When Chris Battaglia gets rollin’, the ground starts shakin’. (John Fisken photo)
You dare to put your mitts on Wiley Hesselgrave (10) when he’s about to break a big run? This does not please Mr. Hesselgrave whatsoever. (Steve Smith photo)
Every hair on Shane Losey’s neck is screaming one thing … RUN!! (Fisken photo)
Having scooped up a fumble, Jacob Martin (32) has eyes only for the end zone. Spoiler: he made it. (Smith photo)
A pack of Wolves, led by Cameron Toomey-Stout (11), devour a Falcon runner. (Fisken photo)
Hunter Smith (4) gets all electric in the open field. (Smith photo)
Julian Welling (51) and Hesselgrave prepare to initiate the Sandwich Protocol, in which they take one Falcon and squish him between two tacklers. (Smith photo)
The sounds of fall are echoing across Whidbey.
Helmets hitting pads. Quarterbacks screaming signals. Fans bellowing for their teams. Roving photographers firing off a million clicks a second.
As Coupeville High School opened a new football season with two games — a varsity contest at South Whidbey Friday and a JV battle at home in Cow Town Tuesday — photo men Steve Smith and John Fisken were hard at work documenting the hard-hitting action.
The photos above are courtesy them.
To see more of Smith’s work on the varsity game, and possibly purchase some, pop over to:
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