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Fit to be tied (again)!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged 1A Olympic League, CHS Wolves, Kalia Littlejohn, Sage Renninger, Soccer on September 30, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Wolf sharpshooters (l to r) Lindsey Roberts, Kalia Littlejohn and Sage Renninger have combined to score 11 goals in seven games. (John Fisken photo)

Figures.

Tempt the soccer gods by scheduling a non-conference game against a conference foe, and there will be some payback.

Tuesday, it came in the form of a 2-2 tie for the Coupeville High School girls’ soccer squad, the third time in seven games this season the Wolves have walked off the pitch with a draw.

The game, played at Port Townsend, pitted two 1A Olympic League opponents, but won’t count in the league standings or affect playoff positioning.

Both schools wanted to fill out their schedules and agreed to the extra game, but only the final two times the squads face — Oct. 20 at Port Townsend and Oct. 29 in Coupeville — are considered conference battles.

The tie left Coupeville at 2-2-3 on the season, while the Redhawks went to 0-5-2.

Defending 1A state champion Klahowya (6-1) and Chimacum (1-5) round out the Olympic League, with none of the teams having played an “official” league match yet.

The Wolves get a rare home game this Saturday (CHS plays nine of 15 on the road this year), and the game, set for noon, pits them against the defending Class B champs, Crosspoint Academy (2-2).

While Coupeville wasn’t able to bring home a victory Tuesday, it did hit two offensive milestones before reaching the halfway point of the season.

Freshman Kalia Littlejohn rattled home her seventh goal (she’s scored in six of seven games), beating last year’s team-high mark.

Micky LeVine capped her CHS career by scoring six times as a senior in 2014.

With Littlejohn’s score, and one from sophomore Sage Renninger (her third of the year), the Wolves have 21 goals through seven games.

That matches their total for the entire 2014 season, when they finished 6-7 overall, 3-3 in league play.

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Shake it off!!

Posted in Football, tagged 1A Olympic League, CHS Wolves, football, Jordan Ford, Port Townsend, Sound Sports Net on September 25, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Senior Wiley Hesselgrave has been a team leader on both sides of the ball this season. (John Fisken photo)

There is a wild beast on the prowl, and it’s leaving a path of carnage as it thrashes its way through the 1A Olympic League.

The Port Townsend High School football squad has resembled Mike Tyson in his prime so far, and nothing about that changed Friday.

After dinging visiting Coupeville 52-0, the Redhawks (4-0 overall, 2-0 in league play) have outscored opponents 197-6.

But, while the loss made for a rough night for the Wolves, hope is far from dead.

Coupeville (1-3, 1-1) slips into a second-place tie with Klahowya (2-2, 1-1), which beat Chimacum 55-18 Friday, and is still very much in the hunt for a playoff berth.

The top two teams in the four-team conference will advance to the postseason.

The Wolves, after opening with four straight road games, will finally play at home next Friday, Oct. 2, when they host Klahowya.

Coupeville plays four of its final five regular season games at home and will get a rematch with Port Townsend Oct. 9.

Friday night, the Wolves ran into a team that relies heavily on its big, bruising runners crashing away behind its even bigger, even more bruising line.

Once again, the plan worked for the Redhawks, who rolled out to a 21-0 lead after one quarter, then doubled that before halftime.

A running clock kicked in with 1:40 to play in the second quarter and Port Townsend up 42-0.

Ezra Easley and Wesley Wheeler scored three touchdowns apiece to pace the Redhawks, while Gerry Coker capped the scoring with a long field goal in the fourth.

“Port Townsend is a very good team and I expect to see them go far in the playoffs,” said Coupeville coach Brett Smedley. “Our kids fought hard all night and there was absolutely no quit in them, which is something we have been preaching all season.

“The coaching staff is extremely proud of the players for their attitudes and efforts and willingness to go out and fight hard for their brothers and the CHS community!”

While highlights were few and far between for Coupeville, one fourth quarter completion from Wolf freshman quarterback Gabe Eck to senior receiver Jordan Ford did get some love from the announcer on Sound Sports Net, which live-streamed the game.

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Let’s get electric!!

Posted in Football, tagged 1A Olympic League, football, Gabe Eck, Hunter Smith, John Fisken photos, Wiley Hesselgrave on September 20, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Eyes scanning downfield, young gun Gabe Eck gets ready to pick apart the defense. (John Fisken photos)

“I said NOOOOOOOO!!!” Grizzled vets Lathom Kelley (44) and Wiley Hesselgrave (10) team up to block a Chimacum kick.

Hauling in the ball in mid-stride, CJ Smith is footloose and fancy free.

Jordan Ford, getting ready to make his 2,561 relatives in the stands go crazy.

Hesselgrave can not be stopped by mere mortals. Fools.

Proud papa Mark Hesselgrave exchanges hair care tips with the most stylish soccer player in Wolf Nation, Kirsten Pelroy. Yep, I’m sure that’s what’s happening.

Hunter Smith, about to make a lot of folks miss.

Uriel Liquidano (63) and Ford team up to lasso a Cowboy.

A win is a win, but photos last forever.

As the buzz from Friday’s victory over Chimacum fades just a bit (eventually the focus will shift to next week’s foe, Port Townsend), Wolf football fans can relive the moment through John Fisken’s photos.

