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Vie for past glory

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , on March 24, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Jasmine Nastali was part of the fastest CMS girls 4 x 1 relay team of the past decade. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Aram Leyva blows by on the inside. (Pat Kelley photos)

Ashleigh Battaglia sticks the landing.

Danny Conlisk (left) and Gabe Eck, younger but still just as speedy. (Dawnelle Conlisk photo)

Welcome to the digital arena.

With athletes driven inside by the ongoing battle with coronavirus, you have to find your competitions where you can.

Today, thanks to records kept by athletic.net, we present the “Coupeville Middle School Virtual Olympics,” featuring Wolf athletes from 2009-2019 – the seasons covered by the site.

There are 98 medal winners (51 girls and 47 boys) with Lathom Kelley and Chris Battaglia leading the way with five medals apiece.

In terms of standing on top of the podium, however, no one can match Makana Stone and Alex Murdy, who each bring home four gold medals.

Others to claim multiple titles include Lindsey Roberts, Emma Smith, Carolyn Lhamon, Danny Conlisk, Jared Helmstadter, Kelley, and Battaglia, who all exit with a pair of golds.

Before we get to the stats, a couple of quick side notes.

One, there are a couple of events where there aren’t a gold, silver, and bronze winner, as only 1-2 people were listed by athletic.net.

Which is probably far from reality, but we go with what we have.

As you go through the top times and throws and jumps, special props to Savina Wells, bronze medal winner in the high jump, as she’s the only 6th grader to crack the top three in any event.

And yes, we’re going to do a high school meet next.

With that, down to the field:

 

GIRLS:

60 — Ja’Kenya Hoskins (1st) 8.90 – 2018; Ja’Tarya Hoskins (2nd) 9.12 – 2016; Emily Fiedler (3rd) 9.41 – 2017

100 — Sandra Lund-Olsen (1st) 13.63 – 2012; Sylvia Hurlburt (2nd) 13.88 – 2012; Mallory Kortuem (3rd) 14.08 – 2016

200 — Makana Stone (1st) 28.00 – 2012; Lindsey Roberts (2nd) 28.44 – 2015; S. Lund-Olsen (3rd) 28.85 – 2012

400 — Stone (1st) 1:01.07 – 2012; Anna Bailey (2nd) 1:06.96 – 2009; Carlie Rosenkrance (3rd) 1:08.69 – 2013

800 — Morgan Pease (1st) 2:39.46 – 2016; Jillian Pape (2nd) 2:42.59 – 2013; Abby Parker (3rd) 2:43.63 – 2014

1600 — Pape (1st) 5:48.98 – 2013; Mattea Miller (2nd) 5:59.60 – 2013; Lauren Bayne (3rd) 6:13.00 – 2014

75 Hurdles — Madison Tisa McPhee (1st) 12.61 – 2009; Rosenkrance (2nd) 13.44 – 2013; Roberts (3rd) 13.76 – 2014

100 Hurdles — Roberts (1st) 17.45 – 2015; Cassidy Moody (2nd) 19.73 – 2015; Claire Mayne (3rd) 19.86 – 2019

200 Hurdles — Kortuem (1st-tie) 36.03 – 2016; Audrianna Shaw (1st-tie) 36.03 – 2018; Bella Velasco (3rd) 37.24 – 2017

4 x 100 Relay — Jasmine Nastali, Ashlie Shank, Emma Smith, Roberts (1st) 57.07 – 2015; Nicole Becker, Hannah Christensen, Jai’Lysa Hoskins, Maddy Summerill (2nd) 57.92 – 2009; Ja’Tarya Hoskins, Lucy Sandahl, Moody, Kortuem (3rd) 58.81 – 2016

4 x 200 Relay — Stone, Marina Bruland, Kirsten Pelroy, Hurlburt (1st) 1:55.43 – 2012; Miller, Tiffany Briscoe, Rosenkrance, Lauren Grove (2nd) 2:02.05 – 2013; Becker, Christensen, Jai’Lysa Hoskins, Summerill (3rd) 2:04.87 – 2009

4 x 400 Relay — Lily Zustiak, Mikaela Labrador, Helen Sinclair, Ashleigh Battaglia (1st) 5:18.86 – 2016; Alana Mihill, Abigail Ramirez, Cristina McGrath, Mary Milnes (2nd) 5:28.61 – 2018

