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Wolves soar to summer success!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on July 14, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   CHS basketball players huddle around coach Brad Sherman during a timeout. (Kali Barrio photo)

The work continues.

Coming off of a string of summer practices under new coaches Brad Sherman and Chris Smith, the Coupeville High School boys basketball squad had a chance Thursday to flex its muscles against rival schools.

Playing in scrimmages at La Conner, the Wolves lost an overtime thriller to Mount Vernon Christian, then rebounded to blast their hosts 37-27.

The solid win, coming over a perennial power, was a solid exclamation point on the afternoon.

Seeing action for CHS were Joey Lippo, Ethan Spark, Cameron Toomey-Stout, Hunter Downes, Hunter Smith, Jacobi Pacquette-Pilgrim, Sean Toomey-Stout and Koa Davison.

The first five in that lineup are returning varsity players, while the final trio are hoping to make the jump up after starring on the Wolf JV as freshmen.

A ninth CHS player, point guard Jered Brown, battling back from an injury, was in street clothes and on the bench to support his teammates.

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Dirty cars, clean cash!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Fundraisers, tagged , , , , on July 11, 2017| Leave a Comment »

All the pertinent details.

It’s a win for everyone involved.

Spiff up the town by having your car washed, while also helping boost Coupeville High School boys basketball.

The hoops stars will be out in force Saturday at Whidbey Island Bank (401 N. Main), scrubbing and buffing autos, with the proceeds funding summer league play for the Wolves.

The car wash runs 9 AM – 4 PM.

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Shootin’ for the record books!!

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , , on May 30, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Wolf QB Hunter Downes, seen here last spring, is gunning for several career school marks. (John Fisken photos)

Hunter Smith, his primary target, also has his eye on busting records.

   Downes (his noggin protected from the blazing sun) strikes a pose at football camp last weekend. (Photo courtesy Downes)

The man in black (pants) fled into the record books, and the gunslinger followed.

As he prepares for his senior season, Coupeville High School quarterback Hunter Downes, the gunslinger in this story, is hot on the trail of his school’s QB records.

The man he’s pursuing is the guy helping shape him, Wolf offensive coordinator Brad Sherman, who threw for 3,613 yards and 33 touchdowns before graduating in 2003.

Downes, who opened spring practices with his teammates Tuesday, spent last weekend in Everett at a USA Football regional development camp.

The camp allows high school players to work on their skills and techniques with current NCAA coaches while also putting them in a pool for possible inclusion on the U.S. national team.

After missing all but two games of his sophomore year with an injury, Downes put up one of the best seasons in CHS history as a junior.

He threw for 1,569 yards and 17 touchdowns, missing the school’s single-season TD mark (18 by Joel Walstad in 2014) by a hair.

Downes did tie the school’s single-game TD record, dropping four against a tough Bellevue Christian defense on the road while playing on a slippery, rain-splattered turf.

That equaled a mark set by Wolf legend Corey Cross in 1971, and tied by Sherman in 2001.

With his precision passing, Downes helped his #1 target, fellow junior Hunter Smith, set school single-season records with 916 yards and 11 touchdown receptions.

The duo are ankling to shred the record board this fall, when they kick off their senior campaign Sept. 1 on the road against South Whidbey.

Downes, who has 1,841 yards and 18 TD’s in a little over a season of action, needs 1,773 yards and 16 TD’s as a senior to top Sherman’s career records.

Smith is even closer, with 1,335 yards and 13 TD’s in two seasons as a receiver.

He trails Chad Gale (1,345 and 17) by just 10 yards and four scores, while also needing three interceptions (he has 10 in his career) to pass Josh Bayne’s CHS career mark of 12.

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Brad’s back!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on May 22, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Brad Sherman, here playing in the Roehl Roundball Classic, will be the new CHS boys basketball head coach. (John Fisken photo)

The Three-Ball King is coming back to the gym.

Barring a last second snafu, legendary former Coupeville High School athlete Brad Sherman will be the new boys basketball head coach at his alma mater.

The recommendation to hire him for the position was slipped on to the agenda for tonight’s school board meeting at the last second, buried under a bunch of other hires (soccer, cheer, football) which were already public knowledge.

Sherman, who graduated in 2003, is currently an assistant coach with the Wolf football and track programs.

During his days as a high school athlete, he set football QB records which still stand, and was a standout on the hardwood as well.

He jointly held the single-game record for three-pointers made in one game, with six, until this past season, when senior Gabe Wynn hit seven against Port Townsend.

Sherman inherits a team which will return many of its key players, including leading scorer Hunter Smith.