With Oak Harbor High School on a rare bye week, we got the travelin’ photo man’s full attention, and he delivered the pics above.

To see more (a lot more), and possibly purchase some (thereby helping to fund college scholarships for CHS student/athletes) pop over to:

http://www.olympicleague.com/index.php?act=view_gallery&gallery=9057&league=21&page=1&page_name=photo_store&school=183&sport=0

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Heart-stopper!!

Posted in Football, tagged 1A Olympic League, Chimacum, CHS Wolves, football, Hunter Smith, Pulp Fiction, Wiley Hesselgrave on September 18, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Hunter Smith, cold-blooded killer. (John Fisken photo)

Wolf volleyball star Hope Lodell and gridiron giant Julian Welling are all smiles after the win. (Ally Roberts photo)

Hunter Smith, with the adrenaline shot right to the heart.

The Coupeville High School sophomore wasn’t alive when Pulp Fiction hit movie screens, but he went all John Travolta on Chimacum Friday night, plunging in the needle and saving a huge football win for the Wolves.

Smith’s interception with just 32 seconds to play sealed a wild 28-26 win, the first-ever for CHS head coach Brett Smedley, and lifted the Wolves into a first place tie in the 1A Olympic League.

Coupeville (1-2 overall, 1-0 in league play) sits atop the league along with Port Townsend (3-0, 1-0), which crushed Klahowya 52-6.

The Wolves will hit the road for a fourth consecutive week next Friday, Sept. 25, when they will meet the high-powered RedHawks in a battle for sole possession of first.

Port Townsend, which entered this week ranked #10 in the state polls, has outscored its first three foes 145-6.

While it will be a daunting task, it’s one to think about on another day.

Tonight, if you hear the roar coming across the water as Coupeville players and fans return on the ferry, there’s reason. Big reason.

Facing a team that is better than its (now) 15-game losing streak might indicate, the Wolves, who were missing several starters, spent the night battling from behind, then surged into the lead in the late going, only to almost have it all ripped away.

Having reeled off 16 straight points, capped by a Zane Bundy field goal, Coupeville staked itself to its biggest lead of the game at 28-20.

Refusing to go down easily, the host Cowboys closed the gap on a touchdown with under a minute to play.

Coupeville blunted the damage by preventing Chimacum from converting on a two-point conversion that would have tied the game, but the Cowboys got a break when they recovered the ensuing onside kick.

With the ball in its hands, Chimacum came up firing only to have Smith, who was the only freshman to earn All-League honors last year, come up huge.

That dagger capped a wild and woolly affair in which the lead changed hands at will, often in the matter of one play.

Coupeville opened the scoring on a touchdown pass in which freshmen twins Gabe and Ty Eck hooked up.

But before the Wolves could really celebrate, Chimacum blocked the PAT and returned it the length of the field for a score of its own to grab a 7-6 lead.

Ty Eck would score again, but the Wolves trailed 13-12 at the half.

The strongest run of the game for Coupeville came in the second half, when the Wolves put together three straight scores to turn a 20-12 deficit into a 28-20 lead.

Wiley Hesselgrave slammed in for one touchdown, then Smith snagged another through the air, before Bundy converted on the first field goal of his short high school career.

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You mad bro? Should be!!

Posted in Football, Ranting and Raving, tagged 1A Olympic League, Chimacum, CHS Wolves, football, ScoreCzar on September 16, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Win for Lincoln Kelley or he’ll have to go rip the computer’s heart out with his bare hands. (John Fisken photo)

Dear Coupeville High School football players,

The computers think you stink.

There’s really no other way to look at it, since that’s what “Debbie,” the diabolical and vehemently anti-Whidbey computer at the heart of ScoreCzar.org is burping out right now.

In her latest rankings, she has the Wolves ranked #52 … out of 53 schools playing 1A football.

That’s right. Debbie thinks you could beat Stevenson, a school that has been outscored 91-7 in its first two games, but just about no one else.

Granted, you are 0-2 on the young season, but you were within two points with six minutes to play in your opening game, and lost to a 2A school that had a line comprised almost entirely of 300-pound beasts last week.

So, I think Debbie is underestimating you here, by a lot.

But this? This is what should really sting.

Coupeville’s opponent this Friday, Chimacum, is also 0-2. Oh, but wait, the Cowboys have actually lost 14 consecutive games covering nearly a two-year period.

And yet, Debbie has them ranked 12 slots higher than you at #40.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?

I know. I know.

Debbie’s handlers can, and will, reel off a list of smooth computery talk about ratios this and slide rules that and it’ll sound almost convincing, but don’t listen.

Just stop and realize the computers say a team that hasn’t won since 2013 is somehow 12 slots better than you.

Then go out and drop-kick Chimacum Friday night.

Do it for yourself. Do it for your teammates. Do it for your town.

Tell our computer overlords that Wolves do not go quietly into that good night. Instead, they live to make Debbie cry sweet, sweet tears of regret.

To see the complete rankings, which feature Coupeville’s 1A Olympic League mate Port Townsend at #2, pop over to:

http://www.scoreczar.org/classifications/4-high-school-football-wa1a

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