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Booters shoot, score at banquet!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged Abraham Leyva, awards banquet, CHS Wolves, Ethan Spark, Sebastian Davis, Soccer on May 22, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Junior forward Garrett Compton was one of 10 Wolves to score in 2015. (John Fisken photos)

Big-kicking sophomore Uriel Liquidano is one of the key players coach Kyle Nelson hopes to return to the pitch next season.

Colin Belliveau is one nine seniors who will depart the Wolf program.

Admit it. There wasn’t much suspense.

If Abraham Leyva hadn’t been awarded Player of the Year Thursday when the Coupeville High School boys’ soccer squad handed out awards and letters, the jaws would have hit the floor.

Leyva capped his junior season on the pitch with a team-high 14 goals, more than double the output of any of his teammates.

He has led the Wolves in scoring both years he has played for CHS.

But, even if you’re 99.2% sure of where one award is going, the rest are usually up for grabs, producing surprises as they’re handed out.

Such was the case Thursday, as seven other Wolves netted honors.

Ethan Spark took home Player of the Year for the JV squad, while Aaron Wright (varsity) and Jeremiah Pace (JV) collected Most Inspirational.

Most Improved Player was split between Connor McCormick and Sebastian Davis at the varsity level, while Isaac Vargas was tabbed for the same award at the JV level.

Freshman William Nelson rounded out the honorees, being named Rookie of the Year.

The Wolves finished 3-11 overall, 2-4 in Olympic League play.

Eight of the 10 players who scored (accounting for 29 of 35 goals) were underclassmen and could return in 2016.

That would be bolstered further by a healthy Zane Bundy, who missed most of his junior season after being the team’s #2 scorer as a sophomore.

Varsity letter winners:

Colin Belliveau
Zane Bundy
Taylor Chiles
Garrett Compton
Josh Datin
Sebastian Davis
Ryan Freeman
Tanner Kircher
Keegan Korteum
Abraham Leyva
Uriel Liquidano
Oscar Liquidano
Connor McCormick
Cody Menges
Loren Nelson
William Nelson
Ethan Spark
Isaac Vargas
Joel Walstad
Aaron Wright

JV certificates:

Noah Allison
Andre Avila
Laurence Boado
Beauman Davis
Nick Dion
Jose Marcos
Zach Nall
Jeremiah Pace
JT Quinn
Henry Wynn

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Booters battle to the end!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged Abraham Leyva, Charles Wright Academy, CHS Wolves, playoffs, Sebastian Davis, Soccer on May 10, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Abraham Leyva led the Wolves in scoring as a junior, tallying 14 goals. (John Fisken photo)

CHS coach Kyle Nelson has a moment with seniors (l to r) Joel Walstad (Shawn Walstad photo)

CHS coach Kyle Nelson with seniors (l to r) Joel Walstad, Ryan Freeman, Isaac Vargas, Oscar Liquidano, Josh Datin, Colin Belliveau and Aaron Wright. (Shawn Walstad photo)

The 1A Olympic League took a hit Saturday.

Two schools hailing from the conference took the pitch for district playoff games and both saw their seasons ended.

Port Townsend fell 2-1 to visiting Cascade Christian, while Coupeville went on the road, only to be bounced 5-2 at Charles Wright Academy.

The dual defeats leaves league champ Klahowya, which will play CWA next, as the lone representative left from the first-year league.

It was the second time the Wolves fell to the Tacoma-based school in a week. They had lost 3-1 at home to the private school rivals on May 2.

This time around CHS got goals from Abraham Leyva (off of an assist from Tanner Kircher) and Sebastian Davis.

With Joel Walstad playing up front, Connor McCormick got the start in net and held his own, making several strong saves.

The loss dropped Coupeville’s final record to 3-11 and brought an end to the run of nine seniors.

The cupboard is not bare, however, as the Wolves can return eight of the ten players who scored this season, including its leading goal collectors in Leyva and Davis.

Junior Zane Bundy, who missed most of the season after an injury, was one of the team’s top scoring threats during his first two seasons, and is also expected back.

