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Sweet swingin’ seniors!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on May 2, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Nick Etzell is one of eight seniors on the Coupeville High School baseball squad. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Jake Hoagland

Joey Lippo

Kyle Rockwell

Hunter Smith

James Vidoni

Julian Welling

Jacob Zettle

Eight seniors, eight wins.

The red-hot Coupeville High School baseball squad has rolled to a 14-4 mark this season, going a flawless 8-0 at home.

A big part of that success has been the team’s seniors, who were honored after Wednesday’s game.

While their run isn’t done, with the double-elimination district playoffs kicking off Tuesday in Tacoma, the veteran Wolves bid adieu to their home field with an 11-0 romp over visiting Port Townsend.

Before they departed, local paparazzi John Fisken swung by the clubhouse to snap the pics seen above.

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Peruse some prairie portraits!!

Posted in Baseball, Boys Soccer, Softball, tagged , , , , , on March 3, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Nicole Laxton returns for another season of softball on the prairie. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Coupeville’s varsity baseball squad stays bundled up in the early days of practice.

Chris Cernick is all about the pitch life.

Wolf sluggers camp out in front of their dugout.

CHS senior Jacob Zettle enters his final season in the red and white.

Wolf booters, pretending they’re warm.

Marenna Rebischke-Smith is ready to make her debut as a high school athlete.

Wolf JV players stand tall.

Josh Robinson, already in summer mode, fears no prairie breezes.

It’s portrait season, if you can keep your teeth from chattering.

With spring sports kicking off in crisp temps and icy breezes this week, photo bug John Fisken hit three of Coupeville’s five sports and snapped away.

The pics, which touch down in the worlds of softball, baseball and soccer, are courtesy him.

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Spring sports fuel hopes and dreams!!

Posted in Baseball, Track, tagged , , , , , , on February 21, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Raven Vick is ready to run (and throw) her way into a new track season (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

CHS senior Jacob Zettle tries to stay warm during a past baseball season.

   Danny Conlisk and his biggest supporter, mom Dawnelle, part of the loudest ‘n proudest track fan club in the state. (Photo courtesy Conlisk family)

   Wolf sophomore Lucy Sandahl, firing off a serve in volleyball, wants to push herself to the limit on the track oval this spring. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Yes, I know snowflakes came down in Coupeville today, and yet, here we are, a little over 100 hours until “spring” sports start.

De … light … ful.

In the words of former CHS softball coach Amy King, who will be safely tucked away inside when practice begins Monday:

“I would think everyone’s hopes and dreams would be for it to warm up and not have freezing temperatures for their first day of practice!”

But anyways, as I mentally plan for another season on the howling Hellscape that is the prairie in “spring,” Wolf athletes (and their moms) are much more upbeat.

Four of them, in fact, are downright excited about the start of outdoor sports.

CHS senior Jacob Zettle returns to the baseball field, while sophomores Lucy Sandahl and Raven Vick head back to the world of track and field.

Going along with them is Dawnelle Conlisk, mom of Wolf junior distance runner Danny.

While her son, a veteran of three state meets (two in track, one in cross country) prefers to let his actions speak louder than his words, mom is part of an exuberantly vocal band of loyal supporters who follow the track and field squad from town to town.

As we count down the hours until the first practice (and hope the snowflakes go away), some thoughts on hopes, dreams and goals for Coupeville’s last season in the 1A Olympic League.

Jacob Zettle:

This year in baseball I hope to play varsity; I hope to take our league again.

One of my many dreams is that we can all as a team say a prayer in the field before every game.

Raven Vick:

Goals for this track season: throwing at least 110 feet in javelin, but my overall goal is 130 feet to beat the school record!

Dawnelle Conlisk:

Spring sport mama is ready for the season and looking forward to Danny getting sub-50 seconds in the 400, sub 5-minutes on the mile (which mile one at state for XC was 5:05 or 5:11).

Totally possible.

And achieving a school record, with a scholarship to be the total cherry on top.

Going to be one really exciting season … if you ask Danny, his reply isn’t anywhere near as exciting as his crazy mom.

Lucy Sandahl:

My hopes for the upcoming track season may be like everyone else’s but to a certain degree are kinda different.

I feel like a typical answer for this is to make it to state and get multiple PR’s; even though that would be such an amazing experience, I want something more.

I want to test my limits physically and mentally.

I want to be able to hit a point that my body has never experienced.

I want to be able to cross that finish line every time feeling like I can’t move and am gasping for breath; that is when I’ll know that I’ve accomplished that goal.

Your body can always accomplish something if you put your mind and heart to it.

That is my goal for the season.

Though it may seem crazy, to a certain degree it can be the most glorious feeling.

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Dancin’ the night away!!

Posted in Fashionable Fans, tagged , , , , on September 27, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Jacob Zettle knows, when you gotta dance, you gotta dance. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Steve and Elaina Kiel are feelin’ it.

Justine McGranahan gives Zettle five stars (out of a possible five).

   James Vidoni (left) and Kyle Rockwell (center) listen as Julian Welling expresses concern. “I’m just saying, he better have stretched first…”

John Rose debates unleashing a saucy flamenco of his own.

“Zettle set the bar, gentlemen. Get limber!”

   Barbi Ford has the cops on speed dial. “This whole place starts dancing, I want a SWAT team and tear gas. I say the words “Electric Boogaloo,” you are go.”

   Jordan Ford (right) ponders challenging his mom and unleashing a dance, dance revolution of his own.

When your volleyball team crushes their top foe in less than an hour, fans dancing in the aisles is not a huge surprise.

As Wolf backers celebrated Coupeville’s thrashing of Klahowya Tuesday, wanderin’ photo whiz kid John Fisken was busy snapping away, and the pics above are courtesy him.

I’m just here to write the cut-lines (yes, I do amuse myself, thanks for asking) and collect all the page hits.

It’s a living.

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To the last man, to the last out!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on May 2, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Jacob Zettle crunched a triple and two singles Monday, while also playing stellar defense. (John Fisken photo)

They fought till the final frame.

Storming back from a five-run deficit Monday, the Coupeville High School JV baseball squad had the potential tying and go-ahead runs on base in the final inning, but came up just a hair short of a miracle.

Despite rapping out nine hits, including three from slugging outfielder Jacob Zettle, the Wolves fell 9-8 at Klahowya in their season finale.

That it got so close at the end was a win in itself, as Coupeville watched an early 3-2 lead turn into a 9-4 deficit headed into the top of the sixth.

The Wolves rallied, however, sending 10 batters up to hit, and plating four of them.

Gavin Straub, Ulrik Wells and Elliott Johnson all eked out walks, while Zettle and Gavin Knoblich delivered key singles.

The big blow in the inning was a double off the bat of Jake Pease.

Back within one, CHS juiced the bags in the seventh off of two walks packaged around another single by Zettle.

It wasn’t to be, though, as Klahowya bore down and got the final two outs of the afternoon, stranding the tying run at third.

Even in a loss, there were strong points.

Zettle punched a triple to go with his two singles, while joining James Vidoni in making running snags on balls blasted to the outfield.

Pease and Kyle Rockwell both had RBI doubles, with Pease and Knoblich racking up two base-knocks apiece.

Shane Losey rounded out the hit attack with a single.

Ultimately the edge in the game came down to fewer errors by the Eagles.

“Both teams hit the ball pretty well,” said Coupeville coach Mike Etzell. “They played cleaner defense and had us by one run when the dust settled.

“Add some more focus on D, increase the baseball IQ, stick to swinging at strikes, and I like the future of the young Wolves.”

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