Today, we have 5 games spread across 12 hours, 3 sports, and two countries! It all begins with Nate the Great versus our old QB & WR…. Play Ball, all day long

3 football, 1 hockey 🏒 and one Women’s Basketball 🏀 game….

Check back, early and often

9 – 11 Duke football only

11-12 Furman Women + Duke

12-1 Furman Women

1-3 High School Football 🏈🏈

7-9 WHL Hockey 🏒 in Canada 🇨🇦

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Duke – FD and then Punt

Miami – Punt [10:24]

Duke  – FD and Punt [8:32]

Two years ago, Kris Richardson, Ethan Richardson, and I were inside Hard Rock stadium 🏟 for this match-up ! Fun down and back for sure!

Duke sits at 7-2 but faces three serious challenges in the last three with Miami, Clemson, and Wake Forest on the horizon.

Miami – 3 & out, Punt at 7:21

Duke – 3 & out , Punt at 5:46

Looking ahead to Furman University, this is a neat test for the 2-2 team. In each of the first four games, the winning team was somewhat of a forgone conclusion, but today should be a solid test.

In regards to the 15 Pickers and today’s games :

Lake Stevens 🏈 is 15 – 0 for picks

Miami Hurricanes 🌀 are 13-2

Lynden 🏈 is 14-1

Furman basketball🏀 is 12 – 3

Vancouver Giants 🏒🏑🏒 are 13 – 2

Will anyone enter tomorrow at 9-0 ?

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Miami – FD, FD, FD, FD, FD

( Wake 14-0 over SMU )

End of 1st quarter, 0-0 but Miami on the games first drive 🚗.

Duke defense stiffens, Miam8 hits at 39 yard FG (14:43-2)

Duke – FD, FD, FD (Wake, 21-0), FD = 37 yard FG to tie 👔 it at 3-3 [9:37]

Miami – solid TD Drive 🚗 ends at 5:47 before the half. Hurricanes 🌀 lead 10-3

All aboard the Nate Train 🚆, 47-yard TD run ! 10-10 with 3:17 left in half.

Congratulations 🎊 Nate

2:00 warning ⚠️, Miami on the move.

Wake 35-0 over a good SMU team, and the game is in Dallas ???????

Goal Line Stand – Miami adds 26 yard FG with 0:37 on the clock ⏰️ before the break…

Duke – takes a knee.

HALFTIME Score : Miami 13, Duke 10 at 10:40 am PST

20 minutes until tipoff for Furman University at Campbell University!

Alyssa Ervin and Furman University on Flo College below, Duke – Miami above !
Multitasking 101 !
Jump Ball !

Camels 🐫 are playing serious ” D ” early

Miami – in the Red Zone… but only a FG, 16-10… 9:52 (3)

4:26 – Media TO, Campbell University leads 9-5.

4:07 – Wrvin layup after Parnell steal

Under 3:00 – Ervin earns 2nd foul as both teams are going at it defensively. Both ends of our 1-2 punch 👊 have 2 early fouls as Coyle had a pair early.

Duke – will punt from midfield 5:17 (3)

End of 1st quarter – Camels 🐫 12-7

Defense x 2…six jump balls…

Maimi with a 63-yard TD on a busted play. Hurricanes 🌀 speed on full display there. 22 – 10.. Going for 2…no good

Pearl hit a much needed 3, down 17-13. Coach Curtis gets a ” T”

Nate with another BIG RUN and then completed a pass out of the wildcat ! Red Zone

Nate – 5 yard Run for a TD (0:41)22-17

Media TO : Campbell leads 20 – 13

Campbell TO at 2:29, they lead 26 – 16.

End of 3rd, Miami by only five, 22-17

Halftime score : Camels 🐫 lead dIwn from 13 to 5, 29 – 24. [11:53  am]

Miami TD at 8:06 (4), 29 – 17

Pearl never left the floor.

This game feels a bit like the one at Western Carolina last year as that one had a slow 🐌 start and then a can’t miss second half….

Duke – intercepted at 6:54, that should seal the deal.

2nd half at Campbell University is set to tip!

Miami tacks on another TD at 4:21….just a matter of the final score… 36 – 17

3rd quarter Media TO : Camels 🐫 42-30

Duke TD at 3:26 but a flag for ineligible man downfield

Two minute warning ⚠️ in Miami, 36-17

End of 3rd : Camels 🐫 46 – 39

Duke TD at 0:21, will go for 2… GOOD !

Ervin hits a 3, lead down to 49 – 40

Final Score : Miami 36, Duke 25, Andrew falls from the list of perfect Pickers 12:40 PM PDT

Parnell for 3, 43-51

Coyle follow up  2, down just 6

Down 4 !!! 47 – 51

49 – 55 under 5:00

Media TO at 4:51 – 49/55

Ervin drills a corner 3 out of the break !!

52 – 55 (4;07)

3 Duke kids with BIG DAYS but two of them were playing for the Hurricanes 🌀

Parnell hits two free throws and Sawi with a layup , now leading 56 – 55

Camels 🐫 answer, lead 57 – 56….

Coyle goes 0 – 2 at the line… 2:00 left

Coyle misses a layup at 1:37, and then Ervin picks up her fourth foul.

1:14 – Camels 🐫 in the bonus, Y & Y

1:00 – Coyle off glass

Camels 🐫 TO at 0:47.6, they lead 59 – 58

Turnover…

Coyle is back to line (0:36.1) N & N

We force a jump, but Camels 🐫 have the arrow 🏹

0:24.3 FT – Camels 🐫 Y & N but rebound..

Furman forces another jump ball.

TO – down 2, 60-58 with the ball…

Huge stop ✋️ for the Camels 🐫 and then they hit two FTs, 62-58 (0:13.2)

Final Score #2 – Campbell holds on at home 🏡,  64 – 58 at 1:07 pm

It’s time to get over to Ferndale…

Chris, Sharon, and Wayne remain perfect at 6-0 as 11 Pickers had Furman University winning this one.

Ferndale High School 🏫 is hosting the neutral site game for their neighbors from nearby Lynden.

Sitting right in front of the Lynden Band and love the fact that Fife High has filled their section of the stands !

Beautiful Day, great crowd, and there’s energy in the air. The 🍕🍕 is from Coconut Kenny’s !

Final minute of the opening half and Fife is trying to answer the third Lynden scoring drive. Ball on the Lions 🦁 29.

Last second field goal attempt was blocked 🚫 and returned 70 yards for a Lions 🦁 TD ! 28 – 7 at the break….1:57pm

Meanwhile, down I-5, back in Lake Stevens….

If both of these scores hold, we would have three of 15 reach 8-0 with two to play !
Both games are at the Half…
Lions 🦁 on the march again, now 35 – 7.

Fife converts a 4th and goal at 3:45 (3) PAT blocked 🚫, Lions 🦁 35 – 13

Lake Stevens added another 7.

Here, so did Lynden, 42-13 (0:29-3)

End 3rd quarter : Lynden, 42-13 (2:53pm)

Fife converts a 4th and goal with a 5-yard TD pass… (5:13) PAT – short on run, 42-19

Wow, the Trojans are still playing full steam ! They just forced a punt and then fielded in on a bounce and ran it all the way down to the Lions 🦁 eight yard line.

TO – 1:56 (4), 1st and Goal…. down 23 but still at it…

8 yard TD Pass ➕️ PAT, now a third blocked 🚫 kick…. 42 – 25 (1:47)

Lake Stevens leads 43-7 late in the third quarter.

Game #7 of 10 is in the Books 📚 and Game 8 has been decided by Lake Stevens with its 43-point lead in the final quarter.

After 8 / 10 :

Chris, Wayne, and Sharon are 8-0….

Linda ,Bill, Dennis, Tracy,  Marion, and Jerry are 7-1

Douglas, Alan, Travis, Brian, Andrew    are 6-2

Ryan is 3-5

Two games left to play, and both are North of the Border 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁.

Birch Bay is home for the next eight days, making it the home of our Morning 🌄 Brew ! Busy, busy Saturday awaits…

Travis Osborne and our Bible Verse of  Day :

Matthew 12:30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

Back in Virginia, VHSL State Quarterfinals in volleyball 🏐 are set to take place all across the Commonwealth.

