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Knight time is the best time!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , , on October 5, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Wolf freshman Knight Arndt scored her first varsity goal Thursday at Port Angeles. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

“We came out a stronger team.”

Playing on the road, without one of its key players, against a very good, and very large, 2A school, the Coupeville High School girls soccer squad learned under fire Thursday night.

And while the Wolves suffered a 9-3 setback at the hands of Port Angeles, CHS coach Kyle Nelson emerged from the experience unbowed.

“A tough opponent tonight, with a tough first half,” he said. “We came back and played a much better second half.

“We look at these games as opportunities to improve,” he added. “And we figured out a few things tonight.”

The loss drops Coupeville to 6-5, but the Wolves still sit a tidy 4-1 in 1A Olympic League play.

With Port Townsend (1-4) falling to Klahowya (5-0) Thursday in a league tilt, the Wolves are three games up with four to play in the race for second place in conference play.

Another bright spot against Port Angeles was the continued emergence of players with a strong  scoring touch.

Freshman Knight Arndt became the ninth Wolf to tally a goal this season when she scored on “a nice back post run.”

Coupeville’s other two goals came on free kicks from senior captain Sage Renninger.

With the three-goal night, the Wolves raised their season total to 39 scores.

There are at least six games left on the schedule and CHS is coming up fast on last year’s team, which scored a program-record 47 goals while going 8-7-1.

Coupeville will have to go the rest of the way, though, without splendid junior midfielder/defender Lindsey Roberts, the team’s third-leading scorer.

She’s out with a tendon injury which requires wearing an ankle brace, icing three times a day, limited flexing, plenty of anti-imflammatories and a month’s rest.

While her own soccer season is done, Roberts is remaining with the team to cheer on her teammates and hopes to heal before basketball season.

Coupeville’s goal scorers:

Kalia Littlejohn 15
Genna Wright 8
Lindsey Roberts 4
Sage Renninger 3
Avalon Renninger 2
Ema Smith 2
Knight Arndt 1
Lauren Bayne 1
Mallory Kortuem 1

Own goals by opposing teams 2

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Zippin’ along!!

Posted in Cross Country, tagged , , , , on October 5, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Danny Conlisk finished 9th out of 105 runners Thursday at a cross country meet at South Whidbey High School. (Photo courtesy Dawnelle Conlisk)

Danny Conlisk wins Whidbey honors.

Competing at an eight-team cross country meet at South Whidbey High School Thursday, the Coupeville junior finished 9th out of 105 runners.

Making his top 10 finish even better was he edged out every one of his Falcon training partners, out-leaning South Whidbey’s Michael Cepowski at the line.

Conlisk finished the 5,000 meter course in 18 minutes, 18.94 seconds, while Cepowski ran his home course in 18:19.79.

Cedarcrest’s Grant Van Valkenburg won the race in 16:57.03, spurring the Red Wolves to a team win.

The seven schools from the 1A/2A Cascade Conference were in attendance, while Coupeville’s mini three-man crew also took part.

CHS doesn’t have an active harrier program of its own, so Conlisk and brothers Henry and Sam Wynn train and travel with South Whidbey, but compete in the red and black uniforms of their own school.

Henry Wynn, a senior, finished 38th Thursday, clocking in at 20:13.59, while Sam, a freshman, claimed 74th in 22:16.56.

The Wolf trio are back at it Saturday, when they travel to Lakewood for the Nike Hole in the Wall Invitational.

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Pics to delight! Pics to amaze!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, Volleyball, tagged , , , , , , on October 4, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Coupeville got lucky in the foreign exchange student lottery, netting a winner in Charlotte Nolle. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

That moment when you thought it was a Friday, but it was just a Wednesday.

“How you doin?”

   Hope Lodell (left) and Kyla Briscoe plot out strategy. “I’m gonna hit it where they aren’t, and then we’ll win. Sound good?”

   Local legends Paul and Marilyn Messner, about to be be swarmed by autograph seekers.

Zoe Trujillo trains like Zola Budd. Look it up on Wikipedia…

Jaimee Masters (left) and Megan Behan plot shenanigans.

Even with a fractured ankle, Sean Toomey-Stout is still faster than you or me.

   With Coupeville sweeping all nine sets from Chimacum Tuesday, there was plenty to cheer about for Wolf spikers.

Megan Thorn unleashes The Crippler.

Imagine if this was the olden days, when you had to go in the darkroom and develop every picture.

Freed up by the advent of digital, wanderin’ photo god John Fisken madly clicked away Tuesday, bopping between Coupeville soccer and volleyball contests.

Along the way, he also let his lens slide into the crowd to capture what was brewing off the beaten path.

The pics above, while providing a nice overview of everything, are just the tip of the iceberg, however.

To see the billions of pics Fisken shot, there’s two handy links below.

And when you jump, remember, purchases fund college scholarships for CHS student/athletes, and they make it more likely he’ll return to Cow Town.

Volleyball — http://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/2017-Coupeville-Volleyball/2017-10-03-vs-Chimacum/

Soccer — http://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/2017-2018-Coupeville-Soccer/2017-10-03-vs-Chimacum/

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Young Wolves serve up a winner!!

