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“We never gave up!!”

Posted in Volleyball, tagged 1A Olympic League, CHS Wolves, Klahowya, volleyball on October 27, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Lauren Rose, seen here in an earlier match, had a team-high 16 assists Thursday night. (John Fisken photo)

“I’m very happy with our fight tonight.”

Roaring from behind while playing in front of a hostile crowd Thursday, the Coupeville High School volleyball squad almost pulled off a miracle win.

But while the Wolves ran out of gas a point or two from keeping their league record flawless, CHS coach Cory Whitmore was still impressed with the fight he saw from his players.

“Klahowya is a very good team and at their house they play even better,” he said. “We never gave up and got battle-tested going into districts.”

The Eagles escaped with a 27-25, 25-16, 26-28, 19-25, 15-12 win, making up a bit for Coupeville winning a five-set thriller the first time these two schools squared off in Silverdale back in Sept.

In between, the Wolves slammed Klahowya in straight sets during the one time they faced-off on Whidbey, and, if a fourth showdown is coming, it will be on Coupeville’s turf.

CHS, which is 7-1 in 1A Olympic League play, 10-4 overall, has one more regular season match Saturday at Port Townsend (0-8, 2-12).

After that, the Wolves carry a #1 seed into districts Saturday, Nov. 5.

Win two matches (while not losing more than one) that day in their own gym and they punch their ticket to state.

Klahowya (6-3, 7-7) will have to win a loser-out game against Seattle Christian Nov. 3 to make it to the double-elimination round of districts.

To see the bracket, pop over to: http://www.olympicleague.com/tournament.php?tournament_id=2069&sport=10

Thursday, the Eagles opened strongly, but the Wolves responded.

“We lost a tight first set and didn’t let it determine the entire rest of the match,” Whitmore said. “Our defense was scrappy and lit a fire.”

Hope Lodell led the attack, firing off eight aces on her serve while also going low for a team-high 21 digs.

She was joined on the stat sheet by Katrina McGranahan (nine kills, seven aces), Lauren Rose (16 assists), Ashley Menges (11 assists), Valen Trujillo (nine digs) and Mikayla Elfrank (eight kills).

JV stays red-hot:

With the varsity match being a long one, the young guns got the short end of the stick on the road. As the ferry revved its motor in the distance, the two schools played just a single set.

The results? Same old, same old, as Coupeville crushed Klahowya 25-16 to nab its ninth straight win.

The JV squad sits at 8-0 in league play, 11-2 overall and will go for a perfect conference season when it faces Port Townsend.

While the Wolves time on the floor was limited Thursday, they continued to shine brightly.

“We had to play pretty quickly but we did play well,” said Wolf JV coach Kristin Bridges. “We are growing into a really cohesive unit.”

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Rumblin’ in the rain!!

Posted in Football, tagged Andrew Martin, CHS Wolves, Dawson Houston, football, JV, Klahowya on October 24, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Andrew Martin runs between the rain drops. (John Fisken photos)

Gavin Knoblich anchors the line for the Wolves.

A pack of Wolves including Ulrik Wells (25), Jake Hoagland (middle) and Trevor Bell (72) bring down an Eagle.

CHS receiver Matthew Shreffner gets lined up.

And then the sun went supernova.

Wolf QB Dawson Houston comes out flingin’ heat.

Where’s the lightning when you really want it?

A week after having their game stopped seven minutes early by flashes in the sky (from off-Island), the Coupeville High School JV football squad (and its fans) were left out in the rain and wind for the full duration Monday night.

The first half was a cascade of moisture, which always make one a bit hesitant to be camped out next to the electronics which operate the score board.

As we’re currently living through a year without a press box, the school’s athletic master of ceremonies, Aimee Bishop, was left to construct an intricate wall of blankets and umbrellas around the equipment.

Which worked until the rain was joined by a wall of wind which sliced ‘n diced its way right through the (thin) layer of protection.

All in all, it was the sort of evening where the crew in the stands, and the soaked coaches on the sideline, moaned a bit each time Klahowya threw a pass while up by four touchdowns in the fourth.

Why, you ask?

Because the clock stopped every time the slick ball evaded the grasp of an Eagle receiver, stretching out how long we got to enjoy the “balmy” Washington weather.

By the time we were all set free, Klahowya was headed back to the bus with a 36-0 win that never really felt like a blowout.

Coupeville, which got a strong rushing effort from freshman Andrew Martin — no one was keeping stats in the downpour, but he had to have made a nice run at a 100-yard night — hung close until midway through the third quarter.

With just 12 players available on the sideline, thanks to late-season injuries, the JV squad fought until the final play.

Wolf freshman Spencer Machen picked off a pass to stop one Klahowya drive, and CHS coach Ryan King praised the effort of other young guns such as Jacobi Pacquette-Pilgrim and Ulrik Wells.

To see more photos from this game (purchases fund college scholarships for Coupeville student/athletes) pop over to:

http://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/FB-20161024-Coupeville-JV-vs-K/

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Total domination? It’s coming!!

Posted in standings, tagged 1A Olympic League, CHS Wolves, Klahowya, standings, volleyball on October 23, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Wolf spikers Hope Lodell (left) and Payton Aparicio get ready to kick some fanny. (John Fisken photo)

Inch by inch, sport by sport, Coupeville is taking the 1A Olympic League away from Klahowya.

When things started in the fall of 2014, the Eagles, who have the largest student body of the four league schools by a fair margin, were dominant.

Klahowya won titles in three of four fall sports (volleyball, boys tennis, girls soccer) in that first go-round, with Port Townsend claiming the football crown.

Jump forward a year and Coupeville, which sits at 227 students to Klahowya’s 445, took away the boys tennis title. The other three fall sports saw repeat winners.

Now skip forward to season #3 and the Wolves have held on to boys tennis and snatched volleyball away from the Eagles.

Klahowya just three-peated in girls soccer, but that’s it for the fall, as the football title is going to come down to next week’s clash between Port Townsend and Cascade Christian.

With the Nisqually and Olympic League joining together for gridiron action this year, there’s a (super) solid shot the pigskin kingpin will hail from the other league.

So, that means in three falls, Klahowya’s titles have gone from three to two to one, while Coupeville has gone from zero to one to two — the small tugboat chugging past the flailing ocean liner.

Overall, the Eagles, who led the title chase 5-2 after the 2014-2015 school year, are now barely hanging on to a 9-8 advantage in league championships won heading into basketball season, where the Wolf girls are two-time defending champs.

Chimacum has four titles (two each in boys basketball and softball) while Port Townsend, the second-largest league school, has just two football crowns and will need a colossal upset to earn #3 this coming Saturday.

With tennis done playing league matches, and the other three sports days away from heading to the postseason, Coupeville and Klahowya are tied with 16 varsity wins across the four fall sports.

Port Townsend has seven and Chimacum four.

Rain cost Coupeville the chance to be sitting alone at the top in the victory race. The final two league tennis matches were cancelled and not rescheduled, as the Wolves (4-0) had already clinched the title.

CHS has six more league games (1 soccer, 2 football, 3 volleyball) left to build their fall win total, while Klahowya has seven (2 soccer, 2 FB, 2 VB).

Standings through Sunday:

Olympic/Nisqually League football:

School	League	Overall
Cascade Christian	5-0	8-0
Port Townsend	5-0	6-2
Charles Wright	3-2	4-4
Klahowya	3-2	5-3
Bellevue Christian	2-3	2-6
COUPEVILLE	1-4	2-6
Vashon Island	1-4	1-7
Chimacum	0-5	1-7

Olympic League volleyball:

School	League	Overall
COUPEVILLE	6-0	9-3
Chimacum	3-3	6-7
Klahowya	3-3	4-7
Port Townsend	0-6	2-10

Olympic League girls soccer:

School	League	Overall
Klahowya	7-0	10-1-2
COUPEVILLE	5-3	7-6-1
Port Townsend	2-6	3-10-1
Chimacum	1-6	2-7-1

Olympic League boys tennis:

School	League	Overall
COUPEVILLE	4-0	5-8
Klahowya	3-2	4-8
Chimacum	0-5	0-12

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Get the big van, baby!!

Posted in Boys Tennis, tagged 1A Olympic League, John McClarin, Joseph Wedekind, Klahowya, tennis on October 22, 2016| Leave a Comment »

John McClarin teamed with Joseph Wedekind to win the doubles crown at Saturday’s 1A Olympic League tourney. (John Fisken photos)

Nick Etzell finished third in singles play, earning a trip to districts.

