Posted in Football on May 27, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Jake Tumblin (left) and Nick Streubel at the Barton Combine at Interlake High School Sunday. (Nanette Streubel photo)
102 days until the first Coupeville High School football game of the season.
Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
Having the Big Hurt clearing space for you to run, that’s the other half of the battle.
Posted in Baseball, Wolves in college on May 27, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Jordan Wilcox is joined by his fan club — brother Kyle, dad Mark and mom Mindy.
Nine outs from a spot in the national semifinals, the Western Washington University baseball team hit a snag.
Blowing a four-run lead in the seventh Sunday, the Vikings fell 6-5 to James Madison in 10 innings.
While the loss didn’t knock former Coupeville High School star Jordan Wilcox and Co. out of the National Club Baseball Association Division 1 World Series, it did make their trip a little tougher.
Western, seeded seventh in the eight-team field, will face third-seeded Iowa in a loser-out game Monday in Tampa. Win that one and they live on to play fourth-seeded Penn State, which joins James Madison as the only currently unbeaten squads in the double-elimination tourney.
Second-seed Illinois, which lost to Western in the opener, and fifth-seed California, have been knocked out, so the Vikings have already beaten their initial seeding.
Against James Madison, the Vikings shot out to a 5-1 lead before surrendering a four-run rally in the bottom of the seventh. The Dukes won the game on a sac fly in the bottom of the tenth.
Wilcox, a baseball and basketball standout at CHS, continued his strong play.
He whacked an RBI single (his third RBI in two games at the World Series) and eked out a walk, leaving his series average at .375.
In the field, Wilcox chipped in with two assists and five putouts while playing second base.
Posted in Girls Soccer on May 26, 2013| Leave a Comment »
(Kali Barrio photos)
In our second installment, we feature the stars of today.
A mix of booters from the three Island high schools — Coupeville, Oak Harbor and South Whidbey — many of them claim allegiance to last year’s GU17 Whidbey Islanders soccer squad and were recently tabbed to form this year’s GU18 version of the same team.
Saturday they mixed it up in a 3-on-3 tournament. In the days and weeks ahead, they will mix it up in a variety of uniforms, but one thing remains consistent — they will kick you to the curb if you dare to face them on the pitch.
Posted in Girls Soccer on May 26, 2013| Leave a Comment »
(Nicole Miesle photos)
In our first installment, we feature the stars of tomorrow.
They may be young, but they’re learning fast, and, as their skill set develops, so will their determination and desire to be the best.
For now, it’s largely about having fun, but fear them in the future.
Posted in Girls Tennis, Track on May 26, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Angelina Berger
She’s not from Coupeville, but she has a Coupeville connection.
South Whidbey High School senior Angelina Berger, daughter of my former boss in child care at Harbor Haven, Sarah Berger, won the 1A girls’ discus title Saturday in Chelan with a heave of 128 feet, five inches.
That was an astounding eight and a half feet further than the Falcon legend had thrown before in competition.
She also finished 3rd in the shot put, a feat she accomplished in back-to-back seasons. Last year she did that in 2A, before South Whidbey dropped back to 1A this school year.
Berger wasn’t the only Falcon to have a huge weekend, as top tennis ace Hayley Newman (who has the 3rd most-read article out of 1,038 published here on coupevillesports.com) made a long, and successful, run through the 1A tourney.
Newman polished off foes from St. George’s, Chelan and Annie Wright, before losing in the final to Michele Lui of Forest Ridge. Lui, a junior, has won three straight 1A singles titles.
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