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Runners sizzle at league championship meet

Posted in Cross Country, tagged , , , , on October 23, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Isaiah Allen zips along at the league championship meet. (Shaloma Allen photos)

They stand alone on the mountain top.

Placing four runners in the top nine Thursday in Mount Vernon, the Coupeville High School boys’ cross country team ran away with a team title at the Northwest 2B/1B League Championships.

It’s the third league title in program history, following a shared title in 2022. Other than that, you have to go back to 1977 when the Wolf boys ruled the Cascade League.

It also pulls Coupeville male runners even with their female counterparts, who won league crowns in 1982, 2021, and 2022.

Not bad for a cross country program which was revived in 2018 after lying dormant since the early 1990’s.

For CHS coach Elizabeth Bitting, who has been the driving force behind the rebirth and growth of the harrier team, this latest accomplishment is something worth celebrating.

“What a season! I am so proud of these runners,” she said. “They have pushed through illnesses and injuries and are peaking when they need to be.

“Just about every runner who ran this course last season set a personal record at today’s race.”

Tearing up the 5,000-meter course, the Wolf boys, who were led by third-place finisher George Spear, finished with 46 points, holding off Mount Vernon Christian (46) and Evangel Classical (55) to claim the title.

Spear not only set a PR Thursday but ran the second-fastest time by a Wolf boy in the modern era.

He edged past Danny Conlisk, Carson Field, and Mitchell Hall, and trails only Tyler King, who won a state title in 2010 running as a Lone Wolf without a team.

Devon Wyman cruises for the finish line.

Coupeville’s girls, who got a third-place finish from Mikayla Wagner, also finished strongly Thursday, earning third with 57 points, trailing only MVC (26) and Friday Harbor (43).

Up next for the Wolves is the Westside Classic, set for Saturday, Nov. 1 at University Place. That meet is the qualifier for state, and CHS sends 12 runners.

Barring any changes between now and then, the lineup will be Wagner, Aleksia Jump, Ivy Rudat, Devon Wyman, and Allie Powers on the girls side of things.

The boys will be Spear, Cyrus Sparacio, Ezekiel Allen, Kenneth Jacobsen, Beckett Green, Ossian Merkel, and Isaiah Allen.

 

Thursday results:

 

GIRLS:

Mikayla Wagner (3rd) 21:55.3
Aleksia Jump (11th) 23:46.6
Ivy Rudat (12th) 23:47.1
Devon Wyman (18th) 24:33.4
Allie Powers (19th) 24:45.2
Ava Lucero (26th) 28:40.9

Aleksia Jump enjoys her nature run.

 

BOYS:

George Spear (3rd) 17:40.7
Cyrus Sparacio (4th) 17:52.9
Ezekiel Allen (8th) 18:23.0
Kenneth Jacobsen (9th) 18:26.8
Ossian Merkel (23rd) 19:43.8
Beckett Green (27th) 19:59.4
Johnathan Jacobsen (29th) 20:12.4
Isaiah Allen (31st) 20:16.3
Will Tierney (42nd) 21:33.3
Hunter Atteberry (44th) 21:54.0
Donovan Fox (54th) 26:30.3
Nolan Hunt (55th) 26:46.8
Zach Blitch (56th) 28:30.9
Zachary Saho (60th) 38:17.7

Two thumbs up for Cow Town runners.

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Wolf booters chase playoff berth

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged , , , , on October 23, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Shiloh Sandlin leads the charge. (Julie Wheat photo)

Growth and improvement, yes. A win, not on this day.

Facing off Wednesday afternoon with Friday Harbor, which has been a powerhouse in boys’ soccer in recent years, Coupeville’s young booters continued to jell as a team, but were unable to topple the high-powered Wolverines.

Still, the 5-1 home loss was a step forward from the season opener, when CHS was blanked 8-0 by the same foe.

“Much better than our first game of the season,” said Coupeville coach Jim Kunz. “Our Wolves made them work for it. We worked as a team.”

