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Knight time is the best time!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , , on October 5, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Wolf freshman Knight Arndt scored her first varsity goal Thursday at Port Angeles. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

“We came out a stronger team.”

Playing on the road, without one of its key players, against a very good, and very large, 2A school, the Coupeville High School girls soccer squad learned under fire Thursday night.

And while the Wolves suffered a 9-3 setback at the hands of Port Angeles, CHS coach Kyle Nelson emerged from the experience unbowed.

“A tough opponent tonight, with a tough first half,” he said. “We came back and played a much better second half.

“We look at these games as opportunities to improve,” he added. “And we figured out a few things tonight.”

The loss drops Coupeville to 6-5, but the Wolves still sit a tidy 4-1 in 1A Olympic League play.

With Port Townsend (1-4) falling to Klahowya (5-0) Thursday in a league tilt, the Wolves are three games up with four to play in the race for second place in conference play.

Another bright spot against Port Angeles was the continued emergence of players with a strong  scoring touch.

Freshman Knight Arndt became the ninth Wolf to tally a goal this season when she scored on “a nice back post run.”

Coupeville’s other two goals came on free kicks from senior captain Sage Renninger.

With the three-goal night, the Wolves raised their season total to 39 scores.

There are at least six games left on the schedule and CHS is coming up fast on last year’s team, which scored a program-record 47 goals while going 8-7-1.

Coupeville will have to go the rest of the way, though, without splendid junior midfielder/defender Lindsey Roberts, the team’s third-leading scorer.

She’s out with a tendon injury which requires wearing an ankle brace, icing three times a day, limited flexing, plenty of anti-imflammatories and a month’s rest.

While her own soccer season is done, Roberts is remaining with the team to cheer on her teammates and hopes to heal before basketball season.

Coupeville’s goal scorers:

Kalia Littlejohn 15
Genna Wright 8
Lindsey Roberts 4
Sage Renninger 3
Avalon Renninger 2
Ema Smith 2
Knight Arndt 1
Lauren Bayne 1
Mallory Kortuem 1

Own goals by opposing teams 2

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Pics to delight! Pics to amaze!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, Volleyball, tagged , , , , , , on October 4, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Coupeville got lucky in the foreign exchange student lottery, netting a winner in Charlotte Nolle. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

That moment when you thought it was a Friday, but it was just a Wednesday.

“How you doin?”

   Hope Lodell (left) and Kyla Briscoe plot out strategy. “I’m gonna hit it where they aren’t, and then we’ll win. Sound good?”

   Local legends Paul and Marilyn Messner, about to be be swarmed by autograph seekers.

Zoe Trujillo trains like Zola Budd. Look it up on Wikipedia…

Jaimee Masters (left) and Megan Behan plot shenanigans.

Even with a fractured ankle, Sean Toomey-Stout is still faster than you or me.

   With Coupeville sweeping all nine sets from Chimacum Tuesday, there was plenty to cheer about for Wolf spikers.

Megan Thorn unleashes The Crippler.

Imagine if this was the olden days, when you had to go in the darkroom and develop every picture.

Freed up by the advent of digital, wanderin’ photo god John Fisken madly clicked away Tuesday, bopping between Coupeville soccer and volleyball contests.

Along the way, he also let his lens slide into the crowd to capture what was brewing off the beaten path.

The pics above, while providing a nice overview of everything, are just the tip of the iceberg, however.

To see the billions of pics Fisken shot, there’s two handy links below.

And when you jump, remember, purchases fund college scholarships for CHS student/athletes, and they make it more likely he’ll return to Cow Town.

Volleyball — http://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/2017-Coupeville-Volleyball/2017-10-03-vs-Chimacum/

Soccer — http://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/2017-2018-Coupeville-Soccer/2017-10-03-vs-Chimacum/

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“It was a good night!!”

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , , on October 3, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Sage Renninger set up the winning goal in a 3-2 thriller Tuesday night. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Playoff ticket? Punched.

While the postseason brackets haven’t been released yet, three teams have advanced out of the 1A Olympic League every year the conference has been active.

If that stays true, and there seems to be no reason it won’t, the Coupeville High School girls soccer squad has clinched one of those slots.

Riding a late goal from breakout freshman star Genna Wright, the Wolves escaped with a nail-biting 3-2 win over visiting Chimacum Tuesday night.

The victory lifts CHS to 4-1 in league play, 6-4 overall and pulls it within a half game of league leader Klahowya (4-0, 9-0).

Port Townsend (1-3, 2-6) and Chimacum (0-5, 0-6) round out the standings, and, with the loss, the Cowboys can’t finish ahead of Coupeville.

If both teams were to take opposite paths and somehow end up tied at 4-5 in league play at the end of the season, the Wolves would own a tiebreaker for winning the season series.

While Tuesday’s game wasn’t a romp like the first time the schools played — back then Coupeville strolled to a 7-2 win — it showcased the Wolves at their gritty best.

