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CHS track sends nine to state

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , on May 16, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Wolf senior George Spear qualified for state in two events. (Jackie Saia photo)

The spring bonanza continues.

Hot on the heels of the Coupeville High School softball team and three girls’ tennis players qualifying for state, the Wolf track and field team had nine athletes punch their tickets to the big dance.

Needing a top two finish at Saturday’s District 1 Championships to advance, two freshmen, three sophomores, a junior, and three seniors hit their marks while defending their home turf in Cow Town.

Fab frosh Tamsin Ward (Shot Put, High Jump) and Cyrus Sparacio (1600, 3200) each captured two district titles, while sophomore Wyatt Fitch-Marron (High Jump) also finished atop the medal stand.

Sophomore Lillian Ketterling (Pole Vault, Discus), junior Davin Houston (High Jump), and seniors George Spear (1600, 3200) and Zachary Saho (Shot Put) all finished second in their events, as did the boys 4 x 100 relay unit.

That foursome was comprised of Fitch-Marron, Houston, sophomore Liam Blas, and senior Marquette Cunningham.

Now, the nine (plus some soon-to-be-named alternates for the 4 x 100) head to Eisenhower High School in Yakima May 28-30 for the 2B state meet, where they’ll give chase to snagging some medals.

Three of the Wolves — Cunningham, Houston, and Fitch-Marron — already have one in the bank from last year.

Cunningham and Houston combined with Preston Epp and Chase Anderson to take 6th in the 4 x 100 in 2025, while Fitch-Marron earned 7th in the high jump a season ago.

Sparked by their seven state qualifiers, the Wolf boys finished in a tie with Mount Vernon Christian Saturday for the team title, with both squads totaling 129 points.

While many in the stands would have liked to have seen CHS and MVC go for a tiebreaker (maybe a pushup contest for point #130?), the stalemate goes into the history books as is.

La Conner (98), Orcas Island (87), and Friday Harbor (79) rounded out the boy’s battle.

On the girls’ side of things, a deep MVC team was in control, holding off La Conner 193-149 to claim top honors.

Friday Harbor (91), Coupeville (73), Orcas Island (26), and Summit Atlas (2) were also in contention.

Isa Mc Fetridge flashes for the finish line. (Jackie Saia photo)

 

Saturday’s results:

 

GIRLS:

100 — Isa Mc Fetridge (4th) 13.88

200 — Mc Fetridge (5th) 28.73

400 — Olivia Hall (4th) 1:04.74 *PR*; Taylor Marrs (6th) 1:15.33

800 — Laken Simpson (4th) 2:42.12 *PR*; Mikayla Wagner (6th) 2:57.16

3200 — Devon Wyman (4th) 14:01.79

100 Hurdles — Kennedy O’Neill (7th) 19.60 *PR*; Lexis Drake (10th) 22.14; Frankie Tenore (11th) 24.34

300 Hurdles — O’Neill (7th) 59.60; Wyman (9th) 1:02.65 *PR*; Drake (12th) 1:08.50

4 x 100 Relay — Arianna Cunningham, Willow Leedy-Bonifas, Ward, Mc Fetridge (3rd) 54.60

4 x 200 Relay — Simpson, A. Cunningham, Leedy-Bonifas, Mc Fetridge (3rd) 1:58.75

4 x 400 Relay — Hall, Marrs, Lillian Ketterling, Simpson (4th) 4:45.03

Shot Put — Ward (1st) 33-02 *PR*

Discus — Ketterling (2nd) 85-08 *PR*; Marrs (10th) 55-09

Javelin — A. Cunningham (7th) 77-02

High Jump — Ward (1st) 4-08; Tenore (7th) 4-02

Pole Vault — Ketterling (2nd) 8-06

Long Jump — Leedy-Bonifas (7th) 12-09.25; O’Neill (8th) 12-00.25

Triple Jump — Leedy-Bonifas (6th) 28-06.75 *PR*; A. Cunningham (7th) 28-02

Johnathan Jacobsen keeps a laser focus. (Jackie Saia photo)

 

BOYS:

100 — Marquette Cunningham (4th) 11.84; Liam Blas (8th) 12.23; Beckett Green (12th) 12.47

