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One last tip-off!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged All-State, Basketball, CHS Wolves, King's, Makana Stone, Makenna Faulkner, Mikayla Pivec on March 17, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Makana Stone will play college ball at Whitman. (Sylvia Hurlburt photo)

It’s a reunion.

When Coupeville High School senior Makana Stone takes the floor Saturday in Seattle for the All-State basketball game, the final contest of her stellar prep career, she’ll be teaming up with the girl who knocked her out of the playoffs.

Makenna Faulkner, who paced Cashmere in scoring when the Bulldogs upended Coupeville in the regional round of the state tourney in late Feb., joins Stone as one of the 10 players on the 1A squad.

Also on the team is Shoni Pritchett of Charles Wright Academy, a player Stone went toe-to-toe with at the district tourney.

Now, Stone, Pritchett, Faulkner and seven other girls will unite to face off with the best from 2A in the middle game of the three-game event.

The action will tip off at King’s High School, with 1B vs. 2B at 2 PM, 1A vs. 2A at 4 and 3A vs. 4A at 6.

The players and coaches of the year for each classification will be honored at halftime of each game.

During halftime of the final game, Ms. Basketball 2016 (bet on Mikayla Pivec of 3A Lynnwood and thank me later) and the WSGBCA State Coach of the Year will be announced.

The 1A roster, which will be coached by Shane Wichers of Nooksack Valley:

Kendall Adams (King’s)
Makenna Faulkner (Cashmere)
Daylee Hanson (King’s)
Kassin Hopkins (Connell)
Anna Parker (King’s)
Shoni Pritchett (Charles Wright Academy)
Emma Stockholm (Chelan)
Makana Stone (Coupeville)
Shaye Swannack (Lakeside Nine Mile)
Kendra Walin (Connell)

2A roster (coached by Dori Monson of Shorecrest):

Lexie Bland (Ellensburg)
Alyssa Blankenship (Washougal)
Edie Breckinridge (Burlington-Edison)
Keyara Brooks (Tyee)
Uju Chibuoghu (Shorecrest)
Alyx Fast (Centralia)
Jessica Flanigan (Woodland)
Darian Gore (White River)
Joni Lancaster (Rochester)
Harley Vanatta (Ephrata)

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Curtin on the short list!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged Aaron Curtin, Aaron Trumbull, All-State, baseball, CHS Wolves, Josh Bayne, Kyle Bodamer on June 4, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Kyle Bodamer, breaking bats (and hearts) wherever he goes. (Shelli Trumbull photos)

Wolf seniors (l to r) Aaron Curtin, Aaron Trumbull, Josh Bayne and Bodamer get serious for one last group photo op.

Bayne has places to go and he always believes in arriving early.

South Whidbey’s Trent Fallon (middle) and Mo Hamsa (beard) joke around with their Coupeville counterparts.

Trumbull and Curtin, who played together since little league, exchange one last fist bump.

Trumbull and Curtin, who have played together since little league, exchange one last fist bump.

One hurdle down, one to go.

Coupeville High School senior pitcher Aaron Curtin was nominated for the All-State baseball series Wednesday after playing in the 1A/2B/1B Northwest Regional Feeder Games in Bellingham.

Curtin was one of 10 players to be nominated, and the only one from the four Wolf players who participated in the feeder games.

Fellow CHS seniors Aaron Trumbull, Kyle Bodamer and Josh Bayne wrapped up their high school careers by playing in the two-game series at Joe Martin Field.

Final decisions on the All-State rosters will be announced June 7, with the games in Yakima June 13-14.

If Curtin makes the final cut, it would give Coupeville a representative for the second straight year.

Last year, Ben Etzell got the call and pitched in the second game at All-State.

The feeder games in Bellingham were part of a state-wide effort to showcase senior diamond men.

Coupeville’s quartet played for the Americans team, which was coached by South Whidbey’s Tom Fallon.

They tied 6-6 in the opener Wednesday, then lost 4-3 in the nightcap.

Nooksack Valley’s Cole Mattice won the second game when he singled home Meridian’s Tanner Tutterrow with two outs in the seventh inning.

The winning rally included a boost from a player who could have been a Wolf.

Taylor Gardner attended elementary school in Coupeville, before a family move took his baseball skills to Nooksack Valley.

His walk in the seventh, packaged between singles from Tutterrow and Overlake’s Mike Lau, juiced the bags for Mattice.

Along with Curtin, the other nominees for All-State include Tuterrow, Ryan Gelwicks (Nooksack), David McLaurin (Cedar Park Christian), Andrew Young (Darrington), Curtis Handy (Nooksack), Mo Hamsa (South Whidbey), Aaron Mell (Overlake), Evan Sather (Overlake) and Gibson Fichter (Concrete).

