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Sluggers aim for return to state tourney

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , on March 10, 2026| Leave a Comment »

“The Red Dragon” is ready to rumble. Diamond dazzler Teagan Calkins is back for her senior season. (David Somes photo)

“I’m never satisfied and neither are the players. We can improve in all phases.”

Aaron Lucero’s first season as head coach of the Coupeville High School softball program was an impressive one, with the Wolves splitting four games at the 2B state tourney, eliminating Colfax and Raymond-South Bend en route to finishing 20-3.

But while that was a good start, it was just a start for the diamond sage, and one he and his players want to take further.

So, while the Wolves will have to adapt to losing several key players to graduation, they are also champing at the bit with a roster which is both young and already varsity tested.

Sophomore slinger Adeline Maynes returns to the pitcher’s circle, where she’ll be chucking fastballs to senior catcher Teagan Calkins.

The duo is deadly, but so is the #2 unit, with junior Haylee Armstrong peppering pitches to sophomore backup backstop Ava Lucero.

“Pitching and catching are big assets for us,” Aaron Lucero said.

“Adeline has a lot of experience in the circle and is a rock out there. She gets better every year.

“Teagan plays like Teagan and will be the anchor as she’s got a huge amount of experience to go with her talent.”

Wheel in Armstrong and Ava Lucero, who will be everyday starters at other positions, and there’s not much slippage.

“I feel we have the two best catchers in the league in Teagan and Ava, and the two best pitchers in the league with Adeline and Haylee,” Aaron Lucero said. “They’re a pretty tough 1-2 combination. Fortunate to have had them for so many years.”

Adeline Maynes (middle) is a fireball-flinging destroyer of worlds. (Jackie Saia photo)

Graduated starters Madison McMillan, Mia Farris, Jada Heaton, and Taylor Brotemarkle will be missed, but the core of last year’s squad, the fourth Wolf softball crew to advance to state, returns.

Along with Calkins, Maynes, Armstrong, and the younger Lucero, Coupeville welcomes back young players such as Sydney Van Dyke, Capri Anter, and Chelsi Stevens, who will all take on bigger roles this time out.

Anter, formerly an outfielder, is sliding in as the starting second baseman — “Very excited for that move for her” — while Stevens brings considerable pop to the lineup.

“Chelsi has put in a lot of work and is hitting fantastic,” Aaron Lucero said. “We’re looking forward to her everyday role and the big bat she’s got.”

Young guns (l to r) Sydney Van Dyke, Capri Anter, Ava Lucero, and Haylee Armstrong are back to claim more success. (Jackie Saia photo)

Another young player on the rise is 8th grader Cami Van Dyke, who is slotting in at shortstop.

Overall, 11 of the 19 Wolves on the roster play the sport year-round, giving them a leg up on being ready to have an impact from day one.

“We have a number of freshmen who I expect to be key contributors and likely earning significant field time,” Aaron Lucero said. “We also have some new to the sport players who look more like veterans after just eight practices.

“We have seven 8th graders and I’m very excited to see that strong of a number with the young players, as they are the future.”

In the present, the Wolves know Friday Harbor will likely be their biggest obstacle in defending their Northwest 2B/1B League crown and have stuffed the non-league portion of the schedule with challenging opponents.

“We’ve got some tough teams on the calendar to push us to be better for league and state,” Aaron Lucero said. “Oak Harbor, Lakewood, a doubleheader with Forks, and Klahowya, who is always tough.”

The path is different each season. The goal remains the same, however.

“Win the league, districts, and get back to state!”

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“We made them work for that win”

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on February 17, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Capri Anter (30) and Adeline Maynes are part of a pack of talented younger hoops players who can return next season. (Jackie Saia photo)

“It was an absolute dog fight for 36 minutes!”

Coupeville High School varsity girls’ basketball coach Scout Smith had an up close and personal view of Tuesday’s playoff rumble between her Wolves and host Orcas Island.

