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Gettin’ all dramatic!!

Posted in Football, tagged football, John Fisken photos, Jordan Ford, JR Pendergrass, portraits, Wiley Hesselgrave on September 22, 2015| Leave a Comment »

JR Pendergrass is about to unload a can of whup ass, and your address is on the return label. (John Fisken photos)

JR Pendergrass had a candy bar in his locker, for after the game. It’s missing, and he now has a can of whup-ass with your name on the return label. (John Fisken photos)

You thought you had a candy bar carefully hidden in your locker, waiting for after the game. Hunter Downes disagrees.

Hunter Downes: “Don’t make me run. I’m full of chocolate.”

Brenden Gilbert: “DOWNNNNNEEESSS!!!! You dare to mess with lineman chocolate?!?!?”

Dylan Schachtner: “Unless it was really me…”

Wiley Hesselgrave: “I will burn down your house of chocolate with you in it, Goldilocks!! Three generations from now, your family will cry when they look at a candy bar!!!!!”

Matt Stevens: “Good lord, Hesselgrave. Is is too late to go play tennis instead? Seriously. Guys? Guys?”

Clay Reilly, being a veteran, stays out of the fray, staring thoughtfully off at the setting sun, thinking about baseball season. Or candy bars. Probably candy bars.

Let’s face it, girls are better than boys.

OK, let me clarify. What I’m talking about is high school female athletes posing for photos, as opposed to their male counterparts.

The ladies love the camera and are far, far more willing to be goofy or entertaining, while the dudes too often buy into the idea that you have to simply stare at the camera with no smile or it somehow shows weakness.

Like anything, it’s not always true.

Hunter Hammer had a love affair with the camera, Gavin O’ Keefe had a huge smile in every pic ever taken and Joel Walstad couldn’t tamp down his impish charm. There are guys who will step up.

But, as a whole, girls kicks guys butt.

So, it’s nice to leaf through the CHS football portraits taken recently by John Fisken and see some variety.

A smile here, an artful pose there. Some individuality breaking out.

I’ve gathered some of the best for your quick-reading perusal today, as concrete proof that, hey guys, be willing to play to the camera (at least a little bit) and it’s far more likely you’ll see your picture up on Coupeville Sports.

If that’s your thing.

If not, carry on. McKenzie Bailey will be back any second.

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Let’s get electric!!

Posted in Football, tagged 1A Olympic League, football, Gabe Eck, Hunter Smith, John Fisken photos, Wiley Hesselgrave on September 20, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Eyes scanning downfield, young gun Gabe Eck gets ready to pick apart the defense. (John Fisken photos)

“I said NOOOOOOOO!!!” Grizzled vets Lathom Kelley (44) and Wiley Hesselgrave (10) team up to block a Chimacum kick.

Hauling in the ball in mid-stride, CJ Smith is footloose and fancy free.

Jordan Ford, getting ready to make his 2,561 relatives in the stands go crazy.

Hesselgrave can not be stopped by mere mortals. Fools.

Proud papa Mark Hesselgrave exchanges hair care tips with the most stylish soccer player in Wolf Nation, Kirsten Pelroy. Yep, I’m sure that’s what’s happening.

Hunter Smith, about to make a lot of folks miss.

Uriel Liquidano (63) and Ford team up to lasso a Cowboy.

A win is a win, but photos last forever.

As the buzz from Friday’s victory over Chimacum fades just a bit (eventually the focus will shift to next week’s foe, Port Townsend), Wolf football fans can relive the moment through John Fisken’s photos.

With Oak Harbor High School on a rare bye week, we got the travelin’ photo man’s full attention, and he delivered the pics above.

To see more (a lot more), and possibly purchase some (thereby helping to fund college scholarships for CHS student/athletes) pop over to:

http://www.olympicleague.com/index.php?act=view_gallery&gallery=9057&league=21&page=1&page_name=photo_store&school=183&sport=0

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Gabe Eck is blowin’ up!!

