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Sure, we’ll thrash you

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , on April 1, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Freshman phenom Madison McMillan and the Coupeville High School varsity softball squad won 30-0 Friday. That is not a misprint. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Nobody has touched them yet.

The Coupeville High School varsity softball team strolled to its third Northwest 2B/1B League win of the season Friday, and its 15th without a loss since returning to the conference in time for the 2020-2021 school year.

Spurred on by a Friday Harbor coach who openly requested the Wolves keep playing hard so his team could learn under fire, CHS racked up 13 hits and 25 walks in a 30-0 win mercy-ruled after five innings.

While Coupeville coach Kevin McGranahan has been a stickler for not unnecessarily embarrassing overmatched foes, he adapted to the situation and made sure all 13 Wolf girls who were in uniform played and reached base.

The Wolves, who sit at 5-1 overall, with their only loss to 1A powerhouse Lynden Christian, struck early, raining down 10 runs in the first inning.

Toss on another three in the second, and a game-busting 15-spot in the third, and Coupeville, which went 12-0 in a pared-down, conference-only pandemic season last year, is clicking.

“We all did well,” McGranahan said. “The girls were very disciplined at the plate and made the plays (pitcher) Izzy (Wells) let them make (in the field).”

Izzy Wells held Friday Harbor without a hit, whiffing eight, which left her defenders with plenty of time to stand around and admire her pitches popping into the mitt of catcher (and lil’ sis) Savina Wells.

The one glitch was the teams were supposed to play a doubleheader but had to cut things to just one game after a ferry delay pushed back the start time by a solid 45 minutes.

Coupeville returns to action Tuesday, Apr. 5, when it makes another island-hopping trip, this time to play Orcas Island with a chance to get to 4-0 in NWL action.

After that the Wolves have a break from league play, with non-conference tilts against always-tough 1A schools Sultan and Cedar Park Christian-Lynnwood.

 

Friday stats:

Taylor Brotemarkle — 2 singles, 1 double, 2 walks
Mia Farris — 3 walks
Gwen Gustafson — 1 walk
Violette Huegerich — 1 double, 1 walk
Lily Leedy — 1 walk
Allie Lucero — 2 walks
Maya Lucero — 1 single, 1 walk
Madison McMillan — 5 walks
Melanie Navarro — 1 single, 2 walks
Sofia Peters — 1 single
Audrianna Shaw — 1 triple, 4 walks
Izzy Wells — 2 singles, 2 doubles, 1 walk
Savina Wells — 1 single, 2 walks

Maya Lucero and Co. are a hit-happy offensive machine.

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Wolf football coach departs

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , , on April 1, 2022| Leave a Comment »

After four seasons at 2B Coupeville High School, head football coach Marcus Carr is jumping to 4A Inglemoor. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Coupeville High School is in the market for a new head football coach.

After four seasons at the helm of the Wolf gridiron program, Marcus Carr confirmed Friday he has accepted a similar position with Inglemoor High School in Kenmore.

Carr replaces Steve Hannan, who went 12-27 at the 4A school across the past five seasons.

Inglemoor is a member of KingCo, a 24-team “super league” which features 2A, 3A, and 4A schools.

Carr’s first game as Vikings head coach is set for Sept. 2, with Juanita the opponent.

He makes the jump to 4A football after spending two seasons at 2B Concrete, where he went 13-6 and won a Northwest 2B/1B League title, then four shepherding Coupeville through unsettled times.

When Carr was hired, he was the program’s fifth head coach in a nine-year span.

During his time stalking the sidelines at Coupeville’s Mickey Clark Field, he went 14-17, helped the Wolves transition from 1A to 2B, endured a worldwide pandemic, and guided Coupeville to back-to-back winning seasons in 2019 and 2020.

Carr began his four-year run at CHS with a 28-18 win over Port Townsend and ended it with a 28-13 victory over Evergreen of Seattle.

Playing an independent schedule ahead of the move back to 2B, CHS went 5-4 in 2019, the first winning season for Coupeville football since 2005.

The Wolves followed that up with a 3-2 mark during a pandemic-altered 2020 campaign.

KingCo, here he comes.

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Sandahl sisters splash to success

Posted in Rowing, tagged , , , , on April 1, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Lucy (red shirt) and Sophie Sandahl, with parents Jeannie and Michael. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Lucy

Sophie

Two sisters, one vibrant sports dynasty.

