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Plenty of fight in gridiron warriors!!

Posted in Football, Middle School, tagged CMS Wolves, Dylan Estes, football, Jake Mitten, Sequim on September 28, 2016| 3 Comments »

Ben Smith, seen here last season, was one of several Wolves to rip off strong runs in Coupeville's first game. (Deb Smith photo)

Ben Smith, seen here last season, was one of several Wolves to rip off strong runs Wednesday in Coupeville’s first game. (Deb Smith photo)

Dylan Estes will wreck a dude.

The Coupeville Middle School football player is far from the biggest player on the field, but he makes up in heart what he might currently be shy of in inches.

That was on display several times Wednesday during the Wolves season opener against visiting Sequim, most notably when Estes chased down, then body-slammed a receiver twice his size.

Hustle plays like that, and a late offensive surge, were the highlights for CMS, as it fell 36-12 to a much-larger foe.

Coupeville rallied for both of its touchdowns in the fourth quarter, refusing to go down quietly.

Jake Mitten, who led the Wolf attack all afternoon, used a drop-the-shoulder-and-inflict-some-damage running style to rip off Coupeville’s first touchdown of the season, on an eight-yard plunge.

He then successfully pulled off an on-sides kick, allowing the Wolves to get the ball right back.

CMS quarterback Cade Golden promptly took advantage of the opportunity, guiding the Wolves down the field, before hooking up with Sage Downes on a touchdown pass to the left corner.

On the scoring play, Golden avoided a potential sack, then dropped the ball right onto Downes fingertips, giving the Wolf receiver a perfect ball to snag.

Sequim put the game away in the second quarter, using a very effective passing attack centered around a tall receiver, punching in three of their five touchdowns.

Coupeville’s own passing attack picked up the pace as the game went on, with Golden hooking up with Mitten several times.

A number of dropped passes muted the Wolf attack, however.

Along with Mitten, who ran like a battering ram on the same field where his uncle, Jason McFadyen, led the 1990 CHS gridiron squad to an undefeated season, Coupeville got big runs from Dakota Eck and Ben Smith.

Mitten was a two-way warrior, also dropping the Sequim QB on back-to-back plays where he bull-rushed the line and the blockers melted away under his assault.

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Killer P’s sting Sequim!!

Posted in Volleyball, tagged Chelsea Prescott, CMS Wolves, Comeback, Morgan Pease, Sequim, volleyball on September 21, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Chelsea Prescott, half of “The Killer P’s” (with fellow big hitter Morgan Pease), had a big opening-day performance Wednesday. (John Fisken photo)

You can’t stop Morgan Pease, and you certainly can’t contain her.

Sequim found that out the hard way Wednesday, as the Coupeville Middle School 8th grader blistered them with nasty spikes and ferocious serves one on top of another, sparking the Wolves to a come-from-behind-win.

Led by Pease and fellow big-hitter Chelsea Prescott (aka “The Killer P’s”), CMS volleyball roared back to claim a 23-25, 25-21, 15-12 win in its season opener, thwarting a much-larger school.

At the high school level, Sequim is a solid 2A school, while Coupeville lingers near the bottom of 1A in terms of student body size.

It carries over to middle school, as evidenced by the nonstop flow of Sequim players who poured out of an overfilled bus to start off the afternoon.

But, while Coupeville didn’t have as many bodies, the ones who were wearing black and red played with heart and passion.

While the Wolves fell in the opening set, they earned a few appreciative thumbs-ups from high school coach Cory Whitmore, who kept one eye on the match and one eye on his own work while camped in the bleachers.

At one point Prescott ripped a spike for a winner which drew an appreciative eyebrow raise from high school stars Hope Lodell and Mikayla Elfrank, who were helping ref.

Meanwhile, irrepressible Wolf spark plug Genna Wright was busy flying everywhere, dropping tips for winners and firing aces at the service stripe.

She and Emily Fieldler had a hot hand on serves in the early going, while Pease picked up several aces in the late going.

The turning point of the match came early in the second set, with Coupeville trailing 3-2.

Pease, using every inch of her superior height, exploded off the court and demolished the ball, blasting it off of a Sequim rival’s elbow.

The sound on impact was not unlike that of a gunshot going off, and Elfrank waved her flag excitedly and pointed it at Whitmore, as both chuckled in unison.

From that moment on, Sequim got a little jumpy, visibly backing away every time Pease wound up, and the Wolves took advantage.

Prescott pulled off the play of the night late in the second set, going airborne, then reaching back over her head to snag a wayward ball and spin it over the net for a winner a moment before she went to her knees.

While “The Killer P’s” were en fuego, CMS got big games from everyone on the floor, with Savannah Smith pulling off a gorgeous drop shot in front of grandpa (and Coupeville football legend) Steve Smith.

Heidi Clinkscales and Kylie Chernikoff also chipped in with strong play.

JV nabs big win:

While the varsity had to stage a comeback, the 8th grade JV rolled from start to finish, claiming a 25-12, 25-17, 15-10 victory.

Catherine Lhamon busted things open early in the first set with a run of six straight points at the service stripe, while Lacy McCraw and Madelyn Vondrak led the Wolf hitting with several winners apiece.

Coupeville’s serving was a major difference at the JV level, with Lhamon, McCraw, Vondrak and Jaimee Masters all collecting aces, while Sequim had considerable trouble merely getting its serves in play.

Coral Caveness had a strong return of service that split two defenders and landed for a winner as well.

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(Bad) Wolves nip (good) Wolves!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged CHS Wolves, Mia Littlejohn, Sequim, Soccer, Wolves vs Wolves on September 15, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Avalon Renninger demonstrates how far away from a win Coupeville was Thursday. (John Fisken photos)

Avalon Renninger demonstrates how close Coupeville was to a win. (John Fisken photos)

Freshman Mallory Kortuem and the Wolf defense played sharply against Sequim.

Sometimes you get the bounces and sometimes the bounces get you.

The ricochets went the wrong way Thursday for the Coupeville High School girls’ soccer team, which controlled the game but still fell 3-1 to visiting Sequim.

The non-conference loss, coming against a 2A school, left the Wolves at 1-1-1 on the season.

Coupeville will have a day to practice, then takes the ferry to Port Townsend Saturday for a 1A Olympic League match-up with the RedHawks.

The Wolves sit atop the conference at 1-0.

Facing off with Sequim, CHS pushed the pace of the game most of the afternoon and out-shot their visitors by a good 2-to-1 clip.

Unfortunately, other than a Mia Littlejohn header (off of a Sage Renninger corner kick) 16 minutes into the game, the Wolves spent much of the game misfiring from relatively close range.

Littlejohn’s sixth goal of the season — she’s scored in all three games — knotted things at 1-1, but Sequim goaltender Clair Henninger was spot-on for the rest of the game.

The junior goalie had several nice saves, with the most impressive one coming when she went airborne to pick off a shot that Lindsey Roberts lashed from the 30-yard line.

Throwing up her hand at the last second, Henninger tipped the ball over the top of the goal mouth, denying the Coupeville sophomore her second score of the season.

Sequim, meanwhile, had few sustained runs at the net, but managed to score on almost all of them.

Their first goal came when they picked off a pass by Wolf goalie Lauren Grove, while a later score took a weird bounce and skittered under Grove’s shoe as she was scrambling into position.

The senior net-minder didn’t play badly, knocking down several shots and verbally directing her squad, but suffered through a rare bout of bad luck.

With a much deeper roster (thanks to the disparity in school size and a couple of Coupeville booters still working their way towards having enough practices to be eligible), Sequim ran in frequent subs and stayed fresh all game.

While he wanted a win, Coupeville coach Troy Cowan chalked up Thursday as something to build on for his squad.

“It was a good learning experience; the game is the best teacher and you just need to take what you learn and put it to use,” he said. “The girls played really well and hung in there.”

In particular, Cowan praised the play of Renninger, his junior captain.

“Sage controlled the pitch and the pace and was a real spark plug, as always,” he said. “She’s a Renninger, so she’s really smart, and that always shows in how she plays out there.”

Coupeville will get a chance at revenge (with a bigger roster) later this season, as it travels to Sequim Oct. 11 for a rematch.

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Three matches, many lessons!!

Posted in Volleyball, tagged CHS Wolves, Hope Lodell, Sequim, volleyball, Wolves vs Wolves on September 14, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Katrina McGranahan, seen here in an earlier match, had four service aces Wednesday night. (John Fisken photos)

Freshman Lucy Sandahl helped lead the Wolf C-Team in its first match.

Coupeville struck first, Sequim struck last.

Facing off with a large 2A school on the second night of back-to-back home matches, the CHS spikers made a frequently-inspired stand Wednesday, but couldn’t upend a foe who played virtually error-free ball.

Despite taking an early lead in all three sets, the Wolves fell 25-17, 25-13, 26-24 in the non-conference tilt, dropping their record to 2-1 on the young season.

Sequim, which boasts seven seniors and four players five-foot-ten or taller, was patient, consistent and dangerous, a deadly combination.

That allowed the visitors to escape twice from perilous deficits in the third set.

Trailing 18-9, after six straight aces on serve from Wolf supernova Hope Lodell kick-started a Coupeville run, Sequim steadily chipped away at what could have been an insurmountable lead.

With their lead shrunk down to 21-20, CHS responded, reeling off three straight points, two off of superb serves from senior captain Valen Trujillo.

For a moment, it looked like the Wolves would force a fourth set.

But there was no break in Sequim’s rhythm, as it held off three consecutive set points, knotted things up, then pulled ahead for the final time.

When a Wolf spike went two inches long, the visitors pocketed their sixth straight point and strolled off with their second win of the season.

The first two sets played out similarly, as Coupeville jumped out to early leads (4-0 in the first and an admittedly slim 1-0 in the second), only to have Sequim steadily chip away and reclaim the momentum.

Still, Coupeville hung tough, with only one truly questionable stretch, when Sequim closed the second set on a 10-1 run.

Lodell had a very strong outing, flying around on offense and ripping off a team-high 10 aces at the service stripe.

Katrina McGranahan added four aces, Lauren Rose dealt out 11 assists, Trujillo and Payton Aparicio recorded 10 digs apiece and Mikayla Elfrank topped the kill list with five.

Most of those came in the third set, when the junior came alive, spraying winners from one side of the court to the other.

His team’s ability to rally when down was a true positive, said Coupeville coach Cory Whitmore.

“I was impressed with a lot of what I saw tonight,” he said. “We played the third set with our best consistency of the night and did some really good things against a strong team.

“I thought the energy was there to start, and our bench gave us a lot of support,” Whitmore added. “Lauren and Ashley (Menges) distributed the ball well and made good decisions, and I was happy with our hitting consistency tonight.”

The Wolves have five days to fine-tune their game before they play again, taking the court next week for two home non-conference matches (Sept. 20 vs. Bellevue Christian and Sept. 22 vs. North Mason).

After that, they start a string of three straight league matches.

JV falls in three:

Coupeville’s #2 squad played almost identically, jumping out to early leads in every set (8-1, 4-0 and 8-4) before Sequim methodically chipped away for a 25-23, 25-12, 15-13 win.

The loss dropped the Wolf JV to 2-1.

Serving was a strong point for Coupeville as Scout Smith ran off ten winners, Sarah Wright bedeviled Sequim with soft, slicing balls that died on rival players arms, and both Maya Toomey-Stout and Zoe Trujillo lashed gorgeous aces.