Kunz adjusted his normal defensive setup, with Wyatt Fitch-Marron, Shiloh Sandlin, Sage Arends, and Brian Thompson anchoring the back line in support of goaltender Sam Richards.

“They shut them down,” Kunz said. “A few small mistakes resulted in goals, but we definitely had the ability to win, which is very exciting.”

Coupeville’s goal came off the foot of Arends, who notched his team-high sixth score of the season.

The tally pushes the Wolf junior to nine goals for his prep pitch career, right on the cusp of becoming the 14th Wolf boy to reach double-digits in career scoring.

With the loss, CHS drops to 2-3 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 4-7 overall, and sits in fifth place in the nine-team conference with three games left to play.

The Wolves hit the road for their next two, playing Providence Classical Christian Oct. 24 and Lopez Island Oct. 28, before wrapping the regular season with a home clash against La Conner Oct. 30.

The top five teams from District 1 advance to the playoffs, which start Nov. 4.

Defending state champ Orcas Island (6-0), Mount Vernon Christian (6-1), Friday Harbor (4-2), Lopez (3-3), and Coupeville (2-3) currently hold down those slots, with Cedar Park Christian-Lynnwood, Grace Academy, La Conner, and Providence all on the outside looking in at 1-4.

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Rested Wolves launch offensive explosion

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , on October 21, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Tamsin Ward (left) and Lillian Ketterling sparked Coupeville to an 8-1 win Tuesday on Orcas. (Jandellyn Ward photo)

The Wolf booters have a great relationship with the back of the net.

Peppering the Orcas Island goalie all afternoon Tuesday, the Coupeville High School girls’ soccer squad thrashed its hosts, capturing a resounding 8-1 road win.

The victory, which gives the Wolves a season sweep of the Vikings, lifts CHS to 3-7-1 on the campaign heading into the regular-season finale.

After sitting 10 days between Tuesday’s tilt and their last game — a hard-fought home tie with big school rival Sultan way back on Oct. 11 — Jasmine Ader’s pitch warriors go back to waiting.

Thanks to a rescheduled game, that finale, a road trip to Bothell to face Providence Classical Christian, is now slated for Oct. 30.

The break between games didn’t seem to slow down the Wolves, who ran their season scoring total to 28 goals.

Freshman Tamsin Ward had the hot foot, sliding four scores into the net to push her total to 14.

That’s the third-best single-season performance by a Wolf girl in the 20-year history of the program, trailing just Kalia Littlejohn (15 in 2017) and Mia Littlejohn (27 in 2016).

Ward passed Avalon Renninger (12) and Ayden Wyman (13) on the career scoring chart as well, and sits #5 all-time, with Lindsey Roberts (17) her next target.

“Where you going?” “To thrash teams and take names!” (Jandellyn Ward photo)

For her part, Ward is most excited about team accomplishment over individual glory.

“I think we played well tonight,” she said. “Our hard work is starting to result in positive outcomes on the field.

“I’m excited to grow with this group of girls.”

Other CHS goals Tuesday came from 8th grade phenom Lyla Grose, who has six on the year, and sophomore Lillian Ketterling, who notched her second and third scores.

As the second-oldest player on the team (behind just senior Frankie Tenore), Ketterling is embracing her role in helping her young squad grow.

“I feel that we’re really starting to game execute the things we practice,” Ketterling said.

“We have one goal, to bring a state championship to Coupeville; I am so excited about our trajectory.”

The Wolves bask in the glow of victory. (Jerry Helm photo)

Now technically, one of Ketterling’s goals could be counted as an “own score” for Orcas, since her shot hit a Viking player, who accidentally knocked it past her own goaltender in the resulting pandemonium.

But then you stop and consider that no, the lethal Wolf sharpshooter is probably just that talented that she can curve a ball off a rival player’s leg, before using Jedi mind tricks to get her rival to do the dirty work for her.

So yep, two-goal night for Ketterling. End of (a very brief) discussion.