Sophie and Lucy Sandahl, who were standout athletes and students on Whidbey Island after their family moved west from South Carolina, are once again busy being awesome.

The duo, who currently attend Seattle Pacific University, are both members of the NCAA D-II school’s rowing team and have had a notable impact on the program’s success this season.

Sophie, who started at Coupeville High School, then graduated from Oak Harbor after a stellar swimming career, is a junior studying art history.

Meanwhile, CHS grad Lucy — a key member of Wolf volleyball and track and field teams — is a sophomore pursuing a physiology degree.

The older Sandahl is a rower who often finds herself camped in the bow, while lil’ sis is a coxswain.

The sisters, who are joined on the SPU team by Oak Harbor grad Jessica Vester, have both played key roles for the Falcons as a new season gets up and going.

In the season-opening PLU Invite in Lakewood, Lucy led a varsity eight-woman crew to a two-second win, spurring SPU to a time of eight minutes, 15.3 seconds on a 2000-meter course.

Sophie, rowing with a varsity four-woman unit, also won, in a race in which the Falcons destroyed their closest rival by 12-plus seconds.

Rowing has also taken the sisters to Oklahoma this year, where the duo participated in a meet featuring D-I power Kansas and three-time D-II national champion Central Oklahoma.

The Sandahl siblings return to action Apr. 9, when SPU hosts the Falcon Regatta.

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We’ve come for all the PR’s

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , on March 31, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Freshman Ayden Wyman set a PR in the 1600 Thursday at an 11-team track meet in Mount Vernon. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Their time will come.

Facing off with a long-established track and field powerhouse Thursday, the Coupeville High School boys team came within one first-place performance of upending host Mount Vernon Christian.

But while the Wolves came up just short, with the Hurricanes edging them 152-146.5 at an 11-team meet, a statement was made.

Slice a few seconds here, get an inch or two higher there, have an athlete or two nail a PR, and the tables will turn.

Maybe not today, but soon, very soon.

At the league championship meet, at districts, at state, perhaps?

The suspense builds as the Wolves get right back to work.

The strong showing from the CHS boys was the highlight of the day, but a Wolf girls squad which wasn’t quite as deep in numbers also came away looking pretty good, as well.

Coupeville’s girls claimed a pair of individual wins en route to finishing third in the team standings with 88 points, trailing just La Conner (144) and MVC (137).

The meet, held at Mount Vernon High School, featured athletes from four Northwest 2B/1B League schools, with Friday Harbor joining Coupeville, MVC, and La Conner.

Non-league rivals Grace Academy, Lopez Island, Crescent, Shoreline Christian, Fellowship Christian, Cedar Park Christian-Mountlake Terrace, and Lummi Nation rounded out the competitors.

Coupeville finished with 35 PR’s on the day, with Ryanne Knoblich (high jump), Ja’Kenya Hoskins (long jump), and Aidan Wilson (800) finishing atop the trophy stand.

The Wolves have a break in their competition schedule, as they don’t compete again until April 16, when they travel to North Kitsap for the Lil Norway Invitational.

Dominic Coffman finished 2nd in the high jump Thursday as the Wolf boys battled powerhouse Mount Vernon Christian to the very end in the team standings.

 

 

Complete Thursday results:

 

GIRLS:

100 — Ava Mitten (11th) 15.16; Mercedes Kalwies-Anderson (27th) 17.15

400 — Lyla Stuurmans (2nd) 1:07.24

800 — Cristina McGrath (8th) 3:24.94

1600 — Ayden Wyman (5th) 6:45.89 *PR*

100 Hurdles — Ryanne Knoblich (8th) 22.86 *PR*; Claire Mayne (11th) 25.14

300 Hurdles — C. McGrath (8th) 1:13.08

4 x 100 Relay — Mayne, Taygin Jump, Issabel Johnson, Mitten (3rd) 57:50

4 x 200 Relay — A. Wyman, Knoblich, Stuurmans, Ja’Kenya Hoskins (3rd) 2:01.22

4 x 400 Relay — Mitten, Carolyn Lhamon, Hoskins, Mayne (3rd) 5:10.04

Shot Put — Lhamon (3rd) 28-02; Reese Wilkinson (7th) 22-09; Erica McGrath (10th) 19-01 *PR*

