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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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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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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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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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Wolf sophomore Hunter Bronec has the most receiving yards of any non-senior this season. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Tim Ursu is money in the bank. (Brenn Sugatan photo)

Roll on, Wolves.

The Coupeville High School football team is off to a 5-1 start after bashing 2A Bellingham 48-6 last week, and the stat sheet reflects a balanced attack on both side of the ball.

From fab frosh to seasoned seniors, 26 different Wolves appear in the numbers compiled by CHS coaches.

With three weeks left in the regular season, a look at where things sit:

 

OFFENSE:

Passing:

Logan Downes — 60-109 for 807 yards with 11 TDs
Chase Anderson — 4-10 for 31 yards with 1 TD

 

Receiving:

Tim Ursu — 21 receptions for 215 yards
Scott Hilborn — 16-205
Daylon Houston — 11-189
Dominic Coffman — 6-133
Hunter Bronec — 4-48
Aiden O’Neill — 1-25
Johnny Porter — 1-14
Cameron Breaux — 1-5
Marquette Cunningham — 1-(-3)

 

Rushing:

Coffman — 59 carries for 465 yards
Hilborn — 39-368
Jo. Porter — 30-135
Downes — 16-58
Ursu — 11-31
O’Neill — 5-17
Jack Porter — 1-8
Xander Stinnett — 2-5
Anderson — 3-4
Devinion Hill — 1-1
Mikey Robinett — 1-0

 

Total Yards (Rush/Pass/Rec):

Downes — 865
Coffman — 598
Hilborn — 573
Ursu — 246
Houston — 189
Jo. Porter — 149
Hun. Bronec — 48
O’Neill — 42
Anderson — 35
Ja. Porter — 8
Breaux — 5
Stinnett — 5
Hill — 1

 

All-Purpose Yards (Rush/Rec/KR/PR/IR):

Hilborn — 673
Coffman — 598
Ursu — 519
Houston — 360
Jo. Porter — 149
Downes — 83
O’Neill — 49
Hun. Bronec — 48
Ja. Porter — 8
Breaux — 5
Stinnett — 5
Anderson — 4
Hill — 1

 

Pancake blocks:

William Davidson — 1
Zane Oldenstadt — 1

 

Touchdowns:

Hilborn — 10
Coffman — 8
Ursu — 8
Jo. Porter — 3
Houston — 2
Downes — 1
O’Neill — 1

 

Conversions:

Ursu — 1

 

PATs:

Houston — 12
Anderson — 11

 

Field Goals:

Houston — 1

 

Points:

Hilborn — 60
Ursu — 50
Coffman — 48
Houston — 27
Jo. Porter — 18
Anderson — 11
Downes — 6
O’Neill — 6
Team — 2

 

DEFENSE:

Tackles:

Hilborn — 57
Ursu — 52
Coffman — 40
Kevin Partida — 40
Peyton Caveness — 30
Jonathan Valenzuela — 26
Davidson — 23
Downes — 18
Josh Upchurch — 17
Robinett — 16
Kai Wong — 10
Houston — 9
O’Neill — 7
Marcelo Gebhard — 6
Oldenstadt — 5
Hurlee Bronec — 2
Coen Killian — 2
Anderson — 1
Myca Clarkson — 1
Ja. Porter – 1

 

Tackles For Loss:

Hilborn — 10
Valenzuela — 6
Coffman — 5
Upchurch — 4
Caveness — 3
Ursu — 3
Robinett — 2
Downes — 1
Partida — 1

 

Interceptions:

Downes — 3
Coffman — 1
Hilborn — 1
O’Neill — 1
Ursu — 1

 

Passes Defensed:

Ursu — 8
Downes — 5
Hilborn — 3
Davidson — 2
O’Neill — 2
Ja. Porter — 1
Valenzuela — 1

 

Fumble recoveries:

Coffman — 3
Caveness — 2
Hilborn — 1
Partida — 1
Upchurch — 1
Ursu — 1
Valenzuela — 1

 

Sacks:

Coffman — 3
Hilborn — 2
Valenzuela — 2
Caveness — 1
Robinett — 1
Upchurch — 1

 

QB Hurries:

Coffman — 4
Davidson — 4
Oldenstadt — 3
Hilborn — 2
Robinett — 1
Wong — 1

 

SPECIAL TEAMS:

Punts:

Downes — 7-255

 

Kickoff returns:

Houston — 4-171
Ursu — 4-155
Hilborn — 3-97
O’Neill — 1-7

 

Punt returns:

Ursu — 6-118
Hilborn — 1-3

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