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Big spikes, bad fashion choices mingle!!

Posted in Homecoming, Volleyball on October 17, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Seniors (l to r)( Ben Etzell, Breeanna Messner and Nick Streubel. (Robert Bishop photo)

Senior studs (left to right) Ben Etzell, Breeanna Messner and Nick Streubel. (Robert Bishop photo)

Freshman Uriel “Woody” Liquidano. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

The seniors plot their victory. (RB)

Freshmen Valen Trujillo (left) and Jae LeVine coach their squad. (ST)

“I’m Batman!!” — Jason Knoll patrols the stands. (ST)

Snazzy shirts for the champs. (RB)

Freshman Gabe Wynn chest bumps a teammate after a dramatic point. (ST)

Sophomore Zane Bundy remains Mr. Smooth. (ST)

Winning coach Amanda Fabrizi. (RB)

Batman meets Wonder Woman — the unstoppable Aimee Bishop. (RB)

Junior Josh Bayne sends the fans out the door. "Good night folks! Drive home safely!" (ST)

Junior Josh Bayne sends the fans out the door. “Good night folks! Drive home safely!! Let’s kick South Whidbey’s butt on Friday!!!” (ST)

It was a night of tradition.

Midway through Homecoming week, boys representing all four classes at Coupeville High School took to the volleyball court Wednesday night, under the guidance of Wolf spikers as their coaches. The event is called Top Gun and it combines on-court action with questionable fashion choices.

Our crack team of photographers (Shelli Trumbull and Robert Bishop) were everywhere in the gym to capture the event, and above you can find some of their work.

Oh, and, if you’re wondering, the seniors won, defending the title they won a year ago as juniors. Class of 2014, kickin’ butt and takin’ names, always.

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Cheerleaders, History Day champ headline Homecoming court!!

Posted in Cheer, Football, History Day, Homecoming on October 14, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Clockwise. starting in the upper left, are Julia Felici, Kenzie Kooch, Heni Barnes and Emilee Crichton.

Clockwise, starting upper left, are Homecoming Queen nominees Julia Felici, Kenzie Kooch, Heni Barnes, and Emilee Crichton.

The field has been narrowed to four.

After initial votes were counted, three Wolf cheerleaders and a national History Day winner are the final four senior girls standing, as Coupeville High School works its way towards picking a Homecoming King and Queen.

Kenzie Kooch, Julia Felici, Emilee Crichton and Heni Barnes will battle it out for the crown, while Nick Streubel, Jake Tumblin, Ben Etzell and Brett Arnold are vying for the title of King.

Other nominees:

Junior girls: Wynter Thorne, Ana Luvera, Ivy Luvera, Merle Fitzenhagen.

Junior boys: Josh Bayne, Oscar Liquidano, Isaac Vargas, Aaron Wright.

Sophomore girls: Makana Stone, Jovanah Foote, McKenzie Bailey, Jennifer Spark.

Sophomore boys: Lathom Kelley, Dalton Martin, Zane Bundy, Wiley Hesselgrave.

Freshmen girls: Valen Trujillo, Payton Wilson, Emily Licence, Tiffany Briscoe, Mattea Miller, Carlie Rosenkrance.

Freshmen boys: Gabe Wynn, Clay Reilly, Ethan Marx, Bailey Rosenthal.

The Homecoming game is 7 PM Friday, Oct. 19 at Mickey Clark Field. The opponent is dastardly South Whidbey and both ownership of The Bucket for the next year and playoff hopes will be on the line.

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The Big Hurt just wants to hug you … hard!!

Posted in Football, Homecoming on October 14, 2013| Leave a Comment »

“I must break you.”

Nick Streubel is coming for you.

Blotting out the stadium lights as he looms over tackle, the Coupeville High School senior has been the spark for the wrecking crew that is the Wolf defense.

Jake Tumblin and Josh Bayne hit like ferocious beasts (plus Bayne is second in the state in interceptions) and CHS linemen such as Aaron Wright and Oscar Liquidano wrap up and plant foes into the turf head-first.

But it’s Streubel, the swim champ who blossomed into a raging tackling machine, who is beating triple teams and scarring the souls of quarterbacks everywhere.

He currently leads 1A players in sacks (fourth overall in all classifications) and tops all 1A linemen in tackles (seventh overall).

As the Wolves (3-2) prep for Friday’s footballageddon against South Whidbey (4-2) — Homecoming kicks off at 7 PM at Mickey Clark Field, with ownership of The Bucket and both teams playoff hopes in the balance — one thing is for sure.

Get in the way of The Big Hurt on a Friday night and your Saturday morning will be filled with aspirin.

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We’re going back, to a time before these 38 rain drops!!

Posted in Boys Tennis, Community Sports, Fashionable Fans, Football, Girls Soccer, Homecoming, Volleyball on October 12, 2012| Leave a Comment »

It’s been a week. Time to start getting all misty-eyed over what was.

So, with that in mind, we head back to last Friday’s 2nd annual Coupeville High School Homecoming parade and hand you off to our photographer on the street, Melissa Zimmerman-Losey.

It was a time when the sun still sparkled. When the air had a hint of warmness about it. A time when there were no rain drops splattering down once every five or six hours. It was a time…

Enjoy. Share with your friends. Only 358 days until the next go-round.

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Dear Canada, feel free to join us in the 21st century!!

Posted in Community Sports, Homecoming, Ranting and Raving on October 7, 2012| 1 Comment »

This photo, by itself, is 100% more Homecoming parade photos than the Canadian-funded “local” news rags have given us this weekend. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

Oh, Canada…

The “local” papers you fund seem to think it’s still 1935 and everyone is waiting for their newspaper to arrive on the stoop mid-week, along with a couple of glass jugs of milk. Because that’s the only explanation I can think of for their absolute dereliction of duty these days.

Last week, Coupeville High School won its first football game of the season, thrashing Orcas Island 47-14 at a field ACROSS THE STREET from the building that houses the Whidbey News-Times, Whidbey Examiner and South Whidbey Record. It took them 63 hours, however, for the first news of that game to hit their websites.

You know, a website, the thing that powers news coverage in 2012.

During those 63 hours, coupevillesports.com — a one-man operation chugging along without a salary, a benefits package, free doughnuts in the break room and honorary Canadian citizenship granted by having your paychecks endorsed by Manitoba — posted nine articles.

This week, a little thing called Homecoming. A parade. A game. A half-time show. Sort of a big deal in a town the size of Coupeville.

And yet we sit here on Sunday morning, more than 36 hours since the game against Granite Falls ended, and what does Sound Publishing/Black Press and its “local” papers have to offer?

Diddly and squat. Cause it’s 1935, apparently.

Do I even need to mention that coupevillesports.com — one man in a bunker under Penn Cove typing on a computer run by three hamsters on a treadmill — has already posted eight articles (and numerous pictures from my vast network of local moms) during this time?

Cause it’s 2012 and there’s a thing called the internet.

Somewhere in the hinterlands of Canada, there’s a bean counter or two who has to be wondering just what their filthy Canuck greenbacks are paying for right now, because it certainly isn’t timely coverage of Coupeville sports and community events.

Must be some really incredible doughnuts in that break room.

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