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Pollsters lovin’ CHS gridiron giants

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on October 19, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Wolf QB Logan Downes airs it out. (Brenn Sugatan photo)

Maybe they just shouldn’t play.

Despite having last Friday’s road rumble against Cascade (Leavenworth) cancelled by wildfire smoke, the Coupeville High School football team moved up in the Associated Press state poll.

The Wolves cracked the chart a week ago at #10 and moved up a slot to #9 Wednesday when the latest vote totals were released.

Coupeville, which received seven points a week ago, is up to 18 points, just a single point behind #8 Pe Ell/Willapa Valley.

The Wolves put their 5-1 mark on the line Friday when they host Northwest 2B/1B League rival La Conner.

A win on Senior Night will clinch at least a tie for Coupeville’s first football league title since 1990.

And now that we know what the human voters think of the Wolves, what do the computers say?

Both Evans Rankings and the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association’s RPI data have CHS at #6 among 2B teams.

 

Associated Press 2B poll for week 8:

1. Napavine – (7-0) – 90 poll points
2. Okanogan – (7-0) – 81
3. Toledo – (6-1) – 61
4. Lind-Ritzville/Sprague – (6-1) – 58
5. Columbia (Burbank) – (6-1) – 54
6. Raymond – (6-1) – 42
7. Chewelah (Jenkins) – (5-2) – 36
8. Pe Ell/Willapa Valley – (4-3) -19
9. Coupeville – (5-1) – 18
10. River View – (6-1) – 11

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Gridiron giants, freeze-framed

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on October 16, 2022| 1 Comment »

William Davidson (and his pink jammies) kick off a series of CHS football portraits. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

They play under Friday Night Lights, but get their portraits published on a Sunday.

The pics above and below capture a cross section of players from this year’s Coupeville High School gridiron squad.

The Wolves, who traveled to Leavenworth Friday only to be denied by wildfire smoke, are sitting pretty at 5-1, the program’s best mark in years.

Next up is La Conner, which arrives on Whidbey Oct. 21 on what will be Coupeville’s Senior Night.

Win that game — and the Wolves beat the Braves 46-0 first time around — and CHS football clinches at least a share of its first league title since 1990.

Jack Porter

Coen Killian

Chris Villarreal

Kai Wong

Jaje Drake

Hurlee Bronec

Johnny Porter

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Fight to be the top dog

Posted in standings, tagged , , , , , , on October 16, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Bryley Gilbert looks for an opening in the defense. (Morgan White photo)

George Spear (middle) pounds the trail. (Jackie Saia photo)

We’re heading towards the finish line.

There are still plenty of games to play, but having reached the midpoint of October, fall sports are definitely starting to wind down.

All five Coupeville High School teams are in action this coming week, with three squads at home.

Boys soccer gets to avoid any bus trips, hosting Providence Classical Christian Tuesday and Lopez Island Saturday.

Meanwhile, Wolf volleyball has a split schedule — at La Conner Tuesday, then home Thursday for Darrington — while football hosts La Conner under Friday Night Lights.

Coupeville’s other two active programs hit the road for their only competition of the week.

Girls soccer traipses to Granite Falls Tuesday, while cross country is off to Mount Vernon Thursday for the Northwest 2B/1B League Championships.

Where things stand through games of Oct. 15:

 

Northwest League boys soccer:

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

 

Northwest League football:

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

 

Northwest League girls soccer:

School League Overall
MV Christian 5-0-0 8-4-0
Friday Harbor 3-2-0 7-5-1
Coupeville 1-4-0 2-8-0
La Conner 0-3-0 0-10-0

 

Northwest League volleyball:

School League Overall
Coupeville 6-0 8-3
La Conner 5-0 9-1
MV Christian 6-2 10-2
Orcas Island 5-3 8-6
Darrington 3-5 7-5
Friday Harbor 1-8 2-8
Concrete 0-8 3-11

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Smoke gets in their eyes

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on October 14, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Welcome to the haze, as Coupeville football pulls into Eastern Washington. (William Davidson photo)

Wildfires rage, air quality plummets, and high school football games get cancelled or postponed.

It’s the current reality across Washington state, though Friday night on Whidbey Island would have been just fine for gridiron action.

Unfortunately for Coupeville, it was way down the road in Leavenworth, having traveled 140+ miles, and a ferry trip, one way for a chance to clash with Cascade.

The matchup between 5-1 teams never happened, though, as the kickoff was bumped from 7:00 to 7:30, then 8:00, before the game was called off.

To play what was to be Cascade’s Homecoming game, the air quality index needed to be lower than 150.

Leavenworth, which peaked at 386 at 1:30 PM, as Coupeville was aboard the Clinton ferry, was still in the 170’s when the game was cancelled.

An hour later, with the Wolves on the second leg of what will be close to a 300-mile round-trip, AQI was back up to 179.

The Air Quality Index for Leavenworth made a run at 400 Friday, and never dropped below 168.

When the announcement came, with haze hanging over the field, and a few stragglers goofing off between the hash marks, the Cascade PA guy was in the midst of trying to push spaghetti and garlic bread dinners.

“We’ve got a lot here, folks!!”

While the guy behind the mic made a public show of saying they would try to reschedule the game, it is unlikely for multiple reasons.

Both Coupeville and Cascade have league games the next two weeks, with the playoffs looming on the horizon.

Friday’s clash would have been a non-conference affair, and league games are always given priority.

Also, with the fires and smoke going nowhere, who sends the Wolves on another 300-mile trip?

Meanwhile Cascade has no incentive to spend its own gas money on a trip to the balmy shores of The Rock after making the journey last year.

So, in the end it likely becomes a frustrating story in the never-ending tale of life bouncing across the backroads in pursuit of athletic competition.

Hey, maybe the Wolves got some bratwurst on the way out of town.

Or some of Cascade’s spaghetti.

At least the Wolf coaches had fun in town. (Photo courtesy Bennett Richter)

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Wolf football cracks AP poll

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on October 14, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Scott Hilborn streaks for the end zone. (Bailey Thule photo)

The world has gone topsy-turvy.

The Coupeville High School football team, off to its best start in a very-long time at 5-1, has gotten some computer love this season.

Newman, the diabolical collection of nuts and bolts doing the heavy work at Evans Rankings, likes the Wolves, mostly.

As does the RPI system employed by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association.

But real live humans?

Especially big-city newspaper prep sports reporters dreaming about making the jump to getting press box access (and free food) at Mariners or Seahawks games?

Safe to say, 98.4% of them don’t know their Coupeville from their Colville.

Except…

This week, when the Associated Press released its weekly football rankings, the Wolves made the poll for the first time since former Wolf coach Ron Bagby was rockin’ the short shorts.

Oh, it’s true.

Coupeville (not Colville) snagged seven points in the poll, placing the Wolves at #10 among all 2B schools in the state.

They sorta, kinda, know our name. Bout dang time.

 

Associated Press 2B poll for week 7:

1. Napavine – (6-0) – 80 poll points
2. Okanogan – (6-0) – 70
3. Raymond – (6-0) – 64
4. Liberty (Spangle) – (5-1) – 47
5. Lind-Ritzville/Sprague – (5-1) – 46
6. Toledo – (5-1) – 38
7. Columbia (Burbank) – (5-1) – 30
8. Lake Roosevelt – (6-1) – 25
9. Adna – (4-2) – 8
10. Coupeville – (5-1) – 7

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