Coupeville Sports

State soccer champs (and Coupeville Sports interviewees) Izzy Severns, McKenzie Cook and Emma Laurion.

One season into the sports year and the brand-new 1A Olympic League has its first state champion.

The Klahowya High School girls’ soccer team nipped King’s 1-0 Saturday to wrap a 21-2 season and claim the second state title in program history.

The Eagles, who dropped to 1A this year and joined Coupeville, Port Townsend and Chimacum in the new league, won a 2A title in 1999.

Paced by the high-scoring duo of seniors McKenzie Cook (https://coupevillesports.com/2014/09/08/know-your-foe-klahowyas-mckenzie-cook/) and Izzy Severns (https://coupevillesports.com/2014/09/11/know-your-foe-klahowyas-izzy-severns/), Klahowya outscored its opponents 101-15.

The Eagles, who had 13 shutouts in their championship run, fell twice to Seattle Christian — 3-0 in the regular season and 1-0 at districts.

They avoided a third meeting when SC was upended 3-1 by Meridian in the first round of the state tourney.

Klahowya beat Coupeville 5-0 and 4-0 in the first two meetings ever between the schools.

The nine-goal differential was substantially less than what the Eagles inflicted on fellow league mates Port Townsend (15-0) and Chimacum (15-1).

Another Wolf foe from this season, Crosspoint Academy, also won a state title Saturday, capturing its second-straight 1B/2B title.

The private school, led by a hat trick from one-time Coupeville resident Emma Laurion (https://coupevillesports.com/2014/09/16/the-best-wolf-that-never-was/) stuffed Liberty Bell 5-1 for its 15th straight win.

The Warriors finished 16-2-1.

Crosspoint, which beat Coupeville 7-1, outscored its opponents 117-36, losing only to 3A Capital and 1A Charles Wright Academy.