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King zings one more time!!

Posted in Cross Country, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , on October 30, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Tyler King: "I run, son. I run."

Tyler King: “I run, son. I run.”

One more milestone down.

Running in his final Pac-12 Cross Country Championships, Tyler King placed 26th Friday morning.

The former Coupeville High School star, now a senior at the University of Washington, finished in the top third of the 79-runner field.

Edward Cheserek of Oregon won the individual race in 23 minutes, 6.3 seconds, while King zipped across the line in 23:54.1.

He won state titles in both track and cross country during his days at CHS and has been on scholarship at Washington while achieving All-American status.

The Huskies, who are ranked #20 in the country, finished fourth in the team standings.

Two-time defending NCAA champion Colorado edged Stanford for the title, while Oregon was third.

The race, hosted by Washington State, was held at the Colfax Golf Club, and featured six Top 25 teams.

U-Dub finished a slot ahead of UCLA, which had entered the day ranked #15 nationally.

King and his teammates now have two weeks to get ready for the NCAA West Regionals, which UW will host in Seattle.

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Back in stride!!

Posted in Football, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , , on October 17, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Mitch Pelroy (Haylee Sauer photo)

Mitch Pelroy, being awesome. (Haylee Sauer photo)

They all hit the road, but only one is heading home a winner.

Two of three college football teams boasting former Coupeville High School players on their roster fell Saturday, but the one with the graybeard came away a winner.

Montana Western and Mitch Pelroy pulled out a come-from-behind 30-23 win against Eastern Oregon in La Grande, snapping a two-game losing streak.

Now 4-2, the Bulldogs have won eight of their last ten games going back to last season, but needed a blocked punt taken back for a touchdown with less than two minutes to play to escape this week.

Pelroy, a junior, brought back a kickoff for 22 yards, which is almost exactly his season average.

He’s returned seven kicks for 155 yards (22.1 average), giving him 755 return yards over his 26-game college career.

Pelroy has also amassed 38 tackles, 10 assists, 2.5 tackles for loss and a sack from his defensive back position.

Things didn’t go quite as well for Pelroy’s fellow CHS alumni, as lineman Nick Streubel and Central Washington were nipped 31-25 by Western Oregon in Monmouth. The Wildcats are 3-4 on the season.

Simon Fraser University, which carries two Wolves in Josh Bayne and Jake Tumblin, left Canada and was shut-out 19-0 in Rapid City by the South Dakota School of Mines. The Clan are 0-5.

Bayne notched a tackle in the loss, running his totals to 12 tackles and four assists. His fellow frosh has four tackles and five assists.

P.S. — Once again, a big thank you to Montana Western’s Haylee Sauer, who has been nice enough to let me use of her photos of Mitch during his college gridiron days.

To see more of her really snappy pics, pop over to:

https://www.facebook.com/hayleesauerphotography?fref=ts

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King, as in zing!!

Posted in Cross Country, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on October 16, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Tyler King (left), still fast after all these years.

Former CHS state champ Tyler King (left), still fast after all these years.

Tyler King, the big time. Big time, Mr. Tyler King.

Oh, you’ve already met? Good, good.

As he continues to write the final chapter in his stellar college running career, Coupeville High School grad (and living legend) Tyler King spends a lot of time hanging out with the best in the business.

Friday morning, that brought him and his University of Washington cross country teammates to Wisconsin, where the Huskies ran in the Adidas Invitational, an event that draws a bigger field than the NCAA Championships themselves.

While there King acquitted himself quite nicely, finishing in the top third of a 244-runner field.

He covered the 8K course at the Thomas Zimmer Championship Course in Madison in a crisp 24 minutes, 22 seconds to claim 83rd place.

King was the third fastest U-Dub male finisher.

The Husky men claimed 13th, out of 36 teams, with Syracuse, the #2-ranked team in the nation, collecting the championship trophy.

Marc Scott of Tulsa was the individual winner in 23:35.

King’s training partners did even better, as the Husky women, who are ranked #10, finished 8th as a team in their race.

Boise State’s Allie Ostrander won the individual title, while top-ranked New Mexico flexed its might in capturing the team title.

Maddie Meyers topped the Washington women with a 29th place performance.

Up next for King and Co. is the Pac-12 Championships Oct. 30 in Colfax.

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College ball draws pack of Wolves!!

Posted in Football, Volleyball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on October 10, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Monica Vidoni (Photo property of Rainy River Community College

   Former Wolf Monica Vidoni (back, far left) and her college volleyball teammates. (Photo property of Rainy River Community College)

Spikers one, gridiron warriors zero.

Of the five former Coupeville High School athletes competing in college sports this week, only one came away a winner.

That was Monica Vidoni, who saw action as her Rainy River Community College volleyball squad rolled to wins Oct. 7 against Hibbing and Oct. 9 against Fond du Lac.

None of her former classmates could say the same Saturday, as three teams, featuring four former Wolves, all fell in college football games.

Central Washington University and former CHS lineman Nick Streubel lost 49-44 to the South Dakota School of Mines, snapping their three-game winning streak.

Also taking a loss was Simon Fraser University, which was edged 38-35 by Dixie State.

The Clan boast two Wolf alumni, Josh Bayne and Jake Tumblin, and Bayne snared a tackle from his defensive back position.

Rounding out the Coupeville contingent was Mitch Pelroy, who brought back a kick-off 37 yards and had a tackle in Montana Western’s 37-30 overtime loss to second-ranked Southern Oregon.

It was the second straight loss for the Bulldogs, who had previously put together a seven-game winning streak covering parts of two seasons.

While her male counterparts are a combined 6-9 this year (Western is 3-2, Central 3-3 and Simon Fraser 0-4), Vidoni and her Voyageurs teammates are 14-11 on the season, 6-3 in conference play.

Vidoni, a freshman, has played in 11 sets over seven matches, compiling four kills and a dig.

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Hey, remember Tyler King? Still freakin’ fast!!

Posted in Cross Country, Wolves in college, tagged , , , on October 3, 2015| Leave a Comment »

"Of course I'm still fast. How dare you question the very laws of the universe?!?"

   “Of course I’m still fast. How dare you question the very laws of the universe?!?”

There’s been a lot of buzz lately about former Wolves playing college football.

It’s deserved, certainly, but we can’t forget the Coupeville High School alum, who, while not a gridiron warrior, is currently competing at the highest level of college sports.

Tyler King, an All-American cross country runner on scholarship at the University of Washington, is three races deep into his final year as a Husky and he hasn’t lost a stride.

The UW senior opened his final campaign with an 11th place finish at the UW-Seattle U Open Sept. 1 (he zipped through 4.5 miles in 22 minutes, 19.32 seconds).

After that has come runs at the Sundodger Invitational Sept. 19 and the Washington Invitational Oct. 2.

King was 14th at Sundodger, covering 8,000 meters in 24:44.04, then claimed 33rd at Friday’s race.

In a highly-competitive field which included two of the top five schools in the nation in Stanford and Oregon, he ran a 23:55.3.

That was a step up from his junior year performance in the race (24:20) and garnered him praise from Husky coach Greg Metcalf on the school’s official web site.

King and his teammates travel to Madison for the Wisconsin Invitational Oct. 16, then charge into the post-season.

The Pac-12 Championships are Oct. 30, followed by the NCAA West Regionals Nov. 13 and the NCAA Championships Nov. 21.

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