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Knocked down, not out!!

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , , on April 12, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Robin Cedillo whacked an RBI single down the first-base line Wednesday afternoon. (John Fisken photos)

   Swinging a big bat, Veronica Crownover collected two of Coupeville’s seven hits, including an RBI double to straight-away center-field.

Round one to the Cowboys.

A day that started in torrential downpour morphed into a wind-fest and then, in the biggest surprise, turned into a sun-splashed, fairly calm afternoon on the prairie.

Unfortunately for the Coupeville High School softball squad, its previously-pristine record absorbed its first ding at the same time, as aggressive, hard-hitting Chimacum showed why it’s the two-time defending champions of the Olympic League.

By the time the Cowboys were done raining down hits, and tearing up the base-paths, they had run off with a resounding 15-4 win in a game called after six innings thanks to the mercy rule.

The loss drops Coupeville to 2-1 in league play, 7-1 overall, and it slides a game-and-a-half behind Chimacum (4-0, 5-1).

The Wolves have six games to play before the first of two rematches with the Cowboys Apr. 28.

The squads also tangle May 8, with both games on Chimacum’s diamond.

Along with four non-conference games, CHS has league tilts with Klahowya (0-2, 2-3) and Port Townsend (0-3, 0-4) before they again face the Cowboys.

When they do, they won’t need big changes, just a general clean-up.

“It was a good loss,” said Coupeville coach Kevin McGranahan. “You never seek it (a loss) out, but it’s not always a bad thing.

“They hit the ball. I expected us to hit with them and we just didn’t today,” he added. “We need to hit and button down on the little knick-knack errors.”

The Wolves put bat on ball, and a glance at the score-book shows they were only out-hit 9-7.

But Chimacum, which was led by Shanya Nisbet (two doubles) and Grace Yaley (three singles), packed their hits together, while Coupeville’s base-knocks were far more strung out.

Add in an uncharacteristic five errors (and numerous bobbled balls) by the Wolves, and CHS was fighting uphill most of the way.

Trailing 3-0 after a half an inning, Coupeville cut the lead to 3-2 in the second, then promptly gave back five runs in the top of the third to seal its fate.

The Wolves scraped together their first runs after Mikayla Elfrank led off the second by lining a long shot to right field that was dropped for an error.

Veronica Crownover followed by crushing a laser shot of an RBI double to straight-away center-field — the hardest-hit ball by a Wolf all game.

Three batters later, Crownover, putting the pedal through the metal, beat a throw home after Robin Cedillo drilled a single off the first baseman’s glove.

Coupeville tacked on two more in the bottom of the third, slicing the lead to 8-4, and did all its damage after starting the inning with two outs and no one on base.

Katrina McGranahan walked, Sarah Wright slapped a single up the middle, then both came flying home on a thunderous double to left-center off of Elfrank’s still-smokin’ bat.

But, while the Wolves had runners on base every inning, they also left a lot of them high and dry, stranding runners in five of six innings.

The only time they didn’t, the inning ended on a runner being snuffed out at second on one of the few plays the field ump was actually on top of…

Chimacum hurler Holly Snider only whiffed two Wolves (while Katrina McGranahan notched seven K’s), but she was quite adept at getting Coupeville hitters to punch fly balls that her steady fielders ran down.

The Cowboys had three errors, but they all came at times where they ultimately mattered little.

Crownover, who also battled the wind to track down and snare a dangerous foul ball wide of first, paced Coupeville with two hits.

Both she and Elfrank had doubles while Cedillo, Katrina McGranahan, Hope Lodell and Jae LeVine added singles.

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Lasso them Cowboys!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged , , , , on April 12, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Hunter Downes, seen here during football season, knocked in his first two goals as a Wolf soccer player Tuesday afternoon. (John Fisken photo)

They found their scoring touch.

After struggling to find the back of the net just once in their last three games, the Coupeville High School booters unloaded on host Chimacum Tuesday afternoon.

The Wolves pounded away for a season-best scoring performance, rocking the Cowboys 7-0 and moving back within shouting distance of second place in the Olympic League.

With the win, CHS sits at 2-2 in league play, 3-5-1 overall, a half-game off of Port Townsend (2-1, 4-3) and a game and a half back of two-time defending champs Klahowya (3-0, 5-2-1).

Chimacum (0-4, 1-6) remains deeply mired in the basement.

The Wolves control their playoff destiny, with five of their final six games against league foes, including two more meetings apiece with both of the schools they trail.

Before it gets to that, Coupeville plays a final non-league game 5:15 PM Friday, when it hosts 2A Port Angeles.

The 1A Wolves are 1-1-1 against bigger schools this season, having beaten North Mason and tied with Olympic.