Posted in Volleyball, tagged , , , , on October 4, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Wolf freshman Savannah Smith reeled off nine straight points on her serve at one point Tuesday night. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Catherine Lhamon keeps the rally alive.

Put the ball in Jaimee Masters hands and the match is done.

Unloading vicious serve after even more vicious serve, the Coupeville High School freshman put a resounding end to both the second and third sets Tuesday, as the Wolf C-Team cruised to a win over visiting Chimacum.

Masters ran off seven straight winners to close the night’s middle set, after already doing some serious damage in the first set.

Enjoying the thrill, she then went one better in the third set, ending the match with eight straight winners off her serve.

Fueled by Masters ace-happy ways, and similar laser shows from Savannah Smith and Catherine Lhamon, the Wolves strolled to a 25-17, 25-8, 25-17 victory.

The win lifts the C-Team to 3-0 on the season, 2-0 in Olympic League play.

Coupeville came out on fire, never trailing in the first two sets, then proved it could rally as well, storming back from eight down to take the final set.

Willow Vick got the Wolves started with a tip for a winner on the first point of the night, and CHS stormed out to a quick 6-0 lead in the first set.

From there, a couple of kills from Maddie Vondrak, strong set-ups from Heidi Clinkscales and a sweet tip for a winner off of the fingertips of Charlotte Nolle, and Coupeville was on cruise control.

Megan Behan ended the opening set with an explosive ace, signalling what was to come from Masters, while Kylie Chernikoff delivered several put-aways while patrolling the net.

While Masters was well, masterful, racking up 29 points on her serve over the course of the match, it was Smith who put together the best stretch of any Wolf.

With CHS facing its only deficit of the night at 10-3 in the third set, the freshman went on a rampage, zinging serves off of Chimacum faces, arms and legs.

Literally, as one Cowboy who took a Smith serve to the chin is likely to look in the mirror tomorrow and see the imprint of a volleyball on the lower half of her face.

Capping things with a laser shot of an ace which split two Cowboys who flinched and grimaced in unison as the ball exploded between them, Smith pulled the Wolves back in front 12-10, and they would never relinquish the lead the rest of the way.

Just to drive the point home, Smith resurfaced when Masters was closing out the match, going high to stuff a shot in a manner reminiscent of how older sister Emma Smith dominates at the net.

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Crushing teams and taking names!!

Posted in Volleyball, tagged , , , , , on October 3, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Lucy Sandahl and the Wolf JV volleyball squad are 6-0 after pasting Chimacum. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

   Emma Mathusek pleads her case to Wolf JV coach Chris Smith. “I’m gold, man, gold. You need me on the floor!”

It was beautifully, brutally efficient.

Now, I could be talking about the final point of Tuesday night’s Coupeville High School JV volleyball match, when Raven Vick flew skyward like a superhero, then launched a missile of a spike which destroyed the back-line like it had been hit by a grenade.

Or, heck, you could pick just about any point from the match, and that’s what I could be talking about.

Moving like a pack of lethal jungle cats accidentally let loose in a petting zoo, the undefeated Wolf JV spikers polished the floor with visiting Chimacum, shredding the Cowboys 25-15, 25-7, 25-10.

It was a rout, a beat-down, a KO where the ring official was too mesmerized by the carnage to stop things in time to protect the vanquished foe.

It was Lucy Sandahl smoking aces off of bodies.

It was Maddie Vondrak climbing a staircase to heaven to put away tips as her opponent’s jaws scraped the floor.

It was Chelsea Prescott colliding with her own teammate and somehow managing to both catch Maya Toomey-Stout in mid-fall, apologize to her, and still drop a winner in between two Cowboys.

All in one effortless move.

First-year Wolf JV coach Chris Smith has yet to lose — his squad improved to 6-0 overall, 4-0 in Olympic League play with the victory — and there are no signs this team has any plans to put him through any misery any time soon.

Coupeville was clicking from the first moment Sandahl bopped to the service stripe to open things, to Vick’s teeth-rattling coup de grâce.

While the first set stayed fairly close for a bit, the Wolves began to steadily pull away after Prescott and Sandahl put together strong back-to-back runs on serve.

From there, it became much more of a rout.

Sandahl opened the first set with seven straight winners, which seemed pretty dang impressive.

Until “The Gazelle” went nuclear in the second set.

Toomey-Stout, rockin’ new shoes and a quiet smile, set down her water bottle, spun the ball in her hand, then went on a serving tear that promptly killed the very last flicker of hope still beating in the collective chest of the Cowboys.

Ripping off 12 consecutive points on her serve — Chimacum successfully returned just two — Toomey-Stout took a 12-6 lead and turned it into 24-6 in the blink of an eye.

The third set was virtually a mirror image of the second set, though with a twist as Raven Vick and Prescott each ran off six straight points on their serve.

When the ball was briefly in play, a pack of Wolves flew to whatever turf  needed defending, with Kylie Chernikoff and Vondrak collecting the most electrifying winners, on a lethal kill and a superb tip, respectively.

Willow Vick, bouncing back from illness, unloaded a smokin’ ace off the back-line, while Emma Mathusek and Zoe Trujillo were rock-solid and in the middle of every play, as always.

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