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Rankings wizards favor Wolf ballers

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 9, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Ryan Blouin brings his three-ball shootin’ fingertips to the floor. (Michelle Glass photo)

Win big games, get big props.

The Coupeville High School varsity boys’ basketball squad dismantled Auburn Adventist Academy Monday, winning 69-57 in a game the Wolves controlled almost start to finish.

Knocking off a previously undefeated Eagles team propels CHS to 9-2 on the season, with immediate dividends in the rankings.

Coupeville lands #7 among 2B schools in a chart compiled by SB Live, which was released Tuesday afternoon.

Brad Sherman’s squad also bounces up to #8 in the RPI rankings produced by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association.

Though, since the WIAA recently had a nonexistent program ranked #1 in 1B for three weeks, we all need to take that into consideration.

The most powerful and revered of the number crunchers, Evans Rankings, will update its own list in the near future, at which point the Wolves are likely to crash the top 10 after crunching Auburn.

But, as those Eagles can tell you after being upset in Cow Town, it’s ultimately about what happens on the floor and not what the computers think.

With that in mind, Coupeville gets back at it (weather permitting) Friday with a trip to the outer islands to square off with Orcas.

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Our computer overlords can’t agree

Posted in Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 2, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville High School Principal Geoff Kappes anxiously awaits the next round of computerized basketball rankings. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

I trust the baby more than the bureaucrats.

As we head into the new year, the Coupeville High School boys’ basketball team sits at a spiffy 7-2, with its losses coming against always-tough non-conference foes Toledo and Kittitas.

But different computers view the Wolves in different ways.

The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association, whose wheezing ‘n huffing computer recently had a team ranked #1 with a 1-0 record for a win it didn’t actually own, puts Brad Sherman’s squad at #11 among 2B schools.

Evans Rankings, however, is the gold standard for numbers crunchers in the state — especially now that the heir to the throne, wee whippersnapper Carter, has arrived to keep an eagle eye on things — and it places the Wolves at #9.

Both sites have undefeated Lake Roosevelt atop the standings at the moment.

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Computer overlords like Wolf hardball squad

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on April 25, 2023| Leave a Comment »

CHS baseball coach Steve Hilborn hasn’t entirely trusted computers since Skynet went whack-a-doodle in those Terminator films. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Those machines run on 1’s and 0’s approve of our prairie hardball ways.

Evans Rankings, which has smiled favorably on several Coupeville High School sports teams during the 2022-2023 school year, likes the Wolf varsity baseball squad.

After feeding all the data into Newman — the resident computer possibly bent on world domination — noted number cruncher Matt Evans emerged from the basement Monday with the news CHS lands at #7 in 2B in his first rankings of the season.

The Wolves, who sit at 11-4 heading into a game at Concrete Tuesday, have five regular-season tilts left on the schedule.

After that, Coupeville heads off to the three-team District 1/2 tourney, where it will be the top seed in a single-elimination royal rumble with a state tourney berth at stake.

 

To see ER’s complete prep baseball rankings for 4A-1B, pop over to:

ER Washington Prep Baseball Rankings through 4/22/23

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Back to state? Computer overlords say yes!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on November 17, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Dominic Coffman (left) and Jonathan Valenzuela could be celebrating again, if our computer overlords are correct. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Make it so.

Our computer overlords have spoken, and they have an early fondness for Coupeville High School boys’ basketball.

Evan Rankings went down to the basement, fired up its seer of seers, Newman, asked the computer to spit out which teams it projects to make the 2023 state tournament fields, and the Wolves made the list.

Now, not a single game has been played, with practice having only just started, something website guru Matt Evans acknowledges.

Plus, the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association has yet to officially release state allocations for each district, so there could be some movement on how many spots are available in each area.

But worry not about that.

Evans and Newman are “experimenting with an algorithm to see how well the computer can use some data from the previous season along with returning player data to see if it can project success.”

Or, as the human in the room sagely says, “If this works, cool. If not, whatever.”

At any case, we can all come back in late February to see how the projections held up.

Newman’s projected state tourney fields:

 

2B boys:

 

District 1 (one projected berth):

Coupeville

 

District 4 (six projected berths):

Adna
Chief Leschi
Ilwaco
Kalama
Morton/White Pass
Wahkiakum

 

District 5 (four projected berths):

Cle Elum/Roslyn
Columbia (Burbank)
Tri-Cities Prep
White Swan

 

District 6 (two projected berths):

Brewster
Lake Roosevelt

 

District 7 (three projected berths):

Colfax
Davenport
Liberty (Spangle)

 

2B girls:

 

District 1 (one projected berth):

La Conner

 

District 4 (six projected berths):

Adna
Chief Leschi
Onalaska
Rainier
Raymond
Wahkiakum

 

District 5 (four projected berths):

Granger
Mabton
Tri-Cities Prep
Warden

 

District 6 (two projected berths):

Lake Roosevelt
Okanogan

 

District 7 (three projected berths):

Colfax
Liberty (Spangle)
St. George’s

 

P.S. — On the 1B side of things, Districts 1, 2, and 3 combine in the postseason and are projected to net six state slots for the boys and five for the girls.

Newman likes three of Coupeville’s Northwest 2B/1B League rivals to make the big dance — both Mount Vernon Christian teams and the Orcas Island boys.

 

To see Newman’s complete projections, pop over to:

ER’s Way-Too-Early 2023 WIAA Prep Basketball Tournament Fields

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Pollsters lovin’ CHS gridiron giants

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on October 19, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Wolf QB Logan Downes airs it out. (Brenn Sugatan photo)

Maybe they just shouldn’t play.

Despite having last Friday’s road rumble against Cascade (Leavenworth) cancelled by wildfire smoke, the Coupeville High School football team moved up in the Associated Press state poll.

The Wolves cracked the chart a week ago at #10 and moved up a slot to #9 Wednesday when the latest vote totals were released.

Coupeville, which received seven points a week ago, is up to 18 points, just a single point behind #8 Pe Ell/Willapa Valley.

The Wolves put their 5-1 mark on the line Friday when they host Northwest 2B/1B League rival La Conner.

A win on Senior Night will clinch at least a tie for Coupeville’s first football league title since 1990.

And now that we know what the human voters think of the Wolves, what do the computers say?

Both Evans Rankings and the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association’s RPI data have CHS at #6 among 2B teams.

 

Associated Press 2B poll for week 8:

1. Napavine – (7-0) – 90 poll points
2. Okanogan – (7-0) – 81
3. Toledo – (6-1) – 61
4. Lind-Ritzville/Sprague – (6-1) – 58
5. Columbia (Burbank) – (6-1) – 54
6. Raymond – (6-1) – 42
7. Chewelah (Jenkins) – (5-2) – 36
8. Pe Ell/Willapa Valley – (4-3) -19
9. Coupeville – (5-1) – 18
10. River View – (6-1) – 11

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