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Eyes on the prize!!

Posted in standings, tagged 1A Olympic League, CHS Wolves, league title, standings, volleyball on October 17, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Katrina McGranahan uncorks a killer serve. (John Fisken photos)

Wolves (l to r) Emma Smith, Allison Wenzel and Sarah Wright celebrate a big point.

It’s in their hands.

Sweep its matches this week and the Coupeville High School volleyball squad clinches its first league title since 2001.

The Wolves, who sit atop the 1A Olympic League at 4-0, host Klahowya Tuesday (4 PM varsity/5:15 JV and C-Team), then hop across the water to face Port Townsend Thursday.

Win both and they’ll be 6-0, which would put them three games up on both Chimacum and two-time defending league champ Klahowya with three matches to play.

Since they would then finish no worse than a tie with either rival, and would own the tiebreaker over both schools, the command would go out — order a new title board for the CHS Wall of Fame.

Coupeville’s two previous league titles in volleyball came in 1997 and ’01, when the Wolves played in the Northwest Conference.

While nothing is set in stone yet, CHS volleyball reaching for the crown is the highlight of this week’s look at the current league standings in the four fall sports the Wolves compete in.

Rain-outs stung the Wolf netters, as matches against Klahowya and Chimacum were washed away.

With Coupeville having already clinched the title, neither bout will be rescheduled, which costs CHS a chance to add to its overall collection of league wins.

Picking up a win in soccer, Klahowya moved up into a tie with Coupeville, with 13 varsity wins across the fall sports.

Port Townsend (5) and Chimacum (3) are well back.

Those numbers will change tonight, as two football games which were knocked out Friday by the closing of the Hood Canal Bridge (Klahowya at Port Townsend and Chimacum at Vashon Island) will be played.

Standings through Monday morning:

Olympic/Nisqually League football:

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

Olympic League volleyball:

School	League	Overall
COUPEVILLE	4-0	7-3
Klahowya	3-2	4-5
Chimacum	3-3	6-6
Port Townsend	0-5	2-8

Olympic League girls soccer:

School	League	Overall
Klahowya	5-0	7-1-2
COUPEVILLE	4-1	6-4-1
Port Townsend	2-4	3-7-1
Chimacum	0-6	1-7-1

Olympic League boys tennis:

School	League	Overall
COUPEVILLE	4-0	5-7
Klahowya	3-2	4-8
Chimacum	0-5	0-12

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Vidoni nets farewell spotlight!!

Posted in Volleyball, tagged CHS Wolves, Monica Vidoni, Rainy River Community College, volleyball on October 15, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Monica Vidoni (Photos property of Rainy River Volleyball)

Monica Vidoni (back, far right) and fellow Rainy River Community College sophomore spikers. (Photos property of RRCC Volleyball)

Sophomore Appreciation night.

The end of one journey is nearing.

Coupeville High School grad Monica Vidoni was one of five sophomore volleyball players honored by Rainy River Community College.

While the Voyageurs still have five regular-season matches left, they recently held their Sophomore Appreciation night.

Vidoni has two more of those to go, as she also plays basketball and softball at the two-year Minnesota school.

On the volleyball court, she’s appeared in 19 matches this season for a Rainy River squad which has won six straight to get to 15-8 overall, 9-2 in league play.

Vidoni has played in 34 sets, with four kills, three digs and a service ace to her credit.

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Epic match? Epic win!!

Posted in Volleyball, tagged Allison Wenzel, CHS Wolves, epic win, JV, Scout Smith, Sequim, volleyball on October 12, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Scout Smith, seen here serving in an earlier match, had a team-high 14 assists in Coupeville’s JV win Tuesday night. (John Fisken photo)

No quit. Ever.

Battling back ferociously, the Coupeville High School JV spikers pulled out a thrilling three-set win Tuesday night, garnering some revenge for an earlier-season loss.

By the time things were (finally) done, the Wolves were the proud owners of a 28-26, 14-25, 32-30 victory over their hosts, 2A Sequim.

That was sweet payback for a loss Sept. 14 on Whidbey and lifts Coupeville’s young guns to 7-2.

It also gives Kristin Bridge’s squad its fifth consecutive win, the longest active streak for any CHS team, varsity or JV.

