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Put it on cruise control, baby!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on March 24, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Matt Hilborn and Co. ran away with a big win Friday afternoon. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Take what they give you, then take some more.

Racing iffy weather Friday, the Coupeville High School baseball squad took full advantage of all the opportunities offered by visiting North Mason and got off the field quickly.

Using a mix of Bulldog errors and walks, the Wolves sprinkled in a few well-placed hits and strolled to an 11-1 win in a game called after five innings due to the mercy rule.

The non-conference victory, coming against a large 2A school, lifts Coupeville to 3-2 on the season.

CHS will have a chance to keep its hot streak alive when it turns right around Saturday morning and heads off to Vashon Island.

Coupeville coach Chris Smith exited the field with a smile Friday, pleased with just about every aspect of how his team played.

“Solid game all around, with good pitching, solid defense and good approach at the plate,” he said. “I’m happy with our run production.”

After a scoreless first inning, the Wolves exploded in the bottom of the second, plating seven runners and effectively ending the game.

The game-busting rally started with Dane Lucero reaching on an error, featured a ton of walks, including bases-loaded ones to Gavin Knoblich, Matt Hilborn and Joey Lippo, then was capped with a couple sweet base-knocks.

Hunter Smith, who started on the mound for CHS, blasted a two-run single to crack the game wide open, followed by Jake Hoagland tagging an RBI base-hit of his own.

Not content to stop there, Coupeville added four more runs in the third, this time keyed by big hits from Julian Welling and Lucero, plus a steady diet of walks and North Mason bobbles.

The visitors had little luck against Hunter Smith, who scattered three fairly meaningless singles, only giving up a run on a sac fly in the fifth.

Hoagland paced the Wolves at the plate with a single and double, while Welling bashed a double and Lippo, Lucero and Hunter Smith all had singles.

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Crunch time is our time!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged , , , , on March 22, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Ethan Spark and Coupeville will play Saturday for sole possession of first-place in the 1A Olympic League. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Derek Leyva enjoys scoring goals so much, he can’t stop with just one.

The Coupeville High School sophomore has played in four soccer games during his time as a Wolf, and has recorded at least two goals each time out.

Thursday night Leyva punched in his ninth and tenth goals of the season to help fuel a second-half comeback, as Coupeville bounced back from a two-goal deficit on the road to tie North Mason 3-3.

Since it was a non-conference game, the two schools didn’t play overtime or go to a shoot-out, but instead accepted the tie, cause … soccer.

While it wasn’t a win, the result was still satisfying, as it showed the resilience of the Wolves, while coming against a much-larger school.

CHS, a very small 1A school, has played three of its first four matches against 2A schools, beating Olympic, tying North Mason and narrowly losing to Sequim.

All of this sets the Wolves up for the first huge test of the season Saturday, when they host Klahowya in a 10:45 AM bout which will decide sole possession of first-place in the 1A Olympic League.

Both teams enter play at 2-1-1, but the Eagles are 2-0 in league play, while Coupeville is 1-0.

There’s also the little matter of Klahowya’s 23-game conference winning streak, as KSS has never lost to its three division foes, having gone 6-0, 6-0, and 9-0 the past three seasons.

This time around, however, the Wolves have a new stadium, and a goal scorer who is hitting the back of the net like no other CHS boy before him.

The program single-season record is 20 goals, scored by Abraham Leyva.

His younger cousin is already halfway to that and hasn’t played a third of the regular season schedule yet.

With Coupeville trailing 2-0 at the break (with one score off of an “own goal”), the Wolves either got a fiery halftime speech from eternally laid-back coach Kyle Nelson, or just found a different gear.

Three minutes into the second half, senior captain William Nelson scooped up a loose ball and calmly zipped it into the net for this second goal of the season.

With the Wolves getting the ball forward quickly, Derek Leyva then went to work, rattling home back-to-back scores to stake his squad to a 3-2 lead.

The second goal came on a long, scorching shot, as Leyva fooled the goalie, pulling him wide before ripping the ball into the left side of the net from about the 40-yard line.

North Mason got a tying goal late in the game, but a potential go-ahead one was waved off for a player being off-sides.

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Survive and thrive!!

Posted in Girls Tennis, tagged , , , , on March 20, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Sage Renninger and doubles partner Payton Aparicio fought down to the wire Tuesday in a tough three-set loss. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

The trial by fire continues.

Coupeville High School, among the very smallest of all 1A schools in Washington state, is opening its season with a run of non-conference tilts against large 2A schools.

Tuesday afternoon it was undefeated Kingston, which boasts a student body two-and-a-half times that of CHS, visiting Whidbey.

Somewhat predictably, the Buccaneers left town with a 6-1 non-conference win, running their record to 4-0 and dropping the Wolves to 0-4.

But all of this has been prep for Coupeville facing off with its own 1A Olympic League foes, and the pursuit of a fourth-straight league title.

The Wolves, who are 15-0 in the three-year history of the league, get their first taste of conference play Thursday, when they welcome Klahowya (0-3) to town.

When the Eagles show up, Coupeville’s doubles duos will be the featured attraction.

Sophomores Tia Wurzrainer and Avalon Renninger romped to a straight-sets win at #2 doubles Tuesday, while seniors Sage Renninger and Payton Aparicio pushed their Kingston rivals to a third-set tiebreaker in a very close match.

