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Well, we’re part of history…

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on November 7, 2015| Leave a Comment »

"Ow, ow, owie ow ow..." (John Fisken photo)

“Ow, ow, owie ow ow…” (John Fisken photo)

Coupeville helped set Washington state high school football history Friday night.

Not that anyone probably wants to talk about it all that much.

When the Wolves lost 70-31 at Vashon Island to end a 1-9 season, they were savaged by Pirate running back Bryce Hoisington in a way no team in modern recorded state history has ever been.

The Vashon junior carried the ball 51 times for 573 yards and nine touchdowns.

By doing so, Hoisington broke two records for 11-man football in Washington state.

The 573 yards shattered the previous single game record of 488 yards put up by Eisenhower’s Branden Curtis in 2012, and the final burst also allowed Hoisington to capture the single season record as well.

He ran for 2,929 yards and 32 touchdowns on 337 carries this season, breaking a yardage record that had stood for all of a season.

Chiawana running back Austin Urlacher set the record in 2014, when he collected 2,877 yards over 14 games as his team advanced to the 4A state title game.

Hoisington broke the record while playing four less games.

While we try to figure out how Vashon missed the playoffs — the Pirates finished 4-6, somehow losing to Chimacum along the way — let’s take a look at his record-breaking stats, courtesy a chart from the Tacoma News-Tribune.

Forks — 28 carries for 136 yards
Port Angeles — 34-266
Charles Wright — 41-376
South Delta (B.C.) — 38-288
Marriott (B.C.) — 6-150
Charles Wright — 33-380
Bellevue Christian — 40-289
Cascade Christian — 24-102
Chimacum — 42-369
Coupeville — 51-573

What can you say but this? Congratulations Mr. Hoisington, and we hope we don’t see you again next season.

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Plundered!!

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on November 6, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Jacob Martin punched in Coupeville's lone touchdown Friday night. (John Fisken photo)

   Jacob Martin punched in Coupeville’s first touchdown Friday night. (John Fisken photo)

Wolf seniors (l to r) Brenden Gilbert, Zane Bundy, Lathom Kelley and Ryan Griggs bow out together. (Janine Bundy photo)

   Wolf seniors (l to r) Brenden Gilbert, Zane Bundy, Lathom Kelley and Ryan Griggs bow out together. (Janine Bundy photo)

In the end, it turned out to be a very long trip with very little payoff.

At least on the scoreboard.

Bringing their first season under head coach Brett Smedley to an end Friday night, the Coupeville High School football squad ran afoul of Pirates, falling 70-31 in a non-conference game at Vashon Island.

The very-young Wolves, who started freshmen at several key positions including quarterback, finished 1-9, their fewest wins in a season since 2011.

It was the tenth straight non-winning season for Coupeville football.

Other than a 5-5 mark last year in Tony Maggio’s third and final season, the Wolves have posted losing marks every year since 2005, when they went 6-5 under Ron Bagby.

Facing off with Vashon in a crossover game featuring two teams that failed to make the playoffs, Coupeville got stung early and often.

The Wolves trailed 36-0 early in the second quarter before finally breaking through on offense.

Once they did, they scored their most points of the season. Coupeville’s previous high came in their only win, a 28-26 victory at Chimacum Sept. 18.

Junior Jacob Martin bolted in for his second touchdown of the season — his first came on a fumble recovery against South Whidbey in the season opener — then Zane Bundy tacked on the PAT.

Coupeville continued to chip away at the lead, with Lathom Kelley skipping in to the end zone to match Martin with his second score of the year.

The Wolves added a two-point conversion when Bundy pulled off a fake and took the ball in himself.

His PAT and conversion gave the first-year kicker 25 points on the season, as he edged past Wiley Hesselgrave to be the team’s leading scorer at 25-24.

That was well behind last year, when All-State senior running back/defensive back Josh Bayne tallied 25 touchdowns on his way to 152 points by himself.

Coupeville closed its scoring with touchdowns from freshman twins Gabe and Ty Eck.

The Wolves tacked on two-point conversions after both, via seniors Ryan Griggs and CJ Smith.

The game was the final one for a group of seniors led by four-year letter winners Kelley and Hesselgrave.

Also departing are Bundy, Griggs, Smith, Jake Lord, Josh Lord, JR Pendergrass, Mitchell Losey, Jordan Ford and Brenden Gilbert.

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On to Vashon!!

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on November 3, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Wolf QB Gabe Eck scored his first career touchdown Tuesday night. (John Fisken photo)

   Wolf QB Gabe Eck scored his first high school touchdown Tuesday night. (John Fisken photo)

From 18 straight losses to the playoffs, in a matter of weeks.

Give Chimacum some credit — even if the Cowboys are going to get creamed in three days — it made a remarkable turnaround and deserves to enjoy this moment.

Capping a resurgence which included late-season wins over Coupeville and Vashon Island, Chimacum officially clinched the 1A Olympic League’s third and final berth to the football postseason with a 20-8 beat-down of the Wolves Tuesday night.

The tiebreaker was a half game played on a neutral field in Sequim.

With the win, the Cowboys (2-7) advance to play defending 1A state champs Cascade Christian in their playoff opener, which (barring a miracle) will also be their closer.

Still, it’s a big turn-around for a school that lost the last two games of 2013, all 10 games in 2014 and the first six of 2015.

The Cowboys broke that streak with a 14-9 win at Coupeville Oct. 16.

When both teams finished 1-5 in league play, the tiebreaker was necessitated.

