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Win, unleash pigskin pandemonium

October 23, 2023 by David Svien

Riley Lawless, ready to unleash chaos. (Parker Hammons photo)

There may be more Friday Night Lights in the future.

If, and that’s the crucial word here, Coupeville High School football takes care of business Thursday afternoon.

Here’s how it breaks down.

Thursday at 4:00 PM, the Wolves host Friday Harbor in the regular season finale, with Senior Night festivities set for halftime.

Coupeville is 2-1 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, while the Wolverines are 3-0, including a 37-26 win when the teams played Sept. 29.

Friday Harbor wins meeting #2, it is league champ, and advances to the state playoffs.

But if the Wolves storm back and get some revenge, the two teams share the conference crown at 3-1, having split their series while both swept La Conner.

That scenario would give CHS football back-to-back league titles for the first time in program history.

It would also require a tiebreaker to decide which squad punches its ticket to state.

So, a Wolf win Thursday will make athletic directors Willie Smith (Coupeville) and Brock Hauck (Friday Harbor) initiate “Project Pigskin Pandemonium.”

Cause that’s what we’re calling it … I think. Might have heard wrong on that part.

Anyways, “PPP” will send the two gridiron squads to a neutral location the following Friday, Nov. 3 — which will be La Conner’s stadium.

Game time for the tiebreaker is 7:00 PM, and the action will consist of a half-game.

So, two 10-minute quarters, played under normal high school football rules.

Loser heads to the offseason, winner waits until Sunday, Nov. 5 to discover where the committee has seeded them for state playoff action.

UNLESS…

If the teams are tied at the end of regulation in the tiebreaker “mini-game”, they will decide things by using a Kansas tiebreaker, where they alternate possessions starting at their opponent’s 25-yard line.

Now, if we were truly embracing “pigskin pandemonium” they’d start at the 5-yard line, use a live pig in place of a football, and linemen would be allowed to go Mad Max on each other with mini baseball bats.

But no one asks me.

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Stare into my lens, said the spider to the fly

October 23, 2023 by David Svien

Tom Black is calm and composed as he awaits his closeup. (Jackie Saia photo)

The camera steals the soul, or so they say.

Apparently that fear doesn’t run very deep in Wolf Nation, where fans have little compunction with staring directly at the thing going clicky-click-click.

Cow Town fears no photographer!

Desi Ramirez enjoys a fall afternoon. (Kaitlyn Leavell photo)

One photographer stares down another, with Jackie Saia taking the briefest of breaks from her own gym work. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Skylar Parker, your Homecoming Queen. (Kaitlyn Leavell photo)

CHS Principal Geoff Kappes keeps one eye on his students, and one on the pesky paparazzi. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Fab frosh Haylee Armstrong (left) and Tirsit Cannon, sporting the finest in headgear. (Bailey Thule photo)

A Fathead of Andrew Williams stares through your soul. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

“Get in loser, we’re taking photos!” (Parker Hammons photo)

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They hunger for the end zone

October 23, 2023 by David Svien

Wolf QB Logan Downes has thrown for 18 touchdowns and rushed for two this season. (Jackie Saia photos)

Something new every week.

The Coupeville High School football team routed host La Conner 43-12 Friday, a game in which it collected its first two-point conversions of the season.

Hunter Bronec and Aiden O’Neill snagged passes from Logan Downes in lieu of CHS kicking PAT’s.

In the victory, the Wolves racked up six touchdowns — five through the air and one courtesy of a recovered fumble — running their season total to 29.

Jack Porter is the #3 scorer for Coupeville.

Heading into the regular-season finale against Friday Harbor, there’s a tie atop TD mountain, with sophomores Chase Anderson and Aiden O’Neill having each collected six.

Thanks to doing double duty as Coupeville’s kicker, Anderson has built a 17-point lead for the team scoring title.

