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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die!!

Posted in A freakin' American hero, Boys Soccer, Happy birthday, tagged , , , , , on June 16, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Sean Donley? He's like a freakin' Greek god, he is. (John Fisken photos)

Sean Donley, operating at legendary status. (John Fisken photos)

We come to remember a legend.

The scrappiest of scrappy booters, the king of hairpin moves on the pitch, a man who could steal a pass, juke a defender out of his shoes, lay in a sizzling line drive for a goal, then go play “We are the Champions” on a baby grand piano on the sidelines while his teammates celebrate.

Sean Donley may no longer be patrolling the grass field at Coupeville High School for the Wolf boys’ soccer team, or be slaving away in the dish pits at Christopher’s on Whidbey, but he left his mark before leaving both locales.

He was the smartest, the quickest and the most talented, yet retained his boyish enthusiasm and laid-back charm.

He was Mr. Donley, living (large) legend, and nothing has changed.

As he celebrates a birthday today, we just want to send him best wishes.

You haven’t been forgotten, Mr. Donley. Your shadow still looms strong over the land.

May it be ever so.

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Fall schedules are here (write them in pencil)!!

Posted in Boys Tennis, Girls Soccer, Volleyball, tagged , , , , , on June 18, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Marisa Etzell (left) should return to help lead the Wolves into a new league. (John Fisken photo)

Marisa Etzell should return to help lead the Wolves into a new league. (John Fisken photos)

Sebastian Davis

Sebastian Davis could be one of the top returning netters.

Young volleyball stars (l to r) Miranda Engle, Tiffany Briscoe and Valen Trujillo celebrate a point last year.

Young volleyball stars (left to right) Miranda Engle, Tiffany Briscoe and Valen Trujillo celebrate a point.

ATM is 99.2% gone and King’s is nowhere to be seen, so that’s a start.

The schedules for Coupeville High School’s first season in the 1A Olympic League are out, and, despite the fact that there could still be plenty of tweaks before we reach September, they make for interesting reading.

With the exception of one boys’ tennis match with Archbishop Thomas Murphy, the only team the Wolves will face from their former league, the 1A/2A Cascade Conference, is Island rival South Whidbey.

The two Whidbey schools will continue to meet in all four fall sports, keeping the rivalry strong, though the games will now be non-conference affairs.

Still, Wolves gotta eat Falcon meat.

Coupeville will play each of its new league rivals — Chimacum, Port Townsend and Klahowya — home and away, while picking up some old-school rivals again like Concrete and Darrington for non-league games.

Also, the first person to figure out where first-time soccer foe Crosspoint Academy is located gets a gold star.

OK, it’s in Bremerton. Now I know, and knowing is half the battle.

The schedules as they stand on June 18:

 

VOLLEYBALL:

9-6 @ Oak Harbor Jamboree
9-9 @ South Whidbey
9-11 Friday Harbor
9-18 @ Orcas Island
9-20 @ South Whidbey Invite
9-25 Mount Vernon Christian
10-7 Bellevue Christian
10-14 @ Klahowya
10-15 Darrington
10-16 Chimacum
10-21 Port Townsend
10-23 @ Chimacum
10-27 Klahowya
10-28 @ Port Townsend

 

GIRLS SOCCER:

9-9 South Whidbey
9-13 @ Sequim
9-16 Bellevue Christian
9-18 @ Orcas Island
9-30 Mount Vernon Christian
10-9 @ Bremerton
10-11 @ Crosspoint Academy
10-16 Chimacum
10-18 @ Klahowya
10-21 Port Townsend
10-23 @ Chimacum
10-27 Klahowya
10-28 @ Port Townsend

 

BOYS TENNIS:

**Port Townsend and Chimacum combine for tennis**

9-10 @ ATM
9-18 Klahowya
9-25 @ South Whidbey
9-30 North Mason
10-2 @ Port Townsend
10-10 Port Townsend
10-13 @ Klahowya
10-15 @ Sequim
10-17 @ Port Townsend

 

To see the football schedule, hop over to:

https://coupevillesports.com/2014/06/13/84-days-til-lathom-kelley-cracks-heads/

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And thus it begins!!

