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Wildcats today, Wolves tomorrow?

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on November 6, 2023| Leave a Comment »

“Fear my cannon, fools!!” (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

They’re wearing purple and gold today but could be clad in black and red when it counts.

That’s the real reason I run photos from Oak Harbor Football and Cheer League games, because you never know which players will grow up to play high school ball in Coupeville.

Since there is no youth league in Cow Town, often future Wolves first suit up and hit the turf in Oak Town.

Case in point, current CHS senior Logan Downes, who is graduating after setting school single-game, single-season, and career touchdown passing marks.

Once upon a time as a young gunslinger he wore purple and gold, then graduated to better colors once he matured.

The current mix of players, who played Saturday at Wildcat Memorial Stadium in a pair of playoff games, are all free agents at this point.

And whether they hail from Coupeville or Oak Harbor, there’s still time for them (and their parents) to make the right choice for their high school days.

Make ’em Bow Down to Cow Town while being tutored by Wolf gridiron guru Bennett Richter and get featured on a regular basis here on Coupeville Sports.

Cause Oak Harbor doesn’t have a sports blog of its own.

Just sayin’, nudge, nudge.

Well, anyway, while you’re weighing your child’s best shot at sports immortality, pop over and see everything John Fisken shot at those Saturday games:

 

PeeWee:

https://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/OH-Football-2023-2024/OHFCL-PeeWee-2023-11-05-vs-Getchell/

 

Seniors:

https://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/OH-Football-2023-2024/OHFLC-Seniors-2023-11-05-vs-Ferndale/

 

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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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