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Take a road trip to support sluggers!

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , on May 16, 2022| 1 Comment »

Gwen Gustafson swoops in to deny a hitter. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Time for a convoy!

Coupeville High School softball finally gets to return to action this Saturday, May 21, breaking an 18-day layoff for a winner-to-state, loser-out contest.

The game, which pits the Wolves (16-2, Northwest 2B/1B League champs, rulers of District 1) against a team from District 4, is set for 6 PM at Fort Borst Park in Centralia.

The 12-team D4 tourney runs May 16-21, with the top four teams advancing to the 12-team 2B state tourney.

Then, Coupeville, despite being a league champ, gets to come in cold and face the #5 team from D4, which will be playing its third game that day.

It’s all because Washington Interscholastic Activities Association officials — ignoring the fact there haven’t been state tournaments since 2019 thanks to the pandemic — are being pedantic.

WIAA rules state 50 schools need to play a sport in a classification to have a normal 16-team state tourney.

End up with 49 active programs, as 2B softball currently does, and you get a 12-team championship event.

Which also takes away District 1’s automatic berth to the big dance, forcing the long layoff, the long bus ride, and a game against an opponent who will be a mystery until an hour or two before first pitch.

Izzy Wells unleashes The Knee-Buckler.

While they haven’t played a game which counts since May 3, the Wolves have continued to practice and scrimmage, and plot their revenge.

CHS coach Kevin McGranahan is calling on Wolf Nation to come out in support of his team, even in a foreign locale.

“Hopefully we can get some fans to travel down to Centralia and show the world how Coupeville does it right,” he said.

“We are facing a tough test, but I am sure this team will give everything they have and leave it all on the field.  When the dust settles my money is on the WOLVES!”

 

Tickets:

Adults and students without ASB — $7.00
Students with ASB and senior citizens (62+) — $5.00
Children (Under 6) — Free

 

Fort Borst Park:

2030 Borst Ave
Centralia, WA 98531

https://www.cityofcentralia.com/Page.asp?NavID=444

Madison McMillan gets medieval on the ball.

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Oh, my aching posterior…

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , , on November 12, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Stevenson High School will travel 262.3 miles in January, just for the chance to see Risen Johnson at work close up. (John Fisken photo)

   Stevenson High School will travel 524.6 miles in January, just for the chance to see Risen Johnson at work close up. (John Fisken photo)

For anyone who thought a trip to Forks was a big deal, we have a new winner.

As I was scanning the upcoming Coupeville High School basketball schedules, all the usual suspects were there.

Olympic League foes Klahowya, Port Townsend and Chimacum, plus Island rival South Whidbey and the usual mix of names like Orcas, Vashon, Bellevue Christian, Mount Baker, La Conner and Concrete.

And Stevenson.

Wait, what?

No, it’s true. Unless something changes between now and then, the Wolf boys have a home game (varsity only) Friday, Jan. 15 against the Bulldogs.

Now, if you don’t know where Stevenson is (and geography was/is a glaring weakness for me), that might not seem like anything.

But I am overly curious, and since I don’t remember Coupeville ever playing a game in any sport against a school from that town, I took a look and … yowza.

Stevenson is way, way, WAAAYYYY down on the Washington/Oregon border in Skamania County, which means the Bulldogs (according to MapQuest) are 262.3 miles and nearly five hours away from Cow Town.

You remember that trip to Forks?

Sparkly vampire country is only 112.9 miles away.

You can make a trip to the town that gave us Ron Bagby and come back in about the same time it will take Stevenson to traverse the state one-way that Friday.

The Bulldogs, who went 8-12 last year and are a member of the 1A Trico League (Castle Rock and Kalama are among the other schools), are scheduled to play three games against Oregon schools this season.

Those ones? Short trips, little jaunts down the highway.

The one small, saving grace for Stevenson is they will apparently get more than a McDonalds dinner out of the trip.

The Coupeville School District calendar states dinner will be served in the CHS gym after the game.

To which I say, I should hope so, and hopefully it’s a meal worthy of a team facing the second half of a 500+ mile round-trip.

Of course, now the question that hangs over everything — is this a one-year deal to help two schools fill out a hole in a schedule, or is it the start of a home-and-away affair?

Do the Wolves make the same trek in the opposite direction next year?

Either way, I’ll tell you what.

Any Stevenson fans show up for this one and the Wolf fans better give them a standing ovation, and some seat cushions for enduring our snazzy, rock-hard bleachers.

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