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Gridiron giants bow out!!

Posted in Football, Middle School, tagged , , , , on October 26, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Coupeville’s small, but scrappy, middle school football team showed great growth this season. (Bob Martin photo)

“They done good.”

While the Coupeville Middle School football team couldn’t nab a win in its final game of the season Wednesday, the Wolves earned the approval of coach Bob Martin.

Chimacum used a punishing running game to pull away for a 33-16 win on its home turf, leaving Coupeville with a final record of 1-4.

Playing mostly against teams with much-larger rosters, the Wolves held their own this season. Even when they lost, there weren’t any blowouts.

In its finale, CMS got a couple of big offensive plays from Caleb Meyer, Xavier Murdy and Cody Roberts, and strong defensive play from Nezi Keiper and Scott Hilborn.

As they hang up their uniforms, a look back at those who made up the roster:

Mathias Anderson
Lucious Binnings
Isaiah Bittner
Brayden Coatney
Brawn Gadberry
Jesus Garcia-Partida
Ty Hamilton
Scott Hilborn
Nezi Keiper
Logan Martin
Caleb Meyer
Xavier Murdy
Kevin Partida
Michael Peterson
Cody Roberts
Gabe Shaw
Damon Stadler
Josh Upchurch
Logan Wertz
Hawthorne Wolfe
Kiara Contreras (Team Manager)
Lucas Salazar (Team Manager)

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It’ll be ready when it’s ready!!

Posted in Everything changes, tagged , , , , , , on October 24, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   The brand spanking new grandstand at Coupeville’s Mickey Clark Field continues to rise after a two-year wait. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

“Hey, stop laying down on the job, man!”

Closer…

and…

closer to reality.

I’ve waited out in the rain and wind two years for a new press box, but my long national nightmare might be coming to a close.

Construction crews continue to chip away at building Coupeville High School’s new football/soccer/track grandstand, and the whole thing has taken a jump forward in recent days.

Will they really be done by Thursday (the previously announced target), so that the new stadium can debut during Friday’s final home football game of the season?

Or, more likely, will we first step onto the slice of covered paradise this spring, when boys soccer and track take over Mickey Clark Field?

Your guess is as good as mine, but, as the pics above show, progress is happening. Piece by piece.

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Play that funky music!!

Posted in Band, tagged , , , , on October 23, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Ben Olson lays down a sweet beat on his drum set. (David Stern photos)

“Screw this! I’m playing “Crazy Train” the whole night!!!”

Friday Night Lights are about more than just football.

While the primary action is down on the gridiron, the support crew is a large and diverse one.

From ticket sellers to hot dog hawkers in the snack shack, home games at Mickey Clark Field use the talents of a ton of folks.

Today, we’re turning the spotlight to the CHS band, which bounces from the national anthem to “On Wisconsin” to jazzy covers of Chicago songs under the direction of Jamar Jenkins.

His ace crew (some of whom do double duty as football players or cheerleaders):

Connie Armitage-Buckley
Mollie Bailey
Jakobi Baumann
Jaschon Baumann
Laurence Boado
Heidi Clinkscales
Mackenzie Davis
Kaley Grigsby
Jesse Hester
Jake Hoagland
Samuel Lockwood
Nikolai Lyngra
Andrew Martin
Mckenzie Meyer
Claire Mietus
Cassidy Moody
Ben Olson
Daniel Olson
Jacobi Pacquette-Pilgrim
Koby Schreiber
Harris Sinclair
Sean Toomey-Stout
Raven Vick
Allison Wenzel

And, a 10-hour loop of the opening guitar riff from “Crazy Train,” cause, why not?

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Fortunes fall, fortunes rise!!

Posted in standings, tagged , , , , , on October 22, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Joy abounds in Coupeville, where the volleyball squad is one win away from clinching back-to-back Olympic League titles. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Color me genuinely shocked.

If you need proof that any team can beat any other team on a given day, look no further than Vashon Island football stunning Port Townsend 27-21 Friday in overtime.

The Pirates, who started the season 0-6, entered that game having been outscored 303-60, while the RedHawks, even after a one-point loss to Klahowya, entertained playoff hopes.

To which I say, no more.

Over here in Coupeville, where we continue to lose football players to injuries at a staggering rate, there was no miracle on the gridiron.

But our other sports are looking pretty good, so life is balanced out.

Wolf volleyball, in particular, is flying high, needing just one win in its final three matches to clinch back-to-back league titles.

Plus, if you add up the varsity (9-2), JV (9-1) and C-Team (3-0) records, the Coupeville spikers are an astonishing 21-3 under the guidance of Cory Whitmore, Chris Smith and Ashley Herndon.

Regular season play wraps up in both volleyball and soccer this coming week, with postseason action for tennis and soccer kicking off.

The Coupeville booters host their playoff opener Oct. 28 in Oak Harbor, while weather issues have jammed both the league tourney and districts into the same week for the netters.

As we head down the stretch run for fall sports, a look at the league standings, through Oct. 22:

Olympic/Nisqually League football:

School League Overall
Cascade Christian 5-0 7-1
Charles Wright 4-1 6-2
Klahowya 3-2 3-5
Port Townsend 3-2 3-5
Bellevue Christian 2-3 2-6
Vashon Island 2-3 2-6
COUPEVILLE 1-4 3-5
Chimacum 0-5 2-6

Olympic League volleyball:

School League Overall
COUPEVILLE 6-0 9-2
Klahowya 4-2 6-6
Chimacum 1-5 1-8
Port Townsend 1-5 3-10

Olympic League girls soccer:

School League Overall
Klahowya 7-0 13-1
COUPEVILLE 5-2 7-7
Chimacum 1-6 1-9-1
Port Townsend 1-6 2-11

Olympic League boys tennis:

School League Overall
Klahowya 4-1 12-2
COUPEVILLE 4-2 6-7
Chimacum 0-5 0-11

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Big Hurt finds big success!!

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , , , , on October 21, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Coupeville grad Nick Streubel hangs out with family after a game. (Photo courtesy Nanette Streubel)

   He’s like a Greek god, he is. (Photo property of Central Washington University football)

Nick Streubel is healthy and the college football world trembles.

After missing all but one game last year thanks to an injury, The Big Hurt is back in the lineup for the Central Washington University football squad and the Wildcats can not be beaten.

A 17-10 come-from-behind win over North Alabama Saturday lifts CWU, ranked #9 in the last NCAA D-II poll, to a crisp 8-0.

The Wildcats have three regular season games left, all against league foes who they beat the first time around.

Central hosts Azusa Pacific for Senior Night Oct. 28 in a game which will be streamed by ESPN3, then hits the road to face Simon Fraser and Humboldt State the next two weeks.

Streubel, a three-sport star (football, basketball, track and field) during his days wandering Coupeville’s campus, is a red-shirt sophomore.

With six games under his belt this season, he has logged time as a lineman in 13 college games during his career.

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