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Don’t hurt ’em, Josh Bayne (too late…)!!

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , , on October 18, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Wolf sophomore Chance Kleinfelter scored a TD on his first varsity carry Friday night (John Fisken photo)

 Wolf sophomore Chance Kleinfelter busted free for a 14-yard TD run on his first varsity carry Friday night as CHS pounded Chimacum 57-14. (John Fisken photos)

JR Pendergrass

JR Pendergrass hauled down the Cowboy QB for a safety.

There were no Friday Night Lights, just one bright shining star to light up the sky.

Running wild in the daytime Friday afternoon (kickoff was a painfully early 3 PM), Josh Bayne amassed 400 total yards and six touchdowns, powering the Coupeville High School football team to a 57-14 decimation of host Chimacum.

The win snapped a two-game skid for the Wolves, lifting them to 4-3 overall, 3-2 in Olympic League play.

It also guaranteed them a straight-up battle for a playoff spot in six days.

With Port Townsend shredding host Klahowya 27-9 in a late game Friday, the Redhawks clinched at least a tie for the league title.

Port Townsend (5-2, 4-1) will close out league play with a rivalry game against Chimacum (0-7, 0-5) Oct. 24. Coupeville will host Klahowya (3-4, 3-2) the same night, as the Wolves celebrate Homecoming.

Barring an epic upset by Chimacum, the Coupeville/Klahowya grudge match will be for the league’s #2 playoff berth.

The Wolves put themselves into position to play for a playoff berth by reigniting their running attack.

After being shut down a week earlier by Port Townsend, they shredded every last bit of resistance Chimacum could muster, rolling up 528 yards on the ground.

Bayne went for 306 yards and three touchdowns on 18 carries, while Wiley Hesselgrave pounded off tackle for another 111.

With the rushing attack working so well, Wolf quarterback Joel Walstad, still a bit gimpy as he recovers from a hip pointer, wasn’t asked to carry a huge burden.

When he did throw, though, he did it with precision, completing six passes for 111 yards.

Half of Walstad’s completions went for touchdowns, with Bayne hauling in all three scoring strikes, with the longest a 33-yard catch-and-run.

With 306 yards on the ground, 64 through the air and 30 on a kickoff return, Bayne hit the magic 400-yard mark right on the head.

Hesselgrave and sophomore Chance Kleinfelter joined Bayne in reaching the end zone, with Kleinfelter turning his first varsity rushing attempt into a 14-yard TD run.

The game was relatively close in the first half, with Coupeville up 21-6 at the break.

After that, it was all Wolves, all the time, as they poured it on with a 36-point second half that included a fourth-quarter safety from JR Pendergrass.

The CHS defense was lights-out for much of the game, with Pendergrass, Matt Shank and Aaron Wright recording sacks and CJ Smith picking off a pass.

Hesselgrave was a beast on the defensive side, collecting 10 tackles and three assists, while Bayne snagged eight tackles.

Shank (5), Wright (5), Hunter Smith (5), Jacob Martin (4), Dominic Dausey (3) and Mitchell Carroll (3) all stepped up as well.

With top receiver Ryan Griggs slowed by an injury, Walstad picked up a few new targets.

Carroll and Cameron Toomey-Stout both hauled in 12-yard passes to back up Bayne (3-64) and Hesselgrave (1-23).

With the running game clicking at all times, Coupeville almost had three backs hit 100 yards.

Sophomore Jacob Martin cruised to 80 yards on seven carries to back up Bayne and Hesselgrave.

Walstad (1-15), Kleinfelter (1-14) and Mitchell Losey (3-2) chipped in.

All total Coupeville rolled up 705 all-purpose yards (528 run, 111 pass, 66 return).

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Courts stay dry, netters stay hot!!

Posted in Boys Tennis, tagged , , , , , , on October 17, 2014| Leave a Comment »

John McClarin prepares to unleash hot death on his foes. (John Fisken photos)

   John McClarin has been an effective doubles player this season for the Wolves. (John Fisken photo)

It’s unthinkable.

Enjoying an almost flawless final day of the regular season Thursday, the Coupeville High School boys’ tennis squad capped a nine-match run with no actual rain-outs.

