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Gloomy day, bright results

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , on April 2, 2026| 2 Comments »

Arianna Cunningham set PRs in the javelin and triple jump Wednesday afternoon. (Marquette Cunningham photos)

They endured.

Competing on a ferociously wet afternoon in Mount Vernon Wednesday, Coupeville High School track and field athletes survived the weather while still piling up a fair number of PRs at a 12-team meet.

April arrived with a deluge, leaving Wolf coaches Elizabeth Bitting and Bob Martin to shake their heads in wonder.

“Today was a wet one, we haven’t had many meets like that … soaked to the bones,” said the track gurus.

“Even with Mother Nature trying to steal the spotlight, it was a great team effort, and the athletes showed a lot of grit; they did great.”

While the competitors had long since gone home, complete results from the meet took a while to arrive, not being finished until Thursday afternoon.

Once the stats were final, they showed Coupeville finishing 3rd in the boys’ team standings, while the Wolf girls collected a 4th place finish.

Mount Vernon Christian and La Conner earned team titles in the girls’ and boys’ battles, respectively.

Overall, the Wolves earned 18 PRs in the rain, with two wins from freshman Cyrus Sparacio (1600, 3200) and another from the boys 4 x 400 relay squad.

Coupeville’s track stars will have some time to dry out, with spring break keeping them on the sidelines.

The next meet for CHS arrives April 15, when the Wolves host an 11-team meet at Mickey Clark Field.

Sage Arends flies for the finish line.

 

Wednesday’s results:

 

GIRLS:

200 — Isa Mc Fetridge (8th) 30.26

400 — Olivia Hall (2nd) 1:06.69 *PR*

800 — Laken Simpson (5th) 2:54.80 *PR*; Mikayla Wagner (7th) 3:03.14

3200 — Devon Wyman (4th) 15:0960

100 Hurdles — Kennedy O’Neill (8th) 20.50 *PR*; Lexis Drake (10th) 23.19; Myra McDonald (13th) 24.02; Frankie Tenore (14th) 28.21

300 Hurdles — O’Neill (6th) 1:02.19 *PR*; Wyman (7th) 1:03.04 *PR*; Drake (10th) 1:09.02

4 x 100 Relay — Arianna Cunningham, Drake, Willow Leedy-Bonifas, Mc Fetridge (5th) 59.33

4 x 200 Relay — Cunningham, Simpson, Taylor Marrs, Mc Fetridge (4th) 2:03.29

4 x 400 Relay —Hall, Marrs, Lillian Ketterling, Simpson (2nd) 4:59.46

Shot Put — Tamsin Ward (2nd) 29-05; Inara Maund (23rd) 16-11 *PR*

Discus — Ward (4th) 67-10; Ketterling (12th) 56-09; Marrs (13th) 54-03

Javelin — Cunningham (5th) 79-10 *PR*

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

Pole Vault — Ketterling (3rd) 7-00

Long Jump — Leedy-Bonifas (12th) 11-08.75; O’Neill (15th) 11-00

Triple Jump — Cunningham (4th) 27-02.50 *PR*; Leedy-Bonifas (6th) 25-09

 

BOYS:

100 — Liam Blas (12th) 12.88; Beckett Green (14th) 12.91; Nathan Coxsey (17th) 12.96

200 — Davin Houston (4th) 24.46; Green (8th) 25.31; Will Tierney (15th) 26.62 *PR*; Richmond Bandong (17th) 27.11

400 — Cyrus Sparacio (6th) 59.34 *PR*; Tierney (9th) 1:01.06 *PR*; Sage Arends (14th) 1:04.21

800 — Ossian Merkel (7th) 2:31.85 *PR*; Russell Miller (15th) 3:08.96; Zach Blitch (16th) 3:19.05 *PR*; Nolan Hunt (17th) 3:38.58; Zachary Saho (19th) 3:52.59 *PR*

1600 — Sparacio (1st) 4:52.16; Merkel (9th) 5:43.23; Hunt (25th) 7:37.34; Blitch (27th) 7:45.85

3200 — Sparacio (1st) 10:43.6 *PR*; George Spear (2nd) 11:05.3; Edmund Kunz (3rd) 12:21.2

