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May 3, 2024 by David Svien

Kennedy O’Neill explodes over the hurdles. (Ana Mc Fetridge photos)

Middle school track season is in full swing.

Two meets into the campaign, we have a ton of PRs and a fair amount of photos as well.

The pics above and below, which come from Coupeville’s recent trek to Granite Falls, come to us courtesy Ana Mc Fetridge.

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One mission done, another begins

May 2, 2024 by David Svien

Cole White and friends are a win away from returning to the state tourney. (Morgan White photo)

It’s been an unusual season, but the second half has been all highlight reel, all the time.

After holding off host La Conner 8-4 Thursday, the Coupeville High School varsity baseball squad ends the regular season having won seven of its last eight games.

The Wolves were missing their top player for much of the season thanks to an injury, then lost their cleanup hitter when he moved away midseason.

And yet, CHS finishes the regular season at 9-2 in Northwest 2B/1B League action, 10-8 overall.

Now, the Wolves are off until Saturday, May 11, when they travel to Lakewood High School for the District 1/2 tourney.

Coupeville is the #1 seed and will play a winner-to-state, loser-out game against the survivor of a game from earlier in the day.

You can see the bracket here:

https://www.wpanetwork.com/wiaa/brackets/tournament.php?act=view&tournament_id=4409

Coupeville, which rose from the bottom of the NWL to the top during the second half of the season, closed regular season play in style.

Building an 8-0 lead as the bottom of the order rapped out base knock after base knock, the Wolves gave pitcher Seth Woollet plenty of room to operate, and he responded.

The senior hurler whiffed five over seven innings of work, and was especially effective in the middle stages, retiring the Braves 1-2-3 in the third, fourth, and fifth innings.

CHS got on the scoreboard early, plating a pair of runs in the top of the first, thanks to three walks, a La Conner wild pitch, and a big RBI single from sophomore slugger Camden Glover.

The Wolves doubled their lead in the fourth, as Coop Cooper whacked a double to left, then scooted home on a wild pitch.

Coop Cooper crunched a pair of hits in the regular season finale. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Two batters later, Chase Anderson, whose late-season return from injury has given the lineup an extra spark, launched a sac fly to plate Landon Roberts and it was 4-0.

Run-scoring hits off the bats of Glover and Woollet helped shove the lead all the way out to 8-0 heading into the bottom of the sixth, and while La Conner rallied a bit, time ran out on the Braves.

Coupeville threw out a runner trying to steal, pulled off a key double play in the sixth, then ended the game with Woollet inducing a final fly ball which settled softly into the glove of Aiden O’Neill as he patrolled the outfield.

Now the Wolves have some time to marinate in their late-season success before they attempt to punch their ticket to state for the second straight season under coach Steve Hilborn.

The last time a CHS baseball team went to the big dance in back-to-back seasons was 1990-1991.

 

Thursday stats:

Chase Anderson — One walk
Peyton Caveness — One walk
Coop Cooper — One double, one single
Camden Glover — One double, one single, one walk
Jack Porter — Two walks
Johnny Porter — Two singles
Landon Roberts — One single, one walk
Cole White — Two walks
Seth Woollet — Two singles

“Hello, my old friend, we meet again.” (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

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Calkins crushes, Wolves romp

May 2, 2024 by David Svien

“It’s time, Sir Reginald, time for us to once more go forth and destroy the hopes and dreams of our rivals.” (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

The “Red Dragon” can only be stopped one way — by being forced to sit on the bench.

Put Teagan Calkins in the game, and the Coupeville High School sophomore catcher is going to start popping her biceps and beatin’ the crud out of the softball.

It is just the way of her people.

So, Wolf coach Kevin McGranahan parked his excitable star in the dugout for half of Thursday’s game at La Conner — AFTER she launched yet another home run — and gave nearly everyone on the roster a chance to join in the assault.

Even after giving up numerous outs by having runners intentionally leave base early, the Wolves crushed the host Braves 14-0 in a game mercy-ruled after five innings.

The victory, in which 13 CHS players reached base, lifts the Wolves to 9-0 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 12-4 overall.

They won’t get a chance to make up a rained-out game against NWL rival Concrete but will play two home non-conference tilts as they prep for the playoffs.

First up is a visit from Nooksack Valley Friday, followed by a rematch against South Whidbey May 10.

After that, Coupeville, the top team in District 1, heads off to Centralia May 18 to play a District 4 team in a winner-to-state, loser-out playoff rumble.

Shania Kenney was one of nine Wolves to rip a hit Thursday in La Conner. (Claire Kalwies-Anderson photo)

Thursday’s game in La Conner was one-sided in every way, as Wolf pitchers Adeline Maynes, Haylee Armstrong, and Capri Anter combined to toss a one-hitter, whiffing nine Braves.

