Gavin Knoblich, who played football, basketball, and baseball, helped guide Coupeville High School through its first year in the North Sound Conference. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)
Year one is in the books. Mostly.
The postseason still rages on in various locales this spring, but every North Sound Conference league contest, in every sport, has been played.
Looking back, from the early days of fall, to our current time, one thing remains clear.
King’s is still pretty good.
The private school athletic power, not surprisingly, dominated action in the first year of the new six-team league, winning 66 varsity contests across the 10 sports Coupeville plays.
OK, actually it’s 12 sports, but cross country and track don’t keep track of win/loss records, so, for the purpose of this story, they get ignored.
And sports like wrestling, swimming, or golf?
This blog is called Coupeville Sports, not Gushin’ ‘Bout Granite or Fly Falcons, Fly … so again, out of mind, out of sight.
Anyways. Back to King’s and its 66 varsity wins, which is even more remarkable since the Knights opt not to play boys tennis or softball.
Making up for that, King’s notched 10 league wins in four sports (volleyball, girls and boys basketball, baseball), while the rest of the league combined for just two total double-digit win teams across all 10 sports.
Both of those outliers came in baseball, where Cedar Park Christian won 13 games — most for any varsity team in any sport this school year — and South Whidbey claimed 12 wins.
Back to the team varsity league win totals, year one ended thusly:
King’s — 66
South Whidbey — 56
Cedar Park Christian — 51
Coupeville — 43
Granite Falls — 29
Sultan — 17
After four years of ruling the four-team Olympic League, CHS, the smallest school in its new conference, took a small step back, but held up pretty well, even with the addition of sports-orientated private schools to the mix.
All six schools are expected to return for year two of the league during the 2019-2020 school year.
After that, though, all bets are off, as new classification counts are likely to send Coupeville down from 1A to 2B in 2020-2021.
Until then, a sport-by-sport look back at how the 2018-2019 school athletic year played out:
Volleyball:
| School | League |
| King’s | 10-0 |
| Coupeville | 7-3 |
| South Whidbey | 6-4 |
| CPC-Bothell | 5-5 |
| Granite Falls | 1-9 |
| Sultan | 1-9 |
Football:
| School | League |
| CPC-Bothell | 5-0 |
| King’s | 4-1 |
| South Whidbey | 3-2 |
| Granite Falls | 2-3 |
| Sultan | 1-4 |
| Coupeville | 0-5 |
Boys Tennis:
| School | League |
| Coupeville | 7-6 |
| South Whidbey | 5-8 |
Girls Soccer:
| School | League |
| King’s | 9-1 |
| Granite Falls | 7-3 |
| South Whidbey | 7-3 |
| CPC-Bothell | 4-6 |
| Sultan | 2-8 |
| Coupeville | 1-9 |
Girls Basketball:
| School | League |
| King’s | 10-0 |
| CPC-Bothell | 8-2 |
| Coupeville | 6-4 |
| Granite Falls | 3-7 |
| Sultan | 3-7 |
| South Whidbey | 0-10 |
Boys Basketball:
| School | League |
| King’s | 10-0 |
| CPC-Bothell | 7-3 |
| South Whidbey | 6-4 |
| Sultan | 5-5 |
| Coupeville | 1-9 |
| Granite Falls | 1-9 |
Softball:
| School | League |
| Coupeville | 9-3 |
| CPC-Bothell | 9-3 |
| Granite Falls | 9-3 |
| South Whidbey | 2-10 |
| Sultan | 1-11 |
Girls tennis:
| School | League |
| King’s | 7-1 |
| South Whidbey | 7-1 |
| Granite Falls | 4-4 |
| Coupeville | 2-6 |
| Friday Harbor | 0-8 |
Baseball:
| School | League |
| CPC-Bothell | 13-2 |
| South Whidbey | 12-3 |
| King’s | 10-5 |
| Coupeville | 7-8 |
| Granite Falls | 2-13 |
| Sultan | 1-14 |
Boys soccer:
| School | League |
| South Whidbey | 8-0 |
| King’s | 6-2 |
| Coupeville | 3-5 |
| Sultan | 3-5 |
| CPC-Bothell | 0-8 |
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