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One more (home) game!!

Posted in Football, tagged , , , , on November 1, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Carson Risner and six other Wolf seniors will get one more game this Friday. (John Fisken photos)

  Carson Risner and six other Wolf seniors will get one more game this Friday. (John Fisken photos)

Junior Wiley Hesselgrave

Junior Wiley Hesselgrave has seven TD’s this season, second on the team.

They started the 2013 season with them. They’ll end the 2014 season with them.

Bellevue Christian is coming back to Whidbey, as the Coupeville High School football squad will get one more game for its seven seniors this Friday, Nov. 7.

The recently-scheduled non-conference game (7 PM kickoff) is a crossover affair between the Olympic League and Nisqually League involving third-place schools that didn’t earn a playoff berth.

Chimacum will host Vashon Island in a battle between the league’s #4 schools, while Port Townsend, Klahowya, Cascade Christian and Charles Wright Academy will head to the postseason.

The Wolves (4-5), who beat Bellevue Christian 32-0 in 2013, will be trying for a record fifth win under coach Tony Maggio.

After winning two games in his first season in 2012, they doubled that to four last year.

With wins over South Whidbey and Port Townsend (the only league loss suffered by the champs) and a two-game sweep of Chimacum, Coupeville has matched that total, but wants more.

Bellevue Christian was 1-7 heading into a Saturday night rumble with undefeated Cascade Christian.

The Vikings only win was a 37-12 romp over Vashon Island. That was a rare offensive explosion, as they have been held to a touchdown or less in five games.

The only opponent BC shared with Coupeville this season was Port Townsend, which blasted the Vikings 48-7 in a non-conference game.

Win or loss, Friday’s game will be the final bow for Wolf seniors Aaron Wright, Joel Walstad, Isaac Vargas, Josh Bayne, Oscar Liquidano, Carson Risner and Matt Shank.

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The kid is alright!!

Posted in Football, Happy birthday, tagged , , , , , on August 31, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Raymond Beiriger (with ball) comes off the field after scoring against Chimacum. (John Fisken photos)

Raymond Beiriger (23) comes off the field after scoring against Chimacum. (John Fisken photos)

Beiriger with Wolf coach Tony Maggio.

Beiriger with Wolf coach Tony Maggio.

It was Coupeville’s version of “Rudy.”

Last fall, the Wolves capped off a 54-0 rout of visiting Chimacum by giving the ball to one of its hardest workers, an unheralded senior who hadn’t had much of a chance at the spotlight.

Raymond Beiriger, who celebrates a birthday today, was the guy who showed up for every practice, put in work and then stayed around afterwards to help put the equipment away before even thinking about leaving.

Every high school program needs a kid who plays his heart out, regardless of whether he’s a sandwich (or a few hundred sandwiches) away from being an imposing figure on the gridiron.

So it was nice to see CHS coach Tony Maggio call Beiriger’s number, and then watch his teammates celebrate and jump Beiriger after he plunged in for a touchdown run.

In typical fashion, after the game had ended and the local media waited to interview him, everyone had to wait.

Why? Raymond was busy putting equipment away, same as he did after every game, win or loss, big moment or not.

Now, he’s a Coupeville grad and off to other things. But he will always have that moment, when he took the ball and found the promised land.

I hope it meant as much to him as it obviously seemed to mean to his coaches and teammates.

And I hope he has an excellent birthday just days before CHS kicks off a new fall football season.

He was one of the best to wear the red and black, and that was true even before he scored.

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Big leg, big dreams!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Boys Soccer, Football, tagged , , , , on August 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Joel Walstad will lead the Wolves into a new league this season. (John Fisken photos)

  Senior QB/kicker Joel Walstad will lead the Wolves into a new league this season. (John Fisken photos)

Walstad fires a jumper last season.

Walstad fires a jumper last season.

Joel Walstad is about to step into the spotlight.

The third of three children in a highly-successful athletic family (following older siblings Tim and Bessie), Joel has been a strong player in all three of his sports — football, basketball and soccer.

But, as he enters his senior year at CHS, it will be a whole new ballgame, as he becomes The Man and not just a supporting player.

