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Kings of the track!!

Posted in Track, tagged CHS Wolves, Dalton Martin, Jordan Ford, relays, school records, Track on March 31, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Jacob Smith, seen here during an earlier meet, won three times Thursday in Langley. (John Fisken photo)

It was an unexpected beat-down.

Sparked by two school records, seven wins and 29 PRs, the Coupeville High School boys’ track and field squad stunned three of its former Cascade Conference rivals Thursday afternoon in Langley.

On the day Wolf seniors Dalton Martin (discus) and Jordan Ford (pole vault) put their names up on the big board in the gym, CHS won its first team meet title in a very long time.

Individual excellence has not been an issue in recent years, but team depth has for Coupeville.

Not so Thursday, as the Wolves rang up 84 points to South Whidbey’s 63.

Sultan (57) and Granite Falls (50) rounded out the team battle on the boys side.

The Wolf girls swept both relay events, but fell prey to the depth issue and finished fourth with 34 points, trailing Granite Falls (82), South Whidbey (82) and Sultan (75).

While Makana Stone and her teammates on the relay squads (Sylvia Hurlburt, Lauren Grove and Lindsey Roberts) tend to get a lot of buzz, and quite fairly with all their accomplishments, Thursday belonged to the boys.

Martin, making his first appearance of the season, shattered the CHS discus mark by eight feet, while Ford broke the pole vault record by three inches.

It was just his second try at the event since moving to Coupeville, and he went 15 inches higher in a week’s time.

Sophomore Jacob Smith was a three-time winner, zipping to titles in the 100 and 200 before joining Ford, Jacob Martin and Gabe Eck to win the 4 x 100.

Dalton Martin won both the shot put and discus, while Lathom Kelley ran the fastest time in 1A this year in the 300 hurdles and Ryan Griggs triumphed in the high jump.

“A great meet for the Wolves!,” said an understandably giddy Coupeville track coach Randy King.

Complete CHS results:

GIRLS:

100 — Madison Rixe (9th) 14.63 *PR*; Mckenzie Meyer (12th) 15.12 *PR*; Ashlie Shank (13th) 15.13 *PR*; Julia Jones (19th) 18.49 *PR*

200 — Lauren Grove (4th) 28.07 *PR*; Lindsey Roberts (6th) 28.95; Rixe (7th) 30.22 *PR*; Shank (10th) 31.27 *PR*

800 — Makana Stone (2nd) 2:27.42 *PR*

100 Hurdles — Roberts (4th) 18.02

300 Hurdles — Meyer (4th) 56.92 *PR*; Lauren Bayne (5th) 1:00.67

4 x100 — Grove, Sylvia Hurlburt, Roberts, Stone (1st) 51.37; Jovanah Foote, Meyer, Abby Parker, Shank (4th) 1:01.05

4 x 200 — Grove, Hurlburt, Roberts, Stone (1st) 1:49.32

Shot put — Skyler Lawrence (4th) 29-09.75; Alexxis Otto (7th) 25-00; Naika Hallam (9th) 20-05.75; Emma Smith (11th) 20-00; Estefanny Liquidano (13th) 15-07.50

Discus — Lawrence (3rd) 84-03; Otto (7th) 73-10; Parker (10th) 64-03; E. Smith (11th) 63-04 *PR*; Allison Wenzel (12th) 63-00; Liquidano (15th) 43-00 *PR*; Foote (16th) 42-03

Javelin — Bayne (5th) 80-11 *PR*; Parker (7th) 74-01 *PR*; Lawrence (8th) 74-00; Hallam (9th) 72-08; Wenzel (10th) 70-02; Otto (15th) 59-04 *PR*; Foote (17th) 46-04

High Jump — Bayne (4th) 4-04

Triple Jump — Grove (3rd) 29-09 *PR*

BOYS:

100 — Jacob Smith (1st) 11.90, Lathom Kelley (2nd) 11.99; Jordan Ford (6th) 12.29 *PR*; Jared Helmstadter (7th) 12.31; Gabe Eck (11th) 12.54; Kyle Burnett (15th) 13.54; Hunter Downes (17th) 14.15

200 — J. Smith (1st) 24.03 *PR*; Danny Conlisk (5th) 25.83; Henry Wynn (7th) 26.25 *PR*; Burnett (9th) 29.24

400 — Helmstadter (2nd) 55.88; Conlisk (3rd) 56.57 *PR*; Wynn (5th) 59.35 *PR*; Nile Lockwood (6th) 1:06.07 *PR*

1600 — Conlisk (3rd) 5:03.82 *PR*; Wynn (6th) 5:10.27 *PR*; Jakobi Baumann (14th) 6:31.51

3200 — Baumann (4th) 14:16.37

300 Hurdles — Kelley (1st) 41.48 *PR*

4×100 — J. Smith, Eck, Jacob Martin, Ford (1st) 46.09; Downes, Grey Rische, Burnett, Connor Thompson (4th) 51.90

