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Back in action (finally)!!

October 13, 2016 by David Svien

Luke Carlson had a pair of sacks Wednesday, as the Coupeville JV played for the first time in a month. (John Fisken photo)

If no one else will play you, turn to Olympic.

The 2A Trojans, nestled down in Bremerton, are the only one of Archbishop Thomas Murphy’s final six scheduled varsity foes not to have forfeited.

And Wednesday, Olympic’s C-Team came to the rescue of the Coupeville JV, giving the Wolf young guns their first live opponent in a month.

After beating La Conner way back on Sept. 9, CHS had four straight foes (Nooksack Valley, Charles Wright, Vashon Island and Port Townsend) decline to play a JV game, mainly due to lack of players.

Enter Olympic, which stepped in for the RedHawks and garnered themselves an extra game in the process.

Playing their sixth game of the season, while Coupeville’s JV took the field for only the third time, a well-oiled Olympic squad ran away with a 44-14 win.

The loss drops the Wolves to 1-2, with the hope they will get three more games in the final month of the season.

Coupeville is scheduled to host JV games against Bellevue Christian (Oct. 17) and Klahowya (Oct. 24), before hitting the road Nov. 7 to face Cascade Christian.

There’s no game on Halloween, as Chimacum only has a varsity team.

While the Wolves lost at Olympic, JV coach Ryan King was just happy to get his team back on the field.

“I was really impressed how we played in the second half,” he said. “We started off slow in the first half and then really turned it around in the second.”

Freshman Sean Toomey-Stout was the headliner, cracking the 100-yard barrier on the ground while rushing for a touchdown.

Fellow frosh Andrew Martin also found pay-dirt, while Wolf QB Dawson Houston hooked up with Jake Hoagland on a two-point conversion pass to round out the scoring.

Houston’s biggest play through the air came when he found Kory Score on a 37-yard pass play.

Luke Carlson, Toomey-Stout, Hoagland and Martin led the Wolf defense, with Carlson bringing down the Olympic quarterback on sacks twice.