200 — Davin Houston (3rd) 24.21; Green (6th) 25.10; Richmond Bandong (9th) 26.83

400 — Will Tierney (6th) 58.72; Brian Thompson (7th) 59.60; George Spear (8th) 1:00.59

800 — Cyrus Sparacio (4th) 2:13.37; Kenneth Jacobsen (5th) 2:23.26; Ossian Merkel (7th) 2:23.88; Johnathan Jacobsen (11th) 2:38.00; Hunter Atteberry (12th) 2:38.60

1600 — Sparacio (1st) 4:50.33; Spear (2nd) 4:55.16; K. Jacobsen (3rd) 5:13.75; Merkel (5th) 5:25.82 *PR*; Atteberry (8th) 5:41.65 *PR*

3200 — Sparacio (1st) 10:38.60; Spear (2nd) 10:48.16; K. Jacobsen (4th) 11:18.28; Edmund Kunz (5th) 12:08.93; Atteberry (7th) 14:21.71 *PR*

300 Hurdles — Edmund Wilson (5th) 46.71 *PR*

4 x 100 Relay — M. Cunningham, Blas, Wyatt Fitch-Marron, Houston (2nd) 44.73

4 x 400 Relay — Wilson, Thompson, Fitch-Marron, Green (4th) 3:43.65

Shot Put — Zachary Saho (2nd) 43-02 *PR*; Khanor Jump (6th) 37-07.50 *PR*

Discus — Jump (7th) 118-08 *PR*; Blas (8th) 115-11 *PR*; Saho (15th) 76-02

Javelin — Bandong (5th) 109-01; M. Cunningham (8th) 99-08 *PR*; Jump (10th) 94-05; Shiloh Sandlin (11th) 88-03; J. Jacobsen (12th) 87-01

High Jump — Fitch-Marron (1st) 6-00; Houston (2nd) 6-00; J. Jacobsen (4th) 5-06

Pole Vault — Kunz (3rd) 8-06 *PR*; Merkel (6th) 7-06 *PR*; Russell Miller (7th) 7-00

Long Jump — Sage Arends (6th) 18-01; Thompson (8th) 16-10; Wilson (9th) 16-07.75

Triple Jump — M. Cunningham (3rd) 39-04.75

Olivia Hall set a PR in the 400 Saturday afternoon. (Camden Glover photo)

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Netters win Bi-District title, send trio to state

Posted in Girls Tennis, tagged , , , , , , on May 13, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Aleksia Jump is one of three Coupeville netters heading to the state tourney. (Presley Phillips photo)

The Amy Yee Tennis Center was their house.

Playing some of their best tennis of the season Wednesday in Seattle, the Coupeville High School netters claimed the District 1/2 team title while qualifying three girls for next week’s state tourney.

Wolf seniors Dahlia Miller and Aleksia Jump, in their first season as a hardcourt duo, won all three of their matches to earn a title, while sophomore Tenley Stuurmans finished runner-up in the singles royal rumble.

It’s the second trip to state for Stuurmans, who advanced to the big dance as an 8th grader.

Snazzy hardware coming back to Cow Town. (Tim Stelling photo)

Wednesday’s Bi-District tourney brought Northwest 2B/1B League rivals Coupeville and Friday Harbor to the big city, where they faced off with District 2 Sea-Tac League foes Forest Ridge, Summit Classic Christian, and Puget Sound Adventist.

Overall, the Wolves won seven of 11 matches on the day, with everyone in uniform earning at least one victory.

Forest Ridge freshman Anika Love, who won all three of her matches 6-0, 6-0 to win the singles title, is the first player to beat Stuurmans this season.

Love and the Wolf trio will be joined at state by Friday Harbor sisters Norah and Hazel Leighton, who finished second in doubles.

The season-ending tourney is set for May 22-23 at the Yakima Tennis Club.

