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Let’s get electric!!

Posted in Football, tagged 1A Olympic League, football, Gabe Eck, Hunter Smith, John Fisken photos, Wiley Hesselgrave on September 20, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Eyes scanning downfield, young gun Gabe Eck gets ready to pick apart the defense. (John Fisken photos)

“I said NOOOOOOOO!!!” Grizzled vets Lathom Kelley (44) and Wiley Hesselgrave (10) team up to block a Chimacum kick.

Hauling in the ball in mid-stride, CJ Smith is footloose and fancy free.

Jordan Ford, getting ready to make his 2,561 relatives in the stands go crazy.

Hesselgrave can not be stopped by mere mortals. Fools.

Proud papa Mark Hesselgrave exchanges hair care tips with the most stylish soccer player in Wolf Nation, Kirsten Pelroy. Yep, I’m sure that’s what’s happening.

Hunter Smith, about to make a lot of folks miss.

Uriel Liquidano (63) and Ford team up to lasso a Cowboy.

A win is a win, but photos last forever.

As the buzz from Friday’s victory over Chimacum fades just a bit (eventually the focus will shift to next week’s foe, Port Townsend), Wolf football fans can relive the moment through John Fisken’s photos.

With Oak Harbor High School on a rare bye week, we got the travelin’ photo man’s full attention, and he delivered the pics above.

To see more (a lot more), and possibly purchase some (thereby helping to fund college scholarships for CHS student/athletes) pop over to:

http://www.olympicleague.com/index.php?act=view_gallery&gallery=9057&league=21&page=1&page_name=photo_store&school=183&sport=0

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Gabe Eck is blowin’ up!!

Posted in Football, tagged CHS Wolves, football, Gabe Eck, Lathom Kelley, Stats, Wiley Hesselgrave on September 19, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Wolf freshman Gabe Eck threw for 403 yards and three touchdowns in his first-ever start. (John Fisken photo)

One game does not a career make.

But, dang, it was a game.

Making his first start under center Friday, Coupeville High School freshman quarterback Gabe Eck shot bullet holes through Chimacum’s pass defense, completing 19 of 34 passes for 403 yards and three touchdowns in a 28-26 win.

To put the 403 yards in perspective?

Brad Sherman is the rightful career passing yardage leader at CHS (as far as we know from the spotty records) and his best game (we think) was 374 yards.

Is Eck’s total a single game record for the Wolves? Good luck in finding out, but it’s smack-dab in the conversation.

And, for the moment, it moves him ahead of sophomore Hunter Downes, who started at QB in the season’s first two games but was sidelined by injury Friday, on the stats sheet.

Who knows what’s to come, except for the fact Coupeville has two talented young gunslingers.

With that being said, semi-official stats through Week 3 arrive, with the usual caveat — if you disagree with your numbers, take it up with your coaches, who are the ones filing these stats on MaxPreps.

Offense:

Passing:

Gabe Eck 23-42 for 416 yards with 3 TD
Hunter Downes 25-46 for 239 yards with 1 TD and 3 INTs
CJ Smith 1-1 for 10 yards

Receiving:

Hunter Smith 19 receptions for 220 yards
C. Smith 10-213
Wiley Hesselgrave 9-83
Ty Eck 3-82
Jordan Ford 1-28
Lathom Kelley 2-22
Ryan Griggs 1-10
Jake Hoagland 2-7

Rushing:

Hesselgrave 16 carries for 152 yards
Kelley 14-37
Jacob Martin 7-12
Chris Battaglia 1-4
Mitchell Losey 1 (-3)
G. Eck 25 (-13)
Downes 12 (-49)

Total yards:

G. Eck 403
Hesselgrave 235
C. Smith 223
H. Smith 220
Downes 190
T. Eck 82
Kelley 59
Ford 28
Martin 12
Griggs 10
Hoagland 7
Battaglia 4

Touchdowns:

T. Eck 2
Hesselgrave 1
Martin 1
C. Smith 1
H. Smith 1

PATs:

Zane Bundy 3

Field Goals:

Bundy 1

Points:

T. Eck 12
Bundy 6
Hesselgrave 6
Martin 6
C. Smith 6
H. Smith 6

Defense:

Tackles:

Kelley 31
Battaglia 19
Uriel Liquidano 18
T. Eck 16
Brenden Gilbert 15
Hesselgrave 15
Mitchell Carroll 12
Tyler McCalmont 12
Losey 10
Julian Welling 8
Ford 7
Clay Reilly 6
Martin 5
H. Smith 4
Griggs 1
Teo Keilwitz 1
Jake Lord 1
Josh Robinson 1
C. Smith 1

Sacks:

Battaglia 2
Ford 2
Gilbert 2
Kelley 2
Hesselgrave 1
Martin 1
McCalmont 1

Interceptions:

H. Smith 2
Martin 1
Reilly 1

Fumble recoveries:

Martin 2
H. Smith 2
T. Eck 1
Ford 1
Hesselgrave 1
Liquidano 1

Blocked kicks:

Hesselgrave 1

Special Teams:

Kickoffs:

Bundy 4 for 153 yards

Punts:

Bundy 12-308
Reilly 2-84

Kickoff/punt returns:

Hesselgrave 9 for 126 yards
T. Eck 5-42

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Wonder Twins power up: Gabe Eck rocks!!

