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Former Wolf keys Wildcat playoff run

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , on October 28, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Former Wolf ace Lauren Marrs stops by to cheer on the Coupeville High School football team on Senior Night. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

The best soccer goaltender to ever wear a Coupeville uniform is making a final run at pitch glory in Oak Harbor.

Lauren Marrs was a standout multi-sport athlete in Cow Town during her middle school days, then bounced North for high school.

These days she’s a senior at OHHS and anchoring the defense for the Wildcat girls’ soccer squad.

While still popping in to support Coupeville teams on a regular basis, as seen in the top pic.

Marrs is coming off a major win, as Oak Harbor upended Arlington in a penalty kick shootout to kick off the 3A District 1 playoffs.

Saturday she and her team, who sit at 11-5-1 on the season, head to Ferndale to play the Golden Eagles (13-1-2) in another postseason clash.

Win or lose, Marrs and Co. will keep on playing in the double-elimination tourney, as the ‘Cats chase a state berth.

Marrs denies you.

Celebrating a playoff win.

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Win, unleash pigskin pandemonium

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on October 23, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Riley Lawless, ready to unleash chaos. (Parker Hammons photo)

There may be more Friday Night Lights in the future.

If, and that’s the crucial word here, Coupeville High School football takes care of business Thursday afternoon.

Here’s how it breaks down.

Thursday at 4:00 PM, the Wolves host Friday Harbor in the regular season finale, with Senior Night festivities set for halftime.

Coupeville is 2-1 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, while the Wolverines are 3-0, including a 37-26 win when the teams played Sept. 29.

Friday Harbor wins meeting #2, it is league champ, and advances to the state playoffs.

But if the Wolves storm back and get some revenge, the two teams share the conference crown at 3-1, having split their series while both swept La Conner.

That scenario would give CHS football back-to-back league titles for the first time in program history.

It would also require a tiebreaker to decide which squad punches its ticket to state.

So, a Wolf win Thursday will make athletic directors Willie Smith (Coupeville) and Brock Hauck (Friday Harbor) initiate “Project Pigskin Pandemonium.”

Cause that’s what we’re calling it … I think. Might have heard wrong on that part.

Anyways, “PPP” will send the two gridiron squads to a neutral location the following Friday, Nov. 3 — which will be La Conner’s stadium.

Game time for the tiebreaker is 7:00 PM, and the action will consist of a half-game.

So, two 10-minute quarters, played under normal high school football rules.

Loser heads to the offseason, winner waits until Sunday, Nov. 5 to discover where the committee has seeded them for state playoff action.

UNLESS…

If the teams are tied at the end of regulation in the tiebreaker “mini-game”, they will decide things by using a Kansas tiebreaker, where they alternate possessions starting at their opponent’s 25-yard line.

Now, if we were truly embracing “pigskin pandemonium” they’d start at the 5-yard line, use a live pig in place of a football, and linemen would be allowed to go Mad Max on each other with mini baseball bats.

But no one asks me.

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Hawk flies to postseason

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on May 8, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Hawthorne Wolfe, during his younger days. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Off to the playoffs he goes.

Coupeville grad Hawthorne Wolfe and the Western Washington University club baseball squad capped the regular season this past weekend with a three-game sweep of Portland State University.

Rolling to 16-9, 3-0, and 17-3 victories, the Vikings stretch their win streak to six games and get to 19-9 on the season.

Next up is a trip to Nampa, Idaho May 12-14, where WWU joins Oregon, Utah State, and Boise State in the double-elimination Northern Pacific Regional Tournament.

The winner claims one of eight tickets to the National Club Baseball Association Division 1 World Series, held May 26-June 2 in Illinois.

A decade ago, another Coupeville alumni, Jordan Wilcox, hit .313 across four games for WWU at the 2013 World Series.

Seeded #7 in an eight-team field, that edition of the Vikings surprised folks, finishing fourth at the season-ending tourney.

Wolfe, a freshman at Western, scored four runs, eked out three walks, smacked a pair of hits, and made off with a stolen base this weekend while facing off with Portland State.

On the season, the former CHS star has worked primarily as a pitcher, making 10 appearances — most of any WWU hurler — with four starts.

He has racked up 22 strikeouts while on the bump, putting Wolfe second-best among Viking pitchers.

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Winner, winner, play for that championship dinner

Posted in Basketball, tagged , , , , , , on April 15, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Makana Stone lines up a shot. (Photo property Marianne Maja Stenerud)

Revenge, delivered with cold precision.

Earning some payback for a loss in the regular-season finale, Coupeville’s Makana Stone and her Norwegian pro basketball teammates rolled to a big playoff win Saturday.

Baerum, the #2 seed from the Kvinneligaen, bounced #3 Asker 84-68 in the semifinals of the eight-team, double-elimination postseason tourney.

That sends Stone and Co. to the championship game Sunday, where they will face top-seeded Ulriken.

Baerum sits at 20-6 heading into the finale, while their foes are 24-1, with their only loss coming in the regular season’s next-to-last game.

The team which beat Ulriken that day?

The one which wears light blue uniforms and features the #3 scorer in Coupeville High School hoops history.

Baerum, powered by a game-high 31 points from Abbey Hoff, jumped on Asker quickly, roaring out to a 25-7 advantage by the first break.

From there, Stone and her associates kept the lead at 45-30 at the half, then stretched it out to 65-46 heading into the final frame.

The former Wolf, who leads Baerum in scoring this season, battled through foul trouble Saturday while still putting together a solid stat line in limited minutes.

Stone finished with seven points, seven rebounds, six assists, and two steals against Asker.

On the season she has racked up 454 points, 281 rebounds, 63 assists, 63 steals, and 11 blocked shots.

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Stone an ace in playoff opener

Posted in Basketball, tagged , , , , , , on April 14, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Makana Stone rumbles. (Photo property Marianne Maja Stenerud)

Win and move on.

Back on the court for the first time in almost three weeks, Makana Stone and the Baerum women’s professional basketball team survived their playoff opener Friday in Norway.

The #2 seed in the eight-team, single-elimination tourney, Baerum edged #7 Storm Ungdom 54-43 to advance to the semifinals.

That game, against #3 Asker, goes down Saturday, while #1 Ulriken and #4 Ullern vie in the day’s other game.

The winners meet in the championship bout, which will be played Sunday.

The quarterfinals victory lifts Baerum to 19-6 and was sparked, as usual, by its Coupeville ace.

Stone knocked down a game-high 16 points, including drilling a pair of three-balls, while snatching five rebounds and making off with two steals.

Storm Ungdom finished the regular season with a record of just 2-21, but came out primed for an upset, jumping to a razor-thin 12-11 lead after one quarter of play.

Baerum righted the ship after that, using a 15-7 run to pull ahead 26-19 at the half, before pushing the advantage to 41-33 heading into the fourth.

Abbey Hoff and Julie McCarthy each snatched 13 rebounds, with Hoff tickling the twines for 10 points to give Baerum two players in double digits.

Stone, who is wrapping up her first season in Norway, and her second as a pro hoops star after debuting in England, continues to pile up the stats.

On the season, the former Wolf has 447 points, 274 rebounds, 57 assists, 61 steals, and 11 blocked shots.

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