Coupeville’s C-Team won as well, sweeping all three sets it played.

Its 25-14, 25-11, 25-23 victory propelled the third unit to a crisp 3-1 mark on the season.

The Wolf JV got something from everyone, with a number of players filling up the stat sheet against Sequim.

Scout Smith set the big hitters up, doling out a team-high 14 assists, and her snipers took advantage.

Hannah Davidson mashed eight kills, while Zoe Trujillo and Sarah Wright had three apiece.

Allison Wenzel and Maddy Hilkey paced the service attack with four aces each, with Hilkey adding six digs.

Trujillo and Wenzel had three digs apiece.

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Wrong end of the buzz-saw!!

Posted in Volleyball, tagged CHS Wolves, Katrina McGranahan, Lauren Rose, Sequim, volleyball on October 11, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Lauren Rose, seen here firing off a serve in an earlier match, had a team-high 12 assists Tuesday night. (John Fisken photo)

Some nights you just shake your head and walk away.

This season has been so good for the Coupeville High School volleyball squad that one flat night can’t derail the fun express.

And flat was the key word, as the Wolves, flying high with a five-match winning streak, stumbled against a brutally-efficient squad ready to take advantage.

Falling 25-17, 25-14, 25-13 in a non-conference road match against 2A Sequim, Coupeville took a small step back, dropping to 7-3.

Sequim is 8-1, has won 24 of 28 sets this season and is the only school to blank CHS in a match.

“We played tentative tonight and without fire to take down a very good Sequim team,” said Coupeville coach Cory Whitmore. “We had moments of brilliance, taking aggressive swings, but then would get back on our heels.”

Katrina McGranahan paced Coupeville with four kills and four service aces, while Lauren Rose doled out a team-high 12 assists.

Mikayla Elfrank (four kills), Valen Trujillo (14 digs) and Hope Lodell (seven digs) also dropped their names into the stat sheets with stellar play.

The best news is Sequim, which has given Coupeville two of its three losses this season, is out of sight, out of mind now.

The Wolves, who sit atop the 1A Olympic League at 4-0, close the regular season with five straight conference bouts, starting with a home affair against second-place Klahowya (3-1) Oct. 18.

Having some time off to recover from the crush of Homecoming, Spirit Week and several big matches back-to-back should allow Coupeville to get its mojo back before the matches which matter the most.

“We’ll have a long week of practice to get our confidence back,” an upbeat Whitmore said.

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Wolves still top dog!!

Posted in standings, tagged 1A Olympic League, CHS Wolves, Klahowya, standings, volleyball on October 10, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Senior captain Valen Trujillo has helped lead the Wolf spikers to five straight wins. (John Fisken photos)

Jakobi Baumann and the CHS netters are league champs in 2016.

It’s a two-team race.

There are four schools in the 1A Olympic League, but this fall there has been a pretty wide chasm ripped right down the middle.

When you look at the four sports in which Coupeville competes against Port Townsend, Chimacum and Klahowya, it’s all Wolves and Eagles and very little Cowboys or RedHawks.

As it sits now, Coupeville has 13 league wins across volleyball, tennis, soccer and football, with Klahowya right behind at 11.

Port Townsend, which hasn’t won a league volleyball match and only has a handful of tennis players who compete with Chimacum, has four victories.

If it weren’t for football (where Berkley Hill has run his way to claiming the RedHawks three wins), PT would be firmly wedged in the cellar alongside the Cowboys.

Chimacum has yet to win a football game or a soccer or tennis match this fall, with the Cowboys lone W coming on the volleyball court.

The biggest news of the week came when the first of four fall titles was claimed, with Coupeville clinching its second straight boys’ tennis crown.

The battle for the other three titles, and the overall lead in varsity league wins, will intensify in the coming weeks, as the focus turns firmly to conference bouts.

Football teams have four league games left, while volleyball has five and each soccer squad still needs to play four to five games.

There are just two tennis league tilts still on the schedule, with Chimacum facing off against Coupeville and Klahowya each once more.

Unless it rains.

With the title already decided, and the league tourney fast approaching, officials decided not to reschedule any rain-outs (such as the one Oct. 6 when Coupeville was scheduled to play at Klahowya).

Up-to-the-minute standings:

Olympic/Nisqually League football:

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