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Coaches like ’em! They really like ’em!!

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , , on June 2, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Hope Lodell was one of four First-Team All-Conference picks for CHS softball. (John Fisken photos)

Lauren Rose has been a First-Team pick three years running.

Epic home runs and laser throws led coaches to praise Mikayla Elfrank.

   A two-way terror, Wolf pitcher Katrina McGranahan shares league MVP honors with Chimacum’s Shanya Nisbet.

   The Wolves wrap up their season with a Friday night shindig. (Rebecca Lodell photo)

Killer Kat’s school year was all that, and more.

Coupeville High School junior pitcher Katrina McGranahan shared 1A Olympic League softball MVP honors with Chimacum senior shortstop Shanya Nisbet when league coaches announced All-Conference picks.

The selection follows on the heels of McGranahan being tabbed league MVP during volleyball season.

With Mia Littlejohn winning co-MVP honors for soccer, CHS had at least a share of three of the four top awards given to female athletes by Olympic League coaches in 2016-2017.

The selection of McGranahan and Nisbet broke a two-year run by Klahowya’s Amber Bumbalough.

The Eagle junior pitcher/shortstop was MVP as a freshman and shared honors with Chimacum’s Ryley Eldridge last season.

McGranahan, who led Coupeville in virtually every offensive category, while also going 18-5 in the pitcher’s circle, was honored by league coaches for a third consecutive season.

Junior third-baseman Lauren Rose was also an All-Conference First-Team pick for the third time, while junior center fielder Hope Lodell was honored for a second time.

Junior shortstop Mikayla Elfrank, a first-time honoree, rounds out Coupeville’s All-League picks.

When CHS coaches handed out their own awards Friday, McGranahan and sophomore catcher Sarah Wright shared team MVP honors.

Also bringing home awards were Veronica Crownover (Offensive MVP), Rose (Defensive MVP), Tamika Nastali (Hustle Award), Kyla Briscoe (Most Improved), Scout Smith (Rookie of the Year) and Elfrank (Coaches Award).

Coupeville finished 19-5 after splitting four games in 26 hours at districts. It was the second-best record in program history.

To acknowledge his player’s accomplishments, Wolf head coach Kevin McGranahan lettered everyone on the roster.

“All of them did everything as a team. Practice, long bus rides and everybody played in varsity games this year,” he said. “It took the whole team to do what we did this year.”

Varsity letter winners:

Kyla Briscoe
Tiffany Briscoe
Robin Cedillo
Veronica Crownover
Mackenzie Davis
Mikayla Elfrank
Nicole Lester
Jae LeVine
Hope Lodell
Emma Mathusek
Katrina McGranahan
Tamika Nastali
Lauren Rose
Scout Smith
Melia Welling
Sarah Wright

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Wolf booters net awards!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged , , , , , on May 23, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   CHS junior William Nelson was named a First-Team All-Conference soccer player for the third straight season. (John Fisken photos)

Uriel Liquidano was also honored by Olympic League coaches.

Still perfect.

Coupeville High School junior midfielder William Nelson was named a First-Team All-Conference player by Olympic League soccer coaches for the third consecutive year, an honor he shares this time around with senior defender Uriel Liquidano.

The duo hauled away their fair share of awards at a season-ending banquet Tuesday, also being honored as Captains.

Nelson was named the Player of the Year, while Liquidano copped Most Inspirational.

Freshman Aram Leyva (Rookie of the Year) and goaltender Dewitt Cole (Most Improved) rounded out those honored by coach Kyle Nelson.