300 Hurdles — Edmund Wilson (7th) 50.57

4 x 100 Relay — Coxsey, Blas, Wyatt Fitch-Marron, Green (5th) 48.51

4 x 400 Relay — Wilson, Brian Thompson, Fitch-Marron, Green (1st) 3:55.66

Shot Put — Saho (4th) 37-06 *PR*; Khanor Jump (15th) 31-01; Blitch (34th) 21-00

Discus — Blas (8th) 92-01; Jump (10th) 91-02; Saho (14th) 80-11; Shilo Sandlin (28th) 53-08; Blitch (32nd) 51-00; Tierney (32nd) 51-00

Javelin — Bandong (7th) 114-09 *PR*; Jump (24th) 77-00; Sandlin (31st) 62-09; Hunt (42nd) 23-05

High Jump — Houston (2nd) 5-08; Fitch-Marron (3rd) 5-06

Pole Vault — Kunz (3rd) 7-00

Long Jump — Arends (6th) 17-06; Wilson (9th) 16-09 *PR*; Thompson (10th) 16-06.50

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Smash, bash, another foe down with a crash

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , on March 31, 2026| 1 Comment »

Coupeville sophomore first-baseman Ava Lucero was flawless in the field Tuesday and deadly at the plate. (Jackie Saia photo)

Aim for the mountains.

Look out to center field at Darrington, and that’s what you’ll see peeking down on the Loggers softball field — a range of craggy targets.

So, the smash sisters took advantage Tuesday, as the Coupeville High School sluggers lashed liners to all fields, including a Chelsi Stevens moonshot which cleared the fences, en route to demolishing their hosts 21-2.

The lopsided win, in which CHS coach Aaron Lucero was able to get action for all 17 girls on his active roster, lifts the Wolves to 3-0 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 6-0 overall.

Combined with an Orcas Island loss to Friday Harbor, it also moves Coupeville back into sole possession of first place in the conference, with a rematch against Darrington set for Thursday on Whidbey Island.

By that time, they may have found the ball Stevens launched into the stratosphere. Maybe.

It came just four batters into the game yet was already the fourth booming shot unleashed by a CHS squad which has outscored its foes 92-12 this season.

Lethal leadoff hitter Haylee Armstrong jumped on the first pitch of the afternoon, cracking a ball a Darrington outfielder couldn’t handle, while Teagan Calkins mashed a triple to left-center two batters later.

Up to the plate came Stevens, flexing her bat and eyeballing the Logger pitcher.

Boom! The sophomore cleanup hitter delivered with a clang, the ball arcing up, up, and still further up into the blue sky, while the Darrington outfielders watched helplessly as the two-run tater screamed its way halfway back to Whidbey before landing.

It was wash, rinse, and repeat from there for the Wolves, who tacked on another run in the first, thanks to an Ava Lucero RBI double, before pushing six across in the second frame.

Stevens again came up big her second time around, with a long RBI double, while Capri Anter, Lucero, and Emma Leavitt also connected on run-scoring hits.

Wolf hurler Adeline Maynes was unhittable in the early innings, throwing high, hard cheese and collecting strikeouts, with the game put on ice thanks to a 15-batter, nine-run third inning which lasted approximately 45 minutes and change.

Sydney Van Dyke, Calkins, and Stevens walloped back-to-back-to-back extra-base blows to start the frame, with Cami Van Dyke, Leavitt, and Allie Powers chipping in with key base knocks to keep the never-ending rally chugging along.

From midway through the third to the end of the fourth, Aaron Lucero kept his scorebook keeper hoppin’, mixing and matching players in the lineup to give his reserves crucial game action to build for the future while keeping the score from getting to 50-0.

Zariyah Allen, Olivia Martin, Allie Powers, Marina Jadwin, Arianna Vinson, Zayne Roos, and Emily Rains all earned plate appearances, while Emma Cushman (defense) and Emma Leavitt (offense) combined to form a dynamic duo in right field.

Darrington, a plucky team, did scrape out two runs in the fourth, but Calkins and Anter got them back with RBI singles in the fifth.

Flame-throwing Wolf hurlers Maynes and Armstrong combined to net eight strikeouts, while Ava Lucero, playing a spotless first base, pulled off three unassisted put-outs on grounders to highlight a top-flight defense.

 

Tuesday stats:

Capri Anter — Three singles
Haylee Armstrong — One triple
Teagan Calkins — One single, one triple, one walk
Emma Leavitt — One single, one double
Ava Lucero — One single, one double, one walk
Adeline Maynes — Two walks
Allie Powers — One single
Emily Rains — One walk
Chelsi Stevens — Two doubles, one home run
Cami Van Dyke — One single
Sydney Van Dyke — Two singles, one double, one triple

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Diamond men walk to a win

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , , on March 31, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Camden Glover struck out eight in four innings Tuesday, earning a win in Darrington. (Jackie Saia photo)

Pick your moments.

