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The little sister lights up the joint, too!!

Posted in Happy birthday, Softball, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, Happy birthday, Julian Welling, Melia Welling, Venom on July 18, 2016| Leave a Comment »

The impeccably-dressed Melia Welling. (John Fisken photos)

“Is mom working at PC right now, cause I’m parking this ball somewhere around the produce section.”

I like Melia Welling.

Regardless of whether or not she continues to become a big athletic star and ends up giving me plenty to write about over the next four years (and I think she will), she’s just a great young woman.

Like older brother Julian, she projects a friendliness that is infectious, and you can’t help but root for her.

Melia is on her way to becoming a freshman at Coupeville High School, with a pit stop in Birthday Land today, and she’s already made an impression as an athlete.

Volleyball, basketball, and, most recently, as a softball slugger for Central Whidbey Little League’s high-flying Juniors squad, the Venom, Welling has jumped in feet first.

She hails from an athletic family, which includes big bro and her cousins, Mitchell and Shane Losey, and she’s upholding tradition well.

Her biggest moment so far probably came when she thumped a two-run double in a Venom game.

The blow made Julian come dangerously close to flipping off the top row of the bleachers at the CHS softball diamond, as he screamed like a banshee while Melia beamed from ear to ear at second base.

Whether crunching big hits or giggling away with Cassidy Moody as the duo kept score at middle school boys’ basketball games, Welling is a talented, hard-working young woman who has made a very good impression on those of us in the cheap seats.

From all of us, happy birthday Melia. May the best be yet to come.

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A winner? Every day, every way!!

Posted in Baseball, Football, Happy birthday, tagged baseball, CHS Wolves, football, Happy birthday, JoJo, Julian Welling on June 22, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Julian Welling lays down the law: “There had better be cake! That’s all I’m saying…” (John Fisken photos)

“Wait, there is cake, right?”

"There is cake!!!!!!! It's mah birthday!!! Dance all day and party all night!!!"

“There’s cake!!! It’s mah birthday!!! Dance all day and party all night!!!” (Sylvia Hurlburt photo)

Julian Welling is one of the best athletes at Coupeville High School, hands down.

A slugger on the baseball diamond and a ferocious hitter on the gridiron, JoJo, who will be a junior in the fall, is the real deal, a talented guy with size, strength and a motor that runs hot and heavy.

But, if you want to know what separates him from the pack, what truly makes him special, you have to step back and watch him when he’s NOT playing.

Watch him when he’s in the stands, cheering on his lil’ sis, Melia, during her little league games.

Playing for the Venom, who went 13-3 this spring in Juniors action, Melia, who had very little experience coming in, made huge strides at the plate.

As her confidence built, boosted in large part by very vocal encouragement from her brother, she became much more aggressive at the plate and started ripping some liners.

The biggest blow came against South Whidbey, when she launched a game-busting two-run double to left that caused Julian to come unglued.

Bouncing on the top row of the stands, waving his blanket left and right, big bro bellowed “That just made my day, Melia!!”

The grin that split his sister’s face as she rocked back and forth while astride second base didn’t leave for the remainder of the game.

At which point Julian came flying around the side of the dugout to grab her in a bear hug and carry her off like a trophy he had just won.

It’s moments like that which make Welling, who celebrates a birthday today, one of the true bright spots in Wolf Nation.

He is as friendly and outgoing as anyone wearing the red and black these days, a fun-loving big kid who charges into battle with a grin on his face and light-hearted mischief in his heart.

Welling is also, though, a true standup guy, a young man who showed a lot with how he conducted himself during what could have been a negative time at the start of this year’s baseball season.

A person can complain when things don’t go their way or they can, day in and day out, show their coaches, in big ways and small ways, why they deserve to wear that uniform.

When Julian made his season debut, taking the ball in relief in his first game, he was being rewarded for not taking the easy way out.

For standing up and acting like a man when it mattered, even if that stung at times.

So, when I think of Welling, I absolutely acknowledge his talent.

But I really hail him for the person he is — the proud big brother who dotes on his sister, the fun-loving entertainer and the guy who admits mistakes, then turns them into positives.

A lot of people are good athletes.

Julian is much more than that, and as a Wolf fan, I am glad I can claim him as one of our guys.

Happy birthday, Mr. Welling.

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Two-out trouble trips up Wolves!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged baseball, CHS Wolves, Julian Welling, Meridian, two-out hits on April 23, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Kory Score, seen here making a defensive play

Kory Score, seen here snagging a low throw at first in an earlier game, knocked in both of Coupeville’s runs Saturday. (John Fisken photo)

One out away.

Stung twice by crucial two-out hits, the Coupeville High School baseball squad fell 4-2 to visiting Meridian Saturday.

The non-conference loss to the #10-ranked team in 1A dropped the Wolves to 7-8 heading into the stretch run of league games.

Sitting atop the Olympic League at 4-0, Coupeville has five games left, with a key stretch of three looming in the week ahead.

First up is Chimacum (1-3) at home Monday, then a trip to Klahowya (2-1) Wednesday, before winding up back on Whidbey Friday to face Port Townsend (0-3).

Saturday’s game was a warm-up for that run at a possible league title, and, while the Wolves came up just a bit short, they held their own against a highly-regarded squad.

CHS hurlers Julian Welling and Matt Hilborn combined to limit the Trojans to just four hits, but Meridian made them count.

Henry Skaggs blasted a three-run, two-out double in the top of the second to stake Meridian to a lead it never relinquished.

