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Big spikes, big cheers

Posted in Middle School, Volleyball, tagged , , , , on October 19, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Arley Bosler and Coupeville’s C-Team won its match Thursday afternoon. (Julie Wheat photo)

The home finale was a barnburner.

Defending their home court for the last time this season, the Coupeville Middle School volleyball squads clashed with visiting Sultan Thursday, nabbing a win and a pair of close losses.

The day was supposed to start with the C-Team playing first, but things got flipped at the last second, with varsity going first.

That change made for an extended warmup period.

Add it to an intense first match, filled to the brim with multiple time-outs and long rallies, and the clock ran out on me after just two sets, as the high school spikers were about to begin their clash with La Conner across the hallway.

Before I left, the varsity squads split the first two sets, with Sultan taking the opener 25-16, before Coupeville rebounded to snatch frame #2 by a 25-23 score.

Without my rear being abused by the rock-hard bleachers in the middle school gym, the Turks pulled out a 15-12 victory in the deciding set.

Zariyah Allen and Rhylee Inman came up big for the Wolves in the early going, with the former slicing off Sultan arms with wicked kills and the latter soaring into the air to establish a no-fly zone for the Turks at the net.

Toss in a sweet lil’ tip from Cameron Van Dyke, sending a rival sprawling to the floor, and winners from Reagan Green and Jade Peabody, and CMS was on point.

Unfortunately, an 11-6 lead evaporated as Sultan, powered by a mighty masher in the middle of its offense, closed the set on a 19-5 tear.

The second set featured nine ties before the Wolves pulled away for the win.

Inman, to the delight of a large personal fan section, was on fire at the net (and on her serve), while Allen and Faith Rivers also peppered the Turk defense while firing off serves.

The Wolves built a 19-14 lead, Sultan got back to 20-20, then CMS put the hammer down.

The Turks fought off two set points, but Coupeville sent me out of the smaller gym surrounded by the victorious screaming of teen girls by holding on to eke out the set win.

Without me in the middle school gym, the Wolf JV fell 21-25, 26-24, 15-8, while the C-Team nabbed its first win of the season, bouncing the Turks 25-22, 25-21, 10-15.

“The girls were resilient,” said CMS coach Shaloma Allen.

“I’m proud of how far they have come this season,” she added. “The energy stayed high, and I was proud of each one of them.”

Coupeville ends its season with back-to-back road trips to Lakewood and South Whidbey Oct. 21-22.

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“What a great night!”

Posted in Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , on October 11, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Frankie Tenore is honored on Senior Night. (Jackie Saia photos)

Sometimes a tie can feel an awful lot like a win.

Walk across Mickey Clark Field Saturday night, a wee bit of October chill in the air, and the scene on the Coupeville sideline post-game was a portrait of celebration and achievement.

The Wolf girls’ soccer squad, back after a two-year hiatus, had just wrapped its final home game with a dramatic defensive stand in stoppage time, forcing a 3-3 stalemate with visiting Sultan.

The non-conference tie brings Coupeville’s record to 2-7-1, with two road games left on the regular season schedule.

It also marked another milestone for a Wolf squad on which 13 of 15 players are 8th graders or freshmen.

Standing toe-to-toe, and hip check-to-hip check with veteran booters from a school whose student body outnumbers Coupeville 466-192.5, is a huge achievement.

“What a great night!” said Wolf coach Jasmine Ader. “We’ve been waiting for this moment and started to see it with how well we played on Lopez Island in the last game.

“Our trajectory is going straight up, exactly where we want it.”

That joy and sense of achievement carried over from the team’s one old pro, defender Frankie Tenore, who had Senior Night honors to herself.

“I’ve played soccer almost my whole life, been on co-ed teams like we had the past two years, and girls’ teams,” she said. “I’m so happy to see our program come back this strong, and to get to play with this amazing team.”

While Tenore will soon depart for new adventures, the youngsters — there are eight 8th graders and five fab frosh on the roster — plan to keep making big plays in her honor.

