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CMS track stars make bold statement in Sultan

Posted in Middle School, Track, tagged , , , , , on May 7, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Les Queen has won all eight events he’s competed in this spring. (Julie Wheat photos)

New week, new success.

After opening the season at home, the Coupeville Middle School track team traveled to the hinterlands Wednesday, arriving in the wilds of Sultan to face the Turks and Northshore Christian Academy in a three-team royal rumble.

While there, the Wolves piled up wins and PRs, with 18 different athletes enjoying a first-place finish.

Leading the way for the second meet in a row was 7th grader Les Queen, once again claiming top honors in the 200, 400, discus, and 4 x 100 relay.

Two meets into his second season, Queen is more than halfway to the Wolf boys single-season win record of 13, set last year by then-7th grader Diesel Eck.

After that he would be chasing Lindsey Roberts, who won 19 times as an 8th grader in 2015, and Tamsin Ward, who went to the top of the podium 16 times as an 8th grader in 2025.

Hot on Queen’s heels Wednesday was 6th grader Juniper Dotson (1600, 100 Hurdles, 4 x 1) and 7th grader Jesse Kehoe (100, High Jump, Long Jump), both claiming three victories.

Across the board the Wolves, who had four other double event winners in Laurel Crowder, Henry Purdue, River Simpson, and Malachi Chapa impressed their coaches.

“Today’s results showed areas that students have been making strong efforts and those areas where even stronger efforts are needed,” said Jon Gabelein.

“While it was the second meet of the season, several students chose to compete in at least one event that they had never competed in before.

“This requires a great deal of confidence, and I was proud of them for being willing to stretch their comfort zone.”

On the long and winding return trip from Sultan, Gabelein polled some of the members of his crew for their thoughts as well.

“When I asked River Simpson about his favorite part of today’s adventure, his easy answer was the bus ride back as this is when the team stops for food,” the coach said.

“His more thoughtful response was running the 100-meter dash as this is when he gets to run his fastest race.

“Sawyer Rudat’s final answer was the bus ride as it is a great opportunity to enjoy some chill time with his teammates.”

It’ll be a shorter trip next time out, as Coupeville stays home for its next meet.

The Wolves host South Whidbey Wednesday, May 13, with action set to kick off at 3:30 PM at Mickey Clark Field.

Anna Powers leads the pack.

 

Wednesday results:

 

GIRLS:

 

8th grade:

100 — Ava Alford (4th) 15.40; Amira Annunciado (8th) 16.34; Claire Lachnit (11th) 16.40; Addison Jacobson (15th) 17.61 *PR*; Vicky Quiroga Rivera (17th) 18.16

200 — Zariyah Allen (2nd) 34.03 *PR*; Emma Green (6th) 34.53

400 — Z. Allen (3rd) 1:13.99 *PR*; Lachnit (5th) 1:28.65

1600 — Anna Powers (3rd) 6:32.13

100 Hurdles — Powers (3rd) 21.08; Kaleigha Millison (4th) 22.61

Shot Put — Jacobson (3rd) 25-04 *PR*; Millison (5th) 22-07.50 *PR*; Annunciado (8th) 19-04.50 *PR*; Alford (10th) 16-08.50

Discus — Lachnit (4th) 52-06.50; E. Green (5th) 51-09; Jacobson (6th) 46-06

High Jump — Z. Allen (1st) 4-05 *PR*; Millison (2nd) 3-10

Long Jump — Annunciado (5th) 10-09; Quiroga Rivera (13th) 7-02.50

 

6th/7th grade:

100 — Josilyn McColl (2nd) 14.68 *PR*; Laurel Crowder (3rd) 14.73 *PR*; Bella Sandlin (4th) 14.85 *PR*; Ava Clark (5th) 15.33 *PR*; Ella Holm (10th) 15.91; Mia Goers (11th) 15.93; Eden Weeks (14th) 16.28; Jasmine Allen (15th) 16.34 *PR*; Sophia Magdolen (16th) 16.40 *PR*; Ruby Folkestad (22nd) 16.92; Ava Black (24th) 16.99 *PR*; Evelyn Merino-Martinez (26th) 17.22; Daisy Leedy-Bonifas (27th) 17.38; Emma Roberts (29th) 17.46 *PR*; Reagan Green (30th) 17.48 *PR*; Dresden Rusch (31st) 17.55 *PR*; Dani Halsing (34th) 18.27 *PR*; Kolby Johnson (35th) 18.75 *PR*; Milly Somes (36th) 20.20

200 — Crowder (1st) 30.34 *PR*; Weeks (5th) 33.35 *PR*; Magdolen (6th) 34.23 *PR*; J. Allen (8th) 35.12 *PR*; Maja Govorcin-O’Connell (9th) 36.62 *PR*

400 — Sandlin (1st) 1:13.98 *PR*; Magdolen (4th) 1:18.36 *PR*; Merino-Martinez (7th) 1:28.17 *PR*

1600 — Juniper Dotson (1st) 6:28.44; Sarai Dangerfield (3rd) 6:56.88; Abby Hunt (5th) 7:15.01

100 Hurdles — Dotson (1st) 21.29; Black (10th) 23.45 *PR*; Leedy-Bonifas (12th) 23.91 *PR*

4 x 100 Relay — J. Allen, Leedy-Bonifas, Dotson, McColl (1st) 1:03.10; Hunt, R. Green, Holm, Goers (2nd) 1:05.22

Shot Put — Holm (2nd) 24-11 *PR*; Govorcin-O’Connell (4th) 22-03 *PR*; Weeks (6th) 19-05; K. Johnson (10th) 16-07 *PR*; Rusch (12th) 15-10 *PR*; Clark (13th) 15-06 *PR*; Roberts (15th) 15-03.50

Discus — McColl (4th) 46-10; Halsing (9th) 39-09

High Jump — Crowder (1st) 4-05

Long Jump — Dotson (2nd) 11-09; Sandlin (4th) 11-00; Leedy-Bonifas (6th) 10-04 *PR*; J. Allen (7th) 10-03; Goers (7th) 10-03; Folkestad (12th) 9-05 *PR*; Halsing (12th) 9-05; Magdolen (15th) 9-04; Merino-Martinez (17th) 8-09; Dangerfield (22nd) 8-01; Clark (22nd) 8-01 *PR*; Roberts (27th) 7-08; Black (29th) 7-06 *PR*; Somes (30th) 7-05 *PR*; K. Johnson (32nd) 7-00

Ready to zip around the oval.

 

BOYS:

 

8th grade:

100 — River Simpson (1st) 12.39 *PR*; Aiden Wheat (9th) 13.67 *PR*; Xander Beaman (10th) 13.75 *PR*; Diesel Eck (12th) 14.00 *PR*; Vincent Alguire (18th) 14.42 *PR*; Maverick Light (28th) 17.00 *PR*

200 — Simpson (1st) 25.80 *PR*; Jacob Lujan (4th) 31.23

400 — Malachi Chapa (1st) 1:00.32 *PR*

800 — Henry Purdue (1st) 2:25.91 *PR*; Maverick Walling (2nd) 2:41.75; Archer Schwarz (4th) 2:50.50

1600 — Purdue (1st) 5:23.75; Lincoln Wagner (2nd) 5:55.02; Schwarz (4th) 5:59.53

110 Hurdles — Lujan (3rd) 20.69 *PR*

Shot Put — Alguire (1st) 34-00.25; Eck (2nd) 33-00

Discus — Eck (1st) 100-10; Wagner (6th) 73-05; Light (13th) 50-03.50 *PR*; Sawyer Rudat (17th) 41-07 *PR*

High Jump — Chapa (1st) 5-06 *PR*; Beaman (1st) 5-06 *PR*; Alguire (3rd) 4-10; Wheat (3rd) 4-10 *PR*; Purdue (6th) 4-08

Long Jump — Chapa (2nd) 18-04 *PR*; Simpson (4th) 15-08; Wagner (8th) 13-10; Schwarz (11th) 13-06 *PR*; Rudat (12th) 13-02 *PR*; Walling (13th) 12-11.50; Lujan (15th) 12-05

 

6th/7th grade:

100 — Jesse Kehoe (1st) 13.21 *PR*; Liam Stoner (2nd) 13.81; Logan Dees (4th) 14.31 *PR*; Henry Tierney (6th) 14.87 *PR*; Shiloh Johnson (9th) 15.76 *PR*; LJ Schultz (13th) 16.50 *PR*; Jackson Coxsey (18th) 18.19 *PR*

200 — Les Queen (1st) 27.66 *PR*; Stoner (2nd) 28.80 *PR*; Dees (3rd) 31.18 *PR*; Coxsey (9th) 43.50

400 — Queen (1st) NO TIME LISTED

800 — Miles Abram (1st) 3:03.24 *PR*

1600 — Abram (2nd) 6:28.41

4 x 100 Relay — Queen, Dees, Alton Hansen, Stoner (1st) 54.87

Shot Put — Coxsey (5th) 15-10 *PR*

Discus — Queen (1st) 113-05; Tierney (3rd) 70-08.50 *PR*; S. Johnson (5th) 40-10 *PR*

High Jump — Kehoe (1st) 4-10; S. Johnson (3rd) 4-02 *PR*

Long Jump — Kehoe (1st) 16-02; Stoner (2nd) 14-03 *PR*; Dees (4th) 12-06; Tierney (6th) 11-11; Schultz (9th) 11-02 *PR*

Flying through the air with the greatest of ease.

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Scrappy Wolves fight till final buzzer

Posted in Girls Basketball, Middle School, tagged , , , , on March 3, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Action heats up in the paint as Juniper Dotson comes flying in to create havoc. (Julie Wheat photo)

Some lessons are painful, some are joyous.

Facing off with a rival from a much-larger school Tuesday, the Coupeville Middle School girls’ basketball teams experienced a wide range of emotions.

Two blowout losses to visiting Lakewood, administered in methodical style, certainly weren’t fun, but the Wolves third squad rallied impressively in the second half of its contest to end the day on a positive note.

How things played out:

 

Level 1:

You take your opponent’s where you can find them in middle school sports, hence CMS hosting Lakewood, while the high schools they support have a 628-192 difference in student body size.

The visitors boasted a deep roster, and more than that, an obviously experienced one, with every girl to hit the floor highly proficient and deeply committed to their team’s game plan.

Forget about three-balls, the Cougars used old-school tactics — double-teams on defense, strong rebounding, and successful layup after layup — to dominate during a 56-3 win.

The loss drops Coupeville to 1-4 on the season.

Up 24-0 after one quarter, Lakewood stretched the margin to 40-0 by the half, while limiting Coupeville to a mere handful of shot attempts.

The Wolves fought hard, with Zayne Roos and Laurel Crowder refusing to back down on defense, but it was a textbook case of a rout which could have been even worse if Lakewood had wanted to truly push things.

With a running clock in force in the second half, the score was scrubbed from the scoreboard — one of the sillier middle school rules as all it accomplishes is to make fans repeatedly ask the clock operator why baskets aren’t being recorded.

But while the Wolves didn’t see their points pop up on the board, they did get a solid response from the fans when Roos knocked down a jumper and Kaleigh Millison rattled the rim on a successful free throw attempt.

Emma Green, Claire Lachnit, Sabrina Judnich, Finley Helm, Cami Van Dyke, Anna Powers, and Aubrey Flowers also saw floor time for a CMS squad which was still scrapping until the last second ticked off the clock.

 

Level 2:

This one didn’t turn as fast as the opener, with the Wolves trailing by just a bucket seven minutes into play, but Lakewood eventually powered up for a 39-6 victory.

The opening quarter was largely a defensive stalemate, with Bella Sandlin a fiery standout for CMS, and Annabelle Cundiff popping in a jumper from the side to keep the home squad within 4-2.

Unfortunately for Coupeville the offense dried up after that, with Lakewood using a 27-1 surge across the second and third frames to take control of things.

The Wolves never did hit another field goal after Cundiff’s basket but did get two free throws apiece from Juniper Dotson and Addison Jacobson to round out their scoring.

While the final margin was a bit lopsided, CMS, now 0-5 on the campaign, didn’t lack for effort.

Dotson was a feisty fireball while handling a lot of the point guard duties, and Reagan Green drop-kicked a few rivals with a nice display of rough-and-tumble defense.

That included one emphatic takedown which caused the Lakewood coach to clutch his non-existent pearls and act like he had witnessed the rebirth of the ’80s Detroit Pistons Bad Boys.

Is Green the new Dennis Rodman?

I’m not saying she is, but I am saying if she wants to embrace the enforcer role, I, for one, approve.

Also seeing action for the Wolves were Halle Black, Claire Lachnit, Ava Alford, Arianna Vinson, Daisy Leedy-Bonifas, Abby Hunt, and Emily Rains.

Daisy Leedy-Bonifas, here to get buckets and take names. (Photo courtesy Alysabeth Leedy)

Level 3:

This one was a game of ever-shifting emotions and, by far, the closest battle of the afternoon.

While Lakewood escaped, and that’s the operative word here, with a 20-14 win, the young Wolves made some noise, got the gym rockin’, and ended the day with a bang.

Maybe most importantly they were on the floor in the first place, evening their record at 1-1 after three of Coupeville’s first four opponents only went two squads deep.

Lakewood jumped out to an 8-2 lead through one quarter, but the Wolves bucket was maybe their best of the day, with Nikolette Dunham zipping a pass to Ruby Folkestad, who promptly banked in a line-drive jumper.

From there, the squads battled through a scoreless second frame, punctuated by several dynamic defensive plays from the always-busy Dunham, before returning to scoring buckets in the third quarter.

Trailing 12-2, Coupeville found its groove, closing the third on an 8-2 tear to rile up the fans.

Daisy Leedy-Bonifas went off, raining down three consecutive buckets, one off a sweet hook shot, the other two on coast-to-coast breakaways, before Dunham drained a jumper in the paint.

The Wolves weren’t done, with Ellie Callahan banking in a bucket to open the fourth quarter — on a pass from Leedy-Bonifas — and were back within 14-12 with six-plus minutes to play.

Lakewood settled down after that, however, while a number of CMS shots came dangerously close to dropping through the net before popping back out, giving the visitors just enough breathing room to close out the win.

Leedy-Bonifas finished with a team-high six points, while Folkestad banked in four, and Callahan and Dunham each chipped in with a bucket.

It was the first points this season for Folkestad and Callahan, with the duo becoming the 23rd and 24th Wolf girls to score across the season’s first five contests.

Amira Anunciado, Danielle Halsing, and Abby Hunt rounded out the magnificent seven Tuesday, delivering Coupeville’s top performance of the day.

 

Up Next:

Three royal rumbles left on the schedule, and they’ll go down in a four-day period next week.

The Wolves host Sultan Monday, Mar. 9, before road trips Mar. 10 to South Whidbey and Mar. 12 to Granite Falls.

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