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Senior trio earn All-League hardball honors

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , , , on May 28, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Camden Glover (Jackie Saia photo)

But first, a parting gift.

Three graduating Coupeville High School seniors were honored by Northwest 2B/1B League baseball coaches for their play on the diamond this spring.

Chase Anderson landed First-Team All-League recognition, while Camden Glover and Coop Cooper were placed on the Second Team.

The trio led CHS to a 9-9 record, with the Wolves finishing 7-5 in conference play.

Orcas Island thumper Joe Stephens, who smashed a home run over the fence while playing in Coupeville, was tabbed as league MVP.

Rounding out things, Anthony Hanson of Mount Vernon Christian received Coach of the Year after leading the Hurricanes to a league title, while Darrington picked up the Sportsmanship Award.

Coop Cooper (Julie Wheat photo)

 

First Team:

Chase Anderson – Coupeville
Josh Feddema – Mount Vernon Christian
Jackson Feliz – Friday Harbor
Kash Griffith – Friday Harbor
Joe Holt – Friday Harbor
Calder Jones – Orcas Island
Connor Mounts – Mount Vernon Christian
Carter Snel – Darrington
Chase Woodmansee – Mount Vernon Christian
Grady Woodmansee – Mount Vernon Christian

 

Second Team:

Coop Cooper – Coupeville
Zane Dahlberg – Mount Vernon Christian
Harrison Edge – Friday Harbor
Jake Feddeme – Mount Vernon Christian
Camden Glover – Coupeville
Ayden Jolley – Concrete
Francis Key – Orcas Island
Max Lee – Orcas Island
Nam Nguyen – Darrington
Kaleb Otis – La Conner
Walker Wohlgemuth – Mount Vernon Christian

 

Honorable Mention:

Nolan Elde – La Conner
Isiah Kimple – Orcas Island
Angus Poprycz – La Conner

Chase Anderson (Melanie Wolfe photo)

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Big stars, big award

Posted in awards, tagged , , , , on May 27, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Teagan Calkins, ready to bring the hammer down. (Marquette Cunningham photo)

It’s not exactly a surprise.

After each delivered four years of big moments across multiple sports, the announcement that Teagan Calkins and Chase Anderson are the 2026 Coupeville High School Athlete of the Year winners was correctly predicted by every pundit from Cow Town to Bangladesh.

Likely.

Honored Wednesday at the school’s annual spring awards night, the Wolf seniors will join previous winners such as Brad Sherman, Makana Stone, and Sherry Bonacci in getting their framed photos installed on the wall leading into the CHS gym.

Chase Anderson, out in support of his fellow athletes. (Marquette Cunningham photo)

Calkins has been the heart and soul of Coupeville’s volleyball, basketball, and softball programs, helping guide the spikers and sluggers to state tournament glory.

As a senior she paced the Wolves volleyball team with 185 kills and 176 digs, while also racking up 12 assists, 37 service aces, and three block assists.

On the hardwood, the three-ball assassin rattled the rims for 160 points, while being a wild woman on the boards and in battles for loose balls.

When Calkins walked off the floor for the final time, she finished a three-year varsity run with 402 points, leaving her #26 all-time for a hoops program which debuted in 1974.

“The Red Dragon” capped her prep days with another standout season as the catcher and most-lethal hitter for a Wolf softball squad which finished 19-4, won league and district titles, and returned to state for the second straight season.

Coupeville played in three games at the big dance, winning one, a year after going 2-2.

In her final moment as a Wolf athlete, Calkins delivered once again, crunching a two-run double into the fading sunlight off of River View.

Calkins gets her props on Senior Night. (Jackie Saia photo)

Anderson dominated on the gridiron, where he flung touchdown strikes as the CHS quarterback, picked off passes while on defense, and handled the kicking duties, nailing long field goals and longer punts.

In June he’ll travel to Yakima to rep the Wolves in the Earl Barden All-Star Classic, which brings together the best senior football players from the 1B, 2B, and 1A classifications on one field.

Put him on the hardwood and Anderson, a hyper-intense defender, hunted baskets.

He led Coupeville in scoring as a junior and senior, finishing his run with 943 points across four seasons, placing him #7 all-time for a Wolf boys’ program which launched way back in 1917.

When spring arrived this year, Anderson returned to the baseball diamond after earning a pair of state meet medals in track as a junior.

