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The spikes never stop!!

Posted in Volleyball, tagged , , , , on October 25, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Whidbey Island spikers ages 10-18, like Lucy Sandahl, are invited to try out for a new (John Fisken photo)

   Spikers ages 10-18, like Lucy Sandahl, are invited to try out for the new Whidbey Volleyball Club. (John Fisken photo)

There’s a new volleyball program on the Island and the people behind it want to meet you.

The Whidbey Volleyball Club, which will be open to players ages 10-18, has two parent/player meetings coming up to answer questions before team tryouts.

The meetings are Nov. 14 at the Coupeville High School gym and Nov. 15 at Oak Harbor High School’s Student Union Building.

Both events kick off at 7 PM.

WVC is a nonprofit organization and a member of the Puget Sound Region of USA Junior Volleyball.

Tryouts are Nov. 20 at Oak Harbor High School (registration starts at 12:30, with tryouts from 1:30-3:30).

The season runs through the spring.

For more info contact Coupeville High School volleyball coach Cory Whitmore at (509) 347-6301 or cwhitmore@coupeville.k12.wa.us or club director Katelyn Posego at (360) 525-5573 or kvposego@gmail.com.

You can also get more info by bouncing over to https://sites.google.com/site/whidbeyvolleyballclub/ or http://www.psrvb.org/.

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Everything’s coming up aces!!

Posted in Volleyball, tagged , , , , on October 24, 2016| 1 Comment »

Katrina McGranahan (left) and Payton Aparicio are both soaring on the stats charts. (John Fisken photos)

   Katrina McGranahan (left) and Payton Aparicio are both soaring on the stats charts. (John Fisken photos)

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   CHS coaches Cory Whitmore (far right) and Kristin Bridges impart wisdom during a timeout.

They like the aces.

The high-flying Coupeville High School volleyball squad has roared to a league title and a 9-3 record thanks in large part to its success at the service stripe.

The Wolves have six players who handle serving duties, and all of them land in the top 15 among 1A players for aces.

CHS junior Hope Lodell tops all 1A spikers whose teams have reported stats to MaxPreps, and her 72 aces is fourth-best across all divisions (1B-4A).

The three girls ahead of her have a huge advantage, with each having played 8-14 more sets and uncorked 36-87 more service attempts.

Lodell hits aces on 37.9% of her serves, the highest percentage by anyone in the top 10.

Coupeville stacks up quite nicely with other teams when you compare stats other than aces, as well.

Seven Wolves are currently among the top 20 performers in 1A in at least one stat category, with five of those spikers showing up in two categories.

Valen Trujillo (#5 in digs) and Payton Aparicio (#5 in aces) join Lodell in cracking the top five in a category.

CHS stats through Monday:

Sets Played:

Katrina McGranahan 42
Ashley Menges 42
Lauren Rose 42
Emma Smith 42
Valen Trujillo 42
Payton Aparicio 41
Hope Lodell 41
Tiffany Briscoe 40
Mikayla Elfrank 37
Ally Roberts 26
Sarah Wright 8
Allison Wenzel 4

Kills:

Katrina McGranahan 53 (#17 in 1A)
Lodell 51 (#18 in 1A)
Elfrank 49 (#20 in 1A)
Smith 33
Aparicio 32
Briscoe 25
Roberts 9
Wright 9
Trujillo 4
Wenzel 3
Menges 2
Rose 2

Kill Percentage:

Menges 66.7
Roberts 39.1
Elfrank 38.3
Wenzel 37.5
Wright 37.5
Smith 36.3
McGranahan 32.9
Lodell 30.2
Briscoe 28.7
Rose 25.0
Aparicio 24.8
Trujillo 19.0

Hitting Percentage:

Menges .333
Roberts .261
Wenzel .250
Wright .208
McGranahan .130
Briscoe .103
Smith .088
Elfrank .062
Aparicio .008

Digs:

Trujillo 141 (#5 in 1A)
Lodell 88 (#14 in 1A)
Aparicio 53
Roberts 28
Rose 27
McGranahan 17
Menges 16
Briscoe 10
Elfrank 6
Smith 5
Wright 3
Wenzel 2

Blocks:

Smith 10
McGranahan 7
Elfrank 4
Aparicio 2
Briscoe 1
Wright 1

Service Returns:

Trujillo 224
Lodell 151
Aparicio 95
Roberts 28
Wenzel 9
Briscoe 4
Elfrank 3
McGranahan 3
Smith 3
Menges 2
Rose 1
Wright 1

