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We’re back, and in charge

Posted in stats, tagged CHS Wolves, first year, Northwest League, varsity wins, we're #1 on June 16, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Thanks to athletes like Alex Murdy, Coupeville had the most varsity wins of any Northwest 2B/1B League school in 2020-2021. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

We’re #1, and it wasn’t all that close.

Pandemic or not, Coupeville High School returned to the Northwest 2B/1B League with a vengeance during the 2020-2021 school year.

The Wolves won league titles in softball and girls tennis, and lapped the field when it came time to tally up all the varsity wins across three seasons.

For this exercise, we looked only at sports Coupeville competes in, with an emphasis on ones which record team wins and losses.

So, wrestling and golf may exist at other schools, but we don’t really care, since this blog is Coupeville Sports, not the Concrete Clarion or the Darrington Tattler.

In our world, we’re looking at volleyball, football, soccer, basketball, softball, baseball, and tennis.

Track and cross country don’t have conventional team wins and losses, so they go by the sideline.

And this school year, thanks to Friday Harbor skipping fall sports, Coupeville didn’t play boys tennis.

Not that it mattered much in the varsity wins race, as even without the male netters, the Wolves finished the school year with a substantial lead.

The final results:

Varsity team wins (2020-2021):

Coupeville — 50
La Conner — 36
Mount Vernon Christian — 35
Orcas Island — 30
Friday Harbor — 21
Darrington — 12
Concrete — 7

Baseball:

Friday Harbor (9)
Coupeville (7)
Orcas (4)
Darrington (3)
MVC (1)

Boys Basketball:

Coupeville (8)
MVC (8)
Friday Harbor (7)
La Conner (6)
Orcas (5)
Darrington (2)

Boys Soccer:

Orcas (10)
MVC (4)
La Conner (3)
Coupeville (1)

Football:

La Conner (4)
Coupeville (3)
Darrington (2)

Girls Basketball:

La Conner (13)
MVC (11)
Concrete (5)
Coupeville (5)
Orcas (5)
Friday Harbor (3)

Girls Soccer:

MVC (6)
Coupeville (2)

Girls Tennis:

Coupeville (6)

Softball:

Coupeville (12)
Darrington (5)
Orcas (3)
Friday Harbor (2)

Volleyball:

La Conner (10)
Coupeville (6)
MVC (5)
Orcas (3)
Concrete (2)

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And that’s a wrap

Posted in standings, tagged CHS Wolves, first year, league standings, North Sound Conference, Softball on May 13, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Gavin Knoblich, who played football, basketball, and baseball, helped guide Coupeville High School through its first year in the North Sound Conference. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Year one is in the books. Mostly.

The postseason still rages on in various locales this spring, but every North Sound Conference league contest, in every sport, has been played.

Looking back, from the early days of fall, to our current time, one thing remains clear.

King’s is still pretty good.

The private school athletic power, not surprisingly, dominated action in the first year of the new six-team league, winning 66 varsity contests across the 10 sports Coupeville plays.

OK, actually it’s 12 sports, but cross country and track don’t keep track of win/loss records, so, for the purpose of this story, they get ignored.

And sports like wrestling, swimming, or golf?

This blog is called Coupeville Sports, not Gushin’ ‘Bout Granite or Fly Falcons, Fly … so again, out of mind, out of sight.

Anyways. Back to King’s and its 66 varsity wins, which is even more remarkable since the Knights opt not to play boys tennis or softball.

Making up for that, King’s notched 10 league wins in four sports (volleyball, girls and boys basketball, baseball), while the rest of the league combined for just two total double-digit win teams across all 10 sports.

Both of those outliers came in baseball, where Cedar Park Christian won 13 games — most for any varsity team in any sport this school year — and South Whidbey claimed 12 wins.

Back to the team varsity league win totals, year one ended thusly:

King’s — 66
South Whidbey — 56
Cedar Park Christian — 51
Coupeville — 43
Granite Falls — 29
Sultan — 17

After four years of ruling the four-team Olympic League, CHS, the smallest school in its new conference, took a small step back, but held up pretty well, even with the addition of sports-orientated private schools to the mix.

All six schools are expected to return for year two of the league during the 2019-2020 school year.

After that, though, all bets are off, as new classification counts are likely to send Coupeville down from 1A to 2B in 2020-2021.

Until then, a sport-by-sport look back at how the 2018-2019 school athletic year played out:

Volleyball: