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Roll call of the gridiron greats!!

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , , on September 10, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Hunter Smith (top left) is joined in the end zone by fellow record holders (clockwise, from top right) Chad Gale, Brian Fakkema, Nick Streubel, Ian Smith, Joe Kelley, Josh Bayne, Ian Barron, Joel Walstad and Brad Sherman.

Hunter Smith (4) is joined by fellow record holders (clockwise, from top right) Chad Gale, Brian Fakkema, Nick Streubel, Ian Smith, Joe Kelley, Josh Bayne, Ian Barron, Joel Walstad and Brad Sherman.

Imagine a magical world.

In this utopia, a chain-smoking, bee-hived-hairdo-rockin’ lady (we’ll call her Gladys) has been working out of a small office in the back of the Coupeville High School gym complex for decades.

While there she’s been faithfully recording stats and filing them away neatly in frequently-dusted filing cabinets.

Now, come back to reality, where any pursuit of Wolf athletic history involves latching on to whatever scattered records someone pulls out of their dusty attic or spending hours trying not to rip the brittle pages of the bound volumes in the Whidbey News-Times archives.

So, it is, with justifiable trepidation that I approach calling any history definitive.

But, having gone cross-eyed and ink-stained, I am, we’ll say, 98.3% certain that the CHS football records I’m about to present are pretty dang close to being canon.

With one or two niggling doubts still trying to be ironed out.

As you scan these records, the oldest of which hails from 1970 (and yes, I went back WAY before that), remember several things.

One, sacks were not tallied as such in the olden days, so the players of earlier decades may have hauled down a lot of quarterbacks but will never own the record.

Two, the game has changed, with tons of tweaks aimed at ramping up offenses.

Go back in the archives and there are quite a few 6-0 games, and quite a few talented players who never had the chance to put up numbers like the modern day guys.

And three, and this is the biggest of them all — high school football stats, especially at small schools, are notoriously fickle and largely dependent on how good that year’s record keepers were.

But you don’t care about all the rationale, you just want the glossy numbers.

So here you go, my 98.3% correct all-time Coupeville High School football records.

If you disagree, speak up now or forever hold your peace.

And, if you want to argue, have something to back up your story.

Missing stat sheets, newspaper clippings which tell a different tale than what I saw, game film, a time travel machine that allows us to go back and watch it all unfold live.

Bring it on, I say.

BEST INDIVIDUAL SINGLE-GAME PERFORMANCE:

Rushing Yards – (320) Ian Barron-1998
Passing Yards – (403) Gabe Eck-2015
Receiving Yards – (202) Chad Gale-1987
Rushing TDs – (6) Ian Barron-2000
Passing TDs – (4) Corey Cross-1971, Brad Sherman-2001
Receiving TDs – (3) Glenn Losey-1970, Brian Fakkema-2001, Josh Bayne-2014
Tackles – (27) Scott McMartin-1981
Interceptions – (4) Brian Fakkema-2002
Sacks — (4) Nick Streubel-2013

BEST INDIVIDUAL SEASON:

Rushing Yards – (1753) Ian Barron-1998
Passing Yards – (1848) Ian Smith-2010
Receiving Yards – (844) Chad Gale-1987
Rushing TDs – (16) Ian Barron-1998
Passing TDs – (18) Joel Walstad-2014
Receiving TDs – (10) Josh Bayne-2014
Tackles – (142) Joe Kelley-2001
Interceptions – (7) Dan Neider-1986, Hunter Smith-2015
Sacks – (10) Nick Streubel-2013

BEST INDIVIDUAL CAREER:

Rushing Yards – (4713) Ian Barron
Passing Yards – (3613) Brad Sherman
Receiving Yards – (1345) Chad Gale
Rushing TDs – (37) Ian Barron
Passing TDs – (33) Brad Sherman
Receiving TDs – (17) Chad Gale
Tackles – (301) Joe Kelley
Interceptions – (12) Josh Bayne
Sacks – (12) Nick Sellgren

BEST TEAM SINGLE-SEASON PERFORMANCE:

Rushing Yards – (2742) 2014
Passing Yards – (1863) 2014
Receiving Yards – (1863) 2014
Rushing TDs – (26) 2014
Passing TDs – (20) 2014
Receiving TDs – (20) 2014
Tackles – (800) 2008
Interceptions – (20) 1986
Sacks – (22) 1996

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She’s a star! A bright, shining star!!

Posted in Basketball, Happy birthday, Track, tagged , , , , on September 10, 2016| 1 Comment »

Cassidy Moody

   Birthday girl Cassidy Moody (left) makes a point with fellow Wolf track star Ja’Tarya Hoskins.