Assists:

Rose 121 (#9 in 1A)
Menges 93 (#11 in 1A)
Trujillo 6
Lodell 4
Aparicio 2
Briscoe 2
Roberts 2
Elfrank 1
McGranahan 1
Wright 1

Serving Percentage:

Elfrank 100.0
Rose 94.3
Trujillo 90.0
Aparicio 86.6
Lodell 84.2
Menges 83.0
McGranahan 81.5
Roberts 33.3

Service Points:

Lodell 115
Rose 103
Menges 84
McGranahan 83
Aparicio 78
Trujillo 65
Elfrank 3
Roberts 1

Service Aces:

Lodell 72 (#1 in 1A, #4 in all divisions)
Aparicio 42 (#5 in 1A)
McGranahan 41 (#6 in 1A)
Menges 36 (#8 in 1A)
Rose 29 (#12 in 1A)
Trujillo 28 (#15 in 1A)
Elfrank 1

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Total domination? It’s coming!!

Posted in standings, tagged , , , , on October 23, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Wolf spikers Hope Lodell (left) and Payton Aparicio get ready to kick some fanny. (John Fisken photo)

   Wolf spikers Hope Lodell (left) and Payton Aparicio get ready to kick some fanny. (John Fisken photo)

Inch by inch, sport by sport, Coupeville is taking the 1A Olympic League away from Klahowya.

When things started in the fall of 2014, the Eagles, who have the largest student body of the four league schools by a fair margin, were dominant.

Klahowya won titles in three of four fall sports (volleyball, boys tennis, girls soccer) in that first go-round, with Port Townsend claiming the football crown.

Jump forward a year and Coupeville, which sits at 227 students to Klahowya’s 445, took away the boys tennis title. The other three fall sports saw repeat winners.

Now skip forward to season #3 and the Wolves have held on to boys tennis and snatched volleyball away from the Eagles.

Klahowya just three-peated in girls soccer, but that’s it for the fall, as the football title is going to come down to next week’s clash between Port Townsend and Cascade Christian.

With the Nisqually and Olympic League joining together for gridiron action this year, there’s a (super) solid shot the pigskin kingpin will hail from the other league.

So, that means in three falls, Klahowya’s titles have gone from three to two to one, while Coupeville has gone from zero to one to two — the small tugboat chugging past the flailing ocean liner.

Overall, the Eagles, who led the title chase 5-2 after the 2014-2015 school year, are now barely hanging on to a 9-8 advantage in league championships won heading into basketball season, where the Wolf girls are two-time defending champs.

Chimacum has four titles (two each in boys basketball and softball) while Port Townsend, the second-largest league school, has just two football crowns and will need a colossal upset to earn #3 this coming Saturday.

With tennis done playing league matches, and the other three sports days away from heading to the postseason, Coupeville and Klahowya are tied with 16 varsity wins across the four fall sports.

Port Townsend has seven and Chimacum four.

Rain cost Coupeville the chance to be sitting alone at the top in the victory race. The final two league tennis matches were cancelled and not rescheduled, as the Wolves (4-0) had already clinched the title.

CHS has six more league games (1 soccer, 2 football, 3 volleyball) left to build their fall win total, while Klahowya has seven (2 soccer, 2 FB, 2 VB).

Standings through Sunday:

Olympic/Nisqually League football:

School League Overall
Cascade Christian 5-0 8-0
Port Townsend 5-0 6-2
Charles Wright 3-2 4-4
Klahowya 3-2 5-3
Bellevue Christian 2-3 2-6
COUPEVILLE 1-4 2-6
Vashon Island 1-4 1-7
Chimacum 0-5 1-7

Olympic League volleyball:

School League Overall
COUPEVILLE 6-0 9-3
Chimacum 3-3 6-7
Klahowya 3-3 4-7
Port Townsend 0-6 2-10

Olympic League girls soccer:

School League Overall
Klahowya 7-0 10-1-2
COUPEVILLE 5-3 7-6-1
Port Townsend 2-6 3-10-1
Chimacum 1-6 2-7-1

Olympic League boys tennis:

School League Overall
COUPEVILLE 4-0 5-8
Klahowya 3-2 4-8
Chimacum 0-5 0-12

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“It was an exciting win for everyone!!”

