Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 450 - Week 4 Football Recap

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Greetings and welcome into the Whatcom Preps podcast.
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This is episode 450, the week four football recap, and
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I am Tyler Anderson of Whatcom Preps. Do you live
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in Whatcom, Skagit Island, or San Juan County and want
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to become an official?
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Officiating is a great way to give back to your
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community and ensure our youth have an opportunity to compete
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in athletics. Go to nwofficials.com today and learn how you
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can get involved. All right, let's check it out. We've
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got a bunch of games to go over. We have
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two of them from Thursday. We're going to start with
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those ones. The first one, Linden all over Bellingham, 57-0.
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It was Linden's homecoming game. And it was the first
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time these two teams have played each other in about
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10 years. And it was just kind of the perfect
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storm for Bellingham as their starting quarterback was injured and
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he could not suit up. they had to go with
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the backup who was a freshman, Nick Leonard. And if
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you're a freshman quarterback and your first ever varsity start
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is on the road at Linden on homecoming night in
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the rain, um, that was a tough task. So, um,
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that's a, that's really, really hard to do the lions.
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I mean, it was all lions. They, they only ran
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36 plays the entire game. Um, It was 48-0 at
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the half. They scored three defensive touchdowns and got a safety. So,
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I mean, it was, you know, the defense scored almost
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half the points. And there was nothing they could really
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do to stop them. Leading the way, Russian, was Cash Triplett,
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who's their third or fourth running back. Eight carries for
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87 yards. He had two touchdowns. Um, Dawson Van Dalen,
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56 yards and five carries. He also had a touchdown.
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Austin Postman, two carries for 48 yards. He had a
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touchdown and Jack Lovegren, five, five carries for 29 yards. Um, yeah,
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it was, it was a lot of Linden. A lot
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of the time they only had to go to the
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air seven times in the game. A lot of teams
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this week didn't throw a lot, especially on Friday night. Um,
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just cause of the weather. Um, They held Bellingham to
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negative three yards rushing and 37 yards overall for the game.
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Early on, there was a play where Bellingham was back
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to punt. The snap went over the punter's head. Alejandro
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Pringle tried to get rid of it near the goal
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line and just tossed up a desperation throw. And it
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was intercepted by Landon Tolsma, who took it in for
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a touchdown. Caden Brown had an 83-yard pick six, the
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big Defensive end dropped back in the flat there and
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intercepted one and then showed his speed there. And then
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Nick Rentis had a 25-yard fumbled return. So those were
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the three defensive touchdowns. And then on the last play
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of the game, Noah Streiksma sacked Nick Leonard in the
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end zone and ended up being a safety. So it
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was a lot going right for the Linden Lions. And
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Bellingham will just have to regroup and they will go
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on the road and take on Marysville Pilchuck on Friday.
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And we'll talk about next week's games in the next podcast,
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where we talk to coaches and kind of get a
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feel for all that kind of stuff. But defensive wise,
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I mean, Adam Holman made his presence known early on,
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you know, he only played a few series, but he
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had two and a half tackles for a loss. The
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inside linebacker. Again, I talked about, you know, the defensive
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touchdowns by the other guys. They just, a lot of
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guys getting into the game. Once they got to the
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second half, You could see full line changes like they
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would in hockey. Try to get everybody in there with
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the running clock going. Defensively for Bellingham, Matthew Steele had
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an interception. It was actually the first time Linden had
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been intercepted all season. So pretty great job there by
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Matthew Steele. Had a pretty good return as well. But
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it was that very next play that it was the
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pick six the other way. So it was tough for
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Bellingham to get anything going. The other game on Thursday night,
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Glacier Peak 4A team, the Grizzlies, came to town to
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take on Ferndale. Ferndale undefeated going into the game. Glacier
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Peak was 1-2. But those two losses were to a
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couple 4A powers with, I believe it was Skyline and Bothell. So,
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you know, that Glacier Peak team was loaded. And I
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got to go there. I'm not going to be going
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out to games Friday nights until at least the playoffs.
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because of the live show that I'm doing in the studio.
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But Thursday and Saturday, I am able to make it
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out to games here and there when I can. There's
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obviously other sports going on as well. And I did
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make it out to this one. I was there for
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pretty much the entire first half. And Glacier Peak was
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just winging it down the field. They ended up completing
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12 of their 15 attempts for the game for 227 yards,
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with the vast majority of that being in the first half.
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They did score early on a touchdown pass. And then
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Elliot Lenson came back and had a 64-yard touchdown run.
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And I thought it might be a shootout back and forth.
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But after that, it was Glacier Peak over and over
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and over again scoring touchdowns with long touchdown passes. And
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Ferndale's not really built to throw the ball a whole lot.
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And they have to come back. They did go to
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the air 21 times, which was... Quite a bit, and
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I have to look and see the last time they
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attempted 21 passes in a single game. And there were
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moments when they were only down by two scores and
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they were driving, but then a pass would get tipped,
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it got intercepted, and it completely flipped the field, and
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then Glacier Peak scored on the next play. And it just,
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those kinds of things. Ferndale did score a couple touchdowns late,
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a couple three-yard touchdown runs by Elliott Lenson and Wyatt Broyles.