Varsity letter winners:

Jaschon Baumann
Laurence Boado
Dewitt Cole
Nick Dion (4-year player)
Hunter Downes
Zach Ginnings
Mason Grove
Brandon Jansen
Uriah Kastner
Teo Keilwitz
Aram Leyva
Uriel Liquidano (4-year player)
Zack Nall
William Nelson
Axel Partida
Brian Roberts
Josh Robinson
Mathew Shreffner
Ethan Spark
James Wood

JV participation certificates:

Chris Cernick
Jonathon Johnson
Jonathon Partida
Simon Socha

Manager awards:

Maddy Hilkey
Ashley Menges
Peytin Vondrak

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Wolves make awards season pitch!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , , on May 22, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   CHS junior hurler Hunter Smith was tabbed an All-Conference selection by Olympic League coaches for the second straight year. (John Fisken photos)

   After being honored as a third-baseman in 2016, sophomore Matt Hilborn was a First-Team pick as a second-baseman this season.

Hot on the heels of a second-place finish in the 1A Olympic League, Coupeville High School’s baseball squad landed four players on the All-Conference team.

Junior Hunter Smith (P) and sophomore Matt Hilborn (2B) were honored for the second straight year, while seniors Clay Reilly (OF) and Taylor Consford (C) were tabbed for the first time.

Those awards headlined Coupeville’s season-ending banquet Monday night.

Reilly was the night’s big winner, taking home MVP and Offensive Player of the Year, while also receiving his captain’s certificate and recognition for playing all four years.

Consford and Ethan Marx shared captain honors, while first-baseman Kory Score was tabbed Defensive Player of the Year.

Joey Lippo (The Dirt Bag Award) and Aiden Crimmins (The Aiden Award) rounded out the night’s winners.

Reilly, Score, Consford, Marx, Crimmins and Jonathan Thurston were honored as seniors.

Varsity letter winners:

Taylor Consford
Aiden Crimmins
Nick Etzell
Matt Hilborn
Jake Hoagland
Joey Lippo
Dane Lucero
Ethan Marx
Clay Reilly
Kory Score
Hunter Smith
Jonathan Thurston
Julian Welling

Varsity participation certificates:

Elliott Johnson
Jake Pease

JV participation certificates:

Johnny Carlson
Cameron Dahl
Elliott Johnson
Gavin Knoblich
Shane Losey
Jake Pease
Kyle Rockwell
Gavin Straub
James Vidoni
Seth Weatherford
Ulrik Wells
Jacob Zettle

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Let the big dog bark!!

Posted in standings, tagged , , , , , , on May 13, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Freshman Avalon Renninger played a key role for successful varsity soccer and tennis squads. (John Fisken photo)

The balance of power has shifted.

The third athletic school year in the short history of the 1A Olympic League is in the books (at least the regular season portion) and there’s a new big dog in charge.

That would be Coupeville, which has overcome being the smallest of the four schools.

The Wolves won the most league titles across the 10 core sports (volleyball, football, softball and baseball, plus girls and boys basketball, tennis and soccer) for the second straight year, while also claiming the varsity league wins title for the first time.

And while CHS knocked Klahowya down a peg, Port Townsend, which had been dead-last for wins in 2014-2015 and 2015-2016, overcame win-less baseball and softball seasons to ease past Chimacum in the final standings.

Varsity league win totals by year:

2016-2017:

Coupeville – 51
Klahowya – 48
Port Townsend – 28
Chimacum – 25

2015-2016:

Klahowya – 45
Coupeville – 42
Chimacum – 26
Port Townsend – 22

2014-2015:

Klahowya – 52
Coupeville – 40
Chimacum – 23
Port Townsend – 20

Side note, win totals went up this year because soccer and volleyball shifted from six-game league schedules to nine to match up with basketball, baseball and softball.

Meanwhile football, thanks to hooking up with the Nisqually League, played seven league games against seven foes, instead of the six against three as in the first two years.

As the postseason continues to play out — districts for softball, tennis and track arrive next week, while Klahowya is the lone Olympic League school still (barely) alive in baseball and soccer — here’s a look at the final league standings for this spring.

