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Faces of fandom!!

Posted in Fashionable Fans, tagged baseball, CHS Wolves, fans, John Fisken photos, Luke Merriman, moms, Softball on April 22, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Luke Merriman is just here to sign autographs. (John Fisken photos)

Ashlie Shank (left) and Ema Smith are happy to see that their personal paparazzi has shown up once again.

Jim Hoagland, man of mystery.

Christine Wright gazes into a bright Wolf sports future which includes her two youngest, multi-sport stars Sarah and Genna.

Baseball moms enjoy the sunshine, since a week or two back they were all huddled under blankets and umbrellas, dodging rain, wind and bitter cold.

Wolf track star Lauren Bayne spends a few minutes of down time taking in a ballgame.

CHS quarterback Hunter Downes ponders the meaning of life.

Genna Wright’s own athletic future is so bright, she has to wear shades.

It wouldn’t be the same without the fans.

Sure, you could play the games, keep the scores, hand out the trophies, but, without people hollering, things would feel off.

As he clicked away at recent CHS baseball and softball games, wanderin’ cameraman John Fisken let his lens slide into the stands and snapped these glossy pics for us.

Proof that fans can hold the spotlight just as strongly as the players they’ve come out to watch.

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Now that’s a rout!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged Abraham Leyva, CHS Wolves, single season record, Soccer, Zane Bundy on April 22, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Zane Bundy, taking a header earlier this season, had two goals and four assists Thursday in a 10-1 win. (John Fisken photos)

Zane Bundy, taking a header earlier this season, had two goals and four assists Thursday. (John Fisken photos)

Andre Avila (left) tallied his first varsity goal in the 10-1 win.

Circle Apr. 30 on your calendar.

That’s when the Coupeville High School boys’ soccer squad hosts Chimacum, and, if recent history is any indication, it will offer local fans a chance to blast their vuvuzela horns non-stop.

If that’s still a thing..

Oh, it’s not?

Well, it should be.

Facing off with the Cowboys Thursday in Chimacum, the Wolves kept their streak alive, raining down double digits in goals every time the programs have played.

This time out, it finished 10-1 (with Chimacum chipping in with two own goals), after Coupeville scored 11 and 13 last year.

The victory, the fourth in the last five games for the suddenly-surging Wolves, lifts them to 1-1 in 1A Olympic play, 4-5-1 overall.

It slides them into a second-place tie with Port Townsend (also exactly 1-1, 4-5-1), a game off of defending league champs Klahowya (2-0, 9-1-1), which travels to Whidbey Tuesday, Apr. 26.

Chimacum (0-2, 1-8), as you might expect, is firmly in the cellar.

While the two own goals by the Cowboys would have been enough for a narrow Coupeville win, the Wolves decided to help things along by raining down a parade of their own scores, as well.

Abraham Leyva punched in three, giving him 17 on the season.

That breaks the single-season scoring record of 14 goals he set just a year ago, and keeps an amazing streak going.

Leyva has found the back of the net in all 10 games this season.

He got plenty of help from running mate Zane Bundy, who did a bit of everything.

Bundy tallied two goals, doubling his season output to four, and also rang up a season-high four assists.

Coupeville’s other scores came from William Nelson and Ethan Spark, who both connected for the third time this year, and senior Andre Avila, who notched his first varsity goal.

Nelson had two assists, while Leyva, Avila and Cody Menges each set up a score.

The rout gave Coupeville a chance to try out some new looks, which always makes a coach happy.

“Was a good win for us, and gave us a chance to play a number of JV players in a varsity game, since there was no JV game,” said Coupeville coach Kyle Nelson. “Great experience for our younger players, who stepped in and did a great job.”

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Blaze of glory!!

Posted in Track, tagged CHS Wolves, Dalton Martin, relay team, school record, Track on April 22, 2016| Leave a Comment »

The fastest 4 x 100 girls relay squad in Coupeville High School history is (l to r) Sylvia Hurlburt, Makana Stone, Lindsey Roberts and Lauren Grove. (Sherry Roberts photo)

Another day, another school record.

Continuing a stellar season, the Coupeville High School track and field squad collected six wins, set 26 individual PRs and successfully stared down two of their three opponents Thursday afternoon at Silverdale Stadium.

And the cherry on top?

A shiny new school record in the 4 x 100 relay, courtesy seniors Makana Stone and Sylvia Hurlburt, junior Lauren Grove and freshman Lindsey Roberts.

The quartet, running against the second-fastest 2A school in the event (host Olympic) zipped across the finish line in 51.10 seconds, the fourth-fastest time in 1A this season.

The same group also won the 4 x 200 and have the fastest time in 1A in that event.

Coupeville’s girls, using their relay win and a triumph in the 800 from Stone, knocked off 1A Olympic League rival Port Townsend 60-56 and bounced 2A North Mason 58-54 in the team scoring battles.

A very-deep Olympic squad bested the Wolves 106-34.

On the male side of things, Coupeville nabbed wins in the pole vault (Jordan Ford) and 300 hurdles (Lathom Kelley) and got a double-dip from Dalton Martin (shot put, discus).

The Wolf boys thumped Port Townsend 84-43, drilled North Mason 89-43 and fell 92-53 to Olympic.

Complete CHS results:

GIRLS:

100 — Ashlie Shank (9th) 14.80 *PR*; Madison Rixe (11th) 15.01

200 — Lauren Grove (4th) 27.50 *PR*; Shank (9th) 30.45 *PR*

800 — Makana Stone (1st) 2:21.89 *PR*

100 hurdles — Lindsey Roberts (2nd) 17.91

300 hurdles — Mckenzie Meyer (3rd) 56.62 *PR*; Allison Wenzel (4th) 59.99 *PR*

4 x 100 — Grove, Roberts, Stone, Sylvia Hurlburt (2nd) 51.10; Wenzel, Shank, Rixe, Abby Parker (4th) 58.85

4 x 200 — Grove, Roberts, Hurlburt, Stone (1st) 1:47.00

4 x 400 — Lauren Bayne, Meyer, Rixe, Parker (2nd) 4:53.52

Shot put — Skyler Lawrence (4th) 29-01.25; Alexxis Otto (5th) 25-09.75; Naika Hallam (6th) 23-04.25; Emma Smith (7th) 21-06

Discus — Lawrence (3rd) 81-07; Otto (6th) 73-09; Wenzel (7th) 67-11; Parker (8th) 67-02; E. Smith (9th) 63-03; Jovanah Foote (13th) 48-04 *PR*; Lindsey Laxton (14th) 44-07 *PR*

Javelin — Wenzel (4th) 80-09; Bayne (5th) 77-11; Parker (7th) 72-01; Hallam (8th) 70-08; Lawrence (9th) 67-03; Foote (11th) 56-07; Otto (14th) 45-10; Tomi Herrera (15th) 44-02 *PR*; Laxton (16th) 37-04 *PR*

High Jump — Bayne (3rd) 4-04

Long Jump — Grove (5th) 13-11.75

BOYS:

100 — Jacob Smith (6th) 11.94, Gabe Eck (17th) 12.61; Mitchell Losey (22nd) 13.00; Kyle Burnett (24th) 13.42 *PR*

200 — J. Smith (3rd) 23.08 *PR*; Jared Helmstadter (7th) 24.09; Danny Conlisk (8th) 24.70 *PR*; Jacob Martin (10th) 25.08 *PR*; Burnett (20th) 28.29

800 — Conlisk (3rd) 2:08.78 *PR*

1600 — Henry Wynn (5th) 5:11.21; Jakobi Baumann (8th) 6:13.53

3200 — Baumann (5th) 13:07.93 *PR*

300 hurdles — Lathom Kelley (1st) 42.03; Ariah Bepler (7th) 53.19

4×100 — J. Smith, Eck, Helmstadter, Jordan Ford (2nd) 46.22; Hunter Downes, J. Martin, Grey Rische, Connor Thompson (5th) 50.05

