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JV spikers rule the gym

Posted in Volleyball, tagged , , , , , on September 28, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Jaimee Masters and the Coupeville High School JV volleyball squad got stronger as the day rolled on Saturday, winning a title at a tournament in Oak Harbor. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

They saved their best for last.

After battling through pool play Saturday at a tournament in Oak Harbor, the Coupeville High School JV volleyball team flipped a different switch in bracket play, roaring to a title.

The Wolves swept Ingraham and Grace Academy in their final two matches to claim first place in the tourney’s silver bracket.

CHS opened the all-day royal rumble by splitting with Oak Harbor (25-21, 17-25) and Grace Academy (14-25, 25-17), and losing two close sets to Kamiak (22-25, 23-25).

Bracket play sent Grace Academy up against Chief Kitsap, where the former beat the latter 25-17, 25-12.

On the other side, no longer ready to bide its time, Coupeville pounced, devouring Ingraham 25-16, 25-18.

That set up a rematch in the finale, and this time out, the Wolves were clearly the superior squad, rolling to a 25-18, 25-21 win.

Basking in his team’s title run, CHS coach Chris Smith doled out praise to everyone on his roster.

“Team effort all around to keep up the energy, effort, and fun, led by our leaders Kylie (Chernikoff) and Jaimee (Masters),” he said.

The Wolf young guns return to match play this coming week, as they welcome South Whidbey to town Tuesday, Oct. 1, before hitting the road to face Granite Falls (Oct. 3) and Orcas Island (Oct. 5).

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To the final point, to the final buzzer!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 3, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Kylie Chernikoff had a team-high seven rebounds and three steals Monday, as the Coupeville JV went toe-to-toe with 2A Sequim. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

It’s all about the lessons.

Do you take them in? Do you build on them? Do they foster growth?

The Coupeville High School JV girls basketball squad is young (11 of 14 players are freshmen) and still finding its way.

So, while losses like the 35-20 defeat the Wolves absorbed Monday in Sequim hurt in the moment, they can be the start of something bigger as athletes adjust to the difference between high school ball and what came before.

“Attitude and effort are the only things in life you can control,” said Coupeville coach Amy King, and it’s a stark truth.

While the non-conference loss to a 2A school drops the Wolves to 0-2 on the season, they can look to how they responded in the second half as a positive to build on.

Coupeville could not get a shot to drop for much of the first half Monday, with buckets from Kylie Chernikoff and Anya Leavell the only small solace in a 19-4 deficit.

The Wolves struggled to break Sequim’s half-court man press, which made it hard to even get shots launched.

“We had turnover after turnover,” King said. “Passing the ball into the waiting hands of Sequim, who used that to fast break.”

Things took a turn for the positive after Coupeville coaches delivered a halftime pep talk/come to God moment.

“We challenged the team to get out of their own heads and start playing basketball,” King said. “The energy needed to elevate from everybody, talk on defense and get scrappy.”

And scrappy they got, as Leavell and Kiara Contreras led a defensive stand, going after the ball with ramped-up intensity instead of sitting back and letting the play come to them.

With Chernikoff, Ja’Kenya Hoskins and Abby Mulholland cleaning the boards with authority, CHS pushed the flow of the game, playing Sequim even in the second half (16-16), while winning the battle in the fourth quarter 10-4.

“We were stirring up some energy, started moving the ball better and getting open shots,” King said. “We moved the ball like we knew how, and we changed our press break enough to get a few longer passes down the court, which made their defense scramble a little bit.

“If we had played that way in the first half, the game may have turned out a little different.”

Izzy Wells paced the Wolves with eight points, all coming in the second half, while snagging six rebounds.

Leavell netted six, with Chernikoff, Mollie Bailey and Hoskins adding two points apiece to round out the Wolf scoring.

Coupeville’s leader on the glass was the always hard-charging Chernikoff, who ripped down seven rebounds to go with her team-high three steals.

Hoskins added six boards, with Contreras and Kylie Van Velkinburgh each doling out two assists.

All 11 CHS girls in uniform Monday played, with Alana Mihill, Lily Leedy and Morgan Stevens also seeing floor time.

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Lights, camera, fans!!

Posted in Fashionable Fans, Football, tagged , , , , on September 15, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Jakobi Baumann, boogie woogie bugle boy. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Noelle Daigneault (left) and Eryn Wood are on the edge of their seats.

It’s a 10-year reunion, a few years early, for Class of 2018 grads (l to r) Kayla Rose, Hope Lodell, Joey Lippo and Jacob Zettle.

“So we go renegade and play ‘Ice Ice Baby’?” “Yes, yes, a thousand times, yes!”

A brief burst of on-field action, as Sean “The Torpedo” Toomey-Stout preps for Thanksgiving, where he’s a 12-time defending champ in breaking the wishbone.

“Sweet sassy molassy, that kid’s gonna be walking funny for weeks!”

Spikers and booters mingle as Wolf stars (l to r) Scout Smith, Tia Wurzrainer, Lucy Sandahl and Zoe Trujillo pose for the paparazzi.