Take away one match at Klahowya called at the two-thirds point and this might be the first fall season in which weather, and the notorious Port Townsend ferry run, both declined to make a dent in the schedule.

After a decade in the game, Wolf coach Ken Stange will take it.

“We could not have asked the weather gods for a more pleasant mid-October day in Port Townsend, nor could we have asked the tennis gods for a better day on the court,” Stange crowed. “We absolutely pasted the Chimacum squad today, ending our regular season on an extremely high note!”

Coupeville won for the fourth time in six matches, sweeping their hosts 7-0 to finish the season at 4-5 overall, 4-2 in Olympic League play.

Making an auspicious debut in the new league, the 1A Wolves swept three from the Cowboys, lost twice to Klahowya and also claimed a victory over 2A league mate North Mason this season.

“I’m quite happy that our players continued to improve, posting better scores as they played the same players for the second and third times,” Stange said.

CHS had little trouble with Chimacum, taking 11 of the 14 varsity sets at 6-0 or 6-1.

“It was very fun and very businesslike,” Stange said. “Now we can set our sights on the league tournament.”

Coupeville will take three singles players (Aaron Curtin, Sebastian Davis and Kyle Bodamer) and three doubles team to that tourney.

While his top trio is set in stone, Stange will let all of his doubles duos duel it out for postseason berths.

“We’ve had a fair amount of movement on the doubles ladder this year, so we will be shaking out our doubles lineup tomorrow,” he said.

Complete results:

Varsity:

1st Singles — Aaron Curtin beat Dylan Glessing 6-2, 6-1

2nd Singles — Sebastian Davis beat Jonny Rodgers 6-1, 6-0

3rd Singles — Kyle Bodamer beat Chris Seville 6-2, 6-0

1st Doubles — Loren Nelson/Connor McCormick beat Ryle Gepitulan/Sean Miller 6-1, 6-1

2nd Doubles — Joseph Wedekind/John McClarin beat Connor Cottier/Zack Smith 6-0, 6-1

3rd Doubles — William Nelson/Joey Lippo beat Nate Miller/Emmett Erickson 6-4, 6-1

4th Doubles — Grey Rische/Jared Helmstadter beat John Pace/Kale Gonzalez 6-1, 6-1

JV:

Ethan Marx/Jimmy Myers lost to Seville/Gepitulan 8-3

Lilan Sekigawa/Nick Dion beat Pace/Gonzales 8-3

Geoffrey McClarin/Garrett Compton lost to Cottier/Smith 6-2

Alex Schmakeit/Jeremiah Pace lost to Seville/Gepitulan 7-6

Nick Etzell/Ethan Spark beat Pace/Gonzalez 6-2

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You want goals? We got goals!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , , on October 16, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Freshman Lauren Bayne scored the first goal of her high school career Thursday. (John Fisken photos)

  Freshman Lauren Bayne scored the first goal of her high school career Thursday. (John Fisken photos)

Micky LeVine (John Fisken photo)

Micky LeVine has now scored in five straight games.

She is unflappable, untouchable, unstoppable.

Keeping her hot streak going, Coupeville High School senior Micky LeVine punched in a goal for the fifth straight game Thursday, sparking the Wolves to a 6-0 romp over visiting Chimacum in their first-ever Olympic League game.

Now 4-3-1 overall, 1-0 in league play, CHS is tied atop the four-team league with Klahowya (9-1, 1-0).

Chimacum (2-7, 1-1) and Port Townsend (1-9, 0-2) bring up the rear.

The Wolves will get an immediate chance to see how they compare to the league’s heaviest hitter when they face the Eagles on the road Saturday.

“We will learn where we are when we play Klahowya,” said a tired Coupeville coach Troy Cowan.

Cowan, who should have been celebrating the win, spent several hours post-game in the ER at Whidbey General and may have lost a second defensive leader.

Senior Jacki Ginnings is believed to have a concussion, which would be a repeat of an injury that knocked her out of action last season.

With junior Jenn Spark already lost due to a blown-out knee, the Wolf defensive unit is shrinking before Cowan’s eyes.

“Need to wait and see, but doesn’t look too promising,” he said. “Next Wolf up!”

Take away Ginnings injury and the rest of the game was a thrill ride for Coupeville.

Senior goaltender Julia Myers put Chimacum’s offense into the deep freeze, while her teammates up front went wild with their offense.

LeVine banged home her team-leading fifth goal on a penalty kick that was set up when Erin Rosenkranz had a shot knocked down by a Cowboy’s hand.

Rosenkranz found the back of the net herself, collecting her second goal of the season, while Marisa Etzell scored her first two.

Freshman Sage Renninger and Lauren Bayne rounded out the Wolf scoring attack, with each converting on the first goals of their high school careers.

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Early start, awesome finish!!

Posted in Volleyball, tagged , , , , , on October 16, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Lauren Rose (John Fisken photos)

Lauren Rose, seen here in an earlier match, played with the same wild abandon in Thursday’s win over Chimacum. (John Fisken photos)

Madeline Strasburg

   When spirited, vocal team leader Madeline Strasburg (20) is done playing, she might make a very good coach.

When the match started, there were about two fans in the stands. When it ended, it sounded like there were two hundred.

With an early 4 PM start catching a lot of Coupeville High School’s cheering section seemingly by surprise (visiting Chimacum didn’t have a single fan show up and only one extra player on its ultra-thin bench), Thursday afternoon’s Olympic League volleyball match-up kicked off in front of a nearly empty gym.

At the end, with fans having straggled in bit by bit, the joint was a little more rockin’, never more so than when the Wolves closed out a 25-20, 15-25, 25-23, 25-18 victory, their first ever under coach Breanne Smedley.

The win lifted Coupeville to 1-7 under the first-year head coach, 1-1 in league play. That’s the more important stat, as it means CHS jumped into second place in its four-team league.

Klahowya was 1-0 entering a Thursday night showdown with Port Townsend (0-1), while the Wolves and Chimacum now sit at 1-1.

The top three teams advance to the postseason and three of the Wolves’ final four league matches will be against Port Townsend and Chimacum.

Only a Oct. 27 rematch with unbeaten Klahowya (9-0), the #8 team in 1A polls, looms as a major stumbling block.

With Port Townsend up next Tuesday, Oct. 21 (it’s a home match with CHS putting on a cancer awareness night), Smedley is confident her team took a positive turn with the victory.

“This is a win they should feel really good about,” she said. “They competed well with this team and it should give some confidence and show them that they can win, that they’re capable.”

Other than a brief dry spell in the second set, the Wolves came out on fire, delivering big hits and big emotion.

At a key moment in the first set, with Coupeville clinging to a 21-20 lead, senior captain Madeline Strasburg came bounding out of a timeout, grabbing each of her teammates for a moment.

“We can do better, ladies! We can do better!!,” she said in a crisp, firm voice.

Then Strasburg proved it, winning the next point for the Wolves on a thunderous spike that shook the floor, the bleachers and, possibly, half the town.

Spurred on by her words, and her actions, Coupeville quickly put the set away on serves from Valen Trujillo that exploded with a zing, and another, just as brutal, spike off of Strasburg’s patented Arm ‘o Death.

The Wolves were the clear aggressor all match, with Strasburg, Hailey Hammer and Kacie Kiel launching laser shots.

Hammer drilled a Chimacum player in the body, but it was Strasburg (who else?) who lashed one winner off of a hapless Cowboy’s face (sort of by accident).

When it wasn’t putting the ball to the floor hard on spikes, Coupeville found myriad other ways to thwart Chimacum’s best efforts.

McKenzie Bailey and Lauren Rose dropped picture-perfect tips into open space repeatedly, while Trujillo chased down every last ball, cartwheeling end over end frequently.

The perfect punctuation came from Wolf senior Monica Vidoni, the team’s tallest player.

Timing her jump perfectly, Vidoni virtually scraped the ceiling on a play midway through the fourth set, catching the ball on her fingertips at its highest point and flicking it downwards.

Her tip knifed through a wall of Chimacum players, none of whom could catch up to it, and Vidoni was left to jump, scream and dance her way back to her teammates, who mobbed her in joy.

A complete team effort, the win had contributions from everyone, whether it was a nice, slicing winner from Kyla Briscoe, dependable work from Tiffany Briscoe or inspired late-match serving from Ally Roberts.

Springing off the bench, the irrepressible Roberts combined with Kiel to provide a one-two punch that knocked Chimacum out cold.

