened to them. And it's like
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: it's almost that they would have played those games. You know,
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: on a regular field, it could have been different. But
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: now you get a whole new year. All these players
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: are coming back and they are they they could be
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: the favorites as far as Walkham County goes in the
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: one A. You know, Mount Baker is always a threat.
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, they just they just have that pedigree right
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: now and they've been doing well for so long. So
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: that's gonna be you know, that could be the big,
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: big matchup once again when you return Cassidy van Sos
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: or van van sist I should say that is that's
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: the big big thing. This will be her third year
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: starting as the as the as the starting pitcher. But
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: she also brings back a great bat left handed hitting
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: bat she's a right handed pitcher. She struck out one
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: hundred and forty nine batters and one hundred and twenty
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: one innings a three point zero seven ERA. She went
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: thirteen and eight on the year, but like I said,
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: a really good hitter too. She she led the team
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: with a five to twenty five average, eight doubles, four triples,
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: a home run, had thirty nine RBIs way out in
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: front and that doesn't walk or strike out very much.
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: She puts the ball in play. She's a great three hitter,
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: you know, coming from the left side of the plate.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: So bringing her back is huge. She'll bring back that
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: like that leadership and those kinds of things, and it's
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: gonna be you know, she'll be one of the best
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: players in the county. And then Taya Vandercoy is is
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: really I mean, she was a freshman last year, she
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: kind of played in different positions, and then she found
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: her niche at second base and she started leading off
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: and then she became one of those great leadoff hitters too.
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: Her first at bat of the season, they also went
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: down and played against Port Angeles and she she let
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: off the game, she hit a home run the left
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: center field on a rope. So she's been, uh, she's
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: been kind of you know, putting in the time in
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: the in the old batting cages and and it's and
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: it's showing. It's showing right now. She had five home
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: runs last year, batted four to sixty six, uh, seven
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: stolen bases, seventeen walks, so very patient as well, which
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: is great from the leadoff spot. And then Courtney Tolzma
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: is another player where she caught a little bit, but
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: she'll probably play shortstop. She's also just a sophomore. You
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: start looking around this team and you start you go, yeah,
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: they're gonna be pretty good this year, but they're gonna
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: be they could be even better the next few years,
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: and that's kind of scary. She had ten doubles and
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: three triples, and that is she's got speed, speed, speed
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: to burn. She was on that basketball team that got
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: third and state twenty four RBIs, nine stolen bases, she
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: batted three forty four and had more walks than strikeouts.
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: So a player that can do a little bit of everything,
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: like I said, catch in a pinch, but probably more
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: suited as a shortstop. Roxanne Lenning is you know, if
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: she didn't have Castid van Syst in front of her,
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: she would be a starting pitcher for a lot of
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: these other teams' She's a player that like I think
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: she plays on like the eighteen U team, but she
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: was only fourteen years old. Like she's like for the
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: Walk and Wolverines. She's one of those players that has
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: probably played up a lot. I heard from another parent
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: that has a kid in her grade from another school
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: that like growing up like all the kids were afraid
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: of her, not because of her demeanor, but like like
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: she would hit ropes and she could throw harder and
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: everybody and she was just one of those. She was
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: just earlier advanced than everybody and she and she did
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: it last year. She was a freshman. Last year she
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: had six triples, which I think led the counties. Think
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: she had three of them in that tournament when I
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: was talking about the deep fences. She did hit a
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: couple of runs twenty one RBIs three sixty five average.
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: She came in and got a couple saves, had a
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: three point nine to two EI race, struck out thirty
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: five batters in twenty five innings, So she might get
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: a little bit more time. She did pitch one inning
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: against against Port Angeles. But for right now, cassty is
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: that is that main player in Roxanne. She will just
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: be the quote unquote the extra hitter in the lineup
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: because you want to get that bat in the lineup
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: and then you know, if need be, she can come
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: in and pitch at the end. I haven't seen her
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: play another position, so I don't know if she does,
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: but but she she's a really impressive ass athlete that
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: she will she will become like once once she takes
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: over as the main pitcher, she will be kind of
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: one of those those main main players around the whole
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: county that everyone will have to take notice of. Hannah
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: Turpstraw is an outfielder that did really well last year
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: about at three ninety six, twenty one hits, a double,
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: a triple, ops of nine to sixty eight. Another player
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: that's patient thirteen walks to just twelve drakeouts. Like I said,
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: you just there's so many of these players that return
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: with these with these huge numbers. And then Taylor Craig,
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: who I believe is just a junior's been starting at
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: first base since her freshman year. She's a cleanup hitter,
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: a baut in two sixty four twenty four RBIs stole
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: nine bases, really really good defensive first baseman, one of
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: the best. So all those players, like you said, six
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: players that were in the top fifty last year, that
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: is uh, that's a lot to have returning. And coach
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: Zulstra is gonna have a little bit of fun this year.
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: I think they're gonna they're gonna turn some heads to
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: do some pretty good things. They they did lose to
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: Port Angeles, but it was eight to three, and like
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: you said, there was a team that did some good
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: things at two A level and state last last year.
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: Uh as far as other returning players, go, Tyler, You've
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: got six names listed here. Now none of them have
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: i would say eye popping numbers or anything like that,
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: but there is a steady consistent you know, you look
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: at the artis if you will. I mean, yeah, five
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: out of the six have have RBIs. Four out of
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: the six have five or more RBIs. There's some stolen bases,
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: there's a couple of doubles, There's plenty of hits to
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: go around. So and one girl here scored eleven runs.
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's there's plenty of numbers here, but maybe
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: nobody that you look and go probably should have been
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: in the top fifty or could have been in the
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: top fifty last year. But definitely some talent returning as well.
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like I said, it was pretty like I said,
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: they returned like ninety percent of their team. So there
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: are some other players. Sloan Hansen, who you mentioned had
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: did score those eleven runs. She will be probably the
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: everyday catcher, you know, so she they don't rely too
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: much for offense for her. But she can she can catch,
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: which is huge, and then you can free you can
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: free Courtney Tolzma up to go play shortstop, and then
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: it all kind of works the trickle effect from there.
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: Olivia Brink is a really good athlete. She scored six runs,
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: had six runs run bad at it in. She had
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: a double in limited time with only fifteen at bats.
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: She bet she batted three thirty three and only struck
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: out twice. Kenzie Lensen she went eight for twenty. She
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: batted four hundred, knocked in nine and that was coming
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: off the bench last year. She can play some outfield
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: and and provide a little bit of pop at the plate.
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: Brook van Low is another player that's I think is
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: probably gonna start at third base this year. She batted
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: two seventy three in limited action. And then Sarah van
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: Low and Sophie Senti were you know, they did some
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: courtesy running last year, so they got they you know,
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: had a little bit of time in there. Sarah van
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: Low she only had one you know at bats there
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: what they call like a I mean, she had more
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: play different. She walked three times but only had one
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: actual at bat on the season. Because of all the
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: walks she had so a patient player as well. So
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: you know, yeah, that's the thing. You get so many
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: players returning like this, and and you count them up
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: and there's more players are coming back then you put
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: on the field at once. That's a really nice thing
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: to have because everybody you don't have to there's so
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: much there's so many coaching things that maybe you don't
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: have to explain as much to You can get deeper
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: into concepts and why and we're doing this now. And so,
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: like I said, I think coach Olsha is gonna have
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: a little fun with this group and they could. They're
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: poised to make a pretty deep run. You know, they
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: got to State two years ago. It was one of
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: those ones where they had to go and get there
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: early and the win and win and you get to
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: keep playing, lose and you're done. They did win, so
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: they got to keep playing and to stick around and
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: and yeah, that was that was a nice little that
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: was kind of an unexpected run. I think a couple
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: of years ago when they did that, they knocked Baker
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: out of that district tournament. When they came back and won,
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: but Baker did it to them last year so we'll
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: have to see what happens this year. But Elsie is
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: loaded with talent, you know, up and down, there's there's
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: there's no weaknesses. You know, they have speed, power, defense, pitching, everything.
