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Ema-tastic!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , on September 14, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Ema Smith notched her first goal of the season Thursday in Sequim. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Don’t sleep on Ema Smith.

The Coupeville High School junior is normally a role player for the girls soccer squad, but she has a dangerous goal-scoring toe or two at her disposal, as she showed Thursday night.

Smith notched her first score of the season, beating the Sequim goaltender (with a little assist from a rival player’s head), the only Wolf to do so in a 4-1 loss.

The non-conference defeat, coming on the road against a large 2A school, snaps a two-game win streak for CHS and drops it to 2-2 on the season.

While the final score didn’t come out in favor of his squad, Wolf coach Kyle Nelson saw genuine positives in his team’s performance.

“It was a closer game than the score shows,” he said. “It is also a good game for us against a good opponent to show us the things we need to work on.

“We will use this to get better.”

Coupeville, which is tied with Klahowya for the early lead atop the 1A Olympic League, has a key game coming up on Saturday.

The Wolves (1-0 in league play) travel to Port Townsend for a 1:15 game.

That match-up with the RedHawks closes out a three-game road trip for Coupeville.

After that game, CHS won’t have to play more than one road game in a row the remainder of the regular season.

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We’re ready for our close-up!!

Posted in Boys Tennis, tagged , , , , on September 14, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Pedro Gamarra, well-dressed man about town, glides in for a shot. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Joey Lippo: “Aha, my old nemesis, we meet again!”

Mason Grove tests just how limber he really is.

   William Nelson takes a moment to calculate every possible outcome in his head in the millisecond before he beats the snot out of the ball.

Jaschon Baumann has his eyes firmly glued on the prize.

Clear skies.

That was the biggest difference Wednesday for the Coupeville High School boys tennis squad.

The thick, choking smog from Canadian forest fires which plagued the previous home match was long gone, and that benefited everyone, from players to the photographer working the sidelines.

The guy with the constantly-clicking camera is John Fisken, and the photos above are courtesy him.

To see everything he shot (purchases fund college scholarships for CHS student/athletes), pop over to:

http://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/2017-2018-Coupeville-Tennis/2017-09-13-vs-Kingston/

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Your Booster Club needs you (yes, you)!!

Posted in Booster Club, tagged , , , , on September 13, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Join the Coupeville Booster Club. Otherwise Sage Renninger (left) and Lauren Bayne let the crabs loose. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Ask not what Wolf athletes can do for you, ask what you can do for Wolf athletes.

With a new school year up and rolling, now is a perfect time to jump on the bandwagon and join the Coupeville Booster Club.

Get in while the gettin’ is good, before the annual crab-chompin’ shindig hits town, and get that warm glow in your chest.

There are multiple levels of commitment, up to and including donating your time by serving on the club’s inner circle.

Your basic membership levels:

$25 — Wolf Backer

$50 — Individual

$75 — Family

$125 — Business (includes Wolf flag perfect for hanging in the window of said establishment)

Or, you can make a donation, sponsor a scholarship, contribute an item for the auction during the annual Crab Feed or help in a billion other ways.

Why do so?

Because, if Wolf sports are like a body, the Coupeville Booster Club is the spine, the thing holding everything together and giving it purpose.

It’s an invaluable resource for CHS and CMS coaches, athletes, parents and fans which funds scholarships, buys varsity letters, provides snacks for teams stuck on long bus and ferry trips and clothes Wolf coaches in snazzy polo shirts.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg for what the Booster Club accomplishes.

From helping put on the Homecoming parade to funding the Wall of Fame we raised in the high school gym, the list goes on and on.

To join, there’s a couple of quick and easy options.

You can talk to them at home football games or mail a check (written to “Coupeville Booster Club”) to P.O. Box 452, Coupeville, WA 98239.

Or, you can grab your credit or debit card and pop over to the Club’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/coupevilleboosterclub/

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They shoot! They score!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , on September 13, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Fab frosh Genna Wright scored twice Tuesday in a 7-2 win. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Season ends now, they’re league champs.

Just sayin’…

Yes, yes, there are still plenty of games to go, and three-time Olympic League champ Klahowya has yet to play a conference tilt, but, for one night at least, Coupeville is on top of the girls soccer world.

Shredding Chimacum’s defense with ease Tuesday, the Wolf booters rolled to a 7-2 road win in their league opener.

Now 2-1 overall, Coupeville split the scoring duties four ways against the Cowboys.

Lindsey Roberts, Kalia Littlejohn and Genna Wright banged home two goals apiece, while Avalon Renninger put the cherry on top with a score of her own.

