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Bring “The Bucket” home for Bryce!!

Posted in Football, Happy birthday, tagged Bryce Fleming, CHS Wolves, football, Happy birthday, Pittsburgh Steelers, The Bucket on September 5, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Bryce Fleming heads up-field during his days as a Wolf. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

Fleming with mom Marie (left) and wife Cheyenne.

Fleming (second from left, back row) and teammates celebrate winning The Bucket in 2012. (Drew Chan photo)

Two years ago, Coupeville High School brought The Bucket home.

A Wolf gridiron team that included Bryce Fleming went to Langley and shocked the Falcons 18-13, reclaiming the trophy that goes to the winner of the annual all-Island rivalry.

Key to that victory, which clinched a playoff berth for Coupeville, was the then-junior, who hauled in the game-deciding score on an eight-yard pass from Josh Bayne. It was Fleming’s seventh TD that season.

Not bad for a speedy two-way weapon who has always had the good sense to be a die-hard Pittsburgh Steelers fan.

Seahawk lovers jumped on the bandwagon (and will eventually fall off ) but Steelers fans are for life, baby!

One ring is cute. Six rings is a dynasty.

OK, anyway, movin’ on…

Jump forward two years from Fleming and Co. pulling off big-game heroics and it’s time to once again throw down some more Footballageddon.

Tonight is opening night to the 2014 season, and it’s a big one, with the Wolves and Falcons squaring off in Cow Town (7 PM kickoff), with the trophy currently in South Whidbey hands.

Fleming won’t be in town for the game, as he is now in the Army, the fourth generation in his family to suit up for the military.

But, as he celebrates his 19th birthday far away from Whidbey (probably with a forced march), this year’s Wolf squad, which includes some players from the 2012 team like Bayne, Wiley Hesselgrave and Lathom Kelley, can be inspired by what Fleming once accomplished.

They can go out and revive the cries of “What do Wolves eat? Falcon meat!!!”

They can reclaim their trophy. Right what went wrong last year. Make Langley weep salty tears of regret.

And, on his birthday, they can put the cherry on top of the sundae for a former star now serving his country with great honor.

Make Bryce Fleming’s birthday complete. Win one for #80.

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“All I want this year is to win!!”

Posted in Football, tagged CHS Wolves, football, Lathom Kelley, SWHS Falcons, The Bucket on August 19, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Lathom Kelley (John Fisken photo)

In just under 24 hours Coupeville High School will kick off a new fall sports season with the first day of football practice.

The Wolves hit the practice field 1 PM Wednesday, starting two-a-days.

Opening night is Sept. 5, when South Whidbey comes to town.

While the two schools are now in different leagues, with CHS jumping from the 1A/2A Cascade Conference to the 1A Olympic League, the game is still for Island bragging rights and possession of The Bucket for the next year.

One of the players most excited to get on the field and start is Wolf junior Lathom Kelley.

As a freshman, he and his teammates went to Langley and claimed the trophy, while last year The Bucket went back South after the Falcons won a foggy battle in Cow Town.

Kelley’s thoughts on this, Football Eve:

I’m very excited for football this year.

I won’t lie, having South Whidbey as our first game this year is going to be a great way to start off our season.

Through my past years in football I have noticed a lack of excitement, but I’m hoping that this year, being in a new league and kicking South Whidbey’s butt for our first game, will raise the level of excitement and effort throughout the season.

I am pretty big on practicing how you play, so these next two weeks are going to be very difficult with two-a-days and gold card sales (get ahold of me if you want one!).

All I want this year is to win.

Freshman year we won two games, sophomore we won four. This year I want all of them to be wins.

What I want more than anything, though, is to have every single person on the team to want it as bad as I do.

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Battle for The Bucket lives on!!

Posted in Football, Gossip, tagged CHS Wolves, football, SW Falcons, The Bucket on February 8, 2014| Leave a Comment »

CHS football coach Tony Maggio: “Week 1? We’re playing them Week 1?!?!”

Lathom Kelley: “Relax, Papa Wolf … we got this.” (John Fisken photo)

Rivalry week comes early next season.

When the 2014-2015 school year starts in September, Coupeville High School is leaving the 1A/2A Cascade Conference and moving to a new 1A-only division in the Olympic League. As the smallest 1A school in the state, CHS is looking for a more level playing field.

One thing the Wolves won’t leave behind, however, is their natural rivalry with South Whidbey. The two Island schools will continue to face off, just in non-conference games.

And that back-and-forth battle is probably biggest on the gridiron, where the Wolves and Falcons battle for possession of The Bucket.

Two years ago, Coupeville went to Langley and, led by seniors Caleb Valko and Danny Savalza, brought the trophy home.

Last year, with All-State lineman Nick Streubel out with injury, the Wolves fell at home in what may have been the foggiest game ever played on Whidbey.

Coupeville’s effort to reclaim the hardware will get an early start in 2014, as Wolf Athletic Director Lori Stolee has confirmed the two schools have penciled in each other for week one of the football season.

“South Whidbey is locked in,” Stolee said. “We don’t have the schedule made yet, but my unofficial schedule has them locked in!”

Nestled away in his top-secret mad genius lair, Wolf coach Tony Maggio has already started plotting out new, mind-boggling plays.

The countdown to smack-down has begun.

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