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Final score, 35-22. Glacier Peak winning. It was great to
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see Chance Hatchet back out there. Not 100% yet. He
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didn't play every snap on offense and every snap on
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defense like you would expect him to. But he still
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had three catches for 38 yards. Had a handful of
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tackles as well. It was one of those games that
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You know, Ferndale was, they were so amped up, you know,
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3-0 going into it. You're at home on a Thursday night.
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And so a lot of eyeballs on that game at
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that time. But Glacier Peak was just loaded. And it's,
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you know, that's just what's going to happen. And they've been,
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you know, they've, they schedule tough. And that's a, you know,
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that's a good part of it. And now they're going
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to go into league play starting next week. And when
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you look at the rest of the league, You got
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to look at Ferndale as one of the favorites there.
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So based on what they've done so far against some
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pretty good opponents. So I think that they'll be just fine.
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Elliot Lenson, 29 carries for 167 yards. He's almost to
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a thousand yards already on the season. And we haven't
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even gotten into conference play yet. Wyatt Broyles, 16 carries
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for 55 yards. Sawyer Saab, nine of 21 for 116 yards.
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Like I said earlier, Chance Hatchett had three catches for
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38 yards. Hank Whitaker, two catches for 33 yards. Johnny Mahaffey,
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Elliot Lenson, Parker McManus, and Luke Bader all had a
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catch as well. On the defensive side of the ball,
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Brock Hoyt, six tackles, a sack, a forced fumble, a
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fumble recovery. Mason Buttonshone, seven half tackles, half a tackle
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for loss, a forced fumble as well.
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So.
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Some good things there, but again, that opponent was really
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something special. And so Ferndale suffers their first loss of
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the year. We move on to Friday night now, and
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this was a really rainy night out at Nooksack Valley,
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Sid Lambert Field, as the Squalicum Storm came to town
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for the first ever matchup between these two teams, which
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is a really, really cool deal. I love these inter-county
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games that you don't see too often. We've got another
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one later with Siegelman Meridian in a few weeks, which
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will be great to see as well. And it's just,
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I love it when it happens. It's fantastic. And now
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with the 2A, with how many conference games they have,
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they really only have that one non-conference game to schedule.
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And I hope they reach out to the 1A teams
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because there's no slouches there. So it's still good competition there.
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And yeah, I even hope that in week 10, if
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teams don't make the playoffs and you have to have
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a crossover game for week 10, you know, I hope
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the two A's and one A's that didn't make it
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can cross over and play each other. Cause then you
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do cut down on travel. You get a pretty good
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crowd that way. And it's a win-win I think, cause
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it's good competition. So, but in this game, boy, Nooksack Valley,
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it was all pioneers early on. They score three touchdowns
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in the first quarter, all on the ground. And it's 19-0,
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and you're thinking, my goodness, they're going to put a
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running clock on him. But it was completely different the
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rest of the way. As the squalicum storm went to
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Maddox Strickland quite a bit, he scores a touchdown through
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the air and on the ground. But that would be it.
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But it was– the second half was, boy, multiple long plays,
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touchdown plays, turnovers that were called back because of penalties.
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Then there were lots of fumbles and, you know, long
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drives that would end in a fumble and then a
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long drive the other way and in a fumble. And
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so there was just there was no hardly any scoring
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in the second half. It was just six points by Squalicum.
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That would be it as the Pioneers held on to
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win 19 to 12. And Nooksack Valley still undefeated on
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the season. They're the only 4-0 school in Whatcom County.
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Lummi Nation is 3-0. And then you've got the one-loss
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teams in there, like Mount Baker and Lyndon Christian and
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Lyndon and Erndale. But right now, Nooksack Valley looking like
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they're the real deal and did some really good things
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on the ground once again. Trevon Skenstra, 12 carries for
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174 yards and a long 70-yard touchdown run. Trey Hutink
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had two more scores, 36 yards on the ground. Lucas Woodridge,
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six for 12 through the air for 39 yards. Tyler Martin,
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three catches. Dane Ackerman, two catches. And Jaden Jones had
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a reception as well. For Squalicum, they really went heavy
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on the ground. And I thought it was a good
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game plan, especially with the weather, the way that it was.
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You couldn't really tell on film how bad it was.
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And then I saw videos of Squalicum cheerleaders dancing in
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the rain the next day and and I was like,
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Holy cow, that rain is really coming down. And, um,
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and Squalicum did what they tried to do. They, I mean,
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Strickland and Tucker Hofstede each had 20 carries. They each
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had 20 carries and they did a lot with it. Strickland,
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150 yards on the ground. That's a career high for him.
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Tucker Hofstede, 87 yards on the ground, hard earned yards
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by both of those guys. And, um, They outgained Nooksack
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Valley in yards for the game. It was just turnovers
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that really did them in, and mostly fumbles. I mean,
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it was really slippery out there, and so you kind
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of understand that happening here and there. Phoenix Price, four
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for 13 through the air, 31 yards. Maddox Strickland, two
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catches for 16 yards, and then Elias Laranaga and Tucker
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Hofstad each had a catch as well. But the Pioneers
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staying undefeated defensive wise. Tyler Martin, another huge game, 11
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and a half tackles, a forced fumble, a fumble recovery
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and an interception. I mean, my goodness, he did a
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lot of stuff there. And man, he's he's turning into
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one of the best players in Whatcom County today. And
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he's shooting up that list right now. I haven't really
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thought about the top 100 list that much yet. I'm
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just kind of still taking it all in, but that's
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a guy that's, you know, every week he's proving in
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a year, week in and week out that he, he
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belongs on that list and he belongs high on that list.
