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Fuel your tummy, fund Wolf hoops!!

Posted in Fundraisers, Girls Basketball, tagged Basketball, camp, CHS Wolves, fundraiser, spaghetti on May 6, 2016| Leave a Comment »

All the details in one handy poster.

Winner, winner, spaghetti dinner.

The Coupeville High School girls’ basketball squad, two-time defending 1A Olympic League champs, are planning a tasty fundraiser for later this month.

The Wolves will be offering spaghetti and meatballs, plus all the appropriate sides, May 15, with the proceeds going to help pay for players to attend hoops camp together.

All the info you need can be found in the handy poster that sits above, so no need for me to retype it and you to re-read it.

Plus, you’re probably already scrolling back up and just staring at the spaghetti anyway by this point…

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A picture-perfect pitch finale!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged CHS Wolves, John Fisken photos, playoffs, Soccer, William Nelson, Zane Bundy on May 6, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Four-year Wolf starter Zane Bundy gets dangerous in the open field. (John Fisken photos)

William Nelson fires a pass ahead to a teammate.

CHS goalie Connor McCormick was in lock-down mode most of the night.

Laurence Boado gets an up-close-and-personal look at the ball.

Cody Menges goes into launch mode.

Abraham Leyva and a Bellevue Christian rival practice synchronized soccer ballet.

Uriel Liquidano sweeps up Bundy in a bear hug after the senior scored on a rebound in the first half.

Tanner Kircher evades a rival, while letting the breeze catch his magnificent mane of hair.

Their final moments played out in beautiful weather.

While the Coupeville High School boys’ soccer players were knocked out of the playoffs in a tight one-goal game Thursday, they at least didn’t endure the non-stop rain the Wolf girls did back in their fall finale.

Both CHS teams hosted their postseason tilts at Oak Harbor High School’s stadium, which makes life easy for travelin’ photo man John Fisken.

He swung by and snapped these pics for us (when he wasn’t taking photos of my moss-encrusted car).

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Foul finish!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged Bellevue Christian, CHS Wolves, district playoffs, penalty kick, Soccer, Zane Bundy on May 5, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Zane Bundy knocked home a rebound late in the first half Thursday for Coupeville’s lone score in a 2-1 playoff loss. (John Fisken photo)

In a perfect world, the players on the field decide the game.

But, no one ever said soccer was perfect.

Stabbed in the heart by two second-half penalty kicks, scores on which goalie Connor McCormick had to battle the sun in his eyes, the Coupeville High School boys’ soccer squad fell 2-1 Thursday in their district playoff opener (and closer).

The loss, which came on Oak Harbor High School’s turf field, came at the hands of the Nisqually League’s #4 seed, Bellevue Christian, and ended the Wolves season at 5-9-1.

The Vikings (6-7-1) advance to play Vashon Island (8-2-4) in another loser-out game Saturday.

Thursday’s battle was a rematch of a non-conference game from March, when Coupeville fell 7-4 in a wild, high-scoring affair on its home field.

In that game, the Wolves were without McCormick, who was serving a one-game suspension after being given a red card for an inadvertent hand ball a day before.

This time Coupeville had their senior net-minder in place, and the lanky one played superbly, batting balls away and controlling the flow of the game.

While McCormick and his defense were untouchable in the first half, the Viking goalie couldn’t say the same.

During a wild scramble in front of the Bellevue net in the game’s 33rd minute, Coupeville smacked a shot from close range that was partially deflected.

Putting his head in the right place at the right time, senior Zane Bundy, a four-year starter, banged home the rebound into the left corner of the net to stake the Wolves to a 1-0 lead.

It was his sixth goal of the season.

The lead held up until two minutes into the second half, when Bellevue was awarded a penalty kick after what seemed like a fairly innocuous “collision” between two players scrambling for the ball.

Taking advantage of the sweet opportunity, the Vikings knotted things up, with the shooter faking right, then flicking the ball left and just past McCormick’s fingertips.

With the game even, the two teams battled back-and-forth the rest of the way, with Bellevue noticeably pushing hard on offense.

