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CMS harriers chase trail glory

Posted in Cross Country, Middle School, tagged , , , , on September 27, 2024| Leave a Comment »

The bright future, and present, of Wolf cross country. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

The fish are back, apparently, and so are the harriers.

The Coupeville Middle School cross country team sent 27 runners to the line Friday in Sultan at the uniquely named Return of the Salmon Invitational.

The six-team event, which went down at Osprey Park, featured a 3,000-meter course.

Two Wolf girls and four boys cracked the top 10, with 7th grader Henry Purdue leading the way with a third-place finish.

Overall, the Wolf boys claimed the team title, while their female counterparts finished second.

“Amazing meet today!” said CMS coach Amber Wyman. “This is such a determined group, and they were so excited!

“They were cheering for each other, giving advice to each other and helping out others,” she added. “Nothing better than that!

“A beautiful day and amazing running!”

Sultan gave out special prizes, with top 10 finishers earning a commemorative t-shirt, and finishers in slots 11-20 being awarded a fish necklace.

Coupeville gets back at it next week, but a lot closer to home, when it hosts a meet Thursday, Oct. 3 at Fort Casey State Park.

Enjoying the ferry ride home. (Amber Wyman photos)

Flexin’ in the sun.

The open water calls to them.

 

Friday results:

 

GIRLS:

Allie Powers (6th) 13:33.10
Anna Powers (7th) 13:33.40
Claire Lachnit (11th) 13:55.70
Abby Hunt (12th) 14:11.10
Hazel Goldman (13th) 14:19.50
Hailey Goldman (32nd) 16:37.40
Mia Goers (46th) 22:08.70
Sophia Magdolen (48th) 22:14.50

 

BOYS:

Henry Purdue (3rd) 10:52.80
Cyrus Sparacio (5th) 10:56.80
Calvin Kappes (6th) 11:01.80
Colton Ashby (7th) 11:06.50
Archer Schwarz (12th) 11:26.70
Ossian Merkel (14th) 11:46.00
River Simpson (15th) 11:47.80
Lincoln Wagner (17th) 11:52.60
Jesse Kehoe (18th) 11:57.90
Asher Harris (19th) 12:06.00
Jonah Meek (25th) 12:53.60
Jonathan Kappes (28th) 13:00.90
Christopher Zenz (32nd) 13:28.30
Nolan Hunt (44th) 15:01.60
Johnathyn Driscoll (45th) 15:05.20
Avery Eelkema (49th) 15:30.20
Magnus Western (52nd) 15:57.10
Cole Van Dyke (53rd) 15:59.80
Hunter Attebury (62nd) 18:00.50

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Jamboree season kicks off

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on August 27, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville High School football players listen to their coaches at an early practice. (Megan Richter photo)

The first tackles of a new season are on the horizon.

The Coupeville High School football squad travels to Sultan this Saturday, Aug. 31 for the Rumble in the Valley jamboree.

The Wolves, led by third-year head coach Bennett Richter, will square off with the host Turks and Cascade (Leavenworth) in an event scheduled to run from 11:00 AM-2:00 PM.

The jamboree is free for fans, but a Pug Dogs food truck will be on site to sell hotdogs and drinks, with a portion of the proceeds benefitting Sultan’s football program.

For those travelling to the jamboree, Sultan High School is located at 1000 Turk Drive.

Coupeville then opens the regular season the next Friday, Sept. 6, when it hosts non-conference foe Annie Wright in a 7:00 PM game.

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Young guns havin’ some fun

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , , on April 8, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Cousins Capri Anter (left) and Haylee Armstrong enjoy another victory. (Michelle Armstrong photo)

Neither wind nor rain splatters nor dank and dark prairie days stay these sluggers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

Delivering in a way the postal service only wishes it could, the Coupeville High School varsity softball squad returned from vacation with a vengeance Monday afternoon.

With three 8th graders and two freshmen accounting for half the lineup, the Wolves swept Sultan away, winning 10-0 in a game called after five innings.

