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Matt Hilborn and Co. sit atop the 1A Olympic League standings as of today. (John Fisken photos)

   Matt Hilborn and Co. sit atop the 1A Olympic League standings as of today. (John Fisken photos)

Wolf goalie Connor McCormick has back-to-back shutouts on the pitch.

Wolf goalie Connor McCormick has back-to-back shutouts on the pitch.

Robin Cedillo and her fellow softball sluggers have won five straight.

Robin Cedillo and her fellow softball sluggers have won five straight.

Now, things get serious.

Spring Break is done (and the rain is back, at least for a bit) and most Coupeville High School spring sports teams start wading into league play full-force starting this week and next.

So, it’s an ideal time to scan the standings and see how the Wolves are standing at the moment.

Spoiler: They’re sitting pretty good. Pretty, pretty, pretty good.

Now, I’m only running standings for three (baseball, softball, soccer) of the five CHS teams, since trying to decipher the track and tennis standings are pointless.

Ignore the Olympic League web site, which is riddled with errors for both sports.

In the real world, the Wolf netters are 1-2 with two matches — a 3-1 lead over Granite Falls and a 3-3 tie with Klahowya — still hanging open, waiting to be finished.

And the track squad?

Somehow the Olympic League web masters have the Wolf boys at 0-2, despite the fact they WON a four-team meet at South Whidbey.

Which would account for THREE wins.

Anyways…

Semi-solid standings, with 1A Olympic League records followed by overall records:

SOFTBALL:

Coupeville 1-0, 6-1
Chimacum 0-0, 4-2
Klahowya 0-0, 5-3
Port Townsend 0-1, 0-4

BASEBALL:

Coupeville 1-0, 4-6
Chimacum 0-0, 2-4
Klahowya 0-0, 6-2
Port Townsend 0-1, 0-6

BOYS SOCCER:

Coupeville 0-0, 2-4-1
Chimacum 0-0, 1-4-0
Klahowya 0-0, 5-1-1
Port Townsend 0-0, 2-2-1

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With a 9-0 win over Port Townsend Thursday, Joey Lippo and Coupeville are in first place in the 1A Olympic League. (John Fisken photo)

   With a 9-0 win over Port Townsend Thursday, Joey Lippo and Coupeville are in first place in the 1A Olympic League. (John Fisken photo)

This is how you break a losing streak.

Hot bats. A torrid pitching performance. Contributions from the top of the lineup to the bottom.

Riding a 13-strikeout complete-game performance from senior hurler CJ Smith, the Coupeville High School baseball squad rediscovered its winning ways Thursday afternoon.

Playing under a blazing sun on the prairie, the Wolves routed visiting Port Townsend 9-0 to snap a four-game skid and claim, at least for the moment, sole possession of first place in the 1A Olympic League.

Coupeville is 3-5 overall, 1-0 in league play and will have three non-league games (all on the road) before they face off with another league foe.

That won’t be until Apr. 14, when the Wolves travel to Chimacum.

Up first are con-conference games at South Whidbey, La Conner and Blaine, with the all-Island showdown coming Saturday in Langley.

JV kicks off a doubleheader at 10, with varsity set for noon.

Facing off with the RedHawks Thursday, Coupeville came out guns blazing.

CJ Smith retired the side in order in four of seven innings, scattering just a pair of hits while getting almost two-thirds of his outs via the punch-out.

The Wolves broke the game open in the bottom of the third, sending their first four hitters in the inning (Matt Hilborn, Hunter Smith, CJ Smith and Cole Payne) across the plate.

The first two scored on Port Townsend errors, while the latter two were knocked in by a blow from first baseman Kory Score.

CHS added three in the fifth and another two in the sixth — Hilborn, Cameron Toomey-Stout and Nick Etzell all chipped in with RBIs — getting something from everyone in a shuffled lineup.

“Everybody had great at-bats,” said Coupeville coach Marc Aparicio. “We switched it up and slid some guys in off the bench and were able to get some different looks.

“Port Townsend is a very solid team, but we really got a lot out of the bottom of our lineup today.”

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"No autographs today!!"

“No autographs today!!” (John Fisken photo)

The Man comes around again.

Less than a year after stepping down as head baseball coach at Coupeville High School, Willie Smith is returning to his old duties.

No, not those duties.

Being a fan again instead of a hardball guru allows Smith to stroll away in the third inning of a game now and take wife Cherie to dinner, and that puts a huge smile on his face.

So, what is he returning to, you ask?

Smith will be reclaiming the title of Athletic Director at CHS, starting with the 2016-2017 school year.

He replaces Duane Baumann, who will let go of the job when he rises to become Principal at the school next year.

Dr. Jim Shank has been operating as both Superintendent for Coupeville Schools and Principal, but will now be able to focus his time and energy more fully on his original job.

Both appointments have been announced internally and are confirmed by multiple sources.

Smith stepped down as the school’s AD in 2009, after a five-year run in the position.

During his time at CHS, he has been a near-constant presence on the sidelines, with 19 seasons as varsity baseball coach, 17 as an assistant football coach and seven as varsity girls’ basketball coach.

His 1999-2000 hoops squad was the first girls team in school history to win a game at state in any sport.

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Makana

   Makana Stone roars to the hoop for two of the 427 points she threw down as a senior. (John Fisken photos)

Grove

  Lauren Grove made the jump from JV to varsity and was tabbed as her team’s best defender.

team

   The Wolf varsity and coach David King celebrate after knocking Seattle Christian out of the playoffs.

Makana Stone went out with a slam dunk.

The Coupeville High School senior capped her stellar prep hoops career with a second-straight MVP award from 1A Olympic League coaches, then took home five other honors when the Wolves held their awards banquet Monday.

Plus, she was tabbed to play in the All-State game Saturday, Mar. 19 at King’s High School (4 PM tip-off).

Stone will be one of 10 players on the 1A squad, which will face off with a 2A all-star team.

And she wasn’t the only Coupeville hoops star who needed their parents to hitch a trailer to the car to haul home all their hardware.

Junior Kailey Kellner and sophomore Mia Littlejohn were also named First-Team All-League selections, as CHS, which successfully defended its league title, accounted for 50% of the league’s top six players.

Port Townsend (sophomore Kaitlyn Meek), Klahowya (junior Maya Ladner) and Chimacum (junior Mechelle Nisbit) each notched one First-Teamer.

Wolf junior Lauren Grove, who made her varsity basketball debut in 2015-2016, received Honorable Mention from league coaches.

Coupeville, which went 16-6, advanced to state for the first time in a decade and is now a flawless 18-0 in two years of Olympic League competition, also received the conference’s Sportsmanship Award for the second straight year.

So, basically, their streak of crushing league foes could scream “rise of the Evil Empire,” but their poise and manners betrays that a bit.

They’re sort of like the Detroit Pistons “Bad Boys” of the late ’80s-early ’90s, only a lot more couth and considerate.

The other honors handed out Tuesday:

Captain Awards:

Kailey Kellner
Mia Littlejohn
Makana Stone

4-Year Letter Award:

Makana Stone

Most Improved:

JV: Maddy Hilkey
Varsity: Kyla Briscoe

Most Inspirational:

JV: Sarah Wright and Ema Smith
V: Makana Stone

Best Defense:

JV: Brittany Powers
V: Lauren Grove

Best Offense:

JV: Lauren Rose and Sarah Wright
V: Mia Littlejohn and Makana Stone

Wolf Pride:

JV: Nicole Lester
V: Makana Stone

Courageous Wolf:

Ashlie Shank

Leader of the Pack:

Kailey Kellner

Varsity letter winners:

Kyla Briscoe
Tiffany Briscoe
Lauren Grove
Kailey Kellner
Skyler Lawrence

Mia Littlejohn
Lindsey Roberts
Lauren Rose

Makana Stone
Allison Wenzel

Varsity certificate of participation:

Sarah Wright

JV certificate of participation:

Brisa Herrera
Maddy Hilkey
Lindsey Laxton
Nicole Lester
Brittany Powers
Ashlie Shank
Ema Smith
Sarah Wright

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Jazmine Franklin (John Fisken photo)

   Senior Jazmine Franklin is one of seven returning letter winners for the Wolf net squad. (John Fisken photos)

Sophomores Sage Renninger (left) and Payton Aparicio reunite as a doubles duo.

  Sophomores Sage Renninger (left) and Payton Aparicio reunite as a doubles duo.

They are the queens of the court and they’re not ready to give up the throne just yet.

The Coupeville High School girls’ tennis squad enters a new season dead-set on defending its 1A Olympic League crown.

And they’d like to do it as convincingly as they won that first title banner a season ago.

“Win the league title again, going undefeated, is first and foremost,” said veteran CHS coach Ken Stange. “I also believe that we have a shot to advance players beyond the district tourney, to state.

“This is a real possibility, and it is a legitimate goal for our players.”

The grizzled tennis guru is in his 11th year at the helm of the Wolves, and coming off a season in which his netters went 11-3 overall, 6-0 in league play.

That included a stunning non-conference upset of the big dogs, South Whidbey, on their home court.

This time around, along with three league matches each against Klahowya and Chimacum/Port Townsend, Coupeville will again be tested by a tough non-conference schedule.

South Whidbey, Granite Falls and longtime rival Friday Harbor are back for home-and-home rumbles, while 2A schools Port Angeles and Sequim will fill slots vacated by Charles Wright Academy and Lakewood.

As they head into their 15-match schedule, the Wolves are talented, but thin.

With softball and track hauling in bigger than normal numbers this year, that may have affected the turnout for tennis.

“Depth will be an issue this season,” Stange said. “With barely enough players to field a full team, and our newcomers lacking in experience, we will have to learn as we go at third and fourth doubles.

“It should be fun, though!”

Seven letter winners return to anchor the Wolf attack and should account for the three singles and top two doubles units.

Juniors Valen Trujillo and Bree Daigneault and senior Sydney Autio are (lightly) penciled in as lone Wolves, while both doubles duos (seniors Jazmine Franklin/McKenzie Bailey and sophomores Payton Aparicio/Sage Renninger) played together last year.

“Our strengths lie with our returning players,” Stange said. “We have lots of varsity experience and they all had great seasons last year. I expect more of the same.”

“We often struggled at the top of the lineup last year, with our top doubles team constantly facing off against difficult foes,” he added. “This year, we turn the tables.”

Three returning players (sophomores Maggie Crimmins, Kameryn St Onge and Kenzi LaRue) and two newbies (junior Kaela Hollrigel and foreign exchange student Julia Borges) lead the players battling for the other varsity slots.

“It is going to be an interesting year,” Stange said. “With so few players, it’s going to be imperative on each team member to pull her weight.

“Sickness and other things that pull kids away from the court could result in losses,” he added. “I hope that is not the case.”

 

To see Coupeville’s tennis schedule, pop over to:

http://www.olympicleague.com/index.php?league=21&page_name=game_schedule&school=24&sport=18

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