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Ward wows, Wolves rumble

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , on March 18, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Tamsin Ward (left) and Lillian Ketterling, seen during soccer season, both delivered strong performances in the first track meet. (Jandellyn Ward photo)

She’s a winner, at every level.

During her middle school track and field days, Tamsin Ward set a Coupeville record, earning 39 victories across three seasons, most for any CMS athlete ever, girl or boy.

Jump forward to 2026, and the supernova, now a high school freshman, isn’t missing a beat.

Opening the season in La Conner Wednesday, Ward claimed titles in both the shot put and high jump, slapping an exclamation point on Coupeville’s performance at a 12-team meet.

She was joined atop the victory podium by sophomore Wyatt Fitch-Marron, who soared to his own win in the high jump a year after finishing 7th at the 2B state meet in the same event.

Rounding out Coupeville’s winners were the quartet of Cyrus Sparacio, Brian Thompson, Malachi Somes, and Beckett Green, who hit the tape first in the day’s final event, the 4 x 400 relay.

That late win flipped the Wolf boys ahead of Friday Harbor in the team standings, with CHS nipping the Wolverines 90-88 to finish second behind La Conner (117).

On the girl’s side of things, Mount Vernon Christian (142.5) finished atop the heap, with La Conner (134), Providence Classical Christian (102), and Coupeville (75.5) rounding out the top four.

The meet consisted of all six Northwest 2B/1B League schools who compete in track — Coupeville, MVC, Concrete, Orcas Island, Friday Harbor, and La Conner — as well as Shoreline Christian, Lopez Island, Cedar Park Christian-Lynnwood, Grace Academy, Evangel Christian, and Providence Classical Christian.

“A great start to the season with a lot of new faces and a younger team than we’ve seen in the past, but just as competitive,” said Coupeville coaches Bob Martin and Elizabeth Bitting.

“Despite windy and muddy conditions, the team showed a lot of grit and teamwork.

“We’re excited to see how much they grow and develop throughout the season!”

It’s a busy first week of competition for the Wolves, who claimed 41 PR’s Wednesday.

After two days of practice, CHS returns to action Saturday with a trip to the Rainier Icebreaker.

 

Wednesday’s results:

 

GIRLS:

100 — Tamsin Ward (10th) 14.69 *PR*; Isa Mc Fetridge (12th) 15.15

200 — Mc Fetridge (8th) 31.31; Taylor Marrs (15th) 34.98 *PR*

400 — Olivia Hall (2nd) 1:10.19; Marrs (7th) 1:16.75 *PR*

1600 — Mikayla Wagner (8th) 6:55.10; Devon Wyman (10th) 6:59.00 *PR*

3200 — Wagner (5th) 14:24.97; Wyman (7th) 14:39.25 *PR*

100 Hurdles — Lexis Drake (11th) 22.57; Myra McDonald (13th) 23.79; Frankie Tenore (14th) 24.64

300 Hurdles — Kennedy O’Neill (8th) 1:03.13 *PR*; Tenore (10th) 1:12.24; McDonald (11th) 1:13.04

4 x 100 Relay — Mc Fetridge, Arianna Cunningham, Willow Leedy-Bonifas, O’Neill (5th) 1:00.38

4 x 200 Relay — O’Neill, Drake, A. Cunningham, Ward (3rd) 2:07.25

4 x 400 Relay — Hall, Lillian Ketterling, Marrs, Drake (4th) 5:12.82

Shot Put — Ward (1st) 30-07 *PR*

Discus — Ketterling (4th) 66-03; Marrs (13th) 52-04 *PR*

High Jump — Ward (1st) 4-06 *PR*; Tenore (5th) 4-00

Pole Vault — Ketterling (4th) 6-00

Long Jump — A. Cunningham (10th) 11-05.75; O’Neill (13th) 10-04.25 *PR*; McDonald (16th) 10-01; Leedy-Bonifas (17th) 10-0.75

Triple Jump — A. Cunningham (4th) 27-01 *PR*; Leedy-Bonifas (6th) 25-05

 

BOYS:

100 — Chase Anderson (5th) 12.42; Davin Houston (7th) 12.59; Marquette Cunningham (10th) 12.72; Liam Blas (14th) 12.90; Wyatt Fitch-Marron (16th) 13.00 *PR*; Nathan Coxsey (17th) 13.01; Beckett Green (20th) 13.10; Richmond Bandong (33rd) 13.71; Edmund Kunz (35th) 13.79 *PR*; Sage Arends (39th) 14.09 *PR*; Shiloh Sandlin (47th) 14.70 *PR*; Jaxen Curry (57th) 17.10 *PR*

