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Junior defender Jackie Contreras leads off a series of Coupeville High School soccer snaps. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

It’s a parade of pitch portraits.

We continue to amble through the soccer season, sprinkling head shots of the various Wolf booters as we go.

Today, you get a six-pack, featuring three CHS girls and three boys.

Mason Butler

Sophia Broderick

Andrew Williams

Isabella Gaspio

Matthew Ward

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Welcome to the haze, as Coupeville football pulls into Eastern Washington. (William Davidson photo)

Wildfires rage, air quality plummets, and high school football games get cancelled or postponed.

It’s the current reality across Washington state, though Friday night on Whidbey Island would have been just fine for gridiron action.

Unfortunately for Coupeville, it was way down the road in Leavenworth, having traveled 140+ miles, and a ferry trip, one way for a chance to clash with Cascade.

The matchup between 5-1 teams never happened, though, as the kickoff was bumped from 7:00 to 7:30, then 8:00, before the game was called off.

To play what was to be Cascade’s Homecoming game, the air quality index needed to be lower than 150.

Leavenworth, which peaked at 386 at 1:30 PM, as Coupeville was aboard the Clinton ferry, was still in the 170’s when the game was cancelled.

An hour later, with the Wolves on the second leg of what will be close to a 300-mile round-trip, AQI was back up to 179.

The Air Quality Index for Leavenworth made a run at 400 Friday, and never dropped below 168.

When the announcement came, with haze hanging over the field, and a few stragglers goofing off between the hash marks, the Cascade PA guy was in the midst of trying to push spaghetti and garlic bread dinners.

“We’ve got a lot here, folks!!”

While the guy behind the mic made a public show of saying they would try to reschedule the game, it is unlikely for multiple reasons.

Both Coupeville and Cascade have league games the next two weeks, with the playoffs looming on the horizon.

Friday’s clash would have been a non-conference affair, and league games are always given priority.

Also, with the fires and smoke going nowhere, who sends the Wolves on another 300-mile trip?

Meanwhile Cascade has no incentive to spend its own gas money on a trip to the balmy shores of The Rock after making the journey last year.

So, in the end it likely becomes a frustrating story in the never-ending tale of life bouncing across the backroads in pursuit of athletic competition.

Hey, maybe the Wolves got some bratwurst on the way out of town.

Or some of Cascade’s spaghetti.

At least the Wolf coaches had fun in town. (Photo courtesy Bennett Richter)

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“Not the face!!” (Morgan White photo)

Second time, not as much fun as the first time.

Friday Harbor, a legitimate state title contender, exacted a bit of revenge on the Coupeville High School boys soccer squad Friday afternoon.

Winning 6-0 on their home pitch, the Wolverines earned a split in the season series while making the playoff chase a bit tougher for the Wolves.

“That team was amazing,” said Coupeville coach Robert Wood, who then went to contemplate the mysteries of the soccer world while enjoying a long ferry ride home.

The loss drops CHS to 1-3 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 3-6 overall, with four games left on the schedule.

Coupeville has three straight conference tilts at home coming up, with Providence Classical Christian (Oct. 18), Lopez Island (Oct. 22), and La Conner (Oct. 25) all visiting Whidbey.

The Wolves wrap the regular season with a trip to Orcas Island Oct. 27 to square off with the defending 2B/1B state champs.

Five of the nine schools playing boys soccer in the NWL make the district playoffs, joined by four teams from District 2.

Friday’s loss ultimately means more than the first time Friday Harbor and Coupeville met, when the Wolves won 3-1 at Mickey Clark Field.

For complicated scheduling reasons, that first game was against a league foe, but not counted as a league game.

Friday’s loss, however, is reflected in the conference standings.

Grant Steller holds off a pesky Wolverine. (Morgan White photo)

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Scott Hilborn streaks for the end zone. (Bailey Thule photo)

The world has gone topsy-turvy.

The Coupeville High School football team, off to its best start in a very-long time at 5-1, has gotten some computer love this season.

Newman, the diabolical collection of nuts and bolts doing the heavy work at Evans Rankings, likes the Wolves, mostly.

As does the RPI system employed by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association.

But real live humans?

Especially big-city newspaper prep sports reporters dreaming about making the jump to getting press box access (and free food) at Mariners or Seahawks games?

Safe to say, 98.4% of them don’t know their Coupeville from their Colville.

Except…

This week, when the Associated Press released its weekly football rankings, the Wolves made the poll for the first time since former Wolf coach Ron Bagby was rockin’ the short shorts.

Oh, it’s true.

Coupeville (not Colville) snagged seven points in the poll, placing the Wolves at #10 among all 2B schools in the state.

They sorta, kinda, know our name. Bout dang time.

