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Fear a trip to The Rock!!

Posted in Baseball, Boys Soccer, Girls Tennis, Golf, Softball, Track on March 24, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Madeline Roberts leads the explosive Wolf softball lineup, which has scored 23 runs in two games. (Shelli Trumbull photos)

Madeline Roberts leads an explosive Wolf softball lineup, which has scored 23 runs in two games. (Shelli Trumbull photos)

Aaron Curtin and teammates have pulled off back-to-back last-inning wins.

Maria Rockwell, laying down a bunt, has been a threat with her bat and pitching arm.

Ben Etzell is a winner at whatever position the Wolves use him at.

Softball coach David King photo-bombs his players. (Lisa Roberts-Edlin photo)

Jake McCormick gets the faux-hawk going during his race. (Wendy McCormick photo)

Sean Donley operates. (Janine Bundy photo)

Fun fact. No Coupeville High School sports team has lost at home this spring.

Baseball, softball and girls’ tennis are all 2-0 in games played in town, while track and boys’ soccer have yet to compete on their home turf.

Overall, the Wolves are 10-5, with undefeated tennis (3-0) and softball (2-0) squads joining CHS golfers Austin and Christine Fields (a combined 3-0).

Baseball is 2-2 with back-to-back wins and soccer … well, the booters (0-3) have been a bit snake-bit so far, with a pair of 1-0 losses in which tying goals were thwarted by dastardly means (a huge muddle, an extraordinary save by a goalie).

Track doesn’t have the numbers to compete for meet titles with the mostly 2A squads that 1A Coupeville faces, but freshman Makana Stone is 10-0 so far in sprints and relay races.

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A goal! A goal! My kingdom for a goal!!

Posted in Boys Soccer on March 23, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Sean Donley brings the ball up field during practice (Robert Pelant photo)

So, so close.

For the second time in three road games this season, the Coupeville High School boys’ soccer squad fell by the slimmest of margins, dropping a 1-0 thriller at Lakewood Friday night.

A surprise goal in the second minute of the game — with Cougar Antino Bellizzi finding the back of the net off an assist from Randy Anaya — did the damage. From that point on, Wolf goalie Kole Kellison and Lakewood counterpart Gustavo Garcia were flawless, matching each other save for save.

The loss dropped the Wolves to 0-3 on the young season, 0-2 in Cascade Conference play.

Coupeville will finally get a home match this coming Tuesday, March 26, when it hosts Island rival South Whidbey. JV kicks off at 4 PM, varsity at 6.

The Wolves will take to the pitch that night still seeking their first goal of the season. As in an earlier 1-0 loss at Friday Harbor, Coupeville had a shot that would have, should have, could have been a score … but wasn’t.

Then, it was a large mud puddle that thwarted Nathan Lamb’s shot after he beat the Friday Harbor goaltender. Friday night it was a Pele-style shot from Sean Donley that almost got the Wolves off the snide.

“One of our best scoring chances came off a spectacular overhead bicycle kick by Sean from 12 yards out that was saved by their goalkeeper,” said Wolf coach Paul Mendes. “If that had gone in, it would have been ‘goal of the year’.

“The early goal was a bit of a shocker, but we recovered well to even out the game and take it to them right to the end,” he added. “We created more scoring opportunities than in the last game, so we are making progress.

Coupeville benefited from the return of Jeremy Copenhaver, who missed the previous game due to illness.

“That helped stabilize our midfield play, and our defense put in a solid effort shutting them out the entire second half,” Mendes said. “We will go back to work Monday and get ready for South Whidbey.”

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Young guns get field time!!

Posted in Boys Soccer on March 20, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Danny Savalza (13) battles (Janine Bundy photos)

Danny Savalza (13) battles for the ball, as Josh Wilsey (18) and Sean Donley trail the play. (Janine Bundy photos)

Zane Bundy (left) and Donley confer on strategy.

During JV action, Wolf goalie Connor McCormick guards the net.

Consider it a building block for the future.

With a number of starters out with illness and injury, Coupeville High School boys’ soccer coach Paul Mendes had a chance to give some of his young players, such as freshmen Zane Bundy, Dawson d’Almeida and Tanner Kircher, a fair amount of playing time Tuesday evening.

