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Welcome to the land of destruction

Posted in Volleyball, tagged CHS Wolves, Friday Harbor, JV, Katie Marti, Taylor Brotemarkle, volleyball on October 21, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Taylor Brotemarkle and Wolf JV volleyball are a school-best 11-3 this fall. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Issabel Johnson hit like a freight train.

By the time the Coupeville High School sophomore was done Thursday, visiting Friday Harbor’s JV volleyball team was shell-shocked, shattered, and utterly destroyed.

Throwing down 23 consecutive points on her serve, Johnson was the first of many Wolves to soar as CHS strolled to a 25-2, 25-6, 25-13 rout.

The win lifts Coupeville’s young guns to a crisp 9-2 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 11-3 overall.

Boasting the best record of any Wolf fall sports team, the JV spikers and coach Ashley Menges close their season on the road at Mount Vernon Christian next Thursday, Oct. 28.

Playing in front of its home fans for the final time this season, Coupeville made short work of Friday Harbor.

The opening set was actually knotted at 2-2 when Johnson stepped to the service stripe, gently twirling the ball in her hands as she waited for the ref’s signal.

Then, she unleashed Hell.

Or, at least that’s what Friday Harbor probably thought, as serve after serve ripped off their fingertips, skidded away, or was completely unhittable.

The few times the Wolverines got the ball back over the net on a Johnson serve, her teammates made sure to quickly take care of business.

Madison McMillan smoked a nasty kill, while Jada Heaton delivered a pair of big-time thumps, crushing the volleyball and Friday Harbor’s spirit.

The only thing which stopped Johnson’s delicious rampage of terror was the simple fact the set ended, her 23-point run turning a 2-2 stalemate into a 25-2 romp.

How convincing was the first-set demolition?

The notebooks I use have 28 lines in them, which means, recording one point per line, you always go to a second page for each set.

Not so this time, as one page was all he wrote…

The second set was almost as big a romp, though the scrappy Wolverines did fight back a bit.

Katie Marti and McMillan both had strong runs on serve (though not 23 straight points strong), while Grey Peabody and Mia Farris owned control of the net.

Farris uncorked one kill which is still causing the gym walls to shake, while Peabody was a wild woman unleashed.

A tip winner here, a tip winner there, two solo blocks — which made her coach arch both eyebrows in approval — and her own ferocious spike.

The only thing slowing down Peabody was she occasionally had to sit on the bench long enough to allow the stat keeper to rest their over-worked fingers and apply some ice.

While the match was decided after two sets, the teams played a third for practice, allowing Taylor Brotemarkle, Peabody, and Marti a chance to shine at the service line.

Things ended on a very-appropriate note with Peabody soaring to the heavens, or at least the top of the net, to stuff Friday Harbor’s final rally.

At which point the stat keeper’s hand fell off, the ever-exuberant Marti bum-rushed her teammates, giving them all bear hugs, and the Wolves exited the floor like gunslingers who had just won another duel at high noon.

Thursday stats:

Taylor Brotemarkle — 1 kill, 2 digs, 3 assists, 4 aces
Mia Farris — 2 kills, 1 dig
Jada Heaton — 2 kills, 3 aces
Issabel Johnson — 8 digs, 1 assist, 11 aces
Katie Marti — 1 kill, 6 assists, 5 aces
Madison McMillan — 2 kills, 3 digs, 3 aces
Grey Peabody — 5 kills, 2 solo blocks, 2 aces
Aby Wood — 1 dig, 1 assist

Mia Farris and Co. were deadly on serve once again.

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Wolf JV plucks Falcons

Posted in Volleyball, tagged CHS Wolves, Katie Marti, straight sets, SWHS Falcons, volleyball on September 27, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Katie Marti was outstanding Monday, sparking Coupeville’s JV to a win over South Whidbey. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

They delivered the full experience.

The Coupeville High School JV volleyball squad started feisty and resilient Monday, before finishing dominant and devastating.

Crushing visiting South Whidbey 25-18, 25-22, 15-5 in a non-conference rumble, the Wolves raised their record to a sparkling 5-1 on the season.

And they did it by getting contributions from all nine players in uniform, with coach Ashley Menges expertly mixing and matching her lineup all night.

The opening set was a battle, with South Whidbey jumping out to a quick 7-3 lead before the Wolves found their mojo.

Freshman Taylor Brotemarkle turned things around with a fairly eye-popping play, launching a shot up and over her head while facing away from the net, with the ball splashing down behind the Falcon heavy hitters.

Katie Marti and Mia Farris both ripped off nice runs at the service stripe in the aftermath, with CHS coming all the way back to take a 13-10 lead.

No lead was safe in the opening set, however, as the two teams traded body blows.

South Whidbey went ahead 15-13, Coupeville rebounded thanks to a smokin’ hot spike off the fingertips of Madison McMillan, then the Falcons rallied again.

With the set knotted at 17-17, everyone was waiting for a hero to step up and claim the day.

And lo and behold one did, and her name was Gwen Gustafson.

Going airborne with a lil’ hop, the Wolf powerhouse unleashed a scorcher which melted the kneecaps off several South Whidbey players as it came back to Earth, melting a hole in the floor.

This time, Coupeville didn’t let loose of the lead, using service runs by Marti and Gustafson to close out the set on an 8-1 run.

The final shot was a delightful drop shot by Marti, who danced away, huge smile on her face.

That feeling lasted for a good stretch of the second set, as the Wolves used winners from Grey Peabody, McMillan, Marti, and Gustafson to stay within 10-9.

At which point the bottom fell out of Coupeville’s offense for a bit.

Eight points later, the Wolves were staring up at an 18-9 deficit, and might have been forgiven for closing up shop and moving on to the decisive third set.

But wait, not so fast.

Aby Wood cranked a huge spike down the right side of the floor to stop the bleeding, and that opened the magical floodgates.

Brotemarkle and Issabel Johnson each notched a couple of points at the service line, McMillan went on a mini-tear of aces, and the Wolves fought all the way back to 21-21.

A shell-shocked South Whidbey squad inched back ahead, for a half-second, at 22-21, but the flood had become a tsunami.

Marti and Wood delivered the final daggers, thrashing balls off of Falcon arms, and Coupeville concluded a set-ending 16-4 run which brought the home crowd to its feet, and kept them there.

Jada Heaton (10), Aby Wood, and Co. are an impressive 5-1 on the season.

With the match decided, the teams played a cut-down third set to get a little more practice time in, though many of the South Whidbey players had seemingly mentally checked out by that point.

Unable to recover after being staggered, the Falcons were deer in the headlight in the third set, with Brotemarkle, McMillan, and Marti serving the visitors into oblivion.

Farris capped things with a splendid running tip for a winner, her fingers flicking the ball one way while the Falcons went the other, and the day was done.

It’s a performance the Wolves will look to duplicate Tuesday, when they travel to Friday Harbor for a Northwest 2B/1B League match.

Coupeville is a pristine 4-0 in conference action, while the Friday Harbor JV is 1-2.

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Spikers nab valuable experience

Posted in Volleyball, tagged CHS Wolves, Katie Marti, OH jamboree, Taygin Jump, volleyball on September 5, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Freshman Katie Marti had an impressive debut. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

They’re a work in progress.

The Coupeville High School volleyball squads opened play Saturday with an appearance at the Oak Harbor Jamboree, and the result was a mixed bag.

The Wolf varsity, missing several players who are going through Covid quarantine procedures, dropped all six sets it played, but picked up valuable experience for younger players who made the jump up to the main team.

Meanwhile, the Coupeville JV was on fire, winning five of six sets.

Varsity:

While the 2B Wolves fell 3-0 to both 3A Oak Harbor and 1A South Whidbey, younger players picked up a chance to jump straight into the fire.

“We played with a very-thin group, but the amount of playing time and experience should really benefit us down the road,” said coach Cory Whitmore.

“I’m proud of each of the girls tonight for various reasons, whether it be for stepping up their leadership roles, adapting to playing next to newer teammates, playing a completely new position and/or playing a full six rotations where they had not previously done so.”

As a team, the Wolves were strong at the service line, something Whitmore has been having his team work on.

“I thought that our serving remained very consistent throughout the day,” he said. “That was a concern of ours during the first week of practices; however, we focused on it leading into the jamboree and it paid off.”

Whitmore praised the performance of freshman Katie Marti, who had to immediately step into a crucial role for the team.

“I do want to give a particular shoutout to Katie,” he said. “Having only recently stepped into a setting position, she learned the complicated rotations for a 5-1, and played all six sets, all six rotations for her very first outing in high school ball.

“This would be a lot to ask of any freshman and I thought she did a wonderful job.”

With Coupeville’s first regular season matches just days away, Whitmore and his spikers will get right back at it in practice.

“As a team, we have plenty to work on when getting back from the long weekend,” he said. “But this group has already shown a natural ability to learn at an accelerated rate, and so I’m looking forward to pushing them forward.

JV:

“It was such a great day for the JV girls!,” said coach Ashley Menges.

“They definitely make my job easy. They made a lot of adjustments throughout the day only having seven girls,” she added. “It was a lot of playing time and very good experience for them to start the season!

“Very excited for what’s to come for these girls!”

Alita Blouin keeps her eyes locked on the ball.

Taygin Jump gets artful.

Olivia Schaffeld maintains a laser focus.

To see more photos, and possibly purchase some glossies for the mantlepiece, pop over to:

https://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/Coupeville-Volleyball-2021/VB-2021-09-04-at-OHHS/

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Mighty mashers maul Mukilteo

Posted in Little League, Softball, tagged Katie Marti, little league, Softball, state tourney, Whidbey Island Inferno on July 12, 2021| 1 Comment »

Softball sluggers Savina Wells (left) and Madison McMillan combined for seven hits Monday at the state tournament. (Katy Wells photo)

On to day four!

Winning an elimination game for the second day in a row, the Whidbey Island All-Star juniors softball team thumped Mukilteo 16-5 Monday at the state tournament in Vancouver.

A royal rumble which began with eight teams now has just four left, and another will fall Tuesday.

That will come when Whidbey faces North Kitsap at 8 PM in a battle of squads which are 2-1 at the big dance.

Earlier in the evening Tuesday, Camas (2-0) and Kirkland (2-0) will play, with the victor advancing to the championship round, which goes down Thursday.

The Whidbey/North Kitsap winner goes toe-to-toe Wednesday with the Camas/Kirkland loser, with the winner of that one needing to win twice Thursday to claim a state title.

Monday’s showdown was expected to be a barn burner, with Mukilteo among the favorites entering the tourney.

Instead, Whidbey, even playing without injured slugger Loto Tupu, came out firing and never gave their foes a chance.

The Inferno exploded for five quick runs in the top of the first, added another score in the second, then broke things open.

A six-run fourth inning included a massive three-run home run from Coupeville’s Katie Marti, while four more runs in the fifth sealed the deal.

Well, almost, as Mukilteo made Whidbey work for it, pushing five runs across in the bottom of the fifth before falling a run shy of preventing the 10-run mercy rule from being enacted.

The game ended on a foul ball which soared behind the plate, then nestled soft and safe into the waiting mitt of Whidbey catcher Teagan Calkins.

The Inferno offense came alive under the lights, with Haylee Burleigh lighting the fuse all night.

Haylee Burleigh was dynamic, collecting four hits and playing inspired defense at shortstop. (Jackie Saia photo)

The Oak Harbor slugger got the first hit in all four innings in which Whidbey scored, spraying three singles to go with a resounding triple to right field in the top of the second.

In the first, Whidbey made sure Mukilteo knew what was up, with its first five hitters delivering base-knocks to rattle the rival hurler.

Burleigh slapped a single to right, followed by singles from Lilly Norman and Calkins, then the big guns started firing.

A day after crushing an out-of-the-park home run, mighty masher Madison McMillan cranked a triple to left field, with Savina Wells following her blast with a double to deep center.

A few batters down the lineup, Taylor Brotemarkle smoked an RBI single of her own, and the rout was on.

Up 6-0 heading into the fourth, the Inferno bunched together another batch of hits, with everyone in the lineup getting in on the fun.

Burleigh (yep, her again) singled, Jada Heaton walloped a double, Calkins and McMillan poked singles, and then it was time for Marti to get medieval on the softball.

Katie Marti can kill you with her bat or her glove. (Jackie Saia photo)

Flexing like grandpa Paul Messner used to do right before he ran wild on the football field in the ’60s (or so I’ve been told), the prairie powerhouse jumped on a ball, sending a screaming liner to far-away right field.

Churning her legs as fast as they would go, Marti never broke stride, barreling around the bags as two teammates tapped home ahead of her, applying the punctuation mark to the Inferno assault.

Still flushed with pride, Breeanna Messner’s cousin was honored after the game for hitting the first “legit inside the park home run” of the tourney.

And that could have been it, but these bats don’t take many breaks.

Whidbey added another four runs from there, with Burleigh (she’s back, baby!), Calkins, Adyson Morales, and Payton Ludemann all crunching key base-knocks.

With a generous scorebook keeper, the Inferno racked up an eye-popping 24 hits, with Wells and Burleigh leading the way with four apiece.

Calkins (3), McMillan (3), Marti (2), Layla Suto (2), Morales (2), Norman (1), Ludemann (1), Heaton (1), and Brotemarkle (1) all joined the hit parade, while Mia Farris provided the intangibles for a Whidbey squad which continues to fly high.

Wells was “lights out” in the pitcher’s circle, while her backing crew was primed for success.

“Defense was awesome,” said Inferno coach Fred Farris. “Haylee (Burleigh) is the real deal at shortstop!!”

Ludemann made “a great catch in right field,” while Calkins “played perfect in center then (at) catcher.”

Every girl on the roster had an impact, even those who are battling injuries.

“Lilly was a warrior again with the sore ankle,” Fred Farris said. “And Loto was in the dugout in her walking boot keeping them fired up!”

Coach Kimberly Brotemarkle and Teagan Calkins celebrate good times. (Jackie Saia photo)

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Eye of the tiger, click of the cameraman

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged CHS Wolves, girls basketball, Izzy Wells, John Fisken photos, Katie Marti on June 10, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Katie Marti lines up a shot. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Two games, about a billion camera clicks.

Give or take one or two.

Photo enthusiast John Fisken was on hand Tuesday, making his final appearance in the Coupeville High School gym, and the pictures above and below capture the Wolf girls hoops squads at work.

To see more, and possibly make some pre-summer purchases, pop over to:

GBB 2021-06-08 vs Friday Harbor – John’s Photos (johnsphotos.net)