4 x 400 — J. Smith, Wynn, Helmstadter, Conlisk (3rd) 3:44.83

Shot Put — Dalton Martin (1st) 40-09.25; Thompson (4th) 35-00.50 *PR*; Ryan Labrador (5th) 35-00 *PR*; Mitchell Carroll (7th) 34-08 *PR*; Luke Carlson (13th) 25-06; Rische (14th) 24-06.50

Discus — D. Martin (1st) 153-01; Chris Battaglia (2nd) 95-08; Labrador (8th) 75-11

Javelin — Rische (2nd) 119-03; Battaglia (4th) 110-09 *PR*; J. Martin (5th) 108-08 *PR*; Losey (7th) 105-03; Bepler (9th) 97-01; Carlson (11th) 87-03 *PR*; Labrador (20th) 69-02

High Jump — Ryan Griggs (2nd) 5-06; Ford (3rd) 5-04; Thompson (4th) 5-00; Carroll (5th) 5-00

Pole vault — Ford (1st) 11-06

Long Jump — Kelley (2nd) 18-10 *PR*; Griggs (3rd) 17-11 *PR*; Carroll (5th) 17-02; Eck (6th) 17-01.50; Battaglia (10th) 15-10; Bepler (11th) 15-09 *PR*; J. Martin (14th) 15-01.50; Downes (17th) 14-02; Baumann (19th) 12-04.25

Triple Jump — Carroll (2nd) 38-02; Griggs (3rd) 37-01.50 *PR*; Thompson (4th) 35-05

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The mojo is back!!

Posted in Softball, tagged 1A Olympic League, CHS Wolves, Katrina McGranahan, losing streak, rout, Softball on April 21, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Nicole Lester made her varsity softball debut Thursday as the Wolves rolled to a big win. (John Fisken photo)

“It was good to see the girls back to their old selves.”

After hitting a brief rough spot in the schedule, the Coupeville High School softball squad bounced back with a fury Thursday afternoon, pleasing coach Kevin McGranahan.

Taking full advantage of a young Port Townsend program mired in the midst of a 30-game losing streak, the Wolves, as politely as possible, thrashed the RedHawks 24-6.

The win snaps a three-game skid for Coupeville and lifts them to 7-4 overall, 2-2 in 1A Olympic League play.

With Klahowya (1-1, 6-5) falling to Chimacum (3-0, 7-4) Thursday, the Wolves move back up into second place with more than half the league season left to play.

Facing a school which hasn’t won a softball game since April of 2014, Coupeville rained down runs.

The Wolves plated 10 in the first, then another eight in the second, forcing their coach to curtail his team’s running and find ways to keep the game moving as quickly as possible to its foregone conclusion.

He was able to swap players around and have them work at new positions, give daughter Katrina some time off in the pitcher’s circle and offer Nicole Lester her first start.

The freshman responded just the way her coach was hoping, turning on a pitch and smacking a sharp ground-ball on her first at-bat.

As a team, the Wolves were able to walk a fine line — they needed a win to get their mojo back, but didn’t want to unnecessarily embarrass their hosts.

“Port Townsend is a rebuilding team, but it was good to play them and let the girls just have fun and get back to the basics and play ball,” Kevin McGranahan said. “Everyone on the team contributed today and played well.

“The bats were on fire and we went station to station after the first inning trying to keep the scoring to a minimum.”

Katrina McGranahan carried the biggest bat, whacking two triples and a pair of singles while driving in six runners.

The Wolves collected five doubles on the day, with Mikayla Elfrank leading the way with a pair. Sarah Wright, Kailey Kellner and Jae LeVine also got in on the extra-base parade.

Wright and LeVine had three hits apiece, while Lauren Rose collected a pair of singles and Tamika Nastali beat out “a beautiful bunt.”

