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Photos, in your face!!

Posted in Baseball, Softball, Tennis, tagged baseball, CHS Wolves, John Fisken photos, McKenzie Bailey, Softball, tennis on April 26, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Jae LeVine climbs the staircase to heaven to snare a wayward softball. (John Fisken photos)

Wolf catcher Cole Payne contemplates backhanding the Chimacum runner for getting home plate all dirty.

Jazmine Franklin works all the angles on the tennis court.

Katrina McGranahan comes in hot, easily beating the throw to second.

CHS tennis coach Ken Stange (right) alerts the authorities to the presence of the paparazzi.

Using just the power of his mind, Joey Lippo freezes the baseball in midair. The force is strong with this one.

Matt Hilborn pulls a 2-for-1 special, getting a good flex in while firing to first.

Hope Lodell, AKA “The Surgeon,” prepares to carve up the next pitch.

That moment right before McKenzie “Killer Kenny” Bailey drills you with the ball.

John Fisken’s camera is currently packed in ice, cooling down.

The wanderin’ photo man hit up Coupeville Monday and went a little wild, snapping pics at four different locations.

Giving his trusty camera no time for a breather, Fisken shot middle school track (scroll down the blog an article or two to find those pics), as well as high school baseball, softball and tennis.

The latter three are represented here, with a smorgasbord of his work.

To see more, and possibly purchase some, thereby helping fund college scholarships for CHS student/athletes, pop over to:

Softball — http://www.olympicleague.com/index.php?act=view_gallery&gallery=11349&league=21&page=1&page_name=photo_store&school=24&sport=0

Baseball — http://www.olympicleague.com/index.php?act=view_gallery&gallery=11348&league=21&page=1&page_name=photo_store&school=24&sport=0

Tennis — http://www.olympicleague.com/index.php?act=view_gallery&gallery=11347&league=21&page=1&page_name=photo_store&school=24&sport=0

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The dream lives!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged 1A Olympic League, baseball, CHS Wolves, CJ Smith, Cole Payne, first place on April 25, 2016| Leave a Comment »

CJ Smith, seen here covering the bag at third in an earlier game, tossed another gem on the mound Monday. (John Fisken photos)

Cole Payne’s fleet feet delivered a 2-1 win to the Wolves, raising them to 5-0 in league play.

Don’t stop believin’.

Rallying for two runs late Monday, the Coupeville High School baseball squad pulled out another win, toppling visiting Chimacum 2-1 and clinching at least second-place in the 1A Olympic League.

With the victory, the Wolves (5-0 in league, 8-8 overall) stay atop the conference, one game up on Klahowya (4-1, 13-3) with four to play.

The Wolves and Eagles meet twice more, starting with a meeting at Klahowya Wednesday.

After that, Coupeville closes the regular season at home Friday against Port Townsend (0-5, 0-12), on the road at Chimacum (1-4, 4-9) May 2, and then, finally, at home against Klahowya May 5.

Regardless of how those games play out, CHS will finish ahead of both the Cowboys and RedHawks.

While Chimacum could still finish with the same record as Coupeville, the Wolves now own the tiebreaker.

The stakes are simple from this point.

Win a league title, something no Coupeville baseball squad has done since 1991, and the Wolves start in the double-elimination portion of the district playoffs May 11.

Finish second and CHS hosts a loser-out game May 7 against the #3 team from the Nisqually League.

Either way, six teams will play at districts, with two advancing to state.

To get an early look at the brackets, pop over to: http://www.olympicleague.com/tournament.php?tournament_id=1906&sport=6

Coupeville stayed on target Monday thanks to another stellar outing from senior hurler CJ Smith and some timely work at the plate.

Smith went the distance, fanning nine and surrendering just a single run in the fifth inning.

Still, for quite some time, that seemed like it might be enough to stop the Wolves, as they stranded a number of runners and were bedeviled by some odd calls.

That changed in the bottom of the sixth, when Wolf sophomore Hunter Smith gave his older brother a reprieve, plating Clay Reilly to tie the score at one apiece.

Buoyed by the run, CJ Smith held Chimacum down in the seventh, capping things with a final punch-out.

Tied going into the bottom of the seventh and final regular inning, Coupeville had nothing to lose (worst scenario? extra innings) and got adventurous.

With Cole Payne at third and Reilly at the plate, the Wolves went for broke and it worked.

Getting a good jump, Payne intended to steal home, only to have his teammate provide the perfect cover by rapping the ball in the direction of first base.

With Coupeville’s senior catcher hurtling for the plate, Chimacum had no play and meekly tossed Reilly out as the winning run scored.

Cue the celebration. And continue the march to history.

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Swing low, slide high!!

