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Knight time is the best time!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , , on October 5, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Wolf freshman Knight Arndt scored her first varsity goal Thursday at Port Angeles. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

“We came out a stronger team.”

Playing on the road, without one of its key players, against a very good, and very large, 2A school, the Coupeville High School girls soccer squad learned under fire Thursday night.

And while the Wolves suffered a 9-3 setback at the hands of Port Angeles, CHS coach Kyle Nelson emerged from the experience unbowed.

“A tough opponent tonight, with a tough first half,” he said. “We came back and played a much better second half.

“We look at these games as opportunities to improve,” he added. “And we figured out a few things tonight.”

The loss drops Coupeville to 6-5, but the Wolves still sit a tidy 4-1 in 1A Olympic League play.

With Port Townsend (1-4) falling to Klahowya (5-0) Thursday in a league tilt, the Wolves are three games up with four to play in the race for second place in conference play.

Another bright spot against Port Angeles was the continued emergence of players with a strong  scoring touch.

Freshman Knight Arndt became the ninth Wolf to tally a goal this season when she scored on “a nice back post run.”

Coupeville’s other two goals came on free kicks from senior captain Sage Renninger.

With the three-goal night, the Wolves raised their season total to 39 scores.

There are at least six games left on the schedule and CHS is coming up fast on last year’s team, which scored a program-record 47 goals while going 8-7-1.

Coupeville will have to go the rest of the way, though, without splendid junior midfielder/defender Lindsey Roberts, the team’s third-leading scorer.

She’s out with a tendon injury which requires wearing an ankle brace, icing three times a day, limited flexing, plenty of anti-imflammatories and a month’s rest.

While her own soccer season is done, Roberts is remaining with the team to cheer on her teammates and hopes to heal before basketball season.

Coupeville’s goal scorers:

Kalia Littlejohn 15
Genna Wright 8
Lindsey Roberts 4
Sage Renninger 3
Avalon Renninger 2
Ema Smith 2
Knight Arndt 1
Lauren Bayne 1
Mallory Kortuem 1

Own goals by opposing teams 2

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Call it a win!!

Posted in Volleyball, tagged , , , , on September 21, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Hope Lodell had a team-high 11 digs Thursday as Coupeville swept 2A North Mason in a match ended prematurely. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Official or not, a victory is a victory, never to be turned down.

In my world, at least, the Coupeville High School varsity volleyball squad sits at 3-1 after sweeping 2A North Mason on the road Thursday night.

There is some slight confusion, however, since the non-conference tilt was supposed to be a best-of-five-sets affair and the teams only got two sets finished.

Perhaps not thinking things out all the way, North Mason elected to play the JV match first, and it went long.

Then, after Coupeville won the first two (very long) sets of the varsity match 25-23, 26-24, the clock simply ran out on everyone.

Having traveled 70+ miles to Belfair for the match, the Wolves couldn’t miss their ferry back to Whidbey and were forced to ankle for the exit before they could officially seal the deal.

If it was a league match, the teams would reschedule and restart the match.

Being a non-conference tilt, no one’s headed back to North Mason this season. That’s for sure.

And with CHS in complete control of the match, as well, it would seem pretty safe to stick it in the W column. At least unofficially.

So, in the impartial (ha!) world of Coupeville Sports, the Wolves are 3-1 and finally headed home.

With four matches, and tournament appearances from Langley to Yakima under its belt, Coupeville makes its home debut next Tuesday, Sept. 26.

That match will be a big one, as the Wolves, defending Olympic League champs, clash with arch-rival Klahowya for sole possession of first-place.

KSS (2-0 in league play) holds a half-game lead on CHS (1-0) at the moment.

Wolf coach Cory Whitmore liked the scores Thursday, but would have enjoyed seeing his team get a chance to put a true stamp on a win.

“We did not play particularly consistent tonight in the two sets we did play,” he said. “I think we as a team would have liked another set to end on a strong note.”

Coupeville claimed the edge against North Mason thanks to its passing, Whitmore said.

Hope Lodell, who led the Wolves with 11 digs, and Maya Toomey-Stout both had very high passer ratings, and things flowed from there.

Lauren Rose (nine assists) and Ashley Menges (four) put the ball into play for CHS, with Mikayla Elfrank (five kills), Katrina McGranahan (four) and Scout Smith (three) slamming winners.

Coupeville’s always-strong service game was paced by Payton Aparicio, who recorded a pair of aces from the stripe.

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“Great effort from the ladies!!”

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , on September 21, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Mallory Kortuem and Coupeville’s defense played strongly Thursday in a narrow 2-1 loss. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Be careful what you wish for.

After playing five of its first seven games on the road, capped by a narrow 2-1 non-conference loss Thursday at North Mason, the Coupeville High School girls soccer squad is finally coming home.

But while five of its next eight games are on the CHS field, the first one, next Tuesday, Sept. 26, is a clash with the beast of the Olympic League, Klahowya.

The Eagles (3-0 in league play, 5-0 overall) have yet to lose in 23 league clashes between 2014-2017.

That’s the second-longest streak in conference history, trailing only the Coupeville girls basketball team, which is 27-0 all-time in league games.