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Silas Tierna had a really good game too at linebacker,
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10 and a half tackles, one and a half tackles
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for loss. Max Lautenbach, again, great, great player, five tackles,
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a tackle for loss, a forced fumble, uh, Trevick McMillan,
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six and a half tackles and a half tackle for loss.
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I thought Dane Ackerman had one of his better defensive
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games as well. He also had six and a half
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tackles and a tackle for loss. So, um, it's a
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great overall game by the pioneers for Squalicum on defense. Uh,
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Mason Sone, I thought had a pretty good game, five
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and a half tackles. He had two passes broken up. Um,
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and a fumble recovery. Maddox Strickland, six tackles, a tackle
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for loss. He also had a fumble recovery. Noah Gilbert
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had five and a half tackles and a tackle for loss.
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And Brock Scammell, four tackles, a half tackle for loss,
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and a forced fumble as well. So, Squalicum, you know,
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they're going to have to bounce back. It's going to
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be a really tough week for them as I believe
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they're playing Archbishop Murphy this upcoming week. And Nooksack Valley
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will open up a league play. I believe they're hosting Blaine. So, Yeah,
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it's going to be good. I think there are two
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teams that are... It was a really good matchup, and
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I'm glad that they played each other. And I think
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it's two teams that have those playoff aspirations. It's going
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to be really tough in 2A because it looks like
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there's going to be five teams that will get to
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the round of 32, and there's four right now that
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are really making a name for themselves. I mean, you're
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talking about Anacortes, Archbishop Murphy, Linden, and Burlington Edison kind
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of standing out there. And that fifth team, I mean,
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it's a battle of the city schools. And so Squalicum
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right now has that upper hand because they did beat Sehome.
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They played Bellingham later in the year. Of course, Bellingham
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and Sehome haven't played each other yet. So a lot
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of football still to be played as Nooksack Valley looking
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pretty good going into their 1A conference schedule. So Yeah,
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Nooksack Valley 19, Squalicum 12 in the first ever matchup
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between the two Whatcom County schools. For our next game
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on Friday night, we head out to Civic Stadium and
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our coach, Jeff Wood, was there. Coach, thank you for
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joining me today. How are you doing? I'm doing great.
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How are you, Tyler?
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Doing all right.
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So you've had a string of pretty good games that
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you've been able to cover, which makes it– I don't
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know about you, but when I'm writing a story about
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a game and it's a good game, it makes it
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a lot easier to write.
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It just kind of writes itself. Um, and this one,
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you know, Lakewood started out great, but see home came
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back and there was a lot of big plays back
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and forth and see home hung on and just kind
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of tell us about, uh, first of all, just maybe
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what you saw starting out and what made Lakewood successful
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early on.
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Well, Lakewood, uh, they spread you out and they have
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a really athletic quarterback. That's got a good strong arm,
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pretty accurate. And so see home hadn't seen. a ton
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of passing game at this year and they have a
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solid secondary, good athletes back there. Uh, but I mean, just,
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just getting used to that. And then, you know, Lakewood doesn't,
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they're still relatively balanced.
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Um, yeah.
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And they, they got on the board first, the Cougars did.
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And then, man, uh, I've seen a lot of onsite
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kicks already this year. So they kind of hit the
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one into the void. Uh, You know, not deep, but
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it was a shorter one, kind of, you know, right
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past the front line.
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Right.
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And were able to recover it. And then, so they
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followed that up with another touchdown. And like I said
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in my article, they do the swinging gate. And they've
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done that for a long time. When I was coaching,
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they would do it in the middle of the field.
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And they had, shoot, eight, ten different plays from it.
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And it was a lot to prepare for. And, you know,
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this time they, I think it was three on three
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on the side with the quarterback in the center. And
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the quarterback, you know, really good athlete. He was going
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for the edge and didn't pitch it. And a lot
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of took him down and made a great tackle. So
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held it to 13-0 instead of 14-0. Yeah.
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And as you mentioned in the story, that would be
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a big factor later on in the game. Um, the
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Mariners did something that I was kind of hoping they
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would do, which is they went to the run game, uh,
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quite a bit in which I thought that, you know,
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against Lakewood, that's been a way to get them. It
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seems like, it seems like they're more of a smaller,
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faster team. If, I don't know if that's fair to say,
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but Seaholm's got some big dudes up front, and I
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was kind of thinking going into that game, that might
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be the game plan, which is tough to do if
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you're down two scores early on. It's hard to come
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back if you're just going to be pounding the ball,
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but they do end up running quite a bit. Like
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I said, I wasn't there. What was the weather like
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that night?
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You know, the first half was tough. You know, the
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turf was probably wet, but it wasn't really raining. And
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then it was raining the second half. But, again, you're
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rotating balls. And it wasn't windy. So I don't think
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it made that much of a difference. I didn't see any,
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you know, slipped ball. There were a few fumbles. But,
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you know, in terms of I think they were recovered
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by their own team. But, anyway, it didn't seem to
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be a major factor. But, yeah, Sehome, you know, being
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a pretty young team, you know, they graduated early. A
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lot of those studs from last year, being down 13-0,
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they showed some great resolve and didn't hang their heads
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and came down and, you know, scored. And they were real,
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like you said, they were really feeding. Cash Barnes was back.
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He'd missed a couple weeks. And with Lakewood running that,
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usually they're kind of in that 3-3 stack. So you
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kind of have some angles. There's not as many guys
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in the box. And even when they did start to
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bring in more guys in the box, you know, Seaholm's got,
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you know, everybody knows about Logan Rogers, but they got
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some other pretty dang good offensive linemen. They got Owen
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Reed at center, Mason Holmes is at the other tackle,
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the Carmona brothers, and Theo Schoenlein. Yeah, so they were
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just leaning on those Lakewood Cougars, and the run game
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was working for the Mariners.
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Yeah, absolutely. Those are some big dudes up front. You know,
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I mean, yeah, Theo Schoenlein is a big dude and
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he showed a lot on defense as well. A big
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play in that first half, you know, when Lakewood goes
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up 20 to 7 and it's, you know, it's getting
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kind of late. It's almost halftime. They kick it off.
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Nicky Smith makes a play there. Kind of take us
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through that play.
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Well, he dropped the kickoff.
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Right.
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It was right around the 20, 22, and it came
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right back up to him and he grabbed it. So
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sometimes that, and you've seen that play before where that
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happens in the, the, just the timing of it sometimes
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helps the returner and the blockers and yeah, well blocked.
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And he was able to get to the sideline and,
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I think it was either one of the Lakewood receivers'
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defensive backs was chasing him down and caught him right
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at the goal line, but he got in.
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Yeah, it was a great return by Nicky Smith, and
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you're absolutely right. If people remember the Seahawks Super Bowl
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over the Broncos, the second half kickoff, Percy Harvin drops it,
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and it allows that pursuit to just come a little
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bit more, and then by the time he picked it up,
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it's almost like over-pursued at that point. And he was
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able to run in for a touchdown and that's, you know,
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to coach's point, that's what he's talking about. That it's
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weird when that happens, but it can really benefit if
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you got a guy that can grab it and go
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and make something happen. A lot of times, you know,
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you grab it and you're surrounded, but in this case
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it really worked out. And then after that, after that, um,
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kickoff return, um, there's not a lot of time left.
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I believe it was after that. You, I, you might
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correct me, but I think it was after that when, uh,
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It was late in the first half, and then Bane
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Mitchell with the kickoff had a little play there.
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Yeah, so he did, like in the Meridian game last week,
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just hit as hard as you can right at the
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front guy, and it went off the Lakewood guy, and
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Bane recovered it himself, and so that was good. And
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then they had a chance, and he actually kicked a
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successful field goal, but they had to delay a game,
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and Seaholm had to fight through some penalties there. in
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this game. So, uh, yeah, that took some points off
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the board and they were, they were able to survive
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that luckily.
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And I was, it was crazy. Cause the, the view
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that I was watching at the moment, uh, after the
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delay of game, we couldn't tell if he had made
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the first one, uh, and the film I saw later, you,
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you could see it. And then he had to, so
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he had to back it up five yards to a
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42 yarder, which is no gimme by any stretch in
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high school. And, um, when he, I mean, I wasn't
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shocked that he missed it, but when I saw the film,
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I mean, if it would have been straight, that would
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have been good from like 50-something because he really got
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a hold of it. And if you see in the film,
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he's He's back like at least five yards from the holder.
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Like he took a good running stab at it, got
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it well. It just went wide left, which was kind
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of a bummer. But Seaholm gets on the board first
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in the third quarter with a touchdown pass to Devin Bankson.
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Good to see him back out there. He missed last
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week with a concussion. And that whole second half, like
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you said in the story, it was Cash Barnes and
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that offensive line.
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You know, they really, uh, blocked well and he ran
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what sometimes he had, uh, what it looked from our
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angle up, up top, you know, some outside opportunities, but
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he's such a North South runner and that's a good
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quality to have is he's just going, you know, and
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he'll make cuts, but, uh, he definitely keeps it North
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South and that's, uh, and always falling forward and good,
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strong kid. And then, uh, Yeah, the passing game was
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balanced out. You know, Devin had a great catch on that.
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You know, it was well covered. And it was just
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a nice, accurate throw by Jad. And he kind of
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broke the tackle and scored. That was on their first
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drive coming out of half. So that really got the
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momentum going. And then, yeah, the Cougars didn't give up.
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And they, you know, came back and scored. Uh, and then, uh,
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you know, I think just the, just the running game
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was able to, uh, take control there in the fourth
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quarter for Sehome and, uh, get them that win. Oh,
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and then, you know, Barnes had a lot of those,
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but then Smith had the other touchdown on kind of a,
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was it a forward to Ollie Johnson was lead block
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and it was to the short side of the field
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so that there wasn't a lot of room, but it
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was blocked well. And that was like a 60, 65 yarder.
