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Smash Sisters sweep All-League honors

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , on June 3, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Teagan Calkins was a two-time Northwest 2B/1B League softball MVP during her CHS diamond career. (Jackie Saia photos)

It was a major show of respect.

After the Coupeville High School softball team rampaged to another Northwest 2B/1B League title this season, conference coaches hailed the Wolves when they picked All-League teams.

Senior catcher Teagan Calkins was named league MVP, diamond guru Aaron Lucero was tabbed as the Coach of the Year, and seven other Cow Town sluggers were named as either First or Second Team selections.

Darrington rounded out the awards, receiving the Team Sportsmanship award.

 

First Team All-League:

Capri Anter — Coupeville
Haylee Armstrong — Coupeville
Emerald Hurley — Friday Harbor
Brandy Lawson — Friday Harbor
Adeline Maynes — Coupeville
Caylee Morton — Friday Harbor
Jillian Otis — Friday Harbor
Emilia Rios — Orcas Island
Delarosia Souryavong — La Conner
Sydney Van Dyke — Coupeville

 

Second Team All-League:

Anna Gustafson — Friday Harbor
Ava Lucero — Coupeville
Yamileth Ocampo Contreras — La Conner
Ava Pater — Darrington
Lucia Rios — Orcas Island
Isla Sasan — Orcas Island
Chelsi Stevens — Coupeville
Cami Van Dyke — Coupeville
Abrah Welborn — Darrington

 

Honorable Mention:

Ila Allen — Friday Harbor
Katarina Edwards — La Conner
Jade Souryavong — La Conner
Tina Malaspina — Orcas Island
Ivy Shaefer — Orcas Island

Sydney Van Dyke was one of eight Wolves honored by league coaches.

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Senior trio earn All-League hardball honors

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , , , on May 28, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Camden Glover (Jackie Saia photo)

But first, a parting gift.

Three graduating Coupeville High School seniors were honored by Northwest 2B/1B League baseball coaches for their play on the diamond this spring.

Chase Anderson landed First-Team All-League recognition, while Camden Glover and Coop Cooper were placed on the Second Team.

The trio led CHS to a 9-9 record, with the Wolves finishing 7-5 in conference play.

Orcas Island thumper Joe Stephens, who smashed a home run over the fence while playing in Coupeville, was tabbed as league MVP.

Rounding out things, Anthony Hanson of Mount Vernon Christian received Coach of the Year after leading the Hurricanes to a league title, while Darrington picked up the Sportsmanship Award.

Coop Cooper (Julie Wheat photo)

 

First Team:

Chase Anderson – Coupeville
Josh Feddema – Mount Vernon Christian
Jackson Feliz – Friday Harbor
Kash Griffith – Friday Harbor
Joe Holt – Friday Harbor
Calder Jones – Orcas Island
Connor Mounts – Mount Vernon Christian
Carter Snel – Darrington
Chase Woodmansee – Mount Vernon Christian
Grady Woodmansee – Mount Vernon Christian

 

Second Team:

Coop Cooper – Coupeville
Zane Dahlberg – Mount Vernon Christian
Harrison Edge – Friday Harbor
Jake Feddeme – Mount Vernon Christian
Camden Glover – Coupeville
Ayden Jolley – Concrete
Francis Key – Orcas Island
Max Lee – Orcas Island
Nam Nguyen – Darrington
Kaleb Otis – La Conner
Walker Wohlgemuth – Mount Vernon Christian

 

Honorable Mention:

Nolan Elde – La Conner
Isiah Kimple – Orcas Island
Angus Poprycz – La Conner

Chase Anderson (Melanie Wolfe photo)

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Take a final gaze, then move on

Posted in Baseball, Girls Tennis, Softball, Track, tagged , , , , , on May 10, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Wolf diamond man Avery Eelkema strolls over to look at the final standings for spring sports teams. (Jackie Saia photo)

The turn is made.

Regular season play has wrapped, with three of four Coupeville High School spring sports teams making the transition to the postseason.

Wolf girls’ tennis heads to Seattle Wednesday for the District 1/2 tourney, where the top two finishers in singles and doubles punch their tickets to state.

A day later CHS softball plays in the district tourney in Mount Vernon.

As the top seed in the three-team tourney, the Smash Sisters face the survivor of a loser-out game between Friday Harbor and Orcas Island, taking the field in the championship game.

Win or lose in that bout, Aaron Lucero’s squad has already clinched its second-straight trip to the big dance.

Then Saturday CHS track and field hosts the District 1/2 meet at Mickey Clark Field, with the top two finishers in each event advancing to the 2B state meet.

The only Wolf team already sidelined is baseball, which came up just a game short of advancing to the playoffs.

And with the regular season done, this is the final standings story for the 2025-2026 school year.

If we’re still around in the fall, we’ll rev it back up.

But for now, I can stop venting to my computer about the Northwest 2B/1B League website and its inability to stay on top of things.