Moody

   The smartly-dressed Moody hangs out with Melia Welling at a boys’ basketball game. (John Fisken photo)

Remember the name Cassidy Moody.

Why, you ask?

Because the quicksilver Coupeville High School freshman, who celebrates a birthday today, is headed for big things.

One of the best and brightest young stars in Cow Town, athletically gifted and serene of spirit, Moody seems to glide whenever she walks by.

A strong, gifted young woman with a light scoring touch on the basketball court, where she frequently torches foes, she’s also one of the most promising young track stars in Wolf Nation.

While competing at the middle school level Moody was a jack-of-all-trades, vying in numerous events.

She was a sprinter (100, 200), stretched it out to a full lap around the oval (400), did hurdles, long jump, high jump, even found time to be a relay runner.

And she did it all extremely well, grabbing victories in both the hurdles and high jump, with the latter coming in the league championship meet during her 8th grade season.

With the graduation of CHS track titans such as Makana Stone and Sylvia Hurlburt, Wolf coach Randy King will be looking to his young guns to step up as Coupeville debuts its sparkling new track.

My money is on Moody, who has the skill and carriage of a star about to be born.

Of course, take away all the sports stuff and you’re still left with an amazing young woman, a quiet, friendly, hard-working, whip-smart asset to our community.

Whether she’s giggling with close buddy Melia Welling while working the scorer’s table or draining jumpers, Cassidy brightens up every room she’s in.

Happy birthday, Miss Moody.

Never stop being awesome.

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To the final match, to the final point!!

Posted in Boys Tennis, tagged , , , , on September 10, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Jakobi Baumann, seen here during a practice, battled strongly Friday in a loss. (John Fisken photo)

   Jakobi Baumann, seen here during a practice, battled strongly Friday in a loss. (John Fisken photo)

Call them the Comeback Kids.

The Coupeville High School boys’ tennis squad pulled off a pair of stunning rallies Friday to keep the private school boys on their toes.

While the come-from-behind wins at second and third doubles weren’t quite enough to tip the match in the Wolves favor — host Overlake slipped away with a razor-thin 3-2 win in Redmond — it proved Coupeville won’t go down easy.

Now 0-2 on the young season, after playing a large 2A school and a private school powerhouse, both on the road, the Wolves return home Monday.

Coupeville hosts another 2A school, Sequim (1-1), with play tipping at 3:30.

Friday the Wolves found themselves in a hole early, but came roaring back from a set down in two of their doubles matches to put a positive glow on the afternoon.

Grey Rische and Jimmy Myers stayed on the court the longest, pulling out a hard-fought win in a third-set tiebreaker.

“Jimmy and Grey played a closely-contested match,” said CHS coach Ken Stange. “When they started their final tiebreaker, they were the last match on the court.

“Calm Grey and fiery Jimmy. It works fabulously!”

The biggest comeback though might have happened at second doubles, where juniors William Nelson and Joey Lippo dropped the first set 6-2.

After surging back to take the second set by the same score, they seemed at a dead-end, trailing 7-1 in a third-set tiebreaker played to 10.

Instead, the duo found their mojo in a snap, firing off nine straight points to shock the world with a 10-7 triumph.

In a match with just five varsity battles, being swept in the singles slots made life tough for the Wolves.

While he would have liked to have seen a different result on the score cards, Stange was pleased with the effort of his solo warriors.

“It was a good match,” he said. “Our singles guys were over-matched, but Nick (Etzell) played quite well.

“He employed his game plan the whole way through,” Stange added. “He’s getting better every day.”

Complete results:

Varsity:

1st singles — Nick Etzell lost to Reyhan Virani 6-2, 6-3

2nd singles — Nile Lockwood lost to Charlie Hill 6-0, 6-0

1st doubles — Joseph Wedekind/John McClarin lost to Quinn Clelland/Nachiket Karmarkar 6-3, 6-4

2nd doubles — Joey Lippo/William Nelson beat Zander Gillett/Kellen Foster 2-6, 6-2, 10-7

3rd doubles — Grey Rische/Jimmy Myers beat Gaurav Nene/Lucas Gavrila 3-6, 6-4, 10-6

JV:

4th doubles — Aiden Crimmins/Nick Blalock lost to Chris Chen/Matt Heimbigner 6-3

5th doubles — Mason Grove/Jakobi Baumann lost to John Sinwell/Zach Natha 6-3

6th doubles — Koby Schreiber/Jaschon Baumann lost to Evan Lauer/Josup Cho 6-1

7th doubles — Tiger Johnson/Elliot Johnson lost to Weston Kennedy/Sam Hirsch 6-4

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“We kept fighting all the way!!”

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , , on September 9, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Senior Clay Reilly recovered a fumble and hauled in a 31-yard pass Friday. (John Fisken photo)

   Senior Clay Reilly fought hard on both sides of the ball Friday, recovering a fumble and hauling in a 31-yard pass. (John Fisken photo)

Second verse, not as sweet as the first.

Coming off a big win in week one, the Coupeville High School football team was flying high headed into Friday night’s clash at La Conner.

Unfortunately, a big, bruising, highly-efficient and ultimately pretty cold-blooded Braves squad reminded the very young Wolves there’s still a lot of work to do if they want to compete with the big boys.

By the time La Conner was done rolling to a 53-6 win, punctuating it by choosing to score with just 14 seconds to play rather than take a knee, a fair amount of damage had been done.

The key will be how the Wolves, who have just three seniors on their roster, respond to their first setback of the season.

“I liked that we kept fighting all the way,” said Coupeville coach Jon Atkins as he stood on a somber sideline after the game.

“We knew going in this would probably be the best team we face this season and it would be a tough one,” he added. “Now we gotta bounce back and prove we can get a win after a loss and get right back on track.”

A big key for the Wolves as they head into week three, when they host Nooksack Valley, also 1-1, in the final non-conference game on the schedule, will be to cut down on turnovers.

Coupeville was stung in the first half Friday by two huge miscues deep in La Conner territory.

Trailing 6-0 and with the ball in their hands for the first time, the Wolves drove from their own 29 to the Braves 12, with a 31-yard pass play from Hunter Downes to Clay Reilly helping move the chains.

But with Coupeville knocking on the door of making it a tie game, or taking the lead, it coughed up the ball, losing a fumble on the nine-yard line.

La Conner took immediate advantage, pulling off an 84-yard touchdown pass just three plays later.

After the Braves tacked on another score on the first play of the second quarter, the Wolves suffered their other huge momentum-killer.

Putting together a solid drive, keyed by a long pass from Downes to Hunter Smith, CHS made a play for the end zone, only to have La Conner standout Budda Luna jump a route and pick off the ball.

With an open field ahead of him, he hurtled 89 yards to the end zone, putting the game on ice.

Coupeville finally got on the board with a little under seven minutes to play in the first half, when Downes cranked a ball down the right sideline and Smith outran his defender to snag the ball for a 48-yard touchdown strike.

It was the fourth touchdown of the season for the junior receiver.

That was about it for the large contingent of Wolf faithful who traveled over to La Conner, however, as, other than a few plays here and there, the rest of the night was fairly uneventful.

Reilly recovered a fumble deep in his own territory to end one Braves drive, Uriel Liquidano stuffed a play right at the line of scrimmage and drove the runner back for a loss, and Jacob Martin chased down a breakaway runner from behind, preventing a score.

Smith came dangerously close to breaking off a kickoff return for a touchdown for the second straight week, but got snagged at the last second and had to settle for a 55-yard jaunt when he wanted 75 yards.

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They like him! They really like him!!

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on September 9, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Hunter Smith (John Fisken photo)

   Hunter Smith holds up one thumb for each interception he snagged in week one of the season. (John Fisken photo)

Hunter Smith wasted no time.

The Coupeville High School junior jumped on things right out of the gate and was tabbed as an Athlete of the Week winner Friday by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association.

Getting the honor out of the way in week one of the 2016-2017 sports schedule takes all the pressure off, as athletes can only win once in a school year.

Smith, who was honored for his play in the Wolves 41-10 season-opening shredding of football arch-rival South Whidbey, joins a list of distinguished CHS athletes to win the award.

Other recent Wolf winners include three-time honoree Makana Stone, Katrina McGranahan and Josh Bayne.

Smith was a two-way terror last Saturday, picking apart the Falcons on both sides of the ball.

He scored three touchdowns, two on passes from Hunter Downes and one on a 76-yard kickoff return to put a final stamp on the rout.

Between his receiving, rushing and return duties, Smith rolled up more than 200 all-purpose yards.

Capping his night, he also picked off two South Whidbey passes.

That gives Smith 10 interceptions for his career, just two shy of tying Bayne’s career record among Wolf gridiron greats.

To bask in the award, and see who else the WIAA honored, pop over to:

http://www.wiaa.com/subcontent.aspx?SecID=961

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