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Big pain for Wolf booters!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged CHS Wolves, John Fisken photos, Soccer, South Whidbey on April 19, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Sean Donley sacrifices his noggin. (John Fisken photos)

Jared Dickson launches himself in pursuit of the ball.

Tanner Kircher motors upfield.

The bump in the road has gotten worse.

Missing players and unable to get its offense totally into gear, the Coupeville High School boys’ soccer squad slid to a 5-0 loss at South Whidbey Friday night.

It was only the second time this season the Wolves had been shut out.

The third straight defeat for the booters, it dropped them to 4-6 overall, 3-6 in Cascade Conference play.

And, while they split the season series with their Langley arch-rivals, they now face an uphill battle in the quest to claim a playoff berth.

Two of the three 1A schools in the 1A/2A league will advance to the postseason, and Coupeville will have to make up some ground over the final stretch of the season.

South Whidbey is 6-2-1 in conference, while King’s is 4-3-1.

After a non-conference tilt with Friday Harbor Monday, April 21, the Wolves have five league games left.

Three of those games are against teams below Coupeville in the standings (Lakewood, Sultan and Granite Falls), but CHS also plays King’s and Archbishop Thomas Murphy (8-0, 9-0-1).

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Heartbreaker on the diamond!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged baseball, CHS Wolves, Josh Bayne, South Whidbey, walkoff win on March 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Josh Bayne had three hits and three RBI Friday. (John Fisken photo)

Aaaaaaaa-goooooooo-nyyyyyyyyyyyy.

Three outs away from a sweep of its season-opening three-game series against arch-rival South Whidbey, the Coupeville High School baseball squad couldn’t get the door all the way slammed.

Instead, they surrendered four runs in the bottom of the seventh Friday, losing 10-9 on a walk-off, two-out, two-run single.

Still, the Wolves, now 2-1 on the season, did win the series and will hold a tiebreaker over the Falcons, the only other 1A school to play baseball in the Cascade Conference. King’s doesn’t play baseball, while the other five league schools are 2A.

Coupeville will hit the road for non-conference games at Concrete and Nooksack Valley next week before returning to league play against the biggest baddie in all the land, Archbishop Thomas Murphy.

The game started slowly Friday, got pretty awesome for a stretch, then slipped away piece by piece.

The Wolves went with sophomore CJ Smith on the mound, and he didn’t have the command he had shown out of the bullpen in a CHS win Thursday.

After a rough first inning, in which he surrendered three runs, he settled down, but trailed 4-0 when he turned the ball over to Wade Schaef in the fourth.

After scraping together a run on an Aaron Trumbull double and Kurtis Smith single, Coupeville seemingly blew the game open with an eight-run fifth inning.

The Wolves used three hits, five walks and a crucial South Whidbey error to amass the runs. Morgan Payne (two-run single) and Josh Bayne (three-run double) delivered the biggest blows.

With Schaef cruising into the sixth inning, Coupeville seemed primed for the sweep, but the plucky Falcons refused to go away.

South Whidbey cut the margin to 9-6 going into the seventh, then jumped on mental errors by the Wolves to get two more in the bottom of the seventh.

Clinging to a 9-8 lead, with runners at second and third and two outs, Coupeville still had a chance to escape.

But it wasn’t to be, as the Falcon cleanup hitter became a hometown hero with a textbook single into left center to score the tying and winning runs.

Bayne paced the Wolves with three hits and three RBI, while Trumbull added two hits and two runs.

While he would have preferred getting back on the bus with a win, CHS coach Willie Smith came away mostly pleased with how his team handled the season-opening series.

“Although we lost, we did take the series and we had a lot of good things happen over the past three games,” Smith said. “We still have some work to do, as we struck out far too much today, mostly looking, and we still need to be able to put a team away when we have them on the ropes.

“But I feel like we put ourselves in a good position league-wise,” he added. “The areas we need to work on are definitely areas which we can fix.”

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Spring Sports Preview: Lone Wolf tees off!!

Posted in Golf, tagged Austin Fields, Christine Fields, CHS Wolves, golf, South Whidbey on March 3, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Christine Fields, pride of the pack.

There’s no one to fall back on. It’s all her.

Christine Fields is unique at Coupeville High School, the only golfer to tee off repping the red and black. And with back-to-back top 15 finishes at the 1A state tournament, the junior has more than held her own.

Since CHS doesn’t field a team, Fields trains and travels with South Whidbey, but competes as a one-woman Wolf wrecking crew.

The past two seasons, when she placed 8th and 15th at state, older brother Austin, a state meet regular himself, made the trek down Island with her.

He’s a freshman at New Mexico State University this year, so she’s flying solo now.

Having a well-established relationship with her friendly rivals at SWHS helps.

“The Falcon team has been REALLY welcoming to me and my golf game,” Fields said. “Falcon coach Tom Sage has been so understanding and definitely has my back in the golf season!

“I never feel that much like an opponent until I’m on the course; even then I’m still cheered on by them and I give props to the girls on the Falcon team as well!,” she added. “They’re fun to travel and practice with! But, in the end, I’m without a doubt a Wolf!”

On the course she has been a consistent winner since day one, and while she can’t carry Coupeville to any team wins playing one-on-five, she can, and does, consistently medal by shooting the low score in matches.

Fields credits her memory, or better still, the ability to not use her memory at times.

“A strength that I don’t see too often in the field, that I have, is being able to not keep a shot-by-shot score in my head,” she said. “It allows me to focus on each shot instead of the ending round score.”

As she heads into her third season on the high school links, Fields is aiming for a return to the state meet and taking another crack at a top ten finish. Making the All-Cascade Conference team would be a good kick-off to her postseason.

Having worked hard on improving every facet of her game, she still has areas she’d like to tweak a bit.

“This year I’m especially looking to up my short game skill, which is really what makes the low scores, as well as the consistency in my swing.”

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