Wolf hardcourt ace Tenley Stuurmans has qualified for state twice in three seasons. (Photo courtesy Sarah Stuurmans)

 

Wednesday results:

 

Tenley Stuurmans:

Beat Elle Mallory (Summit Classic Christian) 6-0, 6-1
Beat Emiliya Zakharyan (Puget Sound Adventist) 6-3, 6-0
Lost to Anika Love (Forest Ridge) 6-0, 6-0

 

Milana Light:

Beat Frankie Pignatiello (Friday Harbor) 6-3, 6-1
Lost to Anika Love (Forest Ridge) 6-0, 6-0
Lost to Emiliya Zakharyan (Puget Sound Adventist) 3-6, 6-1, 10-5

 

Dahlia Miller/Aleksia Jump:

Beat Daisy Bautista/Kate Curtis (Friday Harbor) 6-2, 6-4
Beat Skylar Stott/Maya Simon (Forest Ridge) 6-1, 7-5
Beat Hazel Leighton/Norah Leighton (Friday Harbor) 9-8(7-2)

 

Hazel Goldman/Hailey Goldman:

Beat April Aguilar/Vanessa Zarabia (Puget Sound Adventist) 6-2
Lost to Hazel Leighton/Nora Leighton (Friday Harbor) 6-3, 6-1

Dahlia Miller and Aleksia Jump celebrate with CHS coach Starla Seal and her junior associate.

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“We made them work for that win”

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on February 17, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Capri Anter (30) and Adeline Maynes are part of a pack of talented younger hoops players who can return next season. (Jackie Saia photo)

“It was an absolute dog fight for 36 minutes!”

Coupeville High School varsity girls’ basketball coach Scout Smith had an up close and personal view of Tuesday’s playoff rumble between her Wolves and host Orcas Island.

And she witnessed a wild one, with both teams dropping daggers and pulling miracles out of thin air before the Vikings finally escaped with a 50-48 overtime win.

While the loss drops Coupeville to 5-15 and eliminates them from the District 1/2 playoffs a game shy of vying for a state tourney berth, Smith glowed with pride afterwards.

“It’s never fun to lose, but we can walk away from the game with our heads held high,” she said. “I am very proud of the way our team played and fought hard throughout the game.

“Each one left everything they had out on the court tonight.

“Credit to Orcas Island. They played a good game, and we made them work for that win.”

Coupeville’s win/loss record has been deceptive all season, with a young team coming very close to flipping the script in numerous narrow losses.

The Wolves squared off with the Vikings three times this season, and the margin of defeat in those games? Three, two, and two points.

Tuesday’s tilt opened in favor of CHS, which pulled out to an early 10-6 lead, with four different players hitting the bottom of the net — but not the one who would eventually lead the team in scoring.

A big three-ball from Teagan Calkins, setup by a rebound and pass from defensive dynamo Arianna Cunningham, was the main dagger, but then things took a big swerve.

As in the Wolves plunged off a cliff for a bit.

Orcas closed the first quarter with a bucket, then went off on a 14-1 surge in the second frame, momentarily making it look like this might be a blowout, and not in a good way.

Never fear, as Danica Strong wasn’t going out like that.

The Coupeville senior had spent the first half doing the dirty work, ripping down rebounds and swatting one wayward Orcas shot into the cheap seats, but after the halftime break, she came out ready to rain down pain.

Scoring all 15 of her points across the second half and overtime, Strong started tossing haymakers, and the Vikings got staggered.

The Wolves got back to within 26-24 midway through the third quarter but made their biggest moves in the fourth.

Back-to-back breakaway buckets off of steals by Haylee Armstrong and Tenley Stuurmans forced a 31-31 tie, before Strong powered her way through the paint to give the Wolves their first lead in a long time at 35-34.

With the clock ticking down, the teams exchanged buckets, with Orcas reclaiming the lead at the very end.

Cue an ice water in her veins moment from Armstrong, who knocked down a free throw with 13.9 seconds to play to knot things at 40-40, before CHS made one final defensive stand to force extra time.

Neither team was ready to go down easy in the four-minute overtime frame, with Strong netting a pair of free throws, Orcas surging ahead 45-42, then Strong nailing a game-tying trey from the right side.

The Vikings slipped back ahead on a pair of charity shots, before things got really dramatic.

