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Track stars run to banquet glory!!

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , on June 11, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Wolf freshman Lauren Grove holds her first varsity letter. (Mindy Grove photo)

Wolf freshman Lauren Grove holds her first varsity letter. (Mindy Grove photo)

Left to right, CHS track stars Marisa Etzell, Jake McCormick, Erin Rosenkranz, Danan

  CHS track stars (l to r) Marisa Etzell, Jake McCormick, Erin Rosenkranz, Dananecious Maxie and Skyler Lawrence pose for a group shot. (Wendy McCormick photo)

Skyler Lawrence is officially a letterman.

Skyler Lawrence is officially a letterman.

They had one last victory lap to make.

Officially capping the 2013-2014 high school athletic year, the Wolf track and field team handed out awards and letters Tuesday night.

We don’t have a list of said letter winners in hand yet (calm down, David, it will happen…) but here are some photos from awards night to tide you over until then.

Meanwhile I’ll be over there, screaming “Someone get CHS track coach Randy King to a computer, stat!! I don’t care if it’s finals week!!!!”

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Stone sizzles!!

Posted in Track, tagged , , , , on May 4, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Makana Stone: An unstoppable force of nature. (John Fisken photo)

Makana Stone: An unstoppable force of nature. (John Fisken photo)

The best is back.

Recovering from a sore knee that kept her out of action, Coupeville High School sophomore sensation Makana Stone brought the subtle swagger back to the track oval Saturday. Then she brought the big city girls to their knees.

Busting out a PR, she lit up the field in the 400 at the 6th Annual BCS Invite in Juanita, slappin’ down all 21 girls who dared to line up across from her.

Her time of 59.75 seconds was more than a full second ahead of Shoreline Christian senior Natalie McPherson.

McPherson evened the duel a bit, nipping Stone by .11 of a second in the 200.

And this is no second-rate competition, as McPherson finished in the top four in both events at state as a junior. Stone’s time in the 400 is the second-fastest of any 1A runner this season.

Away from the track, the brightest day may have belonged to Wolf freshman Skyler Lawrence, who set PRs in both the shot put and discus.

Her fourth-place showing in the shot put tied with Jared Helmstadter (400) and Brandon Kelley (300 hurdles) for the best performances by a Wolf, non-Stone division.

Coupeville finished 12th out of 18 teams in the boys’ competition and 11th out of 19 teams on the girls’ side of the battle.

Complete results:

GIRLS:

100 — Marisa Etzell (10th) 14.05; Lauren Grove (16th) 14.58; Dananecious Maxie (31st) 15.81

200 — Makana Stone (2nd) 27.58; Grove (15th) 30.17; Maxie (33rd) 33.46

400 — Stone (1st) 59.75; Etzell (13th) 1:05.77

800 — Carlie Rosenkrance (8th) 2:42.00

100 Hurdles – Rosenkrance (9th) 19.68

Shot Put — Skyler Lawrence (4th) 29-11; Heni Barnes (11th) 26-11

Discus — Barnes (10th) 80-11; Lawrence (12th) 79-10; Amanda Foley (17th) 66-00

Javelin — Barnes (12th) 69-02; Lawrence (14th) 66-06

Long Jump — Grove (9th) 13-11.50

Triple Jump — Grove (7th) 26-10

BOYS:

100 — Jared Helmstadter (10th) 12.45; Brandon Kelley (19th) 12.77; Sebastian Davis (32nd) 13.01; Stephen Edwards (36th) 13.12

200 — Helmstadter (6th) 25.31; Davis (15th) 25.98; Edwards (22nd) 26.58

400 — Helmstadter (4th) 56.38; Edwards (11th) 58.94

300 Hurdles — Kelley (4th) 47.04

4 x 100 Relay — Davis, Mitchell Losey, Matt Shank, Kelley (6th) 47.86

Shot Put — Dalton Martin (16th) 34-11

Discus — Martin (7th) 112-05; Grey Rische (27th) 76-00

Javelin — M. Shank (16th) 111-05; Davis (20th) 106-06; Rische (30th) 94-04; Brian Shank (41st) 75-10

High Jump — M. Shank (6th) 5-00

Long Jump — Edwards (15th) 17-01

Triple Jump — Connor Thompson (16th) 9-09

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All your rebounds belong to Skyler Lawrence!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , on February 8, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Skyler Lawrence's basketball future is so bright, she needs shades.

Skyler Lawrence’s basketball future is so bright, she needs shades.

Skyler Lawrence triggers the play.

Lawrence triggers the play. (John Fisken photo)

It is a sound like a steel trap closing, and it is glorious.

When Coupeville High School freshman Skyler Lawrence gets her hands on a rebound — and she snares just about everything she’s even remotely close to — she latches on to the ball the way every coach dreams of players doing.

The next time a rival player tips a ball out of her fingers will be the first.

But don’t think she’s a one-dimensional player. Far from it.

Lawrence is consistently one of the first girls down the floor on nearly every play — rare for a post player charged with rebounding duty — and she’s developing a deadly outside shot to complement her interior game.

A young woman following in the footsteps of her mother, Patrice, (“I started basketball because it sounded fun and I heard my mom talk about it”), she’s in her seventh season, having first picked up the game in third grade.

“My family would play basketball outside, then I started to play more basketball with them,” Lawrence said. “As I started to get older, I started to get in to it more and played more and it was a blast.”

A three-sport threat (she also has played volleyball and plans to make the jump from middle school to high school track this spring), Lawrence enjoys horror movies and her wood shop class.

