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All-League honors rain down on Wolves!!

Posted in Golf, Track on May 30, 2013| 1 Comment »

“I see … awards. Lots and lots of awards!”

“So do I! So do I!!”

“How smart of me to bring the big cart, then, with all this cargo space for your award-haulin’ pleasure. Ladies…”

Go to state, get All-Conference honors.

It’s an easy formula, and one that worked just dandy for all eight Coupeville High School athletes who went to the Big Dance this spring.

All six Wolf track stars who traveled to Cheney last weekend and the entire two-person CHS links squad nabbed honors when the Cascade Conference released its final awards tally.

Leading the way was freshman Makana Stone, who was named First Team All-League in the 100, 200, 4 x 200 and 4 x 400. Hot on her heels was senior Madison Tisa McPhee, First Team in the 100 and 300 hurdles and 4 x 200 and Second Team in the 4 x 100.

Also honored were senior Jai’Lysa Hoskins (First Team 4 x 200 and 4 x 400 and Second Team 4 x 100), freshman Sylvia Hurlburt (First Team 4 x 200, Second Team 4 x 100), sophomore Marisa Etzell (First Team 4 x 400, Second Team 4 x 100) and freshman Kirsten Pelroy (First Team, 4 x 400).

Out on the links, both sophomore Christine Fields (First Team) and senior Austin Fields (Second Team) were honored. Though one has to ask how Austin wasn’t a First Teamer when he was medalist in five matches.

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I am … Iron Woman!!

Posted in Baseball, Boys Basketball, Boys Soccer, Boys Tennis, Cheer, Football, Girls Basketball, Girls Soccer, Girls Tennis, Softball, Track, Volleyball on May 29, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Breeanna Messner, Coupeville High School’s only four-sport athlete. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

Nick “The Big Hurt” Streubel (Nanette Streubel photo)

Madeline Strasburg (Shelli Trumbull photos)

McKayla Bailey

Breeanna Messner was the hardest-working athlete at Coupeville High School this year.

Unlike the olden days (say, the ’80s and ’90s), when virtually everyone played three sports, only 18 Wolves played for three sports teams in 2012-2013.

Heading that list was Messner, the only three-sport athlete to also be on the CHS cheer squad, which meant she juggled two teams in the fall. A key contributor for every one of her teams, the junior proved you can be good at a lot of things (old school style) as opposed to fanatically playing just one sport (new school style).

At a small school like Coupeville, you wish more athletes would make that all-year commitment.

But, proving 2013 is a lot different than 1983, only TWO seniors played three sports, and not a single male athlete completed what used to be viewed as the “standard” season — football, basketball, baseball.

While there are legitimate reasons some couldn’t, or wouldn’t, do so (injuries, academic issues, no desire to play basketball, Coupeville’s only winter sport), we have come here today to hail those who did put out the effort, season after season.

With an eye to the future, the fact 13 of the 18 athletes were freshmen or sophomores speaks well for a possible resurgence of what was once taken for granted — the multi-sport athlete. Or it just means they haven’t burnt out yet.

The 2012-2013 Iron Men and Women of CHS:

Seniors:

Caleb Valko (football, basketball, track)
Bessie Walstad (volleyball, basketball, softball)

Juniors:

Ben Etzell (tennis, basketball, baseball)
Breeanna Messner (volleyball, cheer, basketball, softball)
Nick Streubel (football, basketball, track)

Sophomores:

McKayla Bailey (soccer, basketball, softball)
Aaron Curtin (tennis, basketball, baseball)
Hailey Hammer (volleyball, basketball, softball)
Oscar Liquidano (football, basketball, soccer)
Carson Risner (football, basketball, track)
Madeline Strasburg (volleyball, basketball, softball)
Monica Vidoni (volleyball, basketball, softball)

Freshmen:

McKenzie Bailey (volleyball, basketball, tennis)
Miranda Engle (volleyball, basketball, tennis)
Jared Helmstadter (tennis, basketball, track)
Dalton Martin (football, basketball, track)
Samantha Martin (volleyball, basketball, tennis)
Makana Stone (soccer, basketball, track)

P.S. — If Coupeville considered cheer a sport (which it should, but doesn’t), six girls would join the three-sport club:

Sydney Aparicio (cheer, volleyball, softball)
Lauren Escalle (cheer, volleyball, basketball)
Amanda Fabrizi (cheer, volleyball, basketball)
Julia Felici (cheer, basketball, softball)
Jai’Lysa Hoskins (cheer, basketball, track)
Iris Ryckaert (cheer, volleyball, tennis)

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Color me impressed!!

Posted in Middle School, Track on May 29, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Tiffany Briscoe prepares to launch the shot. (Amy Briscoe photo)

Well, well, well.

We get to the final middle school track meet of the season, and, lo and behold, the results start getting posted right the next day. And not just 12% of the results, but all of the results, boys and girls.

See, it can be done…

But anyways, back to the actual results from day one of the Cascade Conference championships Tuesday, which pitted Coupeville Middle School against six other schools at King’s High School.

Day two, which features finals in most of the running events, is Thursday.

