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One final swing in the spotlight!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged All-State, baseball, CHS Wolves, CJ Smith, Cole Payne, feeder games on June 3, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Cole Payne straps on his catcher’s gear one final time. (Joan Payne photos)

CJ Smith takes a wicked cut.

Payne shares a moment with South Whidbey’s Charlie Patterson.

It was their final moments on a high school baseball field, and they spent it together.

Cole Payne and CJ Smith played alongside each other for three years at Coupeville High School, and Thursday they slapped on their Wolf uniforms one last time.

The duo were in Bellingham for the 1A/B All-State feeder games, and they went out with a splash.

Payne caught 10 innings over the course of the two eight-inning games, then made his high school pitching debut, tossing two scoreless innings.

Smith alternated between the mound, where he threw three innings, and second base, where he put in four strong innings of work.

While their team was swept in the doubleheader, falling 5-3 and 6-3, both Wolves stood tall.

“Good competitive games all around,” said CHS assistant coach Chris Smith, who was in the dugout for the twin-bill.

Payne and Smith raked as well, both piling up two hits on the day.

After the doubleheader, Payne was one of 10 players nominated by coaches to advance on to play in the All-State games June 11-12 in Yakima.

He passed.

“Cole declined, stating thank you, but I am a high school grad now and I am hanging up my high school baseball cleats,” Chris Smith said.

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Forever a champ!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged 1A vs. 2A, All-State, Basketball, CHS Wolves, final game, hoops, Makana Stone, Shane Wichers on March 19, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville senior Makana Stone models a new, one-day-only uniform. (Amy King photo)

Winner, winner, chicken dinner. (Eileen Stone photo)

Makana Stone bowed out a winner.

Playing in her final high school basketball game Saturday, the Coupeville High School senior piled up some nice stats to help her 1A squad upend the 2A team 87-80 at the All-State game.

Stone threw down six points, snatched six boards, rejected four shots and dealt out two assists.

“A really good game. Makana represented Coupeville well,” said CHS coach David King, who was in the stands with wife/assistant coach Amy to watch their star’s prep swan song.

The middle game of a three-game day (1B and 2B opened the day at King’s High School and 3A and 4A were to close), the 1A vs. 2A tilt was a close one.

Coming out strong, the 1A all-stars blew out to a 12-point lead in the first five minutes of the game

While the 2A squad chipped their way back into the game, Stone tallied her first points on a sweet little jump shot that found nothing but net.

Up 44-40 at the half, 1A coach Shane Wichers of Nooksack Valley inserted Stone as a starter to begin the second half.

“Makana played well; she got into a good rhythm in the half,” David King said.

The 2A team banged away from the outside, draining a number of three-balls to keep things close, but the 1A stars, including Stone, closed the game with precision work at the free throw stripe.

As she and her nine new teammates basked in the glow of one final prep win, her coaches watched with pride.

“What a honor and great opportunity for Makana and the other players participating today,” David King said.

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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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