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Spikers battle Hurricanes, cancer

Posted in Volleyball, tagged , , , , on October 16, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Lexis Drake and dad Paul are stylin’. (Photo courtesy Darcy Rookstool)

It was a night for battles of all kinds.

On the court, the Coupeville High School varsity volleyball squad pushed high-flying Mount Vernon Christian to four sets before falling 24-26, 25-22, 25-18, 25-15.

Meanwhile, off the floor, the Wolves joined with fans, family members, and WhidbeyHealth to put on a Coupeville vs. Cancer fundraiser to call attention to and raise money for the fight against breast cancer.

The loss, coming to a MVC team that sits at 12-1 on the season, drops CHS to 5-3 in Northwest 2B/1B League action, 5-6 overall.

Scout Smith’s spikers are in third place in the NWL, trailing just Darrington (5-0) and the ‘Canes (6-1), and currently hold the #2 spot among 2B schools, with the undefeated 1B Loggers primed to go their own way come the postseason.

Coupeville has four regular season matches left, with conference tilts against La Conner October 20 and Friday Harbor October 27.

In addition, the Wolves host non-league rivals East Jefferson Saturday (2:30 tip) and Forks on October 23.

 

Friday stats:

Zariyah Allen — 3 kills, 2 digs, 1 block assist
Capri Anter — 11 digs, 2 aces
Haylee Armstrong — 6 digs, 8 assists, 2 aces
Arianna Cunningham — 9 kills, 14 digs, 1 block assist, 2 aces
Lexis Drake — 1 kill, 3 digs, 1 assist
Rhylee Inman — 2 kills, 1 dig, 1 assist, 1 block assist
Willow Leedy-Bonifas — 23 digs, 2 aces
Kennedy O’Neill — 3 digs
Tenley Stuurmans — 9 kills, 11 digs, 11 assists, 1 solo block, 3 block assists, 1 ace

Wolf spiker Willow Leedy-Bonifas gets a visit from the Breast Cancer Awareness Lorax, AKA big sis Ivy Leedy. (Photo courtesy Alysabeth Leedy)

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Never say die, always say win

Posted in Volleyball, tagged , , , , , on October 16, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Addison Jacobson (center) helped spark the Coupeville JV spikers to a comeback win Friday night. (Jackie Saia photos)

Call ’em the rally queens.

Down a set to visiting Mount Vernon Christian Friday night, the Coupeville High School JV volleyball squad stormed back to scorch the Hurricanes, winning a tense tussle in three action-packed frames.

When the last spike winner erupted off of Emily Rains fingertips and slammed into the hardwood, the Wolves were left with a 19-25, 25-18, 25-15 victory.

That lifts Alita Blouin’s pack of scrappy spikers to 4-4 in Northwest 2B/1B League action, 4-7 overall.

The Wolves, who have won four of their last six matches, get a chance to keep things going right away, hosting East Jefferson in a non-league rumble Saturday afternoon.

Tip-off is set for 1:00 PM.

 

Friday stats:

Annabelle Cundiff — 2 kills, 2 digs
Addison Jacobson — 2 kills, 4 digs, 2 aces
Emma Leavitt — 2 kills, 3 digs, 8 assists, 2 aces
Olivia Martin — 11 digs, 1 assist, 3 aces
Emily Rains — 3 kills, 4 digs, 1 ace
Scarlett Spencer — 4 kills, 2 digs

Olivia Martin is just here for the wins.

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Strong fight, seasoned foe

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , , on October 16, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Olivia Hall battles for the ball. (Julie Wheat photo)

“I’m really proud of them.”

Though just an 8th grader, Lucy Schisel has already made a strong impact as one of the leading scorers on this year’s Coupeville High School varsity girls’ soccer squad.

Dangerous on the pitch, the young Wolf booter also is already showing maturity and polish off the field, as well.

Which was demonstrated in Schisel’s thoughtful postgame comments after CHS put up a spirited fight Friday night during a 6-0 loss to visiting Mount Vernon Christian, a team with legit state title hopes.

