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Fall schedules are here (write them in pencil)!!

Posted in Boys Tennis, Girls Soccer, Volleyball, tagged , , , , , on June 18, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Marisa Etzell (left) should return to help lead the Wolves into a new league. (John Fisken photo)

Marisa Etzell should return to help lead the Wolves into a new league. (John Fisken photos)

Sebastian Davis

Sebastian Davis could be one of the top returning netters.

Young volleyball stars (l to r) Miranda Engle, Tiffany Briscoe and Valen Trujillo celebrate a point last year.

Young volleyball stars (left to right) Miranda Engle, Tiffany Briscoe and Valen Trujillo celebrate a point.

ATM is 99.2% gone and King’s is nowhere to be seen, so that’s a start.

The schedules for Coupeville High School’s first season in the 1A Olympic League are out, and, despite the fact that there could still be plenty of tweaks before we reach September, they make for interesting reading.

With the exception of one boys’ tennis match with Archbishop Thomas Murphy, the only team the Wolves will face from their former league, the 1A/2A Cascade Conference, is Island rival South Whidbey.

The two Whidbey schools will continue to meet in all four fall sports, keeping the rivalry strong, though the games will now be non-conference affairs.

Still, Wolves gotta eat Falcon meat.

Coupeville will play each of its new league rivals — Chimacum, Port Townsend and Klahowya — home and away, while picking up some old-school rivals again like Concrete and Darrington for non-league games.

Also, the first person to figure out where first-time soccer foe Crosspoint Academy is located gets a gold star.

OK, it’s in Bremerton. Now I know, and knowing is half the battle.

The schedules as they stand on June 18:

 

VOLLEYBALL:

9-6 @ Oak Harbor Jamboree
9-9 @ South Whidbey
9-11 Friday Harbor
9-18 @ Orcas Island
9-20 @ South Whidbey Invite
9-25 Mount Vernon Christian
10-7 Bellevue Christian
10-14 @ Klahowya
10-15 Darrington
10-16 Chimacum
10-21 Port Townsend
10-23 @ Chimacum
10-27 Klahowya
10-28 @ Port Townsend

 

GIRLS SOCCER:

9-9 South Whidbey
9-13 @ Sequim
9-16 Bellevue Christian
9-18 @ Orcas Island
9-30 Mount Vernon Christian
10-9 @ Bremerton
10-11 @ Crosspoint Academy
10-16 Chimacum
10-18 @ Klahowya
10-21 Port Townsend
10-23 @ Chimacum
10-27 Klahowya
10-28 @ Port Townsend

 

BOYS TENNIS:

**Port Townsend and Chimacum combine for tennis**

9-10 @ ATM
9-18 Klahowya
9-25 @ South Whidbey
9-30 North Mason
10-2 @ Port Townsend
10-10 Port Townsend
10-13 @ Klahowya
10-15 @ Sequim
10-17 @ Port Townsend

 

To see the football schedule, hop over to:

https://coupevillesports.com/2014/06/13/84-days-til-lathom-kelley-cracks-heads/

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Netters exit after strong season!!

Posted in Boys Tennis, tagged , , , , on May 31, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Wolf tennis coach Ken Stange and his doubles warriors, Aaron Curtin (center) and Ben Etzell. (Ed Curtin photo)

  Wolf tennis coach Ken Stange and his doubles warriors, Aaron Curtin (center) and Ben Etzell. (Ed Curtin photo)

It was a trip.

From windswept, rainy days on The Rock in October to sunny days in the “Palm Springs of Washington” (AKA Yakima) this week, Ben Etzell and Aaron Curtin went out swinging for the top.

The Coupeville High School duo went further than any Wolf boys’ tennis players in memory, winning one of their three matches at the 1A state tourney Friday.

While they didn’t bring home a medal, it was still an auspicious showing for a duo who had been concentrating on baseball, not tennis, less than a week ago.

“Considering that they had four days to prepare, once baseball ended, I’m happy with the result,” said Wolf coach Ken Stange. “Aaron and Ben were the only CHS athletes to compete at the state level in two events — and they did it all in less than a week!”

Etzell and Curtin qualified for state in the fall, then had to wait six months for the chance to play in the big dance.

Some 1A schools play boys’ tennis in the spring, others in the fall in Washington, but state is saved for the end of the school year.

The Wolf duo opened against Neil Campbell and Jedi Main of Naches Valley and fought hard in a narrow 6-3, 7-6(7-4) loss that dropped them into the losers brackets.

“The first match was a doozy — within reach,” Stange said. “They rocked it in the second match!”

With their backs against the wall, Etzell and Curtin drilled Daniel Sonnichsen and Fletcher Rickabaugh of Liberty Bell 6-3, 6-1. They then fell 6-2, 6-3 to Pranav Harikrishnan and Keshav Ummat of Overlake, who were both state meet vets.

If Coupeville had won its third match, the Wolves would have played for fifth place Saturday.

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Cow Town hits the big time!!

Posted in Baseball, Boys Tennis, Golf, Softball, Track, tagged , , , on May 29, 2014| Leave a Comment »

The Rock, representing. (Ken Stange photo)

The Rock, representing. (Ken Stange photo)

It has been a spring to remember.

