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Wolves love the end zone

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on October 9, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Malachi Somes is one of 10 Wolves to score this season. (Bailey Thule photos)

They’ve hit double digits again.

Last season, during a run to a league title and a trip to the state playoffs, 12 Coupeville High School football players scored a touchdown.

This year, with a younger roster, scoring is down, but the Wolves have still found a way to get 10 players into the end zone.

Freshman Davin Houston snagged a touchdown pass from Logan Downes against Friday Harbor to become that 10th player to hit pay dirt.

With six games in the books, Coupeville has tallied 147 points and 22 touchdowns this season, averaging out to a not-bad 24.5 and 3.7 per game.

Admittedly, that is down from last year’s nine-game total of 363 points and 52 scores, but last year was also one of the best in program history.

Jack Porter (grey shirt) has found the end zone twice.

The Wolves have three regular season games left to play, with a non-conference Homecoming rumble against Forks set for this Friday, Oct. 13.

After that comes a road trip to La Conner and a Senior Night rematch with Friday Harbor as CHS pursues a return to state.

As the final games play out, one thing to keep an eye on is the play of quarterback Logan Downes.

The senior gunslinger has 13 touchdown passes this season and 33 for his career.

Logan Downes already owns the CHS single-game record of five scoring heaves and is chasing Joel Walstad (18) and big bro Hunter Downes (35) for the single-season and career marks.

Logan Downes chases history.

 

Scoring stats through Oct. 9:

 

Touchdowns:

Aiden O’Neill – 5
Chase Anderson – 4
Mikey Robinett – 3
Adrian Cunningham – 2
Logan Downes – 2
Jack Porter – 2
Hunter Bronec – 1
Peyton Caveness – 1
Davin Houston – 1
Malachi Somes – 1

 

PATs:

Anderson — 14
Downes – 1

 

Points:

Anderson – 38
O’Neill — 30
Robinett – 18
Downes– 13
Cunningham — 12
Porter – 12
Bronec – 6
Caveness – 6
Houston – 6
Somes – 6

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Win today, win bigger tomorrow

Posted in standings, tagged , , , , , on October 8, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville cross country coach Elizabeth Bitting keeps a watchful eye on her runners. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

We’re in the thick of things.

Fall sports are chugging along, with the race for league titles and playoff seeding part of daily life.

In that environment, Coupeville High School teams have six events in the coming week, with three at home and three on the road.

Wolf fans are on the edge of their seats.

Wolf volleyball enjoys home cooking, hosting Concrete Tuesday and Mount Vernon Christian Thursday night.

Meanwhile, CHS football has its Homecoming game Friday, with Forks making the long trek to participate.

Rounding out things, cross country gets on the bus for a trip to Lake Padden Park in Bellingham Thursday for the Lake Lap Invitational, while boys’ soccer makes two trips off-Island.

The Wolf booters travel to Friday Harbor Tuesday to square off with the defending state champs, then amble down to Bothell Thursday to play Providence Classical Christian.

As we continue to work our way towards basketball season, a look at up-to-the-moment league standings through games of Oct. 7:

 

Northwest League boys’ soccer:

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

 

Northwest League football — (11-Man):

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

 

Northwest League football — (8-Man):

School League Overall
Darrington 1-0 6-0
Concrete 0-1 4-2

 

Northwest League volleyball:

School League Overall
La Conner 5-0 6-5
Orcas Island 4-1 7-3
Darrington 3-1 9-2
Coupeville 1-2 3-4
MV Christian 1-3 5-4
Concrete 1-4 4-6
Friday Harbor 0-4 0-9

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Coupeville preps for Homecoming events

Posted in Homecoming, tagged , , , , on October 7, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Homecoming week is almost upon us.

The buildup to next Friday’s football clash between Coupeville and Forks begins Monday with the start of class competitions and continues through a parade and the game itself.

Day one brings with it “Class Colors,” though none of the four classes gets red, black, or white — Coupeville’s actual colors.

Instead, it’s yellow for freshmen, pink for sophomores, blue for juniors, and green for seniors.

OK…

Tuesday is “Country vs. Country Club,” followed by “Wacky Wednesday,” with Thursday all about paying tribute to “The USA” and Friday being “School Spirit.”

