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It’s Bayne a very good year!!

Posted in Baseball, Football, Happy birthday, tagged , , , , on June 2, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Josh Bayne

Josh Bayne

He is the star of tomorrow, today.

Coupeville High School junior Josh Bayne, who celebrates his birthday today, is primed to be the BMOC next year.

With the graduation of Jake Tumblin, Bayne will move up and become the primary ball carrier for the Wolf football team.

It’s a role he’s suited for, as he slashed and flat-out blew people up whenever he touched the ball the past two seasons.

When Tumblin was injured, Bayne rambled for 204 yards and three touchdowns on 24 carries against Sultan.

Not content to merely run, he snagged four pass receptions for another 57 yards and collected four tackles and four assists while patrolling the backfield on defense.

He also got the quote of the season, from CHS stat man Chris Tumblin, after an especially impressive defensive effort against Nooksack Valley.

“Josh had one tackle on a receiver, folded him in half like a cheap hooker who was punched in the gut by her pimp,” Tumblin said. “He had to sit out for awhile and wait for his liver to start working again.”

On the baseball diamond, Bayne cranked a home run over the farthest part of the CHS outfield fence as a sophomore, then was named Second-Team All-Cascade Conference as a junior.

Whether he’s in the infield, or on the mound, Bayne can deal.

The best would seem to be yet to come, as CHS moves out of the 1A/2A Cascade Conference and into the 1A Olympic League in the fall.

Bayne should bring the pain in both of his sports, as the Wolves try to make an immediate impact on their new foes.

So enjoy your birthday, Josh, and get ready — next year is yours.

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Booming bats, big errors bedevil Wolves!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , on April 12, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Wade Schaef looks in for the sign. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

Wade Schaef looks in for the sign. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

Well, it was a change of pace.

After back-to-back one-run games decided only after playing extra innings, Coupeville and Cedarcrest closed out their three-game baseball series Friday with a relative romp.

Unfortunately for Whidbey fans, it was the visitors who ran away with the game, bunching together a bevy of hits and way too many Wolf errors on their way to capturing a 9-3 victory.

The loss dropped Coupeville to 4-6 overall, 3-6 in Cascade Conference play.

The good news is the smallest 1A school in the state is now done with playing the biggest of the big boys, having wrapped their series with league leaders Archbishop Thomas Murphy and Cedarcrest.

Those two schools are a combined 18-4 in league play while Coupeville’s remaining opponents — Lakewood, Granite Falls and Sultan — are a combined 9-18.

The first time the Wolves and Cedarcrest met on Whidbey this season, they went nine innings and finished with a 1-0 game. That wasn’t the case Friday.

After falling behind 2-0 quickly, Coupeville scored three in the bottom of the first to reclaim the lead.

The visitors, behind the hot bat of senior Nick Bowersock, who smacked three hits, blew things open with two in the third and fourth and three more in the fifth.

The Red Wolves collected nine hits off of CHS hurlers Josh Bayne and Wade Schaef, but were greatly helped by five Coupeville errors.

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Josh Bayne’s mom bribed me! Exxxxxccceelleennntt…

Posted in Baseball, Cookies, tagged , , , , on April 12, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Lauren Bayne lights up the net. (John Fisken photo)

Lauren Bayne prepares to torch the net. (John Fisken photo)

Josh Bayne

Josh Bayne, shakin’ and bakin’ on the baseball diamond. (Shelli Trumbull photos)

Bayne watches as CJ Smith throws a runner out. Did I mention, Bayne's mom made cookies? I did? Good, good...

Bayne watches as CJ Smith throws a runner out. Did I mention, Bayne’s mom made cookies? I did? Good, good…

Cookie Wars 2014 rages on, and my sweetest con job pays off like I never anticipated.

CHS track star Julia Felici had no idea what she would launch when she offered to bake me cookies if I wrote about a middle school dance she was putting together.

Now, after Kathy Bayne, mom of Wolf junior Josh and CMS eighth grader Lauren, struck with cookies this morning (I was out of town at a family dinner Friday and missed the baseball game), it’s all-out war.

Ladies! Ladies! Keep baking!!!!!!!

Current scores among team moms/athletes:

Softball – 6
Baseball – 4
Tennis – 1
Track – 1
Soccer – Um…

Hey, if I’m open about being easily bribable, than who’s to say it’s bad thing?

Certainly not me!

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Heartbreaker on the diamond!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on March 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Josh Bayne had three hits and three RBI Friday. (John Fisken p[hoto)

Josh Bayne had three hits and three RBI Friday. (John Fisken photo)

Aaaaaaaa-goooooooo-nyyyyyyyyyyyy.

Three outs away from a sweep of its season-opening three-game series against arch-rival South Whidbey, the Coupeville High School baseball squad couldn’t get the door all the way slammed.

Instead, they surrendered four runs in the bottom of the seventh Friday, losing 10-9 on a walk-off, two-out, two-run single.

Still, the Wolves, now 2-1 on the season, did win the series and will hold a tiebreaker over the Falcons, the only other 1A school to play baseball in the Cascade Conference. King’s doesn’t play baseball, while the other five league schools are 2A.

Coupeville will hit the road for non-conference games at Concrete and Nooksack Valley next week before returning to league play against the biggest baddie in all the land, Archbishop Thomas Murphy.

The game started slowly Friday, got pretty awesome for a stretch, then slipped away piece by piece.

The Wolves went with sophomore CJ Smith on the mound, and he didn’t have the command he had shown out of the bullpen in a CHS win Thursday.

After a rough first inning, in which he surrendered three runs, he settled down, but trailed 4-0 when he turned the ball over to Wade Schaef in the fourth.

After scraping together a run on an Aaron Trumbull double and Kurtis Smith single, Coupeville seemingly blew the game open with an eight-run fifth inning.

The Wolves used three hits, five walks and a crucial South Whidbey error to amass the runs. Morgan Payne (two-run single) and Josh Bayne (three-run double) delivered the biggest blows.

With Schaef cruising into the sixth inning, Coupeville seemed primed for the sweep, but the plucky Falcons refused to go away.

South Whidbey cut the margin to 9-6 going into the seventh, then jumped on mental errors by the Wolves to get two more in the bottom of the seventh.

Clinging to a 9-8 lead, with runners at second and third and two outs, Coupeville still had a chance to escape.

But it wasn’t to be, as the Falcon cleanup hitter became a hometown hero with a textbook single into left center to score the tying and winning runs.

Bayne paced the Wolves with three hits and three RBI, while Trumbull added two hits and two runs.

While he would have preferred getting back on the bus with a win, CHS coach Willie Smith came away mostly pleased with how his team handled the season-opening series.

“Although we lost, we did take the series and we had a lot of good things happen over the past three games,” Smith said. “We still have some work to do, as we struck out far too much today, mostly looking, and we still need to be able to put a team away when we have them on the ropes.

“But I feel like we put ourselves in a good position league-wise,” he added. “The areas we need to work on are definitely areas which we can fix.”

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“It’s always fun for me, whether we lose or win!!”

Posted in Girls Basketball, Gymnastics, Track, Volleyball, tagged , , , , on March 7, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Lauren Bayne (left), with CMS track teammates ? and Sage Renninger (right).

Lauren Bayne (left), last spring with CMS track teammates Jillian Pape (center) and Sage Renninger (right).

Lauren Bayne picks things up quickly.

The Coupeville Middle School 8th grader is a multiple sport athlete, like older brother Josh, a star football and baseball player at the high school level.

And, like her sibling, she seems to do well at any sport she picks up.

Case in point, basketball.

While she had played on a rec team when she was little, that team never actually played any games. Jump forward to this year, she chose to return to the hardwood, and bam, has made an immediate impact.

“This year was the first year that I ever played in a game, and I’m on the 8th grade varsity team!,” Bayne said. “I like to exercise and sports are always fun things to do, which is why I started this year.”

Helping her succeed is a natural sense of drive.

“I’m a competitive person, and like to push myself to do new things,” Bayne said. “It is always fun for me, whether we lose or win.”

While she’s not sure if she’ll stick with the sport when she moves up to high school — she also plays volleyball, runs track and is on a competitive gymnastics team outside of school — she’s intent on building her game as this season plays out.

“I want to play hard and improve my all-around skills,” Bayne said. “I think that I am a team player, and can play many positions — except post, because I’m not that tall. I need to work on my ball handling skills and shooting.”

When not playing one of her many sports, she enjoys geometry and gym class.

Following in the successful athletic footsteps of her brother, a junior at CHS, comes naturally to her. Having him, and her parents, to help and support her, is a key.

“My brother Josh is very good at a lot of sports, and my whole family is active,” Bayne said. “It is usual for me to play multiple sports, and get good grades, because of my help from family and friends.”

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