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   Ethan Spark and Coupeville sit atop the league standings after rallying from 12 down in the fourth to stun Port Townsend. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Everything is a little topsy-turvy at the moment.

Only a smidge of the conference season has been played, yet things look totally different than in years past.

A new-look Coupeville High School girls basketball squad dropped its Olympic League opener to Port Townsend, ending a three-year, 27-game winning streak against conference foes.

While there are still miles (and eight conference games) to go, the Wolves find themselves looking up at other teams for the first time since joining the four-team league in 2014.

On the other side of the ball, the CHS boys are tasting rarefied air.

After rallying from 12 points down in the fourth quarter to stun defending league champ Port Townsend in overtime, the Wolves sit atop the standings.

There’s still a lot to be played in that race, as well, but, for the moment, the view from the penthouse is a sweet one.

Both Coupeville teams have a stretch of non-league contests ahead of them, and don’t face off with another conference rival until Jan. 6.

Then, they close with eight of their final 10 games inside the Olympic League, the time period when playoff dreams will truly live and die.

Until then, take a gander at varsity scoring stats and league standings through Dec. 17:

Girls:

Mikayla Elfrank 87
Lindsey Roberts 50
Kalia Littlejohn 38
Ema Smith 24
Sarah Wright 24
Kyla Briscoe 16
Scout Smith 14
Chelsea Prescott 6

Boys:

Hunter Smith 129
Ethan Spark 58
Joey Lippo 16
Hunter Downes 11
Kyle Rockwell 11
Jered Brown 9
Dane Lucero 5
Mason Grove 3
Cameron Toomey-Stout 3
Jacobi Pilgrim 1

Olympic League girls basketball:

School League Overall
Chimacum 2-0 3-2
Port Townsend 1-1 2-4
COUPEVILLE 0-1 1-7
Klahowya 0-1 1-6

Olympic League boys basketball:

School League Overall
COUPEVILLE 1-0 2-5
Klahowya 1-0 1-6
Port Townsend 1-1 3-3
Chimacum 0-2 0-5

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   Dane Lucero and Coupeville are shooting for success. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

The first shots have been fired.

Week two of the basketball season featured the first showdown between Olympic League foes, with Port Townsend and Chimacum getting together for a doubleheader.

The RedHawks and Cowboys split the twin-bill, leaving, for the moment, two different schools atop the very-early league standings.

For Coupeville, it’s all been about non-conference play so far, but that’s about to change.

The Wolves get a taste, but just a taste, of league action Tuesday when they face off with Port Townsend.

Then they don’t return to conference play until Jan. 6.

For the CHS girls, the match-up with the RedHawks gives them an opportunity to kick off a bid for a fourth-straight league title.

The Wolf boys, meanwhile, would like to fire an early warning shot at Port Townsend, which is the defending champs on that side of the ball.

Varsity scoring stats and league standings through Dec. 10:

Girls:

Mikayla Elfrank 68
Kalia Littlejohn 38
Lindsey Roberts 36
Kyla Briscoe 15
Sarah Wright 15
Ema Smith 13
Scout Smith 13

Boys:

Hunter Smith 69
Ethan Spark 40
Joey Lippo 10
Hunter Downes 7
Dane Lucero 4
Jered Brown 3
Cameron Toomey-Stout 3
Jacobi Pacquette-Pilgrim 1

Standings:

Olympic League girls basketball:

School League Overall
Chimacum 1-0 2-1
COUPEVILLE 0-0 1-5
Klahowya 0-0 1-3
Port Townsend 0-1 0-4

Olympic League boys basketball:

School League Overall
Port Townsend 1-0 2-2
COUPEVILLE 0-0 1-3
Klahowya 0-0 0-4
Chimacum 0-1 0-4

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   Mason Grove fires up a serve for a Wolf tennis squad which came within a whisker of winning a third-straight league title. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

   Allison Wenzel and Hope Lodell (1) are part of a deep senior class which carried the CHS spikers to back-to-back league crowns.

   Coupeville’s football season started strongly, but an astonishing run of injuries made life difficult in the second half of the season.

   Lauren Bayne’s fan club saw her help lead the Wolf soccer squad to a program record-tying eight wins.

Surprises, until the end.

Capping the final day of regular-season play for fall sports, Chimacum football shocked Klahowya 17-14 in overtime Friday night.

The first time the Cowboys have beaten the Eagles on the gridiron since the 1A Olympic League formed in 2014, it gave Chimacum’s oldest players a great parting gift on their Senior Night.

Preventing Klahowya from notching another league win also aids Coupeville, allowing the Wolves to stay right on the heels of the Eagles for varsity wins spread across four fall sports.

With conference play complete in girls soccer, volleyball, boys tennis and football, KSS holds a 21-20 edge over CHS as we exit the fall and head for the basketball court.

Port Townsend, with seven wins, and Chimacum, with five, are lagging way back in the hinterlands at the moment.

Coupeville, which captured the varsity wins crown in 2016-2017, after two years of narrowly being nipped by Klahowya, is riding high thanks to its female athletes.

An undefeated, league-title winning volleyball squad and a solid, second-place soccer unit have compensated for a football team which was ripped asunder by a historic run of injuries.

With two Olympic League teams still active in the postseason (Coupeville volleyball and Klahowya soccer are state-bound), standings through Nov. 5:

Olympic/Nisqually League football:

School League Overall
Cascade Christian 7-0 9-1
Charles Wright 6-1 8-2
Bellevue Christian 4-3 4-6
Klahowya 3-4 3-7
Port Townsend 3-4 3-7
Chimacum 2-5 4-6
Vashon Island 2-5 2-8
COUPEVILLE 1-6 3-7

Olympic League volleyball:

School League Overall
COUPEVILLE 9-0 13-3
Klahowya 5-4 7-9
Port Townsend 3-6 6-12
Chimacum 1-8 1-11

Olympic League girls soccer:

School League Overall
Klahowya 9-0 17-1
COUPEVILLE 6-3 8-9
Chimacum 2-7 2-11-1
Port Townsend 1-8 2-13

Olympic League boys tennis:

School League Overall
Klahowya 4-1 12-2
COUPEVILLE 4-2 6-7
Chimacum 0-5 0-11

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   Lauren Rose and Coupeville volleyball sail into the postseason flying high. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

It’s a donnybrook, and we’re only (almost) a third of the way into the fight.

With regular season play done for volleyball, soccer and tennis, and just one more week of football left, year #4 of the Olympic League is again a two-team tussle.

Klahowya, the second-biggest 1A school in the state, and Coupeville, the sixth-smallest, are all but tied as we begin to make the turn and look ahead to basketball season.

The Eagles hold a narrow 21-20 lead on the Wolves, when varsity wins across those four sports are totaled up.

Meanwhile, way in the back, Port Townsend sits with seven victories and Chimacum four.

Coupeville volleyball and Klahowya soccer, which both went 9-0 in conference action, winning their second and fourth consecutive titles, respectively, were the cream of the crop.

With both tennis squads tying with four wins apiece, the edge has come down to football, where the Wolves have been hammered by the worst spate of season-ending injuries in several decades.

KSS is not only much healthier, but gets the better draw in the season’s final game next week, traveling to Chimacum, while CHS visits state-ranked Cascade Christian.

However those games break down, one thing is certain — the battle for league supremacy remains truly a battle as we head into the second of three legs.

League standings, through Oct. 29:

Olympic/Nisqually League football:

School League Overall
Cascade Christian 6-0 8-1
Charles Wright 5-1 7-2
Bellevue Christian 3-3 3-6
Klahowya 3-3 3-6
Port Townsend 3-3 3-6
Vashon Island 2-4 2-7
COUPEVILLE 1-5 3-6
Chimacum 1-5 3-6

Olympic League volleyball:

School League Overall
COUPEVILLE 9-0 12-2
Klahowya 5-4 7-8
Port Townsend 3-6 5-11
Chimacum 1-8 1-11

Olympic League girls soccer:

School League Overall
Klahowya 9-0 15-1
COUPEVILLE 6-3 8-9
Chimacum 2-7 2-11-1
Port Townsend 1-8 2-13

Olympic League boys tennis:

School League Overall
Klahowya 4-1 12-2
COUPEVILLE 4-2 6-7
Chimacum 0-5 0-11

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   Joy abounds in Coupeville, where the volleyball squad is one win away from clinching back-to-back Olympic League titles. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Color me genuinely shocked.

If you need proof that any team can beat any other team on a given day, look no further than Vashon Island football stunning Port Townsend 27-21 Friday in overtime.

The Pirates, who started the season 0-6, entered that game having been outscored 303-60, while the RedHawks, even after a one-point loss to Klahowya, entertained playoff hopes.

To which I say, no more.

Over here in Coupeville, where we continue to lose football players to injuries at a staggering rate, there was no miracle on the gridiron.

But our other sports are looking pretty good, so life is balanced out.

Wolf volleyball, in particular, is flying high, needing just one win in its final three matches to clinch back-to-back league titles.

Plus, if you add up the varsity (9-2), JV (9-1) and C-Team (3-0) records, the Coupeville spikers are an astonishing 21-3 under the guidance of Cory Whitmore, Chris Smith and Ashley Herndon.

Regular season play wraps up in both volleyball and soccer this coming week, with postseason action for tennis and soccer kicking off.

The Coupeville booters host their playoff opener Oct. 28 in Oak Harbor, while weather issues have jammed both the league tourney and districts into the same week for the netters.

As we head down the stretch run for fall sports, a look at the league standings, through Oct. 22:

Olympic/Nisqually League football:

School League Overall
Cascade Christian 5-0 7-1
Charles Wright 4-1 6-2
Klahowya 3-2 3-5
Port Townsend 3-2 3-5
Bellevue Christian 2-3 2-6
Vashon Island 2-3 2-6
COUPEVILLE 1-4 3-5
Chimacum 0-5 2-6

Olympic League volleyball:

School League Overall
COUPEVILLE 6-0 9-2
Klahowya 4-2 6-6
Chimacum 1-5 1-8
Port Townsend 1-5 3-10

Olympic League girls soccer:

School League Overall
Klahowya 7-0 13-1
COUPEVILLE 5-2 7-7
Chimacum 1-6 1-9-1
Port Townsend 1-6 2-11

Olympic League boys tennis:

School League Overall
Klahowya 4-1 12-2
COUPEVILLE 4-2 6-7
Chimacum 0-5 0-11

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