Jake Hoagland carries Cameron Toomey-Stout off the field as the season ends. (Lisa Jenne photo)
Wolf JV players prepare for the final trip of the season, a jaunt down to Concrete. (Photo courtesy Brett Smedley)
Matt Hilborn sprints to daylight. (John Fisken photos)
James Vidoni (76) holds the line.
Wins and losses don’t tell the whole story.
While the Coupeville High School JV football team failed to pick up a win this season, being battered 49-0 Monday at Concrete in its finale, the young Wolves showed continued growth each week.
Facing off with a battle-hardened Lions squad after a long bus trip, Coupeville got a taste of where it would like to be this time next year.
“We played a very tough team but the boys fought very hard. It was a hard-fought game,” said Coupeville coach Ryan King. “The whole team deserves recognition.”
The first big positive was making it through an entire season, one in which they played bigger schools such as Klahowya and Anacortes.
In recent years, CHS has had trouble having enough bodies — especially healthy ones — to complete anything close to a full JV season.
This year, they played seven games (Chimacum doesn’t have a JV squad) and got strong work from a variety of players.
Freshman Shane Losey operated at quarterback the entire season, with Jonathan Thurston, Cameron Toomey-Stout, Jake Hoagland and Tavian Woolett all emerging as as dependable targets.
Woolett and Teo Keilwitz carried much of the load as running backs, while a variety of players put in work on the lines.
King, a former Wolf player himself, sees a bright future for his charges. Especially if they continue to hit the weight room and build their skill-sets.
“As for the season, I am honored I got to coach a great group of young men,” King said. “These kids worked hard all season and got better as the season went on.
“Fought in every game and each week you saw improvement,” he added. “Coaching these kids was great and they are gonna do great things for this program in the future.”
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