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One more shot!!

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

   Practice today, prosper tomorrow. Brittany Powers works on her shooting skills. (John Fisken photo)

Always be shooting.

Like a gunslinger stalking the dusty streets of the Old West, the basketball sharpshooter needs to be quick on the trigger.

Offering their help is Pro Shot Shooting, which hopes to return to Coupeville High School in May for another clinic.

A clinic in the fall drew 60+ Wolf players (girls and boys), and a lot of the lessons learned helped the CHS girls squad roll to a third straight undefeated Olympic League season.

While the first clinic was an intensive six-hour program, the follow-up clocks in at a tidy three hours.

Cost is $25 per player and a minimum of 20 players need to be signed up to make the magic happen.

The clinic is open to CHS and CMS students in grades 6-12 and would be held Sunday, May 7 from 1-4 PM in the high school gym.

If interested, players or parents need to contact Wolf girls hoop coach David King at dking@coupeville.k12.wa.us by April 18.

Once they’ve hit the 20-Wolf cut-off and guaranteed the clinic, athletes will get a link where they can preregister and pay.

Players should plan on bringing their own basketball. If they don’t have one, alert Coach King in your email.

The clinic will feature shooting technique review, followed by shooting off the dribble and shooting off the catch.

“This is an opportunity for all players that attended the original clinic in the fall to come back in and get more instruction,” King said. “A great refresher.”

“It’s also a great opportunity for players that couldn’t attend the original to come in and get some instruction this spring,” he added. “If you want to improve your shooting form, jump at this chance.”

For a glimpse inside what Pro Shot Shooting offers, enjoy some quality time with YouTube:

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Jumpin’ up the charts!!

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , on April 2, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Coupeville freshman Cassidy Moody (left) is third in 1A in the high jump. (John Fisken photo)

Cassidy Moody is one to watch.

The Coupeville High School freshman has thrown her name into state title contention in the past week, setting a PR in the high jump at Thursday’s home track meet.

Clearing an even five feet, she vaults all the way into a tie for the third-best performance by a 1A girl this spring, just four inches off state leader Sienna Swannack of Lakeside (Nine Mile).

Moody’s charge into the top 10 gives CHS eight athletes (five girls and three boys) who currently sit in the top 10 in at least one event among all 1A athletes this spring.

The Wolves narrowly miss out on having nine, as sophomore Danny Conlisk sits at #11 in the 400 and #12 in the 800.

Coupeville’s top 10 performances as of Sunday morning:

Girls:

100 Hurdles — Lindsey Roberts (3rd) 16.30

4 x 100 — Roberts, Mallory Kortuem, Maya Toomey-Stout, Lauren Grove (5th) 52.69

4 x 200 — Grove, Toomey-Stout, Kortuem, Roberts (6th) 1:51.51

High Jump — Cassidy Moody (3rd) 5-00

Boys:

200 — Jacob Smith (4th) 23.12

Long Jump — Jacob Martin (4th) 20-07

Triple Jump — Mitchell Carroll (10th) 39-11

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Climb the ladder (to the top)!!

Posted in standings, tagged , , , , , on April 2, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Zack Nall and Co. find themselves in third place in the early soccer standings. (John Fisken photos)

Katrina McGranahan has pitched the Wolf softball squad to a 4-0 start.

Things are starting to develop.

Starting being the key word here.

There’s still plenty of season ahead for Coupeville’s spring sports teams, but the Wolves did make a jump, playing six league games in the past week, after just one before that.

Not counting track, with its multi-team meets, the four CHS teams are now 4-3 in Olympic League contests this spring.

That puts them hot on Klahowya’s trail (six wins) and ahead of Chimacum (3) and Port Townsend (2).

Year-to-date, Coupeville holds the lead, with 36 league wins across 10 sports (football, volleyball, baseball, softball, boys and girls tennis, soccer and basketball).

Klahowya, which has been the top school the first two years of the league’s existence (but slipped from 52 wins in year one to 45 last year), has 30 league wins as of Sunday.

Port Townsend (24) and Chimacum (16) are bringing up the rear.

With four league titles still at stake this spring, Coupeville currently holds a 3-1 lead on Port Townsend and Klahowya, having won girls basketball, volleyball and boys tennis titles in 2016-2017.

The RedHawks claimed boys basketball while the Eagles nabbed girls soccer.

Football went to Cascade Christian, which won the inaugural title in a new mash-up of the Olympic and Nisqually Leagues.

Klahowya won five titles in 2014-2015, then Coupeville replaced them at the top of the mountain with four championship banners won in 2015-2016.

The two schools are tied 9-9 on team titles all-time coming into spring of year #3 in the Olympic League.

How will things play out?

Stay tuned, as Coupeville still has 26 of 33 league games (79%) left to play, with all four teams having six or seven contests still ahead on their schedules.

For the moment, this is where things stand, through Sunday:

Olympic League softball:

School League Overall
COUPEVILLE 2-0 4-0
Chimacum 2-0 3-1
Klahowya 0-2 1-3
Port Townsend 0-2 0-3

Olympic League baseball:

School League Overall
Klahowya 2-0 3-3
COUPEVILLE 1-1 5-3
Chimacum 1-1 3-2
Port Townsend 0-2 0-4

Olympic League boys soccer:

School League Overall
Klahowya 3-0 4-2-1
Port Townsend 2-1 4-2
COUPEVILLE 1-2 2-4-1
Chimacum 0-3 1-5

Olympic League girls tennis:

School League Overall
Klahowya 1-0 2-2
COUPEVILLE 0-0 1-3
Chimacum 0-1 0-4

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Kill ’em, but with compassion!!