Tuesday, CHS spread its goal-scoring among five different shooters, with two booters recording their first goals of the season.

Wolf quarterback Hunter Downes, having just recently made the jump to the pitch, had an immediate impact, rattling home his first two scores in a soccer uniform.

Joining him in a repeat assault on the net was freshman Aram Leyva, who tallied his fourth and fifth goals of the season.

That pulls him within one of the team’s leading scorer, Ethan Spark.

Rounding out the Wolf assault on the net Tuesday were Laurence Boado, Zack Nall and James Wood.

It was Boado’s first goal, while Nall, who laid in a firecracker from 20 yards out, and Wood each tallied their second scores this year.

Spark and William Nelson set up two goals apiece, while Leyva, Wood and Uriel Liquidano also collected assists.

Dewitt Cole and Brian Roberts combined to pull off the shutout, with each Wolf net-minder working a scoreless half.

“It was a great league win,” said CHS coach Kyle Nelson. “It also shows some good growth for our team, being a much better result than our first game with them a month ago.”

Coupeville won 4-3 the first time around, after rallying from a two-goal deficit.

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We got this!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged , , , , , on March 14, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Uriel Liquidano and Coupeville sit atop the (very) early 1A Olympic League boys soccer standings. (John Fisken photo)

If the scoreboard had been working, it would have gotten some serious use.

Fighting back from a two-goal deficit, the Coupeville High School boys soccer squad rallied Tuesday to upend visiting Chimacum 4-3 in the home and league opener.

The win lifts the Wolves to 1-0-1 on the season, and at 1-0 they sit alone atop the 1A Olympic League, at least for a day or two.

Having taken a sizable hit to graduation, the new-look Wolves took the pitch looking to get out early on the Cowboys, only to see one shot after another barely miss.

While the scoreboard sputtered, then sat useless, Aram Leyva, Mason Grove and William Nelson all came close, but couldn’t get the ball to drop into the net.

Taking advantage, a much-improved Chimacum squad pulled off back-to-back first half goals (who knows when they were scored, cause, you know … no clock) to startle the patrons with a 2-0 lead.

The first goal came on a one-man rampage down the left sideline by Carter McCleary, who snatched the ball, shredded three defenders, then hooked the ball into the far corner of the net.

Shortly afterwards, during a wild scrum in front of the net, a Cowboy got his toe on the ball and skittered it past Coupeville goalie Mathew Shreffner, who was partially blocked on the play.

Thankfully, the Wolves never panicked, instead calmly going on a three-goal rampage to close out the half.

Ethan Spark broke the seal on the net by hitting a miracle shot.

Crunching a laser, he caught the left post and ricocheted the ball past a startled Cowboy net-minder.

Placement was key, since if the ball had hit slightly to the side, it would have likely shot off in a completely different direction.

Having caught a bit of (well-placed) luck, the Wolves surged, with freshmen James Wood and Leyva tallying the tying and go-ahead scores.

Wood, coming in hot on the left side, knocked a ball loose, then pegged a shot over the goalie’s arms to knot things at 2-2, then turned around and set up his fellow frosh on the next charge down the field.

This time back on the right side, Wood dropped a picture-perfect pass across the pitch, where Leyva collected it and punched in the first goal of his high school career.

Which leaves him just 44 behind the school career record set by his older brother Abraham.

The second half turned into more of a defensive stalemate, but a visibly-tiring Chimacum squad managed to re-tie the game when a ball was poked in during a wild scramble in front of the net.

Coupeville’s edge in conditioning paid off, however, as the Wolves pushed hard in the game’s final minutes, sending shot after shot at the Cowboy net.

The all-out assault hit pay dirt when Spark smacked home his second goal of the night, and third of the season, in the waning moments.

With his defense, led by Uriel Liquidano, Teo Keilwitz and Axel Partida, holding the line, Wolf goalie Brian Roberts turned away several shots late to preserve the win for himself and tag-team partner Shreffner.

Coupeville coach Kyle Nelson walked off the field in first place and pleased with how his team responded to early adversity.

“It was a good team effort; we have a lot of new guys and they’re learning to play with each other,” he said. “It was a pretty good match-up, which is good, because it pushes us harder.”

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Young guns blazing!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, Middle School, tagged , , , , on March 13, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Mollie Bailey (left) and Genna Wright — serious on the court, goofballs off. (John Fisken photos)

They’re on their way to taking over the world.

   Lily Leedy (left) and Adair DeJesus, seen in an earlier game, both played strongly Monday.

The game turned, and it turned fast.

Attacking relentlessly in the early moments Monday, the Coupeville Middle School 7th grade girls basketball team knocked visiting Chimacum back on its heels.

