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Wildcats today, Wolves tomorrow, stars always

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on October 24, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Oak Harbor uniforms today, Coupeville ones in the future. (RayLynn Ratcliff photo)

The future of Coupeville football is playing one town over right now.

And doing pretty dang good.

With no youth gridiron program available in Cow Town, four Wolf 7th graders are tearing up the field as members of the Oak Harbor Youth Football Juniors team.

That squad is a pristine 7-0 and sitting in first place in their 11-team league heading into the postseason.

Oak Harbor opens the playoffs Saturday, Nov. 2, with a win there carrying the Wildcats into the championship game the following weekend.

Coupeville’s future football leaders, as seen from left to right in the photo above, are Kamden Ratcliff, Maxwell Meyer, Maverick Walling, and Diesel Eck.

Ratcliff is a quarterback, while Meyer plays cornerback and wide receiver.

Walling is a linebacker and running back, with Eck anchoring the line at tackle.

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Gridiron giants shake the scoreboard

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on October 21, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Jack Porter runs away from the defense. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

The Wolves can light up a scoreboard.

Seven games into the season, the Coupeville High School football team is averaging just a hair under 27 points a game.

Sitting at 4-3 heading into Senior Night this coming Friday, CHS gets a visit from non-conference foe Winlock, an 0-6 team which has surrendered 44 points a night.

That number would likely be even higher, but one of those losses is a 2-0 forfeit to Mossyrock.

For Coupeville, the scoring leader has been junior quarterback Chase Anderson, who tops the team even with having missed an early-season clash with Granite Falls thanks to an injury.

Where he and his teammates sit through week seven:

 

Touchdowns:

Chase Anderson – 10
Jack Porter – 6
Davin Houston – 5
Marquette Cunningham – 2
Johnny Porter – 2
Liam Blas – 1
Hunter Bronec – 1

 

Conversions:

Anderson — 2
Blas — 1
Cunningham – 1
Houston – 1

 

PATs:

Anderson — 10

 

Field Goals:

Anderson – 2

 

Points:

Anderson — 80
Ja. Porter – 36
Houston — 32
Cunningham — 14
Jo. Porter – 12
Blas — 8
Bronec – 6

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Wolf grads chase college sports dreams

Posted in Football, soccer, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on October 20, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Former Wolf superstars (left to right) Lauren Marrs, Maddie Georges, and Nezi Keiper reunite at a college soccer game. (Emili Marrs photo)

The uniforms have changed, but the dream remains the same.

Former Coupeville High School athletes Nezi Keiper and Ben Smith are competing at the college level this fall, operating in different states and different sports.

Keiper is a freshman defender on the Edmonds College women’s soccer team and brings the same rough-and-tumble playing style to the pitch which endeared her to Wolf fans.

At a recent game against Skagit Valley College, she got to run into Lauren Marrs, a fab frosh goaltender who suits up for SVC.

Marrs was a standout athlete for Coupeville in her younger days, continuing through middle school, before attending Oak Harbor High School from her freshman season on.

Ben Smith is chasing that gridiron dream. (Photo courtesy Deb Smith)

Across the country, Smith is a senior linebacker for Concordia University in Chicago.

He’s racked up 10 tackles, including one for a loss, while playing his first season with the Cougars.

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Chasing titles, putting up wins

Posted in standings, tagged , , , , , on October 20, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Mary Western puts in the miles. (Morgan White photo)

Things are ramping up.

As we move into the latter stages of October, fall sports teams will begin deciding league titles and making the push for the playoffs.

Or just flat out starting the postseason in some cases.

Coupeville High School cross country is the first to begin its postseason trek with an appearance this Thursday, Oct. 24 at the Northwest 2B/1B League Championships in Mount Vernon.

For the undefeated Wolf volleyball squad, there are two road trips on the docket.

A victory in Concrete Thursday will give CHS the undisputed conference crown, while a non-league rumble Saturday in Neah Bay will be a great test for a team looking to play deep into the season.

Meanwhile, the somewhat surprising Wolf soccer squad, which sits in second place in an ultra-competitive conference, travels to Friday Harbor on Tuesday, then to Lopez Island Thursday for two stiff challenges.

Edmund Wilson gets hydrated before taking the soccer pitch. (Coupeville High School yearbook staff photo)

Rounding out things is CHS football, which celebrates Senior Night Friday when it hosts Winlock in a non-conference tilt.

As we move forward, a quick look back to see where things sit through Oct. 20:

 

Northwest League boys’ soccer:

School League Overall
Orcas Island 4-0-0 10-1-0
Coupeville 3-0-0 5-4-1
Lopez Island 2-1-0 7-1-0
PC Christian 2-1-0 7-2-2
La Conner 2-1-1 2-6-2
CPC-Lynnwood 1-2-0 4-5-0
MV Christian 1-3-0 6-4-1
Friday Harbor 0-3-1 3-5-1
Grace Academy 0-4-0 1-8-0

 

Northwest League football — (11-Man):

School League Overall
Coupeville 1-0 4-3
Friday Harbor 0-1 2-5

 

Northwest League football — (8-Man):

School League Overall
Concrete 0-0 3-4
Darrington 0-0 3-4
La Conner 0-0 2-4

 

Northwest League volleyball:

School League Overall
Coupeville 8-0 10-0
La Conner 5-2 7-5
Darrington 4-2 10-4
Orcas Island 3-3 7-7
MV Christian 3-4 7-5
Concrete 1-5 7-7
Friday Harbor 0-8 1-11

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Rough night, brighter future

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , , on October 18, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Hunter Bronec and his fellow senior gridiron giants will be honored Oct. 25. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Sometimes you hit the road, and sometimes it hit you right back.

Starting a two-week tango with teams from the vaunted Central 2B League, the Coupeville High School football team made a 298-mile round trip Friday, enduring a 55-13 loss while at Adna.

The non-conference defeat drops the Wolves to 4-3 on the season, but they have a chance to get some fairly immediate revenge.

Adna’s league mate, Winlock, which sits at 0-6 on the season, is scheduled to come to Cow Town next Friday, Oct. 25 when CHS celebrates Senior Night.

That trip comes in at 324 miles round trip, give or take an extra kilometer here or there.

Friday’s road rumble stayed close for a few minutes, as the two teams exchanged early touchdowns, while both failed to convert on the PAT.

Wolf senior Jack Porter brought back a kick return for Coupeville’s opening score, notching his sixth TD of his swan song season.

Unfortunately for the Wolves, things slipped away after that, as Adna punched in the next six touchdowns, all on the ground.

The host Pirates built a 30-6 lead after one quarter of play, then stretched the advantage out to 42-6 heading to the halftime break.

Trailing 48-6 midway through the third quarter, Coupeville finally snapped Adna’s run, thanks to Chase Anderson taking a kickoff to the house.

It was the team-best tenth score for the junior quarterback, and he tacked on the PAT to round out his team’s scoring.

From there, though, the clock continued to skip along, Adna added a final score — this one off of a punt return in the fourth quarter — and things came to a close.

After dropping back-to-back games, Coupeville will look to get back on track against Winlock, which has been outscored 265-102.

Six days later, the Wolves will close the regular season on Halloween with a trip to Friday Harbor for a Northwest 2B/1B League game which will dictate playoff positioning for CHS.

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