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Hot bats, cool arm!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged 1A Olympic League, Chris Smith, CHS Wolves, Dane Lucero, Port Townsend on March 31, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Dane Lucero went the distance Friday, tossing a three-hit gem in a 9-1 win at Port Townsend. (John Fisken photo)

Maybe Dane Lucero is the new CJ Smith.

Like the former Wolf ace, Lucero, a Coupeville High School sophomore, adopts an easy-going style on the mound, disguising his emotions beneath a placid exterior.

Add in the fact he’s been virtually untouchable when taking the ball this season, and the comparisons grow.

Friday, Lucero was flawless for much of the game, with especially effective moments at the beginning and end, pitching the Wolves to a 9-1 win at Port Townsend.

The conference victory, coming in Chris Smith’s debut as varsity head coach, lifts Coupeville to 1-1 in Olympic League play, 5-3 overall.

CHS sits in a tie with Chimacum (1-1), a game off of Klahowya (2-0), with seven league clashes left on the schedule.

Port Townsend (0-2) is currently mired in the cellar.

Smith, who moved up from his position as JV coach after Marc Aparicio resigned Thursday due to work conflicts, got stellar stuff from his hurler.

Lucero retired the first nine RedHawk hitters, faced the minimum batters through four innings, and closed the game by striking out the side in the seventh.

He scattered three hits and two walks, was never in trouble, and whiffed six batters total.

“We had solid pitching from Dane,” Smith said. “We played solid, error-free, defense behind him.

“Defensively, Matt Hilborn (SS) and Joey Lippo (2B) were sharp making a number of plays behind Dane. Good, clean baseball game.”

Coupeville gave Lucero plenty to work with, with six players combining to rap out nine hits as the Wolves scored in five of seven innings.

The Wolves plated two in the first, three in the second and another in the third as they built a 6-0 lead.

Another run in the top of the sixth stretched the margin to 7-0, and, after Port Townsend scraped out its only run in the bottom of the inning, CHS added two more in the seventh.

In a game where eight of Coupeville’s nine hits were singles, the biggest blow was an RBI triple off the bat of senior Taylor Consford.

Matt Hilborn, Julian Welling and Consford had two hits apiece, Jake Hoagland, Lucero and Jake Pease also punched singles and Lippo pilfered home off of a double steal.

The Wolves play five of their next six against non-conference foes (facing Chimacum at home April 12), then make their playoff run with six straight league games to close the regular season.

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Not their day!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged 1A Olympic League, CHS Wolves, Port Townsend, scoreless, Soccer on March 31, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Wolf captain Uriel Liquidano sacrifices his head for the team. (John Fisken photo)

There was one truly electrifying play in Friday afternoon’s Coupeville vs. Port Townsend soccer showdown.

Unfortunately, it was pulled off by the visiting RedHawks, and not the Wolves.

Just about six minutes into the Olympic League clash, the guys in red took control of the ball right in front of their own net.

Then, bing-bang-boom, they pulled off a rare coast-to-coast run, using a string of slick passes to pierce the Wolf defense on a run straight up the gut, finishing their jaunt with the ball landing with a plop in the right corner of the net.

In a sport where the ball usually shoots off in a new direction every 0.2 seconds, as it skips off of knees, elbows or groins, pulling off the equivalent of a straight-ahead basketball fast break is fairly rare.

But, like I said, wrong team, wrong result, and it set up a 3-0 win for Port Townsend, which left the home fans a little crestfallen.

It was the second straight game Coupeville has failed to score, and the loss drops the Wolves to 1-2 in league play, 2-4-1 overall.

They sit in third place, trailing Klahowya (3-0) and Port Townsend (2-1), but still a game up on Chimacum (0-3).

CHS plays six of its final eight regular season games against league foes, but first gets a non-conference game Monday at Vashon Island.

After its Sports Center goal, Port Townsend added two far more ordinary scores to pad its lead.

The RedHawks hit a shot from the right side with 15 minutes left before the break, then got lucky early in the second half.

Coupeville was called for an inadvertent handball in the box, giving Port Townsend a gift-wrapped penalty kick which it converted.

The Wolves struggled to get their offense going, though did have a couple of near-misses from Zack Nall and William Nelson.

After watching his team play lethargically at times (having a half day at school leading into Spring Break seemed to sap a lot of energy early on), CHS coach Kyle Nelson was able to find a bright spot.

It came from the continued emergence of his defenders, many of whom are young, fairly inexperienced or both.

“We’re continuing to build a solid back four and they’re coming together,” Kyle Nelson said. “We saw some really good plays from them, especially in the second half.

