Bow Down to Cow Town. (John Fisken photo)
The coup is complete. All hail the new regime.
Coupeville, the smallest school in the 1A Olympic League, has officially upended Klahowya, the largest (by far) to “win” the 2016-2017 school sports year.
With just one league softball game remaining for each school, the Wolves have won 51 varsity league games across the 10 sports they play, while the Eagles have 47 wins.
Port Townsend (28 wins) and Chimacum (23), which each have two league softball clashes yet to play, round out the field.
Out little un-scientific study covers volleyball, football, softball and baseball, as well as boys and girls basketball, soccer and tennis.
We don’t worry about track, where it’s largely about individual achievement and nearly impossible to track win-loss records when you face 20+ schools at some meets.
And this is Coupeville Sports, and not, say the Klahowya Gazette, so golf, cross country, swim, wrestling, bowling and gymnastics won’t count until CHS adds those sports. Which is probably never.
So, if we look at the “core 10,” there’s been a three-year progression.
Year one of the 1A Olympic League (2014-2015) Klahowya (which had 445.07 students in the 2016-2020 WIAA classification count) won 52 varsity games to Coupeville’s 40.
In year two, the Wolves (all 227 of them) closed the gap to 45-42.
And, now, in year three, Coupeville finishes on top, even with its girls tennis team, which is 15-0 all-time in league play, unable to play two of three matches against Chimacum because of never-ending rain.
The difference?
Every one of Coupeville’s 10 varsity teams in this study won between two (football) and the maximum nine (girls basketball) games, while Klahowya girls basketball, wracked by injuries, suffered through a win-less league season.
Along with being the kings (and queens) of the varsity wins battle, the Wolves also finish with the most league titles for a second straight year.
Klahowya won that battle 5-2 in year one, while Coupeville and the Eagles each won four titles in 2015-2016.
We’re giving the Wolves a win by asterisk, though.
Why? While the schools shared the baseball crown with 7-2 records last spring, Coupeville carried a #1 seed into the playoffs, having won two of three head-to-head.
Hey, I said this wasn’t the (non-existent) Klahowya Gazette…
In year three, the Wolves are a clear winner, however.
CHS has four titles (volleyball, girls basketball, girls and boys tennis) and are still in play for a share of the softball crown.
The Eagles sit with three (girls and boys soccer, baseball) and are out of the softball race.
With every sport except softball having wrapped up league play and headed to the postseason, here’s an up-to-the-moment look at spring sports standings:
Olympic League softball:
| School |
League |
Overall |
| Chimacum |
6-1 |
8-3 |
| COUPEVILLE |
6-2 |
15-2 |
| Klahowya |
3-5 |
7-7 |
| Port Townsend |
0-7 |
0-12 |
Olympic League baseball:
| School |
League |
Overall |
| Klahowya |
8-1 |
10-5 |
| COUPEVILLE |
6-3 |
11-8 |
| Chimacum |
4-5 |
6-7 |
| Port Townsend |
0-9 |
0-14 |
Olympic League boys soccer:
| School |
League |
Overall |
| Klahowya |
9-0 |
13-2-1 |
| Port Townsend |
6-3 |
8-7-0 |
| COUPEVILLE |
3-6 |
4-11-1 |
| Chimacum |
0-9 |
2-12-0 |
Olympic League girls tennis:
| School |
League |
Overall |
| COUPEVILLE |
4-0 |
6-3 |
| Klahowya |
3-3 |
5-9 |
| Chimacum |
0-4 |
0-7 |
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