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Jae LeVine (John Fisken photos)

   Jae LeVine climbs the staircase to heaven to snare a wayward softball. (John Fisken photos)

Cole Payne

   Wolf catcher Cole Payne contemplates backhanding the Chimacum runner for getting home plate all dirty.

Jazmine Franklin

Jazmine Franklin works all the angles on the tennis court.

Katrina

Katrina McGranahan comes in hot, easily beating the throw to second.

guys

   CHS tennis coach Ken Stange (right) alerts the authorities to the presence of the paparazzi.

Joey Lippo

   Using just the power of his mind, Joey Lippo freezes the baseball in midair. The force is strong with this one.

Matt Hilborn

Matt Hilborn pulls a 2-for-1 special, getting a good flex in while firing to first.

Hope Lodell

Hope Lodell, AKA “The Surgeon,” prepares to carve up the next pitch.

That moment right before McKenzie "Killer Kenny" Bailey drills you with the ball.

  That moment right before McKenzie “Killer Kenny” Bailey drills you with the ball.

John Fisken’s camera is currently packed in ice, cooling down.

The wanderin’ photo man hit up Coupeville Monday and went a little wild, snapping pics at four different locations.

Giving his trusty camera no time for a breather, Fisken shot middle school track (scroll down the blog an article or two to find those pics), as well as high school baseball, softball and tennis.

The latter three are represented here, with a smorgasbord of his work.

To see more, and possibly purchase some, thereby helping fund college scholarships for CHS student/athletes, pop over to:

Softball — http://www.olympicleague.com/index.php?act=view_gallery&gallery=11349&league=21&page=1&page_name=photo_store&school=24&sport=0

Baseball — http://www.olympicleague.com/index.php?act=view_gallery&gallery=11348&league=21&page=1&page_name=photo_store&school=24&sport=0

Tennis — http://www.olympicleague.com/index.php?act=view_gallery&gallery=11347&league=21&page=1&page_name=photo_store&school=24&sport=0

John Tristao and son Ty. (Photo from GoFundMe)

John Tristao and son Ty. (Photo from GoFundMe)

Keep on pushin’.

As local music legend/all-around quality dude John Tristao continues to fight back, recovering from surgery to save his life after a tear of the aortic valve, family and friends are doing all they can to help with his extensive medical expenses.

A GoFundMe page, which got a huge response when it was featured here on Coupeville Sports, has raised more than $30,000 and is still raising funds.

Now, a benefit is planned for this Sunday, May 1 at the Coupeville Rec Hall (901 NW Alexander).

Set to run from 1-6 PM, the event will feature “food, beer/wine, live music, dancing and lots of love” and is open to all ages.

Cost is $20 and alcohol will be sold separately.

They will accept cash and checks (made out to John and Beth Tristao) at the door, with all proceeds going to John’s medical expenses.

If you don’t already know, John, a superbly talented singer and musician who once worked for the Coupeville School District, is the lead singer of Creedence Clearwater Revisited and Johnny Bulldog.

He has frequently donated his skills to front numerous charity fundraisers for the community in the past.

To check out the GoFundMe page and possibly help out that way, pop over to:

https://www.gofundme.com/74xxmmgk

Birthday boys (clockwise, starting on left) Tavian Woolett

Birthday boys (clockwise, starting on left) Tavian Woolett, Jakobi Baumann and Jaschon Baumann. (John Fisken photos)

Today is all about the young guns.

Three freshmen who have all made an impact for Coupeville High School sports teams this school year are celebrating a joint birthday.

It’s all about the cake for Tavian Woolett and brothers Jakobi and Jaschon Baumann.

Woolett announced himself on the gridiron back in the fall, terrorizing opponents as a two-way threat.

Whether picking up chunks of yardage as a receiver or runner, or hauling down folks on the defensive side of the ball (where he popped up on the varsity stat sheet), Tavian played hard whistle to whistle.

Often praised in print by Wolf JV coach Ryan King, he has a combination of skills, work ethic and grit, which is always nice to see.

The battlin’ Baumann brothers started on the tennis court and have since taken their skill sets to different sports in the spring.

Jaschon is running the soccer pitch for the Wolves, while Jakobi is just flat out running, as a member of the Coupeville track squad, where he has one of the ten best times among 1A runners in the 3000.

Like their dad, Duane, the CHS Athletic Director and soon-to-be Principal, the duo are low-key guys who surprise with a nice sense of humor.

Having spent a soccer game or two up in the press box with them, I can attest both Baumann brothers can crack jokes (and good ones) while still keeping the scoreboard and iPad hummin’ along. They got skills.

So, as all three of these young Wolves hit their milestone day, we just want to take a moment and wish them the best.

Happy birthday, guys. Keep flying high.

(John Fisken photos)

   Mica Shipley is coming to claim all your track records. All of them, I said. (John Fisken photos)

relay

   Fleet-footed duo Jaylen Nitta (left) and Jean Lund-Olsen work on relay hand-offs.

Mason Grove

   Hoops star Mason Grove hopes to follow in the track footsteps of highly-successful older sister Lauren.

girls

“A camera?!?!?!?! Yeah, we don’t need to practice…”

girl

Mikaela Labrador is on the move.

Avalon

   Avalon Renninger (left) and Sage Downes are back at it again, preparing to destroy all their rivals at yet another sport.

Logan

   He’s not on the CMS team yet (one more year), but Logan Martin is already a natural.

Sean Toomey-Stout

   Sean Toomey-Stout (left) takes the baton from Nick Wielandt and prepares to hit Mach-3.

The countdown has begun.

Coupeville Middle School’s track and field team makes its debut Wednesday, with a meet in Port Townsend, and the Wolves are deep into preparations.

As they went through a practice Monday, wanderin’ photo man John Fisken, who was in town to shoot CHS baseball, softball and tennis, stopped by to snap some pics.

The photos above are courtesy him.

If you like what you see, maybe buy him a Diet Coke. I hear he likes ’em.

Jazmine Franklin teamed with McKenzie Bailey for a match-deciding win Monday. (John Fisken photo)

   Jazmine Franklin teamed with McKenzie Bailey for a match-deciding win Monday. (John Fisken photo)

Need a win? Call on your seniors.

“Grizzled” hard-court vets Jazmine Franklin and McKenzie Bailey dug deep and found some third-set magic Monday, propelling themselves, and the Coupeville High School girls’ tennis squad, to a huge win over Port Angeles.

Pulling out a 7-5, 5-7, 6-2 win at second doubles, the rock-solid duo lifted the Wolves to a 4-3 victory, avenging an earlier-season loss to the 2A Roughriders.

Coupeville now sits at 7-3 on the season.

Wolf coach Ken Stange knew he could count on his veteran team captains when things got down and dirty.

“They found a way to pull it out,” he said. “They were clutch in the third set!”

Complete results:

1st singles — Valen Trujillo beat Audrey Little 6-3, 6-1

2nd singles — Sydney Autio beat Claire Fritschler 6-2, 6-0

3rd singles — Bree Daigneault lost to Hailey Horton 2-6, 6-3, 10-1 (tiebreaker)

1st doubles — Payton Aparicio/Sage Renninger beat Maddy Woods/Maria Soule 6-3, 6-1

2nd doubles — McKenzie Bailey/Jazmine Franklin beat Emily Traughber/Patricia Polo 7-5, 5-7, 6-2

3rd doubles — Maggie Crimmins/Kameryn St Onge lost to Summer Olson/Aeverie Politika 6-4, 6-2

4th doubles — Julianne Sem/Julia Borges lost to Lum Fu/Hanna Brown 6-0, 6-1