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“They all played awesome”

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged boys soccer, CHS Wolves, Friday Harbor, Northwest League, Solomon Rudat, tie on October 15, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Solomon Rudat flies into battle. (Jacob Lujan photo)

“I’m so proud of this team stepping up and playing a great game.”

Facing a stern test Thursday afternoon at Friday Harbor, the Coupeville High School boys’ soccer squad came away with a hard-earned scoreless tie to maintain their place in the standings.

The draw against a top-flight foe is the first stalemate in 26 games at CHS for coach Jim Kunz, but one he can live with.

“Great game. Super tough. So physical,” he said.

“Not many fouls being called so second half got brutal. Elbows were thrown and tempers were high on both sides.”

With the tie Coupeville sits at 5-1-1 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 8-3-1 overall and holds on to second place in the ten-team conference.

Two-time defending state champ Orcas Island (6-0-0 for 18 points) is atop the league, while CHS has 16, followed by Mount Vernon Christian (5-1-0 for 15), Providence Classical Christian (4-2-0 for 12), and Friday Harbor (3-2-1 for 10).

La Conner (3-3-0 for nine), Cedar Park Christian-Lynnwood (1-4-1 for four), Evangel Classical (1-4-1 for four), Lopez Island (1-6-0 for three), and Grace Academy (0-6-0 for zippo) round out the field.

Coupeville closes regular season play with a road trip to PCC October 21, a non-conference home tilt on Senior Night against Crosspoint Christian two days later, then a home showdown October 28 with Orcas.

With the top six NWL teams making the playoffs, the Wolves are in a prime position, while also hoping to secure a home playoff game — which would be played at Oak Harbor’s stadium.

But that’s the future. For now, the Wolves made the trip back to Whidbey in a good mood.

“They all played awesome, so it’s hard to pinpoint the best,” Kunz said.

“For sure our defensive line — Brian (Thompson), Shiloh (Sandlin), Wyatt (Fitch-Marron), Lincoln (Wagner), with Chayse (Van Velkinburgh) at the six, shut their offense down.

“But I think I could have put Solomon (Rudat) anywhere on the field today.

“He played the best game I’ve ever seen out of him, half in defense and half in midfield.”

Wyatt Fitch-Marron gets a kick out of life. (Julie Wheat photo)

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Support soccer, be a booter rooter

Posted in Fundraisers, soccer, tagged boys soccer, Branch Business Services, CHS Wolves, fundraiser on October 14, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Lincoln Wagner and the Wolf booters are flying high. (Julie Wheat photo)

Beat the deadline and score as a true fan.

Coupeville High School boys’ soccer is having a fundraiser which is almost halfway to its $6,000 goal with 22 days left to participate.

Whether you are able to pony up $5 or $500, as top contributor Branch Business Services has done, your hard-earned bucks help fuel the rise of the current hottest team in Wolf Nation.

Coming off an 8-0 thumping of Grace Academy Tuesday night, Coupeville’s pitch crew sits at 5-1 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 8-3 overall.

And know that your donations are deeply appreciated.

“Your contributions mean the world to us and help provide essential resources for our team,” said CHS coach Jim Kunz.

“Together, we can make an impact and create unforgettable experiences for these young athletes.”

To donate or find out more info, pop over to:

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Six score, everyone wins

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged boys soccer, CHS Wolves, Grace Academy, Malachi Chapa, Northwest League on October 13, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Fresh off being tabbed as Homecoming royalty Coupeville sniper Edmund Kunz netted another goal. (Jackie Saia photos)

They ran them off the field. Literally.

With six different players netting a goal Tuesday, the Coupeville High School boys’ soccer squad drilled visiting Grace Academy 8-0, ending the game 20 minutes sooner than expected thanks to a fairly new mercy rule.

The lopsided win lifts the Wolves to 5-1 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 8-3 overall, and keeps them in sole possession of second place in the 10-team conference with three NWL bouts left to play.

Coupeville hits the road for its next two rumbles, traveling to Friday Harbor (3-2, 6-4) Thursday, then trekking to Bothell October 21 to square off with Providence Classical Christian (4-1, 6-3-1).

After that comes a non-conference game with Crosspoint Christian (3-7) October 23, before the regular season finale at home October 28 against two-time defending state champ Orcas Island (5-0, 11-0-1).

Tuesday’s tilt against Grace Academy (0-5, 0-9) at Mickey Clark Field offered Wolf fans plenty of opportunities to let loose with cheers, as the goals rained down from all angles.

Barely 75 seconds into play, CHS freshman Malachi Chapa weaved through a pack of defenders before slapping home the game’s first, but far from last, score.

Coupeville kept the pressure on in the first half, with 98.7% of the action happening on one side of the field, as Wolf goaltender Sam Richards got to be the loneliest man in town way down on the other end of the pitch.

Wyatt Fitch-Marron got his head into the game, redirecting a pass from Edmund Wilson into the back of the net to make it 2-0, before Sage Arends and Edmund Kunz punched in goals to jam the gas pedal through the floor.

The soccer ball can run, but it can’t hide from Malachi Chapa.

Up 4-0 at the half, the Wolves doubled their output in short order coming out of the halftime break.

Chapa netted his second score of the night, followed by Brian Thompson zinging in a well-placed shot.

Then, after Edmund Wilson crunched home his team-leading 11th goal of the season while flying down the right side, Thompson popped back up, capping the goal explosion when he converted off of a deflection in front of the net.

Richards moved out into the field for the second half while Shiloh Sandlin slid into the net, and he completed the shutout with 20 minutes of spotless play.

Under new WIAA rules, a lead of eight or more becomes official once 60 minutes of play is completed, sending Grace back to Marysville early while the Wolves celebrated with their fans.

