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To the final out, to the final batter!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on April 13, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Gavin Straub had a pair of singles Thursday as Coupeville’s JV baseball squad battled Klahowya to the final at-bat. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

It was a nail-biter. A barn-burner. A gut-wrencher.

Pick your superlatives, but the Coupeville and Klahowya JV baseball squads put together an audience-pleaser Thursday, even if, ultimately, only the Eagle fans went home truly satisfied.

Rallying from four runs down, then scoring the winner in the seventh, Klahowya edged the Wolves 7-6 on a rain-free Whidbey diamond.

The loss drops the Coupeville JV to 1-4 on the season.

For much of the afternoon, the Wolves looked to be in control.

Starting pitcher Daniel Olson was humming on the mound, holding Klahowya to just two hits and a single run through five innings.

During that time, the Wolf hitters racked up seven hits of their own and built what seemed like a comfortable 5-1 lead.

Coupeville got things started in the second, using singles from Gavin Straub and Johnny Carlson to plate the first run.

Unfortunately, the Wolves left two aboard in the inning, a small mistake which would come back to haunt them later in the game.

CHS added two runs apiece in the third and fifth, starting both rallies in the same way, with back-to-back one-out singles from Jered Brown and Olson.

In the third, both runners scampered home when Klahowya booted Shane Losey’s grounder, while in the fifth, the Wolves picked up tallies on an RBI ground-out by Mason Grove and a run-scoring double from Losey.

Things took a major change in the sixth, however, when the Eagles finally put together their first sustained rally.

Piling up three singles  around two Wolf errors and a hit batter, KSS plated five to roar all the way back into the lead, pushing dark clouds over the Coupeville dugout.

The Wolves had an immediate response, knotting the game back up at 6-6 in the bottom of the sixth, thanks to a timely two-out base-knock.

It came courtesy James Vidoni, whose single scored Ulrik Wells, essentially re-starting the game.

Klahowya was not to be denied, though, as it scratched out what proved to be the game-winner in the top of the seventh.

The Eagles got the most important run of the game without a single hit, using three walks and an error to send their seventh runner across the plate.

Coupeville kept the bleeding at a minimum thanks to nailing a different KSS runner at the plate on a throw from Losey to Grove.

The Wolves had a chance to send the game to extra innings, but, after walking to open the bottom of the seventh, Olson was stranded as the next three hitters went down.

Straub, Brown and Olson paced the Coupeville attack with two hits apiece, while Losey, Carlson and Vidoni each added a base-knock of their own.

CHS hurlers Olson, Brown and Carlson combined to whiff eight Eagles on the afternoon.

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Can’t touch them!!

Posted in Girls Tennis, tagged , , , , on April 12, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Wolf freshman Genna Wright pulled out a two-hour-plus, three-set win Thursday, helping Coupeville clobber Klahowya. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Still perfect.

The Coupeville High School girls tennis team has never lost a match against a 1A Olympic League foe, and the streak has now reached four years and counting.

Taking advantage of better-than-expected weather, the Wolves drilled visiting Klahowya 6-1 Thursday in the conference opener for both squads.

The win lifts Coupeville to 1-0 in league play, 2-5 overall, with Chimacum coming to Whidbey Friday for another Olympic League rumble.

Since joining the conference in 2014, the Wolf netters have ripped off three straight league titles, and three straight unbeaten runs through conference play.

The only thing which has stopped them at times is weather.

After going 6-0 the first time around, CHS was 5-0 and 4-0 the past two seasons, and, with titles clinched, didn’t stress out too badly over matches which were rained out multiple times.

At 16-0 all-time, Wolf girls tennis joins Klahowya girls and boys soccer as the only three programs to have not dropped a contest in league play.

Facing off with the Eagles, CHS got its usual strong play from its doubles units, all four of which swept to straight-sets wins.

But, adding a nice cherry on top of the sundae were the singles players, where freshman Genna Wright and senior Heather Nastali each captured their first varsity wins of the season.