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: So uh, we'll really have to we'll kind of It'll
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: be fun to see how they do as far as
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: you know, the rest of the county and the rest
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: of the conference. And it's gonna be a lot of fun.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: That is it for Lyndon Christian. Let's move on and
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: talk about Meridian the Trojans, head coach of Megan Rolls.
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: Last season eight and thirteen, they returned four members of
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: the top fifty. This is another one of those ones
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: where you look at it and you go six from LC,
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: four from Meridian. And then we'll talk about Baker here
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: in a minute. Boy, it would be nice to get
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: more than one team in the state tournament. Let me
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: tell you that one. But yeah, four members of the
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: top fifty returning Tyler.
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and this was something I should have told you
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: about beforehand. I just found out like thirty minutes before
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: we connected today that one of these four is not
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: playing this year. So Maddi Ritter is not playing this
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: year and She was the number thirty eight ranked player
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: on my board last year, So that's gonna hurt them
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: a little bit. You know, they only had two seniors
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: last year, Kaylin Neivel, who played third base. She was
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: actually number fifty on the list, and then Katie Prangaman,
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: who was the all everything player, the pitcher who pitched,
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: you know, more innings than anybody over the last four years.
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: And she was their offensive leader too. I mean she
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: hit five hundred, she had led him in home runs,
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: all that stuff.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: So so losing those hitting five hundred, like, I don't
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: care what level of play or what you're doing. If
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: you hit five hundred in a sport that has a
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: ball on a bat, like you're doing something right.
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So, but there are there are plenty of good
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: players coming back. Natalie Schultz, Laura Lai Marguson, and Sidney
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: ten Clay are the kind of the main players coming back,
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: and they all made that that top fifty list last
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: last year. Laurai Marguson was number thirty two, Natalie Schultz
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: forty five, and Sidney ten Clay, who had to come
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: back from a rotator cuff injury and so she can
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: only really play second base or first base now, and
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: she would have been the new pitcher probably coming up,
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: but they're going to rely on a couple of freshmen.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: You look over on the pitching stat side and there's
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: nobody so because because Katie Preganant threw every single pitch
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: last year. So yeah, she was the one that I
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: told you about a couple of years ago. I think
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: where I was watching a game and she like she
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: started the game with like thirty one straight strikes, like
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: she didn't haven't thrown a ball yet, you know, in tooth.
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah it's crazy, but yeah, but Natalie Schultz eighteen RBIs
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: so she's the She's the RBI returner coming back, two doubles,
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: a triple, bat a two eighty three, Lorelei Martinson hit
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: a home run, she bated three ninety seven, she's the
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: leading hitter coming back, scored eighteen runs, also had two
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: doubles and a triple and and Sydney ten Clay, who
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: if she's back to one hundred percent now, those numbers
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: are going to be even better than what she did
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: last year when she hit three ten. So those are
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: kind of the three main main players that they're gonna
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: have to build around and but they do have you know,
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: a handful they're coming back as well.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's almost it's very similar to Lynn and Christian,
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: where there's a couple of girls that have you know,
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: quite a few at bats, but there's four of them
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: that returned with some RBIs. There's quite a few stolen
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: bases coming back, some a lot of walks actually, and
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: then you know a couple of hits here or there
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: for each one. So you got six players that you
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: listed here, Tyler, and it's kind of a misshmash of
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: a few different things.
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Lexi Neil and Chloe Heinrich probably bring the most
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: experienced back, and they combined for seventeen hits, thirteen RBIs,
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: eight stolen bases. I mean, they did a lot of
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: stuff and they're going to be They're gonna be, you know,
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: kind of in that top to middle of the lineup,
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: probably to help out those other top three players. Josie
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: Samara is a pretty talented player that I've seen. She's
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: very aggressive hitter, doesn't strike out a lot, doesn't walk
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: a lot a buted two thirty five last year, scored
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: four runs, knocked in three runs. She's played some outfield,
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: so she'll probably be plugged into the starting lineup. Mikayla Tolzma.
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: She only had fifteen nat bass last year, but she
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: scored six runs and knocked in six runs. She walked
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: eight times, so she could be a player too that
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: has pretty good, pretty good back control and a good eye.
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: She maybe she could be a lead off or a
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: number two hitter as well. Uh And then Joshlyn Smith
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: and Bella Baldetta have a little bit of experience. They
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: did some courtesy running. But you start you looking at
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: you know, you know you got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: There's ten players right there with first experience, and I
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: know they're gonna go with freshmen, a few of them
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: for for for pitching. So it's it's gonna be a
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: tough one just because they've kind of been in that
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: middle of the pack for a while now where there's
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: there's these there's these glimpses of greatness that you see
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: every once in a while, and they get on these
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: runs and they get really it's really exciting in that dugout.
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, if if you haven't been to a fast
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: pitch game, like you're missing out, like those dugouts are crazy.
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: The chance and the excitement, I mean, it is it is,
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: it is, it's, it's it's it gets you going. And
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: I finally went to my first game, uh this year.
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: I finally went and uh to go see Sea home
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: against Hawkinson and it was and it was just like
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: you get out of the car and you're kind of
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: far away and you start to hear some stuff and
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: then you get closer and you start hearing the chance
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: and w five, It's like, oh, here we go. It's
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: like all of a sudden, I'm getting all these I'm
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: feeling like Richland and I'm feeling all these different things
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: and it's like it's like, man, it's it's fast pitch
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: season again. Here we go and the chance and everything
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: and it's all the hilarious stuff, and you know, I'm
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: it's I'm a bummed at children d Young's not playing
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: because I don't get to hear him. I want some ge,
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: you know, And it's like all these awesome chants, but
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: I know they're gonna come up with some good ones
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: and Britan Rittan. When they get on a rule, they
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: get going. It's gonna really but a lot of it's
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: gonna depend on how good these freshman pictures are. So
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: I think it'll be Sidney Tinklay's little sister and then
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: there's a Mattingly girl. So we'll we'll find out how
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: they do. But I mean that's in fast pitch. It's
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: almost like three quarters of it is how good your
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: your your picture is, you know. I mean you watch
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: when I watch Cjo Woolley and I see that picture,
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: who's gonna go D one? That's and then they win
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: state title. I mean, that's that's what it is. If
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: you can shut down another team, that is that. I mean,
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: that's more than half of it, because then all you
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: don't have to do a whole lot after that. So
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: that's really what it's gonna come down to for the Trojans.
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: You know, Tyler, you mentioned the the chance and stuff
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: from the dugout. You get the same thing in baseball,
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: but it's far less coordinated, you know what I mean,
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: Hu humba Hey, Yeah, exactly what I mean. There's a
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: couple of funny ones and some some good stuff that
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: they'll they'll throw out there, but it's not coordinated at all.
