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Building a winner!!

Posted in Middle School, Volleyball, tagged , , , on October 23, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Coupeville’s 7th grade spikers are growing by leaps and bounds. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Their service game is strong.

Jumping right into the thick of things Monday with a nearly flawless serving performance in the opening set, the Coupeville Middle School 7th grade volleyball squad crushed visiting Chimacum.

The Wolves, who missed just one serve in the first set, rolled to a 25-20, 25-16, 15-5 win to kick off the final week of the season.

Coupeville’s 8th graders fought strongly against the Cowboys, but dropped two of three sets in their match.

The stars of the day, however, were clearly the young guns, who are clicking as the season goes on.

The Wolves close with home matches Wednesday (Blue Heron) and Thursday (Sequim).

“We have seen continued development of our girls,” said CMS 7th grade co-coach Sarah Lyngra. “The focus on ‘three hits a side’ is paying off and we had some exciting rallies.”

Her partner in volleyball coaching, Kimberly Bepler, agreed, and got a special thrill out of seeing their young charges continue to grow when they put the ball into play.

“I’m particularly proud of the girls serving,” she said. “They have progressed considerably, and are getting so much stronger and more confident.”

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Their aim is true!!

Posted in Volleyball, tagged , , , , , on September 13, 2016| Leave a Comment »

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   Emma Mathusek reeled off seven straight points on her serve Tuesday night, part of a team-wide run of strong serving. (John Fisken photo)

The young guns have a strong service game as well.

Emulating their varsity counterparts, the Coupeville High School JV spikers have been deadly at the line this season, and nothing changed Tuesday night.

Making it all but impossible for visiting Chimacum to get the ball back in play, the razor-sharp Wolves rolled to a 25-11, 25-8, 16-14 victory.

The win lifts the JV squad to 2-0 overall, 1-0 in league play.

Freshman phenom Scout Smith was her team’s deadliest weapon once again, ripping off 14 points on serve in the first set alone, but she wasn’t the only Wolf to have a hot hand.

Raven Vick, Emma Mathusek, Willow Vick and Maddy Hilkey all put together nice runs at the stripe, with Mathusek going on a scoring tear at one point where Chimacum only got a hand on two of seven serves.

Coupeville built leads of 6-0, 8-0 and 3-0 in the three sets, trailing only briefly near the end of the third set, when they were lulled into a brief stupor.

Even then, the Wolves never trailed by more than a single point, putting the match on ice, appropriately, with a Cowboy error (a shot off a ceiling speaker) followed by one last impossible-to-return scorcher from Smith’s serving arm.

While very few balls were in play for more than a hit or two, Coupeville had a couple of nice put-aways.

One came on a sweet tip into open space by Zoe Trujillo, another on a scrambling save by a quick-thinking Maya Toomey-Stout and two others on booming spikes off the fingertips of Hannah Davidson.

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