Wright, who Coupeville coach Ken Stange hailed as “mentally tough,” got hers in a knock-down, drag-out brawl at #2 singles which sailed past the two-hour mark.

Complete Thursday results:

Varsity:

1st Singles — Claire Mietus lost to Hailey Sargent 6-0, 6-1

2nd Singles — Genna Wright beat Anna Wells 6-2, 3-6, 6-4

3rd Singles — Heather Nastali beat Rachelle Adams 6-1, 6-0

1st Doubles — Payton Aparicio/Sage Renninger beat Taylor Bruce/Marianne Maker 6-4, 6-2

2nd Doubles — Avalon Renninger/Tia Wurzrainer beat Kelisha Harris/Kristin Powell 6-1, 6-2

3rd Doubles — Maggie Crimmins/Kameryn St Onge beat Emma Heckert/Mia Brill 6-3, 6-1

4th Doubles — Jillian Mayne/Zara Bradley beat Helle Larsen/Angelina Robinson 6-0, 6-0

JV:

5th Doubles — Megan Behan/Nanci Melendrez lost to Harris/Powell 6-2

6th Doubles — Jaimee Masters/Emily Fiedler lost to Adams/Wells 6-4

7th Doubles — Elaira Nicolle/Nastali beat Heckert/Brill 6-1

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Roll in, torch ’em, roll out!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , , on March 28, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Nick Etzell crunched a double Wednesday as Coupeville blew out Klahowya 13-3. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

   Wolf senior Julian Welling, who was hit by three different KSS pitchers in the game, shows off his war wounds. (Photo courtesy Jacob Zettle)

Everything was clicking.

Pitching, hitting, defense, intangibles — they were all on point for the Coupeville High School baseball squad Wednesday at it battered host Klahowya 13-3.

The win lifts the Wolves to 1-0 in Olympic League play and into a first-place tie with Chimacum (1-0).

Defending league champ Klahowya (1-2) and Port Townsend (0-1), which visits Whidbey Friday, hold down the bottom two slots at the moment.

The Wolves, who are 4-3 overall, jumped on the Eagles early and never let up, scoring in six of seven innings.

That gave starting pitcher Hunter Smith plenty of room in which to operate, and the senior ace responded with his third win in as many starts.

He scattered two hits (matching the total he himself racked up while hitting) and struck out five while going the distance.

Coupeville jumped out to a 7-0 lead, plating two in the top of the first, then rocking Klahowya pitching for five more in the second.

Matt Hilborn kick-started things with a lead-off single, then the Wolves juiced the bases thanks to Smith and Julian Welling’s willingness to be plunked.

While Coupeville’s lead runner was forced at home on a fielder’s choice, the Wolves broke through with an RBI single off the bat of Jake Hoagland and a bases-loaded free pass eked out by Kyle Rockwell.

With Klahowya’s pitcher unable to find the strike zone, CHS packaged five walks (including Hilborn wearing a pitch), a Nick Etzell double and singles from Joey Lippo and Jake Pease to bust things open in the second.

KSS shaved two runs off the lead in their half of the second, but continued to hand out walks like sweet, sweet candy, allowing Coupeville to stretch the margin back to 9-3 by the end of five innings.

Of course, “sweet, sweet candy” might be stretching it a bit, when Klahowya lobbed pitches off of the body parts of Wolf batters SEVEN times in one game.

Welling was their favorite target, getting nailed by THREE different Eagle pitchers.

One of the few times they didn’t hit him was the sixth inning, when Welling sent Smith home with an RBI ground-out, right after the Wolf hurler whacked a two-run triple.

Apparently wanting to play a full seven innings, the Wolves didn’t hit a 10-run lead until they notched a final tally in the top of the seventh, too late to kick in the mercy rule.

Still, it mattered very little, as Smith closed the game with one final punch-out from the mound and Coupeville exited Silverdale with a victory that was assured, very-balanced and fairly definitive.

The Wolves finished with 10 base-knocks, with Smith, Lippo and Hilborn leading the way with two apiece.

Pease, Hoagland, Dane Lucero and Etzell rounded out the attack, each collecting a hit.