Discus — Lhamon (2nd) 74-06; Wilkinson (4th) 69-02.50 *PR*; E. McGrath (11th) 58-02; Aby Wood (15th) 38-05

Javelin — Wood (8th) 55-09 *PR*; E. McGrath (9th) 57-00; Wilkinson (11th) 55-03; Mayne (12th) 54-05 *PR*

High Jump — Knoblich (1st) 4-10

Long Jump — Hoskins (1st) 13-08; Knoblich (4th) 13-04; A. Wyman (7th) 11-09

Triple Jump — Stuurmans (4th) 27-01; C. McGrath (7th) 26-01 *PR*

 

BOYS:

100 — Dominic Coffman (3rd) 12.30; Nehemiah Myles (15th) 13.18 *PR*; Preston Epp (29th) 13.91 *PR*; Alex Bowder (37th) 15.97

200 — Caleb Meyer (2nd) 24.38 *PR*; Nick Guay (6th) 25.38 *PR*; Cael Wilson (18th) 27.92 *PR*; P. Epp (19th) 27.95 *PR*; Myles (21st) 28.29

400 — Meyer (2nd) 54.49; Hank Milnes (5th) 1:03.81 *PR*

800 — Aidan Wilson (1st) 2:15.95; Alex Merino-Martinez (6th)

1600 — Mitchell Hall (3rd) 5:14.80; Thomas Strelow (6th) 5:38.48 *PR*; Merino-Martinez (8th) 5:54.26 *PR*; Tate Wyman (12th) 6:36.36

3200 — Cameron Epp (2nd) 12:35.32 *PR*; Mikey Robinett (4th) 13:24.54 *PR*; Nick Shelly (9th) 13:52.10 *PR*; Bowder (11th) 15:38.39 *PR*

110 Hurdles — Reiley Araceley (4th) 19.11 *PR*; C. Wilson (7th) 20.58

300 Hurdles — T. Wyman (11th) 55.22 *PR*; Milnes (12th) 58.52 *PR*

4 x 100 Relay — Araceley, Meyer, A. Wilson, Coffman (2nd) 46.55; Myles, P. Epp, N. Guay, Robinett (4th) 49.99

4 x 400 Relay — Hall, C. Epp, Araceley, A. Wilson (3rd) 4:07.33

Shot Put — Logan Martin (3rd) 34-08; Zac Tackett (10th) 30-05; Josh Guay (19th) 18-11 *PR*

Discus — Tackett (3rd) 108-01.50 *PR*; C. Epp (12th) 72-09 *PR*; J. Guay (15th) 62-04 *PR*; Shelly (17th) 61-01 *PR*

Javelin — Hall (3rd) 110-04 *PR*; Tackett (6th) 100-05 *PR*; C. Epp (10th) 88-07; Shelly (16th) 72-09 *PR*; J. Guay (24th) 54-09 *PR*

High Jump — Coffman (2nd) 5-08; N. Guay (3rd) 5-04; Meyer (3rd) 5-04; C. Wilson (6th) 5-00 *PR*

Long Jump — Coffman (2nd) 16-11.50; A. Wilson (5th) 16-06.50; Robinett (10th) 15-09.50 *PR*; Araceley (11th) 15-05.50; Milnes (17th) 14-06; Bowder (28th) 8-07; Merino-Martinez (29th) 7-11

Triple Jump — Milnes (7th) 30-07.50; Hall (11th) 28-04.50 *PR*

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(Softball) girls on film

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , on March 31, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Savina Wells perfectly frames a strike. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

The bats were boomin’, the catcher’s mitt was poppin’, and the Wolves couldn’t be stopped.

As the Coupeville High School varsity softball squad shredded visiting Darrington Wednesday, wanderin’ photo snapper John Fisken did what he does.

The pics above and below are courtesy him, but there’s more where that came from.

To see everything Fisken shot, and ponder the possibility of buying some glossies for Aunt Josephine in Jakarta, pop over to:

https://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/Coupeville-Softball-/SB-2022-03-30-vs-Darrington/

 

Madison McMillan swoops in to deny a rival hitter.

Gwen Gustafson gets a successful bunt down.

You can see Izzy Wells’ pitches, you just can’t hit ’em.

Allie Lucero stretches to her full height.

Audrianna Shaw brings the thunder.

Taylor Brotemarkle stretches out to haul in a throw.

“Score, score, and score some more. It’s what we do!”

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