Posted in Football, tagged CHS Wolves, football, Gabe Eck, Kevin Smith, Seattle Seahawks, Top Gun on September 4, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Gabe Eck comes out firing. (John Fisken photo)

“I enjoy every minute of football from the blowout games to the nail-biting last play. Every minute of it is great.”

Listen to Gabe Eck for even a moment and you can hear his love of football spill out.

While the Coupeville High School freshman has already played numerous sports, it’s the gridiron that calls the strongest to Gabe and twin brother Ty.

After carving up foes at the middle school and youth league level, the duo will be making their high school debut tonight when CHS travels to Langley to face off with Island arch-rival South Whidbey.

For Gabe, it’s the first step in what he hopes will be a long football journey.

“My goals for this season are to help the team as best as I can and to make it to playoffs,” Eck said. “And in the future to get a college scholarship and play college football and go on to the NFL.”

Already a 10-year veteran, having played since his dad signed him up at age five, Eck is bouncing between quarterback, wide receiver and defensive back for the Wolves.

Wherever he gets the most plays, he’ll look to make same kind of impact he did at previous levels.

“I’m every smart with the game; over the years of being coached by so many coaches, I know so many different things about the game of football,” Eck said. “I have good quickness as a wide receiver, but I’d like to work on my speed.”

Away from the field, he’s an admitted shoe-fiend who enjoys history class and hails Top Gun and Pirates of the Caribbean as his favorite flicks.

Along with football, he’s played lacrosse, soccer and basketball and also wrestled and ran track.

His plan is to be a three-sport athlete for the Wolves, playing hoops in the winter and running the soccer pitch in the spring.

As he does so, he’ll try to emulate great players he’s come into contact with, from former Wolf stars to current professional players.

“Brett Arnold is like a role model to me,” Eck said. “And I went to a football camp and #17 for the Seahawks, Kevin Smith, was a great inspiration and a role model.”

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And the photos never stop droppin’!!

Posted in Football, tagged Brenden Gilbert, CHS Wolves, football, Gabe Eck, Lakeside, scrimmage on July 30, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Freshman Gabe Eck is one of four Wolves vying for the team’s starting QB job. (John Fisken photos)

Cameron Toomey-Stout chases down an unlucky Lakeside runner.

Cameron Toomey-Stout chases down a Lakeside runner.

Brenden Gilbert (74) launches himself onto one very unlucky Lakeside ball-carrier.

Uriel Liquidano: “Good lord, Gilbert. You’re a freakin’ animal!”

JR Pendergrass lowers his shoulder and prepares to drop the boom.

“Sit down and stay there!!”

Josh Poole, a moment before he took off like a bat out of Hell.

20 days.

That’s all that remains until the first day of official fall practice (Aug. 19) for the Coupeville High School football team.

As the Wolves count down the days, what better time than now to drop a few more photos from the recent summer scrimmage against Lakeside?

So, here you go.

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Ecks collect football honors!!

Posted in Football, tagged football, Gabe Eck, Marcus Trufant, Offense-Defense Youth All-American Bowl, Ty Eck on December 10, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Gabe (left) and Ty Eck (Teresa Besaw photo)

Gabe flies for yardage while playing youth football in Oak Harbor. (John Fisken photos)

Ty drops the hammer on ‘d’.

Football rolls on.

The school seasons are done, but Coupeville Middle School eighth graders Gabe and Ty Eck aren’t putting away their pads and mouth guards just yet.

The duo were selected to play with the Northwest Cougars 8th grade select team, which will participate in the Tanoa Bowl in Auburn Dec. 26-28.

That event will bring together the Cougars, who have former NFL player Marcus Trufant on staff, with three other squads — FBU Seattle, Vancouver B.C. Elite and a Hawaiian All-Star team.

After the Tanoa Bowl, the Ecks will bounce to Orlando to participate in the Offense-Defense Youth All-American Bowl, which is part of a series of games held in the Citrus Bowl in the first week of Jan.

It’s the fourth time the brothers have played in the Bowl, with previous trips to Dallas, Houston and Orlando.

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