 

Associated Press 2B poll for week 7:

1. Napavine – (6-0) – 80 poll points
2. Okanogan – (6-0) – 70
3. Raymond – (6-0) – 64
4. Liberty (Spangle) – (5-1) – 47
5. Lind-Ritzville/Sprague – (5-1) – 46
6. Toledo – (5-1) – 38
7. Columbia (Burbank) – (5-1) – 30
8. Lake Roosevelt – (6-1) – 25
9. Adna – (4-2) – 8
10. Coupeville – (5-1) – 7

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Wolf sophomore Hunter Bronec has the most receiving yards of any non-senior this season. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Tim Ursu is money in the bank. (Brenn Sugatan photo)

Roll on, Wolves.

The Coupeville High School football team is off to a 5-1 start after bashing 2A Bellingham 48-6 last week, and the stat sheet reflects a balanced attack on both side of the ball.

From fab frosh to seasoned seniors, 26 different Wolves appear in the numbers compiled by CHS coaches.

With three weeks left in the regular season, a look at where things sit:

 

OFFENSE:

Passing:

Logan Downes — 60-109 for 807 yards with 11 TDs
Chase Anderson — 4-10 for 31 yards with 1 TD

 

Receiving:

Tim Ursu — 21 receptions for 215 yards
Scott Hilborn — 16-205
Daylon Houston — 11-189
Dominic Coffman — 6-133
Hunter Bronec — 4-48
Aiden O’Neill — 1-25
Johnny Porter — 1-14
Cameron Breaux — 1-5
Marquette Cunningham — 1-(-3)

 

Rushing:

Coffman — 59 carries for 465 yards
Hilborn — 39-368
Jo. Porter — 30-135
Downes — 16-58
Ursu — 11-31
O’Neill — 5-17
Jack Porter — 1-8
Xander Stinnett — 2-5
Anderson — 3-4
Devinion Hill — 1-1
Mikey Robinett — 1-0

 

Total Yards (Rush/Pass/Rec):

Downes — 865
Coffman — 598
Hilborn — 573
Ursu — 246
Houston — 189
Jo. Porter — 149
Hun. Bronec — 48
O’Neill — 42
Anderson — 35
Ja. Porter — 8
Breaux — 5
Stinnett — 5
Hill — 1

 

All-Purpose Yards (Rush/Rec/KR/PR/IR):

Hilborn — 673
Coffman — 598
Ursu — 519
Houston — 360
Jo. Porter — 149
Downes — 83
O’Neill — 49
Hun. Bronec — 48
Ja. Porter — 8
Breaux — 5
Stinnett — 5
Anderson — 4
Hill — 1

 

Pancake blocks:

William Davidson — 1
Zane Oldenstadt — 1

 

Touchdowns:

Hilborn — 10
Coffman — 8
Ursu — 8
Jo. Porter — 3
Houston — 2
Downes — 1
O’Neill — 1

 

Conversions:

Ursu — 1

 

PATs:

Houston — 12
Anderson — 11

 

Field Goals:

Houston — 1

 

Points:

Hilborn — 60
Ursu — 50
Coffman — 48
Houston — 27
Jo. Porter — 18
Anderson — 11
Downes — 6
O’Neill — 6
Team — 2

 

DEFENSE:

Tackles:

Hilborn — 57
Ursu — 52
Coffman — 40
Kevin Partida — 40
Peyton Caveness — 30
Jonathan Valenzuela — 26
Davidson — 23
Downes — 18
Josh Upchurch — 17
Robinett — 16
Kai Wong — 10
Houston — 9
O’Neill — 7
Marcelo Gebhard — 6
Oldenstadt — 5
Hurlee Bronec — 2
Coen Killian — 2
Anderson — 1
Myca Clarkson — 1
Ja. Porter – 1

 

Tackles For Loss:

Hilborn — 10
Valenzuela — 6
Coffman — 5
Upchurch — 4
Caveness — 3
Ursu — 3
Robinett — 2
Downes — 1
Partida — 1

 

Interceptions:

Downes — 3
Coffman — 1
Hilborn — 1
O’Neill — 1
Ursu — 1

 

Passes Defensed:

Ursu — 8
Downes — 5
Hilborn — 3
Davidson — 2
O’Neill — 2
Ja. Porter — 1
Valenzuela — 1

 

Fumble recoveries:

Coffman — 3
Caveness — 2
Hilborn — 1
Partida — 1
Upchurch — 1
Ursu — 1
Valenzuela — 1

 

Sacks:

Coffman — 3
Hilborn — 2
Valenzuela — 2
Caveness — 1
Robinett — 1
Upchurch — 1

 

QB Hurries:

Coffman — 4
Davidson — 4
Oldenstadt — 3
Hilborn — 2
Robinett — 1
Wong — 1

 

SPECIAL TEAMS:

Punts:

Downes — 7-255

 

Kickoff returns:

Houston — 4-171
Ursu — 4-155
Hilborn — 3-97
O’Neill — 1-7

 

Punt returns:

Ursu — 6-118
Hilborn — 1-3

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