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Netters stand tall in the big city

Posted in Girls Tennis, tagged Amy Yee, bi-districts, CHS Wolves, girls tennis, Tenley Stuurmans on May 15, 2025| Leave a Comment »

CHS singles aces Tenley Stuurmans (left) and Dahlia Miller were both undefeated this season until districts. (Starla Seal photo)

The stakes were high, the competition was top-tier, and the city was big.

Coupeville High School girls’ tennis players wrapped their season Thursday in Seattle with a strong team-wide performance at the District 1/2 tourney.

And while the Wolves came up just short of sending anyone to state, the small-town net aces impressed their coaches.

“We had some great competition today,” Starla Seal said. “Played their hearts out until the very end. Proud coach moment over here.”

When Coupeville arrived at the Amy Yee Tennis Center, it joined rivals from fellow Northwest 2B/1B League schools Friday Harbor and La Conner, as well as three programs from District 2’s SeaTac League.

Puget Sound Adventist, Forest Ridge, and Summit Classical Christian rounded out the field, with Forest Ridge winning both the singles and doubles titles.

This year that meant more than normal, with Districts 1 and 2 only getting a single slot to state.

The D1/2 tourney reverts back to having two singles players and two doubles teams advance to the big dance again next spring.

This time around, Forest Ridge freshman Julia Mielke thwarted Coupeville’s Tenley Stuurmans in the singles finale, preventing the Wolf netter from making a return trip to Yakima after qualifying for state as an 8th grader.

Stuurmans claimed second in a 10-woman field, with Wolf teammate Dahlia Miller beating her #5 seed to earn 4th place.

In the doubles competition, the title went to Julia Hofler and Yazhen Qui of Forest Ridge, who held off Friday Harbor duo Megan Mellinger and Kira Clark in the title match.

Districts marked not only the end of the season for the Wolves, but the end of the road for CHS seniors Ember Light and Delanie Lewis.

Light, teaming with younger sister Mila, played one of the most-intense matches of the day, with the sisters pushing a Summit Classical duo to tiebreakers in both of their sets.

The Wolves invade Seattle. (Starla Seal photo)

Thursday results:

Singles:

Tenley Stuurmans:

Beat Aubrey Mathewson (Summit Classical) 6-0, 6-1
Beat Dahlia Miller (Coupeville) 6-0, 6-1
Lost to Julia Mielke (Forest Ridge) 6-1, 6-1

Dahlia Miller:

Beat Jacklin Liu (Forest Ridge) 6-2, 6-0
Lost to Tenley Stuurmans (Coupeville) 6-0, 6-1
Lost to Kendall Lee (La Conner) 5-7, 6-3, 9-1(tiebreaker)

Doubles:

Brynn Parker/Delanie Lewis:

Lost to Julia Hofler/Yazhen Qui (Forest Ridge) 6-2, 6-1

Ember Light/Mila Light:

Beat Abril Aguilar/Valaria Nizovtsev (Puget Sound) 6-1
Lost to Kelsey Milojevich/Abby Gilbert (Summit Classical) 7-6(7-5), 7-6(7-4)

With their second season in the books, CHS coaches Tim Stelling and Starla Seal head home. (Delanie Lewis photo)

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Sluggers crack top four in state rankings

Posted in Softball, tagged CHS Wolves, rankings, RPI, Softball, WIAA on May 14, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Capri Anter unleashes. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Don’t stop until you get to the top.

Continuing their meteoric rise, the Coupeville High School softball squad moves up three slots this week in the final Washington Interscholastic Activities Association RPI rankings.

The Wolves, who are 17-1 heading into Thursday’s District 1 tourney in Mount Vernon, currently sit at #4 among 2B schools.

A week ago, CHS was #7, and before that Aaron Lucero’s sluggers spent back-to-back weeks ranked at #9.

Coupeville, which is one win away from advancing to state for the first time since 2019, is the only 2B softball squad left with just a single loss on its record.

That lone defeat came by a razor-thin 5-4 margin to 3A Oak Harbor way back on March 15.

RPI, or Rating Percentage Index, is a statistical system used to rank teams and is based on a team’s winning percentage, as well as its opponent’s winning percentage and its’s opponent’s opponents winning percentage.

When the state tourney seeding committee meets Sunday to set the bracket, RPI is one of the tools it will use.

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Gaze upon a collection of random pics

Posted in Photos, tagged CHS Wolves, Ember Light, John Fisken photos, Paul Messner, Softball on May 13, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Willow Leedy-Bonifas returns to Earth. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

We’re sweeping out the archives.

The pics seen above and below have two things in common.

One, they feature Coupeville athletes or athletic supporters.

And two, they’re some of the last photos sent my way by John Fisken before he took his Diet Coke and went home, ambling off to semi-retirement.

So, with no games today as we wait for district playoff action to kick into full gear starting Thursday, now is a perfect time to slap ’em on the page and let ’em marinate.

“I’m just saying, it feels like we’re being watched…”

Ember Light fires off a serve.

Megan Richter and her junior associate catch a softball game on a sunny day.

The hunt for missing softballs is a never-ending one.

Paul Messner has his eye(s) on you.

Kickin’ up a dust storm on the way to softball glory.

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Cream of the crop rise to the top

Posted in Track, tagged CHS Wolves, Katie Marti, Preston Epp, Top 10, track and field on May 12, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Preston Epp flies for the finish line. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

The finish line is within sight, and every second matters.

Every inch, as well.

With the high school track and field season down to just two upcoming meets — districts and state — the battle for the top marks is at its most intense.

A look at which Coupeville athletes appear in the top 10 among 2B competitors statewide confirms that.

A week ago, Carson Field (1600), Matthew Ward (triple jump), and the CHS boys 4 x 400 relay squad were on that list.

This time around, they’ve been bumped off the chart, at least for the moment.

But Cael Wilson added six inches to his PR in the pole vault and moved up from 4th to 3rd, and the Wolves are hanging tough in other areas.

Where things sit statewide through May 11, with the district meet set to go down this Saturday in Coupeville:

GIRLS:

Shot Put — Katie Marti (5th) 34-01

BOYS:

800 — Carson Field (4th) 2:02.03

4 x 100 Relay — Marquette Cunningham, Davin Houston, Preston Epp, Chase Anderson (8th) 44.47

High Jump — Cael Wilson (4th) 6-01

Pole Vault — Wilson (3rd-tie) 12-06

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Spring teams head for finish line

Posted in Baseball, Girls Tennis, Softball, standings, tagged baseball, CHS Wolves, girls tennis, league standings, Northwest League, Softball on May 10, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Things are coming into focus. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

It’s all gravy from here on out.

Regular season play is over for spring sports teams, with those squads left standing busy with postseason work now.

For Coupeville, three of four teams are still alive.

While baseball failed to make the playoffs, both Wolf softball and girls’ tennis are off to their district tourneys Thursday, May 15, to play for berths at the state championships.

The sluggers go to Mount Vernon, while the netters travel to Seattle for those events.

Two days after that, the CHS track team hosts the district meet, the last stop before its own hoped-for trip to state.

With everyone knee-deep in the playoffs, this also marks our final league standings story for the 2024-2025 school year.

Where win/loss records sit through May 10:

Northwest League baseball:

School	League	Overall
MV Christian	11-1	13-6
Friday Harbor	10-2	13-6
Orcas Island	7-5	7-12
Coupeville	5-7	6-13
Darrington	5-7	9-10
La Conner	4-8	5-9
Concrete	0-12	1-14