Finley Helm patrols the net with flair.

Goaltender Finley Helm, just an 8th grader, came up huge in the waning moments Saturday, making three saves in a two-minute stoppage time which felt more like 10 minutes.

Flying out of the goal, sliding across the ground, boldly snatching balls away from her rivals just as they cocked their legs to shoot, she made her old man, CHS assistant coach Jerry Helm, beam under the lights.

Complimented for her often-daring play by a passerby, she looked up and nodded.

“It’s my net!!!”

And then she softly giggled, and went about the rest of her night, awash in well-earned joy.

With the Wolves being such a young team, they don’t know what they don’t know. And one of those things is the old rule that few high school teams come back from a two-goal deficit.

Young and full of fire.

Sultan slipped in a couple of quick goals in the game’s first 10 minutes, off of misdirected balls which found openings in the midst of a scrum of players, and things could have seemed bleak.

Instead, Coupeville’s young guns just started firing.

Tamsin Ward and Lyla Grose came flying in, locked and loaded, often with Lillian Ketterling setting them up with well-placed passes.

Some shots slid wide. Some were stopped by Sultan’s netminder. But some got through.

Ward made a sensational run up the right side, leaving a pack of Turk defenders in her rearview mirror, then punched in Coupeville’s first goal midway through the first half.

Not content to stop there, she netted the tying score in stoppage time, giving her 10 tallies in this, her freshman season.

That makes her just the fourth Wolf girl to hit double-digits in a single campaign — joining Mia Littlejohn, Kalia Littlejohn, and Genna Wright — and already has her sitting at #7 on the career scoring chart for a program playing in its 20th season.

Sultan snatched the lead back eight minutes into the second half, with a Turk shooter snagging a rebound and dumping the ball into a tiny open window, but the Wolves never broke.

Instead, they kept on the offensive, pushing the attack, and then taking advantage when a defender sent Ward sprawling deep in Sultan territory.

Granted a penalty kick, Coupeville put Ketterling on the line, and the sophomore sensation responded with an ice-cold move, slapping the ball into the upper part of the net as the goalie could do little else but watch the ball fly past her head.

It was the first high school goal for the scrappy pitch powerhouse, who is the heart and soul of a team with a bright future.

Lillian Ketterling gives Tenore some love.

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Pack back on the attack

Posted in Cross Country, Middle School, tagged , , , , on September 27, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Speedy, one and all. (Amber Wyman photos)

Anna Powers can’t be caught.

The Coupeville Middle School 8th grader outran the field Friday at the Return of the Salmon Cross Country Invitational in Sultan, claiming first-place in a field of 64 runners.

Powers victory, in which she beat her nearest rival by five-plus seconds, put a cap on a strong all-around day for the Wolves, who placed six runners — two girls and four boys — in the top 10.

Coupeville’s boys finished second in the team standings, almost catching powerhouse South Whidbey, while the Wolf girls were a solid third.

“We have some really strong runners!” said happy CMS coach Amber Wyman after her team finished the 3,000-meter races.

The Wolves will get another chance to show that next Thursday, Oct. 2, but closer to home.

CMS hosts a six-team Cascade League meet at Fort Casey State Park that day.

The pack is on the attack.

 

Friday results:

GIRLS:

Anna Powers (1st) 11:47.80
Sarai Dangerfield (5th) 12:26.80
Claire Lachnit (20th) 14:07.70
Liberty Perez (26th) 14:51.60
Abby Hunt (33rd) 15:33.60
Ava Clark (34th) 15:47.70
Seraphina Williams (50th) 18:46.20

 

BOYS:

Henry Purdue (4th) 10:25.20
Lincoln Wagner (7th) 10:40.30
Colton Ashby (8th) 10:46.40
Archer Schwarz (9th) 11:01.70
Jesse Kehoe (21st) 12:01.50
Nicholas Strong (23rd) 12:05.70
Mica McCloskey (30th) 12:47.10
Les Queen (38th) 13:38.40
Johnathyn Driscoll (44th) 13:56.10
Elijah Williams (48th) 14:11.20
Hayden Maynes (50th) 14:39.70
Oliver Miller (60th) 15:45.90
Miles Abram (66th) 16:14.20

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New challenges, big performances

Posted in Middle School, Track, tagged , , , , on May 8, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Aaron DiDonna launches his shot put. (Photos courtesy Brooke Crowder, Jon Gabelein, and Kelly Powers)

The first road trip was a huge success.