The non-conference victory lifts CHS to 6-1, with all of its wins ended early thanks to the mercy rule.

Now, it’s on Darrington Tuesday for a key Northwest 2B/1B League matchup, before a home tilt with La Conner Thursday and a titanic road rumble with powerhouse Forks Saturday.

Monday’s matchup, coming on the heels of a week-long shutdown for Spring Break, opened on a note of danger.

Sultan’s leadoff hitter lofted a ball into the wind on a typically blustery prairie afternoon, and the ball veered away from the incoming right fielder, landing with a splash for a double.

But that would be the one, and only hit the Turks would get, as Wolf hurler Adeline Maynes and her defense promptly went into lock-down mode.

Taylor Brotemarkle, the mistress of the mitt, made a superb snatch on a liner at shortstop, to settle things down.

After that, Sydney Van Dyke gobbled up a grounder at second, before Maynes induced a comebacker to the pitcher’s circle to end the brief hint of suspense.

From that point on, Sultan only got one batter aboard across the final four innings, and then only thanks to a slightly wayward pitch which plunked the Turk catcher.

Maynes, a precocious 8th grader, whiffed eight batters while her infield defense, which included Madison McMillan at third and Haylee Armstrong at first, handled every ball that came their way flawlessly.

Taylor Brotemarkle congratulates whiz kid Adeline Maynes during an earlier, sunnier game. (Ryan Blouin photo)

Meanwhile, the Wolves pecked away at the Turk pitching staff, scoring in every inning.

The only run which Coupeville needed came around early, thanks to the nimble toes of Mia Farris.

She walked, pilfered second, then skedaddled home on an RBI base knock from Brotemarkle, who quickly scored herself thanks to a passed ball.

The Wolves broke the game open in the second, with walks to Van Dyke and Ava Lucero setting the table, and Capri Anter and Armstrong crunching RBI hits which skidded past the Turk defenders and made a run for freedom.

Up 5-0 after two innings, CHS pushed three more runs across in the third, with Anter delivering yet another crucial hit, before tacking on one in the fourth and ending things early in the fifth.

Wolf catcher Teagan Calkins walloped an RBI double for the game’s loudest hit, before Anter (who else?) closed the day with a run-scoring groundout.

Coupeville, which has outscored its foes 108-24 this season, finished with five well-placed hits and seven walks.

Anter led the way with two base knocks, while Armstrong, Brotemarkle, and Calkins also collected hits.

Jada Heaton and Van Dyke both walked twice, with Lucero, Calkins, and Farris each eking out a free pass.

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Diamond rally falls short

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on April 8, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Chaos reigns on the baseball diamond. (Ryan Blouin photo)

The good news is they rallied. The bad news is it was too little, too late.

Returning from Spring Break Monday, the Coupeville High School varsity baseball squad started off cold, then warmed up a bit in the latter stages of a 9-4 loss to visiting Sultan.

The non-conference defeat drops the Wolves to 3-7 on the season and kick-starts what could be a very busy week.

CHS is slated to travel to Darrington Tuesday, host La Conner Thursday, then trek to Forks Saturday, with the first two of those rumbles against Northwest 2B/1B League rivals.

With 10 regular season games down and nine left to play, the Wolves hope the second half of the campaign plays out like the second half of Monday’s game.

Held hitless until Cole White plunked a leadoff single in the bottom of the fourth, Coupeville was in a 7-0 hole at that point.

Four errors on defense stung, and an inability to get anything going on offense didn’t help on a cold, windy, slightly rain-splattered day.

White’s base knock finally lit a fire under the Wolves, as they scratched out two runs in the fourth, one more in the fifth, and a final tally in the seventh.

But while Coupeville sliced the lead down to 7-3, it never got closer than that.

Sultan tacked on a pair of runs in the top of the sixth to stretch the margin back out to six runs, before CHS briefly mounted a rally in its final at-bats.

Peyton Caveness thumped his second double of the day, followed by an RBI triple from Johnny Porter, but the Turks escaped thanks to a double play and strikeout.