Posted in Baseball, Boys Soccer, Girls Tennis, Golf, Softball, Track, tagged , , , , , , , on March 15, 2014| Leave a Comment »

YOur 2014 CHS softball squad. (Amy King photo)

 Your 2014 CHS softball squad. Back (l to r): McKayla Bailey, Breeanna Messner, Tiffany Briscoe, Monica Vidoni, Hailey Hammer, Madeline Strasburg, Haley Sherman. Front: Erin Josue, Robin Cedillo, Jae LeVine, Madeline Roberts, Emily Licence, Emily Coulter. (Amy King photo)

Cue the rain. Cue the wind. It’s time for spring sports on Whidbey.

Did you really think the gentle, balmy, blue sky-drenched weather that we’ve seen the last week would last into the start of the actual seasons?

Oh, you sad, sad fool…

Well, weather or not, the 2014 spring sports season — the last one for Coupeville High School in the 1A/2A Cascade Conference — officially kicks off today, when the Wolf boys’ soccer squad hosts a jamboree (2 PM) at Micky Clark Field.

Lake Stevens and South Whidbey are in town, the event officially puts a stamp on Kyle Nelson’s hiring as Wolf coach (replacing the retired legend, Paul Mendes), and it will go on, regardless of weather.

Soccer doesn’t stop for anything short of a hurricane, and then it depends on what category of hurricane we’re talking about.

The lone CHS golfer, two-time state meet qualifier Christine Fields, was actually supposed to kick off the new season Friday, but excess rain caused a scheduled match at Useless Bay Golf and Country Club between South Whidbey, Overlake and the Lone Wolf to be postponed.

Monday, weather permitting, the season will move into being a full-on reality, with baseball traveling to South Whidbey, softball hopping across to Port Townsend and girls’ tennis welcoming Port Townsend to town.

Tuesday, Friday Harbor comes to Coupeville for soccer and tennis, Fields and her Falcon traveling mates go to Bush and softball squares off at home with arch-rival South Whidbey and its new coach.

Get your bets in now. How many games will be postponed and rescheduled due to weather in ’14?

I’m saying 71, and I feel pretty confident in that number.

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Spring sports just around the corner!!

Posted in Baseball, Boys Soccer, Girls Tennis, Golf, Softball, Track, tagged , , , , , , on February 27, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Softball coaches Amy and David King survey the action last season. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

Softball coaches Amy and David King wait for the rain to come back. It always does. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

Four of the six Coupeville girls who went to the state track meet last year can return in 2014.

The state track meet contingent in 2013 was (l to r) Kirsten Pelroy, Marisa Etzell, Jai’Lysa Hoskins, Sylvia Hurlburt, Madison Tisa McPhee and Makana Stone. Only Hoskins and Tisa McPhee graduated. (Kristin Hurlburt photo)

Saint Patricks’s Day is opening day.

Coupeville High School kicks off its spring sports season — its last as a member of the 1A/2A Cascade Conference — with baseball and softball games and a girls’ tennis match Monday, Mar. 17.

Boys’ soccer and track join the battle a day or two later, and the season runs into early May, when the postseason will start to play out.

Below are the schedules, as they sit today.

Baseball and softball schedules are still being tweaked, and a 20th game will be added to both schedules shortly.

Also, as we go forward, expect weather to play havoc with things (the sun will come out just as the season winds down…), so keep an eye on the schedule at http://coupeville.tandemcal.com/.

Things to keep in mind:

*If boys’ soccer has enough players for a JV squad, they will play the same dates and locations as the varsity, with their games kicking off two hours earlier.

*There is a chance baseball will field a JV team this season. If they do, that schedule will be announced later.

*There is no JV for softball or track and tennis matches are one big mash-up. Varsity netters go first, but JV players then hit the courts as they open up, meaning often varsity and JV are playing at the same time.

*There are no home meets for track this season.

*Coupeville has one golfer — junior Christine Fields, a two-time state meet qualifier (she placed 8th as a freshman, 15th as a sophomore). She practices and travels with South Whidbey, since CHS does not have a team, but competes as a one-woman Wolf squad.