Maynes, already an ace as just an 8th grader, retired all six batters she faced.

Coupeville, by contrast, couldn’t be stopped on offense, rapping out 14 hits and piling up 12 walks.

The Wolves plated six runners in the top of the first, not getting their first out until batter #7.

Walks to Armstrong and Sydney Van Dyke set the table, with Taylor Brotemarkle, Madison McMillan, Calkins, and Bailey Thule thumping consecutive hits to get the scoreboard hoppin’.

Five more runs came across in the second, with Calkins cranking a two-run tater to deep left, flying around the basepaths and sliding home long before the ball arrived back in the infield.

Proving they can play small ball to go with long ball, the Wolves spent a considerable part of the rest of the game working on bunts.

The best one probably came off the bat of Armstrong, as she dropped one for an RBI single, the ball nestling into the ground in front of the third baseman and promptly tunneling its way to China.

Coupeville did everything possible not to end the game super-early, adding just a single run in the third, and two more in the fourth.

Still, even though they went five innings, and didn’t go for the early 20-run KO in three frames, it capped a league season in which CHS mercy-ruled every foe.

“We had fun and worked on some stuff we don’t always get to work on, all while keeping the score reasonable,” McGranahan said.

“The best part is we return everyone next season, so the expectation is to do it all over again.”

That points to the fact that Coupeville has no seniors, and typically starts three 8th graders and two freshmen among its main 10 players.

 

Thursday stats:

Capri Anter — One single
Haylee Armstrong — Two singles, one walk
Taylor Brotemarkle — One single, three walks
Teagan Calkins — One home run, one single
Jada Heaton — One single
Shania Kenney — One single
Ava Lucero — One walk
Adeline Maynes — Two singles, one walk
Madison McMillan — One double, two singles, one walk
Chelsi Stevens — One walk
Bailey Thule — One single, one walk
Sydney Van Dyke — Two walks
Mary Western — One walk

Optical illusion, or is Jada Heaton so strong she literally bends her bat when making contact? Discuss. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

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Magic in air, magic on stage

May 2, 2024 by David Svien

Opening on a stage near you next week. (Poster by Sydney Wallace)

Four years later, the magic is coming to the stage.

After the pandemic threw a wrench into things, the Coupeville High School Theater Department has regrouped to revive its production of Puffs, or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic.

The play, written by Matt Cox, hits the CHS stage May 9-11, with performances at 7:00 PM.

Tickets are $10 for adults, $7 for students, and $5 for students with ASB.

Puffs is “a very familiar story about finding out you are a wizard and being swept away to a school of magic,” said CHS drama instructor Stefanie Ask.

“But our show isn’t about that character.

“Our show is about Hufflepuffs, or Puffs, and being the unassuming lovable underdog we all find ourselves to be at one time or another.”

Ask and her students were deep in the rehearsal process in March 2020, when Covid arrived to throw things asunder.

“When the world paused, so did our heartfelt little play,” she said.

“It was heartbreaking to realize that the show we thought we sat aside for a few weeks of shutdown was not going to come to fruition at all for that wonderful cast of humans.

“Together we mourned (on GoogleMeets) for the theater experience that we should have had together as Puffs.”

Cut to four years later and Ask and a new group have revived the play and are dedicating it to those who were part of the original cast and crew.

“An entirely new combination of wonderful humans assorted into a cast, and we are finally bringing our sweet, funny, little underdog story to the stage for an audience” she said.

“We hope they’ll be out there in the audience (or elsewhere on their own heroic adventures) hearing our “Third or Nothing!” cheer and feeling the bond they share with today’s cast.”

 

The crew:

Director – Stefanie Ask
Stage Manager – Danni Demers
Light Technicians – Oktober Frost, Reina Reed
Sound Technician – Hailee Wells
Costume Designer – Nevaeh Hertlein-Darby
Set/Prop Team – Peyton Caveness, Nick Shelly, Zac Tackett

 

Cast:

Jorja Auen
Gareth Bevill
Peyton Caveness
Brooke Crosby
River Dearmond
Emma Garcia
Miles Gerber
Marz Halstead
Elizabeth Lo
Pamela Morrell
Michael Robinett
Lina Shelly
Cedar Socha
George Spear
Sydney Wallace
Zak Weatherford
Doc Wertz

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CMS track scores big in Granite Falls

May 2, 2024 by David Svien

River and Laken Simpson combined to claim four wins Wednesday. (Rainy Simpson photo)

Meet #2 went off with a bang.