CHS will enter play that night at 2-0 in league play, 4-3 overall.

North Mason, a 2A school, snapped the Wolves two-game win streak, slipping in a pair of goals to net its first victory of the season.

Coupeville’s lone score came off the toe of junior Kalia Littlejohn, who was set up by frosh Genna Wright.

It gives Littlejohn a team-high 13 goals on the season and 31 all-time, leaving her four shy of tying the CHS girls soccer career scoring record.

While he would have preferred a win, Wolf coach Kyle Nelson thought his team played strongly on an unfamiliar field.

“Great effort from the ladies as we continue to use each game as a learning experience to get better through the season,” he said. “Next up is Klahowya, a big test for us.”

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Ema-tastic!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , on September 14, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Ema Smith notched her first goal of the season Thursday in Sequim. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Don’t sleep on Ema Smith.

The Coupeville High School junior is normally a role player for the girls soccer squad, but she has a dangerous goal-scoring toe or two at her disposal, as she showed Thursday night.

Smith notched her first score of the season, beating the Sequim goaltender (with a little assist from a rival player’s head), the only Wolf to do so in a 4-1 loss.

The non-conference defeat, coming on the road against a large 2A school, snaps a two-game win streak for CHS and drops it to 2-2 on the season.

While the final score didn’t come out in favor of his squad, Wolf coach Kyle Nelson saw genuine positives in his team’s performance.

“It was a closer game than the score shows,” he said. “It is also a good game for us against a good opponent to show us the things we need to work on.

“We will use this to get better.”

Coupeville, which is tied with Klahowya for the early lead atop the 1A Olympic League, has a key game coming up on Saturday.

The Wolves (1-0 in league play) travel to Port Townsend for a 1:15 game.

That match-up with the RedHawks closes out a three-game road trip for Coupeville.

After that game, CHS won’t have to play more than one road game in a row the remainder of the regular season.

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Choppin’ down big trees!!

Posted in Boys Tennis, tagged , , , , , on September 13, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   After opening the season with a pair of singles wins, Mason Grove teamed with Nick Etzell Wednesday to roll to a doubles victory. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

William Nelson is not prone to excessive on-court giddiness.

The Coupeville High School senior netter is a serene, low-key athlete, and he and his doubles partner, Joey Lippo, are the very epitome of the phrase “cooler than the other side of the pillow.”

So, when Nelson jumped a good six inches in the air after Wednesday’s match, it was equal to another player ripping all their clothes off, setting their hair on fire, then sprinting laps around the school screaming “We are the Champions” at the top of his lungs while being chased by a fire extinguisher-wielding Mr. Black.

In other words, you knew big stuff had gone down.

What inspired this show of emotion?

Nelson and Lippo had rallied twice, once from a set down, then from a 3-0 hole in the third set, to stun a very good Kingston doubles duo and stay unbeaten on the season.

Even better, their 3-6, 6-0, 6-4 victory proved to be the difference as lil’ 1A Coupeville (227 students) knocked off their visitors, sending the 2A Buccaneers (605 students) home on the losing end of a 4-3 contest.

The non-conference win, coming on the heels of a pair of razor-thin 4-3 losses to other 2A schools, lifts the Wolves to 1-2 and gives them momentum heading into an important match.

That comes Friday, when Coupeville heads to Silverdale to face Klahowya in the first league match of the season.

As two-time defending 1A Olympic League champs, CHS would like nothing more than to get off to a strong start with a win over their toughest league rival.

If the Wolf doubles teams play Friday like they did Wednesday, that shouldn’t be a problem.

Along with Lippo and Nelson, CHS also got wins from the duos of Nick Etzell/Mason Grove (who threw down a double bagel, then tried to explain to their parents how that phrase translates to a 6-0, 6-0 win) and Zach Ginnings/Drake Borden.

Grove and Ginnings are also 3-0 on the young season, giving Coupeville four unbeaten players.

Rounding out the Wolf winners Wednesday was #3 singles ace Nile Lockwood, who crawled off his death bed, ignored possible pneumonia and rolled to a straight-sets victory.

Complete Wednesday results:

Varsity:

1st Singles — Pedro Gamarra lost to Ian Schmidt 6-0, 6-0

2nd Singles — Jakobi Baumann lost to Ethan Griffin 6-4, 6-3

3rd Singles — Nile Lockwood beat Tyler Bates 6-2, 6-2

1st Doubles — William Nelson/Joey Lippo beat Ethan Sax/Dawson Clark 3-6, 6-0, 6-4

2nd Doubles — Nick Etzell/Mason Grove beat Preston Gunnell/Giani Nguyen 6-0, 6-0

3rd Doubles — Jaschon Baumann/Tiger Johnson lost to Tristan Schmidt/Eli Guedea 6-3, 6-1

4th Doubles — Drake Borden/Zach Ginnings beat Tyler Krantz/Thomas Brown 8-3

JV:

5th Doubles — Thane Peterson/Koby Schreiber tied Jacob Diehl/Skylar Beyer 6-6 (ferry)

6th Doubles — Harris Sinclair/Etzell trailed Riley Odell/Gunnell 5-3 (ferry)

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