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Grove, Wurzrainer sparkle on tough night!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged 1A Olympic League, CHS Wolves, Klahowya, Lauren Grove, Soccer, Tia Wurzrainer on September 27, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Lauren Grove, seen here in an earlier game, made 26 saves Tuesday night while facing a barrage of shots. (John Fisken photo)

Lauren Grove was phenomenal.

Otherwise, Tuesday’s highly-anticipated battle between the top two soccer programs in the 1A Olympic League did not go as Coupeville would have liked.

Despite Grove’s 26 saves in goal, the Wolves fell 3-0 at Klahowya and dropped out of a first-place tie with the Eagles.

The two-time defending champs, who have never lost in 15 league games stretched across 2+ seasons, controlled the pace of the game from start to finish and rained down shots on Coupeville’s net-minder.

“She made amazing saves,” said CHS coach Troy Cowan. “An incredible 89.55167 save percentage — one of the best displays of soccer goalie play I have ever seen!

“Lauren was like Wilt Chamberlain tonight in the box,” he added. “Even the three that got by he would have missed.”

Klahowya (3-0 in league, 5-0-1 overall) was the first team to shut down Wolf forward Mia Littlejohn, whose 16 goals tie her for the state lead.

With little room to move or create, her string of six straight games with a goal came to an end, and Coupeville (2-1, 4-2-1) suffered.

While the Wolves weren’t able to get the ball in the net, they did benefit from giving a freshman a chance to shine in a new position.

With senior Megan DePorter having moved into the starting lineup on defense, Cowan shifted Tia Wurzrainer up front against Klahowya and liked what he saw.

“The other positive was a terrific discovery! Tia can play striker,” Cowan said. “We did a ton of running tonight and my starting forwards needed a blow so I put Tia up top and she really shined.

“Pressure was great and she had multiple shots and made some timely through balls,” he added. “I will be trying to get her more time up top so we can help Mia eradicate the single-season scoring record!!”

Coupeville has five games to play, including two league tilts, before it gets another crack at Klahowya.

When they do, the Wolves will face the Eagles twice in a five-day span, hosting them Oct. 18, then traveling to Silverdale Oct. 22.

“We had an off night and I wish we could call a mulligan but we can’t,” Cowan said. “So we will keep working hard and be ready for them visiting us.”

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Big day, big stakes!!

Posted in standings, tagged CHS Wolves, football, Soccer, standings, tennis, volleyball on September 27, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Katrina McGranahan and the Wolf spikers aim for sole possession of first place Tuesday night. (John Fisken photos)

The same with Kalia Littlejohn and the red-hot CHS booters.

Time to make some history.

Tuesday could be a landmark day in Coupeville High School’s two-year-plus run in the 1A Olympic League.

Both the Wolf volleyball and girls’ soccer squads travel to Silverdale for first-place showdowns with the beast of the league, Klahowya.

Win and Coupeville makes a huge statement, claims sole possession of the top slot and breaks an undefeated run.

The Eagle spikers and booters, both 2-0 this season, have each gone 14-0 in league competition since the four-team conference began in 2014.

That puts them second only to Coupeville girls’ basketball, which is 18-0 through the first two winters of play.

Between them, the two schools boast five teams unbeaten in league play, with Klahowya boys’ soccer (12-0) and Coupeville girls’ tennis (11-0) safe at least until the spring.

The Wolves are entering Tuesday’s tilts with the strongest teams each program has boasted since jumping ship from the 1A/2A Cascade Conference.

The booters, who have one of the the state’s two leading scorers in Mia Littlejohn (16 goals in six games), have won three straight and four of their last five.

Coupeville’s spikers, meanwhile, are coming off of a huge win over 2A North Mason and are hitting the road for the first time ever under new head coach Cory Whitmore.

Where all four of the CHS varsity squads sit heading into Tuesday’s bouts:

Football:

School	League	Overall
Cascade Christian	1-0	4-0
Charles Wright	1-0	2-2
Klahowya	1-0	3-1
Port Townsend	1-0	2-2
COUPEVILLE	0-1	1-3
Bellevue Christian	0-1	0-4
Chimacum	0-1	1-3
Vashon Island	0-1	0-4

Volleyball:

School	League	Overall
Klahowya	2-0	3-1
COUPEVILLE	1-0	3-2
Chimacum	1-2	3-3
Port Townsend	0-2	1-4

Girls Soccer:

School	League	Overall
COUPEVILLE	2-0	4-1-1
Klahowya	2-0	4-0-1
Port Townsend	1-2	1-5-0
Chimacum	0-3	1-4-0

Boys Tennis:

School	League	Overall
COUPEVILLE	1-0	2-6
Klahowya	1-1	1-6
Chimacum	0-1	0-7

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Gunnin’ for that top spot!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged CHS Wolves, MaxPreps, Mia Littlejohn, Nicole Souply, scoring leaders, Soccer on September 25, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Mia Littlejohn's 16 goals has her in a tie for most in the state. (John Fisken photo)

Mia Littlejohn has scored 16 goals in six games, tying her for the state lead. (John Fisken photo)

It’s a two-woman battle, and one of the combatants is a Wolf.

Coupeville High School junior booter Mia Littlejohn is tied for the state lead in goals scored, as least according to MaxPreps.

With four hat tricks in six games (and two of those hat tricks including a fourth score), Littlejohn has rattled home 16 goals, which ties her with Cascade Christian’s Nicole Souply.

No one else on the list has more than 10 goals.