As the week plays out, there are two home games for CHS teams, both featuring volleyball, with fans asked to cram the stands in support of the Wolves.

Coupeville’s spikers host Concrete Tuesday on Dig Pink Night and Mount Vernon Christian Thursday, with both rumbles set to tip at 5:00.

Finally, the annual Homecoming parade is set to wind down Main Street and Front Street starting at 3:00 PM Friday, with the gridiron clash kicking off at 5:00 PM.

The dance, with the theme “A Night in Greece,” goes down Saturday at 8:00.

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Big-play Bayhawks bash Wolves

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on October 6, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Chase Anderson is a two-way warrior for Coupeville. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

A lot has changed in a year.

Jump back to fall 2022 and 2B Coupeville pounded the crud out of 2A Bellingham to the tune of 48-6, part of a 7-2 season for the Wolves.

Now, return to 2023 and the tide has turned, as the Bayhawks answered back Friday on their home field, shredding CHS for seven touchdowns — all on plays of 30+ yards — en route to a 50-7 victory.

The non-conference loss drops the Wolves, who were missing five starters, to 1-5 on the season heading into a Homecoming showdown with Forks, which is 4-1 with a Saturday clash with Friday Harbor on their schedule.

Coupeville had the game’s first highlight play Friday, with Marcelo Gebhard recovering a Bellingham fumble.

After that, positive plays were few and far between for the Wolves.

The Bayhawks defense stiffened and got the ball back, then quarterback Josh Leonard went to work.

A 6-foot-3 senior who transferred from Squalicum to join his dad Adam, the head coach at Bellingham, he tossed four touchdown passes in the first quarter, breaking off 49, 40, 58, and 42-yard scoring bombs.

Toss in a 38-yard scoring run by Christian Olberg and the home team was up 36-0 at the first break.

Bellingham added a pair of rushing touchdowns, covering 30 and 37 yards, to coast into halftime with a 50-0 lead and a running clock on the horizon.

In the midst of all that scoring, Coupeville did force another turnover, with freshman Davin Houston snaring a fumble to join Gebhard in the ball retrieval business.

With the clock rolling relentlessly, neither team scored in the third quarter, then Coupeville finally cracked the end zone on its own long-distance play.

Logan Downes limbers up his arm. (Bailey Thule photo)

Senior QB Logan Downes connected on a 49-yard scoring strike with sophomore Chase Anderson midway through the fourth quarter, with Anderson tacking on the PAT.

It was the fourth touchdown of the season for the young gun, pulling him closer to fellow sophomore Aiden O’Neill, who leads the Wolves with five scores.

For Downes, the pass was historical.

His 13th touchdown bomb of the season, it gives him 33 for his career, tying him with current CHS boys’ basketball coach Brad Sherman for #2 all-time in program history.

Logan Downes needs two TD passes to tie older brother Hunter for the top spot, and three to stand alone on top of gunslinger hill.

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Former Wolf coach charged with federal crime

Posted in Football, Laying down the law, tagged , , , , on October 3, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Michael Golden

A former Coupeville Middle School football coach has been charged with a federal crime, with authorities alleging he defrauded investors more than $3 million.

Michael Golden was an assistant coach with the Wolf gridiron program for several months in 2017, before moving back to Alabama.

He has been charged with one count of wire fraud, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in jail.

The announcement was made Friday by Northern District of Alabama U.S. Attorney Prim Escalona and FBI Special Agent in Charge Carlton Peeples.

The complaint against Golden, 48, alleges as founder and owner of three businesses, he duped investors between January 2018 and July 2022.

Those companies are Wolf-Tek LLC, MountainTop Timber LLC, and DroneTek Inc.

According to the complaint, Golden is alleged to have misrepresented his businesses to investors in multiple ways.

This includes stating he had timber leases and a way to harvest said timber for profit, that he had hundreds of pre-orders for drones, and that his businesses were about to be sold for millions of dollars to Amazon and other companies.

It is also alleged Golden gave investors promissory notes in which he misrepresented his ability to repay.

The charges state Golden defrauded investors to the tune of $3.5 million dollars and used the money to pay back prior investors and for personal expenses.

The investigation of the case was conducted by the FBI, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Ryan Rummage is prosecuting the case.

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