Littlejohn, who leads the Wolf squad with four goals, has scored in every game this season.

The junior sharpshooter now has 22 tallies in her career, pulling her closer to big sister Mia, who set the program’s scoring record with 35 goals from 2014-2016.

With her own two-goal night, Roberts sits with three scores on the season.

It was the first time Renninger and Wright had found the back of the net, with the latter notching her first official high school goals.

The freshman whiz kid also scored during the season-opening jamboree, but that goal doesn’t count towards her season total.

Coupeville also doled out its assists, with Wright and Sage Renninger each picking up a pair.

Roberts and Littlejohn set up other goals, while one score — off a free kick by Roberts — was unassisted.

With his team kicking off a three-game road trip with the Chimacum game (the Wolves travel to Sequim Thursday and Port Townsend Saturday), CHS coach Kyle Nelson was pleased with much of what he saw.

“We will call it a “taking care of business” type of game,” he said. “Overall we continue to be making progress; our passing game took a nice jump forward as we continue to work on various aspects of our game.

“We also left Chimacum healthy as we start a succession of away games this week,” Nelson added. “Sequim tomorrow should be a good test for us as we continue to look to improve.”

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Choppin’ down big trees!!

Posted in Boys Tennis, tagged , , , , , on September 13, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   After opening the season with a pair of singles wins, Mason Grove teamed with Nick Etzell Wednesday to roll to a doubles victory. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

William Nelson is not prone to excessive on-court giddiness.

The Coupeville High School senior netter is a serene, low-key athlete, and he and his doubles partner, Joey Lippo, are the very epitome of the phrase “cooler than the other side of the pillow.”

So, when Nelson jumped a good six inches in the air after Wednesday’s match, it was equal to another player ripping all their clothes off, setting their hair on fire, then sprinting laps around the school screaming “We are the Champions” at the top of his lungs while being chased by a fire extinguisher-wielding Mr. Black.

In other words, you knew big stuff had gone down.

What inspired this show of emotion?

Nelson and Lippo had rallied twice, once from a set down, then from a 3-0 hole in the third set, to stun a very good Kingston doubles duo and stay unbeaten on the season.

Even better, their 3-6, 6-0, 6-4 victory proved to be the difference as lil’ 1A Coupeville (227 students) knocked off their visitors, sending the 2A Buccaneers (605 students) home on the losing end of a 4-3 contest.

The non-conference win, coming on the heels of a pair of razor-thin 4-3 losses to other 2A schools, lifts the Wolves to 1-2 and gives them momentum heading into an important match.

That comes Friday, when Coupeville heads to Silverdale to face Klahowya in the first league match of the season.

As two-time defending 1A Olympic League champs, CHS would like nothing more than to get off to a strong start with a win over their toughest league rival.

If the Wolf doubles teams play Friday like they did Wednesday, that shouldn’t be a problem.

Along with Lippo and Nelson, CHS also got wins from the duos of Nick Etzell/Mason Grove (who threw down a double bagel, then tried to explain to their parents how that phrase translates to a 6-0, 6-0 win) and Zach Ginnings/Drake Borden.

Grove and Ginnings are also 3-0 on the young season, giving Coupeville four unbeaten players.

Rounding out the Wolf winners Wednesday was #3 singles ace Nile Lockwood, who crawled off his death bed, ignored possible pneumonia and rolled to a straight-sets victory.

Complete Wednesday results:

Varsity:

1st Singles — Pedro Gamarra lost to Ian Schmidt 6-0, 6-0

2nd Singles — Jakobi Baumann lost to Ethan Griffin 6-4, 6-3

3rd Singles — Nile Lockwood beat Tyler Bates 6-2, 6-2

1st Doubles — William Nelson/Joey Lippo beat Ethan Sax/Dawson Clark 3-6, 6-0, 6-4

2nd Doubles — Nick Etzell/Mason Grove beat Preston Gunnell/Giani Nguyen 6-0, 6-0

3rd Doubles — Jaschon Baumann/Tiger Johnson lost to Tristan Schmidt/Eli Guedea 6-3, 6-1

4th Doubles — Drake Borden/Zach Ginnings beat Tyler Krantz/Thomas Brown 8-3

JV:

5th Doubles — Thane Peterson/Koby Schreiber tied Jacob Diehl/Skylar Beyer 6-6 (ferry)

6th Doubles — Harris Sinclair/Etzell trailed Riley Odell/Gunnell 5-3 (ferry)

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