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Hoskins makes college track debut

Posted in Track, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , on March 7, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Ja’Tarya Hoskins, seen here last spring at CHS, is now a freshman at Saint Martin’s University. (Brian Vick photo)

She’s official.

Coupeville grad Ja’Tarya Hoskins made her college track and field debut Saturday, competing for NCAA D-II Saint Martin’s University at the PLU Opener in Tacoma.

The former Wolf finished 9th in the 200, crossing the line in 28.86 seconds, which beats her high school PR.

The meet, the first Saint Martin’s has attended in a year thanks to the pandemic, also featured Seattle Pacific University, the University of Puget Sound, and host Pacific Lutheran University.

Hoskins, a freshman who is studying pre-law, is next set to compete March 20, when Saint Martin’s travels to Seattle Pacific.

During her days at CHS, she was a key part of two teams which went to state.

In their first year back as a competitive squad after a six-year break, the Wolf cheer squad claimed 3rd place at the big dance during her junior season.

She and her teammates then qualified for nationals the next year.

On the track oval, Hoskins teamed with Mallory Kortuem, Maya Toomey-Stout, and Lindsey Roberts to place 5th at state in the 4 x 100 relay.

The quartet hit the tape in 50.54 seconds, and they currently sit on the big board in the CHS gym as school record-holders.

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Tough start, strong finish

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on March 6, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Cody Roberts pitched strongly in relief Saturday in Coupeville’s opener. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Erase the first half hour and things were pretty good.

Back on the baseball diamond for the first time since 2019, the Coupeville High School hardball squad dug itself a big hole Saturday, then almost clawed all the way back out again.

But it wasn’t to be, as the Wolves stranded the tying run on base in the final inning, falling 7-5 to visiting Friday Harbor.

The first baseball game played since the pandemic wiped out all prep sports last spring, it also marked Coupeville’s return after many years to the Northwest 2B/1B League, and the debut for new head coach Will Thayer.

The new diamond guru liked some of what he saw, but could have done without his pitching staff giving up 11 walks in the first two innings en route to falling behind 6-0.

“It was a good game,” Thayer said. “Rough first inning and a half, then we pulled together.

“It was a good gauge of where we stand, and, if we would have started fast, I believe we would have had a different outcome.”

Daniel Olson, the lone senior on this Coupeville squad, got the call on the mound and opened things by whiffing the leadoff hitter.

After that, however, he had some control problems, helped by an ump with a tight strike zone.

Without registering a base hit, and actually only making contact once, Friday Harbor still managed to put three runs on the board in the first, and another three in the second.

Wolf junior Cody Roberts came on in relief midway through the second inning, and started firing b-b’s, while Olson came back around to provide plenty of spark to Coupeville’s offense.

“Cody pitching was close to shut down,” Thayer said.

The Wolves almost immediately began to chip away at the lead, tossing a run on the board in the bottom of the second, two more tallies in the third, and a run in the fourth.

Olson had a key base-knock in the second — the first hit for either team — while Jonathan Valenzuela bashed an RBI double in the third which plated Scott Hilborn.

Finding a nice groove at the plate, the Wolves also got hits from Zane Oldenstadt and Hawthorne Wolfe in the fourth, narrowing the lead back to 6-4.

From there, the two squads exchanged runs in the fifth, before both pitching staffs clamped down on the hitters.

Trailing by two with two outs and no one on base in the bottom of the seventh, and final inning, Coupeville almost produced a rally for the memory books.

Olson and Roberts punched back-to-back hits, with the latter representing the tying run, but Friday Harbor escaped, ending the game on a strikeout.

In this pared-down pandemic season in which all the players, fans, and umps will wear masks, Coupeville has an 11-game schedule.

Up next is a home doubleheader Friday, March 12, with La Conner coming to The Rock.

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Big wins, bigger return

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , , on March 4, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Carolyn Lhamon, here running a relay, claimed 1st in the shot put Thursday afternoon. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Dominic Coffman finished 2nd in the high jump.

There was some wind, some rain, and some sports again.

The first two are a given on Whidbey Island, but the ongoing pandemic has made the final part of the equation a lot harder to find.

Thursday marked the first time in 387 days that a Coupeville High School athletic team has competed against other schools in any sport.

For the Wolf track and field squad, which got to launch the return to play by hosting an eight-team meet at Mickey Clark Field, it’s been a lot longer.

650 days to be exact, going all the way back to May 25, 2019 — the final day of the state meet in Cheney.

Only one current Wolf, junior Ja’Kenya Hoskins, was in action that weekend, with longtime CHS coach Randy King welcoming almost a completely different group of athletes this time around.

Seniors Catherine Lhamon and Aurora Cernick and junior Logan Martin are the only other Wolves who had competed in a CHS meet before Thursday rolled around.

The new batch might not be grizzled vets, but they still had a pretty strong debut, however.

The Wolf boys, led by wins in the shot put and discus from Martin, and a victory from their 4 x 100 relay team, finished third in the team standings.

La Conner claimed top team honors with 166.83 points, followed by Mount Vernon Christian (115) and Coupeville (93.33).

Rounding out the boys side of things were Grace Academy (31.5), Friday Harbor (31.33), and Concrete (10).

On the girls side, Coupeville had a lot less athletes available Thursday, but still finished fourth out of seven teams.

La Conner (136 points) led the way, followed by Grace Academy (128), MVC (97), Coupeville (42), Friday Harbor (38), Shoreline Christian (12), and Concrete (3).

Earning top honors for the CHS girls were the Lhamon sisters, with senior Catherine winning the 1600 and sophomore Carolyn coming out on top in the shot put in her high school track debut.

Coupeville racked up 36 PR’s in the season opener.

 

Complete Thursday results:

 

GIRLS:

100 — Ja’Kenya Hoskins (7th) 14.92

200 — Hoskins (3rd) 31.52; Camryn Clark (8th) 39.49 *PR*

400 — Carolyn Lhamon (4th) 1:15.31 *PR*

1600 — Catherine Lhamon (1st) 6:23.99

300 Hurdles — Cristina McGrath (5th) 1:13.42 *PR*

4 x 200 Relay — C. McGrath, Clark, Car. Lhamon, Hoskins (4th) 2:21.23

Shot Put — Car. Lhamon (1st) 28-10 *PR*

Discus — Aurora Cernick (6th) 58-00

Javelin — Cernick (6th) 56-10; Erica McGrath (7th) 49-10 *PR*

Long Jump — Hoskins (4th) 12-11; C. McGrath (12th) 8-09 *PR*

 

BOYS:

100 — Ben Smith (2nd) 12.23 *PR*; Sam Wynn (3rd) 12.30 *PR*; Dominic Coffman (9th) 12.91 *PR*; Dakota Eck (16th) 13.52 *PR*

200 — Smith (4th) 26.21 *PR*; Reiley Araceley (5th) 26.72 *PR*; Mikey Robinett (10th) 30.39 *PR*; Josh Guay (14th) 33.65 *PR*

400 — Robinett (3rd) 1:09.93 *PR*

800 — Aidan Wilson (3rd) 2:25.23 *PR*; Hank Milnes (7th) 2:46.91 *PR*

1600 — Mitchell Hall (5th) 5:36.83 *PR*; Milnes (8th) 6:05.74 *PR*; Tate Wyman (9th) 7:01.97 *PR*

300 Hurdles — Wyman (6th) 1:05.14 *PR*

4 x 100 Relay — Wynn, Araceley, Coffman, Smith (1st) 49.89

4 x 400 Relay — Hall, Araceley, Wynn, Wilson (2nd) 4:05.12

Shot Put — Logan Martin (1st) 44-03 *PR*; Eck (8th) 28-05 *PR*; Guay (15th) 16-03 *PR*

Discus — Martin (1st) 141-02 *PR*; Guay (16th) 41-08 *PR*

Javelin — Hall (8th) 86-10 *PR*; Eck (9th) 81-06.50 *PR*

High Jump — Coffman (2nd) 5-06 *PR*; Alex Murdy (4th) 5-02 *PR*

Long Jump — Wilson (2nd) 17-09 *PR*; Wynn (5th) 15-09.50 *PR*; Eck (8th) 14-10 *PR*; Araceley (9th) 14-09 *PR*; Robinett (14th) 13-04 *PR*; Hall (16th) 13-02 *PR*

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Wright back where she belongs

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , on March 3, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville grad Sarah Wright, seen here last spring, is back to playing college softball. (Photo courtesy Wright)

The field is hers again.

Coupeville High School grad Sarah Wright and her softball teammates at Sewanee: The University of the South returned to the diamond Wednesday, playing for the first time in 360 days.

With the ongoing pandemic, the Tigers will play a limited schedule this spring, with only home games.

For its season opener, Sewanee welcomed Covenant College to Tennessee, with the visitors swinging by from just over the Georgia line.

After a bit of a slow start in a 7-2 loss, Wright and the Tigers rebounded nicely in the nightcap, winning 3-2.

The former Coupeville four-sport star (and Valedictorian) — now a sophomore at Sewanee — was one of the stars in game two, bashing three singles and picking up her first RBI of the season.

Clinging to a one-run lead, the Tigers gave up a leadoff triple in the top of the sixth, but escaped unharmed, then ended the game in the seventh on a double play.

Wright, who was hitting out of the cleanup spot and catching for Sewanee, walked twice in the opener, while teammate Alice Charbonea mashed a solo homerun.

The Tigers, who currently have a 10-game schedule (though that could expand), return to action this Saturday, March 6, when they host Berry College for a doubleheader.

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CMS hoops stars romp in opener

Posted in Girls Basketball, Middle School, tagged , , , , on February 6, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville 7th grader Savina Wells banked in 20 points Thursday in her middle school basketball debut. (Photo courtesy Katy Wells)

Savina Wells 1, Northshore Christian Academy 0.

Now, basketball is not a one-person game and the Coupeville Middle School 7th grader had a lot of help Thursday during the Wolves’ season opener.

But still, Wells pumped in 20 points across the first three quarters of play, and outscored the visitors by herself as CMS strolled to a 41-15 win.

Opening day featured just one game, and not the normal three, as Northshore only fields a single squad.

Coupeville’s #2 and #3 teams will get a chance to join the #1 Wolf squad in action starting next week, when King’s comes to town Wednesday, Feb. 12.

Thursday was a lopsided affair, as the Wolves jumped on NSA from the get-go, running out to a 13-6 lead at the first break.

Wells pumped in three baskets in the opening frame, while Lauren Marrs kept the defense honest by swishing a long three-ball from behind the arc.

From there, Coupeville went about its business, stretching the margin to 25-10 at the half, and 37-13 by the end of the third quarter.

The Wolves #1 squad is a well-mixed unit, with eight 8th graders and five 7th graders seeing action in the opener.

Age is no barrier to success, as the younger girls accounted for 30 of their team’s 41 points, with Lyla Stuurmans making the nets jump for six points and Mia Farris knocking down four in support of Wells.

Marrs finished with five, while fellow 8th graders Brionna Blouin (4) and Reese Wilkinson (2) rounded out the scoring.

Also seeing action for the Wolves were Desiclali Ramirez-Vasquez, Taylor Brotemarkle, Kayla Arnold, Madison McMillan, Skylar Parker, Kaitlyn Leavell, and Allison Nastali.

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