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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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“Defense has my heart!!”

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged adventure, CHS Wolves, defense, Eastlake, Megan DePorter, Soccer on September 20, 2016| Leave a Comment »

New Wolf defender Megan DePorter enjoys the great outdoors. (Submitted photo)

New CHS defender Megan DePorter enjoys the great outdoors. (Submitted photo)

The start of the Coupeville High School girls’ soccer season has been all about offense.

Mia Littlejohn has torched the nets for 12 goals in the first five games, smashing the program’s single-season scoring record, and the Wolves are a healthy 3-1-1 overall, 2-0 in 1A Olympic League play.

Thursday, the defense gets super-charged.

When Coupeville takes the pitch to face non-conference foe North Mason, it will be adding a major weapon in senior defender Megan DePorter, a soccer vet making her Wolf debut.

Well, her Coupeville Wolf debut.

DePorter also wore a Wolf uniform during her days at Eastlake High in Sammamish, where she played as a freshman and sophomore, before transferring to CHS during her junior year.

After a year off from high school soccer, she’s ready to get back on the pitch.

“I love the competition there is to soccer,” DePorter said. “I am a very competitive person and I don’t like to lose.

“But it is also an escape for me,” she added. “I didn’t realize how much I missed playing from the time my club season ended until I started playing for the school this year.”

She’s been playing the beautiful game since age six, following in the footsteps of her father.

“I honestly don’t remember how I got into soccer,” DePorter said. “My dad always told stories about him playing when he was younger and when he was in college, so he has always been my rock in soccer.”

The 17-year-old (“going on 18 this year … whoop whoop”) has played every position on the pitch but “defense has my heart.”

“I think my strengths are that I am fast, I can truck people down easily (and legally), and that I’m not afraid to put my face in front of a ball to stop a goal,” DePorter said with a big laugh.

“There are many things that I still need to work on,” she added. “But a big one, especially being a defender, is my timing of when to challenge the ball and commit fully to an oncoming player or when to not commit fully and just try to turn them out to the sidelines.”

The self-described “very adventurous person” tried volleyball in middle school (“it wasn’t the sport for me”) and plans on joining the CHS track team this spring.

“I don’t know what events yet, so we will see how that one goes.”

DePorter hails her entire family for their support, saying her soccer journey wouldn’t have been possible without their help.

“My dad has the biggest impact on the player and person that I am today,” she said. “He played when he was younger, so he always helped coach me and help me out whenever I am stumped.

“He is always there for me no matter what and I thank God every day for him (and the rest of the family, of course),” she added. “My family has never missed a game that I played in and they have always been there on the sidelines cheering me on everywhere my team and I went.”

She also credits her time spent on club teams such as the Bellevue Select Ravens for helping hone her game.

“My past coaches and most recent club team have also made a big impact on the player I am today,” DePorter said. “I learned so much from both the (Ravens) coach and the girls.

“I have that team to thank for a lot of the skill that I have today.”

A country music fan (“I might be from the city, but I do have a strong redneck side to me”), DePorter has pulled down a 4.0 in her time at CHS, and plans to fully embrace her final year of high school, on and off the field.

“I really want to win but overall it is my senior year and I just want to have fun,” she said. “I also want to help guide the younger class defenders and teach them some of the things I know that they might not know, so that they are able to succeed in their years to come in playing soccer.”

After graduation, her plans are semi-set, with an emphasis on continuing her life-long love affair with adventure.

“In the future I plan to attend community college for the first two years then transfer to a four year college and get my bachelors in God only knows what,” DePorter said with a laugh.

“As long as my end result involves animals and being active, not sitting behind a desk, I will be happy.”

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Record busted, win nabbed!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged Bree Daigneault, CHS Wolves, Mia Littlejohn, scoring record, Soccer on September 19, 2016| Leave a Comment »

CHS soccer coach Troy Cowan celebrates a 5-1 win with Wolf stars May Rose (middle) and Bree Daigneault. (Photo courtesy Daigneault)

Mission, accomplished.

Recording her third hat trick in five games, Mia Littlejohn sparked the Coupeville High School girls’ soccer squad to a big win Monday and shattered her little sister’s school scoring record.

The 5-1 non-conference victory, coming on the road at Mount Vernon Christian, lifts the Wolves to 3-1-1 on the year.

And, with three more goals, Mia Littlejohn now has 12 on the season (and we’re less than a third of the way into the schedule).

That takes her past Kalia Littlejohn’s single-season scoring record of 10 goals, set just last year.

Little sis’ might be coming to take the record back, as she also went for two goals in the win, doubling her sophomore season total to four.

All five Littlejohn goals were unassisted, as the duo bedeviled the Hurricane goaltender with their fancy footwork.

“All five were works of art; the girls were drawing masterpieces,” said CHS coach Troy Cowan.

Coupeville controlled the pace of the game from start to finish and came close to making it a true rout.

“Several other players had lots of scoring opportunities, but we’re just barely missing,” Cowan said.

Taking advantage of the game being a non-conference affair, the Wolves were able to use their entire roster, getting crucial playing time for their youngsters.

Cowan praised the play of freshmen Anna Dion and Megan Thorn and sophomore Ema Smith, who all “got plenty of touches and made the most of their time.”

Coupeville returns to action Thursday with a home non-conference game (4 PM) against 2A North Mason.

The game will feature the debut of senior defender Megan DePorter, a transfer from Eastlake.

“Can’t wait to see what she can do for the team!,” Cowan said. “One thing for certain, she will provide us some options!!!”

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She can’t be denied by mere mortals!!

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged 1A Olympic League, CHS Wolves, hat trick, Mia Littlejohn, Port Townsend, Soccer on September 17, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Mia Littlejohn, seen here in the season-opening jamboree, rattled home three more goals Saturday afternoon. (John Fisken photo)

Mia Littlejohn is on a torrid run these days.

The Coupeville High School junior banged home three more goals Saturday — her second hat trick of the season — lifting the Wolf booters to a 3-0 win at Port Townsend.

That gives Mia nine goals in four games, putting her just one off of little sister Kalia Littlejohn’s single-season school scoring record, and firmly places Coupeville alone atop the 1A Olympic League.

With the win, the Wolves are 2-1-1 overall and a pristine 2-0 in league play, which puts them a half game up on Klahowya (1-0).

Chimacum (0-1) and Port Townsend (0-2) round out the standings.

Coupeville will gets its first crack at the two-time defending league champ Eagles Sept. 27, when it travels to Silverdale to face Klahowya.

Before they get to that, the Wolves have a pair of non-conference games (Sept. 19 at Mount Vernon Christian and Sept. 22 at home against North Mason).

If Mia Littlejohn continues to pepper the net at her current rate — she’s scored in all four games this season — she’ll own the school (and family) scoring mark long before CHS faces its biggest league rival.

Coming off of a late night Friday, with a football game and after-game dance, the Wolf booters came out a bit slow Saturday and went into the locker room facing a scoreless tie.

Whatever was said during the break worked, as Mia Littlejohn broke free in the second half, with two of the goals set up by stellar corner kicks by junior captain Sage Renninger.

Meanwhile, Wolf goalie Lauren Grove and her defense were in lock-down mode all afternoon, refusing to give the RedHawks even a sniff of a goal.

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