So, there’s that…

 

Northwest League baseball:

School League Overall
MV Christian 12-0 18-2
Friday Harbor 8-4 10-8
Orcas Island 8-4 10-8
Coupeville 7-5 9-9
La Conner 3-8 4-12
Darrington 3-9 4-15
Concrete 0-11 0-11

 

Northwest League girls’ tennis:

School League Overall
Friday Harbor 3-1 5-3
Coupeville 1-3 4-5

 

Northwest League softball:

School League Overall
Coupeville 10-0 17-2
Friday Harbor 8-2 12-7
Orcas Island 6-4 7-8
La Conner 3-7 6-9
Darrington 2-8 4-12
Concrete 1-9 1-10

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Ward, Wolf boys rule at league meet

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , on May 7, 2026| Leave a Comment »

CHS freshman Tamsin Ward, seen in the high jump, won a league title in the shot put. (Ana Paula Oliveira photo)

The crown is theirs.

Putting out a strong effort across the board Thursday, the Coupeville High School boys’ track and field stars stormed to a team title win at the Northwest 2B/1B League Championships.

Sparked by wins from Cyrus Sparacio (800, 1600), Davin Houston (High Jump), Marquette Cunningham (Triple Jump), and George Spear (3200), the Wolves outdueled five other schools to claim top honors in Mount Vernon.

CHS finished with 136.5 points, with La Conner (124) and Mount Vernon Christian (94.5) giving chase. Friday Harbor (86.5), Orcas Island (68.5), and Concrete (8) rounded out the field.

“The boys came together with a true team effort!” said Wolf coaches Bob Martin and Elizabeth Bitting. “Congratulations to the entire team on a well-earned accomplishment.

“Great job, boys!”

The champs. (Photo courtesy Bob Martin)

On the girl’s side of things, Coupeville got a win in the shot put from Tamsin Ward, finishing third in the team standings.

MVC racked up a meet-high 201 points to outduel La Conner (180), CHS (71), Friday Harbor (49), Orcas (16), and Concrete (12).

Overall, Coupeville racked up 30 PRs on the day, with the boys accounting for 21 of those.

The Wolves now have a little over a week to prep for their next event, the District 1/2 meet, which goes down in Cow Town Saturday, May 16.

That meet is a two-in-one affair, with Concrete and seven fellow 1B schools from District 2 competing against each other to qualify for Quad-Districts.

Meanwhile, Coupeville and league mates MVC, Orcas, Friday Harbor, and La Conner will be joined by Summit Atlas, with the top two finishers in each event qualifying for the 2B state meet.

Wyatt Fitch-Marron punches the gas pedal through the floor. (Aiden O’Neill photo)

 

Thursday’s results:

 

GIRLS:

100 — Isa Mc Fetridge (6th) 13.5 *PR*

200 — Mc Fetridge (6th) 28.5

400 — Olivia Hall (5th) 1:06.1 *PR*; Taylor Marrs (7th) 1:15.9

800 — Laken Simpson (4th) 2:45.8 *PR*; Mikayla Wagner (6th) 2:56.7 *PR*

1600 — Devon Wyman (5th) 6:31.6 *PR*

3200 — Wyman (2nd) 14:00.4 *PR*

100 Hurdles — Kennedy O’Neill (7th) 19.5 *PR*; Lexis Drake (11th) 22.2; Myra McDonald (12th) 22.3

300 Hurdles — O’Neill (7th) 58.2 *PR*; Wyman (10th) 1:06.2; Drake (11th) 1:11.2; McDonald (12th) 1:14.5

4 x 100 Relay — Arianna Cunningham, Drake, Mc Fetridge, Tamsin Ward (3rd) 54.2

4 x 200 Relay — A. Cunningham, Simpson, Drake, Mc Fetridge (2nd) 1:59.3

4 x 400 Relay — Hall, Marrs, Lillian Ketterling, Simpson (2nd) 4:45.1

Shot Put — Ward (1st) 31-09 *PR*

Discus — Ketterling (2nd) 77-10; Marrs (8th) 58-02

High Jump — Ward (5th) 4-06; Frankie Tenore (6th) 4-04

Pole Vault — Ketterling (2nd) 8-06

Long Jump — O’Neill (11th) 12-05.25; McDonald (16th) 10-01.75

Triple Jump — A. Cunningham (6th) 28-07

Arianna Cunningham pushes for the line. (Jackie Saia photo)

 

BOYS:

100 — Marquette Cunningham (6th) 11.8; Nathan Coxsey (9th) 12.1 *PR*; Liam Blas (10th) 12.2; Beckett Green (14th) 12.4; Sage Arends (20th) 12.9

200 — Green (6th) 24.6; Coxsey (10th) 25.0 *PR*; Richmond Bandong (17th) 26.6; Arends (19th) 27.1; Shilo Sandlin (20th) 27.7; Davin Houston (25th) 32.9

400 — George Spear (4th) 57.2; Brian Thompson (10th) 58.7; Will Tierney (11th) 58.8

