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Best in the biz!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, high fives, John Fisken photos, Lindsey Roberts, rebounding machine on January 25, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Rebounding machine Sarah Wright is six-five when the hair braid is really workin’ overtime. (John Fisken photos)

Skyler Lawrence, having snagged a board, brings the ball up-court herself, deftly splitting the RedHawk defense.

Off the court, Kailey Kellner is as nice as they come. On the court, she will blow up a girl if necessary.

Eyes always moving, Ashlie Shank, rebound in hand, looks for somewhere to get rid of the ball.

Lawrence has a spirited discussion with stat keeper Nicole Lester (right) as Allison Wenzel (left) listens in. “I’m just saying, give me two rebounds on the play. I know where you live!”

Lindsey Roberts, playing just like her mamma, former CHS Athlete of the Year Sherry (Bonacci) Roberts, taught her.

Mia Littlejohn, about to drop the dagger.

When you’re undefeated in conference play and making a beeline for a second straight league title, there’s a lot to celebrate.

Their reputation precedes them.

The Coupeville High School girls’ basketball squads are the beast (and the best) of the 1A Olympic League.

Over the first year-and-a-half of the four-team conference, the Wolves are 25-1 in league play, with just a narrow JV loss to Chimacum dotting the right side of the ledger.

Both CHS teams plowed Port Townsend Friday, plus they more than lived up to the other half of their job description — best photo subjects in the prep sports world.

The photos above are courtesy travelin’ photo man John Fisken.

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=10446&league=21&page=1&page_name=photo_store&school=24&sport=0

JV: http://www.olympicleague.com/index.php?act=view_gallery&gallery=10444&league=21&page=1&page_name=photo_store&school=24&sport=0

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Welcome to the big show!!

Posted in Band, Fashionable Fans, tagged babies, Band, CHS Wolves, fashionable fans, John Fisken photos, moms on January 24, 2016| Leave a Comment »

“Nervous? Do I look nervous? Please. I’m here to blow this joint down, baby!!” (John Fisken photos)

Moments later, these four small children took the floor and beat Port Townsend. Ooh, you’ve been zinged, RedHawks.

Kalia Littlejohn tries to bribe her CHS soccer coach, Troy Cowan, with candy, but he has a laser focus and will not be deterred from the on-court action.

Wolf moms (l to r) Eileen Stone, Kristi Etzell and Kristin Hurlburt threaten to get rowdy in the stands. It wouldn’t be the first time.

CHS band teacher Jamar Jenkins: “You’re not ready for this beat, but I’m going to lay it down anyway.”

Dalton Martin, always the center of attention, even when he’s just here to drink some milk.

Wolf softball sensation Katrina McGranahan swings by the gym to root for her classmates, and, possibly, sign autographs.

“I swear, these are the hardest bleachers known to man. I can’t feel either of my legs right now … and I may be stuck.”

Basketball is not the only game in town.

The games bring out a bevy of other side shows, from band to cheer to coaches from other sports stopping by to show their support (and possibly recruit players) to fans busy in the stands.

Wandering around, in between the action Friday night, travelin’ photo man John Fisken was nice enough to snap us some pics of the whole wide show, and the pics above are courtesy him.

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Bring it on (one more time)!!

Posted in Cheer, tagged Cheer, CHS Wolves, Gaby Halpin, John Fisken photos, Jovanah Foote, Ohana on January 24, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Wolf co-captain Jovanah Foote gets ready to kick things off. (John Fisken photos)

Gaby Halpin has spirit, do you?

Claire Mietus does.

A cheerleader (in this case, fall season captain Sylvia Hurlburt) taking photos of other cheerleaders? The circle is complete.

Natasha Estes has some ballerina in her, getting up, way up, on her toes.

Julie Bucio waits for the beat to drop.

Heather Nastali slides into action, backed by Robin Cedillo.

Mckenzie Meyer did double duty, alternating between cheer and band on this evening.

They’re the best at what they do.

For the high-energy Wolf cheer crew, that means being loud and proud and nailing every routine in their playbook.

They were back at it Friday night, during home girls’ basketball games, keeping the noise and energy bouncing off of the walls of the CHS gym.

In between kicks and cheers, travelin’ photo man John Fisken slid by and captured a few pics of Cheridan Eck’s squad in action.

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Say hello to the gold standard!!