The Elite Eight. (Photo courtesy Ken Stange)

Ken Stange is going to have a lot of company.

When the Coupeville High School boys’ tennis coach heads to Tacoma next Wednesday for districts, he’ll be taking along the biggest contingent of players in his decade-plus career at the school.

Sweeping the top three doubles slots and pulling off a pair of upsets on the singles side Saturday at the 1A Olympic League tournament, the Wolves qualified eight players to advance.

Coupeville, the regular season champs, accounted for two-thirds of the players who punched their tickets, with only one Wolf, freshman Mason Grove, failing to advance.

Grove did win a match, though, as the CHS netters went a combined 9-6 on the day.

The Wolves finished 1-2-3 in doubles and claimed third and fourth in singles, while Klahowya took the top two singles slots and fourth in doubles.

Chimacum and Port Townsend failed to advance any players.

Complete results:

Singles:

Nick Etzell (3rd)

Beat Spencer Winters (K) 9-7
Lost to Taylor Fite (K) 6-0, 6-0
Beat Jakobi Baumann (CP) 4-6, 6-2, 12-10

Jakobi Baumann (4th)

Beat Isaiah Treibel (PT) 8-2
Lost to Caden Haga (K) 6-0, 6-1
Lost to Etzell (CP) 4-6, 6-2, 12-10

Mason Grove (DNP)

Beat Zackery Kienle (PT) 8-0
Lost to Fite (K) 8-0

Doubles:

John McClarin/Joseph Wedekind (1st)

Bye
Beat Grey Rische/Jimmy Myers (CP) 6-4, 6-2
Beat William Nelson/Joey Lippo (CP) 6-3, 2-6, 7-5

William Nelson/Joey Lippo (2nd)

Bye
Beat Kyle Schoening/Parker Short (K) 6-0, 6-2
Lost to McClarin/Wedekind (CP) 6-3, 2-6, 7-5

Grey Rische/Jimmy Myers (3rd)

Beat Ben Cook/Joe Bowman (K) 8-2
Lost to McClarin/Wedekind (CP) 6-4, 6-2
Beat Schoening/Short (K) 7-6(8-6), 7-5

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Ready for the stretch run!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged 1A Olympic League, CHS Wolves, Klahowya, Soccer, three-peat on October 22, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Kalia Littlejohn and Co. open the playoffs next Saturday in Oak Harbor. (John Fisken photo)

They’re a part of history, whether they wanted to be or not.

Despite putting up a strong fight, the Coupeville High School girls’ soccer squad fell 4-0 at Klahowya Saturday afternoon, allowing the Eagles to clinch their third-straight 1A Olympic League title.

It was the 19th straight league win without a loss for the Klahowya booters, breaking a tie with the Coupeville girls’ basketball squad for the most successful program in the relatively short history of the league.

The Eagles went 6-0 in conference games in both 2014 and 2015 and are 7-0 this season, with games remaining against Port Townsend (2-5) and Chimacum (0-6).

The CHS hoops teams were 9-0 in both ’14 and ’15 and are a month away from tipping off season #3.

The loss drops the Wolf booters to 5-3 in league, 7-6-1 overall, with one regular-season game remaining.

Coupeville, which is having the best season in program history, welcomes Chimacum to Whidbey Tuesday on Senior Night (4:30), then opens the playoffs with a loser-out game Oct. 29.

The Wolves host the #3 seed from the Nisqually League (currently Vashon Island) in a game played at Oak Harbor Stadium. Kickoff is set for 1:30.

The Pirates (7-3-3) have knocked Coupeville out of the playoffs the past two seasons.

Facing off with a Klahowya squad which won a state title just two seasons ago, the Wolves kept things scoreless through much of the first half.

The Eagles broke through when a player “bent in an unbelievable, unassisted corner kick.”

“It was a tremendous shot,” said Coupeville coach Troy Cowan. “Hit the top far corner with a ton of pace, great shot!”

Klahowya tacked on a goal right before the half, then stretched the lead out in the second half.

“The Eagles are a great team and undefeated for a reason,” Cowan said. “We came away with some much needed playing time on turf, which will surely help prepare us for districts and allowed some girls to gain some much needed confidence.

“We will take the lessons learned today and apply them in our regular season finale.”

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