For more background on the quiet legend, take a look at a “Where Are They Now?” feature I wrote awhile back:

Ten years later, the legend of Brad Sherman still looms large!!

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Roll call of the gridiron greats!!

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , , on September 10, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Hunter Smith (top left) is joined in the end zone by fellow record holders (clockwise, from top right) Chad Gale, Brian Fakkema, Nick Streubel, Ian Smith, Joe Kelley, Josh Bayne, Ian Barron, Joel Walstad and Brad Sherman.

Hunter Smith (4) is joined by fellow record holders (clockwise, from top right) Chad Gale, Brian Fakkema, Nick Streubel, Ian Smith, Joe Kelley, Josh Bayne, Ian Barron, Joel Walstad and Brad Sherman.

Imagine a magical world.

In this utopia, a chain-smoking, bee-hived-hairdo-rockin’ lady (we’ll call her Gladys) has been working out of a small office in the back of the Coupeville High School gym complex for decades.

While there she’s been faithfully recording stats and filing them away neatly in frequently-dusted filing cabinets.

Now, come back to reality, where any pursuit of Wolf athletic history involves latching on to whatever scattered records someone pulls out of their dusty attic or spending hours trying not to rip the brittle pages of the bound volumes in the Whidbey News-Times archives.

So, it is, with justifiable trepidation that I approach calling any history definitive.

But, having gone cross-eyed and ink-stained, I am, we’ll say, 98.3% certain that the CHS football records I’m about to present are pretty dang close to being canon.

With one or two niggling doubts still trying to be ironed out.

As you scan these records, the oldest of which hails from 1970 (and yes, I went back WAY before that), remember several things.

One, sacks were not tallied as such in the olden days, so the players of earlier decades may have hauled down a lot of quarterbacks but will never own the record.

Two, the game has changed, with tons of tweaks aimed at ramping up offenses.

Go back in the archives and there are quite a few 6-0 games, and quite a few talented players who never had the chance to put up numbers like the modern day guys.

And three, and this is the biggest of them all — high school football stats, especially at small schools, are notoriously fickle and largely dependent on how good that year’s record keepers were.

But you don’t care about all the rationale, you just want the glossy numbers.

So here you go, my 98.3% correct all-time Coupeville High School football records.

If you disagree, speak up now or forever hold your peace.

And, if you want to argue, have something to back up your story.

Missing stat sheets, newspaper clippings which tell a different tale than what I saw, game film, a time travel machine that allows us to go back and watch it all unfold live.

Bring it on, I say.

BEST INDIVIDUAL SINGLE-GAME PERFORMANCE:

Rushing Yards – (320) Ian Barron-1998
Passing Yards – (403) Gabe Eck-2015
Receiving Yards – (202) Chad Gale-1987
Rushing TDs – (6) Ian Barron-2000
Passing TDs – (4) Corey Cross-1971, Brad Sherman-2001
Receiving TDs – (3) Glenn Losey-1970, Brian Fakkema-2001, Josh Bayne-2014
Tackles – (27) Scott McMartin-1981
Interceptions – (4) Brian Fakkema-2002
Sacks — (4) Nick Streubel-2013

BEST INDIVIDUAL SEASON:

Rushing Yards – (1753) Ian Barron-1998
Passing Yards – (1848) Ian Smith-2010
Receiving Yards – (844) Chad Gale-1987
Rushing TDs – (16) Ian Barron-1998
Passing TDs – (18) Joel Walstad-2014
Receiving TDs – (10) Josh Bayne-2014
Tackles – (142) Joe Kelley-2001
Interceptions – (7) Dan Neider-1986, Hunter Smith-2015
Sacks – (10) Nick Streubel-2013

BEST INDIVIDUAL CAREER:

Rushing Yards – (4713) Ian Barron
Passing Yards – (3613) Brad Sherman
Receiving Yards – (1345) Chad Gale
Rushing TDs – (37) Ian Barron
Passing TDs – (33) Brad Sherman
Receiving TDs – (17) Chad Gale
Tackles – (301) Joe Kelley
Interceptions – (12) Josh Bayne
Sacks – (12) Nick Sellgren

BEST TEAM SINGLE-SEASON PERFORMANCE:

Rushing Yards – (2742) 2014
Passing Yards – (1863) 2014
Receiving Yards – (1863) 2014
Rushing TDs – (26) 2014
Passing TDs – (20) 2014
Receiving TDs – (20) 2014
Tackles – (800) 2008
Interceptions – (20) 1986
Sacks – (22) 1996

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