Shot Put — Dalton Martin (1st) 44-04 *PR*; Chris Battaglia (7th) 32-02 *PR*; Thompson (8th) 31-10.50; Mitchell Carroll (9th) 31-06 *PR*; Rische (14th) 28-02.25 *PR*; Keahi Sorrows (15th) 28-02; Luke Carlson (17th) 24-02 *PR*

Discus — D. Martin (1st) 158-05 *PR*; Battaglia (5th) 104-09 *PR*; Sorrows (13th) 72-10

Javelin — Rische (5th) 121-05; Ariah Bepler (13th) 92-11 *PR*; Lockwood (16th) 71-09; Carlson (17th) 71-00 *PR*; Sorrows (19th) 64-00 *PR*

Pole Vault — Ford (2nd) 11-09 *PR*

High Jump — Ryan Griggs (1st) 5-06; Battaglia (2nd) 5-04 *PR*; Ford (3rd) 5-02

Long Jump — Carroll (4th) 17-10.50 *PR*; Eck (4th) 17-10.50 *PR*; Battaglia (6th) 17-04.50 *PR*; Bepler (7th) 15-07.50 *PR*; Downes (8th) 14-11 *PR*; Lockwood (11th) 14-08.50 *PR*; Baumann (13th) 10-10 *PR*

Triple Jump — Carroll (2nd) 37-04.50 *PR*; Griggs (3rd) 35-10; Thompson (5th) 35-02

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Top of the league!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged 1A Olympic League, baseball, CHS Wolves, CJ Smith, Matt Hilborn on March 31, 2016| Leave a Comment »

With a 9-0 win over Port Townsend Thursday, Joey Lippo and Coupeville are in first place in the 1A Olympic League. (John Fisken photo)

This is how you break a losing streak.

Hot bats. A torrid pitching performance. Contributions from the top of the lineup to the bottom.

Riding a 13-strikeout complete-game performance from senior hurler CJ Smith, the Coupeville High School baseball squad rediscovered its winning ways Thursday afternoon.

Playing under a blazing sun on the prairie, the Wolves routed visiting Port Townsend 9-0 to snap a four-game skid and claim, at least for the moment, sole possession of first place in the 1A Olympic League.

Coupeville is 3-5 overall, 1-0 in league play and will have three non-league games (all on the road) before they face off with another league foe.

That won’t be until Apr. 14, when the Wolves travel to Chimacum.

Up first are con-conference games at South Whidbey, La Conner and Blaine, with the all-Island showdown coming Saturday in Langley.

JV kicks off a doubleheader at 10, with varsity set for noon.

Facing off with the RedHawks Thursday, Coupeville came out guns blazing.

CJ Smith retired the side in order in four of seven innings, scattering just a pair of hits while getting almost two-thirds of his outs via the punch-out.

The Wolves broke the game open in the bottom of the third, sending their first four hitters in the inning (Matt Hilborn, Hunter Smith, CJ Smith and Cole Payne) across the plate.

The first two scored on Port Townsend errors, while the latter two were knocked in by a blow from first baseman Kory Score.

CHS added three in the fifth and another two in the sixth — Hilborn, Cameron Toomey-Stout and Nick Etzell all chipped in with RBIs — getting something from everyone in a shuffled lineup.

“Everybody had great at-bats,” said Coupeville coach Marc Aparicio. “We switched it up and slid some guys in off the bench and were able to get some different looks.

“Port Townsend is a very solid team, but we really got a lot out of the bottom of our lineup today.”

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Stay down, RedHawks! Stay down!!

Posted in Softball, tagged CHS Wolves, extra base hits, Hope Lodell, Jae LeVine, rout, Softball on March 31, 2016| Leave a Comment »

They call Hope Lodell “The Surgeon” because she carves up opposing pitchers. (John Fisken photo)

Domination, mixed with compassion.

That was the tricky balancing act Coupeville High School softball coach Kevin McGranahan had to navigate Thursday.

With the Wolves runnin’ and gunnin’ to their best start in more than a decade, and visiting Port Townsend coming in carrying a 25-game losing streak, the chances of the game being a rout ran high.

And, to little surprise, Coupeville beat the snot out of the ball en route to a 19-4 win in their 1A Olympic League opener.

But the Wolves improved to 6-1 overall while shaking up their lineup, putting the spotlight on some of their role players and finding creative ways to use their stars.

Coupeville opened the game with a different look in the outfield, going so far as to give freshman Hannah Benway not only her varsity debut but a chance to start in right field.

The most upbeat, happy-to-be-here player on a Wolf roster full of players who fit that description, the whirlwind frosh made solid contact her first time at the plate, earned a walk by getting drilled with a pitch the next time up, and was a constant source of delight to her teammates and coaches.

After starting pitcher Katrina McGranahan whiffed the first three Port Townsend hitters with a mere flick of her wrist, her dad decided to further mix things up by moving freshman catcher Sarah Wright into the pitcher’s circle.

