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“It was an exciting win for everyone!!”

Posted in Volleyball, tagged , , , , on October 21, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Willow Vick had a team-high seven service aces in a win Thursday night at Port Townsend. (John Fisken photo)

   Willow Vick had a team-high seven service aces in a win Thursday night at Port Townsend. (John Fisken photo)

They may never lose again.

Picking up a major dose of confidence with every win, the Coupeville High School JV volleyball squad hasn’t seen anything other than a victory in a full month.

Thursday night the Wolves made it seven straight W’s, drilling host Port Townsend in straight sets.

The 25-17, 25-5, 25-11 win lifts the CHS young guns to 6-0 in 1A Olympic League play, 9-2 overall.

“It was a really good game,” said Coupeville JV coach Kristin Bridges. “We played with a lot more confidence, which was a huge goal this season.

“I’m really proud of the progress the girls have made so far this season,” she added. “We are passing really well and have so much more confidence. Our movement on the court as a team is getting better every day.

“It was an exciting win for everyone.”

Coupeville fired off 29 aces in the match to set the tone, then racked up 15 kills at the net to mute any RedHawk rallies.

Lucy Sandahl (six aces and two assists), Scout Smith (three aces, nine assists, two digs) and Willow Vick (seven aces) led the way for the Wolves, while almost every player on the roster jumped on to the stat sheet.

Hannah Davidson (five aces, two kills, two digs), Maddy Hilkey (two aces, four digs) and Zoe Trujillo (three aces, two kills) were also key.

Meanwhile, Jillian Mayne (two aces), Maya Toomey-Stout (three kills), Nicole Lester (one kill), Peytin Vondrak (two kills) and Raven Vick (three kills) all chipped in with stellar play.

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Spikers make history!!

Posted in Volleyball, tagged , , , , on October 20, 2016| Leave a Comment »

First-year CHS volleyball coach Cory Whitmore has guided the Wolf spikers to their first league title since 2004. (John Fisken photo)

   First-year CHS volleyball coach Cory Whitmore has guided the Wolf spikers to their first league title since 2004. (John Fisken photo)

Your 2016 1A Olympic League volleyball champions. (Photo courtesy Konni Smith)

   Your 2016 1A Olympic League volleyball champions. (Photo courtesy Konni Smith)

It took Cory Whitmore 12 matches to do something not accomplished in the previous 11 seasons.

The first-year Coupeville High School volleyball coach led the Wolves to their first league title since 2004, clinching with a straight-sets win Thursday at Port Townsend.

The 25-19, 25-17, 25-23 victory lifts the Wolves to 6-0 in 1A Olympic League play, 9-3 overall.

While it has three regular season matches left, Coupeville is three games up on Chimacum and Klahowya (both 3-3), and owns tiebreakers on both schools, having already beaten them both twice.

Next up for the Wolves?

Making a run at going 9-0 in league play, a feat accomplished the past two seasons by the CHS girls’ basketball team, but never by a league volleyball team.

In 2014 and 2015 Klahowya went 6-0 and won back-to-back titles, before the league schedule was expanded to nine matches this season to sync up with baseball, softball, soccer and basketball.

The Wolves can also continue their run at the school single-season record for wins — 13 in 2004 — and get ready to open postseason play at home.

As the #1 seed from the Olympic League, Coupeville advances to the double-elimination portion of districts, an event they host Nov. 5.

They’ll need to win two matches that day, while losing no more than one, to advance to state.

To see the bracket, pop over to: http://www.olympicleague.com/tournament.php?tournament_id=2069&sport=10

The league title is the fourth in program history, following Northwest League titles in 1997, 2001 and 2004.

Kim Meche coached the first two of those teams, while Toni Crebbin was in command of the record-setting ’04 team, which also won a tri-district title and toppled the #1 ranked team in the state.

Those Wolves split four matches with arch-rival La Conner, the state champ that year, beating the Braves for the league title, but falling to them at the big dance.

Thursday night, CHS didn’t play lights out, but it stayed in control all match and put the hammer down when appropriate.

“It was good to pull out the win tonight on the road playing everyone,” Whitmore said. “The girls worked hard to be in the position to be league champions.

“To accomplish this and clinch first place is a result of that hard work and a goal met.”

The Wolves spread out the stats, with Ashley Menges (11 assists and five service aces), Lauren Rose (eight assists, four aces) and Hope Lodell (five kills, five digs) leading the attack.

Sarah Wright cranked out a season-high four kills, while senior captain Valen Trujillo led the squad with 17 digs as she continued to add to her school career record.

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Another big step!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , on October 20, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Wolf freshman Anna Dion scored her first varsity goal Thursday night at Port Townsend. (John Fisken photo)

   Wolf freshman Anna Dion scored her first varsity goal Thursday night at Port Townsend. (John Fisken photo)

The past three seasons have been the best in Coupeville High School girls soccer history.

And Thursday the Wolves scaled a new height, winning a program-record seventh game in a single season.

Bouncing host Port Townsend 6-2, Coupeville clinched second-place in the 1A Olympic League, locked down a home playoff game and stayed mathematically alive in the race for the league crown.

Now 5-2 in league play, 7-5-1 overall, the Wolves topped the 2014 and 2015 squads, which each won six games.

Three games up on third-place Port Townsend (2-5) with two to go, CHS is a game-and-a-half behind Klahowya (6-0), the two-time defending league champs.

The Wolves travel to Silverdale Saturday to face the Eagles, then close the regular season at home Oct. 25 against Chimacum (0-6).

While their chances of stopping Klahowya from winning a third straight league title are admittedly slim — Coupeville needs the Eagles, who are 18-0 all-time in league games, to lose their final three contests — the Wolves are still sitting pretty.

Barring a miracle, CHS will be the #2 seed from the Olympic League and will host the #3 team from the Nisqually League (currently Seattle Christian) in a loser-out game Saturday, Oct. 29.

Since all postseason games have to be held on turf, the Wolves will play at their home away from home — Oak Harbor’s stadium.

Win that game and Coupeville advances to the double-elimination round of districts Nov. 1-3, where three of four teams advance to state.

To see the bracket, pop over to: http://www.olympicleague.com/tournament.php?tournament_id=2068&sport=11

Thursday night the Wolves broke open a close game in the second half, raining down five goals after halftime.

Mia Littlejohn punched home her school single-season record 22nd goal in the first half to stake Coupeville to a 1-0 advantage, then added a second-half hat trick to run her total to 25 on the year.

That gives the CHS junior 33 goals for her career, just 12 off of Abraham Leyva’s school career record of 45.

While Littlejohn was busy hammering the RedHawk defense, two of her freshmen teammates popped in to lend their support.

Tia Wurzrainer tallied her third goal of the season, while Anna Dion hit the back of the net for the first time.

“Our little Anna got hers tonight!!,” said Coupeville coach Troy Cowan. “She has been working her butt off in practice and is a real joy to coach.

“She is like a sponge, just soaking in everything she can,” he added. “Well, tonight it paid off; she followed a deflected shot from one of her teammates and drilled the ball past the goalie.

“Not sure when I have seen the Lady Wolves so happy for a teammate.”

Cowan also praised two of his role players, Megan Thorn and Ema Smith, for their contributions, both on the night and the season.

“Wanted to say how proud I was of Megan and Ema for their hard work and efforts,” he said. “Their names won’t show up on any stat sheets but the valuable minutes they gave the starters in relief were invaluable and will continue to prove to be a precious commodity in our run at districts.”

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Wolf harriers kick off postseason run!!

Posted in Cross Country, tagged , , , , on October 20, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Henry Wynn (Dawnelle Conlisk photo)

   Coupeville High School junior Henry Wynn ran Thursday at the Olympic League Cross Country Championships in Sequim. (Dawnelle Conlisk photo)

The Wolves are on their own journey now.

After training and traveling with South Whidbey this season, Coupeville High School harriers Danny Conlisk and Henry Wynn have parted ways with the Falcons.

After competing against Cascade Conference runners until now, the two-man Wolf team introduced themselves to a new batch of foes Thursday at the Olympic League Cross Country Championships in Sequim.

Unfortunately, only one of the two Wolves made it through warm-ups.

Conlisk, who has been bothered by an Achilles tendon injury, was scratched and brought his sophomore campaign to an end.

Wynn, a junior, covered the 5,000 meter course at The Cedars at Dungeness Golf Course in 18 minutes, 47.47 seconds, finishing 35th in a field of 63 runners.

Andrew Simon of 2A Kingston won the race in 16:12.77 while Port Townsend’s Brennan LaBrie (9th in 17:34.26) was the top 1A male finisher.

All 11 Olympic League schools (seven 2A teams and Coupeville’s fellow 1A rivals Chimacum, Klahowya and Port Townsend) were joined by 1B Clallum Bay.

Wynn returns to action Oct. 29 when he runs at the district meet in Tacoma.

In that race, he will face off only with 1A runners, with the top team and the seven best individual finishers not on the championship team advancing to state.

CHS, while having a proud, award-heavy cross country tradition — including state champs in Natasha Bamberger (1985) and Tyler King (2010) — doesn’t currently have an active harrier program of its own.

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Lou gets two!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , on October 19, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Lindsey Roberts became the first Coupeville girls soccer player in three years to break the Klahowya defense. (John Fisken photo)

   Lindsey Roberts became the first Coupeville girls soccer player in three years to break the Klahowya defense. (John Fisken photo)

Small victories.

Until they can take the next step and actually dethrone state soccer power Klahowya, the Coupeville High School booters will have to continue to look for areas of improvement.

One, without a doubt, was finally breaking through the Eagle defense, as they did Tuesday night.

After being shutout the first five times they faced Klahowya, over a three-year period, the Wolves finally got on the board in a 5-2 loss, making a small, but important, chink in the Eagles armor.

Sophomore defender Lindsey Roberts notched both goals, taking direct kicks after the rampaging Kalia Littlejohn was fouled by Klahowya’s defense.

That doubled Roberts scoring output on the season, with her four goals sitting third on the stat sheet behind Mia Littlejohn (21) and Kalia Littlejohn (7).

The loss drops Coupeville to 4-2 in 1A Olympic League play, 6-5-1 overall, and puts them two games behind Klahowya (6-0, 8-1-2) with three to play.

The Wolves, who have finished second both years the four-team league has been in existence, can make it three straight years with a win at Port Townsend (2-4, 3-8-1) Thursday.

That would leave them mathematically alive for the league crown, while a #2 seed gets them a home playoff game (on the turf field in Oak Harbor) Oct. 29.

To see the postseason bracket, pop over to:

http://www.olympicleague.com/tournament.php?tournament_id=2068&sport=11

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