Volleyball aces Jaimee Masters (left) and Chelsea Prescott swing by to cheer on their classmates.

Super sophomores (l to r) Kylie Chernikoff, Aria Bowen, Savannah Smith and Maddie Vondrak approve this photo essay.

There are two separate story-lines going on at most high school football games.

One tale plays out on the field, while the other is told in the stands, where students, parents, alumni and fans mingle, chat, catch up, spark new romances or gossip about old ones, and, occasionally, cheer.

Swinging his camera around to catch grandstand life, wanderin’ paparazzi John Fisken snapped the images seen above.

To view more fan happenings, and a handful of action pics he snapped before hightailing it to Oak Harbor to watch son Michael play for the Wildcats, pop over to:

https://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/Coupeville-Football-2018-2019/FB-2018-09-14-vs-Friday-Harbor/

And, gentle reminder – purchases help fund scholarships for CHS student/athletes.

Yes, yes, you could just chuck your wallet at the first Wolf you see wander by, and let them scamper away with whatever bills they fish out, but this way of funding them does seem more constructive.

If slightly less fun.

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Feel the excitement! Taste the action!!

Posted in Basketball, tagged , , , , , on December 10, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Chelsea Prescott lines up a free throw. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

   Cameron Toomey-Stout knows the ref wishes he had Camtastic’s impeccable hair.

Ema Smith offers to rough up a girl, if need be.

James Vidoni triggers the in-bounds play.

   Stopping on the fly, Mikayla Elfrank is seconds away from draining another bucket.

Defensive dynamo Kylie Chernikoff adds some new floor burns to her collection.

David Prescott touches the heavens as he yanks down a rebound.

   Hunter “The Hammer” Downes drops his patented “Full Moon Falling” wrestling move on a rival player’s noggin.

John Fisken had to sip his Diet Coke on the fly Friday night.

With four basketball games going in Coupeville, and more to come up in Oak Harbor later in the evening, the intrepid photographer was a busy guy, clicking away, then moving on and clicking some more.

The pics above, which capture the Wolves as they battled visiting Sequim, are courtesy him.

To see everything he shot (purchases help fund college scholarships for CHS student/athletes), pop over to:

Girls:

http://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/Coupeville-basketball-2017-2018/2017-12-08-GBB-vs-Sequim/

Boys:

http://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/Coupeville-basketball-2017-2018/2017-12-08-BBB-vs-Sequim/

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We are … Iron Women!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , , on November 27, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Wolf freshman Chelsea Prescott knocked down 12 points Monday in her first high school basketball game. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Bench? Amy King don’t need no stinkin’ bench.

Opening a new season Monday in Bellingham, the Coupeville High School JV girls basketball squad had only six of its 11 players in uniform.

Then the Wolves lost fab frosh Genna Wright to a painful leg injury in the third quarter, leaving their coach with no more ability to sub players.

So, it doesn’t come as a huge surprise that the CHS young guns fell 41-22 to their large-school 2A rivals in a non-conference tilt.

With tired players and a Red Raiders squad which featured twin towers — the sight of players standing six-foot-one and 5-10 in a girls JV game is, shall we say, super-rare — Coupeville absorbed a few lessons.

One of those is to be wary of rival JV coaches up by 20 in the fourth quarter on opening night who are still screaming at their defenders to double on the ball-handler.

But playing against a coronary waiting to happen or not, the Wolves impressed their own coach with their refusal to back down.

“We didn’t have it easy; we worked for everything we got,” King said. “The girls did great. I was very happy with the effort they gave and the way they played.

“Now we just need to get a few more healthy bodies before the next game.”

Despite not having any players who physically matched up to Bellingham’s 6-1 banger, the Wolves shut her completely down, limiting her to a single bucket in the second half.

Four of the six Wolves took her at one point or another on defense, with Nicole Lester, Chelsea Prescott, Kylie Chernikoff and Genna Wright all denying the Red Raider skyscraper.

Bellingham boasted a full bench, and took advantage of the disparity to run the Wolves ragged.

Coupeville fought back, though, with Prescott knocking down a team-high 12 points in her first high school hoops game.

When she wasn’t shooting, the fast-rising freshman set up her teammates, with one pass to Chernikoff a particular highlight.

“Chelsea had a great drive to the basket,” King said. “The defense came out to stop her and boom… a sweet bounce pass out to Kylie and a basketball player is born.

“Kylie’s first basket in her first year playing.”

Chernikoff also had the defensive play of the night, “chasing a girl down the court, running her down, hand out, and making the block to stop a fast break lay up.”

“Our side of the gym erupted!,” King added.

Freshman spark-plug Mollie Bailey backed up Prescott with five points, while Wright dropped in three and Chernikoff added a bucket to round out the scoring.

Lester and Tia Wurzrainer were stellar on defense, helping to disrupt Bellingham’s game plan.

“Tia, Nicole and Chelsea all had steals,” King said. “Which is so great to see, the anticipation and focus they have.”

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