Unfortunately, with the Wolves’ opponent being one of the best teams in the Cascade Conference, the younguns’ got a bit roughed up, falling 5-0 at Cedarcrest.

The loss dropped Coupeville to 0-2 on the season, 0-1 in league play.

“We played a very good team,” Mendes said. “This is one of the best Cedarcrest teams we have faced in a long time. They should be one of the top teams in the league this year.

“We held up well defensively the first 30 minutes,” he added.

Cedarcrest, now a spiffy 3-0, was led by Kyle Walsh, who banged in a pair of goals. Hunter Montgomery, Jesus Galvan and Connor Viger each found the back of the net, as well, while goalie Elliot Wills blunted the best scoring efforts of the Wolves.

While the final score might not have been what they wanted to see, CHS fans who made the trek off-Island came away pleased with the effort of their team.

When Janine Bundy wasn’t beaming over the fact her son has started both games in his young high school career, she was impressed with the never-say-die style of the older Wolves.

“Like to say (goalie) Kole Kellison was amazing. Just my two cents,” Bundy said. “Brett Arnold and Luke Pelant were life-savers, as well.”

Coupeville returns to action Friday, March 22 at Lakewood, before finally getting its first home game Tuesday, March 26. That game will pit them against Island arch-rival South Whidbey, with JV at 4 PM and varsity at 6.

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Beware, goaltenders! CJ Caidic is on the loose!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Boys Soccer, Football on March 14, 2013| Leave a Comment »

CJ Caidic

Ready to rumble.

CJ Caidic has his eyes on the goal. Literally.

The Coupeville High School sophomore, who bounces between three positions for the Wolf boys’ varsity soccer squad, wants to put the ball in the back of the net as often as possible.

“I want to be more aggressive and score at least 10,” Caidic said, who hailed “Running the ball up the field and going one-on-one with the goalie and getting a goal” as his best moment in soccer.

Caidic, who has also played basketball and football at CHS, bounces between right forward and right and center midfield for the Wolves.

“My strength would be running the ball up the field,” Caidic said. “My weakness is shooting and aggressiveness.”

A big fan of “the team effort,” he credits his friends for getting him interested in the sport in the first place.

“I’ve been playing for two years,” Caidic said. “I started because my friends told me to play and I just started loving the sport.”

Off the field, he hails Wolf football coach Tony Maggio and boys’ soccer assistant coach Kyle Nelson as mentors, and his step grandmother, Diane, as a huge influence on his life.

Want to find Caidic? Look outside, because, even if he’s not playing a sport, he’s probably up to something in the great outdoors.

“I like hanging out with my friends and playing some paintball with them!”

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Mud puddle denies Wolf booters!!

Posted in Boys Soccer on March 12, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Nathan Lamb (right) has plenty of success getting airtime in practice here, but Tuesday he was denied by the wretched weather conditions. (Robert Pelant photo)

Nathan Lamb (right) was bouncing in practice, but Tuesday was denied by the wretched weather conditions. (Robert Pelant photo)

The weather gods were not on Coupeville’s side.

Playing on a muddy field full of puddles Tuesday, the Wolf boys’ soccer squad out-shot host Friday Harbor by ten shots, yet came away with a disappointing 1-0 loss to open the new season.

Coupeville banged away for 22 shots on goal, but the biggest heart-breaker came with ten minutes to play, when nature, and not the Wolverine goalie, stopped Nathan Lamb from tying the game.

“Nathan beat their keeper with a shot,” Coupeville coach Paul Mendes said. “The ball was hit with plenty of power and was about to cross the goal line when it was stopped by a mud puddle.

“It was one of those nights…”

Despite the soggy conditions — the Wolf girls’ tennis squad had been scheduled to travel with the booters, but changed plans earlier in the day after hearing the forecast — Coupeville mounted numerous charges.

It wasn’t to be, however, and Friday Harbor got the only goal it needed from Michael Hoeler on a scramble in the goal mouth in the 22nd minute of the game.

“A hard fought game, right to the end,” Mendes said. “We look forward to playing them again later in the season.”

The two non-conference foes play the rematch on Whidbey Island Wednesday, April 17.

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