Shot Put (6-lb) — Carolyn Lhamon (1st) 32-11.50 – 2019; Pease (2nd) 29-02.25 – 2016; Noelle Daigneault (3rd) 26-05 (3rd) – 2018

Shot Put (8-lb) — Lhamon (1st) 26-00 – 2019; E. Smith (2nd) 25-11 – 2015; Skyler Lawrence (3rd) 25-10.75 – 2013

Shot Put (4-kg) — E. Smith (1st) 27-03.75 – 2015; Lawrence (2nd) 21-00 – 2013; Oliana Stange (3rd) 20-11 – 2015

Discus — Kylie Chernikoff (1st) 78-00 – 2017; Monica Vidoni (2nd) 69-07 – 2011; Lawrence (3rd-tie) 64-02 – 2013; Jessica Riddle (3rd-tie) 64-02 – 2009

Javelin — Jillian Mayne (1st) 61-01 – 2016; Zoe Trujillo (2nd) 59-07 – 2016; Fiedler (3rd) 56-11 – 2017

High Jump — Moody (1st) 4-10 – 2016; Ryanne Knoblich (2nd) 4-06 – 2019; Savina Wells (3rd) 4-03 – 2019

Long Jump — Stone (1st) 13-08.50 – 2012; Summerill (2nd) 13-08 – 2009; Knoblich (3rd-tie) 13-07 – 2019; Ja’Kenya Hoskins (3rd-tie) 13-07 – 2018

 

BOYS:

60 — Sean Toomey-Stout (1st) 8.04 – 2016; Nick Wielandt (2nd) 8.39 – 2016; Lucious Binnings (3rd) 8.43 – 2018

100 — Danny Conlisk (1st) 12.13 – 2015; Gabe Eck (2nd) 12.34 – 2015; Jared Helmstadter (3rd) 12.45 – 2012

200 — Alex Murdy (1st) 24.94 – 2019; G. Eck (2nd) 25.82 – 2015; Caleb Meyer (3rd) 25.89 – 2018

400 — Helmstadter (1st) 58.20 – 2012; Jacob Smith (2nd) 59.45 – 2014; Joshua Centamore (3rd) 1:00.47 – 2010

800 — Matt Hampton (1st) 2:23.12 – 2011; Lathom Kelley (2nd) 2:24.67 – 2012; Josh Crebbin (3rd) 2:25.99 – 2009

1600 — Conlisk (1st) 5:14.57 – 2015; Chris Battaglia (2nd) 5:14.74 – 2015; Aram Leyva (3rd) 5:15.65 – 2016

75 Hurdles — Jean Lund-Olsen (1st) 13.38 – 2016; Jake Mitten (2nd) 14.49 – 2016; Chris Cernick (3rd) 14.68 – 2016

110 Hurdles — Zane Bundy (1st) 17.74 – 2011; Cameron Toomey-Stout (2nd) 18.73 – 2014; Jesse Hester (3rd) 19.05 – 2014

200 Hurdles — Helmstadter (1st) 28.34 – 2011; Cernick (2nd) 33.68 – 2016; Ben Smith (3rd) 34.90 – 2017

4 x 100 Relay — Reiley Araceley, Dominic Coffman, Joven Light, Murdy (1st) 50.81 – 2019; DJ Stadler, Light, Araceley, Aiden Burdge (2nd) 51.28 – 2018; Helmstadter, Ryan Griggs, Dalton Martin, Kelley (3rd) 51.94 – 2012

4 x 200 Relay — Binnings, Timothy Ursu, Gabe Shaw, Stadler (1st) 1:53.36 – 2018; Josue Payan-Lopez, Nathan Lamb, Danny Savalza, Luke Pelant (2nd) 1:54.54 – 2009; C. Battaglia, Ty Eck, G. Eck, Uriah Kastner (3rd) 1:57.25 – 2014

4 x 400 Relay — Leyva, Tucker Hall, Mitten, James Mayne (1st) 4:36.17 — 2016; Coffman, Ty Duddridge, Aiden Anderson, Ty Hamilton (2nd) 5:17.87 – 2018

Shot Put (8-lb) — Kelley (1st) 38-07.50 – 2012; D. Martin (2nd) 35-01.50 – 2012; Logan Martin (3rd) 34-05 – 2018

Shot Put (4-kg) — Kelley (1st) 36-04.50 – 2012; C. Battaglia (2nd) 35-00.50 – 2015; D. Martin (3rd) 34-03.25 – 2012

Discus (1-kg) — C. Battaglia (1st) 119-03 – 2015; Kelley (2nd) 112-04 – 2012; Skyler Martin (3rd) 102-11 – 2009

Discus (1.6-kg) — Jimmy Myers (1st) 90-10 — 2013; Uriel Liquidano (2nd) 88-10 – 2013; L. Martin (3rd) 85-00 – 2017

Javelin — L. Martin (1st) 116-10 – 2018; Stadler (2nd) 112-05 – 2018; Gabe Carlson (3rd) 89-06 – 2016

High Jump — Murdy (1st-tie) 5-06; C. Battaglia (1st-tie) 5-06 – 2015; Jake Mitten (3rd) 5-02.50 – 2017

Long Jump — Murdy (1st-tie) 17-09 – 2019; G. Eck (1st-tie) 17-09 – 2015; Toomey-Stout (3rd) 17-07.75 – 2016

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Stone snares major hoops honor

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , on March 17, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Makana Stone received another major college basketball award Tuesday afternoon. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Her basketball season ended prematurely, but she continues to be showered in awards.

Coupeville grad Makana Stone, already honored as the Northwest Conference Player of the Year, was named Tuesday to the D3hoops.com West Region First Team.

The Whitman College senior, who averaged 15.1 points and 8.3 rebounds, joins Emma Gerdes of Wartburg, Caitlin Navratil of Nebraska Wesleyan, Taite Anderson of Bethel, and Hanna Geistfeld of Bethany Lutheran.

Two other NWC players, Jamie Lange of Puget Sound and Kory Oleson of Linfield, earned Third Team honors.

Stone collected 409 points, 225 rebounds, 37 assists, 26 steals, and 26 blocks, while shooting 166-316 (52.5%) from the floor and 74-96 (77.1%) from the free-throw line this season.

During her four years as a Blue, the former Wolf star played in 110 games, including making a program-record 92 starts.

She finished as the #5 scorer (1,337 points) and #2 rebounder (837 caroms) in Whitman women’s basketball history.

Sparked by the play of Stone and teammates such as Mady Burdett, Whitman went 26-3, won its first regular-season title since 2014, and opened the NCAA tourney with back-to-back wins.

The Blues were in Maine preparing to play Oglethorpe University in the Sweet 16 when the remainder of the season was cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak.

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Seasons end, but legends live

Posted in Baseball, Basketball, Softball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , , on March 13, 2020| Leave a Comment »

CHS grad Sarah Wright was off to a strong start as a college softball player.

Their seasons have ended too soon.

Seven Coupeville High School grads (and one Oak Harbor alumni whose mom is my former co-worker) saw spring college sports seasons prematurely end.

With most of the nation shutting down athletic events at every level as part of the fight to curtail the spread of the novel coronavirus, it’s the new reality.

The status of each:

 

Ally Roberts – Senior
Equestrian – Western Washington University

 

After winning a regional championship in Advanced Western Horsemanship, she was set to compete in the national semifinals in West Virginia later this month.

A top-two finish there would have sent her on to nationals.

That’s no longer the case, though, with both postseason events now scrubbed from the schedule.

“Really sucks, that’s for sure,” Roberts said. “But just happy with how the season went for my team and I.”

 

Danny Conlisk – Freshman
Track and Field – South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

 

After a successful spin around the track during indoor season, the two-time state champ was on his way to the outdoor season, but it’s been cancelled.

A statement released Friday by the NCAA indicates all student/athletes competing in spring sports will be granted an additional season/semester of eligibility.

 

Sarah Wright – Freshman
Softball – Sewanee: The University of the South

 

Like Conlisk, the former Wolf star will be granted a do-over, even though she and her diamond teammates had played 40% of their schedule.

Sewanee was 2-14 on the season when the rest of its 40-game season was scrubbed.

Wright was in the top three on her team in eight offensive categories:

.244 batting average (#2)
41 at bats (#3)
10 hits (#2)
2 home runs (#1)
7 RBI (#1)
16 total bases (#2)
.390 slugging percentage (#2)
.311 on base percentage (#3)

She also had a .915 fielding percentage as Sewanee’s catcher, with 39 putouts and four assists.