200 — Houston (4th) 25.38; Bandong (15th) 28.36; Sandlin (25th) 30.03 *PR*

400 — Green (5th) 1:02.05 *PR*; Coxsey (6th) 1:03.61 *PR*; Bandong (10th) 1:05.83 *PR*

800 — Ossian Merkel (10th) 2:37.34 *PR*; Johnathan Jacobsen (12th) 2:44.45; Hunter Atteberry (15th) 3:02.07 *PR*; Zach Blitch (16th) 3:19.12 *PR*; Zachary Saho (18th) 4:16.39 *PR*

1600 — Cyrus Sparacio (2nd) 4:58.72 *PR*; Malachi Somes (4th) 5:03.67; Kenneth Jacobsen (10th) 5:27.78; Merkel (14th) 5:44.38 *PR*; Will Tierney (20th) 6:08.81 *PR*; Atteberry (26th) 7:02.20 *PR*; Nolan Hunt (28th) 7:29.84 *PR*; Blitch (29th) 7:44.58 *PR*; Saho (31st) 10:32.89 *PR*

3200 — K. Jacobsen (6th) 12:00.97; Kunz (7th) 12:49.08; Atteberry (11th) 15:38.40 *PR*

4 x 100 Relay — Blas, Green, Thompson, Edmund Wilson (3rd) 49.09

4 x 400 Relay — Sparacio, Thompson, Somes, Green (1st) 4:03.99; Blas, Arends, Coxsey, Wilson (4th) 4:14.89

Shot Put — Saho (8th) 32-09; Khanor Jump (19th) 26-01.50; Blitch (27th) 22-02

Discus — Jump (7th) 105-04 *PR*; Blas (10th) 89-00; Saho (20th) 66-06; Tierney (26th) 57-04 *PR*; Sandlin (28th) 54-01 *PR*; Blitch (35th) 48-08; J. Jacobsen (36th) 48-01

Javelin — Jump (14th) 80-03 *PR*; Bandong (18th) 77-03 *PR*; J. Jacobsen (20th) 76-00 *PR*

High Jump — Fitch-Marron (1st) 5-04; Houston (2nd) 5-02; J. Jacobsen (4th) 5-02; Tierney (6th) 5-00 *PR*

Long Jump — Arends (4th) 17-08 *PR*; Thompson (8th) 16-08 *PR*; Wilson (14th) 15-06

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Net crew opens season strongly

Posted in Girls Tennis, tagged , , , , on March 16, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Dahlia Miller launches an ace. (Julie Wheat photos)

Decent weather, bright future.

A new season of Coupeville High School girls’ tennis kicked off Monday under partially sunny prairie skies, with not a drop of rain to be found in the vicinity.

That allowed the Wolves, who will boast an expanded roster of 20+ netters when everyone is eligible, to square off with East Jefferson across eight pro set matches while still allowing the visiting Rivals to catch the early ferry back home.

Coupeville’s foe, which is a mashup of players from two schools — Chimacum and Port Townsend — made off with a razor-thin 3-2 victory in the varsity part of the competition, while the Wolves won two of three JV rumbles.

The afternoon’s most tense tussle came at first varsity doubles, where new partners Dahlia Miller and Aleksia Jump teamed up to pull out a victory in a tiebreak in a match which went back-and-forth.

The Wolves were rolling in the early going, East Jefferson rallied late to force the tiebreaker, then the CHS duo excelled in the white-hot spotlight as players from both teams crowded around the fence.

Miller, a superb singles player last season, sprayed several impressive winners into the alleyways, while Jump, who moved to tennis from track and field, sealed the win with an emphatic put away at the net on match point.

Coupeville won three doubles matches on the day, while #1 singles player Tenley Stuurmans methodically picked apart her foe, mixing artful drop shots with overpowering deep hits, keeping her counterpart flustered for much of the match.

If the road weather matches the home weather, the Wolves will get right back at it Tuesday, with a planned trip to Granite Falls for another non-conference tilt.

On her way to deliver another winner.

 

Monday’s results:

 

Varsity:

1st Singles — Tenley Stuurmans beat Gracie W. 8-2

2nd Singles — Savannah Coxsey lost to Autumn C. 8-0

1st Doubles — Dahlia Miller/Aleksia Jump beat Lucia F./Halsey E. 9-8(10-8)

2nd Doubles — Kauri Hamilton/Jovanah Villagomez lost to Zinnia B./Ursula S. 8-3

3rd Doubles — Rowan Stoner/Jade Peabody lost to Fern F./Livia L. 7-3

 

JV:

4th Doubles — Hailey Goldman/Hazel Goldman lost to Freya D./Elan N. 7-3

5th Doubles — Lakshmi Erickson/Kauri Hamilton beat Margot M./Zadie C. 5-1

6th Doubles — Miles Gerber/Savannah Coxsey beat Amelia H./Aubrie T. 8-0

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Glover lights up prairie on Opening Day

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , , on March 11, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville’s Camden Glover, seen here last season, brought his A-game to Opening Day 2026. (David Somes photo)

Camden Glover is already in mid-season form.

Kicking off a new high school baseball season in style Wednesday, the Coupeville senior piled up 13 strikeouts as a pitcher and four hits as a batter, sparking the Wolf varsity to an 8-6 home win against Oak Harbor’s JV.

Playing on a dank, dark, cold day on the prairie — or “spring,” as it’s known in these parts — Cow Town’s diamond men, repping a 2B school, rallied twice to take down a squad from a 3A school.

With head coach Steve Hilborn calling the shots for a fourth season, the Wolves opened the game with a bang, as leadoff hitter Carson Grove led off the bottom of the first with a triple to right field.

Two batters later he scampered home, sent there by the first of Glover’s four base knocks, and CHS starting pitcher Coop Cooper had an early lead to work with.

While Oak Harbor scraped out a pair of runs in the second thanks to three walks and an error, Coupeville hung tough, eventually tying the game at 2-2 in the fourth, before going off for three runs in both the fifth and sixth to claim the lead for good.

The Wolves knotted things up by putting together four walks in the fourth, with Avery Eelkema getting plunked and Grove forcing in the run with a bases-loaded free pass.

In the fifth inning, walks to Cooper and Chris Zenz, combined with another hit from Glover and a key RBI groundout off the bat of Aiden Tingley turned out to be big.

Coupeville eked out 10 walks on the day, with Grove and Killian Shaw getting aboard in the sixth before Glover and Riley Lawless delivered back-to-back RBI singles to cap the scoring.

Oak Harbor had two runners on base in the top of the seventh, but Glover emphatically closed things out by delivering his 13th K for the game’s final out.

Cooper, who pitched the game’s first two innings, and Glover combined for 19 strikeouts, while surrendering just a single hit.

Fresh off the win, Coupeville will go back to enjoying practice for a bit, with game #2, a road trip to Bellingham to play Meridian not scheduled until Mar. 21.

 

Wednesday stats:

Coop Cooper — One single, one walk
Avery Eelkema — One single, one walk
Camden Glover — Four singles
Carson Grove — One triple, two walks
Riley Lawless — One single, one walk
Leo Rodriguez — One walk
Killian Shaw— One walk
Aiden Tingley — Two walks
Chris Zenz — One walk

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CMS girls hit the hardwood

Posted in Girls Basketball, Middle School, tagged , , , , on February 11, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Laurel Crowder led all Wolf scorers on opening day. (Photo courtesy Brooke Crowder)

“We did a lot of things really well.”

Coming off their season opener Wednesday against visiting South Whidbey, the Coupeville Middle School girls’ basketball teams have players with a lot of potential and a willingness to put in the work.

That always gets a stamp of approval from the coaches.

While the Wolves “took lots of shots that unfortunately didn’t fall,” they did “open (up) the floor with good spacing and drove to the hoop,” said CMS coach Brooke Crowder.

Even with the day’s third game cancelled at the last moment, Crowder and fellow Wolf hardwood guru Kassie O’Neil got floor time for 27 Wolves on opening day, with 12 of the young guns recording their first points of the new campaign.

How things played out:

 

Level 1:

Coupeville hung tough with a high-powered South Whidbey squad but couldn’t overcome the wham-bam combo of 8th graders Jayda Coleman and Ellie Linaberry, who sparked the Cougars to a 42-29 win.

The duo combined to account for 38 of the visitor’s points, with Coleman rattling the rim for 28 by herself.

