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Wolf QB chases gridiron history

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , , on September 21, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Logan Downes flicks a pass towards the end zone. (Bailey Thule photo)

I stand corrected.

Or, more accurately, MaxPreps — where the struggle is endless and the end results questionable — stands corrected.

Well, maybe not corrected so much, but at least hanging its head in shame. Hopefully.

What am I rambling about?

Well, having done a deep dive into the touchdowns passes tossed by Coupeville High School quarterback Logan Downes, I have discovered an error on MaxPreps.

I know, we’re all shocked. Like, really, really shocked … oh … no, now I’m being told none of us are shocked in the slightest.

But anyway, back to heapin’ abuse on MaxPreps, which credits Downes, a current senior, with throwing two TD lobs as a sophomore, when he really had three.

This changes everything! Everything, I say!!

At the very least, the correction does move him one step closer to taking away older brother Hunter’s career TD passing record. So, there’s that.

With six regular season games, and hopefully a playoff run, still ahead for Logan, he sits with 28 scoring passes, third best in CHS gridiron history.

Three as a sophomore while sharing time with Cole Hutchinson under center, in a season where the Wolves had one game cancelled by the wind, and another by injuries.

Then 17 last year, one shy of Joel Walstad’s single-season school record, and eight and counting through the first three games of the 2023 season.

Toss two more scoring strikes, and Logan joins his basketball coach, Brad Sherman (33 TD’s) and big bro Hunter (35) in the “30” club.

The current Wolf gunslinger already holds the single-game school record of five touchdown passes in a game — set last season against La Conner, which travels to Whidbey this Friday for a rematch.

As he chases his sibling in the record books, Logan has connected with 11 different receivers on a TD pass over the past three seasons.

 

His support crew:

Tim Ursu — 6
Scott Hilborn — 4
Aiden O’Neill — 4
Dominic Coffman — 3
Daylon Houston — 3
Chase Anderson — 2
Hunter Bronec — 2
Peyton Caveness — 1
Henry Ohme — 1
Jack Porter — 1
Malachi Somes — 1

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Downes chases history, one throw at a time!!

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on September 19, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Wolf senior QB Hunter Downes is on target to erase almost every passing record in school history. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Middle school ball and the birth of a gunslinger.

Freshman year.

Downes and the man he’s chasing on the record board, Brad Sherman.

Brad Sherman.

Ian Smith.

Corey Cross.

Bob Rea.

What do those four share in common?

Well, for one thing, they’re among the best quarterbacks to ever run the Coupeville High School offense.

Scan the football record board in the gym hallway, or talk to anyone who witnessed them play in person, and it’s obvious — they set or redefined the standard for Wolf signal callers.

But now, as we head towards the fourth game of his senior season, we need to take a moment to pay tribute to the current CHS gunslinger, Hunter Downes.

He might not be as tall as Sherman, now the program’s offensive coordinator, or as legendary as Cross, whose exploits in the ’70s are related in hushed whispers, but Downes is on target to bust every record they, or any other Wolf QB, ever set.

As a junior, Downes tossed four touchdowns on the road at Bellevue Christian, tying Sherman and Cross for the school’s single-game record.

This year, he’s chasing the big four QB records — season and career marks for passing yardage and TD’s.

Sherman holds the career records with 3,613 yards and 33 scoring strikes, while the season-bests belong to Smith (1,848 yards in 2010) and Joel Walstad (18 TD’s in 2014).

Through three games Downes has 650 yards and eight TD’s. If he keeps that pace up, he’d finish the 2017 season with 2,167 and 27.

Career-wise, he enters Friday’s home game with Charles Wright Academy having amassed 2,491 yards and 26 TD’s in 16 games (three as a sophomore, 10 as a junior and three this year).

Play the final seven games of the regular season at the same pace as the first three, and Downes would walk off the field with career totals of 4,008 and 45, respectively.

Now, of course, nothing is set in stone.

Downes, more than most, knows that, as his career almost stalled just as it was starting to take off.

He won the starting QB job as a sophomore, throwing for 139 yards and a touchdown against South Whidbey in the opener, only to get hurt the next game.

Other than one pass thrown in game three against Concrete, Downes was done for his sophomore year.

Fighting his way back (after another injury on the basketball court), he reclaimed the QB job on day one of his junior year and hasn’t ceded it since.

Last season Downes came into his own, tossing for 1,569 yards and 17 TD’s, just missing Walstad’s single-season record.

He broke 200 yards four times, including three straight games, with a high of 323 against Friday’s foe, CWA.

Now, he’s kicked off his final high school campaign with three strong games in a row, burning South Whidbey for 310 yards and three TD’s, picking apart La Conner for 146 and three and piercing Nooksack Valley for 194 and two.

Only time will tell what Downes final numbers will be.

If, as all Wolf fans hope, he stays healthy and on target, the next two months could be record-setting ones.

With four home games still on the schedule, don’t miss the chance to see Downes and his pack of speed demon receivers — Hunter Smith, Cameron Toomey-Stout and Sean Toomey-Stout — make a play to rip up the record books.

Those that were there back in the day still talk about Cross and Sherman.

Someday, when they tell tales about Downes, you want to be able to say you were one of the ones who saw him do it live.

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“I want to shatter all those records!!”

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , , on September 8, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Dawson Houston (John Fisken photo)

Wolf freshman QB Dawson Houston. (John Fisken photo)

Brad Sherman? Dawson Houston is coming for you.

The Coupeville High School freshman quarterback has a big goal for his prep career, and it involves shredding everything his Offensive Coordinator accomplished back in his own school days.

“For my career? Honestly I want to shatter all those passing records,” Houston said. “I’m not gonna lie.”

Right now, just like Sherman before him, he’s willing and eager to learn, content to make an impact at whatever level he finds himself.

“This season I want to at least start on JV,” Houston said.

While he may be young, Houston, who is one of three QB’s on the Wolf roster (with junior Hunter Downes and sophomore Shane Losey), is already a bit of a grizzled veteran.

He first stepped on the gridiron when he was six, and, even with a season lost to a broken leg, has put in seven years as a player.

“I started because it looked fun and I wanted to get out there with the players,” Houston said.

The game quickly became his favorite (he also plays basketball and baseball), one he immensely enjoys.

“I like everything. From kickoff to buzzer going off,” Houston said. “It’s just an amazing sport. It’s the best.”

Away from the game, he enjoys creative writing classes, and credits his fourth grade teacher, Patsi Waller (“she helped me become a good writer”) for getting him interested.

A fan of the action flicks “White House Down” and “London Has Fallen,” Houston likes going bowling with his family, but spends a lot of his time working on fine-tuning his quarterbacking skills.

“My strengths are my accuracy when throwing and making the right choices on some pass plays,” Houston said. “I need to work on my speed and hits more. Gotten a little rusty.”

Circling back around to his career goals, the young gunslinger already knows what he would do if his football dreams pay off down the road.

“My parents tell me if I want something I gotta earn it,” Houston said. “Ever since I was little I told my mom that when I get in the NFL (if I do) I’d get her a ruby red 64 1/2 Mustang.

“My dad? He wants season tickets.”

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