 

Makana Stone – Senior
Basketball – Whitman College

 

The Blues were in Brunswick, Maine preparing to play Friday in the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA national championships, but never got the chance when the tourney was cancelled.

Whitman finished a very-successful season at 26-3, with Stone, the Northwest Conference Player of the Year, having also been selected to play in the Beyond Sports Women’s Collegiate All-Star Game.

That game, featuring the best D-III players in the country, was set for March 21, but has also been cancelled.

Stone closed her senior season with 409 points, 225 rebounds, 37 assists, 26 steals, and 26 blocks, while shooting 166-316 (52.5%) from the floor and 74-96 (77.1%) from the free-throw line.

During her four years as a Blue, the former Wolf star played in 110 games, including making a program-record 92 starts.

She finishes as the #5 scorer (1,337 points) and #2 rebounder (837 caroms) in Whitman women’s basketball history.

 

CJ Smith – Sophomore
Hunter Smith – Sophomore
James Besaw – Freshman
Joey Lippo – Freshman
Baseball – Green River College

 

The one sport where some hope lingers.

The Northwest Athletic Conference has chosen, so far, to cancel all games through April 13.

Green River, which is 3-4, has had 19 games scrubbed, though 16 remain, for now, on the schedule.

At the time of the shutdown, Hunter Smith was hitting .333 with eight hits (including a pair of doubles), seven walks, five runs, and two RBI.

Besaw is also hitting at a .333 clip, with five hits, while playing error-free ball at first base for the Gators.

CJ Smith is 1-0 in two games as a relief pitcher, having tossed a team-high 7.1 innings while holding opposing batters to a .125 batting average.

The CHS grad has faced 24 batters, and the only other Green River pitcher with a better mark has only squared off with three rivals.

Lippo hasn’t been given much to do at the plate yet, but is playing error-free ball in the outfield, including a strong throw to Hunter Smith to help nail a wayward runner.

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Tough loss, but big hopes

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on February 29, 2020| Leave a Comment »

At 24-3, Makana Stone and Whitman wait to see if they will get an at-large bid to the NCAA D-III women’s basketball national championship tourney. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Now, they wait.

Stung by a cold start and a perfectly-executed play by their opponent at the very end, the Whitman College women’s basketball team fell 57-55 to visiting George Fox University Saturday in the championship game of the Northwest Conference postseason tourney.

The loss, the first on their home court this season, drops the Blues to 24-3 and snaps a 12-game winning streak.

With the win, George Fox, which finished in third-place in the nine-team league during the regular season, earns an automatic bid to the NCAA D-III women’s basketball national championships.

Whitman, which won the regular season league crown and entered the night ranked #7 in the nation, now has to wait to see if it will get an at-large bid.

The full 64-team bracket will be revealed Monday.

Saturday’s game was just plain rough for Whitman, which, for one of the few times this season, just couldn’t seem to get in sync.

A big part of the credit for that goes to George Fox’s defense, which shut down the paint, knocked the Blues around — Coupeville’s Makana Stone, the league Player of the Year, spent much of the game bouncing off the floor — and set the Bruins up for success.

Also helping the visitors was an unexpected run at the free throw line.

A fairly poor-shooting team at the charity stripe this season, George Fox was the exact opposite Saturday, knocking down 20-25 shots, to just 7-11 by Whitman.

Other than a terrible opening for the Blues, in which they went scoreless for eight-plus minutes and fell behind 9-0, the game was a gut-check, with neither team able to pull away.

Whitman seemed to have the upper hand when it opened up a late 53-47 lead in the fourth, capped by Mady Burdett drilling the bottom out of the net on a long three-ball off of an offensive rebound.

Unfortunately, the Blues couldn’t deliver the knockout punch, giving George Fox a chance to storm back and take the lead at 55-53.

Unable to get the ball to Stone down low — she was smothered, and finished with just three field goal attempts and three times that many bruises, taking shots to the head, ribs, and hand — Whitman banged away from the outside, and couldn’t get the ball to drop.

With the game on the line, point guard Taylor Chambers came roaring in from the right side and got a wildly-bouncing layup to go down with just 3.2 seconds left, seemingly setting up overtime.

But George Fox had a final miracle in hand, as Haley Strowbridge got the last two of her game-high 20 points when she rolled hard to the hoop, pulled in a lob over the defense, and banked in the runner.

Down to just 1.5 seconds to play, Whitman got a final off-balance, heavily-contested three-ball attempt up in the air, but it never came close to rippling the net.

The sour finish capped a game in which there were 14 lead changes and five ties, most of them in the second half.

After trailing 9-0, Whitman finally got on the board when senior Katie Stahl banged home a three-ball with 1:42 to play in the first quarter.

From there, the Blues crawled back to within 11-7 at the first break, then surged ahead 16-11 midway through the second quarter.

George Fox recovered, though, using its potent mix of deadly free throw shooting and clamp-down defense, and went into the locker room up 27-23.

Whitman pulled back into the lead, for a hot moment at least, with a 42-41 advantage heading into the final frame.

Burdett paced the Blues with 14, while Kaylie McCracken added 11, and Chambers popped for 10.

Barely able to touch the ball for much of the night, Stone was limited to four points, a team-high five rebounds, and a blocked shot.

On the season, the former Coupeville ace has 409 points, 225 rebounds, 37 assists, 26 steals, and 26 blocks, while shooting 166-316 (52.5%) from the floor and 74-96 (77%) at the line.

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One down, one to go

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on February 27, 2020| Leave a Comment »

“You can’t contain us! You can’t beat us!!” (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

One win away from punching a guaranteed ticket to the big dance.

The Whitman College women’s basketball team jumped out quickly Thursday on the University of Puget Sound, then held off a late rally to claim a 72-66 home win in the semifinals of the Northwest Conference postseason tourney.

With the win, their 12th straight, the Blues improve to 24-2 and advance to the championship game of the NWC tourney.

They’ll face arch-rival George Fox University (20-6) Saturday, after the Bruins upended Pacific University 56-47.

The winner claims an automatic berth to the 64-team NCAA D-III national championships, which run March 6-22, while the loser waits to see if they can nab an at-large bid.

Win or lose Saturday, it seems all but certain Whitman, currently ranked #7 in the nation, will be part of March Madness.

It would be the third trip to the big dance in four years for the Blues seniors – Lily Gustafson, Mady Burdett, Katie Stahl, Natalie Whitsel, and Coupeville grad Makana Stone.

Whitman advanced all the way to the Elite Eight during their freshman campaign in 2016-2017, and the group is a stellar 92-19 overall since arriving in Walla Walla.

Thursday’s game was one in which Whitman almost pulled away several times, only to have a pesky Puget Sound squad mount mini-comeback after mini-comeback.

Blues gunner Kaelan Shamseldin opened the game with a three-ball, before Stone slapped home back-to-back layups to stake Whitman to a 7-3 lead.

After the game’s one and only tie at 3-3, the Blues led the entire night.

Up 15-5 after one quarter, Whitman stretched the lead out to 33-20 midway through the second quarter, with Stone once again stepping up.

The Northwest Conference Player of the Year hit a jumper and a free throw, then made off with a steal to set up a potentially game-busting jumper from Kaylie McCracken.

But it wasn’t to be, as UPS closed within eight at the half (38-30), fell behind by 13 in the third, then roared all the way back within four points with under two minutes to play.

Clinging to a 68-64 lead, Whitman put the ball in Burdett’s hands, and the sweet-shootin’ assassin from Edmonds closed the game by rippling the nets on four consecutive free throws to cap a team-high 16-point performance.

The Blues only got scoring from six players, but four of those finished in double-digits.

McCracken pumped in 15, Gustafson banked home 13, Shamseldin made the nets jump for 12, and Taylor Chambers popped for nine.

Hampered by foul trouble all night, Stone had a relatively quiet night, finishing with seven points, four rebounds, an assist, and a steal in just 26 minutes of action.

Also having a very muted game was Puget Sound’s First-Team All-Conference player Jamie Lange, a double-double machine who was held to just eight points and three rebounds in her collegiate swan song.

On the season, Stone sits with 405 points, 220 rebounds, 37 assists, 26 steals, and 25 blocked shots, while shooting 166-313 (53%) from the floor and 70-88 (79.5%) from the free throw line.

The 405 points is the 10th best individual scoring season by a Whitman women’s player.

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