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Rain haunts netters!!

Posted in Girls Tennis, tagged CHS Wolves, John Fisken photos, rain out, tennis, Tia Wurzrainer, Zoe Trujillo on April 18, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Bree Daigneault celebrates a well-played point. (John Fisken photos)

Bathed in (brief) sunshine, Kameryn St Onge is ready to rock the world.

Valen Trujillo strides into another winner.

Tia Wurzrainer feels the love.

And then the rain returns, though Zoe Trujillo remains locked-in regardless of the weather.

A wet spring continues to bedevil the Coupeville High School girls tennis squad.

Tuesday’s Olympic League showdown with Klahowya was halted mid-match when bright sunshine turned into a downpour in mere seconds.

A half hour later? The sun was back but the Eagles were well on their way home.

The match will be finished when the two teams meet Apr. 27 in Silverdale.

Unless it rains that day, too…

It was the third straight match affected by the liquid sunshine.

A trip Monday to North Kitsap was called off, then bumped to Thursday.

That comes on the heels of last Friday, when the Wolves had just boarded the ferry to travel over to Chimacum when the cancellation call came.

Tennis has been stung the hardest of any CHS sport by the damp spring weather.

While baseball has played 12 games, soccer 11 and softball nine, tennis is lagging far behind with just five completed matches.

Heck, even track is ahead of the netters now, having competed in six meets.

The constant rain-outs are creating a backlog for the Wolf netters.

If weather permits, they’ll travel to Kingston Wednesday, then North Kitsap Thursday.

Next week, CHS is scheduled to play 4.5 matches in four days — Monday (Friday Harbor) and Tuesday (Chimacum) at home, Wednesday (South Whidbey) and Thursday (Klahowya) on the road.

To see more photos from Tuesday’s match (purchases fund college scholarships for CHS student/athletes), pop over to:

http://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/20162017-Coupeville-Tennis/GT-20170418-vs-Klahowya/

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Netters left high and dry!!

Posted in Girls Tennis, tagged 1A Olympic League, Chimacum, CHS Wolves, ferries, rain out, Sophie Furtjes, tennis on April 14, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Sophie Fürtjes didn’t get to play a tennis match Friday, but she did celebrate a birthday. (John Fisken photo)

The spring of our discontent continues.

Another day, another rain-out, but this one was slightly more irritating.

The Coupeville High School girls tennis team was already on the ferry Friday afternoon, anticipating the beat-down they were going to inflict on Chimacum, when the call came that their match was being postponed.

Since it’s a league match, every effort will be made to reschedule.

Weather permitting, the Wolves (1-0 in Olympic League play, 2-3 overall) will play three days in a row to kick off next week.

Coupeville has road non-conference matches at North Kitsap Monday and Kingston Wednesday, wrapped around a home match Tuesday versus league rival Klahowya.

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First blood!!

Posted in Girls Tennis, tagged 1A Olympic League, CHS Wolves, Klahowya, Sage Renninger, tennis on April 13, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Freshman Tia Wurzrainer teamed with Claire Mietus for a straight-sets win Thursday, lifting Coupeville tennis to a 4-3 win against Klahowya. (John Fisken photo)

The war begins.

With a pair of first-year players rallying to pull out a victory at fourth doubles Thursday, the Coupeville High School girls tennis team drew first blood against Klahowya.

Winning 4-3 on the road, the Wolves stretched their unbeaten streak in Olympic League play to 12 matches across three seasons.

Coupeville (1-0 in league, 2-3 overall) jumps right back in the bus Friday to go face Chimacum (0-1, 0-4), while Klahowya (1-1, 2-5) will bide its time.

Beginning their quest to win a third-straight league title, the Wolves had to dig down deep Thursday afternoon.

With the match tied at 3-3, Tia Wurzrainer and Claire Mietus were Coupeville’s final hope.

Not that they knew it until after they finished their straights-set win.

“Luckily for them, they did not know that the team score was knotted up,” CHS coach Ken Stange said. “I was very pleased with their performance today. They remained calm and they stayed consistent.”

Coupeville used its depth to pull out the win, taking three of four doubles matches and getting a huge win from Bree Daigneault at third singles.

“Bree absolutely destroyed her opponent,” Stange said. “She was consistent and she handled the wind very well.”

Top doubles duo Sage Renninger and Payton Aparicio remained perfect (Renninger is 5-0, having played a match with younger sister Avalon when her partner was on vacation), while Kameryn St Onge and Maggie Crimmins were electric as they bageled their foes.

While the Wolves took three defeats, all were close, with second doubles going a full three sets.

“Avalon and Zoe (Trujillo) played a spirited match, but came up just a little bit short,” Stange said. “They are talented freshmen though, and I believe they will flip the scores next time we meet Klahowya.”

With five of six league matches still ahead on the schedule, Coupeville’s three-peat is far from guaranteed, but Stange likes what he’s seen so far.

“As long as our players stay calm and focused, we should be able to defend our league title.”

Complete results:

Varsity:

1st singles — Valen Trujillo lost to Sydney Jackson 6-2, 7-6(7-5)

2nd singles — Fanny Deprelle lost to Hailey Sargent 6-3, 6-4

3rd singles — Bree Daigneault beat Hannah Catt 6-1, 6-0

1st doubles — Sage Renninger/Payton Aparicio beat Taylor Bruce/Mary Ann Marker 6-2, 6-4

2nd doubles — Avalon Renninger/Zoe Trujillo lost to Sophie Koveleskie/Maddy Rienks 5-7, 6-2, 6-3

3rd doubles — Maggie Crimmins/Kameryn St Onge beat Anna Wells/Emma Parker 6-0, 6-0

4th doubles — Tia Wurzrainer/Claire Mietus beat Kelisha Harris/Kristin Powell 6-1, 6-2

JV:

5th doubles — Julie Bucio/Sophie Furtjes beat Angelina Robinson/Rachelle Adams 6-0

6th doubles — Zara Bradley/Jillian Mayne beat Emma Parker/Emma Heckert 8-1

7th doubles — Heather Nastali/Rubi Melendrez lost to Hannah Catt/Anna Wells 5-1

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Climb the ladder (to the top)!!

Posted in standings, tagged 1A Olympic League, baseball, CHS Wolves, Soccer, Softball, tennis on April 2, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Zack Nall and Co. find themselves in third place in the early soccer standings. (John Fisken photos)

Katrina McGranahan has pitched the Wolf softball squad to a 4-0 start.

Things are starting to develop.

Starting being the key word here.

There’s still plenty of season ahead for Coupeville’s spring sports teams, but the Wolves did make a jump, playing six league games in the past week, after just one before that.

Not counting track, with its multi-team meets, the four CHS teams are now 4-3 in Olympic League contests this spring.

That puts them hot on Klahowya’s trail (six wins) and ahead of Chimacum (3) and Port Townsend (2).

Year-to-date, Coupeville holds the lead, with 36 league wins across 10 sports (football, volleyball, baseball, softball, boys and girls tennis, soccer and basketball).

Klahowya, which has been the top school the first two years of the league’s existence (but slipped from 52 wins in year one to 45 last year), has 30 league wins as of Sunday.

Port Townsend (24) and Chimacum (16) are bringing up the rear.

With four league titles still at stake this spring, Coupeville currently holds a 3-1 lead on Port Townsend and Klahowya, having won girls basketball, volleyball and boys tennis titles in 2016-2017.

The RedHawks claimed boys basketball while the Eagles nabbed girls soccer.

Football went to Cascade Christian, which won the inaugural title in a new mash-up of the Olympic and Nisqually Leagues.

Klahowya won five titles in 2014-2015, then Coupeville replaced them at the top of the mountain with four championship banners won in 2015-2016.

The two schools are tied 9-9 on team titles all-time coming into spring of year #3 in the Olympic League.

How will things play out?

Stay tuned, as Coupeville still has 26 of 33 league games (79%) left to play, with all four teams having six or seven contests still ahead on their schedules.

For the moment, this is where things stand, through Sunday:

Olympic League softball: