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“I’m super excited to start!!”

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , , on February 28, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Tiffany Briscoe (left) and Jae LeVine helped Coupeville make it to state in 2014.

Tiffany Briscoe (left) and Jae LeVine helped Coupeville make it to state in 2014.

A new season starts in a little over 48 hours.

Coupeville High School athletes will head outside (hopefully not into the rain) Monday to kick off the first day of practice for spring sports.

The new season is the busiest of the three for CHS, with softball, baseball, track, golf, boys soccer and girls tennis vying.

The five Wolf squads (lone Wolf golfer Christine Fields trains and travels with South Whidbey) will be making their debut in the 1A Olympic League.

With fall and winter done, Coupeville has been the second-most successful school in the new league, capturing 23 league wins and a title in girls basketball.

Klahowya, the biggest school (by far) in the new four-team conference, has 30 league wins spread across the six sports (football, volleyball, boys tennis, girls soccer, girls and boys basketball) played so far.

Port Townsend has 15, while Chimacum brings up the rear with 13.

As they head into a new league, the Wolves hope to replicate their success from last spring.

Coupeville sent its baseball and softball teams to state, while Fields, track star Makana Stone and netters Aaron Curtin and Ben Etzell also made the trip to the Big Dance.

It was the first trip to state for a CHS softball squad in 12 years and one of the players who witnessed that never-say-die run up close and personal was Tiffany Briscoe.

As a freshman, she started several games in the outfield for the Wolves and became a more dangerous hitter in the latter stages of the season.

Now, as a sophomore, she will be in a new league, with a new coach, as Deanna Rafferty has replaced David and Amy King, who had to step aside to focus more time on their jobs.

Like her teammates, and fellow athletes in other sports, Briscoe is on the edge of her seat as the hours tick down.

Her thoughts:

“So, I’m super excited for softball to start!

Although all the nerves are starting to kick in with a new coach and all. But so far I’ve heard nothing but great things about her!

This will hopefully be another great season for Coupeville softball.

I’m ready to be back with the team and continue to keep improving our game!”

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Briscoe, you’re the best!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, Happy birthday, Softball, Volleyball, tagged , , , , , on February 11, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Tiffany Briscoe

Tiffany Briscoe

I have known Tiffany Briscoe most of her life.

As I cover sports in Coupeville, athletes come and go, but then there are the ones who you actually watch grow up before your eyes, and it’s sort of weird and sort of awesome at the same time.

The shy little blond girl who used to run amuck in the video store with lil’ sis Kyla is now a sophomore at CHS and a three-sport athlete.

Volleyball spiker. Basketball enforcer. Softball slugger.

Tiff goes full-bore in all her sports and the first thing you always notice about her, whether you’re a first-time fan or a long-time viewer, is the smile.

Even in the heat of battle, she enjoys herself.

She’s able to laugh at herself in those moments when she gets smacked in the head with an out-of-control volleyball and she explodes in joy when she hugs a teammate after a successful play.

The only time the smile vanishes is if you mess with her sister. Do that and she will drop the world on your head in 0.2 seconds.

As Tiffany celebrates a birthday today, I just have to say a little something.

Miss Briscoe, you may not know it, but you are freakin’ remarkable.

Seeing you grow more confident in yourself, willing to put yourself out there on the line, always supporting your teammates and friends, being fiercely loyal and deeply caring to those you hold close, you are an amazing young woman.

You should see the way your parents, Rich and Amy, look at you when they think you can’t see them (so as not to over-inflate your ego).

There is such pride in their eyes, and it is well-deserved.

You and Kyla, the battlin’ Briscoes, are a huge part of Wolf athletics at the moment. That is true.

But as people, as young women of great character, you are even better.

It really is an honor to have the chance to write about your accomplishments, to make sure the world out there knows that there is this young woman who is quietly doing remarkable things.

You’re pretty dang awesome, Tiff. Never forget that.

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Kickin’ fanny and takin’ names!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on February 5, 2015| Leave a Comment »

(John Fisken photos)

Allison Wenzel: “Huff and puff all you want, but I’m gonna score, by the hair on my chinny chin chin!!” (John Fisken photos)

Kacie

Kacie Kiel muscles her way in for two.

Tiffany

Tiffany Briscoe got the rebound. Now, she just needs to find a way back out of this forest.

Monica

“This gym is mine!!” Monica Vidoni lays down the law in the paint.

Brisa

Brisa Herrera wraps a pass around a defender’s arm.

Julia

When Julia Myers sees an open basket, she gets moving in a hurry.

Lauren

Out in front of the pack, Lauren Grove glides in for a breakaway bucket.

The wins keep coming, and so do the snappy pics.

With victories against Port Townsend Tuesday, both the Wolf varsity and JV girls teams sit at a spiffy 7-0 in Olympic League play.

To commemorate that, seven photos of CHS players being awe-inspiring, courtesy John Fisken.

