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Football playoff hopes take a hit

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on October 4, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Aiden O’Neill notched his first touchdown of his senior season Friday night on Friday Harbor. (Julie Wheat photo)

The playoff dream isn’t dead, but it’s on life support.

After falling 28-14 Friday night on Friday Harbor in a penalty-heavy clash, the Coupeville High School football squad will need a late-season rally to get its shot at the postseason.

With the loss, the Wolves slip to 0-1 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 0-5 overall, while the Wolverines sit at 1-0, 2-3, and are in the driver’s seat for the conference’s lone 2B playoff berth.

Coupeville plays non-league foes the next two weeks, traveling to South Whidbey to battle for The Bucket, before hosting high-flying Adna.

Then, everything comes down to the regular-season finale Friday, Oct. 24, when CHS gets a second crack at Friday Harbor, but on its home turf at Mickey Clark Field.

Win and earn the season split with the Wolverines, and Bennett Richter’s squad will force a tiebreaker. Lose, and Coupeville will watch their gridiron arch-rivals advance.

During round one, the Wolves picked up touchdowns from Chase Anderson and Aiden O’Neill, but were stung by whistle-happy refs.

It was Anderson’s third score of the campaign, while O’Neill reached the end zone for the first time this season.

 

Scoring stats through five games:

 

Touchdowns:

Davin Houston – 4
Chase Anderson – 3
Liam Blas – 1
Nathan Coxsey – 1
Aiden O’Neill – 1
Josh Stockdale – 1

 

PATs:

Anderson – 8

 

POINTS:

Anderson – 26
Houston – 24
Blas – 6
Coxsey – 6
O’Neill – 6
Stockdale – 6

Senior QB Chase Anderson, here receiving some TLC from team trainer Jessica Hillier, leads Coupeville in scoring. (Jackie Saia photo)

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CHS grad livin’ that college gridiron life

Posted in Football, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , on September 29, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Ben Smith

He’s back racking up stats.

Coupeville grad Ben Smith made his season debut for the Lakeland University football team Saturday, recording three tackles and a sack as the Muskies crunched Rockford 35-7 in Plymouth, Wisconsin.

The victory lifts Lakeland to 1-0 in Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference play, 1-2 overall.

The Muskies have a 10-game regular season schedule which stretches through mid-November.

Smith, an All-Conference pick at running back during his days as a Wolf, is in his first season at Lakeland, where he’s a linebacker.

A graduate transfer, he previously played ball at Concordia Chicago and Eureka College, after redshirting at Culver-Stockton College.

His degree from Concordia is in criminal justice, and Smith is working towards a master’s at Lakeland in leadership and organizational development.

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Festive night, tough loss

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on September 27, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Friday’s Homecoming game brought cousins (left to right) Lyal Viers, Camden Glover, and Andy Penrod back together. (Photo courtesy Tammy Glover)

No comebacks this time around.

A year ago, the Coupeville High School football squad rallied from 21 down with nine minutes to play to shock Cedar Park Christian-Bothell, winning on the final play of the game.

Jump forward to 2025, however, and the Eagles held on to win the non-conference battle, downing the Wolves 31-7 as CHS celebrated Homecoming.

The loss drops Coupeville to 0-4 on the season, with the biggest matchup on their schedule set for next week.

The Wolves, who rep a 2B school, have opened with four straight games against 1A foes.

Next Friday, Oct. 3, that changes, with Coupeville squaring off with its lone conference challenger, Friday Harbor, in the first of two games between the Northwest 2B/1B League rivals.

The first showdown will be on the road, with the Wolverines playing hosts, before Friday Harbor travels to Coupeville Oct. 24 for the regular season finale.

Friday Harbor is 1-3 after thrashing South Whidbey 63-0 Thursday night.

Prior to that came non-league losses to Cedar Park Christian, East Jefferson, and Cle Elum-Roslyn.

Coupeville will have non-conference tilts against South Whidbey and Adna sandwiched between the two NWL bouts, which will decide which 2B league school advances to the state playoffs.

While the Northwest League has seven teams, 2B schools Orcas Island and Mount Vernon Christian don’t play football, while La Conner is rebuilding its program by playing the eight-man version of the sport.

Darrington and Concrete, who also play 8-man ball, are 1B schools.

Coupeville, coming off of its best offensive showing of the season after scoring 27 against Granite Falls last week, was limited to just a single touchdown Friday night.

That came courtesy senior quarterback Chase Anderson, who took a kickoff to the house, covering close to 90 yards as the Eagles failed to slow him down.

Anderson followed up his second touchdown of the season by tacking on the PAT kick, his sixth extra point.

But that was it for the Wolves, who have been outscored 144-60 this year.

With the win, Cedar Park, which lost to Onalaska last week, improves to 3-1 on the campaign.

The Homecoming game was preceded by a parade featuring floats for Wolf fall sports teams. (Michelle Armstrong photo)

Isaac Wacker, Mark Wacker, and Ray Shelly keep the tunes coming. (Photo courtesy Tammy Glover)

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Gridiron glory, snazzy snaps

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on September 24, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Riley Lawless takes great delight in destroying rival quarterbacks. (Parker Hammons photos)

It’s one final burst of Parker Pics.

Parker Hammons, one of the best student photographers at Coupeville High School in recent years, recently moved out of state.

But as he goes, we’re treated to a medley of Wolf football pics from his final moments on the prairie.

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Fab five embrace end zone love

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on September 24, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Nathan Coxsey, seen here with his siblings, snagged his first high school touchdown reception Saturday at Granite Falls. (Photo courtesy Erin Coxsey)

Everyone’s chasing Davin.

Three games into the season, junior Davin Houston tops the scoring stats for the Coupeville High School football team, keeping alive a tradition started by older brothers Dawson and Daylon.

The third of Daniel and Alia’s three sons has recorded at least one touchdown every week heading into Friday’s Homecoming tilt with Cedar Park Christian-Bothell, and he’s looking to spend more quality time in the end zone.

Where things currently sit for the only gridiron stats I have:

 

Touchdowns:

Davin Houston – 4
Chase Anderson – 1
Liam Blas – 1
Nathan Coxsey – 1
Josh Stockdale – 1

 

PATs:

Anderson – 5

 

POINTS:

Houston – 24
Anderson – 11
Blas – 6
Coxsey – 6
Stockdale – 6

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