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Plundered!!

Posted in Football, tagged CHS Wolves, football, Jacob Martin, Vashon Island, Zane Bundy 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)

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 1A Olympic League, Chimacum, CHS Wolves, football, Gabe Eck 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 CHS Wolves, Concrete, football, James Vidoni, JV, Matt Hilborn, Ryan King on November 3, 2015| Leave a Comment »

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

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)

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 1A Olympic League, CHS Wolves, football, Klahowya, Soccer, tennis, volleyball 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)

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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The stat sheet tolls for thee!!

Posted in Football, tagged CHS Wolves, football, Gabe Eck, Ryan Griggs, Stats, Wiley Hesselgrave on October 31, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Wolf freshman Ethan Kedrowski recorded his first-ever varsity tackle Friday night. (John Fisken photo)

New names.

With Friday’s game against Concrete turning into a blow-out, Coupeville High School football coaches ran in their youngest players, giving several their first-ever varsity action.

Four players (freshmen Ethan Kedrowski, sophomores Jacob Zettle and Cameron Toomey-Stout and senior kicker Zane Bundy) recorded their first tackles of the season, while two Wolves crossed the 1,000 yard threshold.

Freshman quarterback Gabe Eck threw for 150 yards against the Lions, running his season passing totals to 1,008 yards, while punter Clay Reilly lofted two kicks for 57 yards.

His total of 1,040 punting yards is just five yards off of putting him #1 among all 1A punters.

Stats through Week 9, as recorded to MaxPreps.com by Wolf coaches:

Offense:

Passing:

Gabe Eck 80-164 for 1008 yards with 4 TD and 5 INTs
Hunter Downes 26-47 for 272 yards with 1 TD and 3 INTs
CJ Smith 1-1 for 10 yards
Wiley Hesselgrave 0-1

Receiving:

Hunter Smith 32 receptions for 419 yards
C. Smith 28-338
Ty Eck 17-163
Jordan Ford 9-163
Hesselgrave 10-87
Ryan Griggs 4-81
Lathom Kelley 2-22
Jake Hoagland 2-7

Rushing:

Hesselgrave 89 carries for 404 yards
Kelley 42-154
Mitchell Losey 12-54
Jacob Martin 17-52
G. Eck 58-26
Chris Battaglia 1-4
C. Smith 1 (-1)
Downes 12 (-49)

Total yards:

G. Eck 1034
Hesselgrave 491
H. Smith 419
C. Smith 347
Downes 223
Kelley 176
T. Eck 163
Ford 163
Griggs 81
Losey 54
Martin 52
Hoagland 7
Battaglia 4

Touchdowns:

Hesselgrave 4
T. Eck 2
H. Smith 2
Ford 1
Kelley 1
Martin 1
C. Smith 1

PATs:

Zane Bundy 7

Field Goals:

Bundy 5 (#1 in 1A, #3 in all classifications)

Points:

Hesselgrave 24
Bundy 22
T. Eck 12
H. Smith 12
Martin 8
Ford 6
Kelley 6
C. Smith 6

Defense:

Tackles:

Kelley 68
Hesselgrave 47
Battaglia 45
T. Eck 44
Uriel Liquidano 38
Julian Welling 29
Mitchell Carroll 25
Martin 25
Brenden Gilbert 23
Tyler McCalmont 19
H. Smith 19
Clay Reilly 16
Ford 15
Losey 14
Griggs 9
Jake Lord 8
C. Smith 6
Josh Lord 5
JR Pendergrass 4
Teo Keilwitz 2
Tavian Woolett 2
Bundy 1
Matt Hilborn 1
Hoagland 1
Ethan Kedrowski 1
Josh Robinson 1
Cameron Toomey-Stout 1
James Vidoni 1
Jacob Zettle 1

Sacks:

Battaglia 3
Ford 2
Gilbert 2
Kelley 2
Carroll 1
Hesselgrave 1
Martin 1
McCalmont 1

Interceptions:

H. Smith 7
T. Eck 1
Hesselgrave 1
Martin 1
Reilly 1

Fumble recoveries:

Martin 3
Ford 2
Griggs 2
Liquidano 2
H. Smith 2
T. Eck 1
Hesselgrave 1
Kelley 1

Blocked kicks:

Hesselgrave 2
Kelley 1
Liquidano 1

Special Teams:

Kickoffs:

Bundy 15 for 539 yards

Punts:

Reilly 31 for 1040 yards (#2 in 1A)
Bundy 12-308

Kickoff/punt returns:

Hesselgrave 20 for 310 yards
Kelley 8-156
T. Eck 11-124
H. Smith 7-99
Martin 3-27
Reilly 4-0
Carroll 1-0
Pendergrass 1-0