Of the eight teams in the Cascade Conference, three (South Whidbey, King’s and Coupeville) are 1A, but King’s does not field baseball, softball or girls’ tennis teams.

*Coupeville, the smallest 1A school in the state, is jumping to an all-1A division of the Olympic League next school year, where its counterparts will be Port Townsend, Chimacum and Klahowya. Softball and girls’ tennis both play Port Townsend this spring, giving them an early look at their future rivals.

BASEBALL

(Home games — 4 PM)

Mon-Mar. 17 @ South Whidbey
Wed-Mar. 19 South Whidbey
Fri-Mar. 21 @ South Whidbey
Sat-Mar. 29 @ Nooksack Valley
Mon-Mar. 31 @ ATM
Wed-April 2 ATM
Fri-April 4 @ ATM
Mon-April 7 Cedarcrest
Wed-April 9 @ Cedarcrest
Fri-April 11 Cedarcrest
Mon-April 14 Lakewood
Wed-April 16 @ Lakewood
Fri-April 18 Lakewood
Mon-April 21 Granite Falls
Wed-April 23 @ Granite Falls
Fri-April 25 Granite Falls
Mon-April 28 @ Sultan
Wed-April 30 Sultan
Fri-May 2 @ Sultan

BOYS SOCCER

(Home games — 6 PM)

Tue-Mar. 18 Friday Harbor
Tue-Mar. 25 Cedarcrest
Fri-Mar. 28 South Whidbey
Tues-April 1 @ Lakewood
Fri-April 4 Sultan
Tues-April 8 @ ATM
Fri-April 11 Granite Falls
Mon-April 14 @ King’s
Wed-April 16 @ Cedarcrest
Fri-April 18 @ South Whidbey
Mon-April 21 @ Friday Harbor
Tues-April 22 Lakewood
Fri-April 25 @ Sultan
Tues-April 29 ATM
Fri-May 2 @ Granite Falls
Mon-May 5 King’s

GIRLS TENNIS

(Home matches — 3:30 PM)

Mon-Mar. 17 Port Townsend
Tues-Mar. 18 Friday Harbor
Fri-Mar. 20 @ Blaine
Mon-Mar. 24 @ South Whidbey
Wed-Mar. 26 Lakewood
Tue-April 15 ATM
Thur-April 17 @ Granite Falls
Mon-April 21 @ Friday Harbor
Tues-April 22 South Whidbey
Thur-April 24 Lakewood
Mon-April 28 @ Port Townsend
Tues-April 29 Granite Falls
Thur-May 1 @ ATM

SOFTBALL

(Home games — 4 PM)

Mon-Mar. 17 @ Port Townsend
Tues-Mar. 18 South Whidbey
Wed-Mar. 19 @ ATM
Tues-Mar. 25 @ Sultan
Thur-Mar. 27 Cedarcrest
Mon-Mar. 31 Lakewood
Wed-April 2 Granite Falls
Fri-April 4 @ South Whidbey
Tues-April 8 @ ATM
Mon-April 14 @ Sultan
Wed-April 16 Cedarcrest
Fri-April 18 Lakewood
Tues-April 22 Granite Falls
Thur-April 24 @ South Whidbey
Tues-April 29 ATM
Mon-May 5 South Whidbey
Wed-May 7 @ Cedarcrest
Fri-May 9 @ Lakewood
Tues-May 13 @ Granite Falls

TRACK

Thur-Mar. 20 @ Oak Harbor Jamboree
Sat-Mar. 22 @ Seattle Academy Relays
Thur-Mar. 27 @ Sultan
Thur-April 10 @ Cedarcrest
Thur-April 17 @ King’s
Thur-April 24 @ Cedarcrest
Sat-April 26 @ Mountlake Terrace Invite
Thur-May 1 @ Granite Falls
Thur-May 8/Fri-May 9 @ Cascade Conference League Meet (King’s)
Wed-May 14/Fri-May 16 @ Districts (Lynden Christian)
Thur-May 22/Fri-May 23 @ Tri-Districts (King’s)
Fri-May 30/Sat-May 31 @ State (Cheney)

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