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Tough league loss likely to get Wolves dander up!!

Posted in Volleyball on September 13, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Pity Port Townsend.

Little do they know it, but they’re about to get rocked. Saturday is the ETA and the volleyball court is ground zero.

At least that’s the expectation, as what should be a fired-up Coupeville High School volleyball squad is scheduled to come pouring off the ferry that afternoon. Sitting at 0-3 after another closer-than-it-sounds league loss Thursday night, the Wolves are going to want to beat up on someone. Any one.

Hence, pity Port Townsend, for they know not what horrors await them.

If a bit of a sting from a 25-19, 25-12, 25-17 home loss to Island rival South Whidbey lingers with them, it should be fuel to the fire.

Toss in continued top play from heavy hitters like Hailey Hammer (five kills vs. the Falcons) and Madeline Strasburg (four kills), hustle from Amanda Fabrizi (10 digs), sharp serving from Sydney Aparicio (the Ace Queen), add smooth leadership from Megan Oakes (eight assists, three aces), mix with more consistent team play by what is a very young, still-developing Wolf squad, and the boom is likely coming down.

Someone alert the Port Townsend authorities, because it’s going to resemble a crime scene.

 

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Dry spell continues for spikers, booters

Posted in Girls Soccer, Volleyball on September 12, 2012| Leave a Comment »

It’s been a slow start so far.

Losses Tuesday for both the volleyball and girls’ soccer squads left Coupeville High School varsity sports teams with a combined 0-6 mark on the new sports season.

The Wolf spikers fell to 0-2 after absorbing a 25-21, 25-11, 25-14 loss at Lakewood, while the Coupeville booters were shut out for the second straight game, falling 6-0 at Cedarcrest. Toss in a 0-2 football team and a boys’ tennis squad that would just like to have someone, anyone come play them (its only match thus far was postponed when the other team had a lack of players) and the season is resembling a giant doughnut.

There are bright spots, however, and not just the fact the Wolf JV football team played like a beast in its opening win. The spikers went down swinging hard Tuesday, getting hustle and smooth play from Bessie Walstad (four kills and 17 digs) and Megan Oakes (11 assists).

And, while the soccer score was a bit more of a blow-out, Coupeville was playing a state finalist from last year and still managed to shut Cedarcrest down for chunks of the game behind the net play of goalies McKayla Bailey and Joye Jackson.

Both Wolf teams return to action Thursday. Soccer will travel to Lakewood, while the volleyballers (and tennis players) welcome South Whidbey to town.

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Opening losses can’t dim promising season for booters, spikers!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, Volleyball on September 7, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Hope and faith is winning the battle against doom and gloom.

Despite dropping openers in both volleyball and girls’ soccer Thursday, Coupeville High School is far from calling it quits and going home early. While the losses left CHS at a combined 0-3 on the young fall season (with football gearing up for a second chance Friday night and boys’ tennis set to swing into action earlier in the day), every defeat so far has been close and has allowed for moments of Wolf brilliance.

The booters played 3A Oak Harbor to a virtual standstill, losing a razor-thin game 2-0, while the Wolf spikers were nipped 25-21, 25-11, 25-19 at Cedarcrest by one of the Cascade Conference’s bigger schools.

Senior sensation Bessie Walstad kicked off her last run on the high school volleyball court by going low for a match-high 20 digs (to go with four kills and two service aces), while Megan Oakes doled out nine assists. Hailey Hammer brought the heat as well, pounding home four kills.

On the pitch, a new-look Coupeville squad, playing its first game under first-year head coach Dan d’ Almeida, stayed remarkably close with its big-school Island rival, giving goalie McKayla Bailey, replacing the graduated Grace LaPoint, plenty of time to get settled in the net.

With an increased offensive attack from a season ago, the Wolf booters are hoping for more scoring pop, and will look to players such as senior Amanda d’ Almeida, who will spend this weekend making her first official college recruiting trip to Claremont-McKenna College in California. A top Division III program, CMC is coached by Keri Sanchez, a four-time NCAA womens’ soccer champ during her days at the University of North Carolina.

When d’ Almeida rejoins her Wolf teammates for their second game of the season, a road affair at Cedarcrest this coming Tuesday, Sept. 11, she will find an excited coach/father, who sees a bright future ahead for his team.

“Today was the best “loss” I ever had!,” said Dan d’ Almeida on his Facebook page. “We had great possessions, many, many scoring chances, good stuff from new and veteran players and just good juju on the team.

“What was the old saying — “lose the battle but win the war?” he added. “Yeah, thinking our season has some tremendous upside.”

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Wolf spikers obliterate big-school foe!!

Posted in Volleyball on September 3, 2012| Leave a Comment »

In this photo shot last season by Shelli Trumbull, Wolf volleyball ace Hailey Hammer contemplates what needs to be done to destroy the rest of the Cascade Conference. Act two of her diabolical plan begins Thursday at Cedarcrest.

Jamborees are for learning more than winning.

Still, any time a 1A school can thump a 3A school, as the Coupeville High School volleyball squad did Saturday when it drilled Foss at the Oak Harbor Jamboree, is cause for an extra bit of celebration.

Always low-key head coach Toni Crebbin is not one to gloat, however. She approached the multi-team rumble at OHHS (where the Wolves played six different schools in a single-game-to-25-points format) as a way to see how different lineups meshed together, putting the same group in for a match and leaving them untouched, with nary a mid-match substitute used for strategy purposes.

It was all part of the plan for the veteran spiker guru.

“The jamboree went well and a lot of our strengths/weaknesses were exposed, which is what you hope a jamboree will do,” Crebbin said. “I now have a better idea as to who will start the conference opener, so we will spend the next couple of days really focusing in on that lineup.

“Most likely I will only have two players playing all the way around the front and back row,” she added. “So we’ll be using more substitutions than I typically have in years past.”

Coupeville, which is anchored by three key returning players — big hitters Bessie Walstad and Hailey Hammer and jack-of-all-trades Breeanna Messner — opens regular play with a Cascade Conference tilt at Cedarcrest this Thursday, Sept. 6.

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You want middle school volleyball rosters? We got ’em!!

Posted in Middle School, Volleyball on August 31, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Volleyball fever is booming at Coupeville Middle School.

Twenty-six girls (15 in 7th grade, 11 in 8th) have signed up to take the court for CMS this year, with a chunk of the eighth-graders being returnees from a season ago.

In a bid to make a lot of moms (and grandmas) happy, we present the rosters:

7th grade:

Payton Aparicio, Lauren Bayne, Emma Blanchette, Kyla Briscoe, Hayley Dauphinais, Raechel Kundert, MacKenzie Larue, Mia Littlejohn, Hope Lodell, Katrina McGranahan, Abagail Parker, Kayla Rose, Lauren Rose, Kameryn St Onge, Allison Wenzel.

8th grade:

Delaney Armstrong, Samantha Arrants, Tiffany Briscoe, Erin Kali Edgar, Skyler Lawrence, Jaelynn Levine, Emily Licence, Holly Mathusek, Mattea Miller, Allyson Roberts, Valen Trujillo.

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