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Mia (John Fisken photo)

  Wolf freshmen Mckenzie Meyer (left) and Mia Littlejohn have a small sliver of a state record. Sort of. (John Fisken photo)

Coupeville witnessed greatness.

When the Wolf girls’ soccer squad traveled to Bremerton in early October for a non-conference game with defending 1B/2B state champs Crosspoint Academy, it was a chance to reunite with Emma Laurion.

A standout senior who played her youth ball on Whidbey before a family move, Laurion has scored more than 100 goals during her incredible run for the Warriors.

But it was actually a different player in that game who has since put her name in the Washington state high school record books.

Senior Desere’e Doty, who punched three goals into the back of the net that day, sparking a 7-1 Crosspoint win, just became the highest-scoring girls’ soccer player in state history.

Doty rained down five goals against Toledo Oct. 27, pushing her career total to 134.

She has been remarkably consistent, scoring 24, 32 and 32 goals across her first three seasons before putting on a big push as a senior.

Crosspoint has reeled off nine straight wins and sits at 10-2-1 with one regular season game to play. The Warriors have outscored their opponents 81-31, with their only losses to 1A Charles Wright Academy and 3A Capital.

With starting Coupeville goaltender Julia Myers absent for the Crosspoint game, as she took the SATs, Wolf freshmen Mia Littlejohn and Mckenzie Meyer debuted in net for CHS that day.

Little did they know they would team-up to surrender .022% of Doty’s historic run.

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Kyla

  The future is now, as Kyla Briscoe (8) and fellow freshmen Lauren Rosen and Katrina McGranahan are seeing solid varsity time. (John Fisken photos)

(John Fisken photos)

  Wolf booters, fenced in, but ready to break out Thursday and claim second place in the Olympic League.

One team is in the playoffs. One will have to fight for its postseason life.

Everything will be decided Thursday. Maybe.

After absorbing incredibly narrow defeats Tuesday, both the Coupeville High School volleyball and girls’ soccer squads are facing must-win situations when they reunite with Port Townsend for their regular season finales.

Those games, coming on the heels of twin defeats on the road, will be on Whidbey (5 PM starts for both) tomorrow.

The Wolf girls’ soccer team (5-6-1 overall, 2-3 in Olympic League play) fell 1-0 to Port Townsend (3-10, 2-3), which has won back-to-back games after starting its season roughly.

With Chimacum (2-12, 1-5) losing 8-0 to Klahowya (14-1, 6-0) Tuesday, the Cowboys were eliminated from contention.

The Coupeville/Port Townsend rematch will be a battle for second place in a league where the top three make the playoffs.

While the Wolves are in, a win Thursday would be huge.

The #2 team gets a loser-out home playoff game Nov. 1 against the #3 team from the Nisqually League, while the #3 Olympic League team has to travel, facing the #2 Nisqually Valley squad.

While the booters will be playing for positioning, the Wolf spikers will be just trying to survive.

After falling 25-5, 31-33, 24-26, 25-23, 15-11 to Port Townsend, CHS (1-10, 1-4) is mired in last place, trailing Chimacum (4-9, 2-4) by a half game and the Redhawks (8-5, 2-3) by a game.

Klahowya (14-0, 6-0) has the title safely in hand, but Thursday’s rematch will decide the final two playoff spots. Or blow everything up.

A Port Townsend win would give it the #2 seed (and a home playoff match), while Chimacum would be #3 and Coupeville would be done.

But, if the Wolves can rebound and win, which is very reasonable given that they almost won Tuesday, that would create a three-way tie at 2-4.

If that happens, the three schools would have a mini-playoff to decide the #2 and #3 seeds.

The first match-up between Coupeville and Port Townsend got off to a sour start, then turned into a donnybrook.

“A tough loss tonight! They played their hearts out (with the exception of game #1) and can’t wait to take PT on again on Thursday,” CHS coach Breanne Smedley said. “We did a good job of reducing our errors and playing to our potential tonight.

“We just had a hard time holding on to some of our early leads in the fourth and fifth games, leaving us with too much catch-up to do towards the end.”

Valen Trujillo paced the Wolves with a flawless 23-for-23 performance at the service stripe, including three aces. She also went low a team-high 38 digs.

Lauren Rose doled out 37 assists, fellow freshman Katrina McGranahan collected three blocks and the big three — Hailey Hammer (15 kills, six digs), Kacie Kiel (10 kills, 25 digs) and Madeline Strasburg (eight kills, 23 digs, five aces) filled up the stat sheet.

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Jenn Spark shares a light moment with the surgery crew. (Kali Barrio photos)

Jenn Spark shares a light moment with the surgery crew. (Kali Barrio photos)

Boyfriend Anthony Bergeron

Boyfriend Anthony Bergeron waits for Spark to get out of surgery.