Coupeville was unable to keep the Hurricanes high-powered offense from raining down shots, with a little help from refs who awarded MVC two penalty shots for minor collisions while ignoring Wolf goaltender Finley Helm being steamrolled and left to pick grass out of her teeth.

But that doesn’t mean the plucky Wolves, minus three key players, didn’t go down swinging in front of their home fans.

“We put in our all,” Schisel said. “We pushed ourselves against a very good team, and we had the right idea most of the time — our passes were just a second too late.”

Coupeville’s defense, under extreme duress most of the night, held up well in the early going, holding the ‘Canes scoreless for 20 minutes to open play.

Helm made several nice snags on incoming missiles, while Lillian Ketterling ran down, and hip checked into submission, several MVC players intent on making long runs.

Ultimately, however, Mount Vernon had too many high-powered scorers and slipped in two goals in a two-minute span to take the lead.

The score remained at 2-0 heading into the half, with Olivia Hall, Hailey Goldman, Emma Cushman, Tamsin Ward and others putting together another 25-minute run of not surrendering a goal.

Hailey Goldman put up a spirited fight Friday night. (Jacob Lujan photo)

Then the dam broke, with the Hurricanes rattling home four more goals — two thanks to those penalty shots — to salt away the win.

Helm bounded high into the air to make a jump save on a well-cracked ball in the late going, while her defenders sacrificed their bodies to the cause until the final whistle.

With the loss, and Friday Harbor beating Lopez Island 3-0 earlier in the day, Coupeville’s playoff hopes took a hit, but are not gone.

The Wolves, now 4-4-2 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 5-5-2 overall, sit in fourth place in the seven-team league, with the top three teams getting a ticket to the postseason.

MVC is atop the standings at 9-0-0 for 27 points, followed by Friday Harbor (7-2-0 for 21 points) and Lopez (6-3-2 for 20 points), with CHS (14 points), La Conner (2-4-2 for eight points), Providence Classical Christian (2-7-0 for six points), and Orcas Island (0-10 for zippo) rounding out the chase.

Coupeville has two league games left, traveling to La Conner October 20 and hosting Friday Harbor October 29, while Lopez has one, traveling to La Conner October 27.

With three points for a win and one for a tie, the Wolves need to win both of their remaining league games and need Lopez to lose to force a tie for that third, and final, playoff berth.

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Heads up! ‘Canes a tough foe

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged , , , , on October 10, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Lincoln Wagner (22) stands tall on defense. (Jacob Lujan photo)

You can be a one-trick pony if it’s a great trick.

The Mount Vernon Christian boys’ soccer squad seemed to have one play in its playbook Saturday, but dang if the Hurricanes didn’t run it really well, all the way to capturing a 4-1 win over host Coupeville in a key Northwest 2B/1B League clash.

The loss snaps a four-game winning streak for the Wolves and drops them to 4-1 in conference action, 7-3 overall.

Coupeville remains in second place in the ten-team NWL, however, trailing two-time defending state champ Orcas Island (5-0) by three points, while remaining three points up on a logjam between MVC (3-1), Providence Classical Christian (3-1), Friday Harbor (3-2), and La Conner (3-2).

Next up for the Wolves is another home rumble, this one coming Tuesday against Grace Academy, which sits at 0-4 in league play. Kickoff is 6:00 PM.

And that MVC “trick?”

A well-executed play in which a ‘Cane with a howitzer for an arm threw an inbounds pass in from somewhere up around Tacoma, the ball zipping over the heads of the defenders to where a pack of tall Mount Vernon players lingered around the net.

To a man, the Hurricanes were adept at using their noggins, knocking in at least three of their four goals on headers.

It might have been four-for-four, but one score came in the middle of a particularly vibrant scrum, with bodies jammed together like everyone was in a mosh pit, and the view from up above in the press box was not definitive.

Suffice it to say the goal went in, whether off of a head or a leg, or maybe a kneecap or a well-placed posterior, as the visitors ultimately turned a 1-0 deficit into a comfortable win.