Final (unofficial) varsity goal scorers:

Abraham Leyva — 14
Sebastian Davis — 6
Colin Belliveau — 3
William Nelson — 3
Joel Walstad — 3
JT Quinn — 2
Garrett Compton — 1
Tanner Kircher — 1
Loren Nelson — 1
Ethan Spark — 1

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Good? Yes! Lucky? No…

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged 1A Olympic League, Abraham Leyva, CHS Wolves, Kyle Nelson, Port Townsend, Soccer on May 7, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Sebastian Davis (22) and his Wolf teammates will open the playoffs on the road Saturday. (John Fisken photo)

Earning a home playoff game was going to be a long shot.

Going into Wednesday’s regular season finale at Port Townsend, the Coupeville High School boys’ soccer squad needed a win, and then to triumph on a coin flip, to earn that honor.

The Wolves will never know how they would have done with that coin flip, however.

Despite playing what CHS coach Kyle Nelson termed “our best team effort,” Coupeville fell 4-2 to the Redhawks in a shootout after finishing play tied 1-1.

The loss dropped the Wolves to 3-10 overall, 2-4 in Olympic League play and gives them third place in the four-team league.

Coupeville will hit the road Saturday to play the Nisqually League’s #2 seed (most likely Charles Wright Academy) in a loser-out district playoff game.

Win that and they advance to the double elimination portion of the postseason and a rematch with Olympic League champ Klahowya.

With second place on the line Wednesday, the Wolves came out strongly against a team they had been nipped by 3-2 earlier this season.

“We started a little slow, but midway through the first half we got going and it was a tight, hard-fought game from there,” Nelson said. “Quite a few near misses.”

Coupeville’s score came thanks to the Redhawks, who knocked the ball into their own goal after a “a strong, well-placed cross by Abraham (Leyva)“.

While they didn’t get the victory they wanted, the Wolves will turn the page and head into a new season at 0-0, the same as every other team in the postseason.

“We our now looking forward to our district game. I feel good about our chances,” Nelson said.

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Dream big, Wolves!!

Posted in Baseball, Boys Soccer, Girls Tennis, Golf, Softball, Track, tagged CHS Wolves, John Fisken photos, Katrina McGranahan, Lauren Rose, spring sports, Willie Smith, wrecking ball on May 6, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Lauren Rose, the most electrifying lead-off hitter in all the land. (John Fisken photos)

Joel Walstad (5) gets his head in the game.

CJ Smith protects the bag on a bang-bang play.

Delaney Armstrong cruises through a track practice.

With a flick of the wrist, Sage Renninger lets loose with another in a long line of winners.

Wolf booter Cody Menges, honoring a bet with teammate Tanner Kircher, opts for the grandpa look up top.

Katrina “Wrecking Ball” McGranahan (green helmet) blows up the third-baseman.

“Nice!”

Here come the playoffs.

As the regular seasons begin to wind down, every one of the Coupeville High School spring sports teams is postseason-bound.

1A Olympic League rivals Port Townsend and Chimacum can’t say that, but CHS, the little school that could, has matched Klahowya by advancing girls’ tennis, boys’ soccer, baseball, track and softball to the next level of play.

Toss in golf, where Christine Fields is a one-woman Wolf wrecking crew, and Coupeville is 6-for-6.

To give you a feel for what’s been going on, and the promise of more to come, here are eight snappy pics courtesy John Fisken.

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One final walk on the pitch!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged CHS Wolves, Joel Walstad, John Fisken photos, Senior Night, Soccer on May 5, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Aaron Wright kicks off our Senior Night portraits. (John Fisken photos)

Colin Belliveau

Keegan Kortuem

Jeremiah Pace (left) and Isaac Vargas

Ryan Freeman

Joel Walstad

Oscar Liquidano

Josh Datin

To everything, there is an end.

And while the Coupeville High School boys’ soccer season is far from done — there are at least two more games to play, possibly even a playoff opener at home — Monday was the official send-off for nine Wolf senior booters.

John Fisken was in town (for a few seconds at least) and was nice enough to snap the pics above.

Feel free to marinate in the (slightly) emotional happenings.

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