For the Coupeville High School baseball squad, the window of opportunity opened in the top of the sixth inning Tuesday afternoon.

To the Wolves credit, they seized it.

Trailing 2-1 at Darrington, with two outs and nobody aboard, struggling to scrape out hits, Steve Hilborn’s diamond men pulled off a stunning reversal, getting eight consecutive hitters on base from that point and pulling away for what would become a 6-2 win.

The victory, coming less than 24 hours after a non-conference loss to East Jefferson, gets the Wolves to 3-0 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 4-2 overall, with a rematch against Darrington set for Thursday on Whidbey Island.

It also pushes CHS back into a first-place tie with Mount Vernon Christian atop the conference at the quarter mark of the 12-game league schedule.

Things were looking a bit dire in the sixth for the Wolves, despite Coop Cooper leading off the frame with a double.

A groundout, followed by a successful pick-off play from Darrington, and Coupeville seemingly had nothing to work with.

CHS hadn’t scored since the first, and had stranded three runners an inning before, allowing the Loggers to hold on to their lead by the narrowest margin.

Then Darrington’s pitchers forgot how to throw a strike. Literally.

Consecutive walks to Trent Thule, Malachi Somes, and Chris Zenz loaded the bases, before a free pass to Carson Grove pushed a runner home to knot things at 2-2.

That brought leadoff hitter Chase Anderson to the plate, and he delivered, crushing a bases-clearing double to center — one of just four Wolf hits on the afternoon — and the entire game had flipped.

Not that Darrington was done walking folks.

Aiden O’Neill got a free trip to first, before the Loggers went to a new pitcher, who promptly plunked Camden Glover and Cooper wham-bam to give Coupeville its final run.

Glover, who tossed four innings after coming on in relief of Anderson, made that stand up, retiring six of the final seven hitters he faced, with five going down on strikeouts.

For the game, the Wolf pitchers combined to whiff 13, with Glover tops with eight, while limiting Darrington to just two hits across seven innings.

While Coupeville didn’t get many more base knocks of their own, three of their four hits were of the extra-base variety, while CHS also racked up 12 walks.

The visitors opened the scoring in the top of the first, with O’Neill walking (what else?), stealing second and third, then scampering home to score on a Darrington error.

While the Wolves went down 1-2-3 in both the second and third, strong defense, including nailing a runner trying to steal third, kept the game at 1-0 until the Loggers scraped out a run in the third, and another in the fourth.

The first Darrington run came in on a passed ball, the second on an RBI single, but after that Anderson and Glover were largely lights out the rest of the way.

Coupeville loaded the bases in the fifth, packaging walks to Riley Lawless and O’Neill around an Anderson single, but the Loggers escaped by snagging a two-out pop up in foul territory.

That set the stage for the sixth, and this time the Wolves were able to take advantage, keeping an early-season run of success going.

 

Tuesday stats:

Chase Anderson — One single, one double
Coop Cooper — One double, one walk
Camden Glover — Two walks
Carson Grove — One walk
Riley Lawless — One walk
Aiden O’Neill — Three walks
Leo Rodriguez — One double
Malachi Somes — One walk
Trent Thule — Two walks
Chris Zenz — One walk

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Busy week awaits Wolf squads

Posted in Baseball, Girls Tennis, Softball, tagged , , , , on March 29, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Savannah Coxsey unleashes hot death. (Julie Wheat photo)

Busy, busy, busy.

With Coupeville High School heading into the last week before Spring Break, its athletic teams will be highly active over the next six days.

The first half of the week features road trips, while the second half is all about homestands.

CHS girls’ tennis is slated to travel to East Jefferson Monday, then host Granite Falls Friday, while Wolf track and field will be in Mount Vernon Wednesday for a mid-week meet.

Meanwhile, baseball motors off to East Jefferson Monday and Darrington Tuesday, before flipping things and hosting Darrington Thursday and East Jefferson Saturday afternoon.

Finally, the red-hot Wolf softball sluggers get two league clashes — Tuesday at Darrington and Thursday at home against the same rival — before also welcoming East Jefferson to Cow Town for a Saturday special.

Those weekend clashes will also feature the CHS diamond squads hosting their annual Strike Out Cancer fundraiser.

