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Sprint to glory!!

Posted in Middle School, Track, tagged , , , on May 23, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Maggie Crimmins slices through the 100. (John Fisken photos)

Maggie Crimmins slices through the 100. (John Fisken photos)

Lindsey Roberts explodes over a hurdle.

Lindsey Roberts explodes over a hurdle.

Shot put strength, part one.

Shot put strength, part one.

And part deux.

And part deux.

Reed Richards (left) hands the baton to Roberts in the 4 x 100 relay.

Reed Richards (left) hands the baton to Roberts in the 4 x 100 relay.

We have launch!

We have launch!

They beat the rain by a day.

The wet stuff is falling all over the place Friday, but Thursday it was clear skies for the Coupeville Middle School track and field squad as they traveled down the Island to tangle with arch-rival Langley.

While we don’t have results to post yet (we’ll have to see if Langley coaches pull a Northshore and fail to report anything to athletic.net or step up and makes the whole Island proud), we do have photos.

They come courtesy of John Fisken, and, if you like them, head over to the link below to see more (and possibly purchase some). A percentage of all sales goes to fund college scholarships for CHS student athletes.

P.S. — I don’t know all the middle school students by sight, so some photos have names. Others don’t.

http://www.shutterfly.com/progal/album.jsp?aid=768a5498cf3528f17a30

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Wolves spark OH Babe Ruth to epic win!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , on May 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Joey Lippo goes low to snag the ball at short. (Joe Lippo photo)

Joey Lippo goes low to snag the ball at short. (Joe Lippo photo)

(Teresa Besaw photo)

Andrew Eaton (left) and Kamren Mebane, stars on the rise. Time for their parents to move to Coupeville… (Teresa Besaw photo)

Contributed by Joe Lippo

With a January wind blowing in from right field like a freezing typhoon, the Oak Harbor Babe Ruth squad welcomed Sedro-Woolley to town.

Sedro came ready to play, as they were present and accounted for fully an hour and a half before game time.

Josh Margraff started on the mound, and ran into some issues early on, but his fielders kept the ‘Cats in the game, allowing no runs through two innings.

In the third, Coach Trisler changed it up, putting Coupeville eighth graders Joey Lippo and Hunter Smith in at shortstop and catcher, respectively, and installing Chris Trisler on the mound.

Although this is supposed to be a Coupeville sports blog, it was Oak Harbor pitcher Trisler who really stole the show.

Nearly everyone in the lineup got hits, including doubles from Lippo (who is now off the schneid), Gabe Eck, and Kamren Mebane (who advanced to third on an error).

Others were unlucky at the plate, with Smith smacking two really good hits only to be robbed by Sedro outfielders in ESPN Top Ten fashion.

While Oak Harbor steadily racked up the runs, Trisler was just as steadily sitting Sedro batters down, striking out nearly every batter he faced.

Those that made contact were quickly thrown out by the infield of Caleb Fitzgerald, James Besaw and Thomas Anderson.

Likewise, some balls made it to the outfield to be soaked up by Andrew Eaton, Eck and Mebane.

In the bottom of the fifth, with the score 8-0, Mebane, Anderson and Lippo all reached base to load them up for Trisler.

After that it was time to break out the rye bread and mustard as Trisler launched a walk off grand slam over the center field fence, ending the game in five.

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Knock me down? Maybe! Knock me out? Never!!

Posted in Softball, tagged , , on May 19, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Katrina McGranhan, warrior. (Justine McGranahan photo)

Katrina McGranahan, warrior. (Justine McGranahan photo)

McGranahan (left) and Hope Lodell, the next generation of softball stars.

McGranahan (left) and Hope Lodell, the next generation of softball stars.

She’s one tough young woman.

Coupeville Middle School 8th grader Katrina McGranahan is a rapidly rising sports star on the Central Whidbey scene, and nowhere has her name sounded louder than on the softball field.

Equipped with a booming bat and a fireball-tossin’ arm, her arrival to the high school team next year will be greeted with enthusiastic cheers.

Along with her considerable skill set she will bring a battle-hardened spirit, as evidenced by the war wounds she’s currently sporting.

After taking a line drive to the face while pitching for the Skagit Valley Thunder, she tried to head right back into the game, only to have her coaches tell her “no, ma’am.”

Like all the smartest softball pitchers, she was wearing a protective face mask (it’s actually the mask that slashed her lip) and avoided a probable broken nose and/or black eyes.

