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Posted in Football, tagged , , , , , on September 13, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Ulrik Wells (John Fisken photo)

   Ulrik Wells hauled in his first high school pass reception Monday night in Langley. (John Fisken photo)

JV games are about growth.

So, even though his squad came away with a 34-2 loss at South Whidbey in its opener Monday, Coupeville High School coach Ryan King liked a lot of what he saw.

“Wasn’t a bad game,” he said. “Overall, I was very pleased and proud with how this team played until the end.”

“They are a great group of kids and will continue to grow.”

The Falcons, looking for a bit of revenge after being savaged in the varsity game between the two schools, jumped out to an early lead.

They used a nine-play drive to put together their first touchdown, then added two more scores off of fumbles to bust things open.

While it didn’t end up putting many points on the board, Coupeville clicked a lot better after the halftime break.

“We bounced back and played a great defensive game in the second half,” King said.

Shane Losey and Dawson Houston split time at QB, with Ulrik Wells sparkling at receiver with a gorgeous 13-yard snag.

“Great day for him at receiver,” King said.

Andy Martin, Jacobi Pacquette-Pilgrim and Teo Keilwitz “all ran the ball very well tonight” while Matt Stevens, Luke Carlson and Axel Partida “had great days on defense.”

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Line ’em up and sound-off!!

Posted in Football, Middle School, tagged , , , , on September 13, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Bob Martin is back to lead the Coupeville Middle School football program. (John Fisken photo)

   Bob Martin is back to lead the Coupeville Middle School football program. (John Fisken photo)

Kick-off time fast approaches.

Deep into their second week of practices, the 20 players who make up the Coupeville Middle School football squad are nearing their first chance to play against someone in a different uniform.

The Wolves start with an epic journey to Forks this coming Saturday for a jamboree, then begin a six-game regular season at Chimacum Sept. 22.

The schedule (all home games kick-off at 3:45 PM):

Thur-Sept. 22 @ Chimacum
Wed-Sept. 28 Sequim
Wed-Oct. 5 Forks
Wed.-Oct. 12 @ Port Townsend
Wed.-Oct. 19 @Stevens
Wed.-Oct. 26 Chimacum

And the roster, as it stands today:

Daniel Barajas
Isaiah Bittner
Cole Collins
Miles Davidson
Sage Downes
Dakota Eck
Dylan Estes
Trystan Ford
Jesus Garcia-Partida
Cade Golden
Alex Jimenez
Evan Johnson
Jacob Kendall
Jake Mitten
Gage Powers
Gabe Shaw
Ben Smith
Damon Stadler
Logan Wertz
Tian Yu

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I’m just ’bout those photos, boss!!

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , , on September 11, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Hunter Smith (John Fisken photos)

Hunter Smith gets ready to slice ‘n dice in the open field. (John Fisken photos)

Clay Reilly

Clay Reilly looks for running room.

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   Wolf captains (l to r) Hunter Downes, Uriel Liquidano, Reilly and Jacob Martin get ready for the singing of the national anthem.

cheer

CHS cheerleaders work on their sideline moves.

handoff

Martin (left) gets ready to accept a gift from his quarterback.

Clay

   There’s nowhere to run, nowhere to hide for a Brave runner once Reilly appears on the scene.

The score wasn’t so great, but the photos were better.

With Oak Harbor having played a rare Thursday game, wanderin’ photo man John Fisken was free to head down to La Conner Friday night to catch Coupeville in action.

And, while the Wolves got roughed up a bit in a 53-6 loss, they did manage to provide the paparazzi with some nice photo ops.

To see more of Fisken’s work (purchases fund college scholarships for CHS student/athletes) pop over to:

http://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/FB-20160910-Coupeville-at-LaCo/

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Roll call of the gridiron greats!!

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , , on September 10, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Hunter Smith (top left) is joined in the end zone by fellow record holders (clockwise, from top right) Chad Gale, Brian Fakkema, Nick Streubel, Ian Smith, Joe Kelley, Josh Bayne, Ian Barron, Joel Walstad and Brad Sherman.

Hunter Smith (4) is joined by fellow record holders (clockwise, from top right) Chad Gale, Brian Fakkema, Nick Streubel, Ian Smith, Joe Kelley, Josh Bayne, Ian Barron, Joel Walstad and Brad Sherman.

Imagine a magical world.

In this utopia, a chain-smoking, bee-hived-hairdo-rockin’ lady (we’ll call her Gladys) has been working out of a small office in the back of the Coupeville High School gym complex for decades.

While there she’s been faithfully recording stats and filing them away neatly in frequently-dusted filing cabinets.

Now, come back to reality, where any pursuit of Wolf athletic history involves latching on to whatever scattered records someone pulls out of their dusty attic or spending hours trying not to rip the brittle pages of the bound volumes in the Whidbey News-Times archives.

So, it is, with justifiable trepidation that I approach calling any history definitive.

But, having gone cross-eyed and ink-stained, I am, we’ll say, 98.3% certain that the CHS football records I’m about to present are pretty dang close to being canon.

With one or two niggling doubts still trying to be ironed out.

As you scan these records, the oldest of which hails from 1970 (and yes, I went back WAY before that), remember several things.

One, sacks were not tallied as such in the olden days, so the players of earlier decades may have hauled down a lot of quarterbacks but will never own the record.

Two, the game has changed, with tons of tweaks aimed at ramping up offenses.

Go back in the archives and there are quite a few 6-0 games, and quite a few talented players who never had the chance to put up numbers like the modern day guys.