It paid off when the Vikings were awarded a second penalty kick with under seven minutes left in regulation.

Why they got it is something you’d have to ask someone with a deeper understanding of soccer, cause, to the layman, nothing untoward happened on the play.

Bellevue launched the ball into the net on the PK, however, suddenly putting a huge amount of pressure on the Wolves, who had to play from behind for the first time in the game.

Coupeville got the ball into Bellevue’s half of the field several times in the final moments, and had one or two good looks near the end, but nothing clean, and nothing that would go in.

The loss marked the fourth straight year Coupeville went one-and-done in the playoffs, though the one-goal margin was their closest postseason defeat since 2013.

The last Wolf boys’ soccer playoff win came back on May 2, 2012, when CHS knocked off Meridian 1-0.

Thursday’s game marked the end of the run for seniors Bundy, McCormick, Abraham Leyva, Tanner Kircher, Taylor Chiles, Loren Nelson, Jose Marcos, Andrea Avila, Garrett Compton, Cody Menges and manager Sebastian Wurzrainer.

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Clippin’ those Eagle wings!!

Posted in 1A Olympic League, tagged 1A Olympic League, 2015-2016, Chimacum, CHS Wolves, Klahowya, Port Townsend, titles on May 5, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Julian Welling played a key role for a Wolf baseball squad that surged to seven league wins and a title this spring. (Sylvia Hurlburt photo)

The CHS girls’ basketball squad went 9-0 in league play for a second straight year en route to playing in the state tourney. (John Fisken photos)

Jared Helmstadter capped a four-year run on the hard-courts by helping lead the Wolves to a league title in the fall.

Jazmine Franklin and her teammates are 11-0 in 1A Olympic League tennis matches.

Some of the shine has come off the Eagles.

As year #2 of the 1A Olympic League rolls towards a close, the other three schools in the conference have worked at steadily shaving away at Klahowya’s early domination.

Despite having a student body which almost doubles Coupeville (445.07 to 227 in this year’s count of students in grades 9-11), Klahowya’s success against the Wolves and league mates Port Townsend (278.25 students) and Chimacum (250.38) waned a bit during the 2015-2016 school year.

When you compare the 10 primary varsity sports in which Coupeville competes in (we don’t count track because schedules don’t match up and team “results” are wildly skewed), the Wolves, Cowboys and RedHawks have made serious inroads, both in terms of games won and titles claimed.

There are two league softball games left (Klahowya vs. Port Townsend and Klahowya vs. Chimacum), so our stats are not 100% set in stone, but, based on current records, it’s fairly safe to project the Eagles will split those games.

Port Townsend softball is on a two-year-plus losing streak, while Chimacum has clinched its second straight title and boasts an 8-0 mark at the moment.

Projecting a split for Klahowya softball, 2015-2016 will finish looking like this:

Klahowya — 44 wins, 3 titles (volleyball, girls soccer, boys soccer)
Coupeville — 42 wins, 4 titles (boys tennis, girls basketball, baseball, girls tennis)
Chimacum — 27 wins, 2 titles (boys basketball, softball)
Port Townsend — 22 wins, 1 title (football)

P.S. — Coupeville and Klahowya both finished 7-2 in baseball, but Coupeville won the season series 2-1 and enters the playoffs as the #1 seed.

I would argue that makes the Wolves league champs, though I understand the counter argument that the teams shared the title.

Then again, this blog ain’t called Klahowya Sports, so tough nuts, Eagles.

In 2014-2015, it looked like this:

Klahowya — 52 wins, 5 titles (volleyball, girls soccer, boys soccer, boys tennis, baseball)
Coupeville — 40 wins, 2 titles (girls basketball, girls tennis)
Chimacum — 23 wins, 2 titles (boys basketball, softball)
Port Townsend — 20 wins, 1 titles (football)

So, split or not for Eagle softball, Klahowya is down in both total wins and titles in year #2, while all three other schools went up in wins and Coupeville claimed more titles.

P.S. #2 — The Wolf netters were undefeated this year (4-0 in boys tennis, 5-0 in girls tennis), but had three league matches first postponed, then cancelled by their rivals.