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Heart stopper to a heart breaker!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on February 1, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Chris Smith’s Wolf boys JV basketball squad offered plenty of offensive fireworks Thursday, but couldn’t quite hold on for the win. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

A beautiful, thrilling gut punch.

Thursday night’s JV boys basketball rumble between Coupeville and visiting Klahowya hit all the emotions on the spectrum, getting early-arriving fans all worked up.

The only downside to an often-electrifying game was the final score, as the Wolves couldn’t hold on to a 12-point fourth quarter lead and fell 56-54 in overtime.

The loss drops the CHS young guns to 3-5 in Olympic League play, 4-14 overall.

For much of the game Thursday, Coupeville played like a fifth win would be a lock.

After a ho-hum first quarter, which ended in a 5-5 tie, but featured a teeth-rattling block by Ulrik Wells and a gorgeous little running hook shot from Sage Downes, things began to heat up.

Mason Grove dropped a three-ball right in a defender’s face to open the second, then Koa Davison decided it was time to rule the world, or at least the court.

The Wolf sophomore knocked down a trey off of a feed from Wells, hit a pair of free throws without making the net ripple in the slightest, then sank a second three-ball while on the move.

That shot sizzled through the net so fast, all three people working the scorekeeper’s table missed it, and had to retroactively credit Davison after a halftime visit from the Points Police.

Up 21-18 at the break, Coupeville rained down three-balls in the third and fourth (Grove and Downes each hit a pair, while Daniel Olson dropped in a really long one) and seized control of the game.

The Wolves stretched their lead out to 13 at one point, and seemed totally in control after David Prescott banked home a rebound to stake CHS to a 46-34 lead with four minutes to play.

The lead wasn’t big enough, however, as Klahowya clamped down on defense, used a press to its advantage, then got lucky on a couple of iffy shots.

Wells threw down a three-point play the hard way, corralling a long outlet pass and turning it into a bucket-and-free-throw, but the Eagles kept coming and the game slipped away from Coupeville.

Missed free throws down the stretch were a killer for both teams, but ultimately stung the Wolves worse and the two squads staggered into extra basketball knotted at 51-51.

The four-minute OT period was firmly split into two story-lines, and, unfortunately for CHS, they didn’t play out evenly.

Klahowya built up a five-point lead, while the Wolves failed to score until the final 45 seconds.

Gavin Knoblich lost his man on a drive to the hoop for a bucket, then added a free throw to pull Coupeville within 56-54, but that was it for any comeback hopes.

The Eagles badly missed two final free throws, but with no time outs and a running clock, Downes had to launch a potential game-winner from well behind the half-court line and his prayer wasn’t answered.

Seven different Wolves scored, with Grove making the nets kick for 13, which gives him 325 in 18 JV games.

Downes went off for 12, Davison collected nine and Knoblich (7), Wells (6), Olson (5) and Prescott (2) also scored.

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“We found lightning in a bottle!!”

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on February 1, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   With a win Thursday, Chelsea Prescott and her Wolf teammates kept alive their hopes of earning a share of the Olympic League title. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

It has been a season-long battle.

A rebuilding Coupeville High School girls basketball squad, especially after it lost its top scorer to a season-ending injury, has had issues putting the ball in the bucket.

On many nights, the Wolf defense has been a true bright spot, but the offense has largely been a work in progress.

Until the fourth quarter Thursday afternoon.

Suddenly, everything clicked and Coupeville ripped off a 20-1 tear over the game’s final eight minutes, running host Klahowya off the floor to a 36-21 tune.

“We found lightning in a bottle!,” exclaimed Coupeville’s very-happy coach, David King.

The win lifts the Wolves to 5-3 in Olympic League play, 7-13 overall and keeps alive their hopes of garnering a share of the conference title.

Coupeville, which has hung three consecutive league title placards on the school’s Wall of Fame, still needs everything to break its way Saturday.

The Wolves face Chimacum (4-4), while Port Townsend (6-2) plays Klahowya (1-7).