With the game well in hand, CHS coach Jim Kunz was able to give valuable field time to young guns like Gracen Joiner, Ryder Phipps, and Mario Martinez, with Phipps in particular giving a strong push up front.

After delivering an eight-goal bonanza Tuesday, Coupeville has scored 42 on the season, with 12 different players hitting paydirt.

That’s the second-best showing in program history, trailing only the 2004 squad, which had 15 scorers.

Wilson’s goal was the 19th of his prep career, leaving him one shy of tying William Nelson for #4 on the all-time CHS boys career scoring chart, while Arends netted his 16th.

Meanwhile Thompson (6), Kunz (5), Chapa (4), and Fitch-Marron (3) added to their tallies.

It’s like they’re heading to the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

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Heads up! ‘Canes a tough foe

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged boys soccer, CHS Wolves, Edmund Wilson, Mount Vernon Christian, Northwest League on October 10, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Lincoln Wagner (22) stands tall on defense. (Jacob Lujan photo)

You can be a one-trick pony if it’s a great trick.

The Mount Vernon Christian boys’ soccer squad seemed to have one play in its playbook Saturday, but dang if the Hurricanes didn’t run it really well, all the way to capturing a 4-1 win over host Coupeville in a key Northwest 2B/1B League clash.

The loss snaps a four-game winning streak for the Wolves and drops them to 4-1 in conference action, 7-3 overall.

Coupeville remains in second place in the ten-team NWL, however, trailing two-time defending state champ Orcas Island (5-0) by three points, while remaining three points up on a logjam between MVC (3-1), Providence Classical Christian (3-1), Friday Harbor (3-2), and La Conner (3-2).

Next up for the Wolves is another home rumble, this one coming Tuesday against Grace Academy, which sits at 0-4 in league play. Kickoff is 6:00 PM.

And that MVC “trick?”

A well-executed play in which a ‘Cane with a howitzer for an arm threw an inbounds pass in from somewhere up around Tacoma, the ball zipping over the heads of the defenders to where a pack of tall Mount Vernon players lingered around the net.

To a man, the Hurricanes were adept at using their noggins, knocking in at least three of their four goals on headers.

It might have been four-for-four, but one score came in the middle of a particularly vibrant scrum, with bodies jammed together like everyone was in a mosh pit, and the view from up above in the press box was not definitive.

Suffice it to say the goal went in, whether off of a head or a leg, or maybe a kneecap or a well-placed posterior, as the visitors ultimately turned a 1-0 deficit into a comfortable win.

Coupeville had actually opened the scoring just a hair under two minutes into play, busting through the ‘Cane defense with a torrid rush up field.

Shiloh Sandlin lofted a long ball to Edmund Wilson, and the quicksilver Wolf spun his man around, beat him to the net and smashed home his tenth goal of the season, the ball ricocheting off the netminder’s hands.

It was the 18th career goal for the junior and allows him to break a tie with Ethan Spark and move into sole possession of fifth place on the CHS boys career scoring chart, two back of William Nelson for #4.

Unfortunately for the Wolves, that would be the only goal they would net on this day, as a physical MVC defense clamped down and made room to move with the ball tough to find.

Coupeville responded in kind, with defenders such as Brian Thompson, Wyatt Fitch-Marron, and Aiden Wheat chasing down every breakaway and frequently blunting potential attacks on the net.

While he would have preferred a win, CHS coach Jim Kunz praised his team, which overcame a number of injuries to hang with a top-level opponent. He and assistant coach Matt Sandlin picked freshman defender Lincoln Wagner as their player of the game.

“I’m happy with how we played,” he said. “They worked their tails off. And Lincoln was just solid from start to finish.”

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WIAA computers still piss poor at their job

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged boys soccer, CHS Wolves, Columbia Adventist, RPI, WIAA on October 9, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Deciding the game on the field, not in the computer lab. (Jacob Lujan photo)

Here we go again.

Take a look at the RPI rankings for boys’ soccer on the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association website today, and you’ll notice something funky.

Two-time defending state champ Orcas Island is lodged at #1.

Feels right, sounds correct.

Then you’ve got Mount Vernon Christian at #2 and Coupeville, off to its best start in years at 7-2, sitting at #6 ahead of a Saturday home game with those second-ranked Hurricanes.

Lots of intrigue.

One of these is not like the others.

But the WTF moment? It’s at #4.

That’s where you find Columbia Adventist Academy, a team which has only played ONE game — when every other 2B or 1B team has played between four and 10 tilts.

It’s a win, yes, which makes the Kodiaks, technically, the only true undefeated team in the land, since Orcas has a tie against MVC to go with its nine wins.

But it’s a 2-1 win over Walla Walla Valley Academy, a team that sits at 1-7 on the season and is ranked #21 out of 23 teams.

Hardly the kind of victory to propel a team into the top four, one would think.

But this is the same WIAA computers that back in 2024 listed a non-existent team at #1 in its boys’ basketball rankings.

WIAA ranks seemingly non-existent boys’ hoops team #1 | Coupeville Sports

Oh wait, they did it twice?

WIAA still in love with fake teams | Coupeville Sports

Maybe the WIAA computers just love a mystery team, which fits once again in this case.

Columbia Adventist has only one game listed on Arbiter, the website Washington state schools use for scheduling.

Nothing past 2024 on MaxPreps.

One game — the win over Walla Walla — listed on Sports Illustrated.

Nothing beyond “CAA male athletes enjoy opportunities to participate in Varsity soccer every fall” on the school website.

The site for District 4 mistakenly lists boys’ soccer as a spring sport and has no game schedule or standings.