The Wolves (1-8) will travel to Vashon Island Friday to close their season with a non-conference crossover game.

The Pirates (3-6) also missed the playoffs.

Tuesday’s tiebreaker was a scoreless affair for nearly 15 minutes.

Chimacum put together a solid drive to open things, but missed on a 31-yard field goal, while the Wolves, who were playing without leading rusher Wiley Hesselgrave, had trouble getting untracked on offense.

The Cowboys finally broke through with a four-yard touchdown run with 8:58 left to play.

Coupeville drove downfield and looked like it would punch in the tying score, only to stall out after having a first-and-ten from the Chimacum 11-yard line.

A Cowboy sack hurt badly, and the Wolves misfired on a fourth-down pass play.

Still, Coupeville remained within a touchdown until late in the game, when Chimacum punched in two scores.

The first came with 3:21 to play, then the Cowboys added another touchdown run two minutes later.

With nothing but pride left to play for, the Wolves prevented the shutout when Gabe Eck scored on a quarterback sneak with four ticks left in the tiebreaker.

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“The whole team deserves recognition!!”

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , , , on November 3, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Jake Hoagland (Lisa Jenne photo)

   Jake Hoagland carries Cameron Toomey-Stout off the field as the season ends. (Lisa Jenne photo)

(Brett Smedley)

   Wolf JV players prepare for the final trip of the season, a jaunt down to Concrete. (Photo courtesy Brett Smedley)

Matt Hilborn sprints to daylight. (John Fisken photos)

Matt Hilborn sprints to daylight. (John Fisken photos)

James Vidoni (76) holds the line.

James Vidoni (76) holds the line.

Wins and losses don’t tell the whole story.

While the Coupeville High School JV football team failed to pick up a win this season, being battered 49-0 Monday at Concrete in its finale, the young Wolves showed continued growth each week.

Facing off with a battle-hardened Lions squad after a long bus trip, Coupeville got a taste of where it would like to be this time next year.

“We played a very tough team but the boys fought very hard. It was a hard-fought game,” said Coupeville coach Ryan King. “The whole team deserves recognition.”

The first big positive was making it through an entire season, one in which they played bigger schools such as Klahowya and Anacortes.

In recent years, CHS has had trouble having enough bodies — especially healthy ones — to complete anything close to a full JV season.

This year, they played seven games (Chimacum doesn’t have a JV squad) and got strong work from a variety of players.

Freshman Shane Losey operated at quarterback the entire season, with Jonathan Thurston, Cameron Toomey-Stout, Jake Hoagland and Tavian Woolett all emerging as as dependable targets.

Woolett and Teo Keilwitz carried much of the load as running backs, while a variety of players put in work on the lines.

King, a former Wolf player himself, sees a bright future for his charges. Especially if they continue to hit the weight room and build their skill-sets.

“As for the season, I am honored I got to coach a great group of young men,” King said. “These kids worked hard all season and got better as the season went on.

“Fought in every game and each week you saw improvement,” he added. “Coaching these kids was great and they are gonna do great things for this program in the future.”

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#2 and surging!!

Posted in Boys Tennis, Football, Girls Soccer, Volleyball, tagged , , , , , , on November 2, 2015| Leave a Comment »

"Alright, alright, alright." The Wolves are more than holding their own in the 1A Olympic League. (John Fisken photo)

   “Alright, alright, alright.” The Wolves are more than holding their own in the 1A Olympic League. (John Fisken photo)

We’re a solid #2. Rock solid.

With conference play having wrapped up for fall sports, a quick look at the final 1A Olympic League standings for football, volleyball, boys’ tennis and girls’ soccer is pretty much what you might have expected.

Continuing the trend from last year, Klahowya is out in front, Coupeville is hot on their heels and Chimacum and Port Townsend are battling for the cellar.

The Eagles repeated as volleyball and soccer champs, but surrendered the tennis title to the surging Wolves.

Port Townsend, which was fairly awful in all three other sports, repeated as football champs.

Klahowya exits the fall with 19 league wins spread across the four sports, with Coupeville (12), Port Townsend (7) and Chimacum (5) sitting behind them currently.

It could have been even closer, but the Wolf netters, who went 4-0 in league play, were not given a chance to make-up two postponed matches with winless Chimacum.

Toss in those two and Coupeville likely cuts Klahowya’s overall lead to 19-14.

During the league’s first year, 2014-2015, Klahowya won 52 games across the 10 sports all four schools play, followed by Coupeville (40), Chimacum (23) and Port Townsend (20).

The Eagles won five league titles (volleyball, girls soccer, boys tennis, baseball, boys soccer) to two from the Wolves (girls basketball, girls tennis) and Cowboys (boys basketball, softball.)

The RedHawks football title was their lone championship a year ago.

Despite being the smallest school in the league (actually the smallest 1A school in the state) Coupeville has held up well, staying competitive with Klahowya, which is likely to move back up to 2A after the next reclassification.

The Wolves are now headed into winter, where they made their biggest surge last year, piling up 12 wins (the CHS girls were 9-0) during the 2014-2015 basketball season.

Let the surging continue.

Fall win totals:

Klahowya (FB-4, VB-6, GS-6, BT-3)
Coupeville (FB-1, VB-3, GS-4, BT-4)
Port Townsend (FB-6, GS-1)
Chimacum (FB-1, VB-3, GS-1)

League wins all-time:

Klahowya 71
Coupeville 52
Chimacum 28
Port Townsend 27

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