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Home is where the wins are!!

March 29, 2018 by David Svien

   Coupeville junior Emma Smith set PR’s in both the shot put and discus at Wednesday’s home meet. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Their stadium, their day to shine.

The Coupeville High School track and field squad hosted a five-team home meet Wednesday, then tore up the joint, capturing nine wins and 32 PR’s.

The Wolf girls cruised to a team win, piling up 209 points to easily outdistance Klahowya, which tallied 167.

Mount Vernon Christian (99), Port Townsend (78) and Chimacum (39) rounded out the field.

On the boys side, it came down to the slimmest of margins, with MVC nipping Coupeville 169.5-167 to nab the team crown.

Klahowya (155) made it a three-team race, while Port Townsend (77) and Chimacum (34.5) brought up the rear.

The Wolf girls romped to a win in the 4 x 200 relay (Lindsey Roberts, Ashlie Shank, Mallory Kortuem, Maya Toomey-Stout), with Roberts (200), Lauren Bayne (high jump) and Mckenzie Meyer (pole vault) also landing atop the awards stand.

Coupeville’s boys triumphed in the 200 (Jacob Smith), 800 (Danny Conlisk), high jump (Chris Battaglia) and long jump (Jean Lund-Olsen).

Smith and Lund-Olsen teamed up with the Toomey-Stout boys, Cameron and Sean, to race to a victory in the 4 x 100.

Battaglia had himself a huge afternoon, also finishing second in all three throwing events (shot put, discus and javelin).

Coming off its auspicious showing, Coupeville won’t compete again for two weeks.

With spring break on the horizon, the Wolves next meet is Apr. 12, when they travel to Silverdale Stadium for an event hosted by Olympic High School.

While Wednesday’s meet was originally the only home meet listed on the schedule, CHS officials have confirmed they are pulling together a second one.

Friday Harbor and Lopez Island are now set to come to Coupeville Apr. 23 for a three-team meet.

Complete CHS results:

GIRLS:

100 — Maya Toomey-Stout (2nd) 13.51

200 — Lindsey Roberts (1st) 27.70 *PR*; M. Toomey-Stout (2nd) 28.23; Mallory Kortuem (4th) 29.30; Ja’Tarya Hoskins (6th) 30.33 *PR*; Zoe Trujillo (8th) 31.13 *PR*

400 — Kortuem (4th) 1:06.15; Natalie Hollrigel (7th) 1:11.51; Ashlie Shank (8th) 1:14.28

800 — Lucy Sandahl (4th) 2:47.93; Hollrigel (8th) 3:00.54 *PR*

1600 — Catherine Lhamon (4th) 6:10.67 *PR*; Sandahl (5th) 6:16.97

3200 — Lhamon (2nd) 13:15.32 *PR*

100 Hurdles — Roberts (2nd) 16.44; Hoskins (4th) 19.16 *PR*

300 Hurdles — Lauren Bayne (3rd) 57.02 *PR*; Mckenzie Meyer (4th) 57.85

4 x 200 Relay — Roberts, Shank, Kortuem, M. Toomey-Stout (1st) 1:54.87

4 x 400 Relay — Roberts, Shank, Hollrigel, M. Toomey-Stout (3rd) 4:43.75

Shot put — Emma Smith (2nd) 31-06 *PR*; Kylie Chernikoff (5th) 27-00.50 *PR*

Discus — Allison Wenzel (2nd) 84-08.50 *PR*; E. Smith (3rd) 79-02 *PR*; Chernikoff (5th) 70-00; Hannah Davidson (6th) 69-06.50; Raven Vick (16th) 47-08; Willow Vick (19th) 45-03 *PR*

Javelin — Wenzel (2nd) 96-05; Bayne (3rd) 86-10; R. Vick (4th) 85-00; Davidson (5th) 84-07.50; Trujillo (6th) 78-10 *PR*; Abby Parker (8th) 77-09; Chernikoff (18th) 60-00 *PR*

High Jump — Bayne (1st) 4-08; Hoskins (4th) 4-02

Pole Vault — Meyer (1st) 6-01

Long Jump — Hoskins (2nd) 13-01 *PR*; Trujillo (4th) 12-00.75 *PR*; W. Vick (5th) 10-10.50 *PR*

Triple Jump — Trujillo (4th) 25-07.50 *PR*

BOYS:

100 — Jacob Smith (2nd) 11.69; Jean Lund-Olsen (3rd) 11.83 *PR*; Chris Ruck (17th) 14.24

