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Na na na na, hey hey-ey, goodbye!!

Posted in Boys Tennis, Cheer, Football, Girls Soccer, Volleyball on October 17, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Katie Kiel (right) will get two goodbyes, since she doubles as a cheerleader and a volleyball spiker. Sydney Aparicio is staying around for another season. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

We’re still eight months away from graduation, but saying goodbye to Coupeville High School seniors starts Thursday.

Both the Wolf booters (5 PM) and spikers (7 PM) play their final home game of the season that night, with Granite Falls as the visiting team which should lose if they want to show the proper respect.

Then, the next night, the Coupeville gridiron squad (7 PM) will host its last game at Mickey Clark Field, with King’s, the state’s top-ranked 1A squad, as the intended victim.

Having their final bow before the hometown fans will be:

Soccer — Anna Bailey, Vanessa Bernales, Amanda d’Almeida, Haley Marx, Kelsey Miranda, Kelsey Pape, Madison Tisa McPhee, Rachel Wenzel.

Volleyball — Rhiannon Ellsworth, Lauren Escalle, Katie Kiel, Iris Ryckaert, Bessie Walstad.

Football — Riley Boyd, Serigio Guerro, Kole Kellison, Anthony Maggio, Danny Savalza, Paul Schmakeit, Caleb Valko.

Cheer — Nicole Becker, Emily Clay, Holly Craggs, Darian Emerick, Escalle, Jai’Lysa Hoskins, Kiel, Teri Lee, Ryckaert.

And, not to be forgotten, Wolf netters Nathan Lamb and Ben Wehrman are also departing the court (after they whip up on some people at districts and then, hopefully, at quad-districts and state.)

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The weather? Oh, the weather was dandy!!

Posted in Football, Ranting and Raving on October 17, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Wolf quarterback Dalton Martin picks up some yardage the hard way.

“And it looks like the refs are throwing yet another flag, Kole. What do you think about that?”

“Ooh ooh ooh, the guys in the booth noticed me! I’m throwing like five more flags in a row just so they keep talking about me! Wait, now where did my seeing-eye dog go?!?!?”

“We can’t feel our faces!!”

“Neither can we!!!!!!”

If I hadn’t already previously mentioned, the weather conditions for the Coupeville High School JV football game Monday were less than desirable.

I can still feel the icy wind shooting up my shorts and … what, of course I was wearing shorts! I’m not a wuss. Really, really stupid, possibly, but not a wuss…

Anyway, the few die-hard fans (a mixture of dedicated parents and CHS students) who were there got to enjoy some football (Lathom Kelley running like a Mack truck), a ton of penalty flags (the refs apparently wanted to stay outdoors as long as humanly possible) and some snappy play-by-play from the fill-in booth announcers (Caleb Valko and Kole Kellison.)

Photographer/dedicated mom Melissa Zimmerman-Losey was there as well, battling the wind to get these shots, so that the rest of you “Ooh, it’s too cold, I’m going to stay home under my blankies and watch Peyton Manning on Monday Night Football” types can see a bit of what you missed.

If you want to FEEL what you missed, my knees are still at about 17 degrees…

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“Any fool can use a computer. Many do!!”

Posted in Football, Ranting and Raving on October 16, 2012| 3 Comments »

“For Ferris!!” (Shelli Trumbull photo)

You can’t trust computers.

They freeze up. They glitch. Sometimes they just get uppity on you and, sometimes … sometimes they want to kill you and everyone you’ve ever known.

Skynet in “The Terminator” films. Hal in “2001.” And what about WOPR in “WarGames?” It tried to kill freakin’ Ferris Bueller!!!

And now we’re supposed to just smile and get all huggy when the steel-plated psychos start predicting football scores, as if that makes everything OK. Ferris Bueller … you tried to drop thermonuclear war on Ferris Bueller’s head!! That is so not classy!!

I bring this up because I was perusing the Seattle Times website and stumbled across a link to a site called ScoreCzar, (https://sites.google.com/a/scoreczar.com/scoreczar/) where one man (Scott Odiorne) and his evil, evil computer (I shall call her … Debbie) have refined the art of ranking Washington state high school football teams and then predicting how they will do against other teams.

His “scary accurate computer rankings” (supplied by that tramp, Debbie) predict that Eastside Catholic will stomp Bishop Blanchet 27-8 this week, which, admittedly, doesn’t mean that much to me.

No, where Mr. Odiorne and that hussy, Debbie, have aroused the ire of Wolf Nation is where they pick King’s to beat Coupeville 40-0.

Sure, King’s is the number one ranked team in 1A, they’re unbeaten, their quarterback (Billy Green) is Mr. Universe and their biggest, baddest offensive lineman (Mason Friedline) has a scholarship to Yale (ooh, la-de-da … I guess Harvard wouldn’t take you?).