Once there, she ended up working three innings in two stints (McGranahan pitched a one-two-three third inning before Wright returned and finished the game, which was called after five innings).

At the plate, everyone hit for the Wolves, and they carved up RedHawk pitching with ease.

Coupeville plated five in the first, with the big hits coming from Wright (a two-run triple that was cranked) and Jae LeVine (a two-run double that took off like a rocket).

After Port Townsend crawled back into the game for a moment with three runs in the second as Wright adjusted to her new role, the Wolves put the game on cruise control with a 14-batter, 10-run bottom of the third.

Making the inning even more special? All 10 runs came in after CHS had two outs.

Mikayla Elfrank scampered home on a passed ball, Benway came around on a throwing error, and then Kailey Kellner uncorked a liner to deep center field.

By the time it finished bouncing around, two runners had crossed the plate. Kellner trucked all the way around as well, when the throw back in sailed into the deep brush behind the first-base dugout.

Not content with a 10-3 lead, Coupeville pushed five more across before the inning ended, with Elfrank and LeVine smacking back-to-back RBI triples to account for three of the runs.

LeVine made it to third despite being plunked in the head on a throw from a frazzled Port Townsend outfielder.

Bouncing right back up, double-pumping her fists in celebration and flashing a huge grin, “Flash” seemed none the worse for wear.

And yet, after all that, the biggest hit of the game was still on the horizon, and came from a player who spent a chunk of the afternoon chilling on the bench.

Normally her team’s starting center fielder, sophomore Hope Lodell sat to allow Kevin McGranahan to work in players lower on the roster.

Having returned to the lineup in the fourth, she came to the plate for the first time with Coupeville up 17-3 and Wright camped on first with one out.

Normally a superb slap hitter, “The Surgeon” suddenly hefted her expensive bat and crushed a ball down the left field line.

As the ball sliced through the air, caught fair territory and kicked to the side, Lodell, after a momentary pause, took off like a Greyhound coming down the stretch run.

Almost passing Wright on the base-paths once her jets kicked in, she pulled off a stand-up, inside-the-park two-run home run that caused dad Mike — the craftsman groundskeeper who keeps the CHS field looking flawless — to come unglued.

The chances he’s still screaming, and will be for the next two weeks (the Wolf softball sluggers are off until Apr. 12, when they travel to Lynden Christian)?

Pretty close to 100%.

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Help fund Coupeville’s cheer future!!

Posted in Cheer, tagged Cheer, cheer camp, CHS Wolves, Claire Mietus, Doctors Without Borders, GoFundMe on March 31, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Claire Mietus combines football and basketball during her time as a Wolf cheerleader. (John Fisken photo)

Claire Mietus spends a lot of her time helping others, but now she’s asking for a bit of help back.

The Coupeville High School sophomore is headed to cheer camp with her team this summer, and has started a GoFundMe page to help with expenses.

She’s trying to raise $400 before June.

When she’s not working the sidelines for the Wolves, Mietus is the president of Coupeville’s Leo Club, a high school community service organization affiliated with the Lion’s.

She also plays in the CHS jazz band and is a part of the school’s Science Olympiad team.

Mietus is working towards her goal of becoming a cardiovascular surgeon, and would love to one day join the service organization Doctors Without Borders.

To see Claire’s GoFundMe page and possibly help out this hard-working, cheerful young superstar, pop over to:

https://www.gofundme.com/cheerforclaire

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Celebrate good times, come on!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged AC/DC, celebrations, CHS Wolves, goals, John Fisken photos, Kool and the Gang lyrics, Soccer on March 31, 2016| Leave a Comment »

That moment when Andre Avila scored a goal and even the ref was impressed. (John Fisken photos)

Can’t score without the ball, so it’s a good thing Garrett Compton is around to put it in play.

Wolf Ethan Spark (15) has a meeting of the minds.

Abraham Leyva flips in a goal in the final seconds of the game, keeping his scoring streak alive at five games and counting.

William Nelson: “Hello, my old friend, we meet again!”

Cue the AC/DC. “There was no help, no help from you … You’ve been thunderstruck!!”

Celebrate good times, come on! Yes, we're referencing Kool and the Gang lyrics now...

Spark gets a hug from Tanner Kircher (11) after banging home a goal on a shot that traveled almost half the field.

The thrill of the score, the click of the camera.

They go hand-in-hand, and travelin’ photo man John Fisken knows how the game works.

Capturing a mix of celebration and actions pics Wednesday, as the Coupeville High School boys’ soccer squads battled with Bellevue Christian, he provides us with the shiny pics found above.

To see more, and possibly purchase some, thereby helping fund college scholarships for CHS student/athletes, pop over to:

Varsity — http://www.olympicleague.com/index.php?act=view_gallery&gallery=11065&league=21&page=1&page_name=photo_store&school=24&sport=0

JV — http://www.nisquallyathletics.com/index.php?act=view_gallery&gallery=11067&league=22&page=1&page_name=photo_store&school=94&sport=0

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