Armstrong popped a three-ball on the move to stake Coupeville to a 48-47 lead, only to have Orcas gunner Sofia Mahony-Jauregui answer with a long-range rainbow of her own with under 30 seconds to play to set the final score.

Coming out victorious, the Vikings advance to play Friday Harbor Thursday in Mount Vernon in a winner-to-state, loser-out game, while the Wolves will turn their eyes to the future, when they can return eight of the 10 players from this year’s roster.

“We look forward to next season and bringing back so many young and talented players,” Smith said.

“We will definitely miss our seniors Danica and Teagan, but we are extremely grateful for their contributions to our program.”

Strong capped her run as a Wolf hoops star with a team-high 15 points, while Stuurmans, just a sophomore, banked in 14 in support.

Armstrong (8), Calkins (5), Cunningham (3), and Maynes (3) also scored, with Kennedy O’Neill and Lexis Drake seeing floor time.

As she exits, Calkins notches one final personal milestone, becoming the 26th Wolf girl to score 400 career points for a program launched in 1974.

“The Red Dragon” finishes with 402 points, while Armstrong, a junior, also hit a major mark. With 305 points and counting, she is the 39th CHS female player to crack the 300-point club.

Armstrong, who entered the season with 98 points to her credit, tallied a team-high 207 this season, the most any Wolf girl has scored across a single campaign in the last decade.

She and current JV coach Alita Blouin, who racked up 204 points during the 2022-2023 season, are the only 200+ female single-season scorers since Makana Stone nuked the nets for 427 points in 2015-2016.

 

Final season scoring stats:

Haylee Armstrong – 207
Tenley Stuurmans – 171
Teagan Calkins – 160
Danica Strong – 97
Arianna Cunningham – 53
Adeline Maynes – 47
Kennedy O’Neill – 44
Capri Anter – 8
Lexis Drake – 8
Sydney Van Dyke – 8

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Playoff loss brings season to a close

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , , on February 17, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Camden Glover had a very-strong senior season and was a scoring threat both in the paint and behind the three-point arc. (Julie Wheat photo)

It’s hard to fight from behind all night.

That well-worn bit of wisdom bit the Coupeville High School varsity boys’ basketball squad hard Tuesday night, as the Wolves were eliminated from the District 1/2 playoffs with a 59-45 loss on Orcas Island.

The defeat drops CHS to 7-13, and Brad Sherman’s road warriors lose five players, including four starters, to graduation.

Wolf seniors Camden Glover, Aiden O’Neill, Easton Green, Chase Anderson, and Malachi Somes reached the end of their run, with Anderson hunched on the end of the bench in the final quarter, an ice bag clamped on his wrist.

Tuesday’s score is a bit deceptive.

Throw out the second quarter, and it’s a one-bucket game.

But they don’t let you do that, so a 21-9 Orcas surge across an eight-minute span proved fatal for a scrappy Wolf pack which was otherwise right there with the Vikings.

Coupeville’s one, and only lead, came at 2-0, as the Wolves broke the press right off the top and fed the ball to Somes for a quick layup.

But things got more difficult after that, with Orcas bolting out to a 10-4 lead and never letting the visitors get fully back into the game.

A sweet jumper in the paint off the fingertips of Davin Houston and a three-ball from O’Neill — set up by a nice kick-out by Carson Grove — pulled Coupeville to within 10-9 at the first break, but then things took a fatal turn.

The Wolves ended up beating Orcas 8-4 in the three-ball shoot-off, but the Vikings hit two daggers from long distance early in the second quarter to bust things wide open with a 12-0 run to start the second frame.

Anderson singed the nets on a three-ball to finally stop the bleeding, but the Vikings pulled off back-to-back three-point plays the hard way to carry a 31-18 lead in at the half.

O’Neill knocked down one of his four treys to kick off the third, getting the deficit back down to 10, but it wasn’t to be, as Orcas responded with a 9-0 run to stretch things back out to 40-21.

From there, the Wolves dug down deep, even after losing Anderson, who hit the floor hard late in the third, and fought all the way until the final buzzer.

The two teams finished in a 16-16 deadlock across the third quarter, with Orcas only taking the fourth by a razor-thin 12-11 margin.