Posted in Hall o' Fame, tagged Allie Hanigan, CHS Wolves, Hall of Fame, Janiece Jenkins, Mike Vaughan, Nick Sellgren, Rich Morris, volleyball on January 24, 2016| Leave a Comment »

The triple threat trio (top, l to r, Nick Sellgren, Mike Vaughan and Rich Morris) are joined by (bottom, l to r) Allie Hanigan, Janiece Jenkins, and, leading her 2004 CHS volleyball squad, Toni Crebbin.

Bring out the big guns.

That’s what we’re doing today, as we welcome our 31st class into the Coupeville Sports Hall o’ Fame.

Five individual athletes and the only Wolf team to be ranked #1 in the entire state in any sport in the modern era, this is the cream of the crop.

With that, we welcome Rich Morris, Mike Vaughan, Nick Sellgren, Janiece Jenkins, Allie Hanigan and the 2004 Coupeville High School volleyball squad to these hallowed digital walls.

From this point on, you’ll find them up at the top of the blog, under the Legends tab.

We kick things off with one of the speediest runners this town has ever known.

Jenkins was a speed demon on the track oval for the Wolves and held the school record in the 200 for a stellar eight years, before gracefully congratulating her successor when Makana Stone finally shattered her mark.

Even if she no longer holds a record on the big board, the memory of her senior year trip to state will last forever.

Competing in the spotlight in 2005, Jenkins brought home three medals, finishing fifth in the 100, eighth in the 200 and running a leg on a 4 x 100 unit that claimed sixth.

Along with raw athletic talent, Janiece shares other traits with our second inductee, Allie Hanigan.

Both played with a rare sense of grace and drew frequent praise from teammates, both at the time and after their prep sports careers ended.

Hanigan was a two-sport star for CHS, a standout tennis player who anchored the Wolves at first singles, and a ferocious hitter on the volleyball squad who controlled play at the net.

She was also a great teammate, or at least always seemed that way from the view the stands offers.

Now, Allie is blazing a bright trail in the modeling world while attending college, and, one day soon we’re all going to turn around and marvel that the biggest name in the biz used to live in our small town.

Joining her are a trio of three-sport stars who spent much of their high school days together, on and off the field.

Morris, Vaughan and Sellgren played football, basketball and baseball and were stars in every sport, leaders for their entire high school careers.

If you add up all the trophies and awards the trio earned, it would fill a nice-sized room, and they all continue to kick butt even as they (slightly) age.

Vaughan, for one, was a key part of the Red Pride hoops squad which ran the table at the most recent Tom Roehl Roundball Classic.

If it’s hoops, though, Morris gets the nod over his buddies.

While Sellgren had two strong years as a big-game scorer, and Vaughan saw varsity action all four years, Morris had a rare knack for putting the ball in the hoop.

He remains one of just three CHS boys players in the last 25 years to score 300+ points in two separate seasons (he netted 328 and 309), a feat matched only by Gavin Keohane and Mike Bagby.

Turn to the other sports and we could start an argument which will never end, or we can just acknowledge the trio as a testament to a time when high school athletes played three sports, year in and year out, and excelled at them all.

They left a mark, both as athletes and showmen, which will be long remembered.

As did our final inductee, a team which still casts a huge shadow.

The 2004 CHS volleyball squad set a program record with 13 wins, but the biggest one might have come at districts, when the Wolves shocked Bush, who had been ranked #1 in the state all season.

With the win, Coupeville inherited the top spot in the polls, something no other team in any sport at CHS has done as far as my research shows.

After opening the state tourney by thrashing Zillah, the Wolves ran headlong into their arch-rival that season, La Conner, losing a hard-fought duel to the eventual state runner-ups.

The schools had split two matches during the regular season, sharing a league title, before Coupeville won a third meeting during the playoffs. Round #4 was not to be, however.

A second loss at state, coming in five epic sets against Freeman, denied the Wolves a chance to bring a banner home, but even now, 12 years later, that squad remains the best group of spikers the school has ever seen.

So, let’s bring them back together one more time for another bow, at least in the digital world.

Inducted, as a team:

Toni Crebbin (head coach)
Thea Flynn (assistant coach)
Jennifer Bailey
Brittany Black
Lyndsay Boling
Laura Crandall
Kirsty Croghan
Heather Davis
Heather Fakkema
Mindy Horr
Taniel Lamb
Annie Larson
Kristina Morris
Beth Mouw

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They scorched the nets!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, Gavin Keohane, Mike Bagby, Pete Petrov, Stats on January 23, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Gavin Keohane is one of only three Wolves to score 300+ points in two separate seasons in the last 25 years. The other two are Rich Morris and Mike Bagby. (John Fisken photos)

Mike Bagby, your CHS single game and career scoring leader -- at least over the past 25 years.