To see more, pop over to:

Varsity — http://www.olympicleague.com/index.php?act=view_gallery&gallery=7992&league=21&page=1&page_name=photo_store&school=24&sport=0

JV — http://www.olympicleague.com/index.php?act=view_gallery&gallery=7993&league=21&page=1&page_name=photo_store&school=24&sport=0

P.S. — Use secret code EB79924962 before Feb. 17 and you’ll get 15% off your order. Plus, any purchases help fund college scholarships for CHS senior student/athletes.

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Welcome to blowout city!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 28, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Tiffany Briscoe had her "best offensive game of the season

Tiffany Briscoe outscored Chimacum by herself Tuesday. (John Fisken photo)

Some nights, everything goes right.

Every shot you throw up goes in. Every defensive wrinkle you throw at a team works. The water even tastes better.

Tuesday night was that kind of nirvana for the Coupeville High School JV girls’ basketball team, which massacred host Chimacum 44-4 in a game that could have been much, much worse.

The Wolves pulled back midway through the third, however, trying to run clock, work on plays and not embarrass the Cowboys any more than necessary.

The team’s fourth straight win, it lifted the young guns to 10-5 on the season, 5-0 in Olympic League play.

And it was over fairly quickly, as Coupeville stormed out to a 12-0 lead after the opening quarter.

Even though things didn’t quite work out the way Wolf coach Amy King had it planned.

“Our goal was to jump up quickly on the board, then have a chance to make our first attempt at a press. I told the girls we would press after our first score,” she said. “Of course, it was several times up and down the court before we would score and then just about everyone just ran down the floor, forgetting all about the press.

“We finally got it though, and once we started, the press just flowed beautifully.”

With Kyla Briscoe, Lauren Grove and Lauren Rose harassing Chimacum at every turn, the Wolves spent most of the night scoring off of steals and quick transitions.

When it did have to work the ball around on offense, Coupeville benefited greatly from a more-assertive Tiffany Briscoe.

Normally a terror on defense, she accepted the call to duty on the offensive end in this game, as well.

“Tiffany loves defense … but not so much love for offense,” King said. “We have been working her over pretty good telling her she needs to play a full game – both ends of the court.

“Tonight she was driving, fighting for rebound put backs and just taking the opportunity to score. It was so nice!”

Every one of the eight Wolves brought a smile to their coach’s face on this night.

“These girls really are just playing so well right now,” King said. “Very happy with them all.

“Allison (Wenzel) was everywhere on defense and fought for everything,” she added. “Brisa (Herrera) has really stepped up her game too; she has been grabbing rebounds and following Skyler (Lawrence’s) lead with grabbing onto the ball, trying for steals or causing jump balls.”

Kailey Kellner paced the offense with 11 points before swinging up to join the varsity, with Tiffany Briscoe (10), Grove (9), Rose (5), Herrera (4), Lawrence (3) and Wenzel (2) rounding out the scorers.

Kyla Briscoe snatched eight rebounds and made off with four steals to help spark the super-charged Wolf defense, with big sis Tiffany (six rebounds), Kellner (5) and Lawrence (5) also hitting the boards hard.

Lawrence had a team-high six steals.

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No easy losses!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on January 12, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Tiffany Briscoe was back in the lineup Monday. (John Fisken photo)

Tiffany Briscoe was back in the lineup Monday. (John Fisken photo)

Toss the third quarter.

Accept that deal and the Coupeville High School JV girls’ basketball team won a thriller Monday night.

Can I get a show of hands? We’re all fine with that and … South Whidbey doesn’t want to go along with that plan?

Dang.

So, add back in the third quarter, a 22-5 Falcon run spurred by swing player McKenzie Collins, and the folks from Langley strolled off with a 41-26 non-conference win.

The loss dropped the young Wolves to 6-5 on the season.

But, like I said, take away that one quarter, when the varsity-experienced Collins terrorized the Wolf ball-handlers, making off with a series of steals, and it was a nail-biter.

Kailey Kellner kicked things off with a game-opening three-point bomb and the two teams battled through a defensive-minded first half that ended with South Whidbey clinging to a 12-10 lead.

“It was a scrappy back-and-forth game for the first half,” said Wolf coach Amy King. “A lot of shots went up on both ends without many falling.”

The second half was a different affair, as Collins and foul trouble both plagued the Wolves.

An already-thin bench got thinner when point guard Lauren Grove fouled out early in the fourth quarter.

“That hurt us,” King said. “She just started to get pressure on their ball handler and got a few steals, then that last foul came and took her tough defense out of the picture.”

Sparked by the return of Tiffany Briscoe, back after missing several games with an injury, the Wolf defense fought hard all night long.

Kellner had the play of the game with “a firm block that was great! Shook the gym and knocked her to the ground.”

The sophomore paced the Wolves with eight points, seven rebounds and three steals, while Grove, Kyla Briscoe and Lauren Rose chipped in with four points apiece.

Skyler Lawrence knocked down three, Tiffany Briscoe popped for two and Allison Wenzel hit a free throw.

Lawrence hauled down a team-high nine boards, while Wenzel snagged six and Tiffany Briscoe snatched five. Rose (4) and Grove (3) paced the team in steals, with Grove also collecting two blocked shots.

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