Houston, a springy ball of energy who will be Coupeville’s leading active scorer headed into next season, finished his junior campaign strongly, pumping in a pair of three-balls and a pair of free throws in the fourth quarter.

O’Neill paced the Wolves with a team-high 14, with Houston and Anderson each rattling the rim for 10 points in support.

Somes (6), Glover (3), and Green (2) also scored, with Liam Blas, Riley Lawless, and Grove rounding out the rotation.

Before exiting, Anderson reached one final personal milestone, passing ’70s icon Bill Riley (934 points) to move into 7th place all-time on the CHS boys’ career scoring chart for a program in its 109th season.

He finishes with back-to-back seasons of 300+ points and tallied 943 across four seasons of varsity ball.

 

Final season scoring stats:

Chase Anderson – 344
Camden Glover – 236
Davin Houston – 118
Aiden O’Neill – 118
Malachi Somes – 68
Carson Grove – 32
Riley Lawless – 27
Easton Green – 23
Liam Blas – 16
Mahkai Myles – 12
Sage Arends – 10

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“The girls showed a lot of grit”

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on February 12, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Kennedy O’Neill assesses the situation. (Jackie Saia photo)

It was, exactly as expected, a war.

Coupeville and Friday Harbor’s varsity girls’ basketball teams have clashed three times this season (so far), and all three have been royal rumbles.

The teams split their regular season series, with both road squads winning, setting up Thursday’s District 1/2 playoff opener off in the San Juans.

Take away a brutal first quarter, and Coupeville wins, but the host Wolverines had just enough gas left in the tank to pull out a 47-40 win in a game which was a one-score affair with less than 20 seconds to play.

With the loss, CHS drops to 5-14 on the season, and will play either La Conner or Orcas Island Feb. 17.

Win that loser-out game, and the Wolves would likely square off for a fourth time with Friday Harbor two days later, this time in Mount Vernon, with a trip to state in the balance.

To see the bracket, pop over to:

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Thursday’s clash started with Wolf guard Haylee Armstrong forcing a steal, sprinting to the other end, juking a defender out of her shoes, and slapping home a layup.

Unfortunately for Coupeville, it wouldn’t hit another field goal for nearly nine minutes, which left the visitors fighting from behind the rest of the night.

While CHS coach Scout Smith would have preferred her team didn’t fall behind 17-3 by the first break, with Friday Harbor dominating on the boards, she was very pleased with the response from her road warriors.

“The girls showed a lot of grit and determination today,” Smith said.

“I’m really proud of the way they were able to battle back after an early deficit and make it a close game.”

And how, as Coupeville ripped off substantial runs to open the second (12-5), third (7-0), and fourth (15-7) quarters, getting their buckets from a variety of players and ramping up their intensity on defense.

Each time the Wolves got close to knotting things up, however, Friday Harbor would find a bucket or two to stem the incoming tide, holding a 29-15 lead at the half, and a 36-25 advantage coming out of the third.

Coupeville put together its best sustained run in the fourth, racing the clock and shredding the defense.

Sophomore ace Tenley Stuurmans went off on a run of three straight buckets, set up by superb passes from Teagan Calkins and Armstrong, plus a bold defensive play from Adeline Maynes.

Everyone was hitting the bottom of the net in the final frame, with Danica Strong dropping in her second three-ball of the night, and five different Wolves recording points.

Friday Harbor found a miracle three-ball from the corner to push the margin back to 43-37 before Coupeville slashed it down to 43-40 when Calkins dropped in a runner as the clock madly ticked towards 0:00.

But the miracle comeback wasn’t to be, as the host team played the game’s final 30 seconds about as well as you can.

The Wolverines yanked down two offensive rebounds, netted a pair of free throws, and forced two back-court turnovers, with one turning into a lightning-quick layup, keeping Coupeville from getting across half court during the frantic finale.

Stuurmans paced CHS with 11 points, while Calkins banked in eight, and Armstrong rattled the rim for seven.

All seven Coupeville players to hit the floor scored, with Strong (6), Arianna Cunningham (4), Maynes (2), and Kennedy O’Neill (2) also keeping the scorebook keeper busy.

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