After that, barring any schedule shuffling, the actual week of Spring Break will have no events whatsoever for Coupeville athletes.

As we head into the thick of things, here’s where things sit through Mar. 29:

 

Northwest League baseball:

School League Overall
MV Christian 4-0 5-0
Coupeville 2-0 3-1
Concrete 1-1 1-1
Orcas Island 1-1 2-3
La Conner 0-1 1-3
Friday Harbor 0-2 1-3
Darrington 0-3 0-6

 

Northwest League girls’ tennis:

School League Overall
Coupeville 1-0 1-1
Friday Harbor 0-1 0-1

 

Northwest League softball:

School League Overall
Orcas Island 3-0 3-2
Coupeville 2-0 5-0
La Conner 0-0 1-0
Darrington 0-1 1-1
Concrete 0-2 0-2
Friday Harbor 0-2 1-5

On to a new week! (Jackie Saia photo)

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Huge hits, snappy strikeouts, valiant victory

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , on March 26, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Cami (left) and Sydney Van Dyke are part of a potent Coupeville lineup which has outscored foes 71-10 through the first five games. (Julie Wheat photo)

Haylee Armstrong can slam a door shut.

The Coupeville High School junior delivered two noteworthy catches in center field late in Thursday’s softball game on Friday Harbor, before coming in to retire six of the eight hitters she faced as a pitcher to seal a 7-1 victory for the Wolves.

Coming on the heels of a 17-3 home win over the same foe a day earlier, the season sweep of a key rival gets Aaron Lucero’s sluggers to 2-0 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 5-0 overall.

Thursday’s royal rumble went in a different direction than Wednesday’s prairie blowout.

For one thing, it was nothing but blue skies above Friday Harbor. Almost spring-like.

For another, the Wolverines managed to escape without getting severely dinged in any inning like they did Wednesday, even holding CHS scoreless in three frames.

Still, the Coupeville bats had their moments, with seven hitters combining to rap out 13 base-knocks, including five of the extra-base variety.

The Wolves got on the board in the top of the first when catcher Teagan Calkins crashed another inside-the-park homerun — “The Red Dragon” also hammered a four-bagger Wednesday — followed by an RBI double from starting pitcher Adeline Maynes.

The fireball-chuckin’ sophomore whiffed nine across five-plus innings of work, only getting into a bit of trouble in the sixth.

With Coupeville playing cleaner defense than it had a day before, Friday Harbor wasn’t able to push a runner across until the bottom of the sixth, and then, only one.

By that time, the Wolves were up 7-0, having added three runs in the second and a single tally in both the fourth and sixth.

The second-inning onslaught started with 8th grader Cami Van Dyke lashing a missile of a single off a glove.

From there, CHS piled up a double to left from Armstrong, a single from Sydney Van Dyke, and a two-run double to deep right field off the bat of Chelsi Stevens.

The run in the fourth came courtesy some smart base-running from the wise old vet, as Calkins crashed into third on a single by Stevens, then snuck home when she caught the Friday Harbor defense not paying attention.

In the sixth it was back to the big hit bonanza, with a Calkins double and a Capri Anter triple creating Coupeville’s final run.

Haylee Armstrong is on a tear this season. (Jackie Saia photo)

On a day when everyone in the Wolf lineup made a solid contribution, Armstrong delivered the exclamation point.

She made a catch on the run heading for the wall in center, then two batters later came charging towards the infield to snag a rapidly falling ball before it could touch grass.

When Friday Harbor opened the sixth with a pair of singles and a walk, Aaron Lucero decided to change things up, moving Maynes to second base and tapping his arm to bring his version of Mariano Rivera out of the bullpen.

If the bullpen was located in center field.

Armstrong came skipping in, slapped on her face mask, practiced a mean mug or two, then revved her arm up to turbo mode, striking out five of the eight hitters she stared down, before getting the game’s final out on a fly ball.

With Coupeville’s aces combining for 14 strikeouts, the gauntlet has been laid.

“Adeline did great and Haylee came in with the heat,” Aaron Lucero said. “Great duo. Great job all the way around.”

 

Thursday stats:

Capri Anter — One single, one triple
Haylee Armstrong — Two singles, one double
Teagan Calkins — One double, one home run
Ava Lucero — One walk
Adeline Maynes — One single
Chelsi Stevens — One single, one double, one walk
Cami Van Dyke — Two singles, one walk
Sydney Van Dyke — One single, one walk

Eyeballing another victory. (Jackie Saia photo)

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