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Trumbull Trouble, two ways!!

Posted in Baseball, Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on July 3, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Aaron Trumbull (Shelli Trumbull photos)

Aaron Trumbull, a Wolf in disguise as a Falcon. (Shelli Trumbull photos)

Trumbull hunkers down on defense.

Trumbull hunkers down on defense.

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Trumbull and Co. come in for a team huddle.

Fellow Wolf Cole Payne gets Trumbull warmed up in the bullpen.

Fellow Wolf Cole Payne gets Trumbull warmed up in the bullpen.

There is no off-season for Aaron Trumbull.

The Coupeville High School two-sport star will be a senior in the fall, and he’s spending a chunk of his summer honing his games in anticipation.

Trumbull travels down to South Whidbey with Wolf teammate Cole Payne to play American Legion baseball with the Falcons.

While there he plays first and pitches, while wielding a hot bat.

Then, in his spare time, he hits the court with his CHS teammates to play basketball.

Working as a unit with other Wolves such as Joel Walstad, Gabe Wynn and Dalton Martin, Trumbull and Co. are continuing their climb back into being a contending team.

A new school year means a move out of the 1A/2A Cascade Conference into the 1A Olympic League, where the other schools will be much closer in size to CHS, the smallest 1A school in the state. Opportunity abounds.

At the forefront of the charge will be Trumbull, who is sacrificing now for possible glory later.

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Keep crankin’ the hits!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , , on June 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Cole Payne (Shelli Trumbull photos)

Cole Payne (Shelli Trumbull photos)

Aaron Trumbull

Aaron Trumbull

The uniforms have changed, but the results are the same.

Coupeville High School sluggers Aaron Trumbull and Cole Payne are wearing South Whidbey uniforms this summer, as they moonlight with the Falcons for American Legion baseball, and they’ve already made an impact.

The duo are back with SWHS coach Tom Fallon and his players for the second season.

Last year Morgan Payne, Kurtis Smith and Aaron Curtin joined them, but this year’s legion squad is a younger version than last year.

“We had a senior-laden team last year,” Fallon said. “We’re a little younger, but as long as we’re in there, competing with the bigger squads, I’m happy.”

Many of the programs South Whidbey is facing have varsity vets at every position.

The Falcons are a mix of varsity and JV players, and numbers have fluctuated during a 3-5 start.

South Whidbey has 18 players on the roster, but many of the players, including Payne, are doing double duty with spring football practice.

In a loss to a powerful Mount Vernon squad, the Falcons only suited the minimum nine players.

Trumbull, who will be a senior at CHS in the fall, has played in seven of his team’s games, working both at first and on the mound.

He’s collected three hits, including a triple, and knocked in three runs.

Payne has been limited to just four games by football, but has ably bounced around wherever he’s needed.

Most of his playing time has come behind the plate, but the junior has also worked his mitt at second, short and third.

Two of Payne’s three hits have been doubles, and he’s tied with Trumbull with three RBI.

South Whidbey, which took a pair from Arlington to kick off the season and also nipped Bellingham in a one-run thriller, will get a work-out heading into this coming week, when the season picks up in intensity.

The Falcons are scheduled to play six games during the week.

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Like father, like son!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on May 24, 2014| Leave a Comment »

(Shelli Trumbull photo)

Trumbull Power. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

It’s a family tradition.

When Coupeville High School junior first baseman Aaron Trumbull takes the field this morning for the opening game of the 1A state baseball tournament, he’ll be following in the footsteps of his father.

Brad Trumbull, who will be in the stands watching his son play, was on the field himself back in 1987, when the Wolves went to state.

Today’s game in Anacortes against Rochester (win and CHS plays a second game in the afternoon for a shot at going to Yakima for the Final Four) is actually Aaron’s second trip to a state tourney.

As a seventh grader, he was a key member of the Central Whidbey little league team that won a state title.

Brad was along for that ride as a coach.

Today Aaron moves a step closer to adding another title to the trophy case, while carrying on what his proud papa started.

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Throwback Thursday: Baseball lifers!!

Posted in Baseball, Throwback Thursday, tagged , , , , , on May 15, 2014| Leave a Comment »

(Shelli Trumbull photo)

Young baseball fans (l to r) Aaron Trumbull, Kurtis Smith and Carson Risner. (Shelli Trumbull photos)

Stars of today.

Stars of today.

From watching baseball to starring on the diamond themselves, three Wolves have taken a journey over the last decade.

And while Carson Risner eventually stepped away from baseball to follow his mom (CHS legend Jennie Cross) into the world of track and field, his compadres are still out there.

Kurtis Smith is the starting right fielder and Aaron Trumbull patrols first base (and pitches) for a Coupeville High School team that sits a win away from the state tournament.

Proof that the best baseball players come to the game early.

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Trumbull has the magic stick!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , on May 3, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Aaron Trumbull swung a big bat Friday. (John Fisken photos)

Aaron Trumbull swung a big bat Friday. (John Fisken photo)

Ben Etzell goes low to snag a ball. (John Fisken photo)

Ben Etzell will start on the mound for the Wolves in the first playoff game.

Hot at the right time.

That’s what the Coupeville High School baseball squad is, as it’s playing its best ball as the playoffs loom.

Rallying for five runs in the top of the fifth Friday, the Wolves completed a three-game sweep of host Sultan.

The 9-4 win was their fourth straight victory and lifted CHS to 10-8 overall, 9-8 in Cascade Conference play.

Coupeville closes the regular season with a game in Lakewood Saturday — its fifth game in the season’s final six days.

After that, the postseason will be here, with the Wolves going to either Meridian or Nooksack Valley Tuesday, May 6 to kick off the double-elimination district tourney.

Friday, it was junior first baseman Aaron Trumbull who had the hot bat. He smashed a double and a triple and knocked in three runs.

Senior catcher Jake Tumblin, who has been red-hot at the plate of late, belted an RBI double to backup Trumbull.

Wade Schaef added a double and Ben Etzell, Kurtis Smith and Josh Bayne each had two hits, as Coupeville thrashed Sultan (0-18) for the third straight time, collecting 12 hits Friday and scoring 28 runs total in the series.

“It was great to see our boys hit the ball so well against three different types of pitchers: soft, firm, then soft again,” said Coupeville coach Willie Smith. “We really had great approaches throughout the lineup.”

Korbin Korzan and Schaef combined for the win on the mound.

“It was probably Wade’s best outing of the year,” Willie Smith said. “Which is great because we will need that kind of performance throughout our playoffs.”

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