Moving on, another one of Coupeville’s eight 8th graders rounded out the offensive explosion, as Hazel Goldman dropped a bomb for her first high school goal.

Seven different Wolves, all underclassmen, have scored this season, with five 8th graders combining to account for 11 of those goals.

The future? Bright.

“Each game we’re putting players on the field in different positions, roles, and responsibilities,” said CHS coach Jasmine Ader.

“These players have been willing to adapt. That shows we’re doing exactly what we’re supposed to be doing, developing players.”

Whether playing games or working hard behind the scenes, the Wolves, rebuilding their program after a two-year shutdown, are on the rise.

“Within the last two weeks we’ve added weightlifting, and plyometric training to improve our speed and agility,” Ader said.

“If you don’t know who they are now, you soon will.”

Andrea Gonzalez (22) is part of a talented group of booters helping revive CHS girls’ soccer. (Julie Wheat photo)

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All the numbers, all the highlights

Posted in Volleyball, tagged , , , , on October 20, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Haylee Armstrong flexes on the world. (Danica Strong photo)

The stats speak for themselves.

While Coupeville High School volleyball players wait for Thursday’s home finale, we offer up-to-the-moment numbers for varsity and JV, allowing fans to measure where the Wolves sit 80% of the way through the regular season.

Now, we could write more words here, but didn’t someone say something about letting the stats do the talking?

 

Through Oct. 20:

 

Varsity
(12 matches):

 

Kills:

Teagan Calkins – 137
Haylee Armstrong – 69
Dakota Strong – 36
Tenley Stuurmans – 29
Ari Cunningham – 26
Lexis Drake – 12
Capri Anter – 2
Adeline Maynes – 2

 

Digs:

Calkins – 126
Armstrong – 103
Stuurmans – 71
Anter – 38
Drake – 36
Cunningham – 25
Maynes – 24
Strong – 5
Sydney Van Dyke – 4

 

Assists:

Stuurmans – 233
Maynes – 23
Armstrong – 12
Cunningham – 9
Calkins – 7
Drake – 6
Strong – 3
Kennedy O’Neill – 1

 

Solo Blocks:

Stuurmans – 4
Drake – 2
Cunningham – 1

 

Block Assists:

Cunningham – 6
Drake – 5
Armstrong – 3
Calkins – 3
Strong – 2
Stuurmans – 2
Maynes – 1

 

Service Aces:

Stuurmans – 54
Calkins – 31
Armstrong – 16
Cunningham – 14
Drake – 14
Maynes – 8
Anter – 7
O’Neill – 2
Van Dyke – 2
Strong – 1

 

JV
(10 matches):

 

Kills:

Sydney Van Dyke – 35
Kennedy O’Neill – 25
Isa Mc Fetridge – 22
Chelsi Stevens – 19
Cassandra Powers – 10
Emma Leavitt – 8
Adeline Maynes – 4
Olivia Martin – 3
Hailey Grijalva – 2
Willow Leedy-Bonifas – 2

 

Digs:

Mc Fetridge – 34
O’Neill – 34
Leedy-Bonifas – 31
Stevens – 15
Maynes – 11
Van Dyke – 11
Martin – 6
Powers – 5
Grijalva – 4
Leavitt – 2
Kee’Arya Brown – 1
Mary Western – 1

 

Assists:

Maynes – 50
Leavitt – 26
Powers – 11
Van Dyke – 8
Grijalva – 4
Stevens – 3
Mc Fetridge – 2
O’Neill – 2
Leedy-Bonifas – 1

 

Solo Blocks:

Leedy-Bonifas – 1
Van Dyke – 1

 

Service Aces:

Van Dyke – 25
Powers – 19
Leavitt – 18
Mc Fetridge – 17
O’Neill – 16
Stevens – 16
Maynes – 14
Leedy-Bonifas – 5
Martin – 4
Grijalva – 3

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Rainy day, rough foe

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on October 18, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Ayden Warren played a strong defensive game Saturday in a Coupeville loss. (Parker Hammons photo)

“That’s a really good football team over there.”