Veronica Crownover, Robin Cedillo, Tiffany Briscoe and Hannah Benway all collected base knocks, as well.

Katrina McGranahan (one hit and nine strikeouts in three innings) and Wright (two hits and four K’s) made for a formidable duo in the pitcher’s circle.

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Roll on, Wolves!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged 1A Olympic League, baseball, CHS Wolves, Hunter Smith, Port Townsend on April 21, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Hunter Smith smacked three singles, collected 3 RBi and struck out

Hunter Smith smacked three singles and collected 3 RBI at the plate Thursday, while also whiffing 10 on the mound. (John Fisken photo)

It was brutal and efficient, just the way it needed to be.

Raining down 11 hits (from eight different batters) the Coupeville High School baseball team rolled to its fourth straight league win Thursday, crushing visiting Port Townsend 15-4.

The win, the fifth in their last seven games, lifted the Wolves to 7-7 overall, 4-0 in the 1A Olympic League.

It also kept them a game-and-a-half up on Klahowya (2-1, 11-3) in the race for a league title, and well clear of Chimacum (1-3, 3-8) and Port Townsend (0-3, 0-10).

Thursday’s showdown could have easily been a “trap game,” with CHS coming off of a huge upset of Klahowya only to turn around and face a win-less team.

To Coupeville’s credit, other than one sloppy inning, it never played that way, though.

The Wolves came out with sharp pitching from sophomore hurler Hunter Smith, who whiffed 10 RedHawks, and aggressive hitting from the get-go.

Coupeville scored in every inning, notching three in the first and two more in the second before exploding for a game-deciding eight-spot in the third.

The third-inning burst came at the exact right moment, as the Wolves early 5-0 lead was cut to 5-4 when their defense crumbled a bit in the top of that inning.

Four CHS errors, a lively mix of bobbled balls and throws that skipped away, helped keep the RedHawks alive, and then a huge two-run single back up the middle got the visiting fans in a momentary tizzy.

Hunter Smith was having none of it, however, as the unflappable one calmly ended the inning with another punch-out, stranding two runners.

For an agonizing moment or two, the game tottered on the precipice.

And then the Wolves attacked.

Sending 14 batters to the plate in the third, Coupeville used six walks and five hits in the inning to savage Port Townsend beyond recognition.

Nick Etzell and Hunter Smith drew bases-loaded walks to pad the lead slightly, before CJ Smith stroked a two-run single and Cole Payne lashed an RBI double.

The Wolves weren’t done, though, as Kory Score drove a two-run single to center-field and Clay Reilly looped an RBI single into the gap to stretch the lead all the way out to 13-4.

Running aggressively, even with a large lead, Coupeville tacked on two more runs in the fourth to put the ten-run rule into effect, and with Hunter Smith unhittable down the stretch, there was no hope for the RedHawks.

Coupeville had opened the game with three in the first.

Both Smith brothers came sprinting home when Payne’s bunt was thrown into right field, then pinch-runner Joey Lippo trotted across the plate on a ground-out off the bat of Julian Welling.

The Wolves tacked on two in the second, with Reilly dropping a beautiful bunt single to kick things off.

The junior outfielder stole second, took third on a single from birthday boy Gabe Wynn and came home on a passed ball.

Wynn was plated by Hunter Smith, smashing one of his three singles on the afternoon.

Reilly had two hits, while CJ Smith, Payne, Score, Ethan Marx, Wynn and Lippo all chipped in with one apiece.

While Welling was one of only two starters not to get a hit, that was only because the sophomore third baseman got flat out robbed. Twice.

After his first-inning RBI (which came on an epically long at-bat, as he fouled off pitch after pitch to stay alive), he came within an inch or two of a pair of extra-base hits.

Welling smashed a long shot down the left field line that was somehow run down, then had a wicked liner to third get snared by a RedHawk who jumped at just the right moment.

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