And she witnessed a wild one, with both teams dropping daggers and pulling miracles out of thin air before the Vikings finally escaped with a 50-48 overtime win.

While the loss drops Coupeville to 5-15 and eliminates them from the District 1/2 playoffs a game shy of vying for a state tourney berth, Smith glowed with pride afterwards.

“It’s never fun to lose, but we can walk away from the game with our heads held high,” she said. “I am very proud of the way our team played and fought hard throughout the game.

“Each one left everything they had out on the court tonight.

“Credit to Orcas Island. They played a good game, and we made them work for that win.”

Coupeville’s win/loss record has been deceptive all season, with a young team coming very close to flipping the script in numerous narrow losses.

The Wolves squared off with the Vikings three times this season, and the margin of defeat in those games? Three, two, and two points.

Tuesday’s tilt opened in favor of CHS, which pulled out to an early 10-6 lead, with four different players hitting the bottom of the net — but not the one who would eventually lead the team in scoring.

A big three-ball from Teagan Calkins, setup by a rebound and pass from defensive dynamo Arianna Cunningham, was the main dagger, but then things took a big swerve.

As in the Wolves plunged off a cliff for a bit.

Orcas closed the first quarter with a bucket, then went off on a 14-1 surge in the second frame, momentarily making it look like this might be a blowout, and not in a good way.

Never fear, as Danica Strong wasn’t going out like that.

The Coupeville senior had spent the first half doing the dirty work, ripping down rebounds and swatting one wayward Orcas shot into the cheap seats, but after the halftime break, she came out ready to rain down pain.

Scoring all 15 of her points across the second half and overtime, Strong started tossing haymakers, and the Vikings got staggered.

The Wolves got back to within 26-24 midway through the third quarter but made their biggest moves in the fourth.

Back-to-back breakaway buckets off of steals by Haylee Armstrong and Tenley Stuurmans forced a 31-31 tie, before Strong powered her way through the paint to give the Wolves their first lead in a long time at 35-34.

With the clock ticking down, the teams exchanged buckets, with Orcas reclaiming the lead at the very end.

Cue an ice water in her veins moment from Armstrong, who knocked down a free throw with 13.9 seconds to play to knot things at 40-40, before CHS made one final defensive stand to force extra time.

Neither team was ready to go down easy in the four-minute overtime frame, with Strong netting a pair of free throws, Orcas surging ahead 45-42, then Strong nailing a game-tying trey from the right side.

The Vikings slipped back ahead on a pair of charity shots, before things got really dramatic.

Armstrong popped a three-ball on the move to stake Coupeville to a 48-47 lead, only to have Orcas gunner Sofia Mahony-Jauregui answer with a long-range rainbow of her own with under 30 seconds to play to set the final score.

Coming out victorious, the Vikings advance to play Friday Harbor Thursday in Mount Vernon in a winner-to-state, loser-out game, while the Wolves will turn their eyes to the future, when they can return eight of the 10 players from this year’s roster.

“We look forward to next season and bringing back so many young and talented players,” Smith said.

“We will definitely miss our seniors Danica and Teagan, but we are extremely grateful for their contributions to our program.”

Strong capped her run as a Wolf hoops star with a team-high 15 points, while Stuurmans, just a sophomore, banked in 14 in support.

Armstrong (8), Calkins (5), Cunningham (3), and Maynes (3) also scored, with Kennedy O’Neill and Lexis Drake seeing floor time.

As she exits, Calkins notches one final personal milestone, becoming the 26th Wolf girl to score 400 career points for a program launched in 1974.

“The Red Dragon” finishes with 402 points, while Armstrong, a junior, also hit a major mark. With 305 points and counting, she is the 39th CHS female player to crack the 300-point club.

Armstrong, who entered the season with 98 points to her credit, tallied a team-high 207 this season, the most any Wolf girl has scored across a single campaign in the last decade.