Sultan finished the day with an 8-5 lead in hits, though the Wolves eked out a 6-4 advantage in walks.

Steven Gonzalez, Aidyn McDermott, and Landon Roberts each earned a pair of free passes, while Coop Cooper collected a single to round out the hit parade.

Coupeville used four pitchers on the day, with Seth Woollet whiffing five in 4.2 innings of work to carry the biggest portion of the load.

He was joined on the hill by Jack Porter, Camden Glover, and Cooper, who combined for another five strikeouts.

It was Cooper’s season debut on the mound, and the Wolf sophomore pitched a perfect seventh inning, setting two batters down on K’s before inducing a groundout back to his glove.

Jack Porter flings heat. (Ember Light photo)

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“It was rowdy!”

Posted in Girls Basketball, Middle School, tagged , , , , on March 5, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Emma Leavitt (left) and Inara Maund are a great support crew for fellow CMS hoops players. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Three more names in the scoring column.

Making their next-to-last road trip of the season Monday, the Coupeville Middle School girls’ basketball teams went bucket for bucket with host Sultan across 2.5 games.

As they did so, three more Wolves — Selah Rivera, Laken Simpson, and Taylor Marrs — recorded their first points of the campaign.

That gives CMS 29 players with at least a bucket heading into the season finale Tuesday at South Whidbey.

That trip will be a much-shorter affair than Monday’s march to the wilds of Sultan, where “it was rowdy!” according to Wolf coach Brooke Crowder.

How the day played out:

 

Level 1:

An immediate rematch, as these two schools tangled in Coupeville four days prior.

Sultan came out on top again, but it was closer this time, as the Wolves, who fell by 17 Thursday, lost 33-21 on the road.

The defeat drops CMS, which was missing top scorer Tenley Stuurmans for a second-straight game, to 1-6.

Lillian Ketterling, zipping around the court, paced the Wolf attack with a team-high eight points as she continues to blossom into a dangerous scoring threat.

Tamsin Ward backed her up with four points, with Adie Maynes (3), Marrs (2), Simpson (2), Ari Cunningham (1), and Sydney Van Dyke (1) joining the scoring effort.

Coupeville’s top squad also got quality minutes from Olivia Hall, Ava Lucero, and Chelsi Stevens.

 

Level 2:

The hottest team in Wolf Nation netted the season sweep of Sultan, downing the Turks 18-13 thanks to a fourth-quarter comeback.

CMS, now 5-2 on the season, actually went scoreless in the first quarter but turned up the defensive heat and trailed just 2-0 at the break.

Proving the clampdown was no fluke, the Wolves held the Turks scoreless across the second seven-minute segment, pulling ahead 5-2 at the half.

A temporary slowdown on offense cost Coupeville in the third quarter, however, and it went into the final frame trailing 9-7 in a tense, low-scoring affair.

The Wolves needed a spark, and they got one from Kennedy O’Neill and Willow Leedy-Bonifas, who combined to outscore Sultan 11-4 down the stretch.

O’Neill banked in seven of her game-high 10 points in the final quarter, while her running mate tossed in four of her six.

Defensive stalwart Amelia Crowder rounded out the attack with a third-quarter bucket, while Amaiya Curry, Elizabeth Marshall, Sage Stavros, Sophia Batterman, Allison Powers, and Isa Mc Fetridge played key roles in the win.

 

Level 3:

These two didn’t play Thursday, as Sultan didn’t have enough healthy girls to field a third team.

This time around, they made it through two quarters, with the Turks holding on for a 13-8 win that leaves the Wolves at 3-2 on the year.

Zayne Roos came alive for CMS, scoring four points to lead the way, with Rivera and Cameron Van Dyke both tossing in a bucket.

Claire Lachnit, Brooklyn Pope, Cassandra Powers, Emma Cushman, Kaleigha Millison, Annaliese Powers, and Zariyah Allen rounded out the rotation for the Wolves.

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