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Help Big Ben help little kids!!

Posted in Baseball, Fundraisers, Wolves in college, tagged , , , on November 5, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Ben Etzell (3) during his days on the CHS diamond. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

Ben Etzell (3) during his days on the CHS diamond. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

If you can spare a buck or two, you can help a whole bunch of people.

Former Coupeville High School baseball star Ben Etzell, now a freshman at Saint John’s University in Minnesota, is planning to take part in a campus-wide event to raise funds to support St. Jude’s lifesaving mission of finding cures and saving children.

Students will be pulling an all-nighter Friday, Nov. 7 to draw attention to St. Jude’s work and Etzell needs to raise $100 to reach his fundraising goal and participate.

He’s almost halfway there, but could use a push from Wolf fans.

To see more and help him out, jump over to:

http://fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR?px=2953345&fr_id=20369&pg=personal

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King for a day!!

Posted in Cross Country, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on November 3, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Tyler King: American Badass

Tyler King: American Badass

The King has arrived.

Running at the third Pac-12 Cross Country Championships of his college career Friday, Coupeville High School grad Tyler King produced his best race since putting on the purple and gold.

The University of Washington junior finished 12th at the Metropolitan Golf Links in Oakland, covering the 8,000 meter course in 24 minutes flat.

After finishing 22nd in 2012 and 31st in 2013, this year’s finish is expected to cinch him All-Pac-12 honors.

Paced by King and teammate Aaron Nelson, who edged him for 11th by a single second, the Huskies claimed fourth in the team battle.

That’s their best result since 2009, the last time UW reached the NCAA championships.

Colorado, the #1 team in the nation, won its fourth straight team title, while #2 Oregon and #9 Stanford finished just slightly ahead of #12 Washington.

The Huskies, who put five runners in the top 25 finishers, beat UCLA, which had entered the race ranked #11 in the nation.

King overcame heavy rain and wind to achieve his stellar performance.

U-Dub coach Greg Metcalf was quoted by several sources after the race saying, “Tyler, that was his best race as a Husky.”

Washington returns to action Nov. 14 when it competes at the NCAA West Regional Championships, which will be hosted by Stanford.

The NCAA Championships take place Nov. 22.

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Pelroy Power electrifies Montana!!

Posted in Football, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on November 2, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Mitch Pelroy (Kirsten Pelroy photo)

  Mitch Pelroy’s the name, hair’s the game. Oh, and football! Definitely football, too. (Kirsten Pelroy photo)

Three tackles sparked a third straight win.

Sparked by the defensive performance of Coupeville High School grad Mitch Pelroy (two solo tackles and an assist), Montana Western roared back to upend College of Idaho 30-27 Saturday in NAIA football action.

The victory lifted the Bulldogs to 5-5 overall, 5-4 in Frontier League play and avenged an earlier season loss to the Yotes, who also have a Wolf alum on their roster.

Former CHS lineman Anthony Maggio is redshirting during his freshman year.

Playing on Senior Day, Montana Western grabbed the lead with two minutes to play.

Bulldog quarterback Tyler Hulse drove his squad down the field, setting up sophomore Sam Rutherford, who slammed in for the go-ahead touchdown on a nine-yard run.

Montana Western then sealed the victory when Jesse McCloud picked off a last-second Yote pass.

Pelroy has been a force on both sides of the ball as the Bulldogs have bounced back after a rough start.

He has eighteen tackles (14 solo, four assists) from his position in the defensive backfield and is the team’s top kickoff (15 returns for 356 yards) and punt returner (4-56).

Montana Western closes the regular season Nov. 8 with a road game at Montana State-Northern. The first time around the Bulldogs demolished the Polar Bears 50-30.

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Thick head, strong spirit!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on October 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Amanda d'Almeida

Amanda d’Almeida

Showdown Saturday approaches.

Carleton College’s womens’ soccer team, which includes former CHS star Amanda d’Almeida, will play for sole possession of first place in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletics Conference Oct. 25.

The Knights (9-4-1 overall, 6-1-1 in the MIAC) will travel to Moorhead, Minnesota to play Concordia College (11-3-1, 6-1-1).

The schools hold a slim edge over Augsburg and Saint Benedict (both 6-2) and will each have two games remaining after their tussle for the top of the standings.

Concordia is slipping backwards, having lost consecutive games, including its only MIAC loss, a 2-0 upset at the hands of Bethel, which is mired in the bottom third of the league.

Carleton had its own slip-up, falling 2-1 to Macalester (#8 in the league) before bouncing back to drill Hamline 3-0.

D’Almeida has been playing complete games again after illness slowed her in the early going, and even survived a head-to-head collision with a rival player.

While her opponent suffered a concussion, d’Almeida, thanks to what dad Dan refers to as her “thick head,” walked away with a “big bruise” and is expected to play against Concordia.

On the season, she has played in 12 games, starting five, while recording 614 minutes on the pitch. She has had a pair of shots on goal, but is still looking for her first score.

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Still good to be the King!!

Posted in Cross Country, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on October 17, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Tyler King -- even his hair looks fast.

Tyler King — even his hair looks fast.

Tyler King was the key.

Well, one of them, as the University of Washington mens’ cross country team stacked together a string of runners Friday to grab enough points to pull off a surprising eighth-place finish at the illustrious Wisconsin adidas Invitational.

Running on the Thomas Zimmer Championship Course in Madison, the Huskies, currently ranked #25 in the nation, grabbed their first-ever top ten team finish at the event, upending ten teams currently ranked ahead of them.

Washington benefited from All-American senior Aaron Nelson claiming third in the field of 254 runners, but the strength of its overall showing came from a pack of runners who finished right on top of each other.

That group, which included Coupeville grad King (65th overall, 4th best among UW runners in 24 minutes, 25 seconds), pulled in enough points for U-Dub to upset #11 Michigan, #12 BYU, #13 Providence, #16 New Mexico, #17 Arkansas, #18 Florida State, #19 Eastern Kentucky, #20 Oklahoma, #23 Indiana and #24 Princeton.

Syracuse, ranked seventh in the nation, held off #14 Iona for the team title, followed by #9 Wisconsin, #5 Portland and #7 Stanford.

Maxim Korolev of Stanford (23:43) won the individual race, with Nelson hitting the tape eight seconds behind him.

King, a redshirt junior, and his Husky teammates will have two weeks of practice before starting their postseason run at the Pac-12 Championships Oct. 31 in Oakland.

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