Competing against Northshore Christian Academy and host Granite Falls Wednesday, the Coupeville Middle School track and field team delivered a stellar performance.

By the time they were done, the young Wolves had racked up 23 wins and 93 PRs.

Leading the way was Hyley Farrell, Coupeville’s only three-time winner on the day.

The 7th grader claimed titles in the 200 and long jump, while also running a leg on a winning 4 x 200 relay unit.

Tamsin Ward (100, Shot Put) and River Simpson (200, Long Jump) joined Farrell in winning two individual events.

Coupeville gets back at it next Wednesday, May 8, when it hosts a meet against South Whidbey.

Small school, huge track team. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

 

Wednesday’s results:

 

GIRLS:

8th grade:

100 — Willow Leedy-Bonifas (3rd) 14.86 *PR*; Isa Mc Fetridge (4th) 15.39 *PR*; Amaiya Curry (6th) 15.75 *PR*; Niella Bryan (13th) 16.71; Denali Kalwies (14th) 17.07 *PR*; Inara Maund (15th) 17.34; Delilah Castellanos (17th) 17.60 *PR*; Kayla Moch (18th) 17.66 PR*

200 — Laken Simpson (1st) 31.21; Olivia Hall (2nd) 31.82 *PR*; Leedy-Bonifas (4th) 33.36 *PR*; Ari Cunningham (5th) 33.75

400 — Taylor Marrs (1st) 1:18.22 *PR*; Marin Winger (3rd) 1:32.30

800 — Lillian Ketterling (1st) 3:06.09

1600 — Mikayla Wagner (1st) 6:31.27; Devon Wyman (2nd) 7:03.69

100 Hurdles — Cunningham (3rd) 21.30; Bryan (6th) 23.07 *PR*; Amelia Crowder (7th) 23.17 *PR*

4 x 100 Relay — Leedy-Bonifas, Cunningham, Curry, Mc Fetridge (1st) 59.43; Hall, Ketterling, M. Wagner, L. Simpson (2nd) 1:01.38

4 x 200 Relay — Hall, M. Wagner, Wyman, L. Simpson (1st) 2:16.63

Shot Put — Winger (1st) 23-09 *PR*; Marrs (2nd) 22-08; L. Simpson (4th) 21-10; Emma McFadden (6th) 20-07 *PR*; Maund (9th) 17-06; Moch (10th) 15-09 *PR*; Castellanos (11th) 13-05.50 *PR*

Discus — Ketterling (2nd) 48-05; Marrs (3rd) 48-02; Crowder (5th) 39-09

High Jump — Crowder (1st) 3-08

Long Jump — Leedy-Bonifas (1st) 12-08.50; Cunningham (2nd) 12-06.25; Mc Fetridge (9th) 10-04 *PR*; Bryan (10th) 10-02 *PR*; M. Wagner (12th) 10-01; Wyman (13th) 9-09; Maund (14th) 9-05.25; Kalwies (17th) 8-04.50 *PR*; Moch (18th) 8-00 *PR*

 

6th/7th grade:

100 — Tamsin Ward (1st) 14.21; Ava Alford (6th) 15.95 *PR*; Kaleigha Millison (8th) 16.31 *PR*; Autumn Rubin (9th) 16.33 *PR*; Finley Helm (13th) 16.65 *PR*; Claire Lachnit (14th) 16.77 *PR*; Emma Cushman (15th) 16.77 *PR*; Sabrina Judnich (18th) 17.50 *PR*; Emma Green (20th) 17.71 *PR*; Andrea Gonzalez (25th) 18.15 *PR*; Annabelle Cundiff (29th) 18.90 *PR*

200 — Hyley Farrell (1st) 30.10 *PR*; Bettie Woolworth (6th) 36.95 *PR*

100 Hurdles — Kennedy O’Neill (2nd) 20.54 *PR*; Pria Powell (3rd) 20.89 *PR*; Elizabeth Marshall (4th) 21.42; Brooklyn Pope (5th) 21.90 *PR*; Zariyah Allen (7th) 22.32 *PR*; Millison (8th) 22.67; Lily Fisher (9th) 22.90; Helm (10th) 24.19 *PR*; Alford (11th) 24.26; E. Green (12th) 24.31 *PR*; Eleanor Peterson (13th) 24.63 *PR*; Woolworth (14th) 26.17 *PR*; Savannah Niewald (17th) 30.59

4 x 100 Relay — Pope, O’Neill, Cushman, Marshall (1st) 1:02.94; Gonzalez, Lachnit, Judnich, E. Green (3rd) 1:07.34