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , on March 31, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Mikayla Elfrank is a woman for all positions. Coupeville’s starting shortstop, she can also catch, and, as of Friday, pitch. (John Fisken photos)

   Sarah Wright (left) had three hits, while Nicole Lester thumped a resounding double in a 22-0 win.

Friday was tricky for Kevin McGranahan.

The Coupeville High School softball coach approaches every game, especially league clashes, aiming for a win.

But he also realizes the situation Port Townsend is in, and wanted to be compassionate in how his high-flying team delivered a beat-down while on the road.

He headed home with mixed feelings after watching his undefeated Wolves romp to a 22-0 win, which moved them into a first-place tie with two-time defending Olympic League champ Chimacum.

“I am not proud of the score; I am super proud of all the girls,” McGranahan said. “But I feel like I ran up the score.”

The win lifts Coupeville to 2-0 in league play, 4-0 overall heading into a non-conference home doubleheader with Blaine Monday.

The 2A Borderites will carry a 1-5 record down from the Canadian border.

CHS has four non-conference games before they welcome Chimacum (2-0, 3-1) to town for a first-place showdown.

The Cowboys, who last played Mar. 24, will sit a staggering 17 days before playing Port Townsend and Coupeville on back-to-back days April 11-12.

When Coupeville thumped Port Townsend Friday, they handed the RedHawks their 40th straight loss.

In three games this season, PT has been outscored 58-0 and the road to rebuilding the program is a long one.

Faced with that, McGranahan went all the way down his bench, gave substantial playing time to his freshmen and had two players — Scout Smith and Mikayla Elfrank — pitch for the first time in a varsity game.

At no time was a normal varsity lineup all on the field at the same time and the Wolves downplayed their normal aggressive running style, but the bats still barked, no matter who was swinging.

“We had hot bats again and started early and often,” McGranahan said. “Their pitchers struggled and our hitters were on it when they threw strikes.”

The biggest blow wasn’t intended to happen, but before the coach could call for a bunt from his slugging daughter, Katrina McGranahan “got a rare strike and hammered it.”

The junior basher deposited the ball over the center field fence for a grand slam, marking the second straight game a Wolf has gone yard.

Sarah Wright laced a three-run double to kick off the game, as Coupeville scored in every inning.

After putting up four in the first and three in the second, the Wolves dropped seven more in the third, before coasting home with four-run bursts in the final two innings.

The game was called after five innings due to the mercy rule.

Nine different Wolves rapped out a hit, led by Wright (1B, 2B, 2B) and Katrina McGranahan (1B, 1B, HR) with three apiece.

Lauren Rose and Jae Levine added two hits each, Kyla Briscoe thumped a triple and Nicole Lester whacked a double.

Tamika Nastali, Melia Welling, Emma Mathusek, Mackenzie Davis, Veronica Crownover, Tiffany Briscoe, Hope Lodell and Robin Cedillo all shared time on the field, as well, as CHS went 16 players deep.

“Total team effort and the young girls really shined today,” Kevin McGranahan said.

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Hot bats, cool arm!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on March 31, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Dane Lucero went the distance Friday, tossing a three-hit gem in a 9-1 win at Port Townsend. (John Fisken photo)

Maybe Dane Lucero is the new CJ Smith.

Like the former Wolf ace, Lucero, a Coupeville High School sophomore, adopts an easy-going style on the mound, disguising his emotions beneath a placid exterior.

Add in the fact he’s been virtually untouchable when taking the ball this season, and the comparisons grow.

Friday, Lucero was flawless for much of the game, with especially effective moments at the beginning and end, pitching the Wolves to a 9-1 win at Port Townsend.

The conference victory, coming in Chris Smith’s debut as varsity head coach, lifts Coupeville to 1-1 in Olympic League play, 5-3 overall.

CHS sits in a tie with Chimacum (1-1), a game off of Klahowya (2-0), with seven league clashes left on the schedule.

Port Townsend (0-2) is currently mired in the cellar.

Smith, who moved up from his position as JV coach after Marc Aparicio resigned Thursday due to work conflicts, got stellar stuff from his hurler.

Lucero retired the first nine RedHawk hitters, faced the minimum batters through four innings, and closed the game by striking out the side in the seventh.

He scattered three hits and two walks, was never in trouble, and whiffed six batters total.

“We had solid pitching from Dane,” Smith said. “We played solid, error-free, defense behind him.

“Defensively, Matt Hilborn (SS) and Joey Lippo (2B) were sharp making a number of plays behind Dane. Good, clean baseball game.”

Coupeville gave Lucero plenty to work with, with six players combining to rap out nine hits as the Wolves scored in five of seven innings.

The Wolves plated two in the first, three in the second and another in the third as they built a 6-0 lead.

Another run in the top of the sixth stretched the margin to 7-0, and, after Port Townsend scraped out its only run in the bottom of the inning, CHS added two more in the seventh.

In a game where eight of Coupeville’s nine hits were singles, the biggest blow was an RBI triple off the bat of senior Taylor Consford.

Matt Hilborn, Julian Welling and Consford had two hits apiece, Jake Hoagland, Lucero and Jake Pease also punched singles and Lippo pilfered home off of a double steal.

The Wolves play five of their next six against non-conference foes (facing Chimacum at home April 12), then make their playoff run with six straight league games to close the regular season.

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