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Don’t put the mitts away yet!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged Aaron Curtin, All-State, baseball, CHS Wolves, Joe Martin Field, Josh Bayne on May 27, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Aaron Trumbull will pitch at least one more game at the high school level. (John Fisken photos)

Josh Bayne swings on to another adventure.

Baseball plays on.

The high school season is done for Coupeville, but four Wolf seniors have been tabbed for the 1A/2B/1B state feeder games in Bellingham June 3.

Aaron Curtin, Kyle Bodamer, Aaron Trumbull and Josh Bayne will all see time in both games played that day at Joe Martin Field.

The quartet will play for the Americans team run by South Whidbey coach Tom Fallon.

Other players on the squad will come from Overlake, South Whidbey, Darrington, Concrete, Mount Baker and Lynden Christian.

The Nationals squad is coached by Scott Gelwicks of Nooksack Valley.

Game time is 5 PM for the doubleheader, which will consist of two eight-inning games.

Afterwards, 3-7 players will be nominated for consideration to the All-State games, which are June 13-14 in Yakima.

Last year, Coupeville sent Ben Etzell to those games.

This year, Trumbull and Curtin are slated to pitch three innings apiece, while also seeing time at first and third base, respectively.

Bayne and Bodamer are listed for outfield duty.

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Bullpucky!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged All-State, AP are idiots, Basketball, CHS Wolves, Izzy Severns, Makana Stone on March 31, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Dear AP voters, this is Makana Stone. How could you not vote for her? (John Fisken photos)

Izzy Severns, great person, good hoops player. All-State in soccer? Heck yes. In basketball that slot belonged to Stone.

The people who voted for the Associated Press All-State basketball teams are either blind, easily bribed or just morons.

I understand Coupeville is a small town, on an Island, and 99.2% of reporters and editors at the big city papers pay absolutely no attention to us.

Cause how else do you explain the fact Makana Stone, the slam-dunk MVP of the Olympic League, leader of a Wolf squad that went 9-0 in league play and won every game by 15+ points, was left off the AP’s list, while another player from the same league, is on there?

With all due respect to Klahowya’s Izzy Severns, who seems like a really nice young woman and was (arguably) the second best player in the league, huh?

Stone was the dominant player on the dominant team, and it wasn’t even close.

Coupeville went 15-7. Klahowya went 4-15.

Severns was a hustler, a scrapper and a decent scorer on a team that went nowhere.

Stone was the league’s transcendent player, doing anything and everything needed that night to fuel a team that rolled to a league title.

Coupeville’s JV, which also went 9-0 in league play, would have given the Wolf varsity more of a sustained challenge than Klahowya did.

Dominant on the boards, rejecting shots, making off with steals, able to change the flow of the game by herself (at one point she poured in 22 straight points for CHS) or work within a total team-orientated game, Stone was the whole package.

Now, Severns was, quite justifiably, a First Team All-State soccer player, where she helped lead the Eagles to a state title.

Did voters, many (if not all) of whom never saw a single game played by an Olympic League team, just vote for a name they recognized from the fall?

Cause, if they actually saw Stone play and still want to make an argument for voting in favor of one of her runner-ups, maybe it’s time to consider changing jobs.

Maybe try doing something that hires the legally blind.

To see the AP teams, pop over to:

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20150331/SPORTS01/150339742/1007/AP-announces-All-State-basketball-teams-

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Next stop for Bayne Train? All-State game!!

Posted in Football, tagged All-State, Bayne Train, CHS Wolves, Earl Barden All-Star Classic, football, Josh Bayne on February 9, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Josh Bayne (John Fisken photo)

Pack up the family van. It’s time for a road trip.

The place to be is Earl Barden Stadium at East Valley High School in Yakima June 20, when Coupeville High School’s standout running back, Josh Bayne, will compete in the All-State game.

Bayne, who will have graduated from CHS at that point (after possibly winning a state title in baseball), was tabbed as one of the best football players in 2A, 1A and 2B.

He’s the first Wolf to get the honor since Mike Bagby in 2006.

There was little doubt Bayne deserved the nod, after throwing down an MVP season in Coupeville’s debut in the Olympic League and being selected as an All-State player both as a running back and linebacker.

He led all 1A players in rushing yards, touchdowns and interceptions, proving himself a terror both ways.

Bayne’s pertinent stats:

Passing: 1 of 1 for 43 yards. So, perfection.

Rushing: 143 carries for 1,528 yards. #1 in 1A.

Receiving: 31 catches for 460 yards. #12 in 1A.

Kickoff/punt returns: 11 returns for 224 yards, after which teams refused to kick his way for most of the season.

Total yards: 2,031. #4 in 1A.

All-Purpose yards: 2,281.

Touchdowns: 25. #1 in 1A. 15 rushing, 10 receiving. Twice scored six in a game this year.

Tackles: 91. 77 solo, 14 assists. #3 in 1A.

Sacks: 2 (while playing in the defensive backfield).

Interceptions: 6. Tied for #1 in 1A.