Which will mean diddly and squat when Wolf running back Jake Tumblin hits Mach 5 and takes the ball to the house.

Games are decided by the fight in the players on the field and not by the overheated wires of that slattern … Debbie.

Coupeville needs to take a stand against computer tyranny this Friday. Win one for the humans and wipe that smug grin off Debbie’s main-frame.

Do it for Ferris!!

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At least it didn’t rain…

Posted in Football on October 15, 2012| 1 Comment »

Lathom Kelley carried the rushing load for CHS Monday night. (Melissa Zimmerman-Losey photo)

It was not the most pleasant of evenings.

With a gusty, cold, highly persistent wind slicing through the scattered, but very loyal, fans in the stands and a pack of officials who seemingly had just discovered they had flags and wanted to throw them as many times as they could, Monday night’s Coupeville High School JV football game was a bit of an ordeal.

Those who did stay until the bitter end of a narrow 14-6 loss to visiting South Whidbey were treated to some smash-mouth running by freshman back Lathom Kelley, an interception (and nearly two more) by Anthony Bergeron and a touchdown-saving tackle by Mitchell Losey in which he caught the Falcon runner from behind and whipped him down like a cowboy preparing to brand a calf.

Plus, there were the rich, velvety tones of play-by-play men Caleb Valko and Kole Kellison, who, sheltered from the wind in the press box, had a great time doing a running comedy routine.

South Whidbey jumped on Coupeville quickly, scoring a touchdown less than a minute into the game on a short run to the left. The Wolves grabbed a brief bit of redemption, however, blocking the extra point attempt.

After Bergeron’s interception blunted a second Falcon drive, Coupeville put together a drive sustained by runs from Kelley and Wiley Hesselgrave, a nice pass from Dalton Martin to Matt Hampton and a key face mask penalty on South Whidbey. Kelley then plunged in with the game-tying score with about four minutes left in the first half.

The Falcons threatened in the waning moments of the half, but after Bergeron almost nabbed errant passes on two straight plays, Carson Risner blew through the line and sacked the flustered quarterback to end the half.

A tight game then fell apart on the opening kickoff of the second half, when Coupeville fumbled a pooch punt that was caught by the wind. With the ball back in their hands, South Whidbey used a series of short runs to batter the Wolf ‘d’, before punching in what would become the game-winning score.

Coupeville had one last opportunity, when they recovered a fumble in the game’s final three minutes and began to drive for a potential tying score. Unfortunately, just as they seemed to be in rhythm, the over-active refs threw a big flag on the Wolves and, driven back a considerable distance by the zebras, Coupeville eventually turned the ball over on downs.

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Cry those sweet, sweet tears, Langley!!

Posted in Football, Ranting and Raving on October 14, 2012| Leave a Comment »

The Bucket hitches a ride with Wolf senior Danny Savalza.

All is right in the world again.

After six long years of being in captivity in that blighted land known only as the South End, The Bucket has come back to Coupeville. When the Wolves marched onto Waterman Field Friday night, the ground trembled and the heavens wept (sure, some folks call it rain, but we know better), for they knew that justice was about to be delivered.

Forty-eight minutes of football later, one team, one town, stood tall. And that town doesn’t have the words South or Whidbey anywhere in its name.

Falcons fly for awhile and then they fall to the ground. Wolves stand tall for all time.

And while CHS takes really good care of The Bucket (for a very long time) we offer the folks of Langley a few words from Johnny Cash. The song is “Cry, Cry, Cry” and you’re welcome, Langley!

Everybody knows where you go when the sun goes down.
I think you only live to see the lights of town.
I wasted my time when I would try, try, try.
When the lights have lost their glow, you’re gonna cry, cry, cry.

Soon your sugar-daddies will all be gone.
You’ll wake up some cold day and find you’re alone.
You’ll call to me but I’m gonna tell you: “Bye, bye, bye,”
When I turn around and walk away, you’ll cry, cry, cry,

You’re gonna cry, cry, cry and you’ll cry alone,
When everyone’s forgotten and you’re left on your own.
You’re gonna cry, cry, cry.

I lie awake at night to wait ’til you come in
You stay a little while and then you’re gone again
Every question that I ask, I get a lie, lie, lie
For every lie you tell, you’re gonna cry, cry, cry

When your fickle little love gets old, no one will care for you.
You’ll come back to me for a little love that’s true.
I’ll tell you no and you gonna ask me why, why, why?
When I remind you of all of this, you’ll cry, cry, cry.

You’re gonna cry, cry, cry and you’ll want me there,
It’ll hurt when you think of the fool you’ve been.
You’re gonna cry, cry, cry.