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Messner a woman of the people!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, Polls, Softball, Volleyball, tagged Breeanna Messner, CHS Wolves, Everett Herald, polls on June 16, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Breeanna Messner, always popular with the people. (John Fisken photo)

Messner and the tools of her trade. (Robert Bishop photo)

Wolf seniors (l to r) Haley Sherman, Breeanna Messner and Madeline Roberts. (John Fisken photo)

Wolf seniors (l to r) Haley Sherman, Messner and Madeline Roberts during their run to the state tourney, the school’s first trip in softball in 12 years. (Fisken photo)

Breeanna Messner is the Al Gore of 2014.

The recent Coupeville High School graduate took the popular vote, but was denied the ultimate crown when the people behind the throne made their selection.

Messner, a four-sport (volleyball, cheer, basketball, softball) star for the Wolves, held off Lakewood’s Kiana Smith to win the public voting for the Everett Herald’s Female Prep Athlete of the Year.

She won 506-464 to best a 23-woman field that included athletes from big-name schools like King’s and Glacier Peak.

But the Herald editors selected Lynnwood basketball superstar Jasmin Edwards, who collected 223 votes in the popular vote, as their top athlete.

It was the same on the boys side of the battle, as Garrett Stich of Snohomish topped Hunter Bingham of Monroe in polling, only to see Bingham be tabbed as the Athlete of the Year.

Coupeville’s Ben Etzell was nominated for the boys’ award.

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Everett Herald, we dance once again!!

Posted in Poking the Herald, Polls, tagged Ben Etzell, Breeanna Messner, Everett Herald, polls on June 10, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Breeanna Messner (Amy King photo)

Ben Etzell can still lift his arm, so it's all good. (Sylvia Arnold photo)

Ben Etzell (Sylvia Arnold photo)

If it’s Tuesday, it must be time to mess with the Everett Herald again.

The newspaper that’s most fond of massacring the names of Coupeville High School athletes (respect the memory of Taya Boonscara … wait, isn’t her name really Taya Boonstra?) has shocked us all by allowing two Wolves to be nominated in their Athlete of the Year voting.

Recent CHS grads Breeanna Messner (volleyball, cheer, basketball, softball) and Ben Etzell (tennis, baseball) are in the running, along with all the “big name” athletes from athletic powers like ATM and Jackson.

Which can only mean one thing — time for Whidbey Island to open a can of whoop-ass on their poll … again.

We’ve done it before. We’ll do it again.

Now, they have set up their poll so you can’t just sit there and click the vote button 10,000 times in an hour, which just means you have to get more creative. There are always ways around vote stifling.

And, of course, we might get a repeat of the Lakewood incident, where someone rigged the system to shoot votes to Lakewood players when ever anyone voted for a Coupeville kid.

We shall see.

But, for now, at least, we believe in the “Friday Night Lights” mantra, “Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose.”

Let the can openin’ begin!!

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20140610/BLOG18/140619950/1007/Vote-for-The-Heralds-athletes-of-the-year

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It wasn’t easy, but it’s Fabrizi!!

Posted in Athlete Supreme, Basketball, Polls, Volleyball, tagged Amanda Fabrizi, Athlete Supreme, CHS Wolves, Jake Tumblin, polls on June 9, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Amanda Fabrizi, the 2013-2014 coupevillesports.com Athlete Supreme. (John Fisken photos)

Fabrizi sits on her throne with an assist from volleyball teammates Megan Oakes (left) and Haley Sherman.

Fabrizi and mom Fawn Gustafson during Senior Night for volleyball.

It was High Noon in Internet City, and Amanda Fabrizi and her fans had the fastest trigger fingers Sunday.

Capping a furious final day of voting, in which all the rules were suspended and voters were allowed to stuff the ballot box for the final 12 hours, Coupeville Sports can now proudly announce the winner of our 2013-2014 Athlete Supreme, and it is Miss Fabrizi.

The recent Wolf grad, who was a standout volleyball player and a deadly scorer for the CHS girls’ basketball squad, came storming out of a second place tie Sunday morning and never looked back.

She roared past fellow Class of 2014 grad Jake Tumblin, who had led since the poll debuted Wednesday, eventually building a margin of more than 500 votes before the gridiron giant staged a late rally.

Fabrizi ultimately claimed a 237-vote win over Tumblin, while CHS junior football/baseball star Josh Bayne jumped from 10th to 3rd over the final hours of the poll.

Defending champ Nick Streubel was a non-factor the second time around, despite being selected as an All-State football player.

One suspects big sis Amanda, who carried him to voting victory last year, was too busy with her own college graduation to spend much time mashing computer keys.

The final vote totals:

Amanda Fabrizi – 1,365

Jake Tumblin – 1,128

Josh Bayne – 652

Makana Stone – 417

Hailey Hammer – 326

Breeanna Messner – 304

Ben Etzell – 131

Julia Myers – 127

Nick Streubel – 94

Aaron Curtin – 93

Wiley Hesselgrave – 92