Complete Tuesday results:

Varsity:

1st Singles — Claire Mietus lost to Montana Thoroughman 6-1, 6-0

2nd Singles — Genna Wright lost to Emily Ramirez 6-2, 6-2

3rd Singles — Heather Nastali lost to Sanni Wilder 6-2, 6-3

1st Doubles — Payton Aparicio/Sage Renninger lost to Emily Shaleen/Lily Beaulieu 6-4, 3-6, 10-4

2nd Doubles — Avalon Renninger/Tia Wurzrainer beat Elizabeth Ramirez/Sam Young 6-2, 6-3

3rd Doubles — Kameryn St Onge/Maggie Crimmins lost to Ana Horne/Taylor Sanville 6-3, 6-2

4th Doubles — Jillian Mayne/Zara Bradley lost to Cierra Franklin/Rachael Winn 6-0, 6-3

JV:

5th Doubles — Nanci Melendrez/Megan Behan lost 6-1

6th Doubles — Jaimee Masters/Emily Fiedler trailed 4-3 (ferry)

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Nipped on the road!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on March 20, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Coupeville senior Joey Lippo had two hits Monday, including a two-run single during a seven-run rally. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Two different types of foes, two different kinds of results.

When Coupeville has faced fellow 1A teams this season, they’ve blasted them.

And, when the team in the other dugout has hailed from a large 2A school, the Wolves have fought until the final batter, but taken the narrowest of defeats.

Monday it was a big-school rival, Bremerton, and Coupeville couldn’t hold on to a five-run lead, falling 9-8 on the road.

“Another tough loss in a one-run game. Again another opportunity to work on mental toughness and our resilience as a team,” said Coupeville coach Chris Smith. “We are not defined by our losses but in the manner in which we played and what we learned from it.

“We played well as a team and fairly error free,” he added. “Unfortunately, we just stranded more runners on the bases then they did.”

The non-conference loss drops the Wolves to 2-2 on the season, heading into another match-up with a 2A school, North Mason, this Friday at home.

Five of Coupeville’s 20 regular-season games will be against 2A schools, and while that may put a ding in its win-loss record, playing against bigger schools could help the Wolves grow as a team.

CHS has shown resiliency against their big-school rivals, and Monday was a prime example of that.

Trailing 2-0 headed to the top of the fourth, the Wolves must have found the magic elixir to rub on their bats, because they started smoking.

Raking eight hits in the inning, including a pair of singles from Jake Pease, Coupeville exploded for seven runs, forcing Bremerton to call on its bullpen.

The big blows were an RBI double from Kyle Rockwell and a two-run single off the bat of Joey Lippo, but everyone in the lineup was dialed in.

Jake Hoagland started things with a base-knock, with Gavin Knoblich, Matt Hilborn and Dane Lucero also connecting for a hit in the inning.

The share-and-share alike philosophy carried over to the bench as well, with Jacob Zettle coming in to pinch-run and promptly scoring.

Bremerton wasn’t going away though, chipping away for three runs of its own in the bottom half of the inning to cut the lead back down to 7-5.

While the Wolves added a solitary run in the fifth, with Nick Etzell walking and coming around to score on a grounder by Hilborn, BHS was now in full come-back mode.

Four runs in the bottom of the fifth reclaimed the lead for the host team, and, after that, Bremerton’s bullpen closed out the game strongly.

Coupeville swung the bats well in the loss, with all nine starters recording a hit.

Pease led the way with three singles, Lippo added two base-knocks, and Hilborn, Hunter Smith, Hoagland, Rockwell, Knoblich, Etzell and Lucero joined the hit parade.

Smith was a force on defense as well, robbing a Bremerton hitter with a nice diving catch on a liner back up the middle.

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Leyva heats up, Wolves cool off!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged , , , , on March 17, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Wolf goalie Brian Roberts left Friday’s game after being accidentally kicked in the face, resulting in a broken nose. (Photo courtesy Roberts)

   William Nelson and Co. are 2-1 on the season after a narrow loss at Sequim. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Derek Leyva can’t be contained.

The Coupeville High School sophomore is three games into his soccer career as a Wolf, and after torching Sequim for two goals Friday night, already has eight scores to his credit.

Unfortunately, his second-half heroics weren’t enough to save CHS on the road, as Leyva and Co. fell 4-2 and absorbed their first loss of the season.

The non-conference defeat drops Coupeville to 2-1 headed into a match-up next Thursday, Mar. 22 on the home turf of yet another 2A foe, North Mason.

After that comes a very-important stretch as the Wolves, 1-0 in 1A Olympic League play, face-off with league mates Klahowya, Port Townsend and Chimacum in successive games.

After Friday’s tilt with Sequim, a game in which they fell behind 3-0 at the break before rallying in the second half, the Wolves have played 20% of their regular-season schedule.

Leyva is already almost halfway to the Coupeville boys single-season scoring record (20 by Abraham Leyva) and is on pace to roar past both that and Mia Littlejohn’s school record of 27 in a single campaign.

The Wolves also took a fairly substantial hit during the Sequim loss, or at least goaltender Brian Roberts did.

While charging out to snare a ball, he got inadvertently kicked in the face by an incoming player, which left him bloodied.

Roberts spent the night in the ER, where it was found his nose was broken in two places.

Still, the plucky junior is ready to return to the pitch right this very second.

“No way that’s gonna slow me down!,” Roberts said. “I’m gonna try to play in our next game if I’m not hurting too bad.”

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