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When rival quarterbacks have nightmares, it’s because they’re dreaming about being chased down by Jonathan Valenzuela. (Davin Houston photos)

Davin Houston has skills.

On the football field, the Coupeville Middle School 8th grader is a talented player, just like older brothers Dawson and Daylon.

While Davin has to wait until next year to take the field for the high school squad, he’s spent the season as part of the program.

As he learns and prepares for his own time in the spotlight, the young Wolf has also shown a nice touch with the camera, as seen in the pics above and below.

They capture Coupeville players in the aftermath of their 43-14 win at Friday Harbor, which clinched the program’s first trip to the state tourney since 1990.

Aiden O’Neill (left) and Daylon Houston enjoy the moment.

Daylon (3) talks strategy with Dominic Coffman. “So, run right over everyone. That should work great.”

Valenzuela carries a message of love to the gridiron.

O’Neill (23) and Chase Anderson, already key contributors as freshmen.

The future’s so bright, he’s gotta wear shades.

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Kevin Partida (55) and Daylon Houston (3) are key players on a 6-1 Coupeville High School football squad. (Alia Houston photo)

There’s no consensus.

Coming off of a 78-0 win over La Conner, the Coupeville High School football team sits at 6-1 on the season, and finds itself ranked differently by three different sources.

Evans Rankings has the Wolves at #6 among 2B schools, the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association RPI has them #7, and the newest Associated Press poll, released Wednesday, sticks them at #10.

With the AP poll, that’s down one slot from last week, when Coupeville held its highest ranking of the campaign at #9.

Ultimately, though, it all comes down to what the Wolves do on the field, and they’ll get back at it Friday when they travel to Friday Harbor.

A win there — and CHS beat the Wolverines 35-3 earlier this season — and Coupeville claims the Northwest 2B/1B League title and the program’s first trip to the state tourney since 1990.

 

Associated Press 2B poll for week 9:

1. Napavine – (8-0) – 90 poll points
2. Okanogan – (8-0) – 80
3-tie. Lind-Ritzville/Sprague – (6-1) – 65
3-tie. Toledo – (6-1) – 65
5. River View – (7-1) – 46
6. Columbia (Burbank) – (6-2) – 35
7. Chewelah (Jenkins) – (5-2) – 26
8. Raymond – (6-2) – 24
9. Pe Ell/Willapa Valley – (5-3) – 19
10. Coupeville (6-1) – 17

Others receiving 6 or more points: Liberty (Spangle) – 12

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Sean Toomey-Stout pauses to remember fellow Coupeville grad Lathom Kelley before Saturday’s University of Washington football game. (Photo courtesy Raven Vick)

Lathom’s memorial service. (Ben Smith photo)

It was a life well-lived.

Lathom Kelley, who died in a kayak accident in September, was a unique human being — large in personality, and always surprising.

He was a rugged athlete, a slick ladies’ man, a mama’s boy, rough and tough, but kind and caring.

Lathom loved his family and treated virtually everyone he met as his family.

He could crack heads (often his own), but also sweep others up with a kind gesture and a smile which lit up the prairie.

From the first moments of Coupeville Sports a decade ago, when he was a cartwheeling freshman and I was just exploring this transition to blogging, Lathom was The Dude.

Your dude. My dude. The dude each and every one of us needed in our lives.

He will be greatly missed, but he will never be forgotten.

 

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Coen Killian leads off a parade of Wolf football seniors. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

They came to play.

The Class of 2023 accounts for nearly a third of the Coupeville High School football roster and have been key to a 6-1 run on the gridiron.

Friday night, before they walloped visiting La Conner, the Wolves braved the first rain of the season to honor those seniors, and the celebration went 13 strong.

That included foreign exchange student Peter Bieda, and four-year managers Brenna Silveira and Melanie Navarro, a duo who are the conjoined heart of the Wolf program.

Kevin Partida-Flores

Daylon Houston

Kai Wong

Henry Ohme

Brenna Silveira

Peter Bieda

Tim Ursu

Josh Upchurch

Melanie Navarro

Dominic Coffman

Jonathan Valenzuela

Scott Hilborn

Class of 2023, standing tall.

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Brynn Parker and friends wrap the soccer season Tuesday at home. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Wolf football plays Friday, then has playoff plans. (Bailey Thule photo)

It’s the end of one thing, and the beginning of another.

All Coupeville High School fall sports teams end the regular season this coming week, though postseason action continues for most afterwards.

Tuesday there’s a home triple feature, with volleyball plus girls and boys soccer hosting La Conner on Senior Night.

After that, boys soccer heads to Orcas Island Thursday, while cross country competes at the tri-district meet in Lakewood the same day.

The regular season wraps Friday with Wolf football island-hopping to Friday Harbor.

After that comes playoff action, with dates and opponents still to be decided.

As the Wolves head into the final days of the month, where things stand through games of Oct. 22:

 

Northwest League boys soccer:

School League Overall
Orcas Island 5-0-0 10-1-0
Friday Harbor 6-1-0 9-2-0
MV Christian 5-1-0 8-3-1
Grace Academy 3-3-0 8-3-2
Lopez Island 2-2-0 4-5-0
Coupeville 2-4-0 4-7-0
La Conner 2-4-0 4-9-1
PC Christian 1-5-0 4-7-1
CPC-Lynnwood 0-6-0 0-11-0

 

Northwest League football:

School League Overall
Coupeville 3-0 6-1
Darrington 1-0 5-3
Friday Harbor 2-1 3-5
Concrete 0-1 1-6
La Conner 0-4 1-5

 

Northwest League girls soccer:

School League Overall
MV Christian 5-0-0 8-4-0
Friday Harbor 4-2-0 8-5-1
Coupeville 1-4-0 2-8-0
La Conner 0-4-0 0-11-0

 

Northwest League volleyball:

School League Overall
La Conner 7-0 11-1
Coupeville 7-1 9-4
MV Christian 7-3 12-3
Orcas Island 6-4 10-7
Darrington 4-6 8-6
Friday Harbor 2-9 3-9
Concrete 0-10 3-13

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