Glenvar, Abingdon, and Luray are just three of the 48 teams that we will keep an eye on today…

One-half of our 10 games in 4 days contest are set to take place today !

Pacific Standard Time starting moments :

9am – Duke at Miami [TV]

11am – Alyssa Ervin and Furman University at Campbell University [TV]

1pm – Both Lynden and Lake Stevens will kickoff their HS football games. Lynden is hosting, but at Ferndale High School, which is 12 miles away from here. Lake Stevens is now 83 miles away, making Ferndale High School the easier choice.

7pm – Vancouver Giants of the Western Hockey 🏒 League host the Vees… 19 miles from here.

10 of our 15 celebrity Pickers enter the morning with a perfect 4-0 mark, and after today, it comes down to just the Grey Cup tomorrow !

Have yourself a Blessed Day 🙌😇🙏

Successfully completed the Islands Eight Day 10K/100K yesterday !

Three games, two sports, and a lifetime of connections ! The next seven hours will be all about Orcas Island, Carroll County, and Anacortes… First touch at 12:30 PST

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Ryan McCafferty has a fresh take on the 10-0 Carroll County High School Cavaliers. The link above will take you there.

THE SCHEDULE : ALL TIMES PST

Each one is a post-season contest, meaning the season is on the line.

12:30 – Orcas Island Vikings Boys Soccer ⚽️

4:00 – Carroll County High School Football

6:00 – Anacortes Seahawks Football

Games 1 and 3 will be played here, and #2 will be watched 👀 from here.

Anacortes is where I built Crystal Clear Delivery, Orcas Island 🏝 was home for seven years, and next month ends year six in Carroll County.

Games 1 and 3 are also part of the 10 games in four days pickem contest. Game 2 is not because it is simply too important for all of those involved back home. Most of us have a bit of a chip on our shoulders because of, well, a number of things. Just know this, Go Cavaliers and Seth Greer is THE MAN 👨

Announcements have started here in the opening round of the State Playoffs.

Wow, the same Lady doing the introductions just crushed the National Anthem !!!

Looking for crown 👑 #4

Anacortes was kind enough to offer up their Stadium 🏟 for the match, even though they are hosting their own playoff game at 6pm.

Orcas Island High School doesn’t field a football team due to the size of the student body, so Soccer is THE sport of choice.

In a perfect world 🌎, someone who will be at Tommy Thompson Field tonight would send me a couple of pics 📸 but we will make it work either way.

12:35 PST – underway…

27:34 left on the clock ⏰️ and the Vikings missed by about 6 inches, still Nil-Nil

57° and ☁️☁️☁️☁️

Under 11:00 – Auburn with a point blank save off the foot of OI – #8, Amaru Shanks Morales.

8:34 – Morales shot, saved…

4:12 (1) – another close call for OI

Halftime score : NIL – NIL [1:15 pm]

10 minutes of break is over and we have 40:00 back on the clock ⏰️.

Under 37 – OI Corner !, nice shot, nice save.

Auburn is considerably bigger and Orcas way faster…

33:00 (2) OI corner..

Under 32 – OI corner leads to a header off the post…. soooo close

Under 28 – OI corner…

25 : 21 – #7 hits #10 in stride, GOAL OI!!!

#7 – Junior Conejo Medina

#10 – Ziah Nash Watson

The goal was announced as scored by 7, but I’m pretty confident he threaded it to #10. Either way, 1-0 !!!!

Under 18, an Auburn defender made a last second save…

Random pic 📸 of a mural

Under 15 – OI corner….Perfect pass and header !!!! OI #27 – Kevin Perez Torres 2-0

Under 13 – OI corner..

The wind has picked up a bit here in the second half, and OI is playing with it where Auburn is playing into it.

Ferry ⛴️ options back home for the Vikings are 3:20 and 6:05… mad dash to the Anacortes Terminal after the horn.

2:01 – 5:00 left on clock ⏰️

OI #22 with a rocket 🚀 shot that leads to another corner…Gus Carpenter

Under 2:00 – OI corner kick…

FINAL SCORE : OI 2, AUBURN 0 !!!!!

Just under two hours until kickoff back on The Hill !

2:07 PST


Back in a bit….
On Deck !
At the end of the 1st quarter, Cavs lead 8-0

CCHS took advantage of a Tunstall fumble at their own 25 to take the early lead !

The quarter ended with Tunstall driving on the Cavaliers side of the field.

Carroll County absolutely owned the second quarter, 22-0, and lead 30-0 at the halftime break !

Two of the three TDS that quarter came at 7 : 40 and 7:28

Bill Gallimore with the scoreboard shots !

as the Cavaliers recovered a squib kickoff and Hunter Gravley went House 🏠 hunting on the next play !!!

Even when Tunstall forced a punt, Blake Reed flipped the field with a 40+ yard effort.

End of 3rd quarter : Cavs 44-0!!!

1 long drive 🚗

1 quick drive 🚗

Boatload of in your grill D-fence played

The running clock ⏰️ is now in use

12:00 to go….

58 – 06 is your final score from The Hill !
Go Cavs….

Stay tuned, 1 more to go…..

Anacortes is playing bend, but don’t break defense, and the weather is not slowing down the high flying offense. The fifth TD of the night 🌙 comes on the final play of the third quarter, making it 35 – 0 with 12:00 left to play.

The home teams are about to move to 4-0 for the first two days and four of our Pickers had Olympic pulling the upset.

Alan, Ryan, Travis, and Douglas now join  Brian as folks who can still win 🏆1st place but can no longer go 10-0 to claim the Round Trip transportation for next week. 10 of the 15 can still DO IT !!!

6th kickoff of the night 🌙
Make sure you check out the complete coverage at The Carroll News

Friday the 13th is a one on a number of fronts, including being Day 8 of 8 in the Islands 🏝 and we start it with our Morning 🌄 Brew

Later today, we swap out the San Juan Islands 🏝 for the Canadian border up in Blaine.
Travis Osborne and his Bible Verse of the Day :

Proverbs 13:20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

Howard Mayo and his Motovational Nugget for the Day :
The 10K+ streak continues to March on!
Big Day back on The Hill !!!!

We also have Games 3 & 4 in the 10 games in 4 days contest. These are spread out to create a sandwich 🥪 around the CCHS game and will both be played on Fidalgo Island 🏝.

13 of the 15 people who signed up to be Celebrity Pickers went 2-0 last night 🌙.

We will have some separation tonight as four members of the panel have Olympic defeating Anacortes…

Have yourself a Blessed Day 🙌😇🙏

Welcome 🙏 to Lake Stevens High School 🏫 as we open our 10 games in four days, and we lined up 15 guest pickers!!

Warmup time ⏲️ is winding down, and we notice that Lake Stevens has a volleyball 🏐 State Championship banner hanging from 2025.
The one to watch during all of the breaks is taking place down at Hec-Ed on the campus of the University of Washington.

UW was picked to win by all 15 panelists and Lake Stevens VB by 13 of the 15, so we will have some separation by the end of the night…

More 2 follow….

Pledge of allegiance in place of the National Anthem….

7:12 pm First Serve…

1st TO called by Eastlake, down 8-2

UW leading 28 – 5, late in the first quarter

UW drops 35 in the opening quarter, leads 35 – 8

2nd TO, Vikings 16, Wolves 5

Lake Stevens plays in a machine like mode as the starting six appear to all be 5’6 with MAD HOPS. Set #1, 25 – 10

SET #2 : TO at 17 – 8

UW broke 50 in the first half… 50 /22 @ break.

Lake Stevens 25 – 19. The Wolves played much better down the stretch but fell just short [7:58 PST ]

SET #3 :

1st TO, Lake Stevens leads 15 – 8. Wolves #4 is a next level player. Now 21 – 10….

2nd TO, Lake Stevens leads 23 – 10, 65 minutes from the start, the Vikings are 2 points from the sweep.

8:19 – Final, 67 minutes of efficiency

End of Night 🌙 #1 of 4 :

13 people are 2-0

2 people are 1-1

I was able to verify that Lake Stevens did indeed have seven players listed between 5’6 and 5’8.

Tomorrow we have Soccer ⚽️ and football 🏈🏈🏈…