200 — J. Smith (1st) 23.48; Kyle Burnett (10th) 27.67; Ethan Clavette (12th) 28.74 *PR*

400 — Burnett (6th) 1:01.42 *PR*

800 — Danny Conlisk (1st) 2:07.79

110 Hurdles — Jakobi Baumann (2nd) 20.95 *PR*

300 Hurdles — Baumann (3rd) 51.57

4 x 100 Relay — Lund-Olsen, J. Smith, Cameron Toomey-Stout, Sean Toomey-Stout (1st) 45.83; Clavette, Andrew Martin, Ruck, Thane Peterson (4th) 55.04

4 x 400 Relay — J. Smith, Lund-Olsen, S. Toomey-Stout, Conlisk (2nd) 3:52.28

Shot Put — Chris Battaglia (2nd) 36-00.50; Keahi Sorrows (4th) 35-00.50; Ryan Labrador (5th) 34-03.50

Discus — Battaglia (2nd) 104-02; Peterson (4th) 100-09 *PR*; Sorrows (5th) 97-08 *PR*; Labrador (6th) 88-08; Martin (17th) 58-08 *PR*; Clavette (21st) 52-07 *PR*

Javelin — Battaglia (2nd) 134-06.50 *PR*; S. Toomey-Stout (3rd) 119-03.50 *PR*; Martin (4th) 115-09 *PR*

High Jump — Battaglia (1st) 5-02

Pole Vault — Burnett (5th) 7-06

Long Jump — Lund-Olsen (1st) 18-09.50; C. Toomey-Stout (3rd) 17-05; Ruck (11th) 14-03 *PR*

Triple Jump — C. Toomey-Stout (2nd) 36-07.25 *PR*

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Madness, mayhem … and a little grace!!

March 29, 2018 by David Svien

   A rough and tumble season finale at Forks included CMS spark-plug guard Kiara Contreras suffering an ankle injury. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

As season finales go, this one busted out all the fireworks.

After traveling all day Thursday, and then some, to get to Forks, the Coupeville Middle School basketball squads walked head-on into a wild afternoon on the court.

By the time the Wolves exited and headed back to the bus for their final trip home this season, they had two wins in as many games, though one came in an extremely odd manner.

The Wolf 7th graders romped to a 37-24 win, while the CMS 8th graders officially were credited with a forfeit win after the Forks coach pulled his players and took his ball home while trailing by five with 14 ticks left on the clock.

Seriously.

But first, the game that finished.

7th grade:

Carolyn Lhamon has steadily grown as a force in the paint for the Wolves, and she capped her first middle school season by throwing down a career-high 24 points.

While Lhamon by herself would have been enough to match Forks, she wasn’t alone.

Not by a long shot.

Maddie Georges tossed in seven in support, Nezi Keiper and Gwen Gustafson each added a bucket and Alita Blouin knocked down a pair of free throws to round out the attack.

With the win, the CMS 7th graders finished the season at 8-2 for first-year head coach Alex Evans.

The Wolves fell only to Sequim, a large middle school which funnels players to a 2A high school, and both of those games came down to the wire. One was decided late in the fourth, the other in overtime.

8th grade:

Where to begin?

The game was rough-and-tumble, to be charitable, with Coupeville shooting 35 free throws and losing spark-plug guard Kiara Contreras to a leg injury after she was sent intentionally flying by a Forks rival.

Up by one with 50 seconds to go, the home-town Spartans melted down mentally, throwing away the game and their cool.

Wolf scoring ace Anya Leavell struck twice, stealing a ball and turning it into a go-ahead layup, then pilfering yet another pass only to be tackled to the floor.

Unable to continue, she had to be replaced at the free throw line, with Coupeville coach Dustin Van Velkinburgh calling on Abby Mulholland to do the honors.

“Enter the momentum-swinging hero! After playing less than a minute, Abby steps to the free throw line and sinks them both,” said a proud coach.

After that, things went all to heck and beyond, with a steal on an inbound pass, a turnover, a missed Forks shot, a scramble for a loose ball and a Forks coach coming unglued.

Whistled for a technical, he continued to rant while Izzy Wells iced the game with a pair of charity shots.

And then the Forks coach took his ball and went home, refusing to play out the final 13.8 seconds of the season, forfeiting the game and any chance to close with class.

In the midst of a game where a Forks player cursed right at a ref’s face and Contreras was injured on a play that seemed to spring out of a time machine from the era when the Detroit Pistons “Bad Boys” used to throttle Michael Jordan, there was a saving grace.

It came in the way Coupeville’s players handled a potentially explosive situation on a foreign floor.

“There were a lot of times where we could have given into the fight but we didn’t,” Van Velkinburgh said. “We stayed the course, stayed together and got large contributions down the stretch to pull a wrestling match out to be a basketball game win.

“We end our season and I couldn’t be more proud of this group of young ladies.”

His squad finished 6-4, with their losses coming to Stevens and Sequim, two schools several times larger than Coupeville.

The victories built his team’s confidence, and the losses taught them what they need to do to improve.

As they prepare to move up to high school ball, Van Velkinburgh, who has guided these players through several years of SWISH basketball prior to this season, has seen the Wolves grow, develop and bond as a team, on and off the floor.

“I’m very excited for their future,” he said. “My hope is they continue to work hard and that they stay together.

“Amazing group of young ladies that I can truly say I have been blessed to share the court with.”

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Staying on track!!

March 29, 2018 by David Svien

Chris Ruck will destroy you, body and soul. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Mckenzie Meyer elevates to the heavens.

   The moment when CHS track coach Randy King went into full-on Die Hard mode, ready to storm the building and free the hostages.

   Speed demons (l to r) Jean Lund-Olsen, Sean Toomey-Stout and Cameron Toomey-Stout rep the best hair in the relay game.

Lindsey Roberts dreams of summer.

Fab frosh Maddie Vondrak and Savannah Smith keep the snack shack hummin’.

Jakobi Baumann attacks relentlessly in the hurdles.

   Under the watchful gaze of Wolf track star turned coach Sylvia Hurlburt (right), relay whiz kids Mallory Kortuem (left) and Maya Toomey-Stout plot strategy.

Zoe Trujillo flies free.

The camera never blinks.

The weather in Coupeville might not have been summer-like Wednesday, but, at the very least, it wasn’t raining.

That made life a bit easier on paparazzi John Fisken as he jumped from event to event, clicking away, as CHS hosted its first home track meet of the season.

The photos above are courtesy him.

Want to see more? Interested in perhaps buying a glossy pic or two and helping fund college scholarships for Wolf student/athletes?

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Roll in, torch ’em, roll out!!

March 28, 2018 by David Svien

   Nick Etzell crunched a double Wednesday as Coupeville blew out Klahowya 13-3. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

   Wolf senior Julian Welling, who was hit by three different KSS pitchers in the game, shows off his war wounds. (Photo courtesy Jacob Zettle)

Everything was clicking.

Pitching, hitting, defense, intangibles — they were all on point for the Coupeville High School baseball squad Wednesday at it battered host Klahowya 13-3.

The win lifts the Wolves to 1-0 in Olympic League play and into a first-place tie with Chimacum (1-0).

Defending league champ Klahowya (1-2) and Port Townsend (0-1), which visits Whidbey Friday, hold down the bottom two slots at the moment.

The Wolves, who are 4-3 overall, jumped on the Eagles early and never let up, scoring in six of seven innings.

That gave starting pitcher Hunter Smith plenty of room in which to operate, and the senior ace responded with his third win in as many starts.

He scattered two hits (matching the total he himself racked up while hitting) and struck out five while going the distance.

Coupeville jumped out to a 7-0 lead, plating two in the top of the first, then rocking Klahowya pitching for five more in the second.

Matt Hilborn kick-started things with a lead-off single, then the Wolves juiced the bases thanks to Smith and Julian Welling’s willingness to be plunked.

While Coupeville’s lead runner was forced at home on a fielder’s choice, the Wolves broke through with an RBI single off the bat of Jake Hoagland and a bases-loaded free pass eked out by Kyle Rockwell.

With Klahowya’s pitcher unable to find the strike zone, CHS packaged five walks (including Hilborn wearing a pitch), a Nick Etzell double and singles from Joey Lippo and Jake Pease to bust things open in the second.

KSS shaved two runs off the lead in their half of the second, but continued to hand out walks like sweet, sweet candy, allowing Coupeville to stretch the margin back to 9-3 by the end of five innings.

Of course, “sweet, sweet candy” might be stretching it a bit, when Klahowya lobbed pitches off of the body parts of Wolf batters SEVEN times in one game.

Welling was their favorite target, getting nailed by THREE different Eagle pitchers.

One of the few times they didn’t hit him was the sixth inning, when Welling sent Smith home with an RBI ground-out, right after the Wolf hurler whacked a two-run triple.

Apparently wanting to play a full seven innings, the Wolves didn’t hit a 10-run lead until they notched a final tally in the top of the seventh, too late to kick in the mercy rule.