Coupeville chipped away, getting back into the game with a single run in both the second and third innings, but left the bags juiced in the third.

Welling led off the second with a walk, and then pinch-runner Joey Lippo sprinted all the way home on an RBI double from Kory Score.

The second Wolf run came via their own backs-to-the-wall magic, as Score capped a run of four-straight two-out hits with an RBI single that plated CJ Smith.

In between Smith and Score, Cole Payne and Welling also dropped in hits.

Both teams swapped zeros on the (non-existent) scoreboard until the sixth, when the two-out bugaboo hit again for the Wolves.

This time it was an RBI double off of the bat of Baker Otter, and it capped the scoring.

While his team came up a hair short, Wolf coach Marc Aparicio liked a lot of what he saw.

“It was a great game. We both played strong, but they just got one hit more than us,” he said. “I’m happy how our team played. Focused on Chimacum now.”

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Sizzlin’ spring snaps!!

Posted in Baseball, Boys Soccer, Girls Tennis, Softball, Track, tagged action shots, baseball, CHS Wolves, John Fisken photos, Julian Welling, Payton Aparicio, relay team on March 25, 2016| Leave a Comment »

The batter ordered the high, hard cheese and Julian Welling is ready to deliver it piping hot. (John Fisken photos)

Airborne and elastic, CHS goalie Connor McCormick covers the entire net.

Hungry for another big hit, Mikayla Elfrank carries a big bat and knows how to use it.

Jacob Martin auditions for the role of the T-1000 in the next “Terminator” film.

Don’t try anything, cause Hunter Smith has his eye on you. (Sylvia Hurlburt photo)

Tamika Nastali is aiming for the fence. Yep, the one way out there in center field. (Fisken photos)

Doubles ace Payton Aparicio reaches to the heavens as she unleashes a serve.

Uriel Liquidano (3) keeps his foe as far away as possible.

Currently sitting as the fastest 4 x 200 girls relay team in 1A, it’s (l to r) Sylvia Hurlburt, Makana Stone, Lindsey Roberts and Lauren Grove.

Friday was lovely.

Sunny, no rain, maybe just a ripple or two of breeze across the prairie.

So, of course, there was absolutely, positively no spring sports games scheduled for today.

As opposed to Wednesday, when Coupeville High School softball waged war while being lashed by gale force winds for three hours.

Such is life for athletes playing outside on a rock in the water in March.

Since we didn’t have any live action to report on, here are a collection of photos showcasing all five CHS sports teams, just to remind you what they look like when in action.

Why? Why not.

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Wolves win! Wolves win! Wrong Wolves…

Posted in Baseball, Boys Soccer, tagged baseball, CHS Wolves, Julian Welling, Sequim, Soccer, Zane Bundy on March 22, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Sophomore Julian Welling was a bright spot Tuesday, pitching strongly and crunching an RBI single. (John Fisken photos)

Sophomore Julian Welling was a bright spot for Coupeville HS baseball Tuesday, pitching strongly and crunching an RBI single. (John Fisken photos)

Senior booter Zane Bundy (left), who missed most of last year with an injury, scored his first goal of the season Tuesday.

Some days you’re the big dog and some days you’re not.

Tuesday was one of those days when not much went right for the home town guys, as 2A Sequim came to Whidbey and polished off 1A Coupeville’s baseball and boys’ soccer squads in record time.

The visiting Wolves broke open a 2-2 tie on the pitch and romped past the host Wolves 7-2, just hours after Sequim jumped on Coupeville for eight runs in the first inning en route to a 13-1 romp on the diamond.

The non-conference losses dropped the CHS booters to 0-3 and the hardball squad to 2-3.

Both Coupeville teams get a bit of a break now, with several days to work on things before they face another live opponent.

Baseball returns to action with a trip to Friday Harbor Saturday, the first of a stretch in which it plays six of seven on the road.

Soccer is home through early April, but doesn’t play again until next Tuesday, Mar. 29, when the Wolves host Vashon Island.

The Coupeville booters struck early Tuesday, netting goals from Zane Bundy (his first of the season) and Abraham Leyva (his third in as many games).

But defensive miscues hurt the Wolves in the latter stages of the game, allowing Sequim to break open a 2-2 tie and eventually run away with what became a one-sided affair.

Coupeville has now been outscored 18-5 in its opening three games.

Over on the baseball diamond, things took a quick, and painful turn for the Wolves, as Sequim came out swinging from the heels.

A double, an RBI single, a three-run home run that cleared the fence in left with room to spare and another RBI single plated five runs before Coupeville could get a single out in the top of the first.

Sequim tacked on three more before the first frame was done, with the only saving grace being that two of the runs came home on a fielder’s choice and a sac fly, generating outs.

Making his first appearance this season, sophomore Julian Welling came on in relief in the first and provided the one bright, shining ray of hope for Coupeville.

He got out of the inning, finishing things with a come-backer to the mound, then crushed an RBI single in his first at-bat of 2016, plating CJ Smith in the bottom of the first.

Unfortunately, while Welling pitched strongly, retiring the first eight batters he faced, Coupeville’s offense went into a deep funk after his RBI single.

A third-inning single from Hunter Smith and a fifth-inning walk to pinch-hitter Cameron Toomey-Stout was all the Wolf hitters could come up with as the game moved quickly to its conclusion.

“It was a learning game,” Coupeville coach Marc Aparicio said. “Gave us a chance to mix people around and slowly rotate in guys who were returning (after being out the first four games).

“After this, we’ll put our best team forward, go for it and come out strongly.”

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