She and current JV coach Alita Blouin, who racked up 204 points during the 2022-2023 season, are the only 200+ female single-season scorers since Makana Stone nuked the nets for 427 points in 2015-2016.

 

Final season scoring stats:

Haylee Armstrong – 207
Tenley Stuurmans – 171
Teagan Calkins – 160
Danica Strong – 97
Arianna Cunningham – 53
Adeline Maynes – 47
Kennedy O’Neill – 44
Capri Anter – 8
Lexis Drake – 8
Sydney Van Dyke – 8

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Wolves, Vikings battle to final shot

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on January 23, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Haylee Armstrong comes bearing gifts. (Jackie Saia photo)

Tantalizingly close.

A missed free throw here, a miracle buzzer-beating three-ball there, and the Coupeville High School varsity girls’ basketball team narrowly missed out on what would have been a crowd-pleasing upset victory Friday night.

Instead, it was visiting Orcas Island which got to celebrate, as the Vikings found just enough magic at the right moments to claim a 37-35 victory.

The loss, which came despite some inspired play from the Wolves, drops CHS to 1-6 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 4-11 overall.

Coupeville slips a game-and-a-half behind Friday Harbor (2-4) in the hunt for the final playoff berth for 2B schools in the NWL, but there is still time to change things.

Friday Harbor has four games remaining on its schedule, while the Wolves have three — with the regular-season finale Feb. 6 a showdown between the teams.

Scout Smith’s squad fought back from an early deficit Friday and seemed to have the Vikings on the ropes several times.

Down 7-0 barely a minute into the game, the Wolves pulled back to within 11-6 by the end of the first quarter, with the biggest bucket a Haylee Armstrong three-ball coming off of a steal.

That seemed to spark Coupeville, which held Orcas scoreless for the first seven minutes of the second frame, pulling out to a 14-11 advantage.

Tenley Stuurmans keyed the surge, dishing the ball to Kennedy O’Neill for a layup, before circling around outside to net a silky three-ball set up by a pass from Adeline Maynes.

Orcas proved to be tough to put down for good, however, as the visitors converted back-to-back offensive rebound putbacks to force a 15-15 tie at the half.

The third quarter was a tense affair, with both teams holding the lead, and neither squad able to land a true knockout punch.

Teagan Calkins opened the frame by burying a three-ball from deep on the right side of the floor, but Orcas stung late by banking in a nearly impossible trey literally at the buzzer to pull ahead 26-24.

With the gym getting progressively louder, every play in the fourth quarter seemed to carry considerable weight, and the Wolves rose to the moment.

Down 30-24, Coupeville put together a 10-0 surge that saw four different hometown heroes score.

A free throw from Calkins started things off, with Danica Strong hitting a dagger of a jumper on a play kept alive by Arianna Cunningham outwrestling a foe for an offensive rebound.

From there, a Calkins jumper, a Cunningham layup under great duress, and a high, arcing three-ball off the fingertips of Armstrong helped build a 34-30 lead and potentially set the stage for a celebration.

Which came, but at the wrong end of the floor.

With its back to the wall, Orcas came up big time, closing the game on a 7-1 run, while Coupeville’s final offensive chance came up just short, the ball squirting away during a final-second melee.

While the loss stings, the closeness of the battle once again demonstrates that the win/loss record is a bit deceptive for a feisty Wolf squad which fears no opponent.

Armstrong led Coupeville with 11 points, while Calkins banked in 10 and Stuurmans rattled the rim for six. Maynes, Cunningham, Strong, and O’Neill all chipped in with a bucket as all seven Wolves who played Friday scored.

With her performance, Armstrong, a junior, cracks the 250-point club, becoming the 48th CHS girl to do so between 1974-2026.

With 258 points and counting, she sits #46 all-time and second among active players, with Calkins, a senior, currently at #28 with 370 points.

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Nothing but net, again and again

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 12, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Adeline Maynes gets fired up. (Jackie Saia photo)

The basket was jumping.