4 x 200 Relay — Farrell, O’Neill, Marshall, Sage Stavros (1st) 2:14.79

Shot Put — Ward (1st) 35-06 *PR*; Niewald (5th) 18-03 *PR*; Cundiff (6th) 17-11

Discus — Z. Allen (5th) 37-04

High Jump — Pope (1st) 4-02; Ward (2nd) 4-01; Z. Allen (5th) 3-08

Long Jump — Farrell (1st) 13-07.50; Rubin (3rd) 11-07.25 *PR*; Powell (4th) 11-02.25 *PR*; O’Neill (7th) 10-07.25; Cushman (8th) 10-03 *PR*; Stavros (9th) 10-02.50; Millison (12th) 9-05.75; Marshall (12th) 9-05.75; Peterson (14th) 9-04.75; Fisher (15th) 8-10.75; Helm (17th) 8-06 *PR*; Niewald (18th) 8-02.25; Woolworth (20th) 7-10, Cundiff (21st) 7-08.50 *PR*; E. Green (27th) 6-04.75 *PR*

 

BOYS:

8th grade:

100 — Leonardo Rodriguez (3rd) 13.63; Max Ohme (5th) 14.05; Isaiah Allen (8th) 14.54 *PR*; Khanor Jump (11th) 14.76 *PR*; Jackson Sollars (19th) 17.09 *PR*

200 — Beckett Green (1st) 26.29 *PR*; Roger Merino-Martinez (3rd) 26.77 *PR*; Sollars (6th) 29.90 *PR*

1600 — Edmund Kunz (1st) 6:09.49 *PR*; Diego Gonzalez (2nd) 6:35.42 *PR*

4 x 100 Relay — Wyatt Fitch-Marron, B. Green, Shiloh Sandlin, Merino-Martinez (1st) 50.65

Shot Put — Jump (4th) 30-06 *PR*; Ohme (5th) 30-01 *PR*; Sandlin (7th) 25-01 *PR*; Gonzalez (11th) 16-07 *PR*

Discus — Ohme (3rd) 77-02 *PR*; Jump (4th) 69-04

High Jump — Fitch-Marron (2nd) 4-08; Johnathan Jacobsen (3rd) 4-08

Long Jump — B. Green (2nd) 15-03; Fitch-Marron (3rd) 15-01 *PR*; Merino-Martinez (4th) 15-00.50 *PR*; Sandlin (5th) 14-10; Rodriguez (10th) 13-06 *PR*; Kunz (14th) 11-04.50; I. Allen (15th) 10-10

 

6th/7th grade:

100 — Collin Mirabile (2nd) 13.45 *PR*; Benjamin Wertz (8th) 15.11 *PR*; Hunter Atteberry (12th) 15.62 *PR*; Vincent Alguire (18th) 16.74 *PR*; Diesel Eck (19th) 16.76; Ceiba Rusch (23rd) 18.24 *PR*

200 — River Simpson (1st) 28.10 *PR*; Atteberry (8th) 33.34 *PR*

800 — Lincoln Wagner (2nd) 2:51.22 *PR*; Cyrus Sparacio (3rd) 2:52.29 *PR*; Sawyer Rudat (4th) 2:53.96 *PR*; Archer Schwarz (6th) 3:06.18 *PR*

1600 — Henry Bailey (3rd) 6:05.02 *PR*; Sparacio (4th) 6:08.37 *PR*; Nolan Hunt (8th) 7:57.31 *PR*

110 Hurdles — Malachi Chapa (3rd) 22.41 *PR*; Maverick Walling (6th) 25.65 *PR*; Jacob Lujan (8th) 26.88 *PR*; Rusch (9th) 28.25

4 x 100 Relay — Chapa, Xander Beaman, R. Simpson, Henry Purdue (2nd) 58.20

Shot Put — Mirabile (2nd) 30-11 *PR*; Eck (3rd) 27-02 *PR*; Alguire (7th) 24-09 *PR*; Hunt (14th) 13-11 *PR*

Discus — Brantley Campbell (1st) 100-06 *PR*; Sparacio (9th) 48-00; Hunt (11th) 43-07 *PR*

High Jump — Mirabile (1st) 5-00 *PR*; Wertz (3rd) 4-04 *PR*

Long Jump — R. Simpson (1st) 13-06; Bailey (4th) 12-06.25 *PR*; L. Wagner (6th) 12-00 *PR*; Chapa (6th) 12-00 *PR*; Walling (9th) 11-04 *PR*; Rudat (10th) 11-03.50 *PR*; Atteberry (13th) 10-10.50 *PR*; Schwarz (17th) 10-03; Lujan (18th) 10-01; Purdue (18th) 10-01

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