Coupeville had actually opened the scoring just a hair under two minutes into play, busting through the ‘Cane defense with a torrid rush up field.

Shiloh Sandlin lofted a long ball to Edmund Wilson, and the quicksilver Wolf spun his man around, beat him to the net and smashed home his tenth goal of the season, the ball ricocheting off the netminder’s hands.

It was the 18th career goal for the junior and allows him to break a tie with Ethan Spark and move into sole possession of fifth place on the CHS boys career scoring chart, two back of William Nelson for #4.

Unfortunately for the Wolves, that would be the only goal they would net on this day, as a physical MVC defense clamped down and made room to move with the ball tough to find.

Coupeville responded in kind, with defenders such as Brian Thompson, Wyatt Fitch-Marron, and Aiden Wheat chasing down every breakaway and frequently blunting potential attacks on the net.

While he would have preferred a win, CHS coach Jim Kunz praised his team, which overcame a number of injuries to hang with a top-level opponent. He and assistant coach Matt Sandlin picked freshman defender Lincoln Wagner as their player of the game.

“I’m happy with how we played,” he said. “They worked their tails off. And Lincoln was just solid from start to finish.”

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Hurricanes sweep Wolves

Posted in Girls Soccer, Volleyball, tagged , , , , on September 22, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville High School soccer stars Lillian Ketterling (on ground) and Bettie Woolworth battle for a ball. (Monica Grant photo)

It was a triple feature of pain.

Coupeville High School sent three teams to the mainland Tuesday to face Mount Vernon Christian, and all three Wolf squads were knocked out by the host Hurricanes.

Both CHS volleyball teams and girls’ soccer absorbed league losses but will get back at it with hope still burning.

The booters host La Conner Thursday, with a 5:00 PM kickoff and free admission, while the varsity spikers head to Sultan Saturday for a tournament.

 

How Tuesday went down:

 

Varsity volleyball:

Coupeville started strongly but faded as the night went on, taking a 25-20, 25-13, 25-10 loss.

The defeat drops the Wolves to 1-1 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 1-3 overall.

 

Stats:

Zariyah Allen — 1 kill, 3 digs
Capri Anter — 2 digs
Haylee Armstrong — 2 kills, 2 digs, 4 assists
Arianna Cunningham — 4 kills, six digs, one assist
Lexis Drake — 2 kills, 1 dig
Rhylee Inman — 1 kill, 1 dig, 1 ace
Willow Leedy-Bonifas — 7 digs
Isa Mc Fetridge — 1 ace
Kennedy O’Neill — 1 dig
Tenley Stuurmans — 2 kills, 9 digs, 5 assists, 2 solo blocks, 2 aces

 

JV volleyball:

Alita Blouin’s squad put up its strongest fight of the season, pushing the ‘Canes to the end before falling in a tense 25-14, 23-25, 15-11 loss.

Now 0-2 in conference action, 0-4 overall, the young guns return to action next Monday, September 28 when both CHS spiker squads host non-conference rival Cedar Park Christian-Bothell.

 

Stats:

Addison Jacobson — 1 dig
Emma Leavitt — 3 kills, 1 dig, 4 assists, 2 aces
Olivia Martin — 10 digs, 1 ace
Cassandra Powers — 4 kills, 2 digs, 3 assists, 6 aces
Emily Rains — 2 digs, 2 aces
Scarlett Spencer — 1 dig

 

Girls’ Soccer:

The previously undefeated booters hit their first bump in the road this season but remain atop the Northwest 2B/1B League standings.

MVC, which has been the premier unit in the conference in recent seasons, won 5-0 to drop CHS to 2-1-1 in NWL action, 3-1-1 overall.

Jasmine Ader’s team still sits in a tie with Lopez Island, which is also 2-1-1 for seven points.

Meanwhile MVC (2-0-0 for six points), Friday Harbor (2-1-0 for six points), La Conner (1-1-0 for three points), Providence Classical Christian (1-2-0 for three points), and Orcas Island (0-4-0 for zero points) round out the standings.

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