With five different players scoring in the first quarter, the Wolves built a lead and never relinquished it, rolling to a 42-25 win.

The nightcap wasn’t quite as successful, as the CMS 8th graders ran into a much-more polished Cowboy squad, falling 50-18.

Now boasting a three-game winning streak, the 7th graders sit at 4-2, while the undermanned 8th graders are 1-5.

7th grade:

The Wolves got on the board early when Samantha Streitler ripped a rebound away from a Cowboy rival and banked it home, then the floodgates opened.

Sparked by a feisty defense, CMS started droppin’ buckets from all angles.

Kylie Van Velkinburgh tickled the twines with a sweet one-handed jumper off of an in-bounds play, before Anya Leavell and Kiara Contreras threw down breakaway buckets off of steals.

Even when they slowed down the pace — for a second — the Wolves were locked in.

Audrianna Shaw, after taking an entry pass from Leavell, who had her most explosive game of the season, backed her defender down, then banked the ball off the glass with a flick of her wrist.

Up 10-6 after one and 20-12 at the half, Coupeville put the game firmly in the win column with a dominant third quarter.

It wasn’t just the 12-4 scoring margin, but the way Ja’Kenya Hoskins took over the boards and Leavell set the nets on fire.

Pouring in eight of her game-high 14 in the second half, the sweet-shooting Leavell was straight-up money for the Wolves.

She got plenty of help, as seven of the 11 Wolves to hit the floor put the ball through the net.

Hoskins banged home eight, while Streitler and Contreras dropped in six apiece.

Shaw (4), Adair DeJesus (2) and Van Velkinburgh (2) also scored, with McKenna Somes, Alana Mihill, Katelin McCormick and Lily Leedy bringing hustle and hard work.

8th grade:

The “older” squad, which is a mix of players since the Wolves have only four 8th graders, had their moments.

Coupeville got three-balls from Genna Wright and Abby Mulholland, scrappy play from hard-charging Heidi Clinkscales and one gorgeous pass and bucket that earned an appreciate “Ooh!” from visiting high school round-ball guru David King.

On that play, Chelsea Prescott pulled the defense to her, then whipped a pass that started as a laser, before softly dropping right at the end onto Izzy Wells waiting fingertips.

Catching the ball and laying it up in one smooth move, Wells bucket was easily the prettiest of the night.

Unfortunately, Chimacum couldn’t miss in the early going, rampaging out to a 24-9 lead after one quarter.

Coupeville’s defense got stingier as the game went, reducing the Cowboys point total in every quarter, a testament to the never-say-die ethos of the team.

Wells paced the Wolves with six points, while Wright bombed away for five.

Mulholland (3), Prescott (2) and Clinkscales (2) rounded out the attack, while Mollie Bailey, Bella Velasco, McCormick and Leedy all saw floor time for CMS.

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CMS girls kick-off season with a bang!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, Middle School, tagged , , , , , on February 17, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Izzy Wells, seen here during a SWISH game, scored six points in her middle school hoops debut. (John Fisken photo)

   Izzy Wells, seen here during a SWISH game, scored six points in her middle school hoops debut. (John Fisken photo)

Chalk up one for the next generation.

Megan Smith’s debut as a coach was a winning one, as the former Wolf hoops legend led her Coupeville Middle School 7th grade girls’ squad to a 24-17 win at Chimacum in its season opener.

The Cowboys rebounded to get a split, taking down the undermanned CMS 8th graders 40-21.

7th grade:

Smith, a three-time CHS Athlete of the Year before graduating in 2010, is returning to her old stomping grounds and following in the (large) coaching footsteps of parents Willie and Cherie Smith.

She immediately found the right mix, getting offensive pop from Anya Leavell, who went off for 10 points, and a team-wide commitment on D.

“We played some tough, fundamental defense,” Smith said. “We played incredibly hard and ended up with the outcome we deserved! Super proud of the team.”

Ja’Kenya Hoskins and Audrianna Shaw tickled the twines for six apiece to back up Leavell, while Kylie Van Velkinburgh drained a bucket to round out the scoring.

8th grade:

With just four 8th graders playing basketball, Wolf coach Ryan King is using a mix of 7th graders to fill out his roster.

8th grader Chelsea Prescott paced CMS with a team-high 10 points, while 7th grader Izzy Wells knocked down six in support.

Genna Wright (2), Samantha Streitler (2) and Heidi Clinkscales (1) rounded out the scoring attack, while Mollie Bailey and Kiara Contreras were their usual feisty selves.

“Overall, I was proud of all the girls. They fought hard from start to finish,” King said. “Every girl played hard. Great group of girls and proud of all of them.”

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