Raining down buckets from every angle Monday, the Coupeville High School varsity girls’ basketball team set a season-high, scorching host Auburn Adventist Academy 64-29.

The non-conference road win lifts the Wolves to 3-9 on the season heading into a home rumble Friday with Northwest 2B/1B League rival Darrington.

Scout Smith’s squad poured it on, and never relented Monday, with the 64 points easily besting their previous high of 48.

Eight minutes into play the game was all but over, with Haylee Armstrong and Teagan Calkins combining for 14 points to spur a game-opening 21-2 surge.

From there CHS pushed the advantage out to 36-13 at the half and 52-20 through three quarters.

The Wolves snapped the nets on five shots from behind the three-point arc, with Armstrong, Calkins, and Danica Strong all netting treys.

Coupeville also put together one of its better shooting performances at the free-throw line, hitting on nine of 14 shots, while Auburn clanked its way to a 4-19 performance at the stripe.

Armstrong almost outscored her rivals by herself, accounting for a game-high 20 points, while Adeline Maynes knocked down a season-high 10 in support.

Tenley Stuurmans (8), Calkins (8), Strong (5), Kennedy O’Neill (4), Sydney Van Dyke (4), Arianna Cunningham (3), and Capri Anter (2) also tallied points, while Lexis Drake hit the boards hard.

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Hurricanes rain pain from long distance

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 16, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Adeline Maynes fires off a free throw. (Julie Wheat photos)

The Hurricanes made it rain.

Hitting 11 three-balls Tuesday, including five in the first quarter alone, the Mount Vernon Christian varsity girls’ basketball team rolled past host Coupeville 69-28 in a show of dominance.

The loss drops the Wolves to 0-2 in Northwest 2B/1B League action, 1-4 overall, with a three-game trip to the Trojan Storm Classic in Bellingham next up for Scout Smith’s squad.

Coupeville is slated to play Dec. 29-31, opening against Blaine before squaring off with two as-yet-to-be-named rivals the following days.

The Wolves won’t play another league game until Jan. 6, 2026, when they host Friday Harbor, and won’t see MVC again until a Jan. 27 road trip to the mainland.

That should give Coupeville some time to wash away the bad taste of Tuesday’s first quarter.

Things did not go well for the Wolves across the game’s first seven minutes-plus, with the ‘Canes hitting four consecutive treys as part of a game-opening 21-0 tear.

CHS finally broke through when freshman Kennedy O’Neill crashed hard through the paint with just 43 seconds left in the frame, earning a three-point play the hard way, thanks to a bucket and free throw.

Then the pain resurfaced.

Mount Vernon Christian scored five more points in the first quarter, capping a 26-3 frame by netting a three-ball with a single second remaining on the clock, before scoring three straight buckets to open the second.

Down 32-3, the Wolves hung tough, however, closing the half on a mini run of their own to cut the lead back to 36-10.

A three-ball from Teagan Calkins, set up by a Danica Strong offensive rebound, brought an emotional response from the pro-Wolf crowd, while Strong also played beat the buzzer, banking in a shot with two ticks left to play.

Long-range assassin Danica Strong is locked and loaded.

But while MVC didn’t hit any long-range shots in the second quarter, it got right back down to business in the third, splashing home four more treys to push the margin to 55-16.

There were bright spots for the Wolves, though.

Strong hit paydirt on a pair of three-balls while also coming up big cleaning the glass, while Haylee Armstrong showcased her never-say-die attitude, scoring nine of her 12 points in the fourth.

That gives the junior guard a team-best 50 points through the first five games and leaves her just a bucket shy of reaching 150 for her varsity career.

Armstrong’s 12 points was backed up by Strong (8), Calkins (5), and O’Neill (3), with Tenley Stuurmans, Lexis Drake, Sydney Van Dyke, Capri Anter, Adeline Maynes, and Ari Cunningham all seeing floor time.

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