Posted in Volleyball, tagged , , , , on October 21, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Willow Vick had a team-high seven service aces in a win Thursday night at Port Townsend. (John Fisken photo)

   Willow Vick had a team-high seven service aces in a win Thursday night at Port Townsend. (John Fisken photo)

They may never lose again.

Picking up a major dose of confidence with every win, the Coupeville High School JV volleyball squad hasn’t seen anything other than a victory in a full month.

Thursday night the Wolves made it seven straight W’s, drilling host Port Townsend in straight sets.

The 25-17, 25-5, 25-11 win lifts the CHS young guns to 6-0 in 1A Olympic League play, 9-2 overall.

“It was a really good game,” said Coupeville JV coach Kristin Bridges. “We played with a lot more confidence, which was a huge goal this season.

“I’m really proud of the progress the girls have made so far this season,” she added. “We are passing really well and have so much more confidence. Our movement on the court as a team is getting better every day.

“It was an exciting win for everyone.”

Coupeville fired off 29 aces in the match to set the tone, then racked up 15 kills at the net to mute any RedHawk rallies.

Lucy Sandahl (six aces and two assists), Scout Smith (three aces, nine assists, two digs) and Willow Vick (seven aces) led the way for the Wolves, while almost every player on the roster jumped on to the stat sheet.

Hannah Davidson (five aces, two kills, two digs), Maddy Hilkey (two aces, four digs) and Zoe Trujillo (three aces, two kills) were also key.

Meanwhile, Jillian Mayne (two aces), Maya Toomey-Stout (three kills), Nicole Lester (one kill), Peytin Vondrak (two kills) and Raven Vick (three kills) all chipped in with stellar play.

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Spikers make history!!

Posted in Volleyball, tagged , , , , on October 20, 2016| Leave a Comment »

First-year CHS volleyball coach Cory Whitmore has guided the Wolf spikers to their first league title since 2004. (John Fisken photo)

   First-year CHS volleyball coach Cory Whitmore has guided the Wolf spikers to their first league title since 2004. (John Fisken photo)

Your 2016 1A Olympic League volleyball champions. (Photo courtesy Konni Smith)

   Your 2016 1A Olympic League volleyball champions. (Photo courtesy Konni Smith)

It took Cory Whitmore 12 matches to do something not accomplished in the previous 11 seasons.

The first-year Coupeville High School volleyball coach led the Wolves to their first league title since 2004, clinching with a straight-sets win Thursday at Port Townsend.

The 25-19, 25-17, 25-23 victory lifts the Wolves to 6-0 in 1A Olympic League play, 9-3 overall.

While it has three regular season matches left, Coupeville is three games up on Chimacum and Klahowya (both 3-3), and owns tiebreakers on both schools, having already beaten them both twice.

Next up for the Wolves?

Making a run at going 9-0 in league play, a feat accomplished the past two seasons by the CHS girls’ basketball team, but never by a league volleyball team.

In 2014 and 2015 Klahowya went 6-0 and won back-to-back titles, before the league schedule was expanded to nine matches this season to sync up with baseball, softball, soccer and basketball.

The Wolves can also continue their run at the school single-season record for wins — 13 in 2004 — and get ready to open postseason play at home.

As the #1 seed from the Olympic League, Coupeville advances to the double-elimination portion of districts, an event they host Nov. 5.

They’ll need to win two matches that day, while losing no more than one, to advance to state.

To see the bracket, pop over to: http://www.olympicleague.com/tournament.php?tournament_id=2069&sport=10

The league title is the fourth in program history, following Northwest League titles in 1997, 2001 and 2004.

Kim Meche coached the first two of those teams, while Toni Crebbin was in command of the record-setting ’04 team, which also won a tri-district title and toppled the #1 ranked team in the state.

Those Wolves split four matches with arch-rival La Conner, the state champ that year, beating the Braves for the league title, but falling to them at the big dance.

Thursday night, CHS didn’t play lights out, but it stayed in control all match and put the hammer down when appropriate.

“It was good to pull out the win tonight on the road playing everyone,” Whitmore said. “The girls worked hard to be in the position to be league champions.

“To accomplish this and clinch first place is a result of that hard work and a goal met.”

The Wolves spread out the stats, with Ashley Menges (11 assists and five service aces), Lauren Rose (eight assists, four aces) and Hope Lodell (five kills, five digs) leading the attack.

Sarah Wright cranked out a season-high four kills, while senior captain Valen Trujillo led the squad with 17 digs as she continued to add to her school career record.

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