A blown-out knee is preventing Jenn Spark from playing, but not cheering.

   Even with a hurt knee, Spark has continued to cheer on her team. (John Fisken photo)

One of Coupeville’s best and brightest is on the mend.

Wolf junior Jenn Spark, owner of the most ferocious leg to ever patrol the backfield on a soccer pitch, underwent extensive surgery today to fix her knee, which she blew out late in a game earlier this month.

After having the work done at Seattle Children’s in Bellevue, Spark hit Twitter to muse “I’m on so many drugs, it’s funny.”

Hopefully the pain killers (and the doctors) do their work, and do it well.

All of Wolf Nation is pulling for a fast, fairly painless recovery for the feistiest of defenders.

We hope to see you back on the pitch sooner rather than later. But more than that, we want to see you walking without pain, enjoying your life.

All the best, Sparky, from all of your many fans.

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Christine Fields (John Fisken photos)

Christine Fields (John Fisken photos)

Erin Rosenkranz

Erin Rosenkranz

Julia Myers

Julia Myers

Jacki Ginnings

Jacki Ginnings

Micky LeVine

Micky LeVine

Marisa Etzell

Marisa Etzell

Ana (left) and Ivy Luvera.

Ana (left) and Ivy Luvera

The Elite Eight gather for a group photo op.

The Elite Eight gather for a rare group photo op.

The smiles overcame the wind.

Despite a blustery night Monday, eight Coupeville High School booters put on a brave face for the cameras as they bid adieu.

It was Senior Night, and while the Wolves fell 4-0 to state title contender Klahowya, the Elite Eight, who have played together most of their lives, went out on a high note.

They still have two regular season games to play (including a makeup game at home) and then, hopefully, a long playoff run ahead of them.

But, for one night, they faced the end of their high school soccer careers and they did it the way they do everything — with a smile.

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Luvera

Ana Luvera charges into the fray. (John Fisken photos)

Wolf goalie Julia Myers blasts the ball out of the danger zone. (John Fisken photo)

Wolf goalie Julia Myers blasts the ball out of the danger zone.

It was not an ideal combination.

Facing a team chock full of players known for having big, booming legs capable of airmailing goals in from considerable difference, the Coupeville High School girls’ soccer team also had to deal with playing into a gusty, 30 MPH headwind in the first half Monday.

Aided a bit by having the wind at its back, and a lot by the caliber of its scoring aces, visiting Klahowya jumped out to a 4-0 lead at the half, then coasted home for the win.

The #5 ranked team in 1A, the Eagles improved to 13-1 overall, 5-0 in Olympic League play and clinched the league title.

Even with the loss, Coupeville remained in second place in the four team league, and is all but guaranteed a playoff spot.

The Wolves (5-5-1, 2-2) sit in front of Port Townsend (2-10, 1-3), which nipped Chimacum (2-11, 1-4) in a 2-1 nail-biter Monday.

The top three teams make the playoffs, and, barring a monumental upset, Chimacum will lose to Klahowya Tuesday, which would eliminate them from finishing ahead of Coupeville in any scenario.

The Wolves finish with two games against Port Townsend, hitting the road Tuesday before welcoming the Redhawks to Whidbey Thursday. Win at least one of those two and CHS finishes second.

That shouldn’t be a tall order if the Wolves play like they did in the second half Monday.

Led by scrappy senior goalie Julia Myers, who made adjustments at the half and shut out Klahowya after the break, Coupeville looked much stronger.

Only three schools have held Klahowya to less goals in a game this season, and two of those — Olympic and North Kitsap — are 2A schools.

Seattle Christian is the only 1A school to fare better than Coupeville, and it handed the Eagles their only loss, 3-0.

“Second half was a much different affair; we made our runs in the second half,” said CHS coach Troy Cowan. “Marisa Etzell going the length of the pitch multiple times and getting either a shot on goal or some dynamite crosses … great job defense and Julia.”

Coupeville honored its eight seniors (Ivy Luvera, Christine Fields, Ana Luvera, Etzell, Myers, Micky LeVine, Erin Rosenkranz and Jacki Ginnings) at the half, players who have led the team for some time.

“The girls have done a great job of believing in themselves and taking this program to uncharted territories,” Cowan said. “They are true pioneers and they aren’t finished yet.

“These girls have some fire in their bellies and I’m not sure if I would want to face them anytime soon,” he added. “Time will tell just how far they go and just how good we are.”

A huge part of those player’s development has come from their time in select soccer playing with the Whidbey Islanders.

“High school coaches get, if we are lucky, three months to work with these student athletes, so we really just tweak and try and polish the girls to fit our systems,” Cowan said. “The real work is done by their select coaches.

Sean LeVine, Scott Rosenkranz and Ryan Baker, thanks coaches, you guys are the best!”

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