Olympic League softball:

School League Overall
Chimacum 8-1 10-4
COUPEVILLE 6-3 17-3
Klahowya 4-5 9-7
Port Townsend 0-9 0-15

Olympic League baseball:

School League Overall
Klahowya 8-1 10-6
COUPEVILLE 6-3 11-9
Chimacum 4-5 7-8
Port Townsend 0-9 0-14

Olympic League boys soccer:

School League Overall
Klahowya 9-0 14-3-1
Port Townsend 6-3 8-8-0
COUPEVILLE 3-6 4-11-1
Chimacum 0-9 2-12-0

Olympic League girls tennis:

School League Overall
COUPEVILLE 4-0 6-3
Klahowya 3-3 5-9
Chimacum 0-4 0-7

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Sweep those courts!!

Posted in Girls Tennis, tagged , , , , , on May 10, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Valen Trujillo swept to a second straight singles crown at Wednesday’s Olympic League tournament. (John Fisken photo)

They dominated the regular season, they dominated the postseason tournament.

Even with the schedule changing almost at the last second, with the tourney moving up a day and the start time shifting like sand at high tide, the Coupeville High School netters never blinked.

Holding serve, the Wolves swept both the singles and doubles crowns at Wednesday’s Olympic League Tournament in Chimacum and will send six girls to districts.

That event, with the top four from the Olympic League meeting the top four of the Nisqually League, goes down May 18 at the Sprinker Tennis Complex in Tacoma.

Making the next jump will be a hard one, though, as District 3 only gets one entry to state in odd numbered years.

Come back in 2018, and even-year rules will apply, kicking on two entries in both singles and doubles.

To punch their ticket to Eastern Washington, and the sun-baked courts of the state tourney, a Wolf singles player or doubles duo will have to win three straight matches without a loss to claim a district title.

Lose in the championship match and you’re the alternate (and start asking the winner repeatedly if they’re sure they’re feeling alright, cause they kind of sound bronchial every time they talk, and you’re just really, really concerned…).

Fall before that third match and you’ll play on in the loser brackets of the double-elimination district tourney, but with no hope of getting a sniff of state.

Unless that bronchial infection really spreads.

Wednesday, it was déjà vu for the Wolves, as senior singles ace Valen Trujillo and doubles duo Payton Aparicio and Sage Renninger repeated as league champs.

The junior combo are undefeated this season, sitting at 11-0 headed into districts. Renninger is 12-0, having won a regular-season match with lil’ sis Avalon when Aparicio was out of town.

Districts will be a family affair, as freshman Zoe Trujillo and Avalon Renninger and foreign exchange student Fanny Deprelle round out the Wolf contingent advancing.

Coupeville claimed first and fourth in both singles and doubles, while Klahowya netted second and third in singles (Hailey Sargent and Sydney Jackson) and second in doubles (Marianne Marker/Taylor Bruce.)

Chimacum advances one doubles team — Gladys Hitt and Christine Bell — after the duo claimed third.

Complete CHS results:

Singles:

Valen Trujillo:

Beat Sophie Koveleski (K) 8-0
Beat Fanny Deprelle (CP) 4-3 (retired)
Beat Hailey Sargent (K) 6-0, 6-2

Fanny Deprelle:

Beat Amelia Breithaupt (PT) 8-5
Lost to Valen Trujillo (CP) 4-3 (retired)
Lost to Sydney Jackson (K) walkover

Bree Daigneault:

Lost to Hailey Sargent (K) 8-0

Doubles:

Payton Aparicio/Sage Renninger:

Beat Kelisha Harris/Hannah Catt (K) 8-0
Beat Gladys Hitt/Christine Bell (CH) 6-3, 6-0
Beat Marianne Marker/Taylor Bruce (K) 6-2, 6-2

Zoe Trujillo/Avalon Renninger:

Beat Amy Plastow/Marley Music (CH) 8-1
Lost to Marianne Marker/Taylor Bruce (K) 6-0, 6-3
Lost to Gladys Hitt/Christine Bell (CH) 7-5, 4-6, 10-8

Maggie Crimmins/Kameryn St Onge:

Lost to Marianne Marker/Taylor Bruce (K) 8-1

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