Posted in Baseball, Softball, tagged baseball, CHS Wolves, John Fisken photos, Lauren Rose, Softball on April 24, 2016| Leave a Comment »

They may call Lauren Rose “Mouse,” but her cannon of an arm roars like a lion when making the throw from third to first. (John Fisken photos)

One cock of the arm from Wolf catcher Cole Payne, and even the most daring of would-be base stealers feel their stomachs drop through their shoes.

Eagle-eyed Tamika Nastali never flinches as she calmly watches ball four arrive.

Joey Lippo’s mom, Connie, will have a mixed reaction to this pic. On the one hand, her son scored. On the other hand, someone has to wash those pants…

Julian Welling remains the king of delivering epic facial expressions while firing in the high, hard cheese.

Raise your hand if you just scored, Veronica Crownover.

“Yeah, I don’t think so…” Clay Reilly can’t be fooled by your weak change-up.

Jae “Flash” LeVine, quicker than a sand storm.

If it’s Saturday, swing away.

Taking advantage of a day off from school, both the Coupeville High School softball and baseball squads hosted non-conference games this weekend.

Bouncing back and forth across the road (while dodging traffic), travelin’ photo clicker John Fisken captured a bit of both games for your viewing pleasure.

The photos above are courtesy him.

To see more, and possibly purchase some, thereby helping fund college scholarships for CHS student/athletes, pop over to:

Softball — http://www.olympicleague.com/index.php?act=view_gallery&gallery=11316&league=21&page=1&page_name=photo_store&school=24&sport=0

Baseball — http://www.olympicleague.com/index.php?act=view_gallery&gallery=11317&league=21&page=1&page_name=photo_store&school=24&sport=0

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Two-out trouble trips up Wolves!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged baseball, CHS Wolves, Julian Welling, Meridian, two-out hits on April 23, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Kory Score, seen here making a defensive play

Kory Score, seen here snagging a low throw at first in an earlier game, knocked in both of Coupeville’s runs Saturday. (John Fisken photo)

One out away.

Stung twice by crucial two-out hits, the Coupeville High School baseball squad fell 4-2 to visiting Meridian Saturday.

The non-conference loss to the #10-ranked team in 1A dropped the Wolves to 7-8 heading into the stretch run of league games.

Sitting atop the Olympic League at 4-0, Coupeville has five games left, with a key stretch of three looming in the week ahead.

First up is Chimacum (1-3) at home Monday, then a trip to Klahowya (2-1) Wednesday, before winding up back on Whidbey Friday to face Port Townsend (0-3).

Saturday’s game was a warm-up for that run at a possible league title, and, while the Wolves came up just a bit short, they held their own against a highly-regarded squad.

CHS hurlers Julian Welling and Matt Hilborn combined to limit the Trojans to just four hits, but Meridian made them count.

Henry Skaggs blasted a three-run, two-out double in the top of the second to stake Meridian to a lead it never relinquished.

Coupeville chipped away, getting back into the game with a single run in both the second and third innings, but left the bags juiced in the third.

Welling led off the second with a walk, and then pinch-runner Joey Lippo sprinted all the way home on an RBI double from Kory Score.

The second Wolf run came via their own backs-to-the-wall magic, as Score capped a run of four-straight two-out hits with an RBI single that plated CJ Smith.

In between Smith and Score, Cole Payne and Welling also dropped in hits.

Both teams swapped zeros on the (non-existent) scoreboard until the sixth, when the two-out bugaboo hit again for the Wolves.

This time it was an RBI double off of the bat of Baker Otter, and it capped the scoring.

While his team came up a hair short, Wolf coach Marc Aparicio liked a lot of what he saw.

“It was a great game. We both played strong, but they just got one hit more than us,” he said. “I’m happy how our team played. Focused on Chimacum now.”

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The kid can’t lose!!

Posted in Baseball, Wolves in college, tagged baseball, Ben Etzell, CHS Wolves, college ball, Saint John's University on April 23, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Ben Etzell meets with up with some of his relatives while playing college ball. (Photo courtesy Kristi Etzell)

A loss? What’s that?

Coupeville High School grad Ben Etzell won for the third time as a college baseball pitcher Saturday, and has yet to taste the sting of defeat.

The former Cascade Conference MVP started and tossed five innings in Minneapolis as his Saint John’s University squad rolled Augsburg College 8-4 in the first game of a doubleheader.

Toss in a 9-8 win in the second game, and the Johnnies sit at 22-9 overall, 10-4 in league play.

Etzell improved to 2-0 on the mound as a sophomore, following strongly on the heels of a freshman season in which he went 1-0 with two saves.

Saturday, he scattered four hits, plunked a batter (just to keep them guessing) and struck out three.

That gives Etzell 31 K’s in 31.2 innings of work this season.

While he didn’t hit against Augsburg, Etzell has piled up some stats at the plate, as well, with six hits, seven runs, four RBI and a pair of doubles.

Saint John’s has three more doubleheaders scheduled this season, then opens the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference post-season tourney May 12.

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