Still, it mattered very little, as Smith closed the game with one final punch-out from the mound and Coupeville exited Silverdale with a victory that was assured, very-balanced and fairly definitive.

The Wolves finished with 10 base-knocks, with Smith, Lippo and Hilborn leading the way with two apiece.

Pease, Hoagland, Dane Lucero and Etzell rounded out the attack, each collecting a hit.

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Halfway to nirvana!!

March 28, 2018 by David Svien

   Veronica Crownover had two hits and three RBI Wednesday as Coupeville mashed Klahowya 15-1, taking the upper hand in the race for a league crown. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

The mission is simple.

Beat Klahowya twice this season and the Coupeville High School softball squad wins its first league title since 2002.

And now it’s halfway there.

Led Wednesday by the booming bats of junior sluggers Veronica Crownover and Sarah Wright, the Wolves shellacked KSS 15-1 in Silverdale, capturing the first round in a three-game season series.

With the victory, Coupeville improves to 3-1 overall, 1-0 in Olympic League play, while Klahowya falls to 5-2, 0-1.

Conference mates Chimacum and Port Townsend suspended their softball programs during the first week of practice, citing a lack of players, which left only two teams standing in what had been a four-team league.

So now, beat the Eagles Apr. 20 on Whidbey, and the Wolves will exit the Olympic League — CHS joins the new North Sound Conference in the fall — as champs.

The third, and final, regular season meeting between the two schools is Apr. 30 back in Silverdale.

Wednesday Coupeville struck early and late, both times inflicting serious damage.

While Wright “had a monster game,” lashing three hits including a triple while driving in six, and Crownover was hot on her heels with two hits and three RBI, every Wolf contributed.

And I do mean EVERY Wolf, as all nine starters recorded at least one hit and one run as CHS showed remarkable balance.

Coupeville came off the bus swinging from the heels, dropping a three-spot on Klahowya pitcher Amber Bumbalough before she even got properly warmed-up.

Lauren Rose led off with a single, promptly stole second and third, and scored the game’s opening tally when she and Katrina McGranahan, aboard on a walk, scampered home on a two-run single from Wright.

Crownover capped the opening surge with an RBI single of her own, and a rout looked like a distinct possibility.

Bumbalough is a two-time Olympic League MVP and D-1 recruit, though, and she settled down, matching goose eggs with McGranahan from that point on until the top of the fifth.

CHS got back-to-back hits from Scout Smith and McGranahan to lead off the third, but was ultimately stiffed. In the fifth, the Wolves went in a different direction, and it paid off.

This time they had two outs and no one on base, then fired the ignition.

Sophomore sensation Smith, who played superbly against Klahowya as a mere freshman, was just as sharp Wednesday, and ripped one of her three hits on the day to trigger things.

McGranahan followed with a base-knock of her own, before Wright went medieval on the ball, dropping a two-run triple into the farthest reaches of the ballpark.

While a 5-0 lead was nice, the Wolves decided to triple their fun in the top of the sixth, knocking Bumbalough out of the pitcher’s circle en route to a 13-batter, 10-run inning.

Crownover started things, reaching on an error, then came back around to drive home the final nail with a booming double that caused dad Darren to nearly lose his voice with all of his good-natured screaming and caring on.

It’s rare to look at a score-book and see an inning where every player on a team scores, but it was nothing but a gorgeous string of filled-in diamonds in the sixth for CHS assistant coach Justine McGranahan.

Everyone chipped in, with Chelsea Prescott, Emma Mathusek, Hope Lodell and Coral Caveness all collecting their first hits of the game in the inning.

With the game in hand, Coupeville coach Kevin McGranahan made sure all 12 girls in uniform saw playing time, with Nicole Laxton, Mollie Bailey and Mackenzie Davis hitting the field in the bottom half of the inning.

Klahowya scraped out a single, solitary run in its half of the sixth to stave off the shutout, but the blowout remained intact.

CHS spread out 15 hits among its nine starters, with Wright and Smith each having a three base-knock afternoon.

Crownover and Katrina McGranahan chipped in with two hits apiece, while Rose, Prescott, Lodell, Caveness and Mathusek each added one of their own.

“Huge win for us and now we are in the drivers seat for the league title,” said Kevin McGranahan. “Now they have to come to us.

“Sarah was clutch all day (at bat) and picking a girl off at third. Coral also had a great game, with a big hit off Amber,” he added. “Hang on tight; it is gonna be a wild ride this year.”

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