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Awards rain down on booters!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged , , , , on May 28, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Sean Donley leads the charge up-field. (John Fisken photos)

Sean Donley leads the charge up-field. (John Fisken photos)

The Wolves celebrate a huge goal in the rain. Left to right are Abraham Leyva, Zane Bundy, Jason Knoll, Donley and Cameron Boyd.

The Wolves celebrate a huge goal in the rain. Left to right are Abraham Leyva, Zane Bundy, Jason Knoll, Donley and Cameron Boyd.

Cameron Boyd (center) gets props from Jared Dickson (left) and Brett Arnold after sacrificing his tooth in a win over South Whidbey. (Sylvia Arnold photo)

Boyd (center) gets props from Jared Dickson (left) and Brett Arnold after sacrificing his tooth in a win over South Whidbey. (Sylvia Arnold photo)

Two sophomores led the team in scoring, but it was a plucky senior who was at the center of things.

Sean Donley was the heart and grit of the Coupeville High School boys’ soccer squad, and he capped his final season as a Wolf by being honored as the Player of the Year at a team banquet Wednesday.

Donley also was named a Second-Team All-Conference midfielder by Cascade Conference coaches, an honor he shared with senior defender Brett Arnold and sophomore scoring sensation Abraham Leyva.

Leyva, who rained down a team-high 11 goals in his first season with CHS, was named the team’s Rookie of the Year. Arnold won Most Inspirational and junior Aaron Wright took home Most Improved.

JV awards went to Ryan Freeman (Player of the Year), Josh Datin (Most Inspirational) and Jeremiah Pace (Most Improved).

Letter winners:

Brett Arnold
Colin Belliveau
Cameron Boyd
Zane Bundy
Josiah Campbell
Seth Campbell
Josh Datin
Jared Dickson
Sean Donley
Ryan Freeman
Tanner Kircher
Jason Knoll
Keegan Korteum
Gunnar Langvold
Abraham Leyva
Connor McCormick
Loren Nelson
Joel Walstad
Aaron Wright

JV certificates:

Brandon Bartley
Taylor Chiles
Garrett Compton
Beauman Davis
Nick Dion
Jose Marcos
Cody Menges
Jeremiah Pace
Alex Schmakeit
Shane Squire

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Baker bounces booters!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged , , , on May 7, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Keegan Korteum (John Fisken photos)

 Junior defender Keegan Korteum is part of a talented core group that could return next season. (John Fisken photos)

Abraham Leyva scored a team-high 11 goals this season. (John Fisken photo)

Sophomore Abraham Leyva scored a team-high 11 goals this season.

They weren’t even supposed to be there.

Having beaten the odds by using a technicality to pluck away a district playoff spot that originally belonged to Friday Harbor, the Coupeville High School boys’ soccer team was playing with little to lose Wednesday night.

Any dreams the Wolves had of netting a win and continuing to play on through the weekend came to a quick end, however, as host Mount Baker unleashed a barrage of shots on goal.

Riding a 25-6 shot advantage, the Mountaineers claimed a 3-0 victory and bounced CHS out of the postseason.

Coupeville, which got most of its scoring this year from the sophomore duo of Abraham Leyva and Zane Bundy, wrapped up its first season under new coach Kyle Nelson at 5-10-2.

That was a step up from a year ago, when the Wolves went 3-14.

Much will change next season, as Coupeville loses seven players to graduation and changes leagues, jumping from the 1A/2A Cascade Conference to the 1A Olympic League.

Seniors Sean Donley, Cameron Boyd, Jason Knoll, Gunnar Langvold, Josiah Campbell, Jared Dickson and Brett Arnold have played their final game in the red and black.

Mount Baker, which got goals on headers from Manuel Mendez, Alex Tyska and Jesus Torerro, advances on to play South Whidbey, which beat Meridian 2-1 in overtime.

King’s and Blaine will play in the other semifinal, with all four teams already guaranteed a trip to tri-districts.

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Make ’em work for it!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged , , , on May 5, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Brett Arnold, seen here in an earlier game, was one of seven seniors to cap their regular season career. (John Fisken photo)

Brett Arnold, seen here in an earlier game, was one of seven seniors to cap their regular season career. (John Fisken photo)

It could have been a coronation, but instead it turned into a bare-knuckle brawl.

