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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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Netters nipped in finale, turn towards postseason

Posted in Girls Tennis, tagged , , , , on May 6, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Jovanah Villagomez has played strongly this season. (Melanie Wolfe photos)

It was a battle, start to finish.

As the only two teams from the seven-school Northwest 2B/1B League to have full girls’ tennis programs, Coupeville and Friday Harbor get to know each other well over the course of the season.

Wednesday afternoon was the fourth and final regular season clash for the rivals, and the fourth time the match was decided by a narrow 3-2 score.

Unfortunately for CHS, after winning the first meeting in late March, the Wolves came up on the short end of things the next three times out, allowing the Wolverines to claim the conference title.

With the loss Coupeville wraps up team play at 1-3 in NWL action, 4-5 overall, while Friday Harbor, which hosted Wednesday’s rumble, finishes 3-1, 5-3.

The Wolves originally had a home non-conference match scheduled for Thursday, but Forest Ridge had to bow out.

So instead CHS turns towards the postseason, when it will send two singles players and two doubles teams to the District 1/2 tourney.

That event goes down Wednesday, May 13 at the Amy Yee Tennis Center in Seattle, with six schools chasing four tickets to the state tourney.

The top two finishers in both singles and doubles advance to play in Yakima May 22-23.

Coupeville and Friday Harbor will be joined by SeaTac League rivals Puget Sound Adventist, Summit Classical Christian, and the aforementioned Forest Ridge.

Northwest League compatriot La Conner will also be represented at the tourney. The Braves don’t have a full team of their own but have a co-op agreement with Anacortes for regular season play.

 

Wednesday results:

 

Varsity:

1st Singles — Tenley Stuurmans won 6-0, 6-0

2nd Singles — Milana Light won 6-2, 6-1

1st Doubles — Savannah Coxsey/Aleksia Jump lost 6-3, 6-0

2nd Doubles — Jade Peabody/Rowan Stoner lost 6-1, 6-3

3rd Doubles — Kauri Hamilton/Jovanah Villagomez lost 6-4, 6-2

 

JV:

4th Doubles — Lakshmi Erickson/Annabelle Cundiff lost 8-2

5th Doubles — Hazel Goldman/Jade Peabody lost 8-4

Savannah Coxsey angles a return.

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Playoff push takes hard hit

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on May 5, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Malachi Somes (left), Camden Glover, and crew are still in the playoff hunt, but the margin of error has tightened. (Jackie Saia photo)

The ball slipped through their hands, and now the playoffs may as well.

Committing a season-high 10 errors Tuesday, the Coupeville High School baseball squad fell 14-1 to visiting Mount Vernon Christian in a mercy-ruled game which complicates the Wolves pursuit of a postseason berth.

Now 7-4 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 9-8 overall after absorbing its fourth straight loss, CHS sits in a tie with Friday Harbor (7-4) and Orcas Island (7-4) in the battle for the #2 and #3 tickets to the district tourney.

MVC, at 11-0, will be the top seed and face the winner of that #2 vs. #3 loser-out game May 14 in the District 1/2 championship game at Skagit Valley College.

Both teams in the finale advance to state.

But first Friday Harbor faces La Conner (3-7) Wednesday, while Orcas clashes with Darrington (2-8) Thursday to close out regular season league play.

Coupeville will have a more difficult task, travelling to Mount Vernon Thursday for a rematch with the Hurricanes.

Steve Hilborn’s diamond men will need a short memory heading into that game, as there is probably little they want to dwell on from Tuesday’s home swan song.

MVC jumped on the Wolves for two runs in the top of the first, before capitalizing on a rash of CHS errors to push seven more across in the second.

Coupeville garnered its lone run in the bottom of the third, after trailing 13-0, as Chase Anderson thumped a double, stole third, then scooted home on one of two errors committed by the ‘Canes.

That was largely it for offense, though, as the Wolves only had a handful of runners, stranding two in the first, and leaving lone runners short of home in three of the other four innings.

CHS used four pitchers, with Anderson, Camden Glover, Coop Cooper, and Trent Thule combining to whiff five batters across five innings of work.

Thule, the lone non-senior in that group, had the most success, recording a 1-2-3 inning in the fourth.

 

Tuesday stats:

Chase Anderson — One single, one double
Camden Glover — One walk
Riley Lawless — One walk
Aiden O’Neill — One single

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