After competing at home in its opener, the Coupeville Middle School track and field team hit the road Wednesday, traveling to Sultan for a three-team meet.

While there, the Wolves collected 19 wins and about a million PRs, while the 8th grade girls and 6th/7th grade boys claimed team titles.

For the 8th grade girls, it was a show of complete dominance, as those Wolves won all six events they competed in.

Tamsin Ward paced CMS with three individual wins, claiming crowns in the 100, shot put, and high jump.

That gives her six victories through the first two meets of the season, and 29 for her middle school career.

Tamsin Ward sails to victory.

Also winning multiple individual titles were Ward’s fellow 8th grader, Cyrus Sparacio (800, 1600), and 7th grade thrower Diesel Eck (shot put, discus).

Whether they won or not, everyone in a Wolf uniform excelled Wednesday, said their coaches.

“Great meet today – Coupeville athletes brought their A-game,” said Brooke Crowder.

“Athletes are challenging themselves, trying new events and pushing themselves to set new personal bests.”

Jon Gabelein agreed, pointing to the fact “their stronger efforts during practice are getting good results.”

Gabelein noted the performance of Wolves such as 7th grader Zariyah Allen, who “has been working especially hard.”

She won the discus, narrowly missing 80 feet in competition after breaking that mark in her warmups.

“Launching it that far during just the second meet brought lots of positive comments from her competitors,” Gabelein said. “I look forward to helping our students continue to improve.”

Transporting a large group of young athletes across the backroads of America is also an experience.

“Traveling as a team of 60 middle school students provides all of us with a whole other dimension to our track season,” Gabelein said. “Especially when it involves a visit to McDonalds without their parents.”

The Wolves help set up the hurdles.

 

Wednesday’s results:

 

GIRLS:

8th grade:

100 — Tamsin Ward (1st) 13.84

100 Hurdles — Kennedy O’Neill (1st) 21.00; Elizabeth Marshall (2nd) 21.04; Cassandra Powers (3rd) 25.17 *PR*

4 x 200 Relay — O’Neill, Sage Stavros, C. Powers, Marshall (1st) 2:18.52

Shot Put — Ward (1st) 38-01.50 *PR*; C. Powers (2nd) 25-08 *PR*

High Jump — Ward (1st) 4-08 *PR*

Long Jump — Stavros (1st) 11-08 *PR*; Marshall (2nd) 11-06; O’Neill (3rd) 10-09

 

6th/7th grade:

100 — Andrea Gonzalez (3rd) 14.85; Laurel Crowder (6th) 15.25 *PR*; Bella Sandlin (7th) 15.32 *PR*; Ava Alford (9th) 15.35; Abbie Moss (10th) 15.61 *PR*; Miah Patterson (13th) 15.97 *PR*; Ella Holm (17th) 16.12; Sophia Burley (18th) 16.19 *PR*; Mia Goers (19th) 16.39; Claire Lachnit (21st) 16.41; Finley Helm (22nd) 16.54; Amira Anunciado (24th) 16.93 *PR*; Sabrina Judnich (26th) 17.13; Evelyn Merino-Martinez (27th) 17.51 *PR*; Victoria Quiroga Rivera (30th) 17.58 *PR*; Sophia Magdolen (33rd) 18.63; Reagan Green (34th) 18.72 *PR*

