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Concrete? Cracked and crushed!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged baseball, CHS Wolves, Concrete, Joey Lippo, no umps, ten runned on April 13, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Jake Hoagland was one of nine Wolves to get a hit Wednesday, as the Wolf JV crushed Concrete 14-0. (John Fisken photo)

No umps, no problem.

A scheduling snafu left Coupeville and Concrete without any men in blue for their JV baseball game Wednesday, but that didn’t stop the teams from playing.

And it certainly didn’t keep the Wolves from howling.

With CHS varsity coach Marc Aparicio stepping in to call balls and strikes, the CHS young guns slapped their visitors around 14-0 in a game called after five innings.

The win lifted the Wolf JV to 5-1 on the season.

The lack of umpires did not go unnoticed, but everyone survived quite nicely.

“It was a very clean game but bummer we didn’t have them,” said Coupeville JV coach Chris Smith.

Coupeville had everything working, with tons o’ hits, stellar defense and crisp pitching all perfectly meshing under the guidance of Smith and coaching partner Mike Etzell.

Matt Hilborn, Nick Etzell and Jonathan Thurston split time on the mound for the Wolves, combining for the shutout, while their defense was nearly spotless behind them.

At the plate, Joey Lippo lashed a two-run triple to key things, while he, Shane Losey, Hilborn and Etzell all had multiple hits.

Cameron Toomey-Stout, Dane Lucero, Jacob Zettle, Jake Hoagland and Jake Pease all collected hits as well, as the Wolf batters dinged Lion pitching all game long.

The Coupeville JV returns to action Saturday (11 AM), when it hosts a three-team tourney.

The Wolves will play three-inning games against Oak Harbor and South Whidbey, packaged around a similar meeting between the Wildcats and Falcons.

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Defend the diamond!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged baseball, CHS Wolves, JV, Oak Harbor, South Whidbey, tourney on April 12, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Nick Etzell and Co. will host a three-game tourney this Saturday. (John Fisken photos)

Nick Etzell and Co. will host a three-game JV baseball tourney this Saturday. (John Fisken photos)

Cameron Toomey-Stout has helped the Wolf young guns get out to a 4-1 start.

Clear your Saturday.

Coupeville High School’s rampaging JV baseball team has added a three-team home tourney to the schedule, with rematches against both of their Island rivals.

The three-game tourney, which will feature three-inning games, kicks off at 11 AM this Saturday, Apr. 16 at the CHS baseball field.

The tourney will open with Coupeville facing off with Oak Harbor’s C-Team, a week after the two schools split a doubleheader in North Whidbey.

Then, after a match-up between the Wildcats and South Whidbey, the finale will feature the Wolves and Falcons, followed by a barbecue.

Coupeville’s JV squad (4-1 on the season) also hosts Concrete in a regular game tomorrow (Wednesday, Apr. 13).

First pitch is 4:15 PM.

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Long trip, little reward!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged baseball, Blaine, CHS Wolves, Clay Reilly, ten runned on April 11, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Wolf junior Clay Reilly delivered strong work on defense in a tough loss Monday afternoon. (John Fisken photo)

Some days are just not your day.

Only a few hours back from Spring Break, with three starters sick or injured, the Coupeville High School baseball squad made a long trek Monday with very little reward.

After heading all the way up to the Canadian border, the Wolves got whacked 12-2 in five innings by a very efficient Blaine squad.

The non-conference loss dropped Coupeville to 4-7.

“Rough game for us. We just didn’t bring our game,” said CHS coach Marc Aparicio.

The hope is to get their mojo back quickly, as the Wolves play eight of their final nine regular season games against 1A Olympic League rivals.

Coupeville currently sits in a first-place tie with Klahowya at 1-0, and will kick off the stretch run with a road game against Chimacum (0-1, 2-5) Thursday.

Facing off with a Borderite squad that improved to 7-5, the Wolves surrendered runs in every inning.

Blaine went for two in the first, then added five, two, one and the final knock-out punch with two more in the bottom of the fifth.

After putting only one runner on in the first three innings, thanks to a Blaine error, Coupeville finally broke through with two runs in the top of the fourth.

The Wolves plated Hunter Smith and CJ Smith, but the rally fizzled almost as quickly as it began.

While his team didn’t have its strongest showing of the season, Aparicio came away pleased with the effort of at least two of his young guns.

“Clay (Reilly) had a great day in the outfield and Kory (Score) hit well and helped score one of our only two runs,” he said.

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Top of the charts!!

Posted in 1A Olympic League, Baseball, Boys Soccer, Softball, tagged 1A Olympic League, baseball, CHS Wolves, Soccer, Softball, standings on April 11, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Matt Hilborn and Co. sit atop the 1A Olympic League standings as of today. (John Fisken photos)

Wolf goalie Connor McCormick has back-to-back shutouts on the pitch.

Robin Cedillo and her fellow softball sluggers have won five straight.

Now, things get serious.

Spring Break is done (and the rain is back, at least for a bit) and most Coupeville High School spring sports teams start wading into league play full-force starting this week and next.

So, it’s an ideal time to scan the standings and see how the Wolves are standing at the moment.

Spoiler: They’re sitting pretty good. Pretty, pretty, pretty good.

Now, I’m only running standings for three (baseball, softball, soccer) of the five CHS teams, since trying to decipher the track and tennis standings are pointless.

Ignore the Olympic League web site, which is riddled with errors for both sports.

In the real world, the Wolf netters are 1-2 with two matches — a 3-1 lead over Granite Falls and a 3-3 tie with Klahowya — still hanging open, waiting to be finished.

And the track squad?

Somehow the Olympic League web masters have the Wolf boys at 0-2, despite the fact they WON a four-team meet at South Whidbey.

Which would account for THREE wins.

Anyways…

Semi-solid standings, with 1A Olympic League records followed by overall records:

SOFTBALL:

Coupeville 1-0, 6-1
Chimacum 0-0, 4-2
Klahowya 0-0, 5-3
Port Townsend 0-1, 0-4

BASEBALL:

Coupeville 1-0, 4-6
Chimacum 0-0, 2-4
Klahowya 0-0, 6-2
Port Townsend 0-1, 0-6

BOYS SOCCER:

Coupeville 0-0, 2-4-1
Chimacum 0-0, 1-4-0
Klahowya 0-0, 5-1-1
Port Townsend 0-0, 2-2-1

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Slide into summer!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged baseball, CHS Wolves, James Vidoni, John Fisken photos, JV, Nick Etzell on April 10, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Wolf catcher Joey Lippo holds on to the ball with a death-grip during a collision at the plate. (John Fisken photos)

The baseball thought it was getting away. Shane Losey has other ideas.

A pitch after being dusted off by the Wildcat hurler, James Vidoni settles back in to the box.

Nick Etzell can throw it. Doesn’t mean you can hit it.

Brenden Gilbert discovers all good things come to those who wait.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of Julian Welling’s kitchen.

CHS coach Chris Smith (in red) holds a meeting of the minds.

Matt Hilborn survives a dust storm to get the out.

It was a freakin’ heat wave.

The weather was so nice Saturday, Coupeville and Oak Harbor easily put in five plus hours of JV baseball, with the two squads splitting games.

Now, as some of us ponder sun burns on a Sunday morning, the rest of you can take a gander at some of the many snappy pics taken by wanderin’ photo man John Fisken.

If you like his work and want to see more, and possibly purchase some, thereby helping fund college scholarships for CHS student/athletes, pop over to:

http://www.olympicleague.com/index.php?act=view_gallery&gallery=11168&league=21&page=1&page_name=photo_store&school=24&sport=0

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