Day one results:

GIRLS:

100 (7th) *Prelims* — Kyla Briscoe 15.30; Allyson Wenzel 15.32; Mckenzie Meyer 15.77; Abby Parker 16.14; Ashley Smith 16.67; Lauren Bayne 16.84;

100 (8th) *Prelims* — Valen Trujillo 15.17; Robin Cedillo 16.62; Rubi Melendez 18.88

200 (7th) *Prelims* — Meyer 33.30; Smith 35.76

400 (7th) *Prelims* — Sage Renninger 1:11.71

400 (8th) *Prelims* — Carlie Rosenkrance 1:08.69

800 (7th) *Finals* — Jillian Pape 2:42.59; K. Briscoe 2:51.48; Parker 2:55.45; Hayley Dauphinais 3:31.49

800 (8th) *Finals* — Mattea Miller 2:45.43; Erin Josue 3:01.21

75 hurdles (7th) *Prelims* — Pape 14.24; Wenzel 15.29; K. Briscoe 15.42; Bayne 16.13; Dauphinais 18.31

75m Hurdles (8th) *Prelims* — Rosenkrance 14.20

Shot Put (8th) *Finals* — Skyler Lawrence 25-10.75; Tiffany Briscoe 23-08.00; Lainey Dickson 15-09.00; Melendez 13-02.00

High Jump (7th) *Finals* — Bayne 3-10.00

BOYS:

100 (7th) *Prelims* — Paul Gallahar 14.03; Joey Lippo 15.79; Lawrence Boado 15.82; J.T. Quinn 16.03; Luke Merriman 16.63

100 (8th) *Prelims* — Jimmy Myers 14.16; Steven Cope 14.23; Conner Thompson 14.62; Aiden Crimmins 18.59

200 (7th) *Prelims* — Henry Wynn 30.42; Jacob Smith 30.72

400 (7th) *Prelims* — Smith 1:09.05

400 (8th) *Prelims* — Grey Rische 1:07.02

1600 (7th) *Finals* — Noah Allison 5:35.51, Wynn 5:40.95

1600 (8th) *Finals* — Mitchell Carroll 5:51.81

110 Hurdles (7th) *Prelims* — Allison 20.94

Discus (7th) *Finals* — Lippo 52-10; Luke Carlson 48-01

Discus (8th) *Finals* — Myers 87-06; Cope 72-10; Crimmins 47-03

Long Jump (7th) *Finals* — Gallahar 13-11.00; Cameron Toomey-Stout 13-00.00; Lippo 12-04.50; Hunter Downes 11-08.75; Allison 11-08.50

Long Jump (8th) *Finals* — Cope 14-00.00; Carroll 13-10.00

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I got your ‘Han Solo Finger’ right here!!

Posted in What the what on May 29, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Truth.

One of the many images I get when I Google "Han Solo finger." Lesson to self: DON'T Google "shower boys!"

One of many images I get when I Google “Han Solo finger.” Lesson to self: DON’T Google “shower boys” next time.

What exactly is a “Han Solo finger?”

I ask because, as part of the many stats my site tracks, one is search engine terms. And, according to my stats, the term “Han Solo finger” has brought people to coupevillesports.com FOUR TIMES.

That disturbs me on several levels. One, that people are googling “Han Solo finger” in the first place, and two, that it brings them to me. FOUR TIMES.

Of course, even more disturbing is the many times that some variation of “shower boys” pops up. Let’s just it’s WAY more than four times…

You let Brian Norris celebrate his birthday by posting a picture of eight towel-clad Wolf baseball and soccer players doing the group shot thing in the CHS locker room, and next thing you know you get a lot of traffic from people who I’m probably sure are looking for … something else than what I’m producing.

Some of it makes sense. There are a million variations on people looking up my biggest stories of all time — a fisherman who went missing in town and Hayley Newman quitting the South Whidbey girls’ basketball team.

Then there’s Jai’Lysa Hoskins, a superb Wolf athlete whose name can apparently be spelled 2,609 different ways.

The most frequently searched athlete, if you don’t take days to add up Jai’Lysa’s totals, is Wolf sophomore, and three-sport star, Aaron Curtin.

Rounding out the top five: Ana and Ivy Luvera, Wiley Hesselgrave, Allie Hanigan and Makana Stone. Jae LeVine tops middle school athletes.

But it’s the weird search terms that intrigue.

Apparently typing in “grandmas playing sports,” “dogs and cats living together,” “puppy eyes man,” “ol’ fattie” and, my favorite, “spike balls smell” all bring you to me.

He said, with just a hint of pride in his voice…

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Big-time baseball road trip ends for Wilcox!!

Posted in Baseball, Wolves in college on May 28, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Jordan Wilcox and proud dad Mark. (Mindy Wilcox photo)

And then it ended, decided by one stinkin’ run.

Despite getting a hit from Coupeville High School grad Jordan Wilcox for the fourth straight game, the season finally ran out of miracles for the Western Washington University baseball team Tuesday.

Playing in 88-degree Tampa, the Vikings were edged 5-4 by Penn State, eliminating WWU from the National Club Baseball Association Division 1 World Series. Seeded seventh in the eight team field, Western was the fifth team eliminated.

Penn State, now 3-0, advances to play either James Madison or Florida in the championship.

Western, which beat Illinois and Iowa during the tourney, finished 2-2 with its only losses to schools that are unbeaten so far (PSU and James Madison).

In what turned out to be their final go-round, the Vikings rallied from three down to tie the game in the top of the third. Then, after falling back behind 5-3, they scraped together another run in the fifth, but failed to get the equalizer over the final four innings.

Wilcox, who had a hit in every game, hit .313 in the World Series — fourth-best on his team — and knocked in two runs.

He added another five assists and five putouts in the field against Penn State. The second baseman, a multi-sport star during his time as a Wolf, led Western with 13 assists during the tourney.

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