200 — Sandlin (1st) 33,53 *PR*; Goers (4th); Patterson (6th) 36.30; Merino-Martinez (7th) 37,87 *PR*; Quiroga Rivera (9th) 38.48; Arianna Vinson (10th) 38.52 *PR*

1600 — Annaliese Powers (2nd) 6:29.23 *PR*; Autumn Hunt (5th) 7:02.50 *PR*; Sarai Dangerfield (7th) 7:10.31

100 Hurdles — A. Powers (3rd) 21.65 *PR*; Emma Green (4th) 21.93 *PR*; Patterson (5th) 22.03 *PR*; A. Hunt (6th) 22.24; Kaleigha Millison (7th) 22.32; Alford (10th) 22.95; Helm (11th) 23.58; Dangerfield (15th) 33.44 *PR*

4 x 100 Relay — Millison, Crowder, Moss, Goers (2nd) 1:01.98; Gonzalez, Vinson, Quiroga Rivera, Patterson (5th) 1:04.79; Addison Jacobsen, Judnich, Sandlin, E. Green (6th) 1:05.22; Maja Govorcin, Holm, R. Green, Burley (7th) 1:07.43; Lachnit, Zariyah Allen, A. Hunt, Magdolen (8th) 1:07.45

Shot Put — Jacobsen (4th) 22-07.50; Helm (5th) 21-10 *PR*; Holm (6th) 21-00; Alford (7th) 20-07.50 *PR*; Moss (10th) 18-10.50

Discus — Allen (1st) 79-10 *PR*; Millison (3rd) 54-02 *PR*; E. Green (7th) 42-11.75; Lachnit (9th) 40-10; Crowder (10th) 40-06 *PR*; A. Powers (11th) 40-04.50 *PR*; Judnich (15th) 34-03.25; Vinson (19th) 32-00

High Jump — Crowder (1st) 3-11 *PR*

Long Jump — Millison (5th) 12-00; Moss (7th) 11-02 *PR*; A. Hunt (11th) 10-06 *PR*; E. Green (13th) 10-05; Merino-Martinez (17th) 9-05 *PR*; Allen (18th) 9-03; Burley (20th) 9-00; Jacobsen (21st) 8-08 *PR*; Dangerfield (22nd) 8-07 *PR*; Anunciado (24th) 8-05; Vinson (26th) 7-05; Magdolen (28th) 7-04 *PR*

Cyrus Sparacio is way out in front.

 

BOYS:

8th grade:

100 — Brian Thompson (2nd) 13.33 *PR*; Kion Tellery (14th) 14.96

400 — Hunter Atteberry (5th) 1:15.44

800 — Cyrus Sparacio (1st) 2:27.27 *PR*

1600 — Sparacio (1st) 5:25.60; Ossian Merkel (3rd) 5:44.89 *PR*; Atteberry (5th) 7:00.93; Nolan Hunt (6th) 7:07.73

110 Hurdles — Frank Morrell (4th) 25.50 *PR*

Shot Put — Aaron DiDonna (5th) 28-06 *PR*; Tellery (6th) 28-04 *PR*; N. Hunt (12th) 20-08 *PR*

Discus — Sparacio (7th) 66-10.50; DiDonna (8th) 64-08 *PR*; Merkel (9th) 63-04 *PR*; N. Hunt (15th) 45-05.25; Zaydyn Dees (16th) 44-05 *PR*

Long Jump — Henry Bailey (1st) 15-03; Thompson (2nd) 15-02

 

6th/7th grade:

100 — Les Queen (4th) 14.64 *PR*; Liam Stoner (6th) 14.98 *PR*; Diesel Eck (7th) 15.05 *PR*; Maverick Walling (9th) 15.42; Brenden Tumulty (19th) 19.50 *PR*

200 — River Simpson (2nd) 29.21; Jacob Lujan (5th) 30.53

400 — Simpson (1st) 1:07.07 *PR*; Lincoln Wagner (3rd) 1:12.96 *PR*; Ceiba Rusch (5th) 1:31.03

