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“We hustled so hard!”

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 27, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Liza Zustiak prepares to launch a pass. (Jackie Saia photo)

Kassie O’Neil is going into the weekend full of positive feelings.

While her Coupeville High School JV girls’ basketball squad was nipped 27-26 Friday night by visiting Friday Harbor, it was the way the Wolves played which pleased their coach.

Playing less than 24 hours after a somewhat lackluster loss against big-school rival Mount Vernon, the CHS young guns brought the excitement to the hardwood.

“We hustled so hard,” O’Neil said. “Way different energy than last night.

“If only our baskets fell, we would have had it,” she added. “But they had a lot of great looks and everyone played well.”

The loss drops the Wolves to 6-8 on the season, and now, after playing three times in four days, they’ll sit for a bit.

The Coupeville varsity has a road game at Auburn Adventist Academy next Thursday, Feb. 2, but the small private school doesn’t field a JV girls’ team.

So, O’Neil’s squad will sit until Feb. 7, when they host La Conner in their home finale, before closing the season on the road at Friday Harbor Feb. 10.

Facing off with the visiting Wolverines, Coupeville fell behind early, but then carved the lead down as the game progressed.

Friday Harbor went to the first break up 10-4, but the Wolves netted a pair of three-balls in the second frame, with Desi Ramirez-Vasquez and Madison McMillan makin’ the net pop from long distance.

Coupeville got its third, and final trey in the third quarter, this time off the sweet-shooting fingertips of Kierra Thayer and trailed 25-18 heading into the final eight minutes.

Clamping down on defense, the Wolves limited Friday Harbor to just a single fourth-quarter bucket, closing the game on an 8-2 run which came up just a single, solitary point short of forcing overtime.

Ramirez-Vasquez paced CHS with a team-high seven points, with McMillan popping for six, and Reese Wilkinson knocking down four.

Thayer (3), Skylar Parker (2), Liza Zustiak (2), and Brynn Parker (2) also scored, with Bryley Gilbert, Teagan Calkins, Kassidy Upchurch, Kayla Arnold, and Carlota Marcos-Cabrillo all seeing floor time.

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CHS sophomore commands the stage

Posted in Not sports? Tough!, tagged , , , , on January 27, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Matthew Campbell will be live on stage this weekend, carrying the banner for Wolf Nation.

The Coupeville High School sophomore held off nine other contestants to win a Poetry Out Loud competition, and now moves on to compete at regionals.

That event goes down Saturday at the Phil Tarro Theatre on Skagit Valley College’s Mount Vernon campus, with two finalists advancing to the state finals in March.

Nationals are typically held in Washington DC in late April or early May.

Poetry Out Loud was launched in 2006 by the National Endowment for the Arts, and draws contestants from all 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The goal is to promote the art of performing poetry.

Washington state has a previous national champion, with Langston Ward of Spokane claiming top honors in 2013 for his recitation of “The Gift” by Li-Young Lee.

This year’s opening poetry rumble drew 10 Coupeville High School students, with Campbell, Sydney Wallace, and Cristina McGrath finishing in the top three.

Contestants memorized and performed two poems, and were graded on “physical presence,” “voice and articulation,” “dramatic appropriateness,” “evidence of understanding,” and “overall performance.”

Each performer was also checked for accuracy as they recited their poems.

Campbell is slated to perform the work of poets Jones Very and Richard Blanco at regionals.

The former, who died in 1880, was a “poet, clergyman, and mystic” who was also a huge Shakespeare fan boy, while the latter is still going strong, born in 1968 and noted for performing at Barack Obama’s second inauguration.

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Countdown to cheer-apalooza

Posted in Cheer, tagged , , , , on January 26, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Current Wolf cheerleaders like Alysia Burdge (far right) work with Coupeville’s next gen stars. (Photos courtesy Spirit of Cheer Booster Club)

Friday night, the spotlight is theirs.

A pack of young Wolf cheerleaders get a chance to perform in front of Coupeville High School basketball fans, culminating weeks of hard work.

CHS is hosting Friday Harbor, with girls’ varsity and boys JV games at 4:00, and boys’ varsity and girls JV at 5:30ish.

The youth cheer performance will arrive during halftime of the varsity boys’ game.

The young cheerleaders will sport snazzy new bows, thanks to Wolf Mom Phoenix Da Costa-Ford.

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Scrappy Wolves fall to hustlin’ Bulldogs

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 26, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Bryley Gilbert slashes to the hoop. (Jackie Saia photo)

Sometimes effort beats skill.

That seems to be the case Thursday, as the Mount Vernon High School C-Team pulled away with a strong third quarter, bouncing Coupeville’s JV 38-23.

The non-conference road loss drops the young Wolves to 6-7, but they get an immediate chance to return to the hardwood with a home game Friday against Northwest 2B/1B League rival Friday Harbor.

While Mount Vernon is a 3A school and CHS a 2B institution, Wolf coach Kassie O’Neil felt her team more than matched up with the Bulldogs.

But the host team just wanted the game more.

“It was a hard game to lose, because we really should have won,” O’Neil said. “We had more talent, but we got outhustled.”

Coupeville stayed close through the first half, trailing just 10-6 at the first break, and 15-12 at halftime.

The third quarter proved to be the difference, however, as the Bulldogs used a 15-5 tear to bust things open.

Madison McMillan paced Coupeville with a team-high 11 points, giving her 101 for the season.

The sophomore swing player, who has also scored at the varsity level for the Wolves, is the first JV player, male or female, to top triple-digits this season.

Bryley Gilbert knocked down six points to back McMillan, with Kierra Thayer, Liza Zustiak, and Carlota Marcos-Cabrillo each chipping in with a bucket to round out the offensive attack.

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Hoops teams honor cancer battle

Posted in Basketball, Fundraisers, tagged , , , , , on January 26, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville High School Athletic Director Willie Smith ponders the many things on his schedule. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Friday night will be an impactful one in the Coupeville High School gym.

Wolf basketball teams, playing at home for the first time in two weeks, host Friday Harbor in bouts which will have a big impact on potential playoff seeding for the varsity squads.

Things kick off with the girls’ varsity playing in the CHS gym, and the JV boys across the hallway in the middle school gym, with 4:00 tipoffs.

The boys’ varsity and girls JV teams inherit the floors at 5:30ish.

But the games are just a part of the events.

Youth cheerleaders perform at halftime of the varsity boys’ game, capping several weeks of preparation.

Throughout the afternoon and evening, the focus will be on the annual Coaches vs. Cancer fundraiser, renamed Coupeville vs. Cancer this year.

Raffle tickets ($1 or donation) will be sold, offering supporters a chance to win goodie baskets made by the CHS cheer team. There will be drawings at halftime of both varsity games.

T-shirts and silicone bracelets commemorating the night will be available for donation. Any extras after players and coaches receive theirs, will be offered for free.

There will also be a poster in the entranceway to the gym that fans can write on to honor those “that are fighting/have fought/have lost” the cancer battle, said CHS Athletic Director Willie Smith.

This year’s event is focusing on all forms of cancer, with pens representing all the cancer awareness ribbons available at the sign-in table.

All money raised will be donated to the V Foundation for Cancer Research, which was founded by legendary college basketball coach Jim Valvano.

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