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As the stats world turns!!

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on October 9, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Teo Keilwitz recovered a fumble for a touchdown against Vashon Island. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Football stats are like a giant, shifting sand dune.

As the winds blow through, some piles rise and others fall, and, most times, you can’t totally control where the sand ends up.

Injuries are a killer on the gridiron, and, thanks to various hurts, Wolf stars Hunter Smith, Sean Toomey-Stout and Chris Battaglia have taken a stats hit in the last week or two.

At the same time, their absence has opened the gates for players such as Andrew Martin, Jake Hoagland and Teo Keilwitz, who have all seen their stats rise in the past two weeks.

Through it all, the most consistent weapon has been receiver/defensive back Cameron Toomey-Stout, who has stayed healthy and productive.

The senior standout is now #1 for CHS in six categories — receiving yards, touchdowns, points, all-purpose yards, interceptions (a tie with Smith) and return yards.

The man throwing him the ball, senior quarterback Hunter Downes, is busy making a run at the record books.

Through six games, he’s averaging 182.7 passing yards and 1.8 TD passes a game.

Stay at that pace through the final four contests and Downes would tie Joel Walstad’s single-season TD record (18 in 2014) and just miss Ian Smith’s single-season passing yardage mark (1,848 in 2010).

With 2,937 yards and 29 TD’s for his career, Downes is also closing in on Coupeville’s career records in those categories.

The man he’s chasing, Brad Sherman, the Wolf Offensive Coordinator, finished his run on the gridiron with 3,613 yards and 33 TD’s.

Downes and Co. will kick off the first of three straight home games this Friday, when Bellevue Christian comes to town for Coupeville’s Homecoming game.

Last year, Downes blitzed the Vikings for four scoring strikes, tying the CHS single game record. If history repeats itself, Friday the 13th could be historical.

As you count down the hours until that game, take a gander at the season-to-date stats, as compiled by CHS coaches and posted on MaxPreps.

Keep in mind, though, that when you look at where Wolf players are ranked, it comes with one caveat — not all teams in the state are actively reporting stats.

OFFENSE:

Passing:

Hunter Downes 58-122 for 1,096 yards (#2 in 1A) with 11 TDs and 6 INTs
Shane Losey 1-2 for 16 yards
Dawson Houston 0-1

Receiving:

Cameron Toomey-Stout 28 receptions for 495 yards (#1 in 1A)
Hunter Smith 21-426 (#4 in 1A)
Sean Toomey-Stout 5-120
Matt Hilborn 3-51
Jake Hoagland 1-14
Losey 1-6

Rushing:

S. Toomey-Stout 41 carries for 224 yards
Chris Battaglia 24-127
Hilborn 34-97
Andrew Martin 11-51
Smith 4-11
Teo Keilwitz 3-7
Jean Lund-Olsen 3-5
Losey 3-0
Downes 15 (-3)

All-Purpose Yards (Rush/Rec/KR/PR/IR):

C. Toomey-Stout 758
Smith 637
S. Toomey-Stout 389
Hilborn 197
Battaglia 127
Hoagland 115
Keilwitz 66
Martin 51
Lund-Olsen 10
Losey 6

Total Yards (Rush/Pass/Rec):

Downes 1,093 (#3 in 1A)
C. Toomey-Stout 495
Smith 437
S. Toomey-Stout 344
Hilborn 148
Battaglia 127
Martin 51
Losey 22
Hoagland 14
Keilwitz 7
Lund-Olsen 5

Touchdowns:

C. Toomey-Stout 7 (#4 in 1A)
Smith 6 (#6 in 1A)
S. Toomey-Stout 4
Hilborn 2
Downes 1
Hoagland 1
Keilwitz 1

PATs:

Hilborn 10 (#5 in 1A)

Conversions:

Smith 1
S. Toomey-Stout 1

Points:

C. Toomey-Stout 42 (#5 in 1A)
Smith 38 (#6 in 1A)
S. Toomey-Stout 26
Hilborn 22
Downes 6
Hoagland 6
Keilwitz 6

DEFENSE:

Tackles:

S. Toomey-Stout 54 (#8 in 1A)
C. Toomey-Stout 35
Hilborn 34
Losey 27
Julian Welling 27
Battaglia 26
Dane Lucero 26
Hoagland 23
Tyler McCalmont 21
Jake Pease 21
Smith 17
Martin 15
Kyle Rockwell 15
James Vidoni 15
Keilwitz 11
Trevor Bell 5
Downes 5
Gavin Knoblich 5
Lund-Olsen 5
Brian Roberts 4
Houston 2
Cameron Dahl 1
Koa Davison 1
Gavin Straub 1

Tackles for Loss:

Pease 6
McCalmont 5
Vidoni 4
Lucero 3
Welling 2
Hoagland 1
Knoblich 1

Interceptions:

Smith 4 (#1 in 1A, #4 in the state)
C. Toomey-Stout 4 (#1 in 1A, #4 in the state)

Fumble recoveries:

Pease 2
Hoagland 1
Keilwitz 1
S. Toomey-Stout 1
Welling 1

Sacks:

Pease 4
Welling 2
Losey 1.5
Lucero 1.5
Battaglia 1
McCalmont 1
Vidoni 1

Blocked kicks:

Rockwell 1

SPECIAL TEAMS:

Kickoffs:

Hilborn 24 for 371 yards

Punts:

Downes 7 for 196 yards

Kickoff/Punt returns:

C. Toomey-Stout 11 for 180 yards (#5 in 1A)
Hoagland 3-101
Keilwitz 5-59
Hilborn 4-49
S. Toomey-Stout 4-45
Smith 2-33
Lund-Olsen 1-5
Welling 1-0

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And the battle rages!!

Posted in Boys Tennis, Football, Girls Soccer, Volleyball, tagged , , , , on October 8, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville has had plenty to cheer for this fall, with its varsity teams posting a combined 11-5 record in league contests. (David Stern photo)

The disparity in the 1A Olympic League continues to grow.

With one minor exception (Port Townsend football), conference domination is again a two-team battle between Coupeville and Klahowya.

A week into Oct., the Eagles, who rep the second-biggest 1A school in the land, have 13 varsity wins, spread across volleyball, football, tennis and soccer.

Meanwhile, the Wolves, who spring from the sixth-smallest 1A student body, are hot on their heels with 11 victories.

Way, way in the back are Port Townsend (four, with three coming from the gridiron) and Chimacum (one lonely volleyball win over PT).

The week ahead (Oct. 9-13) doesn’t offer Coupeville many chances to increase its league win total, with limited games and three of its four sports facing non-conference 2A foe Sequim.

But the Wolf tennis team has a pair of matches against Chimacum, while the CHS football squad hosts Nisqually League foe Bellevue Christian for Homecoming.

Those teams have a combined one win this season, which bodes well for the Wolves.

Current league standings through Oct. 8:

Olympic/Nisqually League football:

School League Overall
Cascade Christian 3-0 5-1
Charles Wright 3-0 5-1
Port Townsend 3-0 3-3
COUPEVILLE 1-2 3-3
Bellevue Christian 1-2 1-5
Klahowya 1-2 1-5
Chimacum 0-3 2-4
Vashon Island 0-3 0-6

Olympic League volleyball:

School League Overall
COUPEVILLE 4-0 7-1
Klahowya 3-1 4-5
Chimacum 1-3 1-5
Port Townsend 0-4 1-7

Olympic League girls soccer:

School League Overall
Klahowya 5-0 10-0
COUPEVILLE 4-1 6-5
Port Townsend 1-4 2-7
Chimacum 0-5 0-6-1

Olympic League boys tennis:

School League Overall
Klahowya 4-1 11-2
COUPEVILLE 2-2 3-6
Chimacum 0-3 0-8

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Hoagie delivers, with a side of relish!!

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on October 6, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Coupeville senior Jake Hoagland brought back a kickoff 70+ yards for a touchdown Friday at Port Townsend. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Everything was just a little bit off Friday.

A kickoff time shoved from 7 PM up to 3:30 because of issues with ferries, three star players on the sideline in street clothes and a fairly dispiriting, lopsided loss for a Coupeville High School football team which could not wrap up a runner to save its life.

Given third, fourth and even fifth chances to break free on many plays, Port Townsend’s sophomore QB, Noa Apker-Montoya, did just that.

And, by the time he was done slicing and dicing the Wolf defense, he had run for three touchdowns and thrown for another two, sparking the RedHawks to a 61-12 win on their home turf.

The loss to an Olympic League rival drops Coupeville to 1-2 in conference play, 3-3 overall.

If there is a silver lining, it’s this — after playing four of their first six on the road, the Wolves now get three straight home games, starting with a Homecoming tilt Oct. 13 against win-less Bellevue Christian.

More immediately, the biggest ray of hope for the depleted CHS squad was the momentary burst of adrenaline offered by senior Jake Hoagland pulling off a career-best moment.

The kind of quiet, hard-working, humble guy every program loves to have, Hoagie, helping return kicks with Hunter Smith out, brought his fervent fans to their feet on the final play of the third quarter.

The Wolves trailed 54-6 at the moment, having surrendered a 15-yard scoring strike with just three ticks left on the clock, and, if heads were hanging a bit, it would have been understandable.

Hoagland, however, had his head straight up, and he took the ensuing kickoff to the house, bolting up the middle of the field, shedding RedHawk tacklers with each step.

By the time he was done, he had covered 70+ yards, scored the first varsity touchdown of his high school career and sent a large group of his classmates into hysterics.

Coupeville might have been the road team, but the Wolf fans turned out in big numbers, filling up their side of the stands, something the locals can’t claim.

A sizable chunk of the CHS rooters were Hoagland’s fellow athletes — Wolf volleyball, soccer, tennis and cross country stars — and they stayed loud ‘n proud even when the score turned sour.

And it turned sour pretty quick.

The Wolves were missing their #1 rusher and tackler, Sean Toomey-Stout (ankle), their top receiver and defensive back, Hunter Smith (back), and #2 rusher and tackler, Chris Battaglia (ribs).

Without that trio, Coupeville’s offense had trouble clicking on all cylinders.

Add in a defense which, for one night at least, looked like a squad in need of a refresher course on wrapping up the runner, and Montoya and Co. had their way.

Three touchdowns in the first 10 minutes, off of runs by Montoya and Jacob Boucher, followed by a 12-yard scoring strike from the former to the latter, put Coupeville in a huge hole.

The Wolves seemed to find a brief reprieve near the end of the first quarter, when QB Hunter Downes faked a punt, then pegged a long shot down the left sideline to the ever-elusive Cameron Toomey-Stout.

Camtastic snatched the ball between two Port Townsend defenders, then spun and juked a third would-be tackler out of his shoes on his way to a 63-yard catch-and-run touchdown.

While the PAT was no good, Coupeville had brief life, especially with Toomey-Stout immediately picking off Montoya on the game’s next offensive play.

It wasn’t to be, though, as Montoya returned the favor, immediately intercepting Downes first pass, essentially making the exchange a moot point.

The RedHawks put the hammer down in the second quarter, battering away for three more touchdowns on the ground.

Throwing salt into the wound, Port Townsend got two of those scores in the final 59 seconds of the half, packaging TD runs around a fumble recovery.

While Coupeville’s three turnovers hurt, missed tackles on defense will be what burns the most on tape-reviewing day.

On numerous occasions, the Wolves had a RedHawk runner corralled after a short 2-3 yard gain, only to lose their grip and watch in horror as the play turned into 10-20 yards.