“They’re gaining experience and confidence, and we’re happy to see that.”

To see more photos from this game (purchases fund college scholarships for CHS student/athletes), pop over to:

http://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/2017-Coupeville-Boys-Soccer/20170331-vs-Pt-Townsend/

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But a brief setback!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged 1A Olympic League, baseball, CHS Wolves, Hunter Smith, Klahowya on March 29, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Clay Reilly had two hits and two RBIs in Coupeville’s Olympic League opener. (John Fisken photos)

Jake Hoagland takes a cut Wednesday afternoon.

This time they’re going to have to fight from behind.

Last season, the Coupeville High School baseball squad won its first seven league games en route to capturing the program’s first conference title in 25 years.

After falling 7-4 to visiting Klahowya Wednesday, the Wolves will need to write a new script in 2017.

The loss snaps a four-game winning streak for CHS and leaves it 0-1 in Olympic League play, 4-3 overall.

The Wolves sit in a tie with Port Townsend (0-1, 0-3) which it plays Friday in a road game.

Klahowya (2-0, 2-3), the league champs in 2015, are a game up on Chimacum (1-1, 3-2) in the very early going.

Wednesday’s match-up was fairly even in the score-book, with the Eagles holding a slight edge in hits at 11-9.

But while Klahowya didn’t deliver any huge blows, they did consistently chip away at the Wolf pitching staff, scoring in five of seven innings.

After both teams exchanged runs in the first — Hunter Smith singled and came around on an RBI ground-out by Clay Reilly for the Wolves — Klahowya built a 5-1 lead heading into the bottom of the fifth.

Coupeville rallied for three runs to turn things back into a one-run affair, but then stalled out.

Matt Hilborn, Joey Lippo, Reilly and Dane Lucero all delivered singles in the inning, as the Wolves plated all three runs after notching two outs.

For the game, three Wolves — Lucero, Reilly and Kory Score — piled up two hits apiece to pace the offense.

With Smith, their starting pitcher, battling a balky back, Coupeville moved him back to shortstop in the second inning and used Taylor Consford, Julian Welling and Hilborn to finish out the game.

To see more photos from this game, pop over to:

http://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/2017-Coupeville-Baseball/20170329-vs-Klahoway/

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Booted by the best!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged 1A Olympic League, CHS Wolves, Klahowya, shutout, Soccer, win streak on March 29, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Axel Partida and teammates are in a second-place tie with Port Townsend, who they host Friday. (John Fisken photo)

The gap is real.

The Klahowya boys soccer squad has yet to lose a game in 1A Olympic League play, and none of the other three conference teams are getting any closer to making that a reality.

Thrashing visiting Coupeville 7-0 Tuesday, the Eagles ran their season league mark to 3-0 and their all-time win-streak in conference play to 15-0.

That’s the third-longest active league winning streak, behind Coupeville girls basketball (27-0) and Klahowya girls soccer (20-0).

With six more league games ahead of them, the Eagle booters have a chance to slide past their female counterparts this season, if they stay perfect.

The loss drops Coupeville to 1-1 in league play, 2-3-1 overall.

The Wolves are in a second-place tie with Port Townsend (1-1, 3-2), who they host Friday (3:30 JV/5:30 varsity), while Chimacum (0-3, 0-5) is mired in the cellar.

Facing off with Klahowya, Coupeville battled fairly evenly for the opening 35 minutes, then was stung by two goals right before the half.

The Eagles used their familiarity with turf to speed the game up in the second half, stretching the final score out.

“Klahowya is a very good team, especially on their turf field,” said CHS coach Kyle Nelson. “It was a good game to work on our defense and will give us some things to look at to improve.”

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So, where do we stand?!

Posted in standings, tagged 1A Olympic League, baseball, CHS Wolves, Soccer, Softball, tennis on March 26, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Boys soccer is the only CHS sport to have played an Olympic League game this spring. (John Fisken photo)

And we’re underway. Sort of.

A damp, chilly spring has hijacked numerous games in the early going, so there’s some disparity between who has and hasn’t clashed with league foes yet.

Across the four sports which keep track of records — softball, baseball, soccer and tennis — Coupeville has only played one Olympic League contest, a soccer game against Chimacum which it won.

Meanwhile, Klahowya and Port Townsend have played four league games and Chimacum has already racked up seven.

With a schedule heavy on non-conference bouts, Coupeville is sitting above .500 overall, with a record of 7-6-1 across the four sports.

That’s not bad, considering six of those contests (2-3-1) have been against bigger 2A schools. When pitted against other 1A schools, CHS is 5-3 this spring.

Standings through Sunday:

Olympic League softball: