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Road gyms don’t scare us!!

Posted in Basketball, tagged , , , , , on December 14, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Cody Roberts and the Coupeville JV boys hoops squad decimated host Concrete Friday night. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

They started off hot, and ended even hotter.

Blitzing host Concrete from start to finish Friday, the Coupeville High School JV boys basketball squad roared to a 57-20 win.

The non-conference victory lifts the Wolves to 4-3 and keeps the young guns undefeated on the road.

The JV is a spotless 3-0 when playing away from Whidbey, which is probably a great sign, as Coupeville’s boys play five of their next six in hostile gyms.

Friday, the Wolves blew out to an 18-6 lead after one quarter, paced by eight points from hot-shooting freshman Logan Martin, and never looked back.

While the second quarter became a defensive stalemate (4-4) and the third quarter was competitive, with CHS holding an 11-8 edge, the fourth quarter was show time.

Coupeville couldn’t miss down the stretch, riding 10 from Grady Rickner and eight off the fingertips of Daniel Olson as it cruised to the finish line on a torrid 24-2 tear.

The Wolves spread their offensive burden across almost the entire active roster, with seven of eight players notching a bucket.

Grady Rickner led the way with 19 points, while Olson was hot on his heels with 18.

Martin (8), Jaylen Nitta (4), TJ Rickner (4), Cody Roberts (2), and Miles Davidson (2) also scored, while Chris Ruck was an unstoppable force of nature while playing aggressive defense.

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Daniel Olson is a beast!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 3, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Daniel Olson torched Sequim for 25 points Monday as the Coupeville boys JV hoops squad won its second-straight game. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

You can’t stop Daniel Olson, and you can’t contain him. All you can do is try and get out of his way.

The Coupeville High School sophomore found his groove Monday and didn’t stop at merely singing the nets while playing in Sequim.

Instead, Olson burnt the whole joint down, tickling the twines for a season-high 25 to spark the Wolf JV to a 58-43 win over their 2A foes.

The road non-conference victory lifts the Coupeville young guns to 2-1 on the still-young season.

Olson’s outburst, the most points dropped by any Wolf, boy or girl, varsity or JV, this year, was spread out across all four quarters.

He banked home four buckets in the first quarter, added five points in the second, tossed in another four in the third, then exited with a bang, flicking eight through the net in the final period.

That fourth-quarter assault included a pair of long three-balls, as Olson continued to drop bombs even while headed back to the bus.

Most of his scoring help came from the Rampagin’ Rickner Brothers, as sophomore TJ went for a career-high 10 and freshman Grady rattled the rims for a season-best eight.

The Rickners combined to hit three treys, with the younger brother “winning” that battle 2-1.

Logan Martin added seven points, Tucker Hall banked home four, while Cody Roberts and Miles Davidson rounded out the offensive explosion with a bucket apiece.

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Scrappy Wolves keep swinging!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , , on July 26, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Xavier Murdy piled up a hit, a walk and two runs Thursday as Coupeville Babe Ruth played at regionals in Portland. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Not all teams are created equal.

When the Coupeville Babe Ruth 15U baseball squad went to the state tourney, they had 13 players on their roster, the same boys (and one girl) who played together all season.

Now, as the Wolves fight through regionals in Portland, they have 11 in uniform, as Ulrik Wells and Drake Borden couldn’t make the trip.

Thursday’s opponent, the KWRL Centerfield Roosters, representing South Washington, are a true all-star team. The squad pulls players from Kalama, Woodland, Ridgefield and La Center, all meccas of teen sports excellence.

So, it’s not a total surprise the under-staffed Coupeville diamond dogs, despite a chippy effort, fell 14-4.

The loss drops the Wolves to 17-5 on the season, with one contest left to play.

That comes Friday afternoon, when Coupeville faces Montana in its fourth and final game in pool play.

After taking a close loss to Calgary and more lopsided defeats at the hands of Portland and KWRL, the Wolves have no hope of advancing to the semifinals portion of the 10-team tourney.

But, after picking up an unexpected run of games (it’s subbing for North Washington state champ Columbia Basin at regionals), Coupeville will return home with valuable experience from the big stage.

The Wolves fell behind early Thursday, giving up three runs in the first and six more in the second, as KWRL whacked the stuffing out of the ball.

The all-star unit racked up eight hits in just the first two frames, including a triple and a pair of doubles.

The South Washington crew finished with 13 hits before the game was called after five innings due to the 10-run mercy rule.

Coupeville plated a run in the first, another in the third, and two more in its final at-bats.

The opening Wolf run came on a nice two-out, no-one-on-base rally, as the Islanders strung together a single from Daniel Olson, a walk to Gavin Knoblich and an RBI double off the bat of Cody Roberts.

In the third, it was base-knock city, as singles from Xavier Murdy, Andrew Score and Olson brought a runner around.

Roberts was in a groove, smoking a lead-off double in the fourth for his second two bagger, but he died a lonely death on the base-paths as his teammates were unable to help him tap home.

Needing three runs to keep the game alive, Coupeville almost got there in the fifth, but came up a few inches short.