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So that was a good play as well when they're
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running so much straight, you know, off tackle.
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Absolutely. So two huge plays by Nikki Smith there who,
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you know, is listed as a wide receiver has been
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playing mostly wide receiver, but he has that running back
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skill as he's been playing that spot. kind of as
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a backup the last three years to Sawyer Woods and
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different guys. And then so this year I kind of
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thought he might be the guy, knowing that Cash Barnes
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was pretty good too. So they find a way to
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get him the ball. He's got great speed, and he
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broke off that touchdown. Of course, Bane Mitchell makes all
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of his extra points, which gives them that eight-point lead late.
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Lakewood has the ball, and there was– they had a
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couple of different opportunities at the end. Um, there was
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one time when, uh, Callum LaPlante intercepted the pass, but
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then it was taken back on a penalty and Devin
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Bankson intercepts a pass. And, and you think that's going
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to be kind of it, but they get the ball
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again late. They drive down the field. They even had
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a throw into the end zone that gets knocked down
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by Avery flag. And that's that. And see him picks
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up their first win. And, and, um, you know, this is,
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you saw them in week one. Now you've seen them
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in week four, both games in person. Um, I, I
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would imagine you've seen some pretty big improvements here.
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Yeah, for sure. Uh, improvement and getting some guys back
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from injury and, you know, see homes always had, uh,
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you know, good players, quality players, but not a ton
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of depth. So I remember when we're, uh, going pretty good, we, we'd, uh,
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be dressing sometimes less than 30 guys just like they
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did on Friday night. But if those guys can stay
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healthy and, you know, are in good condition, then they
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can compete with a lot of other teams. So, yeah,
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it was good to see that group gel and get
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that victory.
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Absolutely. Cash Barnes, 200 yards on the ground on 27 carries.
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And like you mentioned in the story, a big, big
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chunk of it coming in the second half, 177 yards.
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of his 200 yards in the second half. Of course,
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Nicky Smith with the two long touchdowns. Jack Geiger gets
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the touchdown pass. Bankson's back playing great defense as well.
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Lotto with the big stop. It was a great team
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effort by the Mariners to get that win on the board.
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Thanks a lot, Coach, for joining me in the Coach's Corner,
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and I'll talk to you later. All right.
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Thanks, Tyler.
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All right. That's Coach Wood telling you like it is
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out there at Civic Stadium. A great game for the Mariners.
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and picking up their first win of the year. So
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congratulations to them and your prize for that. Now you've
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got to face Linden. So it's going to be a
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tough one there. But, hey, you never know. A lot
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of green and gold on the field, and we'll just
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kind of have to wait and see how that goes.
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Next up, the Meridian Trojans go on the road to
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take on Onalaska. And the Loggers, I think they were
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ranked the top 2B team in the state going into
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that game. And they are a running machine. And I
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was kind of talking with Patrick Ames about I was
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kind of joking, but I was being serious, too, during
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the week. I said the way I think the best
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way to get them really is this. You have to
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score a few touchdowns early and and and then just
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stay on them because they want to control the clock.
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They want to hold on to the ball. And if
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you're up early, then it might force them to to
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throw more times than usual. And that's not their forte
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at all. And that's exactly what happened. Meridian went down.
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The bus legs did not seem to be apparent at all.
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And they scored the first three touchdowns of the game
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up 21-0 in the second quarter. And I thought, my goodness,
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this is going to happen. And it's basically what happened.
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I mean, Onalaska ended up throwing the ball six times
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in the game, which is a lot for them. Usually it's,
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you know, one. You know, they've played games where they
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have not thrown a pass Most games it's one, sometimes two.
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Usually when they have a second pass, it gets intercepted.
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And this one, they had to throw the ball six times.
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They even threw a touchdown pass in the game, which was,
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you know, holy cow. But boy, it was all Meridian.
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Trey Alexander, another huge game. 26 of 32 through the
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air for 378 yards and four touchdowns. Three of them
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go into Casey Brennan, who had a career game as well.
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11 catches for 165 yards. and three touchdowns as he
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is knocking on the door to 100 receptions in his career,
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which is a huge number that not a lot of
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players in Whatcom County history have done. I think it's
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around 22, 23 players have ever done that out of 10,000.
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So pretty incredible what Casey Brennan is is getting close
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to here. Uh, Trey Alexander also led them in rushing
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with 10 carries for 39 yards. Uh, there was a
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couple of rushing touchdowns to Pierce Brzozowski had a three
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yard touchdown run. Jackson fan and steel had a one
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yard touchdown run. And, um, and that defense played, you know,
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extremely well for being on the field as much as
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they were on Alaska, ran the ball 60 times. They
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ran more plays than Meridian did. That's kind of what
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they do. That's their game plan. But Meridian just had
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more explosive plays and were able to get in the
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end zone. Also, I thought it was interesting. Ryan Wynn,
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the linebacker for Meridian, he had a game plan of
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stripping the ball out, and he did it twice. One
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of them was recovered by Meridian. Jackson Fanninsteel had a recovery. And,
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you know, that's one way, you know, when you, when you,
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when you play a team that's more balanced or more
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pass heavy, you know, you have, there's, there's, um, ways,
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you know, to get the ball with interceptions and different
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things or deflections and you never know, or sack the quarterback,
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the ball comes out. But when you play a run
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heavy team, it's turnovers are a little more difficult. So
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you really have to try to go for that ball.