800 — Walling (1st) 2:41.22 *PR*

1600 — Archer Schwarz (1st) 6:12.60; Tanner Kempton (4th) 7:27.39; Rusch (5th) 7:44.39

110 Hurdles — Lujan (3rd) 21.04; Malachi Chapa (5th) 21.97; Stoner (6th) 22.06 *PR*; Wagner (7th) 22.41 *PR*; Asher Harris (9th) 23.90 *PR*; Kempton (13th) 25.00

4 x 100 Relay — Chapa, Xander Beaman, Eck, Simpson (1st) 54.38; Rusch, Kempton, Stoner, Lujan (3rd) 1:03.85

Shot Put — Eck (1st) 26-04.50; Harris (6th) 19-08 *PR*

Discus — Eck (1st) 92-00 *PR*; Tumulty (6th) 44-10 *PR*

High Jump — Chapa (1st) 4-08 *PR*; Beaman (2nd) 4-06; Stoner (3rd) 4-02

Long Jump — Queen (3rd) 13-06 *PR*; Chapa (4th) 13-04 *PR*; Wagner (6th) 12-09 *PR*; Lujan (7th) 12-08 *PR*; Schwarz (8th) 12-07 *PR*; Kempton (13th) 11-03 *PR*; Tumulty (19th) 8-00

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Hoops heroes head towards finish line

Posted in Girls Basketball, Middle School, tagged , , , , on March 9, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville’s 8th graders pose with coaches Brooke Crowder (left) and Makana Stone. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Play for wins today, while building for bigger success tomorrow.

As the Coupeville Middle School girls’ basketball teams near the end of their season, the young Wolves continue to show great growth and promise.

Case in point, Thursday’s home clashes with Sultan, where CMS romped to one win and pushed the always-tough Turks very hard in the other two games.

How the day played out:

 

Level 1:

The game was tied after one quarter of action, before Sultan pulled away to claim a 27-10 win.

The Turks put together 8-1 and 8-2 runs across the middle two frames, busting open a game which had been knotted up at 4-4 at the first break.

Kennedy O’Neill pumped in all four of Coupeville’s points in the opening quarter, including netting a pair of free throws, and finished with a team-high five.

Aubrey Flowers (2), KeeAyra Brown (2), and Zayne Roos (1) rounded out the Wolf scoring, with Cameron Van Dyke, Emma Cushman, Sophia Batterman, Allison Powers, and Elizabeth Marshall also seeing floor time.

 

Level 2:

Finley Helm had the hot hand, sparking her squad to a runaway 29-16 victory.

The CMS 7th grader, who recently celebrated her 13th birthday, went off for a game-high 12 points, with 10 of those coming in the first half as the Wolves built a 13-10 advantage,

After the break, Coupeville stretched the margin out to 21-14 through three, then slammed the door shut on the Turks with a dynamic defensive stand.

Annaliese Powers torched the nets for eight points in support of Helm, with Emma Green (3), Savannah Coxsey (2), Bella Sandlin (2), and Flowers (2) also making the net bounce.

Annabelle Cundiff and Addison Jacobson completed the rotation for the Wolves.

 

Level 3:

One bad quarter killed the Wolves chance of a win, as the Turks used a 14-2 surge in the fourth quarter to claim the game.

Before that, it was a nailbiter, with Sultan clinging to 8-6, 12-11, and 16-14 leads at the conclusion of the previous three frames.

Laurel Crowder paced the Wolves with four points, while Emma Green (3), Ava Alford (2), Reagan Green (2), Emily Rains (2), Cundiff (2), and Abby Hunt (1) also filled up the scorebook.

Claire Lachnit, Milly Somes, Sophia Burley, Ruby Folkestad, Ari Vinson, and Sandlin also played for CMS.

 

Up next:

The season finale is at home Tuesday, with the Wolves welcoming South Whidbey to town for a 3:15 PM tipoff.

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