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Say it ain’t so, Big O!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Boys Soccer, Football, Gossip, tagged , , , , on March 12, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Oscar Liquidano (bottom right) with other CHS football captains. (Sylvia Arnold photo)

  Oscar Liquidano (bottom right, black hoodie) with other CHS football captains. (Sylvia Arnold photo)

Even if he moves to Las Vegas with his family, the legend will live on in Coupeville.

Even if he moves to Las Vegas with his family, his legend will live on in Coupeville.

Aaaaaa-goooooo-nyyyyyyyy.

It’s not 100% certain yet, but there’s a very real possibility the Wolves will lose one of their football captains before he can suit up for his senior season.

Junior lineman Oscar Liquidano, who also plays basketball and soccer for Coupeville High School, may be pilfered away from the red and black if a family move to Las Vegas happens shortly.

“Well, it’s not a sure thing … but only God knows what will happen,” Liquidano said.

The easy-going man mountain was supposed to join Josh Bayne, Carson Risner and Aaron Wright to lead the Wolves into a new league next season. Coupeville is hopping out of the 1A/2A Cascade Conference and joining the 1A Olympic League.

CHS football coach Tony Maggio was last seen huddled in a corner, tears running down his face. Or, at least that’s how I imagine it…

“Devastating. I love that kid,” Maggio said.

If the move happens, it will actually take two football players away from Coupeville, as younger brother Uriel was a standout defensive player for the JV this year as a freshman.

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Battle for The Bucket lives on!!

Posted in Football, Gossip, tagged , , , on February 8, 2014| Leave a Comment »

CHS football coach Tony Maggio

CHS football coach Tony Maggio: “Week 1? We’re playing them Week 1?!?!”

Lathom Kelley: "Relax, Papa Wolf ... we got this." (John Fisken photo)

Lathom Kelley: “Relax, Papa Wolf … we got this.” (John Fisken photo)

Rivalry week comes early next season.

When the 2014-2015 school year starts in September, Coupeville High School is leaving the 1A/2A Cascade Conference and moving to a new 1A-only division in the Olympic League. As the smallest 1A school in the state, CHS is looking for a more level playing field.

One thing the Wolves won’t leave behind, however, is their natural rivalry with South Whidbey. The two Island schools will continue to face off, just in non-conference games.

And that back-and-forth battle is probably biggest on the gridiron, where the Wolves and Falcons battle for possession of The Bucket.

Two years ago, Coupeville went to Langley and, led by seniors Caleb Valko and Danny Savalza, brought the trophy home.

Last year, with All-State lineman Nick Streubel out with injury, the Wolves fell at home in what may have been the foggiest game ever played on Whidbey.

Coupeville’s effort to reclaim the hardware will get an early start in 2014, as Wolf Athletic Director Lori Stolee has confirmed the two schools have penciled in each other for week one of the football season.

“South Whidbey is locked in,” Stolee said. “We don’t have the schedule made yet, but my unofficial schedule has them locked in!”

Nestled away in his top-secret mad genius lair, Wolf coach Tony Maggio has already started plotting out new, mind-boggling plays.

The countdown to smack-down has begun.

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Ladies, get those cameras (and phones) ready!!

Posted in Football, Gossip on November 8, 2012| Leave a Comment »

       “Am I the only one around here who can’t feel his knees right now?!?” (Robert Pelant photo)

Tony Maggio is a brave, brave man.

The Coupeville High School football coach went through the entire season, through wind and rain and more wind, and never gave up.

I retired my shorts in the last third of the season and went to long pants, but the Wolf gridiron guru stayed true, wearing his shorts for the entire football season. That’s commitment, that’s manliness, that’s dedication.

Now there are rumors — possibly started by Maggio himself — that he may actually sport long pants for tonight’s season-ending awards banquet.

If that’s true, I need photographic proof. I need one of the moms in attendance to skulk around and fire off her camera or phone, paparazzi-style.

Maggio in long pants! I’ll only believe it when I see the pictures, ladies!

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Who’s that knocking at our door? College coaches?!?!

Posted in Football, Gossip on November 8, 2012| Leave a Comment »

From left to right, Jake Tumblin, Caleb Valko and Nick Streubel.

I’m going to be a little careful here.

Since I’m not 100% sure of the rules regarding colleges recruiting high school football players, and what can be said in public at what time without getting people in trouble, we’ll leave the school involved a mystery.

But, this much is true. The coach at a well-known university in our own state has approached Coupeville High School coach Tony Maggio and asked for info on Wolf junior running back Jake Tumblin and junior offensive lineman Nick Streubel. The school is also looking at senior lineman Caleb Valko.

The school in question is a highly-regarded Division II school, is currently 6-4 on the season, plays on the eastern side of the state and has had Coupeville alumni on its roster before.

I can say no more, except, it’s about time.

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“Did you bring enough for everyone?!?!”

Posted in Big Time Secrets, Football, Gossip on November 1, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Randy Payne, far right, the man behind the snacks that fueled Coupeville High School’s crack football chain gang.

At long last, one of the deepest, darkest secrets of Coupeville High School football can be revealed to the world.

If you wondered how the crack four-man chain gang team that worked home games for the Wolves could always have so much pep in their step, even on nights when the rain slashed down non-stop, now you can know their secret.

They had snacks … and didn’t share them with the rest of us!

Randy Payne started the “secret” ritual, and it soon spread to chain gang mates Mike Etzell, Jim Stolee and John Thompson. The others credit Payne as their unsung MVP, and the snacks were just the icing on the cake.

Wait, they had cake?!?!

“Randy was a key member of our crack chain gang squad,” Etzell said. “He read the policies and procedures manual, went thru the week long training sessions, stayed up late studying film … you get the idea.

“Did I mention he went so far as to bring snacks for everyone, which turned into a rotating weekly potluck on the sidelines by season’s end?” he added. “This was truly a group of guys that knew how to have a good time while helping out!!”

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