As the smallest 1A school in the state, Coupeville High School has overcome the odds at every step, sending athletes to the state tournament in (count ’em!) five sports.

Wolf baseball has been, girls’ golf (Christine Fields) is there right now and track (Makana Stone), softball and boys’ tennis (Ben Etzell and Aaron Curtin) all hit the road Thursday morning for the trek to various locales in Eastern Washington.

It’s been six years since baseball made it this far, 12 for softball and Etzell and Curtin are the first boys’ tennis players to go to the big dance during Ken Stange’s run as CHS tennis coach.

Enjoy it while it happens. Spring 2014 — one pleasant surprise after another.

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Numbers don’t lie!!

Posted in Baseball, Boys Tennis, Golf, Softball, Track, tagged , , , , on May 27, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville made it to state in five sports this spring.

Coupeville made it to state in five sports this spring.

Dear ATM, grab a few more hundred dollar bills and go wipe your sweet, sweet tears with them.

Whidbey Island ruled this spring.

There are eight teams in the 1A/2A Cascade Conference, and Coupeville and South Whidbey combined to claim 10 of the conference’s 23 appearances at state.

Both the Wolves and Falcons were represented in five of the six spring sports, as geographically isolated public schools came in ahead of the big bucks, scholarship-offering, big city programs.

Archbishop Thomas Murphy (four sports) and King’s (three) couldn’t match the Whidbey schools, while Cedarcrest (two), Sultan (two), Lakewood (one) and Granite Falls (one) trailed far behind.

Coupeville was the only school to send both its baseball and softball teams to state, while also qualifying in girls’ golf, track and boys’ tennis (the season is in the fall, but state in the spring).

South Whidbey was right there with the Wolves, with baseball, boys’ soccer, girls’ golf, track and girls’ tennis represented.

Track was the great equalizer, as all eight schools got athletes through to state, while softball and tennis were the most demanding, with only two schools hitting pay dirt in each sport.

Breakdown by sport:

Baseball — Coupeville, South Whidbey, ATM

Softball — Coupeville, Sultan

Boys’ soccer — ATM, King’s, South Whidbey

Golf — Coupeville, ATM, King’s, South Whidbey, Cedarcrest

Track — Coupeville, ATM, King’s, South Whidbey, Cedarcrest, Granite Falls, Sultan, Lakewood

Tennis — Coupeville, South Whidbey

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Dream revived!!

Posted in Boys Tennis, tagged , , , , , on May 25, 2014| Leave a Comment »

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Left to right, Aaron Curtin, Ken Stange and Ben Etzell.

Etzell gets intense.

Etzell gets intense. (John Fisken photos)

Curtin

Curtin charges into action.

One door closed, but another is swinging wide open.

A day after ending their baseball season with a nail-biter loss to Rochester at the state tournament, Ben Etzell and Aaron Curtin will be back on the tennis court Sunday, getting ready for another crack at a title.

Etzell, a Coupeville High School senior, and Curtin, a junior, qualified for the boys’ tennis state tourney back in the fall.

They then put their rackets away for months, as tennis is staggered in Washington, with some schools playing in the fall and other in the spring.

But, just because they won’t be coming straight off a regular season run, don’t count out the Wolf duo.

“Only having the short week to prepare for state isn’t optimal, but I’m keeping a few things in mind: Aaron and Ben are both extremely talented athletes who gracefully transition from sport to sport, throughout the year,” said CHS coach Ken Stange.

“They had an up and down regular season but something happened at districts, though. They simply raised their games to a level neither of them had ever achieved. They amplified their strengths and they shored up their weaknesses,” he added. “It seemed like a flick of a switch. I was astounded by their display of dominance.”

Stange even went so far as to say the young guns might have taken out the seasoned pros who rule the Island courts. Heresy!

“On that day, I think they could have beaten Cliff Horr (my mega-talented doubles partner) and myself!”

Etzell and Curtin will hit the state tourney in Yakima May 30-31 as the #2 seed from their quad-district. They originally claimed third, but slid up a seed when the champs lost a player to a season-ending injury.

While the Wolf duo both sliced a finger while opening cans of tennis balls during quad-districts, they have both long ago healed.

Curtin injured his shoulder during the baseball season, but refrained from pitching during the second half and seems to be ready to go.

“Traditionally, the teams from our quad, which covers the entire I-5 corridor, have fared well at state,” Stange said. “I like our chances of making it to the semis, and hopefully the finals.

“The defending state champs, twins from Charles Wright, will likely be in the other half of the draw,” he added. “So we wouldn’t have to face them until the final.”

Basically, it’s super hero time.

“Aaron is Plastic Man and Ben is Superman!,” Stange said. “They are in great shape after an extended baseball season. They also have a certain X factor.

“There are no stats to show how a couple of guys can gut it out and will themselves to do some unnatural things on the court,” he added. “They will tune up their shots, play a few practice matches against some of the Island’s finest players, they will go to Yakima, and they will play their butts off.

“Hopefully, we come home with some hardware!”

While it will be Etzell and Curtin’s first trip to state as netters, their coach has twice taken Wolf girls on the trip. He, for one, is ready and rarin’ to go.

“I am stoked,” Stange said. “This is the best chance any of my players have had at earning a medal. It should be fun!”

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