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And Ryan Wynn was doing that and he was successful
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a few times. Um, Ethan Valich, my goodness. I mean,
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you're going to put up big numbers if you're in
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the middle of that all game and they run the
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ball 60 times. But he had 16 and a half tackles,
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which is a huge number. Very, very impressive there. Wynn
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had 10 and a half himself. Just, you know, a
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lot of, you know, digging in there and getting plays
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and making things happen. Trevin Crabtree, I thought, had a
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really good game defensively as well. Seven and a half tackles,
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a tackle for loss. Casey Brennan had eight tackles to
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go along with his great offensive game and Meridian picks
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up the win 41 to 22. They now want two
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games in a row going into conference play. And, and
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you know, it's a lot like last year where so
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many of these key players for them are out with injuries.
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But I think that, I think that they are adapting
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to it a little better maybe than last year. Yeah.
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cause it's about the same number. I mean, there are
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some key, key players out right now for Meridian. When
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you talk about Lincoln Burgess and River Todd and Braden Fisher,
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these are dudes, these are two way starters that are out. And,
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and Meridian is finding a way with lots of other
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guys stepping up. You know, you see in Jamison Alexander, uh,
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playing tight end, he had five catches for 82 yards.
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He had a, he had a great game. Um, you know,
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case and Colt had three more catches for 38 yards. Um,
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You know, like I brought up Crabtree, you know, a
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lot of these guys that are probably playing more snaps
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than they would have. And they're and they're making the
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best of it. And that's that's what you love to see.
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So congratulations to the Trojans. And I'll be honest, I
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did not think that that was a game that they
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would win. I thought it was a win a bowl game,
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but I thought that on Alaska would probably get them,
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you know, kind of based on them playing Liberty Bell
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earlier on in the year, who's also a 2B team.
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And they're a team that might be in the top 10.
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Onalaska was the top-ranked team. And so for them to
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beat them and pretty much double them up is very,
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very impressive. So that shows me that progression from Week
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1 to Week 4. Meridian did a lot of really
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good things. So congratulations to them on the win. Next
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up on Friday night, I believe it's our last game
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to talk about for Friday night, is Mount Baker. puts
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the O in OMAC, beating them 41-0. The shutout win,
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and they looked really good. I don't even think that
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they allowed 100 yards total. OMAC had the ball for
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54 plays and averaged less than two yards a play.
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Mount Baker, it was all Mountaineers as they put up
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362 yards of offense, scored six touchdowns, five of them
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on the ground. Andrew Monteith, who had his first 100-yard
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rushing game, scored his first touchdown last week when he
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scored three of them. This week it was no touchdowns,
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but he did all the work gaining 138 yards on
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the ground, getting them into the red zone for the touchdowns.
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Noah Nicole Mills, six carries for 72 yards. He had
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a long 31-yard touchdown run. Anok Smith, eight carries for
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70 yards. Three of them go for touchdowns. He also
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made five of his six extra point attempts. Gage Smith,
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two carries for 29 yards. Boy, he had another one
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that it was blown on an inadvertent whistle where he
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would have been gone. And yeah, that happens. I know
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that's not Coach Lep's favorite thing. It was such a
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great slide of hand by Tyson Barksdale, and they've just
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got that down so well. I almost wonder if before
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a play happens, if there could be something where Lep
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could tell a side judge– and they can give a
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hand code basically meaning like, hey, don't blow an inadvertent
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whistle here because there's going to be some chicanery in
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the backfield. I mean, the more I think about it,
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the more that's a dumb idea because you don't want
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the other team to kind of know what's going on. But, oh,
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it's just frustrating because you do something so well that
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it doesn't work because you did it too well. And
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it didn't matter. I mean, 41-0, Mount Baker with the
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win there. So– It is what it is. Tyson Barksdale
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scores a touchdown run and throws a touchdown pass. 27-yarder
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over the middle to Pepe McAvoy-Salgado. Other catches by Zion
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Paglia and Noah Nicole Mills. A lot of guys defensively
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doing a great job. I thought Isaac DeCreek had an
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awesome game. He started at linebacker, which was cool to see.
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Just his progression throughout the years and him playing really,
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really well his senior year. He had six tackles, one
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and a half tackles for loss. a forced fumble and
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an interception, uh, Gage Smith, who's been playing safety the
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last couple of years, he got, he moved a corner
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this week and he had two interceptions playing corner. So
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that was a, that was a fantastic move and he
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adapted pretty well to it. Aaron Torres. Um, there's not
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that many interior defensive linemen that are as active and
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strong as he is eight and a half tackles, two
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more tackles for loss. Um, I'm trying to think the
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last great, um, or at least as good as him
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into your defensive lineman for Mount Baker, you know, going
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over the years, usually when they have a great defensive lineman,
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he plays on the outside, you know, even, um, TJ Bass,
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who's now playing for the Dallas Cowboys. He was the
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biggest kid on the team, but he played defensive end,
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not defensive tackle. Uh, and he, and Aaron Torres is
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one of the great ones. I mean, I, I have
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to go back to like Carl Fromley, who was all
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state in the, in the, in the mid nineties. Um,
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It's been a while since there's been a defensive tackle
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that has had that kind of impact on a game,
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and Aaron Torres is doing a fantastic job. Zion Paglia
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00:36:52.539 --> 00:36:54.920
had nine tackles, a tackle for loss, just one of
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the really good tackling corners, which is great to have.