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: It's just everybody say whatever they want as long as
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: you got energy, and then when they when your pitcher
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: throws back to first base, everybody else got him even
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: though he was clearly safe. You know, it is funny
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: though with baseball, how it's just very like, yeah, come on,
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: you know, make like a car and drive it.
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: What do you say?
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about the uh, the others returning here, Tyler,
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: and or excuse me, we already did that. Oh yeah,
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: oh no, you know what. It's funny too. I'm about
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: to say that. And I've got my finger on high
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: school because that's where we're at.
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: I was already ready to go at everything. That's a
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: lot of lemons on my part.
• 58:40
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about Mount Baker and the Mountaineers and head coach.
• 58:46
  Speaker 4: Do I Ron Lepper from Mount Baker High School.
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: I'm just happy to be in spring sports right now, Tyler.
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: I bet twenty two and six last year for the Mountaineers.
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: They did make it to the state tournament, and they
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: return five members of last year's top fifty countdown and
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: one that almost looks actually might have been like number
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: fifty two. But yeah, the five that returned Tyler some serious,
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: serious experience here and some girls that had a lot
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: of at bats, including two over one hundred at bats
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: last season.
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a team that you know, I saw,
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: you know a lot of these players when they were
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: freshmen and going down to State and different things like that,
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: and now they're seniors, and you know, it's it's a
• 59:36
  Speaker 3: great group. You know, last year's group was amazing. They
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: only had three seniors on that team, and they were
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: all extremely important to their run. You know, Apa Jeretski
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: was the number two overall player. She's off playing i
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: think at George Fox, now Ella Mololi and then Lauren Vollum.
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, those those three seniors were super impactful and offense, defense, everything.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: So they do there are a few holes there, but boy,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: they returned some talent and like you said, two out
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: of the top eight players they return with Annalie Cohne
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: and Gracie Zender, you know, both four year starters. Annalie
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: Cohene shortstop. She was nagged with injuries all year last year.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, it was just it was it was horrible,
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: you know, but she's such a tough player. She played
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 3: through it. She played She played extremely well, even you know,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: with the injuries. But it was you know, it was
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: It was tough because you could tell that she was
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: in pain, and man, you just you just wanted to
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: see if she was okay all the time. But she
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: scored sixty three runs, which is insane, insane. Now, there
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: were some teams that didn't do that. She had seven doubles,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: four triples, a home run. She stole twenty seven bases
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: and knocked in thirty two, batted five hundred like like
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: you said, over one hundred strike or over one hundred
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: at bats, and only struck out four times. She's just
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: an unreal player. She's back again for her senior year,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: which is huge, and then Gracie Zender behind the plate.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think she's I think last year when
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: she hit eight home runs, that might have been her
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: season low that she's ever had. She is just constant
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: threat to hit one out every single time. She hit
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: eight last year, like I said, seven doubles in a triple,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: had fifty three RBIs, which is a crazy amount. A
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: batted four eighty one, walked thirty one times. I mean,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: you know, she's not getting a ton to hit, and
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: that's you know, when she does, she makes she makes
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: the best of it. She slugged eight eighty nine. So
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: those those two are just like you know, the not
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: even Batman a Robin. It's like Batman and Superman, you know,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: I mean it is it is uh, it's pretty. It's
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: pretty high up there. And then and then Carl Welters,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: who was a freshman last year and played some left field.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: But she is a pitcher, and but she was you
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 3: know she she said behind Aba Juretsky last year, who
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: was you know, a four year pitcher. So but she
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: did get some innings in almost thirty seven innings, struck
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: out thirty eight five point five three year array, but
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: went five and one in the circle. And that was
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: that was really impressive. And she would come in what
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: would happen a lot of times is she would come
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: in just kind of mid game and throw for an
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: inning or two, and then Abe would come back in
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 3: and close it out. And it was really valuable that
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: they could do that because Carl was playing in the field,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 3: she was playing left field, and they were able to
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: do that here and there and move players around. On
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: the base paths. She flies, and she's just a really
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: smart base runner, like she knows exactly when to take off.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: She's got great instincts she'd batted three twenty nine last
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: year thirteen walks of just eleven strikeouts, had five doubles.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: But I think and now, and you look over there,
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: and they have a lot of players that can pitch,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: as you can see. But and I remember the game
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: Squalicum because I felt so bad because Squalkum had a
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: lot of trouble just throwing strikes, and Baker went into
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: it not even pitching Juretsky. They started Welter. She pitched
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: a couple innings, and then every inning after that they
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: just put a different picture in that looked really good,
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: and it was just it was almost like you need
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: a pitcher. We got like six of them, you know,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: but it just, you know, it was just kind of like,
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: oh man, you started to kind of feel for Squalkum
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: a little bit because Baker had all these different players
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: that could pitch if needed. They could just come off
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 3: the bench and they were really good and they could
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: throw strikes and strike out. But even with all those
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: pitchers coming back, Carl Welter's will probably be the top
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: player there in the circle, and at least they will
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: start that way. Zeta Haynes return. She was number thirty
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 3: nine last year was. She was kind of one of
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: those players that could do a little bit of everything,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 3: little third base, little second base, little right field, whatever's needed.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 3: But I think she'll be supplanted at second base, taking
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: over for lorn volume. Really good hitter. Had nine doubles
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: on the year twenty five RBIs bat at two sixty nine,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: had more walks than strikeouts. Again, so she'll be she'll
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 3: be up there. She she might be like you know,
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: number four, number five hitter Kennedy rathschen returns at third base.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: She'd batted three thirty three, knocked in twenty seven runs,
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 3: five doubles, So really great defensive third basement, just really
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: really quick instincts, has a good arm, and and you
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 3: see a lot of when you see a lot of
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: fast pitch, you see a lot of these really top
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: players that are over there playing third base that you
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: know will come way up on the ball and have
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: to defend the slap hit and do different things and
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 3: just have to have quick reactions. And she's she is,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 3: she is just fantastic. And I will always remember getting
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: that final out that she recorded uh in the district
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 3: in the district playoffs to win the district championship, and
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: I was just I was just I knew that. I
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 3: was like, this could be the final out of the game.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 3: And I start recording from the left field, you know,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: out of uh the bounds there, and the ball went
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 3: right to third and she threw it and got the
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 3: out and it was you know, and then and then
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: everyone's jumping everywhere, and it was just a it was
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 3: a really cool moment to be able to capture that.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 3: And so I always I always think of that. But yeah,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: those five players have a lot of experience, multiple years
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 3: of it, except for Carra who's now a sophomore. But
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 3: it's gonna be really those five players that they're gonna
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: have to lean on, and Baker always it seems like
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: it's been forever since Baker's really had like that kind
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: of that fresh crop of new players. They always have
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 3: a handful that has a lot of experience, and this
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 3: will be no different now.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: As far as other returning players, Tyler, you've got what
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: have we got here?
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  Speaker 3: Eight names listed?
