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Little school, big brains

Posted in Science, tagged , , , , on January 12, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville’s Maddy Andrews (left) and Anna Dion claimed 2nd in forensics at a Science Olympiad competition. (Neil Rixe photo)

The Wolves took a chomp out of the big city.

Despite being one of the smallest schools in competition, Coupeville High School claimed seven top 10 finishes Saturday at a Science Olympiad meet in Seattle.

Anna Dion and Teo Keilwitz were the conquering heroes, claiming the title in “Mission Possible.”

It was a busy day for Dion, who finished in the top 10 in four different events, including tacking on a 2nd in forensics while working with Maddy Andrews.

Other top 10 Wolf finishers:

Boomilever — Jakobi Baumann and Ian Silvester

Wright Stuff — Madison Rixe and Ricky Rebischke-Smith

Leaf Challenge — Dion and Lily Zustiak

Geo Mapping — Maka Sorrows and Baumann

Herpetology — Rixe and Dion

Coupeville finished 13th in the team competition.

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Turner is king of the mat

Posted in Wrestling, tagged , , , , on January 12, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville wrestler Alex Turner puts a foe down hard in a previous tournament. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Make sure they remember your name.

Alex Turner is the only Coupeville High School wrestler, so it’s up to him to carry the torch for an entire school.

Saturday afternoon the Wolf senior wrote another successful chapter, sweeping three matches as he won a title at the Arlington JV Tournament.

Competing at 182 pounds, with his opponents coming from much-bigger schools, Turner ripped through his bouts.

After pinning both of his first two foes in the opening round of their matches, he settled for a win by decision (9-2) in the championship bout.

Since CHS doesn’t have a wrestling program Turner trains and travels with 3A Oak Harbor. He’ll return to 1A for the postseason.

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“Very proud that we came out on top”

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 12, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Kylie Van Velkinburgh and the Coupeville JV captured a win Friday at Sultan. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

It was a wild and woolly kind of night.

Missing players, then taking the court after the varsity, though before the tail pipe on their bus got busted, the Coupeville High School JV girls basketball squad just went about their business Friday in Sultan.

Competing in a foul-heavy affair CHS coach Amy King called a “fast-paced, rugby type of game,” the Wolves eventually headed home with a 33-22 win to their credit.

Well, after their battered bus finally made it out of the parking lot later than expected.

The victory lifts the Wolf young guns to 3-1 in North Sound Conference play, 6-5 overall.

It also ties them with the JV boys for the most wins this season by a CHS squad.

Missing the injured Kylie Chernikoff and Abby Mulholland, the Wolves also found themselves facing a Turk who didn’t play the first time these schools met.

“They put in a player who wasn’t on the court our first time around – a six-foot girl who hung out around the free throw line,” King said. “Ja’Kenya (Hoskins) and Kylie (Van Velkinburgh) did a great job moving up on her, but she still had her moments with shooting, feeding her teammates and then hitting free throws when we fouled her.”

Trailing 10-9 after one quarter of action, the Wolves started pulling away, bit by bit, thanks in large part to their defense.

“The whole team worked hard. We pressed, we got steals – nobody let down,” King said. “Ja’Kenya and Mollie (Bailey) worked to defend down low on our zone, Anya (Leavell) and Audrianna (Shaw) up top.

“Alana (Mihill) and Lily (Leedy) did a nice job up top on offense and Morgan (Stevens) came down with some key rebounds.”

Bailey netted a huge three-ball to spark Coupeville, and the Wolves turned a 15-12 lead at the half into 22-14 heading into the fourth.

Down the stretch, CHS put the ball into the hands of freshman Izzy Wells, and she carried her team home, banging home nine of her team-high 11 points in the final frame.

“The game was definitely closer than the first time against them,” King said. “Both teams shot a lot of free throws because it was that kind of a battle.

“Very proud that we came out on top.”

The two teams combined to put up 46 free throws, including 19 during a fourth quarter which went on for some time.

Hoskins banked in eight points and snatched seven rebounds (“the other coach says she just loves watching her rebound”), while Wells had five boards, five steals and two blocks to go with her 11 points.

Shaw (6), Leavell (4), Bailey (3), and Van Velkinburgh (1) also scored, and Kiara Contreras chipped in with two rebounds and three steals.

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Second-half woes hurt CHS boys

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 12, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Hawthorne Wolfe is just the fifth CHS boy in 102 years to top 100 varsity points as a freshman. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Second half, not the same as the first.

Finding its shooting touch after halftime Friday, the Sultan High School varsity boys basketball squad turned a close game into a blowout, romping past visiting Coupeville 67-28.

The killer was a 27-3 Turk run in the third quarter, which turned a seven-point lead into a 31-point advantage.

The loss drops the Wolves to 1-3 in North Sound Conference action, 2-9 overall.

Coupeville still has a game-and-a-half lead on Granite Falls (0-5) for the fifth and final playoff spot from the six-team league.

King’s (5-0), which routed Granite 84-25 Friday, is flying high, while Sultan (3-1) sits in second, a game up on Cedar Park Christian (2-2) and South Whidbey (2-2).

CPC shocked Coupeville’s Island neighbors Friday, winning a 55-53 thriller.

Facing Sultan for the second time this season, the Wolves hung tough for a half.

Down 13-6 at the first break, CHS played the Turks even through a 10-10 second quarter.

Then, something went really, truly wrong for the Wolves after the halftime break.

While Gavin Knoblich netted a three-ball, that was all the offense Coupeville could muster in the third.

Sultan answered with 11 buckets, three of them from behind the three-point line, and tossed a pair of free throws onto the bonfire, effectively ending the game.

The fourth quarter, while not much better for the Wolves, did feature a couple of milestones.

Freshman Xavier Murdy and sophomore Daniel Olson made their varsity debuts, while Hawthorne Wolfe joined an elite group.

The sweet-shooting guard, who leads Coupeville in scoring, went coast to coast for a layup to become only the fifth boy in 102 seasons of Wolf basketball to score 100 varsity points during his freshman season.

With six regular season games left, then a possible postseason run, Wolfe, who has 103 points, has a legitimate shot to eclipse the four frosh boys who came before him.

Mike Bagby tops that list, with 137 points in the 2002-2003 season, with Mike Criscuola (115), Taylor Ebersole (114), and Arik Garthwaite (109) also on the list.

A fourth Wolf achieved a personal milestone Friday, as junior guard Jean Lund-Olsen recorded his first varsity points, netting a first-half three-ball.

Sean Toomey-Stout paced Coupeville with seven points, while Mason Grove netted a pair of treys en route to six. Wolfe (5), Knoblich (5), Lund-Olsen (3) and Jacobi Pilgrim (2) also scored.

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Sweet, sweet revenge is ours

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 11, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Grady Rickner torched the nets for 12 points Friday as Coupeville’s JV smacked Sultan. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

This time, the Turks didn’t escape.

The first meeting this season between the Coupeville and Sultan JV boys basketball teams came down to the wire, and the wrong team pulled out a narrow win.

Friday night, the Wolves had a different lineup than the first time around, and the addition of Xavier Murdy was huge.

With the freshman pouring in 23 points, including a pair of game-busting three-balls in the fourth quarter, Coupeville got the big payback, punishing Sultan to the tune of 60-50.

The road win lifts the Wolf young guns to 2-2 in North Sound Conference play, 6-5 overall.

It also ties them with the JV girls for the most wins by any of the five CHS hoops squads this season.

When Coupeville and Sultan tangled back in Dec., Murdy was in street clothes.

This time around, he was repping a Coupeville uniform and on fire from behind the arc.

A pair of three-balls fueled a 10-point first quarter for Murdy, and he finished with five treys on the evening.

Clinging to a 15-14 lead after eight minutes of action, the Wolves stretched the lead to 30-26 at the half, then saw it cut back to 42-40 heading into the fourth.

Coupeville never flinched, however, using an 18-10 run to send coach Chris Smith back to the team bus with a grin on his face.

Murdy and Daniel Olson both tossed in six points in the final frame, while Grady Rickner and Cody Roberts chipped in with three apiece.

The Wolves finished the game with eight three-balls, with Logan Martin, Rickner and Roberts each banking home one to go with Murdy’s long-range assault on the net.

Winning the battle from behind the arc helped blunt Sultan’s huge advantage at the free throw line.

Well that, and the fact the Turks were pretty dang awful when given the ball at the charity stripe.

Sultan was constantly rewarded by the refs, but clanked one shot after another, finishing 14-26 on freebies, while Coupeville hit on 8-14.

Rickner finished with 12 points to provide key backup to Murdy’s season-high 23, with Olson rattling the rim for eight.

Sage Downes (6), Roberts (5), Martin (5) and Tucker Hall (1) rounded out the offensive attack.

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