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Pepe McAvoy-Salgado, another great game. He had a couple passes
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broken up. He had a fumble recovery. Kel Reardon, obviously,
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every week just seems like he's all over the place.
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Five-and-a-half tackles, one-and-a-half tackles for loss. and a fumble recovery
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as well. Ramsey Mitchell, if he can keep his helmet on,
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five tackles, one tackle for loss. I think his helmet
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popped off twice in the same quarter. Get that kid
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a chin strap. Andrew Monteith, six tackles, one and a
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half tackles for loss. So, so many guys doing a
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great job on that Mount Baker defense. And of course,
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collectively putting it together to get the shutout win. Great,
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great job by Mount Baker. We go to Saturday now
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as Linden Christian had another shutout. So another shutout in
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Whatcom County here as Linden Christian beat La Center 24-0,
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which I thought that they would win by two or
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three scores, but I thought La Center might get into
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the end zone. But, man, it was all links. And
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even early on, Dawson Hines with an interception on the
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third play from scrimmage. They end up going down, scoring
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the touchdowns. They gave Kellen Blankers some run at quarterback.
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They put Hines out wide, see what he could do
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at receiver. He had a few catches there, did a
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good job. Jackson Yoon with a 26-yard field goal in
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the second quarter. And then right before the half, Hines
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hit Chris Coyman on a 35-yard touchdown pass right down
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the seam as they went five wide as Coyman, who's
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normally the running back, split out. Didn't really split out,
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but he was more, you know, kind of like a
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lined up, you know, a few yards off the tackle,
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but he was standing up as a receiver and like
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as a slot receiver. And he just went down the
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seam and there's no matchup for him. And that worked
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out really, really well. I remember seeing that happen last year,
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a few times it worked out well. And then Chris
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Koyman in the second half had a touchdown run. He
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finished with 21 carries for 132 yards. They were without
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some big time players. You talk about Wyatt Campouse missing
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his second straight game. He's a playmaker in all three
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phases and, And then you, and then Caden Veldman and
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Eli stamps, both missing in action. And those are the
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two inside linebackers. And you, when you have to replace
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both those guys in one game, that's really, really tough.
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And I thought Gavin Van Lowe and Mason Berenson did
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an awesome, awesome job. And that's your future at, at
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inside linebacker. Those will be your inside linebackers last year.
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And I think the Lynx are very happy with that
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because they both played extremely well. I thought Trey Morleg
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played very well. Grant Adams. I thought everyone in the
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secondary had a great game. Dawson Hines, Josh Senti had
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his first career interception. So there were some really good
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things that happened there for the Linden Christian Lynx and
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keeping the center off the scoreboard. very well done for them.
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Justin Kiewik had three catches. Heinz had three. Morleg had three.
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One of them he reached up and caught with one
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hand in like a backhand kind of way. That play
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is up for the Pepsi play of the week. It
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was one of those kind of holy cow plays. Yeah,
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just a good overall game by the Lynx as they
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go into conference play and did, you know, they play
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so well at home. And having those Saturday games you know,
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day games. I don't know if, I would assume the
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center came up the same day. That's an early morning
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for them. And, you know, LC got on, got on
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them early and, and the center was never really able
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to recover. And in our last game of the week,
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it was another shutout, but it went the wrong way
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as Kings came to town and beat Blaine 20 to zero.
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And it was just kind of an odd game to
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watch because I don't think that they, dominated Blaine that much.
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They just, you know, had the ball a lot more,
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you know, they ran 71 plays. Blaine ran 47. Blaine
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had dropped passes, especially there was one in the end
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zone early. Um, it just kind of weird things that
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happen and, you know, and they didn't get to play
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football the week before. And so you kind of look
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at that going, the rest versus rust thing. I think
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for Isaac Bauma and Matt Campion, the rest was great
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as they were, they had injuries. Um, but as far
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as a lot of the other players, it was rust.
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And so you put it all together, you play a
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really good Kings team, you lose 20 to zero. And,
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and that's just a bummer. Um, Connor Brown led them
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in rushing with 28 yards. He also completed 10 passes
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for 156 yards. Peyton Bauma, four catches for 77 yards.
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Isaac Bauma, three catches for 76 yards. But the defense
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was on the field a lot. Like I said, for
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71 plays, which means they're going to put up some
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pretty big numbers as they're out there a lot. Matt Campion,
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15 and a half tackles and a tackle for loss.
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Axel Shelton, 13 tackles, a tackle for loss and a
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forced fumble. No surprise him putting up big numbers. Sehu Kanaji,
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the junior defensive end, you know, he started a game
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as a freshman at defensive end against Friday Harbor. He's
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a kid that played some linebacker last year. Now he's
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back at defensive end. And he was all over the place.