First Kiel smoked a winner off the back line — allowing her dad Steve, calling lines, to about jump out of his skin calling the point for CHS — then Roberts twirled an ace that caught the very farthest corner of the court.

Hammer (11 kills), Strasburg (8) and Kiel (7) shared the power display, while Trujillo went low for 26 digs and Rose dealt out 22 assists.

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Playoff hopes endure!!

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , , on October 11, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Mitchell Losey rushed for 22 yards and made a pair of tackles in Friday night's loss. (John Fisken photo)

Mitchell Losey rushed for 22 yards and made a pair of tackles in Friday night’s loss. (John Fisken photo)

They can still make the playoffs.

Even after being pounded 56-20 at Port Townsend Friday, and losing their second-leading rusher to a broken hand, the Coupeville High School football squad is still very much in contention for a postseason berth.

To get there, though, the injury-plagued Wolves will need to take care of business and/or get a little help during the final two weeks of league play.

With the loss, CHS sits at 3-3 overall, 2-2 in the 1A Olympic League.

Port Townsend (4-2) and Klahowya (3-3), which routed Chimacum 41-15 Thursday, are atop the league at 3-1.

Chimacum (0-6), which Coupeville plays next Friday, Oct. 17, is 0-4 in league play.

The top two teams will advance to the playoffs, and, if the Wolves don’t stumble against the winless Cowboys, they would be in a tie for the second berth with the loser of next Friday’s Klahowya vs. Port Townsend tilt.

Coupeville closes league play Oct. 24, when it hosts Klahowya for Homecoming.

The Wolves then play a non-conference game at Concrete on Halloween night.

If Port Townsend beats Klahowya, the Redhawks would all but clinch the league title, with just a rivalry game against Chimacum remaining on its league scheule.

If that happens, Coupeville (barring an upset loss to the Cowboys) and Klahowya would face off at 3-2 with the second playoff berth on the line.

If Klahowya avenges an earlier loss to Port Towsend, however, then comes to Cow Town and stumbles, and the Redhawks still tame the Cowboys, all three schools not named Chimacum would finish at 4-2, having split games against each other.

After that, I have no idea.

To get to that point, however, Coupeville will need to get its defense back to where it was over the first four games.

After a strong start Friday — the game was tied 14-14 after one quarter and Coupeville was within two scores at the half — the Wolves were shredded in the second half.

“Our defense is missing right now,” said CHS coach Tony Maggio.

Port Townsend ran the score up in the second half, tacking on three touchdowns to widen a 35-20 halftime bulge.

The Wolf defensive unit is one currently scarred by injuries, and it added another when junior two-way terror Lathom Kelley broke his hand prior to the game and was unable to play.

Along with being a force on defense, Kelley is also the team’s second leading rusher and ran for 189 yards and three touchdowns when Coupeville beat Port Townsend 29-21 two weeks ago.

Josh Bayne paced the Wolf ‘d’ Friday, recording 10 tackles and assisting on three others, while Wiley Hesselgrave (8-2), Oscar Liquidano (7-0), Aaron Wright (4-2), Matt Shank (5-0), Hunter Smith (4-0) and Jacob Martin (3-0) all chipped in.

Mitchell Losey (2 tackles), Ryan Griggs (1), CJ Smith (1) and Isaac Vargas (1) also got their names in the stat sheets, with Wright and Vargas recovering fumbles.

On the offensive side of the ball, Coupeville had a nice mix, throwing for 200 yards and rushing for 123 more.

Wolf QB Joel Walstad, still recovering from a hip pointer, connected on 16 of 32 passes for 157 yards and a touchdown, while Bayne hooked up with Griggs on a 43-yard pass on his only attempt.

Griggs led the Wolf receivers, hauling down four catches for 92 yards. Bayne (5-51), Hesselgrave (3-39), Martin (3-17) and CJ Smith (1-1) were also effective targets.

Where Port Townsend excelled was in largely shutting down the Wolf running game, which had blistered them the first time around.

Playing in Coupeville, the Wolves rumbled for 333 yards. Friday, that number went way, way down, with Bayne, the #2 rusher in 1A, held to 61 yards on 17 carries.

Martin (4-33), Losey (3-22), Hesselgrave (1-6) and Walstad (1-1) all carried the ball as well, with limited success.

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