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“The whole team deserves recognition!!”

Posted in Football, tagged CHS Wolves, Concrete, football, James Vidoni, JV, Matt Hilborn, Ryan King on November 3, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Jake Hoagland carries Cameron Toomey-Stout off the field as the season ends. (Lisa Jenne photo)

Wolf JV players prepare for the final trip of the season, a jaunt down to Concrete. (Photo courtesy Brett Smedley)

Matt Hilborn sprints to daylight. (John Fisken photos)

James Vidoni (76) holds the line.

Wins and losses don’t tell the whole story.

While the Coupeville High School JV football team failed to pick up a win this season, being battered 49-0 Monday at Concrete in its finale, the young Wolves showed continued growth each week.

Facing off with a battle-hardened Lions squad after a long bus trip, Coupeville got a taste of where it would like to be this time next year.

“We played a very tough team but the boys fought very hard. It was a hard-fought game,” said Coupeville coach Ryan King. “The whole team deserves recognition.”

The first big positive was making it through an entire season, one in which they played bigger schools such as Klahowya and Anacortes.

In recent years, CHS has had trouble having enough bodies — especially healthy ones — to complete anything close to a full JV season.

This year, they played seven games (Chimacum doesn’t have a JV squad) and got strong work from a variety of players.

Freshman Shane Losey operated at quarterback the entire season, with Jonathan Thurston, Cameron Toomey-Stout, Jake Hoagland and Tavian Woolett all emerging as as dependable targets.

Woolett and Teo Keilwitz carried much of the load as running backs, while a variety of players put in work on the lines.

King, a former Wolf player himself, sees a bright future for his charges. Especially if they continue to hit the weight room and build their skill-sets.

“As for the season, I am honored I got to coach a great group of young men,” King said. “These kids worked hard all season and got better as the season went on.

“Fought in every game and each week you saw improvement,” he added. “Coaching these kids was great and they are gonna do great things for this program in the future.”

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“The boys played really hard!!”

Posted in Football, tagged CHS Wolves, football, Matt Hilborn, Matt Stevens, Port Townsend on September 28, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Wolf freshman Danbe Lucero (John Fisken photos)

Dane Lucero (John Fisken photos)

Jake Pease

The second crack at the beast went about like the first one.

Port Townsend is ripping teams apart on the gridiron this season, and Monday’s JV football game went pretty much like Friday’s varsity one did.

But, while the young Wolves fell 44-0 to the visiting Redhawks, the game was close for a good chunk of the way and CHS coach Ryan King came away pleased with a lot of what he saw.

“The boys played really hard,” he said. “We had interceptions and fumbles our boys caused and recovered.

“We were fighting them till the very end.”

Port Townsend carried a 16-0 lead into halftime, then broke the game open in the second half.

While Coupeville didn’t break into the end zone, it came close, with Axel Partida recovering a fumble and bringing it back 65 yards.

He was brought down just short, tackled on the five-yard line.

Freshmen running backs Chris Battaglia and Teo Keilwitz ripped off solid yardage, while fellow ninth grader Matt Hilborn recovered a bad snap and turned it into a first down for CHS, while also having “a really good night defensively.”

King also praised the play of his offensive line of Matt Stevens, Ryan Labrador, Jake Pease, Josh Robinson and Dane Lucero.

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Gridiron giants get their close-up!!

Posted in Football, tagged Cameron Toomey-Stout, CHS Wolves, football, James Vidoni, John Fisken photos, Matt Hilborn on September 15, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Matt Hilborn, having snagged the ball, realizes there’s several Sequim players lookin’ to thrash him. Time to flip on the jets and get movin’. (John Fisken photos)

Cameron Toomey-Stout calls his TD catch. “I’m going that way, skippy, and I’ll be gone before you blink.” He was right.

James Vidoni (76) and Teo Keilwitz (33) drop the boom on a runner stuck in no man’s land.

“Time to go kick some booty, boys.” Jonathan Thurston, moments before he took a pick-six to the house.

Shane Losey, gunslinger.

CHS coach Ryan King, himself a former Wolf standout, imparts some wisdom to Hilborn. “When you hit ’em son, make their momma feel it.”

Helmets crunched against shoulder pads, touchdowns were scored and the cameraman fired off a billion or so photos.

Monday was football night in Cow Town, as the Coupeville High School JV gridiron warriors tangled with visiting Sequim.

Along for the ride was travelin’ photo man John Fisken, who was kind enough to provide us with the pics above.

To see more of his click-tastic work, and possibly purchase some, thereby helping to fund college scholarships for CHS student/athletes, pop over to:

http://www.olympicleague.com/index.php?act=view_gallery&gallery=8997&league=21&page=1&page_name=photo_store&school=181&sport=0

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Quick hits: Matt Hilborn roars onto the field!!

Posted in Football, tagged CHS Wolves, football, freshman, Matt Hilborn, weight room, XBox on June 18, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Matt Hilborn

With a new high school football season ahead of us, let’s take a look at some of the young men who will play for Coupeville High School for the first time this fall.

He’s quick, but loves to hit.

Wolf freshman Matt Hilborn, who first picked up the game as a middle schooler, enjoys the crunch of helmets on shoulder pads that makes football such an explosive game.

“I like the sport because it is a contact sport,” Hilborn said. “I started because I thought it would be fun to play with my friends, also because I like tackling and I like to learn and always love to get better at the game.

“I enjoy working with teammates and my coaches.”

Of course, being quick enough not to get hit as often by the other guys is also a plus.

“I think that my strength is speed,” Hilborn said. “I would like to work on becoming a better wide receiver and a better line backer.

“Become better at the game and my positions,” he added. “Also, I would like to help my teammates.”

Away from the gridiron, he enjoys playing XBox and hanging out with friends, while also finding time to put in work in the weight room and play baseball.

He was on a Babe Ruth diamond squad in Oak Harbor this spring, continuing a love affair with a game sparked by his dad Steve, who has put in time as a baseball coach.

His parents have been instrumental in the development of the young Wolf, both as an athlete and, more importantly, as a young man coming into his own.

“My dad has made a big impact on my baseball career since I was only six or seven; he always helped my pitching and hitting,” Hilborn said.

“Another person that has helped me is my mom (Wendi),” he added. “She helps me with school and she is always there when I need something.”

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