The Wolves were down just 15-9 at the first break and stayed within 19-14 at the half, before South Whidbey pulled away with a 14-8 run in the third quarter.

Coupeville’s balanced offensive attack was led by 7th grader Laurel Crowder, who banked in eight points, while Cami Van Dyke (5), Finley Helm (4), Emma Green (4), Kaleigha Millison (3), Claire Lachnit (3), and Aubrey Flowers (2) also scored.

Green, Millison, and Lachnit all hit paydirt from long distance, splashing home a three-ball apiece.

Zayne Roos, Anna Powers, Addison Jacobson, Ava Alford, and Annabelle Cundiff rounded out the rotation for the Wolves.

 

Halle Black made her CMS hardwood debut Wednesday, joining a long line of family members who have played hoops in Coupeville. (Photo courtesy Mandi Black)

 

Level 2:

Both teams brought the defensive heat with South Whidbey ultimately escaping with a 20-9 victory.

The Cougars led from start to finish, but the game was a close one, with the visitors up 8-3 through one quarter, 10-5 at the half, and 14-7 heading into the final frame.

Juniper Dotson, Nikolette Dunham, Millie Somes, and Daisy Leedy-Bonifas all knocked down a bucket for CMS, while Bella Sandlin netted a free throw to round out the scoring.

Also seeing action for the Wolves were Halle Black, Ellie Callahan, Danielle Halsing, Arianna Vinson, Leah Hernandez, Sophia Burley, Amira Anunciado, Ruby Folkestad, Reagan Green, and Sabrina Judnich.

 

What’s up next:

Coupeville hits the road for three straight, traveling to Granite Falls (Feb. 18), Sultan (Feb. 19), and Northshore Christian Academy (Nov. 24).

The Wolves finally return to the CMS gym Feb. 26, when they’ll square off with King’s.

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Rough opener for CHS varsity boys

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , , on December 3, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Camden Glover played strongly in the paint Tuesday night. (Marquette Cunningham photo)

It’s a work in progress.

Playing minus two key players Tuesday, a new-look Coupeville High School varsity boys’ basketball squad struggled to contain a quick, efficient South Whidbey team, falling 57-42 in the season opener.

The bad news?

The game actually wasn’t that close, as the Wolves trailed by as many as 28 points in the fourth quarter.

The good news?

The Wolves stayed scrappy until the end, even after their most dangerous big man fouled out, and closed the game on a 18-5 tear that saw six different players put the ball in the hoop.

Coupeville started the season without leading scorer Chase Anderson and high-energy Davin Houston, both on the sideline in street clothes, and things got out of hand quickly.

Camden Glover rolled inside for a bucket in the paint to make it 2-2, with running mate Malachi Somes drawing an offensive charge on a South Whidbey ballhandler on the very next play.

Then things got bumpy.

South Whidbey ripped off 12 unanswered points, with four consecutive buckets coming off of steals, and kept pushing the pace en route to a 20-5 lead at the first break.

The deficit stretched out to 23-5 early in the second frame, before the Wolves were finally able to put together a sustained run of their own.

A jumper from Glover kick-started an 11-5 tear for CHS, with Somes and Mahkai Myles combining for seven of those points, while Liam Blas and Glover hit the boards hard.

But South Whidbey had an answer on this evening, rallying to score the final five points of the half to carry a 33-16 advantage into the halftime break.

The third quarter was more of the same for the Wolves.

Aiden O’Neill went coast to coast for a pretty bucket, but South Whidbey responded with an immediate 11-0 spurt, crushing any hopes of a CHS comeback.

It wasn’t until the fourth quarter, with Glover being fouled out by overly sensitive refs and the Falcons up 52-24, that Coupeville found a truly consistent groove.

O’Neill knocked down a three-ball from the top, and he, Myles, Somes, Riley Lawless, Carson Grove, and Easton Green all scored as the Wolves dominated the final five minutes after struggling through the first 27.

Somes, who played a standout game on both sides of the ball, even after taking a hard shot to the head, paced Coupeville with a varsity career-high 12 points, while Glover banked in nine and Myles knocked down eight in his varsity debut.

O’Neill (5), Grove (3), Lawless (2), Green (2), and Sage Arends (1) scored as well, with Blas and Nathan Coxsey also seeing floor time.

The Wolves get a chance to carry over their hot finish when they play host to Forks Thursday and Eastside Prep Saturday.

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