Mike Bagby, your CHS single game and career scoring leader — at least from 1991 to present.

Twenty years and no one has touched Pete Petrov.

Way back in the 1995-96 high school basketball season, the Coupeville High School gunner, who was a junior at the time, threw down 442 points over 25 games.

Petrov, who rang up 917 points in four years as a Wolf, was remarkably consistent that season, scoring in double figures in every single game, with highs of 29 against Nooksack Valley and 27 against Sultan.

And those two games? Both playoff contests, reinforcing his rep as a big-game performer.

Why do I bring this up?

Mainly because I spent a good chunk of Saturday buried in old score-books, thanks to former CHS hoops guru Randy King.

The school doesn’t have any kind of glossy record board for basketball, like it does with track, football or volleyball, and the records are just floating out there in the haze.

King, after much harassment from me, managed to find 17 score-books from his 20-year career as the head coach of the Wolf boys’ program (1991-92 to 2010-11).

Thanks to Jim Waller at the Whidbey News-Times, we’ve since added one of the missing seasons.

And what I did learn after crawling through page after page of handwritten history?

Well, that my eyes may never uncross, but also that I now can rattle off all sorts of scoring stats until your eyes cross as well.

While we have to hedge our bets slightly with the two missing score-books, I can pretty confidently state that:

Petrov has the single best single-season scoring totals in the last 25 years, but Mike Bagby has the single-best game (34 at Orcas on Jan. 6, 2006) and the most career points.

Technically, if we go off only the 17 books I have, Petrov edges Bagby 917-915, with Arik Garthwaite hot on their heels at 867.

But, and it’s a huge but, one of the missing books is from 2003-2004, Bagby’s sophomore season.

And, since I know from previous research he was a First-Team All-Northwest League pick that year, it’s safe to say he scored more than the necessary three points to overtake Petrov.

But hey, it wouldn’t be Coupeville if at least part of the school’s athletic history wasn’t lost or missing.

So, keeping in mind this is close, but not 100%, marinate in some Wolf hoops history, one bucket at a time.

Best single game performance (1991-present):

Mike Bagby 34 vs. Orcas (04-05)
Gabe McMurray 33 vs. Sultan (94-95)
Mike Bagby 32 vs. Mount Vernon Christian (04-05)
Mike Bagby 32 vs. South Whidbey (05-06)
Arik Garthwaite 32 vs. Mount Vernon Christian (97-98)
Gavin Keohane 32 vs. Granite Falls (98-99)
JJ Marti 32 vs. Darrington (05-06)
Mike Bagby 30 vs. Shoreline Christian (04-05)
Brad Sherman 30 vs. Bush (02-03)

Best single season performances (1991-present):

Pete Petrov 442 (95-96)
Arik Garthwaite 423 (97-98)
Mike Bagby 414 (04-05)
Brad Sherman 396 (02-03)
Cody Peters 380 (08-09)
Gavin Keohane 374 (97-98)
Mike Bagby 364 (05-06)
Gabe McMurray 355 (94-95)
Virgil Roehl 341 (92-93)
Pat Bennett 340 (99-00)

And (pretty much) everyone who scored during the Randy King era:

1991-1992:

Virgil Roehl 189
Troy Blouin 115
Kit Manzanares 92
Brandon Huff 84
Jason McManigle 70
Jason McDavid 62
Ross Buckner 52
Danny Bonacci 36
Scott Sollars 28
Matt Douglas 20
Boom Phomvongkoth 18
Erik Anderson 8
Tracy Wilson 3
Jeremy McCormick 2

1992-1993:

Virgil Roehl 341
Brandon Huff 161
Troy Blouin 141
Brad Miller 66
Kit Manzanares 60
Boom Phomvongkoth 55
Ryan McManigle 39
Jason McManigle 31
Ross Buckner 25
Chris Cox 20
Gabe McMurray 2

1993-1994:

Brad Miller 238
Gabe McMurray 235
Chris Cox 157
Virgil Roehl 141
Kit Manzanares 123
Boom Phomvongkoth 100
Matt Ortega 75
Ryan McManigle 65
Pete Petrov 13
Bill Hamilton 5
Michael Vaughan 4
Chris Locke 2
Dennis Terrell 2

1994-1995:

Gabe McMurray 355
Brad Miller 222
Pete Petrov 188
Arik Garthwaite 109
Boom Phomvongkoth 102
Mike Vaughan 62
Ryan McManigle 44
Jeremy Staples 23
Keith Dunnagan 19
Greg White 18
Bill Hamilton 6

1995-1996:

Pete Petrov 442
Rich Morris 328
Greg White 194
Nick Sellgren 190
Arik Garthwaite 176
Mike Vaughan 162
Bryan Hamilton 43
Jeremy Staples 39
Keith Dunnagan 23
Christian Lyness 18
Gary Boyke 17
Christian Townsdin 5
Teo Benson 2
Scott Stuurmans 2

1996-1997:

Rich Morris 309
Pete Petrov 274
Nick Sellgren 216
Arik Garthwaite 159
Greg White 131
Mike Vaughan 109
Christian Lyness 77
Dennis Terrell 55
Christian Townsdin 25
Scott Stuurmans 13
Gavin Keohane 3
Jerry Helm 1

1997-1998:

Arik Garthwaite 423
Gavin Keohane 374
Greg White 261
Scott Stuurmans 173
Christian Townsdin 86
Bryan Hamilton 56
Caesar Kortuem 52
Jerry Helm 47
Andrew Cashen 8
Pat Bennett 6
Ben Hancock 5

1998-1999:

Gavin Keohane 300
Pat Bennett 201
Matt Frost 108
Caesar Kortuem 98
Ty Blouin 94
Andrew Cashen 76
Ben Hancock 58
Jim Marti 35
Joe Donellon 26
Chris Good 21
Noah Roehl 11
Joe Kelley 2

1999-2000:

Pat Bennett 340
Caesar Kortuem 219
Matt Frost 182
Ty Blouin 163
Noah Roehl 129
Joe Donellon 75
Jason Fisher 71
Chris Good 43
Marvin Mitchell 18
Travis Hooker 10
Geoff Hageman 8
Andrew Cashen 3
Matt Helm 1

2000-2001:

Chris Good 305
Brad Sherman 203
Noah Roehl 161
Pat Bennett 112
Ty Blouin 112
Sean Callahan 98
Geoff Hageman 56
Matt Helm 56
Joe Kelley 47
Erick Harada 40
James Meek 39
Rob Blouin 18

2001-2002:

MISSING

2002-2003:

Brad Sherman 396
Brian Fakkema 271
Casey Clark 256
Mike Bagby 137
James Jorgenson 40
Daniel McDonald 28
Joe Rojas 28
Scott Fisher 19
Blake Day 18
JJ Marti 12
Daniel Graham 9
JD Myers 5
Eric Taylor 3

2003-2004:

MISSING

2004-2005:

Mike Bagby 414
Blake Day 188
JJ Marti 174
Andrew Mouw 173
Trevor Tucker 113
Trent Diamanti 23
Trevor Mueller 22
Brad Rogers 15
Ryan Kelley 7
Mike Duke 3
Eddie Fasolo 3
Stephen Stietenroth 2

2005-2006:

Mike Bagby 364
JJ Marti 190
Kramer O’Keefe 186
Brian Miller 157
James Smith 93
Casey Larson 83
Ryan Kelley 26
Mike Duke 24
Tony Prosser 20
Kyle King 9
Alex Evans 5

2006-2007:

Brian Miller 251
Kramer O’Keefe 215
James Smith 178
Casey Larson 164
Alex Evans 93
Trevor Tucker 81
Quinten Farmer 75
Tony Prosser 50
Jordan Emerson 20
Zepher Loesch 12
Geoff Wacker 8
Brian Folkestad 7

2007-2008:

Kramer O’Keefe 235
Brian Miller 189
Alex Evans 174
Zepher Loesch 151
Cody Peters 138
James Smith 111
Geoff Wacker 49
JD Wilcox 36
Jason Bagby 18
Zeb Williams 7
Hunter Hammer 4
DJ Kim 3

2008-2009:

Cody Peters 380
Hunter Hammer 208
Jason Bagby 193
JD Wilcox 176
Zepher Loesch 111
Geoff Wacker 97
Tim Walstad 59
Zeb Williams 28
Tyler King 20
Matt Petrich 19
Chad Brookhouse 16
DJ Kim 10
Ian Smith 9
Erik King 7

2009-2010:

Hunter Hammer 302
Jason Bagby 288
JD Wilcox 161
Chad Brookhouse 147
Ian Smith 119
Tim Walstad 109
Erik King 54
Tyler King 48
Ben Hayes 19
Nevin Miranda 2
Dalton Engle 2

2010-2011:

Ben Hayes 287
Hunter Hammer 245
Tyler King 202
Ian Smith 196
Dalton Engle 46
Nevin Miranda 38
Mitch Pelroy 14
Nic Anthony 5
Scott Davidson 5