He paced Coupeville with a team-high 19 runs, 26 stolen bases, six doubles, and a home run, while also piling up a .362 batting average, 17 hits, nine RBI, and 10 walks.

Mixing his time between multiple positions, Anderson went to the pitcher’s mound eight times, whiffing 46 batters across 25 innings of work.

Anderson flings heat. (Jackie Saia photo)

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Wolves rally, Vikings escape

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on April 27, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Trent Thule gets his bench riled up. (Jackie Saia photo)

The Wolves dug themselves a hole, twice, yet almost made it all the way back.

Unfortunately for the Coupeville High School baseball squad, a late rally fell just short for the second straight game, with Steve Hilborn’s team nipped 14-11 Monday afternoon on Orcas Island.

The loss drops CHS to 7-2 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 9-6 overall, with a rematch against the Vikings set for Wednesday in Cow Town.

With three conference clashes left to play, the Wolves sit in second place in the NWL, a game-and-a-half back of Mount Vernon Christian (8-0) and a game-and-a-half up on Orcas (6-4).

Monday’s royal rumble was a fairly close affair, with Coupeville winning the hit battle 8-5, Orcas edging the Wolves 14-12 in drawing walks, and both teams committing three errors apiece.

But the Vikings spent most of the day out in front on the scoreboard, forcing their visitors to play catch-up.

Carson Grove got CHS on the board first in the top of the first, sacrificing his body by being plunked by a pitch before coming around to score on an RBI single to left off the bat of Chase Anderson.

Orcas responded quickly, however, plating four runs in the bottom half of the opening frame, before pushing across three more in the second to take a commanding 7-1 lead.

Coupeville’s pitchers clamped down after that, tossing three consecutive scoreless innings, while the offense chipped away at the deficit.

Chris Zenz (left) and Chase Anderson combined to smack four hits on Orcas Island Monday. (Julie Wheat photo)

Anderson, having reached base on catcher’s interference in the third, scored on a passed ball, while Leo Rodriguez zipped for the plate in the fourth thanks to an Orcas error.

The Wolves sliced the margin to 7-5 in the fifth, capitalizing on big hits from Anderson and Riley Lawless, but then things went wrong in the bottom of the sixth.

Using a string of walks and two well-placed hits, the Vikings suddenly relit the pilot light on their offense, scoring seven runs to turn a tense tilt into a potential blowout at 14-5.

CHS was not ready to go down easily, though, and launched its own run-scoring barrage while facing its final at-bats in the top of the seventh.

Anderson smacked a leadoff double, followed by four walks — with Aiden O’Neill and Coop Cooper being drilled — before Chris Zenz and Rodriguez popped back-to-back RBI singles to pull Coupeville within 14-9.

The Wolves weren’t done, forcing home two more runs thanks to bases-loaded walks to Grove and Anderson, and had the bases juiced with just one out.

Orcas needed a hero to stop the bleeding and found it, though, with Joe Stephens coming out of the bullpen to whiff both of the batters he faced, ending Coupeville’s rally a few runs short of a complete celebration.

Four pitchers combined to toss six innings for CHS, with Anderson, Cooper, Glover, and Grove sharing mound duties.

Cooper emerged as top dog, whiffing eight Vikings across 4.1 frames.

 

Monday stats:

Chase Anderson — Two singles, one double, one walk
Coop Cooper — One single, two walks
Camden Glover — One single, one walk
Carson Grove — Two walks
Riley Lawless — One single
Aiden O’Neill — One walk
Leo Rodriguez — One single, two walks
Malachi Somes — One walk
Trent Thule — Two walks
Chris Zenz — One single

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Chilly day, warm win

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on April 14, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Chase Anderson fires BBs. (Jackie Saia photos)

Swing and a miss.

Wolf hurlers Chase Anderson and Camden Glover combined to whiff 17 La Conner hitters Tuesday, propelling the Coupeville High School baseball squad to its sixth win in its last seven games.

Slipping past the visiting Braves 5-4, Steve Hilborn’s squad gets to a flawless 5-0 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 7-2 overall.

That leaves the Wolves a half-game back of Mount Vernon Christian (6-0) in the race for the NWL crown, with a rematch against the Braves on the mainland set for Thursday afternoon.

La Conner actually got on the board first Tuesday, pushing two runners across in the top of the first, before Anderson clamped down and turned into a K-machine, eventually racking up 13 punch-outs across 5.2 innings of work.

Coupeville got one run back in its half of the first, before taking the lead for good with two more tallies in the bottom of the second.

All three runs were scored after CHS found itself with no one on base and two outs.

Anderson got the Wolves on the board, reaching base on a walk before stealing second, and coming around to score off a La Conner error.

The go-ahead runs were courtesy two more botched plays by the Braves, with Leo Rodriguez and Aiden O’Neill scoring off an error and a passed ball, respectively.

Aiden O’Neill eyeballs the pitcher.

From there Coupeville tacked on two more runs in the fourth to run the lead out to 5-2, then gave two back in the fifth.

Camden Glover and Coop Cooper delivered back-to-back RBI singles in the fourth to pad the lead, sending liners where the defense wasn’t.

While La Conner pulled back within one, the visitors never came close to getting the tying run home, as Coupeville’s pitching staff closed the game with a bang.

Taking the ball from Anderson in the sixth, Glover earned the save by striking out four of the five batters he faced, slamming the door shut on a chilly, windy prairie “spring” day.

 

Tuesday stats:

Chase Anderson — One single, two walks
Coop Cooper — One single, one walk
Camden Glover — One single, two walks
Carson Grove — Two singles, one walk
Riley Lawless — One walk
Aiden O’Neill — Two walks
Leo Rodriguez — One walk
Killian Shaw — One walk
Chris Zenz — One walk

 

Monday’s game washed out:

Coupeville was slated to travel to South Whidbey Monday for a non-conference clash, but, with Spring Break over, Mother Nature decided to bring back the rain and wind.

The game will likely be rescheduled at a later date, according to CHS Athletic Director Willie Smith.

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Anderson rocks, Wolves roll

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , , on March 25, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Carson Grove reached base three times in Wednesday’s win. (Julie Wheat photos)

The big dog is back and barking.

Making his first start on the mound since his sophomore season, Coupeville High School senior Chase Anderson tossed a 16-strikeout no-hitter Wednesday to lead the Wolves to a 4-0 win over visiting Friday Harbor in the conference opener for both teams.

The victory lifts the Wolves to 1-0 in Northwest 2B/1B League action, 2-1 overall, with a rematch of the squads set for Thursday on Friday Harbor.

For Anderson, it was a return to form.

A top pitcher as a freshman and sophomore on CHS teams which went to the state tourney, he was limited by injuries as a junior and switched to track and field for a season.

Now he’s back on the diamond and already dialed in.

After a brief one-inning relief appearance in his team’s prior game, Anderson got the call Wednesday from coach Steve Hilborn and responded with a classic performance.

He limited Friday Harbor to just a pair of walks, retired the final 12 hitters he faced, and was never in danger.

Anderson recorded strikeouts in every inning, whiffing the side in both the second and fifth innings, while letting his defense step up to record the game’s other five outs.

At the plate, Coupeville got the only run it would need in the bottom of the second, thanks to some nimble base-running from Carson Grove.

The sophomore sensation walked to lead off the frame, stole second, then came whipping around to score on an error by the visiting catcher.

CHS tacked on two more tallies in the third, and a final insurance run in the fourth, before coasting in for the victory.

In the third, senior Aiden O’Neill — making his season debut — reached on an error, followed by a single from Camden Glover and a walk to Coop Cooper.

With the bags juiced, Coupeville brought two runners in thanks to an RBI single off the bat of Grove and a bases loaded walk to Riley Lawless, who wore a pitch to get aboard.

Coupeville’s finally run came courtesy a pair of doubles, with O’Neill raking one to left, then coming around to tap home after a shot to center from Cooper.

While Anderson shut Friday Harbor’s bats down all day, the Wolves tallied eight hits and seven walks, with Glover leading the hit machine with a pair of singles.

That gives the CHS senior shortstop nine base knocks across the first three games of the season.

 

Wednesday stats:

Chase Anderson — One single
Coop Cooper — One double, two walks
Camden Glover — Two singles, one walk
Carson Grove — One single, two walks
Riley Lawless — One walk
Aiden O’Neill — One double
Leo Rodriguez — One walk
Killian Shaw — One single
Trent Thule — One single

“We win, son, we win.”

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