 

Scoring stats through Oct. 23:

 

Touchdowns:

Chase Anderson – 6
Aiden O’Neill – 6
Jack Porter – 4
Hunter Bronec – 3
Mikey Robinett – 3
Adrian Cunningham – 2
Logan Downes – 2
Peyton Caveness – 1
Davin Houston – 1
Malachi Somes – 1

 

PATs:

Anderson – 16
Downes – 2

 

Field Goals:

Anderson – 1

 

Conversions:

Bronec – 1
O’Neill – 1

 

Points:

Anderson – 55
O’Neill – 38
Porter – 24
Bronec – 20
Robinett – 18
Downes – 14
Cunningham – 12
Caveness – 6
Houston – 6
Somes – 6

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Mud? Fire? Aidan Wilson fears no obstacle!

October 22, 2023 by David Svien

Aidan Wilson, always cheerful, even when he’s about to push himself to the limit.

Aidan Wilson, still kicking fanny and taking names.

The Coupeville High School grad finished 4th out of 134 competitors in his age group Sunday at the Grand Rapids Spartan Sprint in Michigan.

The race sent runners through a course where they had to evade obstacles, diving into mud, climbing up ropes, and jumping over fire.

Spartan Race officials told a local newspaper there were 4,000+ participants, with a 10K, 5K, and kid’s races.

Wilson, competing in his first spartan race, vied in the 5K open division, finishing the course in 41 minutes, 29 seconds.

He was a solid minute-and-a-half ahead of the 5th place finisher in the 18-24 age group, and hot on the heels of the top three racers.

Wilson 1, muddy course 0.

During his time on Whidbey, Wilson more than earned his status as a Coupeville Sports Hall o’ Famer.

He participated in a mind-boggling 16 events as a track and field star, collecting 41 wins across three seasons.

Wilson brought home five state meet medals, earning three 2nd place finishes, and capped his career by placing 7th out of 32 in a two-day, 10-event decathlon featuring competitors from every classification.

One of only eight Wolf boys to earn as many as five state meet medals, it’s likely he would have gone higher on that list if real-world issues hadn’t restricted him to just two trips to the big dance.

The pandemic erased all spring sports when Wilson was a freshman, and the state meet was cancelled during his sophomore season as track officials limited how far schools could travel in the Age of Coronavirus.

Wilson also ran a season of cross country, while raining down goals on the soccer pitch.

He rattled the net for 10 goals as a senior, earning All-Conference First-Team honors, and finished his prep career with 13 scores, putting him #7 on Coupeville’s all-time boys’ soccer scoring chart.

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Stone blitzes former team

October 22, 2023 by David Svien

Pay the woman.

She’s back, and still can’t be stopped.

Coupeville grad Makana Stone, now suiting up for Ammerud in her third season of pro basketball, faced off with her former franchise Sunday and got the best of it.

Pouring in 20 points and snatching 13 rebounds — both game-high marks — the former Wolf ace powered her new squad to a 78-47 victory at Baerum.

The win lifts Ammerud to 2-1 on the season, heading into a two-week break.

The Queens return to action Nov. 5 with a match-up with Ullern, which is currently 2-0.

After opening her pro career in Britain, Stone moved to Norway and was a hardwood sensation for Baerum last season.

She helped that franchise go 20-7 and finish runners-up in the Kvinneligaen, averaging 18 points and 11 rebounds while playing in 26 games.

With Ammerud reviving its hoop dreams this season, Stone jumped squads and hasn’t missed a beat.

She added four assists and a steal Sunday to her stat line, as the Queens led from start to finish.

Ammerud jumped out to a 17-11 advantage after one quarter of play, stretched the margin to 29-19 by halftime, then blew things wide open after the break.

A 25-15 third-quarter surge sealed the win, with the Queens putting five different players into double-digit scoring by the end of the game.

Through her first three games in Ammerud, Stone has racked up 55 points, 38 rebounds, 12 assists, six steals, and three blocked shots.

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