Four consecutive walks — with Murdy, Scott Hilborn (he was plunked by a wayward pitch), Score and Olson outlasting the KWRL hurler — plated one, while a sac fly from Knoblich closed out the rally.

Roberts and Olson paced the Wolves at the plate with two hits apiece, with Murdy scoring twice.

Hawthorne Wolfe, Chelsea Prescott, Ashton Leland, Sage Sharp and Johnny Carlson rounded out the active roster for Steve Hilborn’s squad.

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Title town, one more time!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , , on April 30, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Freshman hurler Daniel Olson clinched the Olympic League baseball crown for Coupeville Monday with his first, and, so far, only varsity pitch. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

One pitch.

That’s all it took for Coupeville High School freshman Daniel Olson to pen his name into Wolf baseball history.

Coming on in relief Monday after starting pitcher Matt Hilborn burned through all 105 pitches he was allowed by state rules, Olson threw more warm-up pitches than game ones.

Not that it mattered, as his one and only heave caused a Klahowya hitter, who was staring at a two-strike deficit when the Wolves were forced to change pitchers, to go down swinging.

And with that final strike and final out, Coupeville capped a 5-0 road win and officially clinched its second Olympic League title in three seasons.

The win, the sixth straight and 10th in their last 11 games for the Wolves, lifts them to 7-1 in conference action, 13-4 overall.

After closing the regular season Wednesday at home against Port Townsend (it’s Senior Night and first pitch is 4 PM), CHS is playoff-bound.

The Wolves open the double-elimination district tourney May 8 in Tacoma.

Coupeville faces the #2 team from the Nisqually League, and will need two wins in three games to advance to state for the first time since 2014.

To see the bracket, pop over to:

http://www.olympicleague.com/tournament.php?tournament_id=2654&sport=6

Monday afternoon the Wolves made their final trip to Silverdale a business trip. Get in, win, get out, then celebrate.

And, despite hitting into a rare double play, Coupeville netted the only run it would really need in the top of the first.

With two outs and no one one base, Hunter Smith drew a walk, moved up on a single from Dane Lucero, then scampered home when Klahowya booted a ball off the bat of Jake Hoagland.

Wolf catcher Gavin Knoblich, who has been on a hot streak of late, gunned down an Eagle on the base-paths to get Coupeville out of a small jam in the bottom of the first, then helped CHS add an insurance run.

Knoblich walked, moved around thanks to a sacrifice bunt by Jacob Zettle, then ceded his spot at third to speedy punch-runner Nick Etzell, who bolted home to score on an RBI ground-out from Shane Losey.

Coupeville had a chance to keep the run-scoring binge going in the third, but left Smith aboard after he bashed a one-out double.

Not wanting to repeat the goose egg, however, the Wolves tacked on two runs in the fourth and a final tally in the fifth.

Zettle and Hilborn whacked RBI singles to plate runs, while Hoagland doubled and ambled home on a passed ball to round out the scoring.

While CHS was putting runs on the (nonexistent) scoreboard, Klahowya could get little going against Hilborn, who whiffed six and didn’t give up a hit from the second through the sixth inning.

The Eagles finally got to the Wolf hurler, a bit, putting two on base in the seventh.

That was merely a way for Coupeville to pull off the surprise finale, with Olson coming out of the pen Goose Gossage-style to slam the door.

The Wolves scratched out six hits in the clincher, getting doubles from Smith and Hoagland, as well as singles from Hilborn, Zettle, Dane Lucero and Joey Lippo.

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Edge of your seats!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on March 27, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Shane Losey snags a grounder Tuesday during an extra-innings game. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

In a game of rallies, the final one fell just a hair short.

The Coupeville High School JV baseball team made it back from six runs down Tuesday to force extra innings, but couldn’t quite overcome a five-run deficit in their final at-bats.

Leaving the tying runner aboard, the Wolves fell 11-10 to visiting 2A Sequim in a game which went nine innings, two beyond the normal allotted schedule.

The loss drops Coupeville’s young guns to 1-3 on the season.

That the game went nine innings might have been a surprise to anyone who walked by midway through the game, glanced at the scoreboard, then moved on to other events.

CHS surrendered five runs in the third inning, and had some early trouble getting its own offense on track, trailing 6-0 heading to the bottom of the fifth.

That was where the Wolves finally put together a sustained rally, using a handful of walks, a Sequim error and a single from freshman Daniel Olson to plate four runners.

Two more came around in the sixth, with Jacob Zettle and Olson delivering key base-knocks.

After rambling through scoreless seventh and eighth innings together, the two teams decided to heat things up, a lot, in the ninth, scoring almost half of the game’s runs in one frame.

Sequim dropped a five-spot on the scoreboard for the second time in one day, but Coupeville answered with four of its own in the bottom of the inning.

The Wolves put their first five hitters on, with Johnny Carlson, Olson, Jered Brown and Mason Grove all coming around to score, but then the visitors clamped down.

A strikeout changed the flow of the game, and, two batters later, Sequim escaped with the win on a come-backer to the mound.

Olson (3) and Zettle (2) paced the Wolf offense in the loss, combining for five hits.

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