Refusing to roll over and simply let visiting King’s run away with an easy win Monday, which would allow the Knights to clinch the #1 playoff seed among Cascade Conference 1A schools, the Coupeville High School boys’ soccer squad dug in hard.

Scoring first, on Abraham Leyva’s eleventh goal of the season (a possible school single season record), the Wolves took the early lead, but couldn’t quite hold on against the pitch powerhouse.

Falling 2-1, a huge improvement from the first meeting between the two teams, the Wolves wrapped their regular season at 5-9-2 overall, 4-9-1 in league play.

With South Whidbey romping to a 7-0 victory over winless Granite Falls, King’s (10-3-1) needed the win to edge the Falcons (9-3-2).

As the top seed, King’s will host Nooksack Valley Wednesday, while South Whidbey travels to Meridian and Coupeville heads off to Mount Baker.

Even in a loss, CHS coach Kyle Nelson was pleased with the effort his squad showed on both sides of the ball while fighting with a top-level team.

“We played one of our most complete games tonight,” Nelson said. “Got off to a great start and played great defense the second half to keep it a close game.”

He singled out the play of junior goaltender Joel Walstad, who “had a fantastic game, with many excellent saves.”

The game marked the end of regular season play for seven Wolf seniors — Brett Arnold, Cameron Boyd, Josiah Campbell, Jared Dickson, Sean Donley, Jason Knoll and Gunnar Langvold.

JV victory dance: Cody Menges scored for the Wolves and delighted the pro-Wolf audience with an inspired victory celebration, as he charged around the field.

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A tie? Um, what now?!?!

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged , , , on May 2, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Abraham Leyva has scored 10 goals to rank among the league leaders. (John Fisken photos)

Abraham Leyva has scored 10 goals to rank among the league leaders. (John Fisken photos)

Sean Donley operates in the open field.

Sean Donley operates in the open field.

Well, this is no one’s idea of a really fun Friday night…

Travel all the way to Granite Falls, play a winless team, and the best you come away with is a tie.

Not the result anyone was probably hoping for, or likely expecting.

But like it or not, the Coupeville High School boys’ soccer squad did just that, eking out a slightly-less-than-thrilling 2-2 tie with the host Tigers.

The stalemate left the Wolves at 5-8-2 overall, 4-8-1 in Cascade Conference play (Granite is 0-13-2) with one game left on the 2014 schedule.

Coupeville welcomes King’s to town Monday for Senior Night (6 PM).

As the #3 team among 1A schools in the 1A/2A league, CHS will be at home when the playoffs begin next week.

If there was a bright spot for Coupeville fans Friday, it came in seeing sophomore sensation Abraham Leyva punch in his tenth goal of the season.

That puts the first-year Wolf among the conference scoring leaders.

Coupeville senior Sean Donley set up Leyva on the score, while also finding the back of the net himself for the fourth time.

Zane Bundy collected an assist on Donley’s score, while Joel Walstad manned the net for the Wolves.

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Fit to be tied!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged , , , on April 22, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Sean Donley

Sean Donley leads the charge. (John Fisken photos)

Zane Bundy

Zane Bundy collected another assist Monday.

Betrayed by the ferry!

Forced to depart Friday Harbor or spend the night there, the Coupeville High School boys’ soccer squad had to forgo playing overtime and accept a 3-3 draw Monday night.

The tie, coming against a non-conference foe they pushed around in a season-opening win, left the Wolves at 4-6-1, winless in their last four matches.

The stalemate was a bright spot for Friday Harbor, which improved to 0-11-1.

CHS coach Kyle Nelson preferred to look on the bright side of things afterwards.

“It was a fairly even match; Friday Harbor was improved from our first game,” he said. “Good to get a positive result after our difficult week last week.”

Wolf sophomore Abraham Leyva continued his assault on the net, punching in his eighth and ninth goals of the season, while senior Sean Donley hit on his third score.

Donley and sophomore Zane Bundy notched assists.

Friday Harbor was paced by two goals from Daniel Porter and one from Sam Paul-Barrette.

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