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Ecks bid adieu to Wolf Nation

Posted in Basketball, Football, tagged CHS Wolves, football, Gabe Eck, OHHS Wildcats, transfers, Ty Eck on July 18, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Gabe Eck threw for 1,062 yards as a freshman quarterback last season. (John Fisken photos)

Gabe Eck threw for 1,062 yards as a freshman last season. (John Fisken photos)

Ty Eck (11) plays defense during Coupeville’s varsity playoff game against Bellevue Christian.

Seven weeks before opening night, Coupeville High School’s football roster has undergone a transformation.

Sophomore brothers Gabe and Ty Eck, who both started at key positions for the Wolves last season, are transferring to Oak Harbor, with plans to play for the Wildcats this fall.

Gabe Eck became Coupeville’s starting quarterback after sophomore Hunter Downes was injured early in the 2015 season and threw for 1,062 yards.

He completed 84-176 passes, connected on four touchdown passes and was picked off seven times for the Wolves, who finished 1-9 in Brett Smedley’s only season as head coach.

Gabe’s 1,117 yards of total offense (he also scrambled for 55 on the ground) was the third-most of any player in the 1A Olympic League.

Ty Eck hauled in 17 passes for 163 yards as a receiver, scored three touchdowns (second-best on the team) and returned 11 kicks for 124 yards.

His best work came on the defensive side of the ball, however, where he was the team’s third-leading tackler in ’15, recording 54 tackles.

Football will not be the only sport to feel a loss, as both Eck brothers were three-sport athletes.

The duo were JV basketball players as freshmen (Ty made his varsity debut in a playoff game) and were expected to vie for varsity starting jobs this winter.

The Wolf boys’ hoops squad lost almost its entire roster to graduation and will return only two full-time varsity players for 2016-2017 — junior Hunter Smith and senior Gabe Wynn.

A third player, senior Brian Shank, also made his varsity debut in the Bellevue Christian playoff game.

Both Eck brothers added a second varsity letter last spring, with Ty playing baseball and Gabe running track.

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Rollin’ on the road!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged baseball, CHS Wolves, Nick Etzell, no-hitter, Ty Eck on March 28, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Nick Etzell teamed with Ty Eck to toss a five-inning no-hitter Monday, propelling Coupeville High School JV baseball to a 12-1 win. (John Fisken photo)

Cameron Toomey-Stout, seen here in an earlier varsity game, crunched one of Coupeville’s four extra-base hits.

Just give them a chance.

Finally able to take the field for the first time this season Monday, the Coupeville High School JV baseball squad came out on fire.

Raining down nine hits, including four extra-base knocks, the Wolves romped to a 12-1 win in Concrete.

And it wasn’t just the bats that were hot, as freshman Ty Eck and sophomore Nick Etzell combined to toss a five-inning no-hitter, while the glove work behind them was nearly impeccable.

The Wolves were locked in on arrival, raining down runs early and often.

Matt Hilborn, Cameron Toomey-Stout, Kory Score and Etzell all whacked extra-base hits as Coupeville scored nine in the first three innings, then coasted home for the victory.

“A good start,” said Coupeville coach Chris Smith. “The bats were electric and we had error-free defense behind the pitchers.”

Eck got the start on the mound and struck out five of the nine hitters he faced in three perfect innings of work.

Etzell retired six of the seven Lions he saw — losing one on a walk — and notched another strike-out.

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Do the victory dance (times two)!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged Basketball, buzzer beater, CHS Wolves, Hunter Smith, overtime, Ty Eck on February 6, 2016| Leave a Comment »

JJ Johnson drilled three treys Saturday as Coupeville won a thriller. (John Fisken photos)

Brian Shank teamed with Ty Eck to score 43 points Saturday, fueling a come-from-behind OT win for the Wolf JV.

The game-winning play from the varsity game. (Photo courtesy Trent Diamanti)

Hunter Smith is a killer.

The Coupeville High School sophomore capped a stellar performance Saturday by drilling a game-winning three-ball from the corner at the buzzer, lifting the Wolves to a 54-53 victory at Klahowya.

The win snapped a two-game losing streak for CHS and sent them into the postseason with a 9-10 record. Coupeville finished 4-5 in league play.

As the #3 team from the 1A Olympic League, they will open the postseason with a home game next Thursday, Feb. 11. Tip-off is 7 PM.

It will be a loser-out game against Bellevue Christian, the #4 team from the Nisqually League — a team they beat 53-50 very early in the season.

To see the district bracket, pop over to: http://www.olympicleague.com/tournament.php?tournament_id=1814&sport=3

Smith’s heroics capped a very close game, as the Eagles were looking to avenge a come-from-behind win by Coupeville just a week ago.

The game was knotted at seven after one, before the Wolves crept ahead 19-17 at the half.

Klahowya immediately turned the tables, using a 15-13 third quarter advantage to tie things up again entering the fourth.

With the game winding down, Coupeville was clinging to a 51-50 lead with 55 seconds to play, but went cold from the field.

Klahowya wasn’t much hotter, but crept back ahead 52-51, only to send Coupeville’s Wiley Hesselgrave to the line with a chance to tie with five ticks left on the clock.

The senior guard, normally the best free-throw shooter on the Wolf roster, missed the front end of a one-and-one, and the Eagles added a free throw of their own to pad the margin to two with 2.9 seconds to play.

During his final time-out, Coupeville coach Anthony Smith turned to his assistant, Dustin Van Velkinburgh, who drew up the game-winning play.

Then the Wolves went out and ran Coach V’s play to perfection, with Risen Johnson taking the in-bounds pass and finding Smith for the dagger.