As the players exited Mickey Clark Field Saturday, Coupeville High School football coach Bennett Richter was philosophical about what had transpired on a cold, wet, windy prairie afternoon.

Adna, a top 10 ranked team in 2B, had blown open a close game, using a 38-point explosion in the second quarter to nail down a lopsided 52-7 non-conference victory over the Wolves, making a fairly loud statement.

“I’d like to have a couple of those big boys…” Richter mused as a 300+-pound Pirate lineman, his uniform soaked in sweat, rain, and grime, strolled by.

“Adna is going to make some noise in the state playoffs.”

Now, even with the loss, which drops Coupeville to 1-6 on the season, the Wolves still have their own playoff hopes.

With only two of the seven schools in the Northwest 2B/1B League playing 11-man football, CHS and Friday Harbor are locked in a duel for the chance to advance to a cross-over playoff game, with a trip to state at stake.

Friday Harbor won the first go-round with Coupeville by a 28-14 score, and the rematch is set for next Friday’s regular-season finale in Cow Town, which doubles as Senior Night for the Wolves.

Earn a season split with a win, and Richter’s team will force a tiebreaker half-game clash, likely to be played on a neutral field in La Conner.

As they prep for rumble #2 with Friday Harbor, which sits at 3-4, the Wolves will try to have a short memory and flush the last three quarters of Saturday’s game from their collective memories.

If you look at just the first 15 minutes or so from the Adna game, it’s a really positive story.

While the visitors struck first, using a 75-yard return on the opening kickoff to set up a very short field, then punching in a touchdown on an eight-yard run, Coupeville responded in kind.

Trailing 8-0 after Adna was successful on a two-point conversion run, the Wolves drove 62 yards on six plays for their own touchdown.

CHS quarterback Chase Anderson slipped through two defenders and unleashed a 46-yard bomb through the air on third-and-nine, the ball dropping right onto the waiting fingertips of a sprinting Davin Houston, to push the Pirates back.

Then, three plays later, Anderson again slipped a tackle, before outsprinting the defense to the right corner of the end zone for a 10-yard scoring rumble, his team-leading seventh score of the season.

A successful PAT from Anderson cut the margin to 8-7, followed by Coupeville’s defense stepping up big-time early in the second quarter during a driving rainstorm.

Riley Lawless got the crowd revved up by crushing an Adna ballcarrier, and the Wolves forced two fumbles on the ensuing drive.

While Adna managed to wrestle the ball back the first time, it wasn’t quite so lucky the second time, as the slick ball shot loose and was covered by a pile of Wolves.

With the ball back in Anderson’s hands, things seemed bright for the Wolves on an otherwise dark, dank day.

Unfortunately, that was almost exactly the moment when everything fell apart for Coupeville.

Adna turned the tide by forcing a punt, then taking the kick to the house on a 55-yard sprint to the end zone, and things got much worse from there.

Coupeville’s next three drives ended with an interception and a pair of punts, with the Pirates following up each defensive stand with a quick touchdown drive of their own.

That sent a 16-7 deficit to 22-7, then 30-7, then 38-7, with time still left on the first-half clock.

The visitors went for the KO, and got it, immediately following a touchdown by dropping an onside kick, and recovering it, with less than 30 seconds until halftime.

Wolf lineman Ira Volpentesta made a nice stop on Adna’s first run play after the turnover, but the Pirates went to the air on the next play, connecting on a scoring strike to carry a 46-7 lead into the locker room.

The rain was much less brutal in the second half, but the clock also flew faster, after the visitors busted off a final 30-yard rushing touchdown to trigger the 40-point mercy rule.

With the clock whizzing down to 0:00, the Wolves continued to fight, however.

Liam Blas busted off a strong run, bouncing off of bodies and churning for yardage, while Ayden Warren came screaming through the line to plant the Adna quarterback into the turf for a late sack.

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