Coupeville Sports

Wolf QB Josh Bayne fights for extra yards in a game against Port Townsend. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

It’s official. No football in week five.

Friday, Oct. 4 will be a bye week for the Coupeville High School football squad, after the school was unable to find an opponent to play a non-conference game against that week.

CHS had to scramble after its original opponent in that slot backed out of the game, leaving an opening on the schedule. Administrators came close to finding a replacement, but were unable to nail down a game in the end, as most other schools had their schedules set.

The Wolves will play non-conference foes the next two weeks (hosting Lynden Christian Sept. 20, then traveling to Nooksack Valley Sept. 27). Then, after the bye, they will start a four-game stretch against fellow Cascade Conference teams with a road game at Granite Falls Oct. 11.

Playing in the second-year of a two-year plan to ease pressure on an undermanned squad, Coupeville, the smallest 1A school in the 1A/2A league, is playing fellow 1A schools South Whidbey and King’s and the two smallest 2A squads — Granite Falls and Sultan.

The Wolves will not play the biggest conference schools — Cedarcrest and Lakewood — or the league’s football factory, Archbishop Thomas Murphy, this season.

Without the built-in ease of having a full conference schedule, CHS had to work extra hard to find far more non-conference games than normal.