The trey gave Smith 16 for the night, while Gabe Wynn and JJ Johnson each chipped in with nine. Johnson hit one three-ball for every J in his name.

Jordan Ford banged in the paint for seven, while Hesselgrave (5), Risen Johnson (5), Dante Mitchell (2) and Desmond Bell (1) also scored.

JV wins a thriller as well:

Roaring back in the second half, the young guns forced overtime, then pulled away for a 54-49 win.

The Wolves knotted the game at 45, then controlled the extra period to a 9-4 tune to snap a 10-game losing streak and end their season at 3-14.

Defense was a key, as Coupeville held Klahowya to just 16 second-half points.

That helped them overcome a fairly horrifying night at the free-throw line in which they made just 17 of 55 shots.

Ty Eck hit for 25 to pace the Wolves, while Brian Shank knocked down 18, Gabe Eck rattled the rims for seven and Cameron Toomey-Stout chipped in with four.

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Make it rain!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged 30 points, Basketball, CHS Wolves, run and gun, Ty Eck on February 2, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Ty Eck scorched the nets for 30 Tuesday, most by a Wolf this season. (John Fisken photo)

Give the scorekeeper no time to rest.

That’s the goal of the Coupeville High School JV boys’ basketball squad these days, as its has adopted a run and gun style dedicated to getting up a steady flow of shots.

When it works, as it did in the early going Tuesday, it’s a sight to behold. But, there are still some kinks to work out of the system.

The young Wolves roared out to a 16-point lead over visiting Port Townsend, but eventually cooled off a bit and fell 78-68 in a wild one.

The game featured the best single-game performance by a Coupeville player, boy or girl, this season, as freshman Ty Eck burnt the nets for a game-high 30 points.

He did his scoring in big bursts, starting with a stretch in the first quarter where he rattled home three straight driving lay-ins off of steals.

By the time Ty was done, he had 13 in the first quarter, teaming with twin brother Gabe for 18 of Coupeville’s 26 points.

With five players scoring (Cameron Toomey-Stout swished a long three-ball while Brian Shank and Hunter Downes worked the boards for put-backs), the Wolves put together runs of 12-0 and 13-3 over the first eight minutes.

Everything was clicking for CHS, but, after looking a bit disorientated in the early going, Port Townsend settled down and went back to work, throwing down 30 of its own points in the second quarter.

Coupeville weathered the storm until a third-quarter breakdown allowed the RedHawks to finally snatch the lead back.

Suddenly down by six, the Wolves rallied, though, ending the third on a 9-4 run, with Ty Eck and Shank each tossing down a pair of buckets.

That set up a pitched battle in the fourth, with six lead changes.

Coupeville snatched its final lead at 67-65 on a trey from Toomey-Stout, but then hit its only real cold shooting stretch of the night — just at the worst possible moment.

With Port Townsend closing the game on a 13-1 tear (a mix of layups and free throws) the final margin got stretched out a bit, but, for those in the paying audience, it was a barn-burner until the final 100 or so seconds.

Gabe Eck rattled home 14 in support of his brother’s 30, while Toomey-Stout (11), Shank (7) and Downes (6) also wrote their names in the score-book.

Beauman Davis, James Vidoni, Ariah Bepler and Andre Avila also saw floor time, but didn’t hurt score-keeper Ryan King’s wrist as much as the others.

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Go down shooting!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged CHS Wolves, Gabe Eck, JV, let it fly, three-balls, Ty Eck on January 29, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Hunter Downes has impressed his coaches and fans with his scrappy, take-no-prisoner style of play. (John Fisken photo)

Hunter Downes has impressed coaches and fans with his scrappy, take-no-prisoner style of play. (John Fisken photo)

Let’s get this party started.

Coupeville High School JV boys’ basketball coach Dustin Van Velkinburgh is mixing things up in the final weeks of the season, working on installing a high-octane offense on the fly.

And, like most things in the early stages, it has its good moments and its wild, out-of-control moments, all of which were on display during a narrow 64-59 loss to visiting Klahowya Friday.

The loss dropped the young guns to 2-12, but the huge leaps and bounds the Wolves have taken in just a few practices were very evident against the Eagles.

When things are working the way they’re supposed to, Coupeville’s second unit rains down a steady diet of three-balls (they hit 10 Friday), mixed in with fast-break layups.

After falling behind 6-0 in the early going, the Wolves started clicking, closing the first quarter on a 13-4 run.

The surge was exactly what Van Velkinburgh is preaching, with treys from Ty Eck, Cameron Toomey-Stout and Gabe Eck, mixed in with quick inside cuts for buckets.

Ty Eck banked home back-to-back buckets, off of passes from Hunter Downes and Gabe Eck, as injured Wolf teammate Luke Merriman whooped and hollered from the crows nest where he was videotaping.

After a slowdown in the second, when shots started clanking and passes flying over people’s heads, Coupeville put together its best run in the third quarter, throwing down 21 points over eight minutes.

Brian Shank and Ty Eck each went for seven in the quarter, while Downes did the dirty work, hitting the floor time and again, to set things up.

Holding on to a narrow one-point lead heading in to the fourth, the Wolves fought down to the final seconds, but couldn’t quite prevail as Klahowya closed out the game strongly at the free-throw line.

The Eck brothers paced CHS with a combined 34 points, with Ty hitting for 18 and Gabe rattling the rim for 16.

Toomey-Stout notched 10, Shank banked home nine, Downes popped for four, Ariah Bepler tickled the twines for a soft jumper and Beauman Davis and Andre Avila both brought tons of energy to their time on the floor.

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