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Close, just not close enough!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged 1A Olympic League, CHS Wolves, Port Townsend, shutout, Soccer on April 23, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Wolf goalie Brian Roberts pops in to make a save. (John Fisken photos)

Aram Leyva was kung fu fightin’.

The Coupeville High School boys soccer squad always plays Port Townsend tough, and Saturday was no different.

Unfortunately, the final score, with the Wolves on the short end of the stick, was all too familiar as well.

Falling 3-0 on its home field on a wet, windy day, Coupeville is now all but assured it will finish in third-place in the four-team 1A Olympic League.

The Wolves sit at 3-4 in conference play, 4-8-1 overall, looking up at Klahowya (6-0, 9-2-1) and Port Townsend (4-2, 6-5) with two regular-season games left to play.

Those three schools will represent the Olympic League in postseason play, as Chimacum (0-7, 2-9) was officially eliminated after absorbing an 8-1 loss Saturday to Klahowya.

Coupeville’s only chance to claim the league’s #2 seed hinges on pulling off the upset of the century Tuesday on Senior Night.

Somehow find a way to deliver Klahowya’s first-ever Olympic League loss (the Eagles are 18-0 over the past three seasons), and the Wolves faint hopes would still flicker.

After that, knock off Port Townsend on the road in the regular season finale Apr. 28, have the RedHawks lose to Klahowya and Chimacum the first two days of May, and CHS is golden.

If any of that fails to happen, accept the #3 seed and get ready to host a “home” playoff game at Oak Harbor’s Stadium May 4.

Saturday, the Wolves held Port Townsend to just a single first-half goal, but couldn’t find the back of the net themselves.

As a damp CHS coach Kyle Nelson surveyed the aftermath, he had a mixed reaction.

“Again we gifted them a goal,” he said with a slight grimace. “The positive is the continued improvement in how we are passing the ball around and making connections.

“We will be looking forward to seeing them next week for a little payback.”

To see more photos from both varsity and JV action (purchases fund scholarships for CHS student/athletes) pop over to:

http://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/2017-Coupeville-Boys-Soccer/20170422-vs-Port-Townsend/

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This one hurts!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged 1A Olympic League, baseball, CHS Wolves, errors, Klahowya, Matt Hilborn on April 22, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Wolf catcher Taylor Consford had two hits Friday, but Coupeville fell to Klahowya. (John Fisken photo)

Slip-sliding away.

Coupeville’s chances of repeating as Olympic League champs in baseball took a shot to the ribs Friday, and while its hopes aren’t dead, they’re getting closer to flat-lining.

A rough fifth inning in which the Wolves surrendered five runs with two outs allowed host Klahowya to break open a close game and make off with an 11-6 win.

The loss, the second in as many games against the Eagles this season, drops Coupeville to 2-2 in league play, 7-7 overall.

That leaves the Wolves in a second-place tie with Chimacum (2-2, 4-4), two-and-a-half games off of Klahowya (5-0, 6-3).

Port Townsend (0-5, 0-7) is firmly stuck in the cellar.

CHS still has time to rally, with five league games left on the schedule, but to keep the Eagles from regaining the title they won in 2015, the Wolves will absolutely have to finish with a better record.

By taking the first two games of the three-game season series, Klahowya holds a tiebreaker over Coupeville should they finish with identical records.

The Wolves jumped out to an early lead Friday, scoring a run in the first on a double by Hunter Smith and an RBI single by Clay Reilly, but their hosts never blinked.

Klahowya rallied for three in the bottom half of the opening inning, then plated another run in the second to build a 4-1 lead.

Coupeville twice cut the margin back to one, first at 4-3, then at 5-4 heading into the bottom of the fourth.

The Wolves picked up two runs in the third — Taylor Consford drilled a double to score Matt Hilborn, then came around himself when the Eagles booted a ball hit by Reilly.

Kory Score reached on an error in the fourth, moved up on a steal and a single off of Joey Lippo’s bat, before shooting across home on a passed ball and the game looked like it would come down to a single play.

Then, things kind of fell apart.

After answering with their own run in the fourth, the Eagles exploded for a ten-batter, five-run fifth to bust the game wide open.

All the damage came after there were two outs, as a deadly mix of walks, Wolf errors and a balk or two conspired to doom the visitors.

Coupeville rallied for two in the top of the seventh, on RBI singles by Consford and Reilly, but it wasn’t enough.

The Wolves did manage to pile up 10 hits, with Hilborn and Consford collecting two apiece, but Klahowya hurler Dylan Zuber managed to spend most of the afternoon getting out of trouble while suffering minimal damage.

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“This was a huge win!!”

Posted in Softball, tagged 1A Olympic League, CHS Wolves, Katrina McGranahan, Klahowya, road win, Sarah Wright on April 21, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Wolf catcher Sarah Wright smashed a fences-clearing home-run Friday, propelling CHS softball to a huge league win. (John Fisken photo)

What a difference a year makes.

Clearing a major psychological hurdle, the Coupeville High School softball squad knocked off host Klahowya 5-2 Friday, its second straight win over the Eagles this season.

The victory lifts the red-hot Wolves to 3-1 in Olympic League play, 10-1 overall.

That ties the 2002 squad for the best record by a CHS softball team through 11 games.

It also pulls the Wolves within a game of two-time defending league champ Chimacum (4-0, 6-1), the only team to beat Coupeville this season.