First up is the gridiron, where he’ll replace the graduated Gunnar Langvold as Coupeville’s starting quarterback.

While still finding time to limber up his leg and deliver extra points, field goals and punts for the Wolves.

Walstad can strike from many different directions, though he is still looking to fine-tune his skill set.

“My strengths are kicking and quickness,” he said. “I would like to improve on my passing and reading the defense.”

Now in his sixth season as a football player, having first picked up the sport as a seventh grader (“It looked like it would be fun”), Walstad wants to make an impact in his final go-around.

“Team goal is an (Olympic) League championship,” Walstad said. “Individual goals would be to kick a 40-yard field goal in a game and to throw for less than 5 interceptions on the year.”

The senior signal caller points to his family, including parents Shawn and Renee, and “all my coaches” as having shaped his game, and his life.

A big fan of history class who likes to spend most of his free time hanging out with friends, Walstad would give the slight edge in his sports world to hoops — “Because I have played it the longest” — but it’s football that he hopes might open doors at the next level.

“I would like to try to go to college for kicking,” he said. “I kicked a 55-yard field goal one time. You can ask Coach (Tony) Maggio!”

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It’s an M & M kinda day!!

Posted in Football, Girls Basketball, Happy birthday, Track, tagged , , , , on July 19, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Mckenzie Meyer

Mckenzie Meyer

Tony Maggio

Tony Maggio

Two Wolf legends were born today, a few years apart.

One, Tony Maggio, patrols the sidelines, guiding the CHS football squad on to gridiron glory, a mischievous grin usually on his face.

Except for that one time when, frustrated by incompetent refs, he just about wore out his baseball cap taking it on and off his head and waving it in frustration.

Eventually the hat sat by itself, alone, in the middle of the field, at which point the blind refs mistook it for an extra player on the field and called a penalty on Coupeville.

Still, Maggio was able to chuckle about the incident later, and he remains one of the most easy-going of coaches. A near-constant presence at CHS sporting events, he meets and greets with the best of them.

Our second Wolf is Mckenzie Meyer, who will be a freshman at CHS in the fall.

Basketball and track are but two of her many talents as Meyer keeps the athletic legacy of her family going strong.

The granddaughter of longtime Videoville/Miriam’s Espresso owner Miriam Meyer (who paid me to goof off for 12+ years, bless her heart!), Mckenzie is following a trail laid down by her aunts and uncles — Jennifer, Mike, Kathryn and Megan.

The first time I saw her play — during her 7th grade basketball season — it took me a moment or two to realize that yes, she was THAT Mckenzie Meyer, since my memories of her were when she was much younger and hangin’ around Videoville.

Now, I realize I’m old and I’ve adjusted to Mckenzie being an athletic superstar and not a lil’ girl getting gumballs from the store machine.

I still want to get paid to goof off, though.

Someone get Miriam on the phone. It’s time to put the store back together!

Anyone, anyone, Bueller, Bueller…

Yeah, well, happy birthday to the M & M twins, while I sit over here in the corner and wait for the phone call.

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CHS football parents — read this or else!!

Posted in Football, tagged , , , on July 11, 2014| Leave a Comment »

New helmets are nice, but they'll look nicer if you're hoisting them skywards while standing on the field at the Tacoma Dome.

Show up for the parent info night and your son stands a better chance of wearing a shiny new helmet. So, there’s that.

Are you a parent or guardian of a Coupeville High School football player?

Than it’s awfully convenient you’re reading this…

Anyway, if you are, your presence is cordially requested in the school’s health room (inside the CHS gym) at 6 PM Monday, July 14.

Wolf football coach Tony Maggio and his staff will be on hand to discuss next year’s schedule and other pertinent info. Paperwork for players to be eligible to participate will be handed out.

Coupeville, which is leaving the 1A/2A Cascade Conference and moving into the 1A Olympic League, where it will face Port Townsend, Klahowya and Chimacum, will resume practice July 14-19 from 4-6 each night.

Opportunity abounds for the Wolves. Don’t miss out on being part of the ride.

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