Time to pack away the helmets. (Piper Berry photo)
On to basketball season.
The Coupeville High School football team has decided not to pursue a week #10 game against another school on the outside of the playoffs.
A big factor?
There weren’t many willing opponents on the open market.
“Many of the programs we were trying to play had decided to end their season,” said CHS Athletic Director Willie Smith.
With the decision not to play on, the Wolves finish 2-7 this season, a year after going 7-2, winning a Northwest 2B/1B League title and advancing to state.
This year’s win/loss mark is a bit deceptive, as Coupeville, a 2B school, played four times against 1A or 2A schools, and twice lost this season on the very last offensive play of the game.
Those defeats came in the opener against Klahowya, and in the finale against Friday Harbor, with the latter preventing CHS from forcing a tiebreaker with the Wolverines to determine which NWL team went to state.
Wolf foes have combined to go 32-28, with five of seven posting winning records.
Coupeville senior quarterback Logan Downes smashed the school records for touchdown passes in a season (20) and career (40), while tying his own single-game standard (5) in a late-season win over La Conner.
Eight of 11 Wolves who scored this season can return next year, led by the trio of Chase Anderson (seven touchdowns), Aiden O’Neill (6), and Jack Porter (4).
