Coupeville Sports

The Booker brothers, freshman Ramon (left) and junior Tyree, making their Wolf debuts. (Terrence Booker photo)

Lookin’ sharp.

It might have only been a spring scrimmage, but Coupeville High School made a statement.

Squaring off with 3A Oak Harbor and 2A Sedro-Woolley, which is coached by former Wildcat legend Dave Ward, the 1A Wolves not only held their ground Friday, they won the night in many people’s opinion.

While Coupeville coach Tony Maggio was a little more restrained than some of his former players, who took great delight in trash-talking the bigger schools online afterwards, he was notably pleased with the effort he saw.

Two plays in particular stood out.

In one, the 6-foot-4, 312-pound Big Hurt, senior lineman Nick Streubel, picked off a pass (“Streubel intercepted a pass! For real! And would have housed it if we were returning”).

In the other, much-lighter junior Josh Bayne played the big man, nailing a guy with a tackle, bodily lifting him and slamming into the turf “WWE style,” prompting his coach to bellow “WOW! What a stick! LOVE IT!!”

It was that way all around, as the Wolves, seeing their first live action since the graduation of leaders like Caleb Valko and Danny Savalza, came out ready to rumble and flat-out dominated the bigger schools.

“Jake (Tumblin) was a missile, Wade (Schaef) caught some tough passes, we did very good,” Maggio said.

Senior Gunnar Langvold and junior Tyree Booker, a transfer from Oak Harbor, both saw time at QB and “both did well.”

Also singled out for their play were sophomore Wiley Hesselgrave and senior Jared Dickson (“They KILLED it all night at linebacker, nobody could get outside of them, and our db’s were lights out”) and junior Carson Risner (“he snapped very, very well for us in the pistol set, super job!”)