Now, there is a caveat to this, which is not every school stays on top of reporting to MaxPreps.

But, tough for them then, I guess.

Littlejohn is also second in the state in total points, with 33 (you get two points for a goal and one for an assist).

Soupley, who has played in one more game (Cascade Christian is 7-0 to Coupeville’s 4-1-1) sits with 40 points (16 goals, 8 assists) currently.

Up-the-moment Wolf stats (as seen on MaxPreps):

Goals:

Mia Littlejohn 16 (tied for #1 in state)
Kalia Littlejohn 4
Bree Daigneault 1
Avalon Renninger 1
Lindsey Roberts 1

Assists:

Sage Renninger 5
Daigneault 1
K. Littlejohn 1
M. Littlejohn 1
Roberts 1

Points:

M. Littlejohn 33 (#2 in state)
K. Littlejohn 9
S. Renninger 5
Daigneault 3
Roberts 3
A. Renninger 2

Saves in goal:

Lauren Grove 20

Shutouts:

Grove 2

PS — As Coupeville prepares for its first-place showdown with Klahowya (4-0-1) Tuesday, the Wolves are now ranked #15 by ScoreCzar, the highest the nefarious computer wizard has ever placed them.

To marinate in the ranking, pop over to:

http://www.scoreczar.org/classifications/63-high-school-soccer-girls-wa1a

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Rock ’em, sock ’em, big smile pics!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, Volleyball, tagged CHS Wolves, Jacob Zettle, John Fisken photos, Soccer, volleyball on September 23, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Lauren Rose, hyper-focused. (John Fisken photos)

Wolf defender Lindsey Roberts dances a tango with a runaway soccer ball.

Six players, one goal.

CHS spiker Ashley Menges branches out and works on her soccer skills while waiting for North Mason to show up.

Jacob Zettle lets no one come between himself and the camera, not even Mckenzie Meyer.

Clay Reilly and Jae LeVine have a meeting of the minds.

Megan DePorter makes an auspicious debut on the pitch for Coupeville.

Payton Aparicio is a bright ray of sunshine on a fall day.

I can write a billion words, or, if I really want page hits, I can run a lot of photos.

So, let’s turn the blog over to wanderin’ paparazzi John Fisken and his trusty camera for a few minutes, while I go count those sweet, sweet page hits.

The photos above are a mix of volleyball and soccer action from Thursday, with a few ringers from earlier games tossed in to sweeten the deal.

To see more of Fisken’s recent work in the sporting world (purchases fund college scholarships for CHS student/athletes!) pop over to:

http://www.johnsphotos.net/

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Get the butter! Wolves on a roll!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged CHS Wolves, en fuego, huge win, Mia Littlejohn, scoring streak, Soccer on September 22, 2016| Leave a Comment »

“You dare to shoot on ME?!?!” Wolf goalie Lauren Grove suffers no fools. (John Fisken photos)

Mia Littlejohn ran wild Thursday, rattling home four more goals to give her 16 in just six games.

Someone call the fire department, because Mia Littlejohn is torching folks.

The Coupeville High School junior booter is on a goal-scoring tear like none ever seen in these parts, and her en fuego leg is carrying the Wolves to new heights.

Thursday night Littlejohn tallied four more goals, lifting CHS, a small 1A school, to a stunning 4-1 non-conference victory over visiting North Mason, which hails from the 2A rung of the state classification system.

The third straight win for the Wolves, it lifts them to 4-1-1, just two wins off the program’s record for victories in a single season, and sets up a mammoth match next Tuesday.

Coupeville, which is 2-0 in 1A Olympic league play, travels to Silverdale to face two-time defending league champ Klahowya (4-0-1 overall, 2-0 in league).

The lone stain on the Eagles record this year?

A 2-2 tie with the same North Mason crew Coupeville just smushed.

While Klahowya, a state champ in 2014, has never lost in Olympic League play, going 12-0 over the past two years, this year would seem to offer Coupeville its best chance yet of toppling the kingpin.

The Wolves are romping while Littlejohn is raining down goals in a way rarely seen in Cow Town.

Her four scores Thursday marks her fourth hat trick in six games (she’s scored every time out) and gives her an astonishing 16 goals on the still-young season.

She blitzed sister Kalia’s single-season Wolf girls’ scoring record of 10 and is rapidly approaching Abraham Leyva’s school record of 20 goals in a season.

“Total domination!!!,” said a jubilant Coupeville coach Troy Cowan.

Mia Littlejohn netted her first goal Thursday on a penalty kick after being fouled in the box.

After getting a sweet set-up off a corner kick from Sage Renninger for goal #2, Littlejohn went solo for scores #3 and #4, refusing to be denied.

“She is just in full control and the great part is she is sharing the ball well and getting her teammates involved,” Cowan said.

North Mason’s lone score came after Wolf goaltender Lauren Grove dove for a ball in the box and inadvertently collided with a rival player.

The Bulldogs were awarded a questionable at best penalty kick, and, while he grumbled in the moment, Cowan didn’t want the moment to detract from the solid night enjoyed by his net-minder.

“Grove was a beast in the box and left NO doubt who was in charge!!!,” he said.

Helping her out was a Wolf defense in lock-down mode.

Joining stalwarts Lauren Bayne and Lindsey Roberts in containing the Bulldogs was senior transfer Megan DePorter, who made her debut in a CHS uniform an impressive one.

“Megan is legit,” Cowan said. “Took no time to cement herself as a defensive juggernaut and dictating the pace and flow of the match.”

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