On offense, Hannah Davidson patrolled the net with a vengeance, with her highlight a hook shot of a spike, where she caught the ball over her head and spun it back for a winner.

C-Team debuts:

Coupeville, which has its largest roster in years, had the chance to play a third match for the first time in perhaps a decade.

While the young guns — Willow Vick, Emma Mathusek, Melia Welling, Peytin Vondrak, Raven Vick, Jillian Mayne and Lucy Sandahl — were nipped in straight sets, their play brought a smile to their coach’s face.

“They did really well,” Whitmore said. “They were in there, chasing down balls, learning how to adjust from playing slow to fast and back to slow.

“I saw a lot of progress.”

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Doubles duos delight!!

Posted in Boys Tennis, tagged CHS Wolves, Phyllis Textor, Sequim, tennis, Will the Thrill on September 12, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Joey “Aces” Lippo lived up to his nickname, closing out Monday’s doubles win with partner William Nelson by slamming an ace past a Sequim rival. (John Fisken photo)

Monday afternoon offered a bit of everything for tennis fans.

A sun-splashed day that felt more like mid-summer than mid-September. Visiting royalty. Even a win for the Wolves.

Just not the right Wolves.

Despite putting up a strong fight against much-bigger competition, the Coupeville netters eventually fell 5-2 to visiting Sequim in a non-conference tilt.

Now 0-3 on the young season, the Whidbey Island version of the Wolves are learning under fire, having faced a pair of 2A schools and a private school power.

With Sequim, Coupeville faced off with a tennis squad coached by Mark Textor.

Along for the trip, his sister Phyllis, a Coupeville Sports Hall o’ Famer who spent 25 years working in the Coupeville school district and did just about every job possible — teacher, Principal, Athletic Director, volleyball and basketball coach to name a few.

It was a reunion, as she was the administrator who hired CHS tennis coach Ken Stange, now in his 11th year at the helm of the Wolf net programs.

His current boys squad didn’t go down without a fight, taking two matches outright while coming dangerously close to winning another two.

The titanic doubles duo of Will “The Thrill” Nelson and Joey “Aces” Lippo remained flawless on the season, controlling the net and slicin’ ‘n dicin’ a third straight foe in the match of the afternoon.

Hot on their heels was Grey Rische and Jimmy Myers, who improved to 3-0 as partners, dispatching their foes in straight sets with a mix of graceful shots (Rische) and booming, chest-flexing winners (Myers).

Two other matches came close to tipping Coupeville’s way, as the team’s top two singles players put up strong fights.

Nile Lockwood took the opening set in his match at second singles, but couldn’t hold off a late comeback and fell in a third-set tiebreaker.

Meanwhile, top singles ace Nick Etzell bounced back after a rough first set to pin his opponent down and thoroughly fluster him in a rough-and-tumble second set.

Up 5-1 in a second set tiebreaker, the Wolf junior hit a rough patch with his serve, however, allowing his Sequim counterpart to slip away.

Both Lockwood and Etzell will get another crack at sealing the deal, as Coupeville travels to Sequim Oct. 11 for a rematch.

Complete Monday results:

Varsity:

1st singles — Nick Etzell lost to Steve Prorok 6-1, 7-6(9-7)

2nd singles — Nile Lockwood lost to Dillon Liebert 5-7, 6-1, 10-7

3rd singles — Jakobi Baumann lost to Raymond Lamb 6-2, 6-1

1st doubles — Joseph Wedekind/John McClarin lost to Blake Wiker/Justin Porter 6-0, 6-2

2nd doubles — William Nelson/Joey Lippo beat Thomas Hughes/Damon Little 6-3, 6-1

3rd doubles — Jimmy Myers/Grey Rische beat Tim Porter/Paul Jacobsen 7-5, 6-4

4th doubles — Aiden Crimmins/Nick Blalock lost to Liam Payne/Brenton Barnes 6-2, 7-5

JV: