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“It’s going to be such a great season!!”

Posted in Cheer, Football, Volleyball, tagged , , , , , on August 1, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Lucy Sandahl is ready to return to the court. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Flip the calendar and refocus your mind.

August has arrived, which means, in less than three weeks, practice officially begins for fall high school sports.

No, it’s true. I swear.

Aug. 15 is the first day high school football teams can take the field in Washington state, while Aug. 20 is the kickoff date for volleyball, cross country, cheer, boys tennis and girls soccer.

With a new season, and a new school year, also comes a new league.

After a four-year run in the Olympic League, Coupeville joins Granite Falls, Sultan, Cedar Park Christian (Bothell), King’s and arch-rival South Whidbey in the North Sound Conference.

As they count down the days until the first practice, several Wolves (and one enterprising Falcon) drop by to let you know their thoughts and feelings, their goals and plans.

 

Ja’Tarya Hoskins (CHS junior):

My new goals for the cheer season are to learn and perform a lot of new stunts. Help spread cheer and Coupeville Wolves spirit.

 

Lily Leedy (CHS freshman):

To work better as a team. Learn plays and to show the opponent who’s boss.

 

Kody Newman (SWHS senior):

Very excited for this year’s conference! But most importantly…. THE BUCKET GAME!!!

Not only is it the biggest game of the Island, but it is also our Homecoming game! Ticket sales are sure to be raised for this game!!! Falcons are coming for revenge!

Best of luck this year to the Wolves and hopefully King’s does terrible, lol!

 

Lucy Sandahl (CHS junior):

My goal for the new season is to play every game with a new mind-set and put all the bad plays behind me and focus on the next point.

Another thing that I am looking forward to is getting to see how well our team adapts to all the new plays and players after having lost seven really strong seniors.

This new league has so much hype, but so do we; we’ve won two back-to-back league champs.

What makes them think we can’t do it again? We are strong, faster, and mentally unstoppable.

The only way we are going to get through this is together and it is going to be such a great season!!! I am so excited!

 

Emma Smith (CHS senior):

We want a winning season!!

Playing as a unit instead of six individuals is something we’ve been working on since last year, and is extremely crucial for us to do considering we pretty much have a new starting six.

We also want to go into the season confident in our skills and without the fear of “big, bad King’s.”

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U-Dub baseball nabs Falcon legend!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on August 1, 2018| Leave a Comment »

After two stellar seasons at Lower Columbia College, South Whidbey grad Ricky Muzzy (right) is joining the University of Washington’s baseball squad. (Photo from Muzzy’s Facebook page)

Hopefully Ricky Muzzy remembers me when he gets to The Show.

The former South Whidbey High School standout, who is one of the rare Falcons to get a feature story here on Coupeville Sports (back in 2014), continues to move up in the baseball world.

After two stellar seasons on the diamond at Lower Columbia College, Muzzy is officially making the jump to NCAA D-1 action, joining the University of Washington baseball program.

The Huskies announced the addition of Muzzy and Connor Blair from California’s Butte College in a Monday press release.

After graduating from SWHS in 2016, Muzzy left Freeland for Longview, where he immediately became a key player for LCC teams which won titles both of his seasons.

A middle infielder who can anchor a team at shortstop or second base, Muzzy played in 74 games at LCC, piling up 21 doubles, nine triples, seven home runs and 60 RBI.

He hit .359 during his first season, and .305 as a sophomore.

 

PS — If you want to see the moment when the spotlight first landed on Muzzy, pop over and check out my old-school article on him at:

The Falcons are alright: Ricky Muzzy explodes!!

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Where everyone (sorta) knows your name!!

Posted in Everything changes, tagged , , , , , , on July 2, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Gaze upon the logo for Coupeville’s new league. (Photo courtesy Scott Sifferman)

We’re going home again. In a way.

After four years in the 1A Olympic League, Coupeville High School is reuniting with four old rivals (and one new one) to launch the 1A North Sound Conference when the 2018-2019 school year begins this fall.

The new league is comprised of refugees from the imploded 1A/2A Cascade Conference, where the Wolves spent eight years from 2006-2007 to 2013-2014.

Gone are the 2A schools (Archbishop Thomas Murphy, Lakewood and Cedarcrest), so on with the (slightly) more-balanced party.

Coupeville reunites with South Whidbey, King’s, Sultan and Granite Falls, while coming face-to-face with the school which replaced it in the Cascade Conference, Cedar Park Christian-Bothell.

But, since no current Wolf athlete ever played in a Cascade Conference game, it might be a good idea to offer a refresher on just who Coupeville’s new league mates will be.

The new league:

http://www.nscathletics.com/index.php?pid=0.60.0.0.200

 

Cedar Park Christian-Bothell

Location: Um … Bothell

Public or private: Private

Student body count (2016 WIAA counts): 249.38

Established: 1982

Mascot: Eagles

Colors: Blue and gold, purple, yellow

Team state titles: Girls Soccer – 2001, 2002, 2003; Softball – 2003

Fast facts: The main campus for a private Christian school (preschool-12th grade) which also has sites in Everett, Mountlake Terrace, Lynnwood and Mill Creek; affiliated with the Assembly of God church; one-year tuition for high school student – $9,992; hired former Bellevue football coach Butch Goncharoff, who won 11 state titles before a Seattle Times investigation forced WIAA to (very briefly) punish Bellevue for numerous alleged improprieties.

 

King’s:

Location: Shoreline

Public or private: Private

Student body count (2016 WIAA counts): 354.38

Established: 1950

Mascot: Knights

Colors: White, red

Team state titles: 51 spread across multiple sports. I’m not listing them all.

Fast facts: Before turning to education, site housed a tuberculosis sanitarium; rumors abound that “some of the damp tunnels connecting buildings are still haunted by the ghosts of TB victims;” was known as King’s Garden until ’79; one-year tuition for high school student – $15,950; 98% of its students go on to higher education, while other 2% are no longer welcome home for Thanksgiving.

 

Granite Falls:

Location: Um … Granite Falls

Public or private: Public

Student body count (2018 WIAA appeal): 367.25

Established: 1896

Mascot: Tigers

Colors: Black, orange

Team state titles: Baseball – 2006

Fast facts: Known as “The Gateway to the Mountain Loop;” originally used by Native Americans to portage their canoes between fishing grounds; had a gold rush in 1889; had runs as both a mining and logging town; celebrates Railroad Days first Saturday in Oct.; former Coupeville assistant Alex Heilig coached GF football for one season in 2015, went 1-9.

 

South Whidbey:

Location: Langley

Public or private: Public

Student body count (2016 WIAA counts): 358.38

Established: 1981 (*previously Langley High School)

Mascot: Falcons

Colors: Blue and white

Team state titles: Boys Cross Country – 2000; Girls Golf – 2016

Fast facts: Has lost four of last six football games to Coupeville, with one former Falcon coach (a two-time loser) purposefully denting The Bucket, the trophy which is held by the winner; the snarky chant “Drive home safely,” directed at rival fans after South Whidbey wins, is both kind of annoying and kind of funny; the part of the Island where all the weird murders happen (seriously, go do a Google search); admittedly, a pretty nice school, with several athletes and coaches who have been very generous to me — Maia Sparkman, Oliana Stange, Kody and Hayley Newman, Tom Fallon, Mark Hodson, Mary Zisette and Lewis Pope to name a few.

 

Sultan:

Location: Um … Sultan

Public or private: Public

Student body count (2016 WIAA counts): 347.13

Established: 1888

Mascot: Turks

Colors: Navy, white, Columbia blue

Team state titles: Girls Soccer – 2002

Fast facts: Town named (sorta) for Snohomish Indian chief Tseultd, whose name was changed to Sultan John by white settlers; hosted the Sky River Rock Fest and Lighter Than Air Fair in 1968, which brought Richard Pryor, The Grateful Dead, Santana and “20,000-plus hippies” to town; former Turk basketball player Cooper Beucherie, he of the white boy dreadlocks, once kicked a chair into about the 12th row of the stands after being ejected from a basketball game at Coupeville. I miss the dude – he was entertaining.

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Rivalry rout!!