And three, and this is the biggest of them all — high school football stats, especially at small schools, are notoriously fickle and largely dependent on how good that year’s record keepers were.

But you don’t care about all the rationale, you just want the glossy numbers.

So here you go, my 98.3% correct all-time Coupeville High School football records.

If you disagree, speak up now or forever hold your peace.

And, if you want to argue, have something to back up your story.

Missing stat sheets, newspaper clippings which tell a different tale than what I saw, game film, a time travel machine that allows us to go back and watch it all unfold live.

Bring it on, I say.

BEST INDIVIDUAL SINGLE-GAME PERFORMANCE:

Rushing Yards – (320) Ian Barron-1998
Passing Yards – (403) Gabe Eck-2015
Receiving Yards – (202) Chad Gale-1987
Rushing TDs – (6) Ian Barron-2000
Passing TDs – (4) Corey Cross-1971, Brad Sherman-2001
Receiving TDs – (3) Glenn Losey-1970, Brian Fakkema-2001, Josh Bayne-2014
Tackles – (27) Scott McMartin-1981
Interceptions – (4) Brian Fakkema-2002
Sacks — (4) Nick Streubel-2013

BEST INDIVIDUAL SEASON:

Rushing Yards – (1753) Ian Barron-1998
Passing Yards – (1848) Ian Smith-2010
Receiving Yards – (844) Chad Gale-1987
Rushing TDs – (16) Ian Barron-1998
Passing TDs – (18) Joel Walstad-2014
Receiving TDs – (10) Josh Bayne-2014
Tackles – (142) Joe Kelley-2001
Interceptions – (7) Dan Neider-1986, Hunter Smith-2015
Sacks – (10) Nick Streubel-2013

BEST INDIVIDUAL CAREER:

Rushing Yards – (4713) Ian Barron
Passing Yards – (3613) Brad Sherman
Receiving Yards – (1345) Chad Gale
Rushing TDs – (37) Ian Barron
Passing TDs – (33) Brad Sherman
Receiving TDs – (17) Chad Gale
Tackles – (301) Joe Kelley
Interceptions – (12) Josh Bayne
Sacks – (12) Nick Sellgren

BEST TEAM SINGLE-SEASON PERFORMANCE:

Rushing Yards – (2742) 2014
Passing Yards – (1863) 2014
Receiving Yards – (1863) 2014
Rushing TDs – (26) 2014
Passing TDs – (20) 2014
Receiving TDs – (20) 2014
Tackles – (800) 2008
Interceptions – (20) 1986
Sacks – (22) 1996

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“We kept fighting all the way!!”

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , , on September 9, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Senior Clay Reilly recovered a fumble and hauled in a 31-yard pass Friday. (John Fisken photo)

   Senior Clay Reilly fought hard on both sides of the ball Friday, recovering a fumble and hauling in a 31-yard pass. (John Fisken photo)

Second verse, not as sweet as the first.

Coming off a big win in week one, the Coupeville High School football team was flying high headed into Friday night’s clash at La Conner.

Unfortunately, a big, bruising, highly-efficient and ultimately pretty cold-blooded Braves squad reminded the very young Wolves there’s still a lot of work to do if they want to compete with the big boys.

By the time La Conner was done rolling to a 53-6 win, punctuating it by choosing to score with just 14 seconds to play rather than take a knee, a fair amount of damage had been done.

The key will be how the Wolves, who have just three seniors on their roster, respond to their first setback of the season.

“I liked that we kept fighting all the way,” said Coupeville coach Jon Atkins as he stood on a somber sideline after the game.

“We knew going in this would probably be the best team we face this season and it would be a tough one,” he added. “Now we gotta bounce back and prove we can get a win after a loss and get right back on track.”

A big key for the Wolves as they head into week three, when they host Nooksack Valley, also 1-1, in the final non-conference game on the schedule, will be to cut down on turnovers.

Coupeville was stung in the first half Friday by two huge miscues deep in La Conner territory.

Trailing 6-0 and with the ball in their hands for the first time, the Wolves drove from their own 29 to the Braves 12, with a 31-yard pass play from Hunter Downes to Clay Reilly helping move the chains.

But with Coupeville knocking on the door of making it a tie game, or taking the lead, it coughed up the ball, losing a fumble on the nine-yard line.

La Conner took immediate advantage, pulling off an 84-yard touchdown pass just three plays later.

After the Braves tacked on another score on the first play of the second quarter, the Wolves suffered their other huge momentum-killer.

Putting together a solid drive, keyed by a long pass from Downes to Hunter Smith, CHS made a play for the end zone, only to have La Conner standout Budda Luna jump a route and pick off the ball.

With an open field ahead of him, he hurtled 89 yards to the end zone, putting the game on ice.

Coupeville finally got on the board with a little under seven minutes to play in the first half, when Downes cranked a ball down the right sideline and Smith outran his defender to snag the ball for a 48-yard touchdown strike.

It was the fourth touchdown of the season for the junior receiver.

That was about it for the large contingent of Wolf faithful who traveled over to La Conner, however, as, other than a few plays here and there, the rest of the night was fairly uneventful.

Reilly recovered a fumble deep in his own territory to end one Braves drive, Uriel Liquidano stuffed a play right at the line of scrimmage and drove the runner back for a loss, and Jacob Martin chased down a breakaway runner from behind, preventing a score.

Smith came dangerously close to breaking off a kickoff return for a touchdown for the second straight week, but got snagged at the last second and had to settle for a 55-yard jaunt when he wanted 75 yards.

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