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  Speaker 2: Two of them I got nothing for here, no stats,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: but one of them has eighty one returning at baths
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: with twenty one hits. I mean, there's some talent here.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: Obviously that that has done it in the past. There's
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: also some names we don't have stuff on, but we
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: got eight names here. I mean, that's a lot of
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: people to talk about.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 3: Well, and if you heard the positions I was talking
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: about too earlier, is we have a pitcher, a shortstop,
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 3: a third baseman, a second baseman, and a catcher. And
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 3: so last year's starting first baseman was was Maddie Junkquist.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: But she got hit four in the lineup and so
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: but when she did hit, she batted five fifty six.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: So so she can't hit. And she's a pretty good
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: pitcher too, but she will probably now hit for herself.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: And so that you know she's got much. She has
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: a ton of experience. Like like I said, she was
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: a starting first baseman, probably the best defensive first baseman
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: in the county. And she will now start hitting for herself,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 3: I would imagine. So she brings back a lot of
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 3: that experience you were talking about. Cadence Kloninger, who had
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 3: eighty one at bats last year, knocked in thirteen at
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 3: twenty one hits that and she was coming in the
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 3: season and you're expecting, okay, because we haven't talked about
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: any outfielders yet, and that's where they have to kind of,
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 3: you know, figure out who they have to replace that spot.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: Zata Haynes played a little bit out there, but she's
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: coming in to play second. Carl Walter's played left field
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 3: last year but she's coming into pitch, and and Ella
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: Mololei was your starting center fielder last year and she graduated,
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: so you have kind of this wide open outfield. And
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: Caden's Clunager started and right last year, so coming in
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 3: the season, you think she's going over to start at center.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: There's an injury issue right now and so she's not
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 3: going to be ready to start the season. So it
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: kind of makes this the three outfield spots wide open,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: and you have a lot of players that have a
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: little varsity experience. They're going to go after those spots.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: Jaden Hoffman, Jaden Devrees, Alyssa de Rocco, Addison Cone, Dakota Jimmy,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: and Mattie Lewis. Dakota Jimmy did not play varsity last year,
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 3: and Mattie Lewis hasn't played fast pitch in a few years.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: Although she was the top player on the volleyball team
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: and a really, really good athlete, So so she could
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: take that spot in center field right now, and then
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: it could be filled out with maybe whoever's hitting well
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: at practice. It's gonna be tough because Jaden Hoffman and
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 3: Jade Devrees, you know, Alyssa de Rocco, Addison Cohen, They're
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 3: all good athletes and I've seen them all. I listen
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: to Roco. I think has the best potential for some
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: pop as a hitter. She hit a couple doubles last year,
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 3: knocked in a couple of runs. She's a pretty good
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 3: pitcher too, from what I've seen, Addison cone Jaden Devrees, Hoffman,
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 3: they probably have more speed. So it could be one
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 3: of those things where you get duroco in for some
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 3: pop and then you get whoever's got the best speed
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 3: out in left field. Maybe if you know, we'll have
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 3: to see what happens. They had their first game on Wednesday,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 3: but it was rained out against Freddy Harbor got it
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 3: rescheduled for Monday, so we'll have to see kind of
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 3: what happens there. So, uh, but if you look up
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: and down, it's still you know, you're it's a district
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: champion team that had a you know, a top four
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 3: seed going into the state tournament, so you got to
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: skip the first day they got to the semis. Last
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 3: year they went twenty two and six, and your return
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: a lot of players that did some great things. So
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 3: I would expect some pretty big things again from Mount Baker.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: Carl Welters will have a lot will be put on
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: her as far as uh taking over for Jaretzky as
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: the main pitcher, and Baker is not shy about using
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 3: more pictures. You know, some teams they just say, hey,
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 3: you're our pitchers, let's roll unless things get way out
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 3: of hand either way, and Baker will they will pull
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 3: the picture right in the middle and go with somebody
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: else for a little bit so they can maybe you know,
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 3: arrest somebody and then have them come back in or
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: do whatever. And you have a lot of girls here
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 3: that have done that with Rafchen and Hoffman and Cloninger,
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 3: junk Quist, Deroco. And that's the other thing too, is
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 3: if they're needing help in the outfield, I could see
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: Welters going out and playing center field just to help
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 3: the outfield if they think they can get by with
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: a different pitcher. So we'll have to kind of see
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: what happens. You know coach le knows a heck of
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 3: a lot more than I do, and he'll do the
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 3: right thing and Mount Baker will be a force to
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: be dealt with once again.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: Well, it's kind of funny you mentioned that they're not
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: afraid to have multiple pitchers type thing. They returned six Yeah,
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: six girls that threw at least an inning or well
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: not at least an inning, but one of them didn't
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: throw quite an inning, but six in in the pitching categories.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: I don't know that we can actually pitch, yeah, yea, yeah,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, and I'm not talking girl like guys. I've
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 3: seen them all pitch and they're not like, you know,
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 3: just trying it out for the first time like that.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 3: They can all bring it a little bit. So it's
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 3: it's it's pretty impressive.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 4: Ron Lepper from Mount Baker High School.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: He's got a good squad, knows what he's doing over there. So, uh,
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: that is it.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 4: From Mount Baker High School.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: From Mount Baker High School. Let's move on and talk
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: about Nuksack Valley.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 4: Boy, that's a lot of lemons.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: Just had to get that in there. Nuksack Valley head
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: coach Tom Harmon, he's been around since I was like
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: three last season seven and eighteen. But Tyler, they returned
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: four girls from the top fifty, including two in the
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: top twenty. So this is a team that's got some experience.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: And then you look down at the other returning players
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: and there's one, two, one, two, three, four, five of
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: them that had more than forty five at bats last season.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: So some definite tools to work with, including I mean
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: just returning. As far as innings pitched, we're talking about
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: what about one hundred and thirty or so. I mean,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: my goodness, there's a lot returning here as well.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Nuxac Balley has a ton returning. Tom Harmon has
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 3: seen it all. I was so excited and blessed to
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: be there when he won that first state title a
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 3: few years ago out at Richland, and I was just
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 3: I don't know, I was just so excited because you know,
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 3: he'd been doing it for so long and and so
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 3: that was so cool to actually be there when it happened.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 3: And he's a heck of a coach. Last year was
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 3: a pretty young squad. They kind of came on late
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 3: and played really well at the district tournament, upsetting Blaine,
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 3: and then just kind of writing that momentum it finally
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 3: kind of ran out. But yeah, you're looking at, like
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 3: you said, four players that were in the top fifty
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 3: last year, plus five more that had at least forty
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 3: five at bats. It's like there's your starting nine right there.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 3: They all have a ton of experience. So so you know,
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 3: if when you look at the top fifty players, a
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 3: lot of it starts with Elena Dykstra, who's, you know,
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 3: probably the best athlete in the school. Sorry Colton Lenz,
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 3: but she's a She is just a phenomenal athlete and
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 3: left handed catcher, which you don't see that every day.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 3: Definitely not in baseball, but you only.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: See it in fast pitch, and you don't see it there.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 3: A ton, right, you know. The one thing I would
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 3: say is because she has an amazing arm is sometimes
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 3: she she overtrusts a little bit and and tries to
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 3: pick runners off at first and third and and if
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 3: the you know, if they're not ready for it, that
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 3: could cause an air here and there. But holy, other
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 3: than that, like there's not a weakness to her game
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 3: at all. She'd added five ninety last year. It just
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 3: sounds hilarious. A sixteen eighty two ohbs, five doubles, four triples,
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 3: seven home runs, and stole fifteen bases thirty one RBIs.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 3: She only struck out six times and seventy eight at
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 3: bats walked almost twice as many times as strikeouts. There
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 3: is just not a weakness to her game at all.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 3: And she's a senior this year. I was a little
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 3: bummed that she didn't that she didn't play basketball, because
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 3: she was a part of that state championship team and
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 3: she would have been a great you know, you know,
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 3: addition to the rest of that. But and she'd get
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 3: banged up a little bit during soccer. And but this
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 3: is this is what I'm excited about here, this this
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 3: fast pitch season, because she is she is the real deal.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 3: Other players Shelby Mason shortstop, She's been fantastic. I was
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 3: shocked she didn't hit a home run last year because
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 3: she's she's one of those players that I thought could
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 3: probably almost lead the league in home runs. But she
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 3: hit seven doubles and two triples and bat at three
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 3: ninety five and played great, great defense, So so she
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 3: was she just did a great job, you know, doing
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 3: lots of things like that and still had that ops
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 3: over one thousand, So it's it's it's it's gonna be
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 3: another really good season for her as well. Kestin wagged her,
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 3: you know, play a little second base. I think maybe
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 3: played a little outfield. And I'm trying to remember, but
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 3: she hit a home run bat at three fifty two
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 3: twenty two RBIs. She was ranked thirty fourth last year,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 3: had twenty five hits and she also pitched forty one innings.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 3: You know when when her and when her and Peyton
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 3: Bartow were freshmen, they were the two freshman pitchers. Uh,
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 3: that was the year right after they won the state
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 3: championship with a really really dominant pitcher, Jordan Rutherford. And
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 3: then the next year you have two freshmen that are
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 3: kind of learning on the go, and I think I
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 3: think Bartle has kind of taken that as the main
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 3: pitcher now, but she can pitch in a pinch. Still
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 3: made the top fifty lists, and a lot of that
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 3: was she had a big home run in that play
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 3: in game to get into the district tournament against Meridian
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 3: and and that that kind of went a long way
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 3: for me because things were not going well for the
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 3: Pioneers and that really turned things around. She also batt
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 3: at three eighty two and so yeah, so those are
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 3: those are going to be the main players. But like
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 3: you said, there's a ton of experience returning around those
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 3: four players.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: Tyler, really quickly, you mentioned the state championship a couple
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: of years ago. Do you happen to remember who they
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: beat in the final?
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 4: I do not.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: I'll give you a clue. We talked about them yesterday.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: Oh as a team that always seems to find a
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: way to play Walkome County, Oh, lake Side, not Mount
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: Faults lakes I had beat them for three or you know,
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: Knooks acted. I mean, how does that keep happening? Lakeside
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: just keeps popping up everywhere.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 3: That's hilarious. I did not know that. I didn't even
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 3: think about that. Yeah, that's pretty funny, like evens even
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 3: knowing it now, I don't recall it being them, you know, I.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: Don't be like, oh, yeah it was them. It's it's funny.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about the other returning players here, Tyler. And
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: you've got seven listed and they all have quite a
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: few bats except for one. But that tells me that,
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: you know, maybe she's somebody that we need to keep
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: an eye on. I mean, there's plenty coming back, including
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: as you mentioned a little bit earlier. You mentioned Peyton Bartle,
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: who a lot and I mean a lot of innings
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: pitched last year with ninety four and the third My goodness.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: So yeah, some serious talent returning here to add to
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: the to the players we've already talked about.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 3: Yeaheyton Peyton Bartell. You know, she was usually baton ninth
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 3: in the lineup, left handed hitter. You know she can
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 3: she can do that little slap hit where you're running
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 3: down the baseline in the slap and she can do
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 3: that a little bit as well. Three sports athlete star
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 3: that we've talked about in volleyball and basketball. She did
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 3: throw ninety four and a third innings last year, struck
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 3: out one hundred and one bat Her improvement of just
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 3: pitching from freshman to sophomore year was huge. I'm really
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 3: curious to see how that improves again because if it's
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 3: another big jump again, then looks I fobat, it could
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 3: be extremely dangerous. That's been the one thing is the
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 3: offense has been there obviously when you look at the numbers,
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 3: but when you're losing, you know, thirteen to eleven, that
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 3: can be really, really tough, and so a lot of
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 3: that will be put on her. She can handle it.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 3: She's a great athlete. She can take it on and
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 3: I think they'll be just fine. Kennedy Burke is another
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 3: great player that just missed the top fifty list. Seventeen
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 3: hits fourteen rbies bet at two fifty four, So a
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 3: lot of power there. Grace d Hoague, I mean, we've
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 3: talked about her a ton for volleyball and basketball. She
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 3: won Player of the Week in both sports this year.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 3: Earlier in the year fifteen hits eleven RBIs really you know,
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 3: a six foot one at first base, great target over there.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 3: And you know, all these girls, they all play together
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 3: with all these sports, so there's a great connection there
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 3: as far as just you know, enjoying each other's company
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 3: and understanding and what it takes and relying on your teammate,
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 3: which is huge. Uh. Gracie Rutgers again another player that's
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 3: on that volleyball team. She bet a two seventy five,
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 3: fourteen hits eight RBIs so another player with a ton
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 3: of experience and and and just just really good athleticism.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 3: Alexis Larson, Uh, she had well, she scored twelve runs,
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 3: stole seven bases, really really good athlete. And then and
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 3: Hallie Benner and Carson Olney are are great athletes as
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 3: well that you know when you start, you count them
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 3: up and you go, is there there there's there's definitely
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 3: more than nine here. But you've got to have some
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 3: good bench players that can fill some roles and do
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 3: some different things. Carson only can catch, so you know,
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 3: if if Alena Dyksher needs a break, she can come
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 3: in and catch. And we know the only name you know,
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 3: it's Corey's sisters. So so yeah, so it's it is
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 3: a lot of experience here. And I didn't do it,
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 3: but I mean I think if you totaled up the
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 3: total at bats returning for each team, Nuksack Valley might
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 3: have the most. It's pretty interesting. I know, Lynnon Christian's
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 3: got a lot and Baker does just by this year,
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 3: length of their season and how many players they coming back,
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 3: but Nuzack Valley might have the most. And so that
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 3: really deems well for the Pioneers and coach Harmon. And
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 3: again I'm not talking about incoming freshmen on any of
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 3: these teams, so you just you never know when some
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 3: superstar player could be coming along and really spark plug
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 3: a team like any of these teams.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: That is Nuksack Valley. Let's talk about Seahom the Mariners
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: Kendall Smith, first year head coach. Last season the Mariners
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: eight and fifteen. They do return to top fifty Countdown
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: returners number thirty and number thirty seven and a couple
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: of players that have some real nice offensive numbers and
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: one of them even stars on the a little bit.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so they definitely have a lot of experience, I
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 3: should say coming back. And I'm looking this over because
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 3: I was. I'm looking at the other returning players and
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 3: I was like, there's no way JJ Lewis didn't make
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 3: the top fifty. So I screwed that up. She did
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 3: make the top fifty. She was number forty seven. So
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 3: that's that's that's my bat three. Yeah, I'm fired. They
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 3: returned three players, which is huge. JJ Lewis, who started
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 3: the year at third base then got moved to right
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 3: field last year. She's playing center field this year. She's
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 3: got one of the best arms in the county and
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 3: just a just a fun loving kid, always smiling, and
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 3: that's what it is really fun to see. But you know,
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 3: I got to see her do some good things on
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 3: the flag football team this year. So really really, really
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 3: good athlete. Twenty one hits, five doubles, a triple eighteen
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 3: nerby eyes, and stole twelve bases in a three seventy
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 3: five average, And you start looking at a lot of
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 3: those numbers and like that's the best out of all
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 3: the return you know, with a lot of these numbers
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 3: and steals bad average hits, So she doubles, So she
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 3: leads in a lot of these for players that are
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 3: that are returning. Sarah Kruzich, who's been pitching since he
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 3: was a freshman on this team she's now a junior,
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 3: has really good velocity on her pitches, and I think
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 3: if the control can get a little bit better, that's
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 3: really gonna help, because boys, she can and she's she's
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 3: a workhorse, Like she could pitch so many innings and
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 3: throw so many pitches. There's been a lot of games
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 3: where she's she's well over one hundred and forty hundred
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 3: and fifty pitches and then she'll pitch the next day
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 3: and and and a really good hitter too. I mean
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 3: she threw ninety six innings last year. Struck out one
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 3: hundred and twenty eight, but she walked more than that,
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 3: and so that's that's gonna be the tough thing. You
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 3: got to get the walks down a little bit. And
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 3: then she helps out her own cause she had it
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 3: three twenty three last year, had four doubles, a triple,
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 3: She knocked in twenty three runs. I saw her hit
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 3: a triple on Saturday. So she's already off to a
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 3: great start this year offensively as well as deep, as
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 3: well as a pitcher. Rebecca Peterson, who you know, I
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 3: think is overall the best player on the team. She's
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 3: the shortstop. The ball jumps off her bat. She batted
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 3: three twenty seven last year, had three triples, two doubles.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 3: She does not strike out, she's got a good eye,
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 3: she's patient, batt at three twenty seven. So, you know,
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 3: Seahome is they struggled a little bit last year, but
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 3: there's these pieces. Those are the kind of the three
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 3: key pieces that they have. You know, another tough one
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 3: is they're going to have to replace their catcher, at
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 3: least Krout from last year, who was their you know,
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 3: probably their best overall player last season. She was about
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 3: six feet tall, and she just she just hit everything,
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 3: and she was a great defensive player back there. So
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 3: you know, there's a few options. I think Greta Watson's
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 3: gonna take over at catcher, but you just kind of
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 3: never know. They also had Peyton Huntley in the center field,
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 3: so they moved JJ Lewis over there to take over
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 3: that spot. So it opens up some other spots for
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 3: some players. And yeah, and we'll talk about those in
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 3: just a second.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got five other returning players here, Tyler. A
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 2: couple of last names I recognize, including I believe a
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: rugby last name here if I'm seeing it right, a
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: name I haven't seen it in a long time. And
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 2: I instantly went, I remember that guy. I assume she's related,
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: but I don't know the truth. But yeah, some some
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 2: a little bit of a mixture, A couple of girls
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: that don't have a ton of AB's coming back, but
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: a couple of them that do have a decent little chunk.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you bring up Leah Lamasatelly also, I mean,
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 3: obviously we remember t Lamosatelli, who's part of the national
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 3: rugby team and one of the great athletes out of
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 3: Seahome High School. Leah can really crush the ball. She's
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 3: playing third base this year. I saw her head a double,
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 3: you know, to the wall, like on one hop on
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 3: a line drive, which is great. You get that turf
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 3: field and it can really move, you know, that ball
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 3: once it skips it, especially if it's been raining a
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 3: little bit. And that she returned. She two ninety four
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 3: last year in limited action. Jordan Walker, who kind of played.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 3: She played all over the place last year, played some third,
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 3: played some outfield. I think she's gonna be at first
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 3: base this year. She betted two forty had eight walks,
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 3: scored eight runs, stole five bases. She's a good little player,
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 3: so she'll be starting over there at first base. Greta Watson,
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 3: who I mentioned earlier. I think she's gonna take over
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 3: as the catcher. She betted two seventy one last year,
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 3: seven stolen bases, six RBIs, thirteen hits, so a lot
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 3: of varsity experience there. Then you got a couple other players,
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 3: Lexie Monroe, Vanessa Anderson who did a lot of pinch
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 3: running last year. I think Vanessa Anderson might take over
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 3: in the infield, maybe at second base, and Lexi Monroe
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 3: will probably be that main top player off the bench
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 3: or a courtesy runner. So you got a lot of
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 3: experience here, and they do. They are another one that
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 3: they can go on some runs and do some things.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 3: They just got to throw the ball and catch the ball.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 3: They just got to play good defense. And you can't
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 3: walk as many players. And that's the kind of the
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 3: big bugboo that we've talked about, is walks and and
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 3: you know, and errors. I mean, that's just high school ball.
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 3: That's those things. If you can, if you can, you know,
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 3: steer clear of those two things, you do so much better.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 3: And I look at like the Linden baseball team that
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 3: they don't do anything flashy. But I tell you what,
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 3: when you look at the box score and it says
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 3: that they scored six runs and they had eight hits
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 3: and no errors, it's like putting a zero on that
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 3: scoreboard is rare for any team in high school. It
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 3: just seems like these days, and and it always seemed
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 3: when I whenever I do it, I look up and
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 3: it's Linden, you know, And so practice that defense practice
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 3: at practice, at practice is you know. I love when
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 3: I when I played baseball, I loved infield practice. I
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 3: loved outfield practice like batting, like you know, it's like yeah,
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 3: you know, it's it's kind of the same thing over
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 3: and over again. But when you're when you're doing like
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 3: infield practice, there's all these different scenarios and you got
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 3: to think and you know, and and you got to know, like, well,
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 3: if it's a you know, if you always, if you're
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 3: in the field, always say to yourself, if it's a grounder,
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 3: to me, this is what I'm doing. If it's a
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 3: pop up, to me, this is what I'm doing. Say
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 3: it to yourself before that, before it happens, so you
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 3: know exactly what you're doing. And it could be one
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 3: of those things. If it's a grounder that brings me
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 3: this way, I'm going here. If it's a ground me
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 3: it's a grounder that brings me this way, I'm gonna
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 3: go here. So think of all the scenarios in your
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 3: head and then you'll be ready when the balls hit
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 3: your way, and don't be afraid of it. Just you
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 3: want the ball, You want to make the play. That's
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 3: why you're out there. So and you know, defense is
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 3: one of those things that if you take pride in it,
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 3: you will win games and I think if Seahome can
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 3: turn around and do that. Now you got a new
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 3: head coach who I just found out about yesterday. Uh
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 3: then uh then yeah it things things can change quickly.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 3: And and see Home has a lot of talent and
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 3: some big some big time players there. So they all
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 3: play together as a team. They can start winning as
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 3: a team.
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: Uh that is it for the Seahome Mariners. Let's move
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 2: on and talk about the last one of the day here,
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 2: the Squalicum Storm head coach Amy Anderson. That last season
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: the Storm when oh to nineteen, they do return a
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 2: top fifty player here at number twenty two, also put
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 2: up really good numbers when you consider the team did
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 2: not have much success.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what.
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 2: This is a team that appears to have been pretty
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 2: young last year because there are a lot of at
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 2: bats returning overall. But yeah, just one top fifty returner Tyler.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah Addie Hobber, who is a fantastic player. I mean,
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 3: you know, you look at you know a team that
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 3: only that didn't win a game, but she batted four
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 3: eighty six and had twenty arbyis and four doubles and
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 3: two triples and and ops of twelve sixty four. She
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 3: is the real deal. She caught last year just I
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 3: think out of necessity. I think she's probably more of
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 3: a center fielder. She can cover a ton of ground,
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 3: extremely extremely athletic, just a sophomore. She's taken pictures for
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 3: me before for walka Preps, which is cool. Attributed walk
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 3: on Prep spotted. I don't think so, but but yeah,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 3: I it's uh so she's gonna be that kind of
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 3: that key player. But there are some other players that
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 3: I'm really intrigued about that we'll talk about here in
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 3: a little bit.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you've got seven, So how do I explain this?
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 2: You've got seven listed, six that played last year and
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 2: one coming back that the stats are from twenty twenty
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 2: three Tyler.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So the one that I'm really really intrigued about
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 3: is Leila Stanafford. She would have definitely been a top
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 3: fifty player if you wouldn't have missed so much of
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 3: the season. She is just a spark plug of a
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 3: player shortstop. Like the plays that she makes defensively when
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 3: like she could she's diving after the ball, It's you
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 3: just don't see that very often. She gets back on
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 3: her feet really quickly. She's got a really quick bat.
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 3: She's fast around the bases. She's had it three seventy
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 3: last year and had two home runs, seven RBIs, eleven
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 3: stolen bases in just twenty seven at bats ops of
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 3: twelve nineteen. She just couldn't stay healthy last year, and
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 3: I think all that stuff that she had to go
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 3: through last year is behind her and she's ready for
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 3: this season, and that's going to be a huge boost.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 3: So you have Addie Harber and Layla Standfford up the
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 3: middle like that at center field and shortstop, that's a
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 3: great way to start. Keely Melling could play second base.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 3: She'd had a two forty two last year, terror on
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 3: the base paths, ten stolen bases, had more walks than strikeouts.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 3: She could pitch a little bit too, but probably not
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 3: too much of what she's going to be asked to do.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 3: The real trouble they had last year was throwing strikes,
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 3: and I know I talked to their coach and she
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 3: was talking about how the biggest difference this year is
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 3: their pitchers that they have with Gabby Gearhart Keey Melling,
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 3: is that they're throwing strikes now, which is huge because
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 3: that's what they needed last year. They were just they
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 3: were kind of learning how to pitch last year, and
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 3: they had great pitching over the years, especially with Reagan Anderson.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 3: They always had that they didn't really need to worry
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 3: about it, and they really had to worry about it
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 3: last year and it was tough. And Gabby Gearhart, you know,
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 3: she threw twenty nine innings last year. I think she's
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 3: much improved. When she's not pitching, she will play third base.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 3: She's a great leadoff hitter. Fourteen stolen bases, sixteen runs scored,
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 3: so she'll be relied upon heavily. There Emerist Evans, who
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 3: had a tough year offensively last year. But I think
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 3: she's gonna take over as the catcher this year. So
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 3: sometimes when you ask someone to just be the catcher,
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 3: you don't have to worry about the offense a whole lot.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 3: Kerman Rodriguez, she hit a double last year. I saw
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 3: that was a That was a heck of a line
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 3: drive that she hit. She was playing first base last year.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 3: I think she's getting moved out to left field and
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 3: then Hannah Greenwall, who I think will be at first base.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 3: She had a couple of hits in that opening game
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 3: against Hawkinson. So these are all players that had to
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 3: experience last year that are doing some good things this year.
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 3: And Keisha mc cloud as a player that is i'm
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 3: also very intrigued by because they could have really used
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 3: her offense last year, but she was out the whole year.
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 3: She was kind of that They had a big time
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 3: two headed monster two years ago. And the names are
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 3: escaping me, but Reagan Anderson was one of them, the
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 3: catcher was the other one, and they were both just
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 3: like phenomenal players. Keisha McCloud was kind of that next
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 3: best player. So she would have been the best returning
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 3: player last year, especially offensively, and she wasn't able to play.
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 3: So but two years ago she had twenty three hits,
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 3: four doubles, fourteen RBIs she batted four oh four. Once
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 3: she's ready to go, which I think she will be
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 3: this upcoming week. That's going to be a huge infusion
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 3: into the lineup. Right in the middle of that lineup
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 3: where you have a lot of speed with Hobburn, Stanford
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 3: and Melling and Gearhart getting on base and then McLeod
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 3: bringing them around. It was great to see because they
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 3: they scored seven runs against Hawkinson and that was that
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 3: was not what they're used to doing, you know what
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 3: I mean, Like that was really good to see in
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 3: that In that first game, I sat on the coach
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 3: and she goes, I go, how did it go? Because
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 3: I got there to watch the second game, which was
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 3: Hawkinson against the home and she's like, well, it was freezing.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 3: It was hard for the pitchers to hold onto the ball,
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 3: and and then you know, I was like yeah, and
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 3: then she goes, it was thirty two degrees at game time,
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 3: and I was like, oh, so it was freezing. So
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 3: you're right, it was literally freezing. Literally. Yeah, So that's
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 3: always tough, you know, But because the weather's been kind
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 3: of weird and Saturday morning was kind of cold. But
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 3: but yeah, I think that they're going to be improved.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 3: I mean they're definitely going to win, you know, at
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 3: least a game this year. They just have too much
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 3: talent not to If the pitching can start throwing strikes
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 3: that you know, that's all you need. You got a
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 3: great defense behind you. Laylah Stanfford is is just a
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 3: dynamo at shortstop. Gabby Gearhart's got the hot corner, you
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 3: got Addie Horbern and centerfield, running everything down. If you
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 3: can just throw strikes, let your deep play, you're gonna
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 3: you're gonna win some games. I think, I think it
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 3: can really happen. Coach Anderson's a great coach, so I think,
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 3: you know, it's all gonna kind of start happening. You
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 3: just gotta you just gotta throw strikes and it'll it'll
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 3: be there.
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 2: Uh that's everything, Tyler, Do you have any uh last
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 2: words before we head out.
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 3: I just hope the weather holds up, you know, I
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 3: want to be able to see some some of these games.
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 3: You know, I remember last year it didn't seem like
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 3: weather was too much of an issue. I think wind
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 3: was kind of an issue sometimes, but they got the
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 3: games in and Uh, I'm excited to go out and
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 3: see some games. I'm excited to go to State again.
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 3: Uh to catch one A and two A. You know,
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 3: they're about Richland and Celia, but they're about like a
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 3: little more than an hour apart from each other. So
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 3: I do, yeah, it is.
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 3: I don't know if I'm gonna be and Richland and
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 3: go all the way out there and then come back.
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 3: I don't know if I'm gonna get a place kind
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 3: of in between. There's not a whole lot in between.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 2: Really not a lot basically Prosser and then a bunch
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 2: of tiny towns.
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 3: Right, maybe I'll maybe I'll see if Tom Moore is
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 3: still around and see if I can just bunk there.
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 3: But but yeah, so it's uh, it's gonna be It's
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 3: gonna be cool. You know, I just hope that. You know,
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 3: I don't know if A two A team from Wakam
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 3: County is gonna get there. Cedral Woolley is going to
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 3: be fantastic. I think Burlington will be really good again.
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 3: You know, Lindon, it's been a it was a tough start,
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 3: but will they be able to kind of correct that
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 3: and then get back to State one A. Someone's going
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 3: because somebody has to. But it's not even that. I mean,
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 3: they have literally multiple teams that that that deserve to go,
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 3: and so I will You know, that first time I
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 3: went over to Richland was I think May of twenty eighteen,
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 3: and I think I've missed one year since then. So
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 3: it's been awesome to go over there every year to
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 3: go to State. And I've kind of got it figured
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 3: out now and I know where everything is and it's
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 3: you know me, It's like if I'm leaving Walkom County,
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 3: it's like, oh, here we go. But if I'm familiar,
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 3: then it feels better every single time. And that's the
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 3: state tournament I've been to more than anything, is the
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  Speaker 3: one A fast pitch state tournament. So I think that
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  Speaker 3: I just hope that we'll find out soon that maybe
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  Speaker 3: more than one team can go. We'll just kind of
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  Speaker 3: wait and see how that goes, and I'll rely on
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  Speaker 3: you know, coach lepp And and coach Harmon and those
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  Speaker 3: guys that have been doing it for a long time
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  Speaker 3: to let me know what's going on, and we'll see
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  Speaker 3: how it goes, and hopefully because I think a lot
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  Speaker 3: of these teams are going to be able to jump
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  Speaker 3: up and be better than last year. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: think I think Lennon Christian, I think Meridian has a chance.