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , on April 27, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Lauren Rose reached base three times Friday as Coupeville hammered South Whidbey 10-0. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

They love to hit the flame-throwers.

The Coupeville High School softball squad is a flawless 4-0 this season against pitchers who have D-1 scholarships signed, sealed and delivered.

Friday offered the Wolves a chance to hit against one of those top hurlers, South Whidbey ace Mackenzee Collins, and, after a few slow innings, they capitalized.

Putting together a 14-batter fourth-inning, CHS smacked eight hits in the frame, plated nine and were well on their way to a 10-0 romp.

The non-conference home win lifts the Wolves to 10-4 on the season and gives them a season sweep of Collins and South Whidbey.

The Falcons went to state in 2017, while Coupeville fell a single strike short while competing in a different district.

Jump forward to 2018 and the Wolves have dominated, outscoring their Island neighbors 22-0 in two games.

In fact, during Kevin McGranahan’s three-year run as Coupeville coach, his squad is a perfect 4-0 against South Whidbey.

With the two schools reuniting as league rivals next year, when the North Sound Conference debuts, that’s something to file away under “things that make you say alright, alright, alright.”

This time around, it was a scoreless pitcher’s duel between Collins and Wolf chucker Katrina McGranahan until the bottom of the fourth inning.

Coupeville had runners on in each of the first three innings — a single from Killer Kat in the first, a lead-off double by Sarah Wright in the second and a Lauren Rose walk in the third — but couldn’t drop the knockout punch.

That changed, and in a hurry, in the fourth.

Katrina McGranahan and Wright started things off with back-to-back base-knocks, before fab frosh Chelsea Prescott dropped a picture-perfect bunt and beat the throw.

“She had a great bunt and run, good to see, exactly the way we practiced it,” Kevin McGranahan said.

After Veronica Crownover reached on an error, the wheels really fell off for South Whidbey.

Coupeville still had five more base-hits to deliver in the inning, ranging from a single for Mackenzie Davis to a gargantuan triple from Wright.

With so many batters coming to the plate in the inning, Katrina McGranahan and Crownover both came back around and delivered base-knocks in their second trip.

Having gone from a nail-biter to a blow-out in a matter of minutes, the Wolves kept the pressure on, almost ending the game early in the fifth.

CHS had the bases loaded thanks to a Rose single and a pair of walks, but South Whidbey escaped unscathed.

For just a moment, however, as the Wolves found the 10th run necessary to end the game early in the sixth.

Mollie Bailey singled, moved around on a passed ball and two walks, then scampered home when fellow freshman Coral Caveness spanked a walk-off RBI single.

For the game, Coupeville spread its offense out, with nine hitters (including two off the bench) combining to rack up 12 base-knocks.

Wright paced the offense with a single, double and triple, getting 75% of the way to hitting for the cycle.

Katrina McGranahan, who scattered four hits and whiffed four in the complete-game shutout, added a pair of singles.

Meanwhile, Rose, Scout Smith, Prescott, Crownover, Davis, Caveness and Bailey all put good metal on the ball.

“She (Collins) is a good pitcher,” Kevin McGranahan said. “But once we got dialed in, we hit well through the line, top to the bottom of the order.”

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Let’s get intense!!

Posted in Girls Tennis, tagged , , , , , on April 26, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Jillian Mayne is not putting up with any of your shenanigans. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Kameryn St Onge rips winners, every dang day.

   A South Whidbey player on Coupeville Sports???? In this case, it’s the brilliant Oliana Stange, so we’ll make an exception.

Fab frosh Genna Wright lashes a scorching winner.

   Zara Bradley goes low to destroy the heart, soul and psyche of her foes with a wicked, unexpected shot.

You want intensity, hit the tennis courts.

While the young women who swing the rackets are generally some of the most easy-going, polite people you will find, put them between the lines and they become cold-blooded assassins.

That’s shown in the pics above, which were shot Wednesday by local paparazzi John Fisken.

To see everything he snapped, pop over to:

https://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/2017-2018-Coupeville-Tennis/2018-04-25-girls-vs-South-Whidbey/

And, when you head that way, remember, purchases help fund college scholarships for CHS student/athletes (plus they make grandma happy).

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