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Boom goes the Briscoe!!

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , , on April 27, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Wolf slugger Kyla Briscoe had three hits and six RBI Thursday in a 20-1 win. (Amy Briscoe photo)

Bigger is not always better.

Burlington-Edison is a large 2A school, and, according to the most-recent WIAA classification counts, has 840 students to Coupeville’s 227.

Well, CHS apparently got the talented kids…

With everyone in the lineup ripping the cover off the ball, the Wolf JV softball squad demolished their big school rivals 20-1 Thursday in a game which could have easily been far more of a rout.

The only thing containing Coupeville’s offense was a rule that limits JV teams to five runs in an inning.

The Wolves, now 3-1 on the season, reached their run limit in all four innings they hit, recording just three outs along the way.

Yes, that’s correct — Coupeville sent 32 hitters to the plate and 29 of them reached base safely.

Burlington’s pitching staff didn’t walk many batters, but that was largely because the Wolves were too busy smashing the ball to wait around to see four balls.

Kyla Briscoe led the way, collecting a single, double and triple, while collecting a team-high six RBIs.

Hot on her heels was catcher Mackenzie Davis, who ripped three well-hit singles, driving home three even as Coupeville coach Stephanie Henning did her best to keep her players moving just station to station.

Tamika Nastali, Emma Mathusek, Melia Welling, Jae LeVine and Nicole Lester had two hits apiece, while Scout Smith and Hope Lodell settled for one, as Coupeville rolled up 18 base-knocks.

Three different Wolves legged out triples, with Lester and Welling joining Briscoe in the three-bagger club.

Mathusek also had a double, while seven of nine players picked up at least one RBI.

While the offensive explosion was more than enough to carry the day, Wolf pitcher Scout Smith was effective as well, whiffing six.

She also made Burlington a little gun-shy, roughing up back-to-back Tigers.

After drilling a jittery batter in the back of the thigh with a pitch, Smith kept the next hitter from dropping a bunt by zinging the ball (inadvertently) off of the Tiger’s exposed fingers.

From that point on, almost every single Burlington player stayed well away from the plate while hitting.

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Have bats, will thump!!

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , , on March 25, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Freshman Mackenzie Davis had a pair of RBI singles Saturday and was a defensive spark-plug in her debut as a high school catcher. (John Fisken photo)

Let the hits rain down.

With eight different players getting at least one base-knock Saturday, the Coupeville High School JV softball squad had plenty of offense to keep their faithful fans warm on a cold, chilly afternoon on the prairie.

By the time they were done knocking Vashon Island around, the Wolves had rung up 14 hits, one for every run they scored in a 14-7 win.

The offensive explosion, which included a pair of doubles from Scout Smith and a resounding inside-the-park grand slam off the bat of Veronica Crownover, lifts the young CHS players to 1-0 on the season.

Coupeville actually spotted the visiting Pirates a three-run lead after the first half inning, and still trailed 4-2 headed into the bottom of the third.

Then the fireworks went off.

A nine-run, seven-hit, 15-batter affair, the bottom of the third went on longer than some entire games do. And the Wolf fans wouldn’t have had it any other way.

An infield single from Tamika Nastali and a walk to Kyla Briscoe set the stage, then Wolf catcher Mackenzie Davis started the barrage.

Rifling an RBI single down the first-base line, she dropped the ball flawlessly in front of an oncoming outfielder, kick-starting a run of five straight Coupeville hits.

Melia Welling dumped a ball between the catcher and pitcher and zoomed into first, Nicole Lester whacked a shot to center, Jae LeVine crushed the ball to the same spot (but even deeper) and Emma Mathusek whipped a frozen rope into right-center.

All that was mere prelude, however.

After Smith walked to juice the bags, still with just one out, Crownover turned on a pitch and drove it to the base of the wall in center.

A couple of inches higher and her home run trot would have been conducted at half-speed as someone hopped the fence to retrieve the ball.

Instead, with the ball still in play and her teammates running wild in front of her, Crownover hit the jets and came crashing around third.

As she stamped on home, beating the throw, dad Darren pretended he wasn’t a cop who had just witnessed someone break the speed limit right in front of him.

Up 10-4 at that point, with all the air having been punched out of the Vashon players, Coupeville cruised home, adding a few more runs along the way.

Crownover and Davis both delivered late-game RBI singles, while the Wolves also scored twice off of double steals.

Smith led the hit parade, collecting two doubles and a single. She also collected a pair of walks, successfully reaching base all five times she came to the plate.

Backing her up, LeVine, Crownover, Davis and Nastali had two hits apiece.

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Hoops hotshots get their close-up!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on January 29, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Scout Smith (John Fisken photos)

   Sweet-shooting Scout Smith has left the roar of the crowd far away. She is now firmly in The Zone. (John Fisken photos)

Kalia Littlejohn

   Kalia Littlejohn, master of disguise, prepares to dazzle her foes with some sleight of hand.

Lindsey Roberts

   “Where do you think you’re going?” It’s No Basketball Left Behind for Lindsey Roberts.

Mikayla Elfrank (23)

   Mikayla Elfrank (23) swoops in to steal away a rebound from two Klahowya players.

Ashlie Shank

   “You better be sending ME to the line, that’s all I’m saying…” Ashlie Shank stares down the refs.

Fab frosh (l to r) Emma Mathusek, Tia Wurzrainer, Avalon Renninger, Maya Toomey-Stout and Scout Smith spend some quality time together.

   Fab frosh (l to r) Emma Mathusek, Tia Wurzrainer, Avalon Renninger, Maya Toomey-Stout and Smith spend some quality time together.

It might have been easy to forget what the Coupeville High School girls basketball players looked like.

At one point this season they went 45 days between home games, playing an unprecedented eight straight away from the CHS gym, which didn’t provide local photo whiz kid John Fisken with many chances to snap pics of the Wolves.

But now, having played three straight home games this past week, things have changed and we have fresh photos to dazzle your eyeballs.

The photos above are courtesy Fisken and cover two games.

To see all of his shots (purchases help fund college scholarships for CHS student/athletes) pop over to:

Friday (varsity only) — http://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/20162017-Coupeville-BB/CHS-GBB-/20170127-vs-Chimacum/

Saturday (varsity and JV) — http://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/20162017-Coupeville-BB/CHS-GBB-/20170128-vs-Chimacum/

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Epic match? Epic win!!

Posted in Volleyball, tagged , , , , , , on October 12, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Scout Smith (John Fisken photo)

   Scout Smith, seen here serving in an earlier match, had a team-high 14 assists in Coupeville’s JV win Tuesday night. (John Fisken photo)

No quit. Ever.

Battling back ferociously, the Coupeville High School JV spikers pulled out a thrilling three-set win Tuesday night, garnering some revenge for an earlier-season loss.

By the time things were (finally) done, the Wolves were the proud owners of a 28-26, 14-25, 32-30 victory over their hosts, 2A Sequim.

That was sweet payback for a loss Sept. 14 on Whidbey and lifts Coupeville’s young guns to 7-2.

It also gives Kristin Bridge’s squad its fifth consecutive win, the longest active streak for any CHS team, varsity or JV.

Coupeville’s C-Team won as well, sweeping all three sets it played.

Its 25-14, 25-11, 25-23 victory propelled the third unit to a crisp 3-1 mark on the season.

The Wolf JV got something from everyone, with a number of players filling up the stat sheet against Sequim.

Scout Smith set the big hitters up, doling out a team-high 14 assists, and her snipers took advantage.

Hannah Davidson mashed eight kills, while Zoe Trujillo and Sarah Wright had three apiece.

Allison Wenzel and Maddy Hilkey paced the service attack with four aces each, with Hilkey adding six digs.

Trujillo and Wenzel had three digs apiece.

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Their aim is true!!

Posted in Volleyball, tagged , , , , , on September 13, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Emma

   Emma Mathusek reeled off seven straight points on her serve Tuesday night, part of a team-wide run of strong serving. (John Fisken photo)

The young guns have a strong service game as well.

Emulating their varsity counterparts, the Coupeville High School JV spikers have been deadly at the line this season, and nothing changed Tuesday night.

Making it all but impossible for visiting Chimacum to get the ball back in play, the razor-sharp Wolves rolled to a 25-11, 25-8, 16-14 victory.

The win lifts the JV squad to 2-0 overall, 1-0 in league play.

Freshman phenom Scout Smith was her team’s deadliest weapon once again, ripping off 14 points on serve in the first set alone, but she wasn’t the only Wolf to have a hot hand.

Raven Vick, Emma Mathusek, Willow Vick and Maddy Hilkey all put together nice runs at the stripe, with Mathusek going on a scoring tear at one point where Chimacum only got a hand on two of seven serves.

Coupeville built leads of 6-0, 8-0 and 3-0 in the three sets, trailing only briefly near the end of the third set, when they were lulled into a brief stupor.

Even then, the Wolves never trailed by more than a single point, putting the match on ice, appropriately, with a Cowboy error (a shot off a ceiling speaker) followed by one last impossible-to-return scorcher from Smith’s serving arm.

While very few balls were in play for more than a hit or two, Coupeville had a couple of nice put-aways.

One came on a sweet tip into open space by Zoe Trujillo, another on a scrambling save by a quick-thinking Maya Toomey-Stout and two others on booming spikes off the fingertips of Hannah Davidson.

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