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Sage Downes is a goal-scoring beast!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged , , , , on April 20, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Sage Downes (Pat Kelley photo)

Sage Downes could even score while he’s kneeling … if he wanted to. (Pat Kelley photo)

There is no way on Earth to stop Sage Downes.

When the goal-scoring machine gets rollin’, the only answer is to pray he’s merciful and lets you escape back to the sideline with a bit of dignity left.

Which he kinda, sorta, didn’t do Saturday, raining down an astonishing eight goals in two games, as Central Whidbey’s Ciao boys’ soccer squads demolished Oak Harbor.

Downes hit for three scores in the opener, as Ciao Orange rolled to a 9-3 win, then topped himself with a five-goal barrage in the second game. Ciao Black won that contest 8-4.

He wasn’t the only one with a hot toe, as eight of the 16 players in a Ciao uniform found the back of the net.

Aram Leyva, following in the footsteps of older brother Abraham, who leads Coupeville High School’s boys’ soccer squad in goals, punched in three.

Six others (Alex Jimenez, Eli Kastner, Matt Kelley, Michael Laska, Jean Lund-Olsen and James Wood) netted a goal apiece.

Ciao is 3-0 on the season and returns to action Saturday, April 26 at Oak Harbor’s U12 Field 1.

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The future is on fire!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , on March 6, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Matthew Kelley (10) eyes the action during a brief moment on the bench. (Pat Kelley photo)

    Matthew Kelley (10) eyes the action during a brief moment on the bench. (Pat Kelley photo)

Matthew Kelley is beginning to get this whole basketball thing under control.

The Coupeville Elementary School fifth grader bounced from a standout football season over to the hard-court and starred for not one, but two hoops squads this winter.

When he wasn’t playing for the Coupeville Boys and Girls Club 6-8th grade Green team, he was suiting up for the Oak Harbor Purple along side CES classmate Brady Marcus.

The high scorer for both teams he plays on, Kelley closed the regular season with the Purple in grand fashion.

He threw down 18 points and snared 17 boards, while sitting out nearly a third of the game, in a 28-17 thumping of the Mount Vernon Mayhem.

His Oak Harbor squad finished 6-2 and head into the postseason as the #4 team in an 11-team field.

Kelley posted a double-double in seven of his eight games, averaging 15 points and 14 rebounds a game. He also led the team in assists.

With five CES fifth graders, part of a possible Coupeville High School Class of 2021 (Kelley, Jake Mitten, Sage Downes, Daniel Olson and Michael Laska) playing above their grade level on the Boys and Girls Club team, there is considerable talent on its way up the pipeline.

The plan is to form a Coupeville SWISH team next season, anchored by those five and Marcus, so they can play together as they head upwards towards middle school and high school play for the Wolves.

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We let a state champ get away!!

Posted in Wrestling, tagged , , , , on February 23, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Chloe Gardner could have been the best athlete at Coupeville High School, but real life had to go and mess that up. (Wade Gardner photo)

   Chloe Gardner could be the best athlete at Coupeville High School right now, but real life had to go and mess all that up. (Wade Gardner photo)

The Gardners (l to r), Bailey, Trina, Chloe, Wade and Taylor.

The Gardners (l to r), Bailey, Trina, Chloe, Wade and Taylor.

Fools! We had a state champion in Coupeville and let her move away.

Now, of course, one could argue that Chloe Gardner, who won a 1A state wrestling title for Nooksack Valley in the 145 pound classification at Mat Classic XXVI in Tacoma Saturday, never would have done that if she and her family had stayed in Cow Town.

Cause it’s kind of hard to win when your town doesn’t have a wrestling team…

But, thanks to the whims of fate, when a new job for dad Wade took the Gardners off-Island in 2004 (mom Trina was the #1 barista at Miriam’s Espresso at the time and put up with me on a daily basis), a whole new world opened for Chloe.

Not immediately, of course, as she was only in the third grade when she left Coupeville Elementary School.

But flash-forward to now, when the senior pinned Enumclaw’s Danielle Cormier in the championship match, and Chloe capped a remarkably successful run as a high school grappler.

Also a standout softball player and runner for Nooksack, she won all four of her matches at the two-day state tourney by pin. Her title followed a third-place finish as a junior and fourth-place as a sophomore.

Chloe’s younger brother, Taylor, who was in second grade when the family left Coupeville, is now a junior and was also at Mat Classic.

He was disqualified after being accused of biting his opponent in the second round, but was reinstated after a video review showed the other kid to be a little liar.

The family drama almost hurt Chloe as she came out slowly in her first match after her brother’s initial DQ and was almost pinned. Then, she got mad, rallied and whomped on the girl with the same intensity she has brought to all her sports.

An eight-time state qualifier in her various sports, Gardner will suit up for the Nooksack softball squad one final time before heading off to Skagit Valley College to seek a degree in Criminal Justice.

Meanwhile, Wolf fans will be left to wonder what could have been if Chloe, Taylor and 12-year old volleyball ace Bailey (who lived on Swedish Fish as a two-year old running the counter with me at Videoville) hadn’t been taken from Coupeville.

Well played, Nooksack Valley. Well played.

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