Kalia Littlejohn found the back of the net early in the game to stake CHS to a lead, but the plucky Cowboys responded with a pair of goals to shake things up.

“After that we settled down and got our defense in order,” Coupeville coach Kyle Nelson said.

Littlejohn banged home her 15th goal of the season midway through the first half to knot the game at two, and that’s where it stayed for quite some time.

Coupeville had numerous second-half opportunities, but the Cowboys escaped time and again, until Sage Renninger broke the defense.

The senior captain rifled a “well-taken corner kick” and put it on Wright’s toe, allowing the young sharpshooter to flick it past the net-minder with “a great finish.”

It was Wright’s eighth score of the season, leaving her just two shy of the team single-season record for goals by a freshman.

That mark of ten goals was set two years ago by none other than Littlejohn.

Now midway through her junior season, Kalia’s two-goal night Tuesday pulls her to 33 career goals, two back of older sister Mia, who scored 35 from 2014-2016.

With the win, the Wolves, who have back-to-back non-league tilts against 2A schools Port Angeles and Sequim up next on the schedule, improved to 3-1 in one-goal games this season.

While he might have preferred another romp, a win is a win, especially when it comes against a rival, something Nelson could appreciate.

“Another league victory, so it was a good night, even if it was close,” he said.

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“Crazy game tonight!!”

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , on September 28, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Maddy Hilkey was one of three Coupeville booters to score in a shoot-out Thursday, lifting the Wolves to a big win at Port Townsend. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Coach long enough and you’ll see just about everything.

But after what he witnessed Thursday, Coupeville High School girls soccer guru Kyle Nelson could only utter three words.

“Crazy game tonight.”

But, it was a crazy game his team won, so he said the words with a smile on his face.

Playing on the road at Port Townsend, the Wolves managed to lose a three-goal lead in the late going, ended regulation tied 4-4, then survived two scoreless overtime periods before winning 3-2 in a shoot-out.

The victory was huge, as it lifts Coupeville to 3-1 in Olympic League play, pulling them within a game of Klahowya (4-0) and providing a major cushion over Port Townsend (1-3) and Chimacum (0-4).

The Wolves, who have finished second in the four-team league three straight years, now own a tiebreaker over the RedHawks, having beaten Port Townsend twice in as many meetings.

That’s huge, as the #2 team from the Olympic League gets a home playoff game, which, for Coupeville, would be at Oak Harbor’s stadium.

Facing a different Port Townsend team than the one they rolled 8-0 two weeks ago (four RedHawks who were AWOL the first time around had returned), the Wolves were limping a bit.

Junior Lindsey Roberts, the heart of the team, is dealing with a leg injury, while leading scorer Kalia Littlejohn twisted her ankle late in the game.

Fab frosh Genna Wright rose to the occasion, raining down a pair of goals, her sixth and seventh on the season, as Coupeville built a 4-1 lead in the first half.

Ema Smith and Mallory Kortuem also scored for the Wolves, then “things took a turn in the second half.”

With the momentum all on the side of the host RedHawks, CHS had its back to the wall, but refused to break.

After battling through a pair of five-minute overtime periods, Coupeville found itself involved in a shoot-out for the first time in 2017.

It was a tense battle, going six rounds, with Wolf goalie Sarah Wright keeping her squad alive with “a couple of nice saves.”

Given a reprieve, the CHS shooters prevailed, with Lauren Bayne, Genna Wright and Maddy Hilkey torching the RedHawk net-minder to seal the win.

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Two sports, a billion pics!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, Volleyball, tagged , , , , , , on September 27, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   With a flick of her fingers, Zoe Trujillo sends another winner away to find a new home on the opposite side of the net. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

   It’s not the sound of thunder, it’s just Kalia Littlejohn kickin’ the crud out of the soccer ball.

Maddie Vondrak (far left) knows exactly where the cameraman is hiding.

Raven Vick unleashes all the fury, all the power.

Wolf defender Mallory Kortuem gets the ball out of town as quickly as possible.

   When Lauren Bayne goes for the ball, the smart rival simply backs off and says, “Yep, you got it. Just ignore me.”

   Kyla Briscoe (left) warms up Mikayla Elfrank’s hittin’ hands during pre-game festivities.

Properly warmed-up, Elfrank gets medieval on the Eagles.

The action kept John Fisken hopping.

With volleyball and soccer games going on at the same time in Coupeville Tuesday, the intrepid photo god bounced up and down S. Main, hitting every activity, camera in hand.

The photos above are courtesy him, but are just the tip of the iceberg.

To see everything he shot, pop over to the links below.

And, when you do, remember this — every purchase helps fund college scholarships for CHS student/athletes.

Plus, if he sells some pics, he’s even more likely to make the trek up from Oak Harbor the next time the Wolves are playing.

http://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/2017-Coupeville-Volleyball/2017-09-26-vs-Klahowya/

http://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/2017-2018-Coupeville-Soccer/2017-09-26-vs-Klahowya/

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