800 — Cyrus Sparacio (1st) 2:13.7; Ossian Merkel (2nd) 2:22.9 *PR*; Johnathan Jacobsen (5th) 2:27.4 *PR*; Hunter Atteberry (9th) 2:43.9; Nolan Hunt (10th) 3:10.1 *PR*; Zach Blitch (11th) 3:17.1; Zachary Saho (13th) 3:50.0

1600 — Sparacio (1st) 4:43.5; Spear (2nd) 4:50.7 *PR*; Kenneth Jacobsen (4th) 5:16.2; Merkel (5th) 5:26.5 *PR*; Atteberry (9th) 5:48.5; Hunt (12th) 6:39.9 *PR*; Blitch (13th) 8:14.4

3200 — Spear (1st) 10:34.3 *PR*; Sparacio (2nd) 10:49.7; K. Jacobsen (3rd) 11:08.7 *PR*; Edmund Kunz (5th) 12:27.7

300 Hurdles — Edmund Wilson (3rd) 47.0 *PR*

4 x 100 Relay — M. Cunningham, Blas, Wyatt Fitch-Marron, Houston (3rd) 45.3

4 x 400 Relay — Wilson, Thompson, Fitch-Marron, Green (2nd) 3:45.2

Shot Put — Saho (3rd) 39-10.50; Khanor Jump (6th) 35-05.50; Blitch (18th) 26-06 *PR*

Discus — Blas (6th) 115-00 *PR*; Jump (8th) 106-05.50; Saho (11th) 98-01 *PR*; Tierney (21st) 67-06.50 *PR*; Sandlin (26th) 61-08.50; Blitch (28th) 56-02.50; J. Jacobsen (29th) 53-09.50

Javelin — Bandong (5th) 114-03; K. Jacobsen (12th) 99-00 *PR*; J. Jacobsen (13th) 98-08 *PR*; M. Cunningham (15th) 97-07 *PR*; Sandlin (20th) 72-10; Hunt (25th) 26-10

High Jump — Houston (1st) 6-00 *PR*; Fitch-Marron (3rd) 5-08; J. Jacobsen (4th) 5-02

Pole Vault — Kunz (4th) 7-06; Merkel (6th) 7-00 *PR*; Russell Miller (7th) 7-00

Long Jump — Wilson (6th) 16-08; Thompson (7th) 16-06.50

Triple Jump — M. Cunningham (1st) 40-09 *PR*

George Spear abides. (Melanie Wolfe photo)

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Playoff ticket eludes diamond men

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on May 7, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Chase Anderson waits for his pitch. (Duke Kutz photo)

A second-half slump will prevent the Coupeville High School baseball squad from making the playoffs.

Once flying high at 7-2, the Wolves absorbed their fifth-straight loss, and seventh in their last nine games, falling 12-1 at Mount Vernon Christian Thursday night.

That defeat, combined with wins this week for Friday Harbor and Orcas Island, breaks a three-way tie for the final two postseason slots for 2B schools in the Northwest 2B/1B League.

Coupeville finishes at 7-5 in conference action, 9-9 overall, while MVC (12-0), Friday Harbor (8-4), and Orcas (8-4) are headed to the District 1/2 tourney.

The Wolves swept Friday Harbor early in the season, but a mid-season split with La Conner (3-8), in which both games were decided by a single run, looms large now.

CHS was still 7-1 in league play heading into its final two regular season series, only to be swept by both Orcas and MVC.

Thursday’s loss was a lot like the one Coupeville suffered Tuesday against the Hurricanes, as a tepid offense and way too many errors combined to make life tough for the Wolves.

CHS only put five runners on board across five innings Thursday, while committing seven errors on defense a game after racking up 10 miscues.

The first inning was a scoreless duel this time around, with Camden Glover stroking a two-out single in the top of the frame, while MVC eked out a walk in the bottom half.

But, after the Wolves went down 1-2-3 in the second, the ‘Canes struck for seven runs in the bottom of the second, scoring all of them after they had two outs.

Mount Vernon Christian only plunked a pair of singles in the inning, but four Wolf errors and three wild pitches conspired to allow the host team to stage an impressive rally.

The Hurricanes tacked on three more runs in the third to push the lead out to 10-0 before Coupeville scored its final run of the season in the fourth.

Chase Anderson belted a leadoff double to left, and three batters later fellow senior Aiden O’Neill laced an RBI single in his final high school at-bat.

But that was it for Steve Hilborn’s squad, as Trent Thule got plunked by a wayward pitch in the fifth to represent Coupeville’s final base runner of the campaign.

Anderson and Thule combined to rack up three strikeouts while pulling mound duty.

 

Thursday stats:

Chase Anderson — One double
Camden Glover — One single
Aiden O’Neill — One single
Trent Thule — Two walks

Camden Glover, here using his Jedi skills to freeze a ball in midair, played his final high school baseball game Thursday night. (Melanie Wolfe photo)

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