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  Speaker 3: I think Niuksac Valley definitely has a chance. I think
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  Speaker 3: Seahom has a chance. I think Squalk him has a
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  Speaker 3: chance to really jump up and be considerably better than
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  Speaker 3: they were last year and are still going to be strong.
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  Speaker 3: Lynnon's still going to be strong, you know, Blaine and Ferndale,
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  Speaker 3: they will I don't know about these new players coming in,
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  Speaker 3: so we'll just have to see and and you know
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be a struggle for for Bellingham. But again,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know about their new players. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: about their new coach. That's the biggest question mark for
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  Speaker 3: me right now. I'm probably gonna try and catch them
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  Speaker 3: as early as I can this upcoming week. I haven't
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  Speaker 3: looked ahead of the schedule for next week yet, but
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited. Man, is so cool to go to these
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  Speaker 3: fast pitch games. The games are fast paced, they're moving.
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  Speaker 3: You realize how how how small the infield is, how
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  Speaker 3: close they are to the action, How they can hit
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  Speaker 3: a ball in the gap but it won't go to
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  Speaker 3: the wall, but they might stretch it to a double
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  Speaker 3: because the base paths are so small. It's it's a
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  Speaker 3: fun game to watch because they're taking advantage of every
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  Speaker 3: little inch that they can and it's it's it's exciting
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  Speaker 3: to see Tyler.
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  Speaker 2: I've just been kind of going back a little bit
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  Speaker 2: here with the w i AA's record books to see,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just kind of like where Wakam County teams
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 2: have been. And I got all the way to twenty fourteen. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden boom, three teams from
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  Speaker 2: Wakam County made the state tournament. How do we get
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  Speaker 2: back to that? I mean, my goodness. You had Mount
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  Speaker 2: Baker who finished second, and then Nuksack Valley and Linden Christian.
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  Speaker 2: Neither of them got any hardware, but they were both
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  Speaker 2: there too.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Mike, Yeah, when I went in twenty eighteen, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: those three schools were there too. It was Baker, Lynn
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  Speaker 3: and Christian and Nuksack Valley were all. I believe, I
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  Speaker 3: don't see Nuksack Valley. Okay, twenty twenty two, Nuksack Valley
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  Speaker 3: won it, Baker was Baker got fourth.
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  Speaker 2: Was Elsie there that year? No, that year was was
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  Speaker 2: a small one. That year only had.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So you're right, I think it was back and
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  Speaker 3: like you say, like twenty fifteen, you know, it was
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 3: like ten years ago they were doing like the tri
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  Speaker 3: District tournament. And because of that, that's why you're able
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  Speaker 3: to right. And so if they can get back to
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  Speaker 3: that' that'd be awesome and that would be ideal for
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  Speaker 3: Walkam County.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we had three teams out of sixteen, and I'll
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 2: tell you what with the uh, the talent that's up
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  Speaker 2: there this year, you could end up having three and
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 2: make some pretty deep runs.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 3: Let me tell you, yeah, I would I would think so,
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  Speaker 3: and I'd hope so, and and I'm also curious if
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  Speaker 3: they're doing another thing, and I'll check it out later.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to look. But I remember last year
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  Speaker 3: they kind of during spring break or it was around there,
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 3: sometime in early April or something, they kind of got
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 3: a handful of these top one A teams. They went
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 3: to like Walla Waller or something, wasn't it. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: there was like Royal was there and just all these
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  Speaker 3: really good teams and and Baker went over there, and
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  Speaker 3: Nuoksack went over there, and I mean, I think I
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  Speaker 3: don't know, I think I think all the teams from
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  Speaker 3: walkerm County went over there. And there was like there's
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  Speaker 3: like sixteen different teams and it was kind of everyone
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 3: was going to play a couple of games and just
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 3: kind of, you know it kind of maybe it was
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  Speaker 3: for the seating committee to say, hey, like look at
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  Speaker 3: the teams we played. Yeah, you know, And at.
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  Speaker 2: One point Mount Baker is headed over to a Freda
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  Speaker 2: and it looks like they're going to play two games
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  Speaker 2: in one day and it's a couple of weeks, I think,
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  Speaker 2: uh yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And then.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't see anything that is kind of similar
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  Speaker 2: to that where because it was at like Mill Creek
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 2: or something like that over in Walla Walla. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't see anything on the on the full schedule at
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  Speaker 2: the moment. But that's also something well where okay, now
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 2: that's well, oh okay, Gateway Complex at kitt A Task.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like Knok Sacks going over to play a
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  Speaker 2: couple of games at some point over to kitt at Task.
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  Speaker 2: But other than that, I don't see anything like what
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  Speaker 2: we saw last year.
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  Speaker 3: Wheah.
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  Speaker 2: It just kind of popped up out of nowhere that oh, hey,
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 2: everybody's over in Walla Walla right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was the cool deal that I think, you know,
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 3: Coach Harmon was telling me about it like early in
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 3: the season, and then like coach Lepp was telling me
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 3: about it, and I just kind of kept hearing about like, yeah,
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 3: it's a really cool deal that we're doing this, and
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 3: and so I it might have been spent one one
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 3: year thing where they just thought thought, you know, I
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 3: think they just kind of got all these other teams involved,
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 3: and because I think I think Royal won it all
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 3: last year, but Baker Baker went over and beat Royal
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 3: during that during that thing over there, gotcha. So they
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 3: were really showing what they can do. And and so yeah,
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 3: it was it was it was pretty it was pretty cool.
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  Speaker 3: It was pretty unique and and uh, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: hopefully we'll find out that more than one team can
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 3: go over. But if it's just one, well good luck
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 3: to you because I will be right there next to
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 3: you and the old media area taking stats and taking pictures.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I don't see anything on here, but
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  Speaker 2: I you know, and I don't remember if it was
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 2: even on their last year because we kind of heard
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 2: about it, but I remember it wasn't really we didn't
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 2: know who all was going to be there, Yeah, because
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 2: we didn't have like a full list or anything. So yeah, anyway,
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 2: that's it as far as softball goes, Tyler. We need
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 2: to give a thank you to Shaye Daniels again on
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 2: the way out, she gave us the intro at the beginning.
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 2: Excited to see what everything how everything progresses this year, Tyler.
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 2: And again if you haven't gone back, listen to the
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 2: baseball podcast. That one came out yesterday, so go on. Actually,
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 2: I think I don't know how it actually works. I
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 2: believe as soon as we're done here, I think it
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 2: just rolls right onto that one. So just keep listening. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he's Tyler Anderson, Watcompreps, watcompreps dot com. I'm Ryland Spencer.
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  Speaker 2: You've been listening to episode three hundred and forty to
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five Fast Pitch Preview here on the watcom
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  Speaker 2: Preps podcast. We will talk to you next week.
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  Speaker 4: Boy, that's a lot of lemons, do you man,