On the court, she intends to keep fine-tuning her game.

“My strength is rebounding the basketball after the other team has shot the ball,” she said. “Controlling the ball after rebounding it with other players on me.

“The area I can work on more is taking a player that goes left when they are a post player.”

Win or lose, and her Wolf JV squad has been very successful this season, twice holding opposing teams scoreless for an entire half, Lawrence loves her time on the hardwood.

“I enjoy basketball,” she said. “I get to be on the court with my friends and show the other team what we can do as one.”

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Thought you had a chance? Think again!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , on February 7, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Mattea Miller brings the ball up-court under pressure.

Mattea Miller, seen here in an earlier game, and her teammates rolled to a big win Friday against a squad from a 2A school. (John Fisken photo)

Lauren Grove (right) lays down The Stare O' Death on Mt. Vernon Christian. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

Lauren Grove (3) has been locked-in on defense all season. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

For one play, Granite Falls thought it was in the game.

Visiting Coupeville Friday night, the Tiger JV girls’ basketball team kicked off the game by banking in a long, arcing three-point bucket.

That was the last time they had a chance.

After that it was all Wolves, all the time, as CHS broke the game open with a 15-0 run, closed it with a 16-2 surge and rolled to a not-as-close-as-it-might-sound 38-15 victory.

With nine of its 12 players scoring, led by eight apiece from Skyler Lawrence and Carlie Rosenkrance, Coupeville outplayed Granite in every facet of the game.

The Wolves were stronger on the boards, fought with much more ferocity for loose balls, worked the ball with crisper passing and, while they didn’t hit all their shots, nailed the ones they needed to sap Granite Falls’ fight.

Lawrence, who banged home a bucket in each of the four quarters, was a prime example.

She would not, could not, be denied when a rebound was anywhere within two zip codes of her.

If Lawrence’s fingers even grazed a ball, they would snap down on the sphere like a steel trap and the ball could not be pried back out by even the most determined of Tigers.

Five different Wolves scored as Coupeville reeled off 15 straight from midway through the first until right before halftime.

Rosenkrance hit for five during the surge, Lawrence converted a pair of offensive boards into buckets and Lauren Grove, Mattea Miller and Tiffany Briscoe banged home two points apiece.

Granite Falls finally stopped the bleeding with a desperation trey that, against all hope, stayed in the bucket.

But then, bam, the Wolves flipped the switch again, with Grove and Emily Coulter harassing the Tiger ball-handlers into a string of turnovers, shot clock violations and traveling calls.

At one point Granite failed to get a shot off on five consecutive aborted trips down the floor. With most of their shots failing to land anywhere near the rim, it might not have mattered, however.

Grove hit for five to back up the inside-outside tandem of Lawrence and Rosenkrance, while Miller netted four. Briscoe (3), Coulter (3), Jenn Spark (3), Sophia Jebrail (2) and McKenzie Bailey (2) rounded out the scorers.

Kailey Kellner, Erin Josue and Aura Corredor all chipped in with hustle and defensive intensity, with Kellner making off with a nifty steal and feed to Grove for a breakaway bucket.

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Down goes Goliath!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »

The Wolf JV squad was in a great mood Tuesday. (Robert Bishop photo)

   The Wolf JV squad was in a great mood Tuesday as it romped to a huge win over big, bad Cedarcrest. (Robert Bishop photo)

Surprise!

Skyler Lawrence is a force to be reckoned with in the paint, a ferocious rebounder and powerful inside presence.

Then she goes and shocks the world with a perfectly-banked three-point bomb, after hauling in a long in-bounds pass that almost went over her head, and you realize there is no way to contain her.

The trey staked the Coupeville High School JV girls’ basketball team to a five-point lead going into the fourth quarter Tuesday night, effectively putting an emphatic stamp on what would turn into a huge victory.

Paced by seven points apiece from Lawrence and fellow freshman Kailey Kellner, and two big plays at the end from junior swing player Wynter Thorne, the Wolves bounced visiting Cedarcrest 46-36.

With nine different players scoring, it was a win for small schools everywhere, as the smallest 1A school in the state (225 students in grades 9-11) soundly beat the biggest 2A school (691 students) in the 1A/2A Cascade Conference.

Other than a momentary letdown in the second quarter, Coupeville controlled every aspect of the game, virtually start to finish.

Down 4-2 early, the Wolves ripped off 10 straight points to end the first quarter.

Kellner, the best British sports import since David Beckham, drilled back-to-back jumpers, then, after Lawrence slammed home a rebound, Kellner went outside and lofted a three-point bomb of her own that touched nothing but net.

A free throw from Lauren Grove capped the surge and the game could have been called at that point.

The visiting Red Wolves managed to shave the lead down after that, but Coupeville never gave it all back. Every time Cedarcrest would pull to within two or three points, another Wolf would pull off a quick bucket to re-stretch the lead.

Sophia Jebrail and Carlie Rosenkrance did the honors in the third, before Lawrence dialed up long distance.

Then, in the fourth, it was a nifty jumper under extreme duress from hard-charging frosh Mattea Miller.

Cedarcrest’s final hopes were doused when Thorne scored four points in four seconds. First she hit a tough one-handed turn-around jumper, then she stole the ball and zipped in for a game-icing layup.

Thorne netted six to back-up Kellner and Lawrence, while Miller and Rosenkrance dropped in four apiece.

McKayla Bailey popped for three, Jebrail and Tiffany Briscoe each hit a bucket — with Briscoe’s coming with a second to play — and Grove tickled the twine with her free throw.

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