If they had gotten to play the missing two boys matches against Port Townsend and the missing girls match against Klahowya, Coupeville would likely be looking at 45 wins.

In that world, they either edge Klahowya 45-44 or tie 45-45, if the Eagle softball sluggers pull of an upset in their finale.

Also, another side note for Wolf fans:

Coupeville was the only school not to suffer a win-less season in any of the 10 sports this school year.

2015-2016 varsity league wins sport-by-sport:

Baseball — Coupeville 7, Klahowya 7, Chimacum 4
Boys basketball — Chim 7, PT 7, Coup 4
Boys soccer — Klah 6, PT 4, Coup 2
Boys tennis — Coup 4, Klah 3
Football — PT 6, Klah 4, Coup 1, Chim 1
Girls basketball — Coup 9, Klah 4, PT 4, Chim 1
Girls soccer — Klah 6, Coup 4, Chim 1, PT 1
Girls tennis — Coup 5, Klah 2, Chim 1
Softball — Chim 9*, Klah 6*, Coup 3
Volleyball — Klah 6, Coup 3, Chim 3

So, what does this all mean?

Here’s what I get out of it — Klahowya is still very good, but the other schools, especially Coupeville, are proving student body size really doesn’t matter.

Despite playing for the sixth-smallest 1A school in the state, the Wolves essentially stood toe-to-toe all school year with the second-biggest 1A school and never backed down.

Coupeville repeated as league champs in two sports and stepped up to take two new titles, and they did so at a time when the majority of the school’s top athletes are underclassmen.

The Wolves only lose one senior from the girls basketball squad, two starters from the baseball team and just a handful of netters.

With strong junior and sophomore classes ready to assume the mantle of leadership and no reason to fear any school in the league, this would seem to be the dawn of what could be a great era for CHS sports.

Some sports need to maintain, while others have work to do, but the Wolves are as solid as anyone in their league, and it’s a conference which, thanks to this year’s classification rulings, they will remain in for at least another four years.

Time to step up and commit. Put in off-season work. Never stop striving for improvement.

Coupeville was more than decent in year #1. Stronger in year #2.

Year #3? It could be, it should be, the year of the Wolves.

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Shanks for being you, Ashlie!!

Posted in Happy birthday, tagged Ashlie Shank, Basketball, CHS Wolves, Dr. Jim Shank, Happy birthday, track and field on May 5, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Ashlie Shank: A legend in her own time. (John Fisken photos)

The force is strong with this one.

Coupeville High School freshman Ashlie Shank has a lot to live up to, following in the footsteps of older brothers/gentlemen around town Matt and Brian and her dad, Dr. Jim Shank, the snappiest Superintendent in school history.

But, to no one’s surprise, the youngest Shank may surpass them all (plus her older siblings who never got a chance to attend CHS).

Ashlie, in her time here in Coupeville, has set the gold standard for being an exceptionally smart, kind, friendly young woman who also happens to go full tilt in the athletic arena.

She’s a fast-rising star in the basketball world, where her gentle exterior barely masks the killer who lurks inside.

Whether she’s shanking (heh heh) Klahowya with a buzzer-beater that blew the roof off the CHS gym or throwin’ elbows down low while pursuing a rebound, Shank is the kind of eager young player Wolf coaches David and Amy King love.

Toss her on the track oval this spring, and she’s won over the other King, Randy, consistently bringing her times down and signalling her willingness to try whatever events the track guru asks of her.

When she’s not competing, Shank is almost always to be found in a gym or camped on the bleachers outside, supporting her close friends and random classmates alike.

She might not be as loud as some of her companions, but Ashlie is as dedicated as any of them in her support, and is always willing to go the extra mile for any wandering photographers, which makes her especially well-liked here at Coupeville Sports.

Like her brothers before her, she has been a true gift to our town. Utah’s loss continues to be a boon to Cow Town.

As she celebrates her birthday today, we just want to take a moment to wish the very classy Miss Shank the happiest of cake days. And add the hope that all of her days are just as note-worthy.

We are very lucky to have you grace our school and town with your presence.

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