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Eight and a half tackles, three tackles for loss, doing
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some good things down there. Tandy Heer and Isaac Bauma,
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he each had an interception. I thought the freshman, Dimitri Shvorak,
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had a really good game, three and a half tackles,
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a tackle for loss, a pass tipped. Peyton Bauman, nine
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and a half tackles, a tackle for loss, a pass
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broken up. Jackson Bogards was making plays as he was
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coming up and run support. He's just a sophomore. So,
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you know, I thought they played really well on defense,
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but like I said, they were just on the field
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too much on defense. And that's, and that's, that's, that's tough.
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I mean, I don't know. I thought that I thought
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they were going to do some different things in the
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run game, but they really relied on Connor Brown a
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lot and Kings was not fooled. And, and it might've
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been just a matchup thing, trying to get things going there. And,
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and in the passing game, it just never really got going.
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There was a few good long plays, but there were
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some dropped passes. And, and like I said, sometimes when
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you haven't played in a while, and then when you do,
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and it's a Saturday afternoon, it's just kind of, it's
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just kind of different. It's, And it just did not
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go Blaine's way. And Kings took advantage and scored three touchdowns.
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I mean, it was a two-score game in the fourth quarter.
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It was not like it was a blowout. So I
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think Blaine would love to play that game again the
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next day. And even at their place, it just wasn't
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their day on Saturday. And sometimes that's just the way
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that it goes. So let's take a look at the
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players of the week. We're going to start off with
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the Offensive Player of the Week, which is brought to
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you by Walton Beverage. Walton Beverage has been a staple
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in our community for 95 years, and I will continue
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to work harder every day to make the fantastic people
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at Walton Beverage proud to sponsor youth sports in our community.
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They deliver superior quality and commitment, and I plan to
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do the very same. The Walton Beverage Offensive Player of
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the Week, I'm going with Meridian's Casey Brennan. 11 catches
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for 165 yards and 3 touchdowns. You know, I thought
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Trey Alexander was well deserving of this award as well.
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Trevon Skeenstra, Cash Barnes. There was a lot of guys
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that had big weeks on offense, but I thought Casey Brennan,
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what he did early on, especially to get way out
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ahead of on Alaska and set that tone. He was
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just finding ways to get open and he was catching
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everything and they just, they just couldn't, they just couldn't
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get ahold of him. And there was no, there was
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no match for him. So congratulations to Casey Brennan. You
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are the Walton beverage offensive player of the week. The
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with a C and, M-A-B-E-R-R-Y farm.com. Boy, I went back
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and forth and back and forth on this one for
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the defensive player of the week. There were a handful
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of guys that just had these awesome games and there
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were shutouts across, you know, so you got to look
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at that with a shutout win. There was multiple defensive
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touchdowns that were scored. So I looked at all that,
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but when I really looked at everything and and the
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opponent and what was needed to win and all that stuff.
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I'm going, it's back to back weeks for Tyler Martin, uh,
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11 and a half tackles, a forced fumble, a fumble recovery,
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and an interception. He also had another interception, but that
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was called back on a penalty. Uh, he is having
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a monster year on offense and defense. And, and he
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even gave up the kicking duties. He's been the kicker
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since he was a freshman. So, um, just what, A
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great year he's had so far. A big, big reason
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why they're undefeated. So congratulations to the Nooksack Valley Junior,
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Tyler Martin, once again being named the Kirk Mayberry Farm
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Defensive Player of the Week. Excuse me. We move on
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to special teams, and the Special Teams Player of the
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Week is brought to you by Pets Real Estate, your
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preferred real estate agency in Whatcom County. Visit them online
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at petsrealestate.com, P-E-T-Z. realestate.com. Again, there were some huge punts.
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There were field goals kicked, all sorts of those things.
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But the big one, and we talked about it with
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Coach Wood, Nicky Smith had that 78-yard kickoff return. And
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when that happened, it was almost halftime and Seohan was down,
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I think it was like 20-7 when that kickoff took place.
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So that really jumped charged everything to shift the other way.
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So it was a huge play by Nikki Smith. So
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congratulations to the Seaholmes senior, Nikki Smith. You are the
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Pets Real Estate Special Teams Player of the Week. And finally,
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the Anytime Fitness Offensive Lineman of the Week. Anytime Fitness,
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they checked them out in Linden, Linden North, and Ferndale.
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They also sponsor the scoreboards every Thursday, Friday, Saturday night
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for football. This was... this one stood out to me
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and I was, and I was kind of not that
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I was calling for it, but I really thought that
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see them's best chance to, to, to take it to
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Lakewood would be just go and run the ball and
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just play tough defense in their tough, tough offense in
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the trenches there and, and push your way and gain
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yards that way. And Logan Rogers, uh, It's hard to
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find a guy better than him. So congratulations to the
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Seaholm senior, Logan Rogers. You are the Anytime Fitness Offensive
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Lineman of the Week. Be sure to visit our sponsors
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and let them know you heard about their business on
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the Whatcom Preps podcast. Again, I want to thank Coach
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Wood for joining me on the Whatcom Preps podcast in
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the Coach's Corner. This has been Episode 450, the Week
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4 Football Recap. I'm Tyler Anderson of Whatcom Preps, and
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I'll talk to you in a few minutes.