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Wolves beat heat, scorch ATM!!

Posted in Girls Tennis, tagged , , , , on May 2, 2014| Leave a Comment »

McKenzie Bailey and Co. swatted ATM Thursday to end their season on a winning note. (John Fisken photo)

   McKenzie Bailey and Co. swatted ATM Thursday to end their season on a winning note. (John Fisken photo)

"We are the champions ... of the sun-baked world!!" (Heidi Monroe photo)

“We are the champions … of the sun-baked world!!” (Heidi Monroe photo)

Everett delivered the heat, but the Wolves were the ones who were on fire Thursday.

Playing in 80+ degree heat at Archbishop Thomas Murphy, the Coupeville High School girls’ tennis team closed its regular season with a sizzlin’ 4-3 win over the private school rich kids.

The third straight win for the Wolves, it brought their final mark to 6-7 overall, 4-4 in Cascade Conference play.

“The girls and I were all pretty excited by the result,” said Coupeville coach Ken Stange. “I’ll admit that I’d hoped we would end up with a winning record, but after losing five straight, winning the final three matches eased much of the pain!”

The match was decided by the most deceptively tough duo on the sun-baked hard-courts — freshman Valen Trujillo and junior Micky LeVine.

Get past the mega-watt smiles and impeccable manners, and these are girls who will slice you off at the knee caps — which is a good thing.

“It wasn’t easy, but Valen was hitting her hardest shots of the season, and Micky and her racket had the reflexes of a shortstop!” a jubilant (and possibly overheated) Stange bellowed.

Complete results:

Varsity:

1st Singles — Allie Hanigan beat Molly Corbett 6-0, 6-4

2nd Singles — Jacki Ginnings beat Kitty Zheng 6-1, 7-5

3rd Singles — Sydney Autio lost to Laren Braswell 6-1, 6-0

4th Singles — Sydney Aparicio lost to Taylor Herrera 6-4, 7-6(8-6)

1st Doubles — Samantha Martin/McKenzie Bailey lost to Haley Sizelove/Dana Tran 6-7(6-8), 6-4, 10-4

2nd Doubles — Wynter Thorne/Ivy Luvera beat Alicia Asmundson/Maddie Clark 6-1, 6-2

3rd Doubles — Micky LeVine/Valen Trujillo beat Madelyn Hoban/Amy Camilleri 6-3, 6-3

JV:

5th Singles — Haleigh Deasy beat Esha Nath 6-1

4th Doubles — Ana Luvera/Jazmine Franklin beat Lena Villani/Maty Rowley 8-4

5th Doubles — Maureen Rice/Deasy beat Natalie Sizelove/Helen Huang 8-0

6th Doubles — Bree Daigneault/Autio beat Meredith Shaw/Teresa Straughn 8-0

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Softball squad scares ATM!!

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , on April 29, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Wolf catcher Breeanna Messner comes up firing and guns down a potential stealer. (John Fisken photo)

Wolf catcher Breeanna Messner comes up firing and guns down a potential stealer. (John Fisken photo)

“Two different Coupeville teams showed up this week.”

That was Coupeville High School softball coach David King’s feelings after his squad dropped three games in two days, but with wildly different results.

The Wolves, now 4-11 on the season, got bounced, hard, in a doubleheader loss at Sultan Monday. The 14-4 and 9-0 losses were over quickly and painfully.

By contrast, CHS rebounded sharply Tuesday, and while the Wolves were edged out 5-3 by visiting Archbishop Thomas Murphy, it was a game that came down to the final at-bat and had its share of positives.

“This game was a 180-degree reversal of how we played the day before in Sultan,” King said. “We came ready to play, we played better defense and we came ready to hit.

“We had two errors that cost us, but the effort was there.”

The Wolves crunched  11 hits, with Madeline Roberts, Breeanna Messner and Emily Coulter each rapping out a pair.

Madeline Strasburg whacked a triple, while McKayla Bailey, Hailey Hammer, Tiffany Briscoe and Emily Licence all chipped in with singles. Coupeville almost got more, but ATM pulled off a couple of stellar running catches to deny the Wolves.

A day earlier, it was Coupeville’s gloves that hurt them the worst against the Turks.

“Defensively this was probably our low point on the season,” King said.

The Wolves dropped two infield pop ups, almost lost a third one before making the juggling catch, dropped two more balls in the outfield and consistently took bad angles on fly balls all game.

“It’s just tough when you have to get extra outs in an inning throughout the game,” King said.

In the midst of the meltdown, however, freshman third baseman Licence made a dazzling play that brought a moment of peace to her frazzled coach.

“Emily made a great play on a slow grounder to her left, a slap type hit from a left handed batter,” King said. “Emily charged and took the correct angle towards the pitching circle. She fielded it, made the transfer on the run and threw the runner out by a step.

“It reminded me of many of the plays Omar Vizquel used to make for the Mariners when he played.”

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Wolf fans strong, ATM stronger!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged , , , on April 29, 2014| Leave a Comment »

(John Fisken photos)

  Wolf fans (front, l to r, Emilee Crichton, Julia Myers, Jenn Spark, rear, Sylvia Hurlburt, Makana Stone) stayed upbeat. (John Fisken photos)

Moms, loud and proud.

CHS moms, loud and proud.

Coupeville packed the stands Tuesday, but Archbishop Thomas Murphy packed the net.

The Wolf faithful came out loud and proud to support its boys’ soccer squad, but the #1 team in the Cascade Conference took some of the wind out of their sails, raining down goals from all angles on its way to a 7-0 win.

The victory kept ATM on top of the league standings, even as Cedarcrest and South Whidbey nip at its heels.

Coupeville slipped to 5-8-1 overall, 4-8 in league play.

The Wolves, who are out of playoff contention, close with a game at Granite Falls Friday, May 2 and a home clash against King’s Monday, May 5.

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Well, that was just awful…

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , on April 5, 2014| Leave a Comment »

CHS coach Willie Smith, seen here hitting fungoes, was not in a chatty mood after Friday's loss. (John Fisken photo)

CHS coach Willie Smith, seen here hitting fungoes, was not in a chatty mood after Friday’s loss. (John Fisken photo)

Willie Smith was not in a mood to talk.

Having seen his Coupeville High School baseball squad lose 11-0 Friday at Archbishop Thomas Murphy, the team’s third straight loss, all by increasing margins, he only had one sentence to say in his post-game comments.

“Nothing good happened,” Smith said. “Except we are done playing them and maybe now we can get back to playing baseball and not playing whatever it was we’ve been playing the last week.”

Coupeville had entered the series with high hopes, boasting a 3-1 record and ready to rumble with the dominant team in the Cascade Conference. It didn’t go well, however, as the Wolves were outscored 24-1 over three games.

Now 3-4 overall, 2-4 in league play, Coupeville will start fresh Monday, kicking off a three-game set against Cedarcrest.

As one of only two 1A schools to play baseball in the conference (King’s doesn’t play the sport), the Wolves are guaranteed a playoff spot.

They are battling with South Whidbey (3-5) for the top seed, and hold a tiebreaker over the Falcons, having taken two of three against the Falcons.

Friday, the damage all happened in a two-inning span, as ATM jumped on Coupeville’s pitchers for three in the third, then sent eight across the plate in the fourth.

Even Haugen was the main culprit, smacking a pair of doubles and driving in six.

With Coupeville, the smallest 1A school in the state, jumping from the 1A/2A Cascade Conference to the 1A Olympic League in the fall, it was the final time the Wolves will face the 2A private school.

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Wolf bats stuck in neutral

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , on April 2, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Aaron Trumbull had one of Coupeville's four hits Wednesday. (John Fisken photo)

   Aaron Trumbull had one of Coupeville’s four hits Wednesday. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

There wasn’t a big play or a defining moment.

For that matter, Archbishop Thomas Murphy, despite its reputation and unbeaten Cascade Conference record, didn’t look all that special.

But, the Wildcats played error-free ball, made the small moments count, and slipped past Coupeville 8-0 to take the middle game of a three-game baseball series on a sunny, wind-free Wednesday afternoon on the prairie.

The loss dropped the Wolves to 3-3 overall, 2-3 in league play, while ATM improved to 6-2, 6-0.

The teams will play again Friday in Everett, the final time the two schools will meet on a baseball diamond as league rivals, since CHS is leaving the 1A/2A Cascade Conference and moving to the 1A Olympic League in the fall.

Wednesday’s game was fairly close for the first four innings, with ATM holding a narrow 2-0 lead.

The Wildcats got a run in the top of the first when Coupeville blew a rundown.

With a runner trapped between second and third and two outs, the Wolves made two good throws, then had a third throw dropped, allowing the runner to get back to the bag while another ATM player strolled home.

The inning had started with a bang, when ATM’s lead-off hitter crushed the first pitch Wolf hurler Aaron Curtin threw his way, sending a rocket into right field.

Pushing his luck, the Wildcat hitter swung hard around first and went for a double, only to have Wolf outfielder Kurtis Smith come up firing and nail him at second with a sensational throw.

Unfortunately for Coupeville, they couldn’t mount a similar attack at the plate, scraping together just singles from Ben Etzell, Morgan Payne and Jake Tumblin through the first four innings.

ATM finally broke through in the fifth, putting together five hits, a walk and a bobbled ball in the outfield, driving Curtin from the mound.

Wade Schaef trotted in from center to toe the rubber and eventually closed things out, but not before the Wildcats amassed a six-run rally.

From there it was academic, as Coupeville could only get one hit — a single from Aaron Trumbull — over the final three innings.

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