Wins by Coupeville and Klahowya would leave CHS and PTHS with identical 6-3 marks.

While the schools would share the title, Port Townsend has clinched the league’s #1 playoff seed, since it owns a tiebreaker, having taken two of three from Coupeville this season.

Saturday’s game, which is Senior Night for Kyla Briscoe, Allison Wenzel and Mikayla Elfrank, will determine if the Wolves enter the postseason as a #2 or #3 seed.

Win and Coupeville hosts a loser-out playoff game Feb. 10, one win away from the double elimination portion of districts.

Fall to Chimacum Saturday, a team it has split two games with, and CHS would be the #3 seed and open the playoffs Feb. 8 at home.

Under that scenario, they would have to survive two loser-out games to advance.

Playing their final regular season road game Thursday, the Wolves looked like they were following a familiar, and distressing, pattern.

Shot went up, but shots refused to stay in the cylinder, and CHS trailed 20-16 headed to the fourth.

A strong defensive effort kept Klahowya from pulling too far away, but buckets, any kind of buckets, was what King desired.

And the Wolves answered.

“After struggling through the first three quarters, we caught fire in all facets of the game,” he said. “Everything clicked.”

While they trailed, the Wolves were playing with a great deal of confidence, something King praised in the huddle.

“I could see a momentum shift and that we needed to keep up the effort,” he said. “It all started with our press and defensive effort.

“We got a couple of steals and easy buckets to start the fourth, then caused a couple of more turnovers,” King added. “That got our half-court defense ramped up and helped us settle down on offense.

“The jumpers we were missing in the first half all of a sudden looked smooth and put up with confidence. They started falling in bunches.”

A trio of Wolves provided the late-game offensive heroics, with Ema Smith knocking down eight in the quarter, Kyla Briscoe adding seven and Lindsey Roberts capping things with five.

Briscoe and Roberts both netted huge three-balls, while Smith (4-4) and Briscoe (2-2) combined to ice the game with flawless free-throw shooting.

All of the fourth-quarter free throws were of the 1-and-1 variety, as well, putting an added degree of danger for the Wolves, who responded like seasoned pros.

The comeback had begun in the third quarter, when King used his bench players to light a spark.

“We looked to be heading into a tailspin, so we went to our bench quickly and often trying to find a flicker of light,” he said. “Chelsea (Prescott), Allison, Avalon (Renninger) and Hannah (Davidson) did just that with their effort and defense.

Scout Smith rattled home a big bucket to turn the tide, then Roberts dropped in a trey to end the third quarter.

Riding the momentum, the Wolves dominated in the fourth by “controlling the boards and being the aggressor.”

Roberts went coast-to-coast on one play, slapping home a layup after she snagged a defensive rebound, then charged right at the heart of the Klahowya defense.

“I’ve been waiting for her to make a play like that!,” said a proud coach.

Ema Smith paced Coupeville with a game-high 13, while Roberts (10), Briscoe (9) and Scout Smith (4) also scratched their names in the book.

“We only had four players score, but each player contributed in this victory,” King said. “Defense doesn’t always show up in the stats, but all nine players contributed at some point to our success in the third and fourth quarters.”

Roberts snagged seven boards, as all nine Wolves nabbed at least one rebound. Briscoe (four assists and five steals) and Ema Smith (six steals and six rebounds) also filled up the stat sheet.

Sarah Wright capped the game with a play which perfectly captured Coupeville’s grit and will to win.

With the game all but done, an Eagle tried to take the ball to the hoop hard for a last-second layup, only to have Wright slide into place, plant herself and absorb the full brunt of the charge, causing an offensive foul call as the buzzer rang.

JV sits out (again):

The Wolf young guns failed to play for the second-straight game thanks to extenuating circumstances.

Issues with refs (or the lack of them) cost Coupeville’s #2 squad a chance to play Tuesday at Sequim.

Thursday, it was the cancellation of ferry runs, which ensured CHS had to ankle for the exits at Silverdale early.

The young Wolves sit at 7-10 heading into Saturday’s season finale.

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