Missing most of his key weapons and trying to climb out of a hole, Downes did what he could, scrambling and firing on the run.

His prettiest pass of the night actually wasn’t the 63-yard scoring strike, but a super-smooth 17-yard laser right before halftime.

Threading the ball through the defense, Downes laid the ball right on Toomey-Stout’s fingertips, and the senior sensation pulled off a gorgeous snag under duress.

Without its tops runners, Coupeville split carries between Matt Hilborn, Andrew Martin and Teo Keilwitz, with Martin bull-rushing up the middle for his team’s longest ground gain of the night, a hard-earned 11 yards and a cloud of dust.

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Future Wolves rip up gridiron as Wildcats!!

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on October 1, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Coupeville’s Hurlee Bronec anchors the line while playing youth football in Oak Harbor. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Hunter Bronec (73) gets ready to snap the ball.

Oak Harbor is importing all its linemen from Coupeville these days.

Since there’s no youth football program in Cow Town, local residents have to trek up the Island if they want to play, and brothers Hurlee and Hunter Bronec are doing just that.

Wanderin’ cameraman John Fisken was busy shooting action Saturday when he caught the Wolves at work in disguise.

To see more photos from that game, which pitted Oak Harbor’s Midget squad against Anacortes, pop over to:

http://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/OHFCL-2017/2017-09-30-Midget-Purple-vs-Anacortes/

To see everything Fisken has shot this season, covering every level of OH youth football (with a few Coupeville ringers tossed in), try:

http://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/OHFCL-2017/

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Big hurt, big blow!!

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on September 30, 2017| 2 Comments »

   Sophomore Sean Toomey-Stout, Coupeville’s leading rusher and tackler, fractured his ankle Friday at Vashon. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

“The Torpedo” has been sunk.

Sean Toomey-Stout’s breakout season has ended at the halfway point, after confirmation the sophomore fractured his ankle in the third quarter of Friday night’s game at Vashon Island.

An ER visit before returning to Whidbey confirmed the dire prognosis — he will need surgery after the swelling in his ankle comes down.

Toomey-Stout will be on crutches when he returns to school Monday and mom Beth Stout asked for his friends and fans to “send lots of thoughts his way, as he is already missing football and his team.”

Coupeville’s leading rusher and tackler this season, he’s been a huge part of the reason the Wolves are 3-2, already matching last year’s win total.

With his quicksilver moves and sterling work ethic, Toomey-Stout has blossomed from being an impact player as a frosh to being the heart and soul of the CHS defense.

His loss invokes memories of other similar injuries which claimed Wolf greats Paul Messner and Ian Barron during record-setting seasons of their own.

Sean’s absence creates a huge hole for Coupeville, as he was a key player on offense, defense and special teams, where and he big brother Cameron pursued return men like heat-seeking missiles.

Toomey-Stout entered Friday’s game with 47 tackles, which put him #4 among all 1A players whose teams have reported stats to MaxPreps.

He tore up Vashon in the first half, scoring on six and three-yard runs, giving him four touchdowns on the year, spurring CHS to a 42-7 win.

His injury came midway through the third quarter when he went down on a play near the left sideline.

A Vashon trainer attended to him on the field, and he eventually came off with assistance from coaches, but couldn’t put any weight on his foot.

By the time the game was done, his foot was showing considerable swelling.

Though, as normal, “The Torpedo” flashed the thumbs-up sign at moms Lisa and Beth when they asked how he was feeling and would have crawled back into the game if the trainer had turned her back for half a second.

Coupeville, which sits at 1-1 in Olympic/Nisqually League play, a game out of first place, heads to Port Townsend (2-0, 2-3) next Friday for a grudge match and then plays three straight at home against Bellevue Christian, Klahowya and Chimacum.

As the Wolves chase a winning season and a playoff berth, they will need other young players like Chris Battaglia, Shane Losey, Andrew Martin and Teo Keilwitz to step up in Toomey-Stout’s absence.

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