In typical McGranahan fashion, she was back on the field the next day, however, helping to lead her squad to a second-place finish in their tournament.

Her smile? Never left her face once.

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Wolves power OH baseball squad!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on May 19, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Joey Lippo

Joey Lippo

Contributed by Joe Lippo.

There were four boys from Coupeville who were invited to play on the Oak Harbor Babe Ruth Wildcats travel baseball team.

CMS 8th graders Hunter Smith and Joey Lippo and 7th graders Gabe and Ty Eck made the cut this year.

To recap the start of the season, the Oak Harbor boys were having issues finding the sweet spot, and dropped their first six games.

Admittedly, these games were against teams from the older section of the league, including a Ferndale team that made the Everett Silvertips look small.

However, things started coming together this week.

A trip to Mount Vernon resulted in a loss, but the Cats answered back with a convincing win in the second game of the home and away series.

Saturday they took the long ferry ride to Friday Harbor for a double header.

The first game featured Friday Harbor scoring all its runs in the first and second innings, and then getting totally outplayed in the last five.

Smith and Lippo accounted for two RBI in the comeback attempt, and Gabe Eck made several key catches at center field. Thomas Anderson flashed the leather at third base, while Kamren Mebane soaked up everything that came his way at first.

It was not to be however, and the game ended as several players could be heard wishing for “one more inning” to complete the comeback.

The second game saw the Oak Harbor bats staying alive to take an early lead off hits from James Besaw, Drew Eaton and Chris Trisler.

Through the middle innings, Friday Harbor chipped away at the Wildcat lead, and the score at the top of the 5th was 6-4 in favor of Oak Harbor, but with Friday Harbor coming on strong.

Sensing that the momentum had shifted away from his team, Coach Shawn Trisler put Josh Margraff on the mound, shifted Ty Eck to second and put Lippo in at shortstop.

Then Margraff, Lippo and Smith, who was catching, proceeded to shut down Friday Harbor over the next three innings.

Margraff threw everything under the sun, including a breaking ball that went straight for the batters head, and then sank neatly across the plate.

Lippo made a dazzling play at shortstop, and Smith picked off a runner at third.

The bats also came back in the sixth for Oak Harbor, as it ran the score up to 8-4.

The bottom of the 7th featured a Friday Harbor home run, but that was all they could muster as Margraff helped his own cause with a pickoff at 2nd and a strikeout.

He capped things by fielding a comeback ball neatly, flipping to Besaw at first for the final out and an 8-5 win.

Both games featured a season low for errors (a problem that Oak Harbor has been struggling with), and more hits, a sure combination for victory.

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You had one job, Northshore! One job!!

Posted in Middle School, Track, tagged , , , on May 18, 2014| Leave a Comment »

CMS throwers Emma Smith (left) and Maddy Hilkey get photobombed by speedy Lindsey Roberts. (Sherry Roberts photo)

CMS throwers Emma Smith (left) and Maddy Hilkey get photo-bombed by speedy Lindsey Roberts. (Sherry Roberts photo)

The lightning fast 7th grade 4 x 100 relay unit is (l to r) Roberts, Kalia Littlejohn, Ashlie Shank and Reed Richards.

  The lightning fast 7th grade 4 x 100 relay unit is (l to r) Roberts, Kalia Littlejohn, Ashlie Shank and Reed Richards.

Teo Keilwitz (Janie Keilwitz photo)

  Teo Keilwitz, Julia Beumer (center) and Allison Jungmann hang out in the sun. (Janie Keilwitz photo)

There have been three middle school track meets this season, and yet I have reported results from only two.

Why, you ask?

Because Northshore Christian Academy can’t get its stuff together, that’s why.

After hosting Coupeville and King’s May 14, Northshore, as the home team, would be expected to post results to athletic.net, the clearing house for all things track related.

They didn’t, though, stiffing the Wolves, both in person and online, leaving CMS without times or distances in any event.

Nothing was posted, nothing was announced in person.

Nada. Zip.

Boo, Northshore! You had one job, and you blew it.

If they had posted times, we’d be able to tell you that 7th grade stars Lindsey Roberts (6:33) and Reed Richards (6:34) set PRs in the 1600.

Well, I guess I just did, thanks to the efforts of CMS coach Janie Rosenkrance, who hand-timed that event, and mom Sherry Roberts, who passed on the info.

But, if you came here looking for stats on Chris Battaglia, the Eck brothers or Kalia Littlejohn, go check with Northshore, cause that apparently is a secret not to be revealed.

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