The second of three games with the Cowboys comes on the road next Friday, Apr. 28.

The Wolves have non-conference games against Lynden Christian (6-7) Saturday and Meridian (2-9) Monday and a league clash with Port Townsend (0-4, 0-6) Wednesday before the shootout at the Chimacum corral.

For a (very small) moment, though, CHS can bask in a reversal of fortune against Klahowya and two-time league MVP Amber Bumbalough.

Last year, a very-young Wolf squad was swept by the Eagles, losing 7-1, 9-1 and 16-6.

This year, a still-young (they often start seven underclassmen) but more-seasoned Coupeville team has broken the hex, helping drop Klahowya to 1-3 in league, 4-4 overall.

After winning their first meeting by one run, the Wolves came out Friday and controlled every aspect of the game.

“This was a huge win. We dominated from start to finish,” said Coupeville coach Kevin McGranahan. “We played error-free softball and just completely dominated them.”

Wolf hurler Katrina McGranahan won her individual dual with Bumbalough, tossing a two-hitter while whiffing eight Eagles.

At the same time, Coupeville mashed 12 hits, including a solo home-run over the fence in right-center off of the bat of sophomore slugger Sarah Wright.

It was the eighth tater whacked by a Wolf this season, with Wright becoming the sixth different starter to hit a round-tripper.

CHS ripped hits up and down the line-up, collecting at least two base-knocks in each of the first five innings as it built a 5-0 lead.

After stranding two runners in the first, the Wolves broke through in the second, scoring the game’s first run off of a double from Veronica Crownover and a single off the bat of Hope Lodell.

Wright went ballistic in the third, launching a two-out moonshot to make it 2-0, and that seemed to open the floodgates.

Mikayla Elfrank followed with a single, went to second on a passed ball, scooted to third on an overthrow, then scored when the Eagles booted a ball hit by Crownover.

Four hits in the fourth — singles from Tiffany Briscoe, Robin Cedillo, Lauren Rose and McGranahan — plated two more.

Meanwhile, Coupeville’s pitching ace was throwing her best game of the season.

McGranahan blitzed through the first 11 Klahowya hitters, not allowing a base-runner until Bumbalough poked a two-out single in the fourth.

Just to keep everyone on their toes, the Wolf hurler promptly plunked the next Eagle, then got out of the inning unscathed when she induced a ground-out to Elfrank.

Staring down her rivals, McGranahan mowed down Klahowya one-two-three in the fifth and sixth, had a wee bit of trouble in the seventh when the ump narrowed their strike zone, then closed the game with a bang.

First she got a key ground-out to Jae LeVine, then reared back and whiffed the game’s final hitter, catching them looking at strike three.

Crownover (two doubles), McGranahan, Wright and Briscoe had two hits apiece, while Cedillo, Rose, Elfrank and Lodell all chipped in with singles, as eight of nine starters collected hits on the afternoon.

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Booters punch playoff ticket!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged 1A Olympic League, Chimacum, CHS Wolves, playoffs, Soccer, Zack Nall on April 20, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Zack Nall (20), seen in action last year, tallied his third goal of the season Thursday in a 3-0 win. (John Fisken photo)

Goal one, accomplished.

Knocking off visiting Chimacum 3-0 Thursday, the Coupeville High School boys soccer squad clinched a playoff berth.

With the victory, the Wolves rise to 3-3 in Olympic League play (4-7-1 overall) and sit three games up on the Cowboys (0-6, 2-8) with three to play.

Coupeville has the tiebreaker, having swept the three-game season series.

Now, goal two is to beat one, or both, of their other two league rivals, if they want to avoid a third straight third-place finish.

The Wolves are a half game off of second-place Port Townsend (3-2, 5-4) and still have two games left against the RedHawks.

Chasing down Klahowya (5-0, 8-2-1) is mathematically possible, but far-fetched, as it would require three straight Coupeville wins and four straight losses from an Eagles squad which has yet to lose a game against its Olympic League foes.

CHS hosts Port Townsend Saturday (12 PM), and that will have a huge impact on the race for second place.

Win and they bounce a half game up on the RedHawks. Lose and they fall a game-and-a-half back and are all but doomed to finish third.

Coupeville closes the regular season with a home game Apr. 25 against Klahowya and a road trip Apr. 28 to Port Townsend.

The Wolves host their opening, loser-out, playoff game at Oak Harbor High School’s stadium.

If they’re the Olympic League’s #3 seed, the game would be May 4 vs. the Nisqually League’s #4 team.

Finish #2 and they open the district tourney May 6 vs. the #3 seed from the NL.

Thursday night, Coupeville got second-half goals from Zack Nall, Aram Leyva and William Nelson to put away the Cowboys.

“Chimacum played some good defense and their goalie made some nice saves to make this a closer game than last week,” CHS coach Kyle Nelson said.

It was Leyva’s sixth goal of the season, pushing the freshman into a tie for the team scoring lead with junior sharpshooter Ethan Spark.

Nall and William Nelson have three scores apiece this season.

Two of the three goals were assisted, as Spark set up Leyva and the younger Nelson fed Nall.

Will the Thrill banged home his score off of a free kick.

While his team was busy notching goals, Wolf goaltender DeWitt Cole (with the aid of defenders like Uriel Liquidano and Axel Partida), kept the Cowboys at bay.

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