Posted in Football, tagged CHS Wolves, football, Gabe Eck, Lathom Kelley, Stats, Wiley Hesselgrave on September 19, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Wolf freshman Gabe Eck threw for 403 yards and three touchdowns in his first-ever start. (John Fisken photo)

One game does not a career make.

But, dang, it was a game.

Making his first start under center Friday, Coupeville High School freshman quarterback Gabe Eck shot bullet holes through Chimacum’s pass defense, completing 19 of 34 passes for 403 yards and three touchdowns in a 28-26 win.

To put the 403 yards in perspective?

Brad Sherman is the rightful career passing yardage leader at CHS (as far as we know from the spotty records) and his best game (we think) was 374 yards.

Is Eck’s total a single game record for the Wolves? Good luck in finding out, but it’s smack-dab in the conversation.

And, for the moment, it moves him ahead of sophomore Hunter Downes, who started at QB in the season’s first two games but was sidelined by injury Friday, on the stats sheet.

Who knows what’s to come, except for the fact Coupeville has two talented young gunslingers.

With that being said, semi-official stats through Week 3 arrive, with the usual caveat — if you disagree with your numbers, take it up with your coaches, who are the ones filing these stats on MaxPreps.

Offense:

Passing:

Gabe Eck 23-42 for 416 yards with 3 TD
Hunter Downes 25-46 for 239 yards with 1 TD and 3 INTs
CJ Smith 1-1 for 10 yards

Receiving:

Hunter Smith 19 receptions for 220 yards
C. Smith 10-213
Wiley Hesselgrave 9-83
Ty Eck 3-82
Jordan Ford 1-28
Lathom Kelley 2-22
Ryan Griggs 1-10
Jake Hoagland 2-7

Rushing:

Hesselgrave 16 carries for 152 yards
Kelley 14-37
Jacob Martin 7-12
Chris Battaglia 1-4
Mitchell Losey 1 (-3)
G. Eck 25 (-13)
Downes 12 (-49)

Total yards:

G. Eck 403
Hesselgrave 235
C. Smith 223
H. Smith 220
Downes 190
T. Eck 82
Kelley 59
Ford 28
Martin 12
Griggs 10
Hoagland 7
Battaglia 4

Touchdowns:

T. Eck 2
Hesselgrave 1
Martin 1
C. Smith 1
H. Smith 1

PATs:

Zane Bundy 3

Field Goals:

Bundy 1

Points:

T. Eck 12
Bundy 6
Hesselgrave 6
Martin 6
C. Smith 6
H. Smith 6

Defense:

Tackles:

Kelley 31
Battaglia 19
Uriel Liquidano 18
T. Eck 16
Brenden Gilbert 15
Hesselgrave 15
Mitchell Carroll 12
Tyler McCalmont 12
Losey 10
Julian Welling 8
Ford 7
Clay Reilly 6
Martin 5
H. Smith 4
Griggs 1
Teo Keilwitz 1
Jake Lord 1
Josh Robinson 1
C. Smith 1

Sacks:

Battaglia 2
Ford 2
Gilbert 2
Kelley 2
Hesselgrave 1
Martin 1
McCalmont 1

Interceptions:

H. Smith 2
Martin 1
Reilly 1

Fumble recoveries:

Martin 2
H. Smith 2
T. Eck 1
Ford 1
Hesselgrave 1
Liquidano 1

Blocked kicks:

Hesselgrave 1

Special Teams:

Kickoffs:

Bundy 4 for 153 yards

Punts:

Bundy 12-308
Reilly 2-84

Kickoff/punt returns:

Hesselgrave 9 for 126 yards
T. Eck 5-42

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Heart-stopper!!

Posted in Football, tagged 1A Olympic League, Chimacum, CHS Wolves, football, Hunter Smith, Pulp Fiction, Wiley Hesselgrave on September 18, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Hunter Smith, cold-blooded killer. (John Fisken photo)

Wolf volleyball star Hope Lodell and gridiron giant Julian Welling are all smiles after the win. (Ally Roberts photo)

Hunter Smith, with the adrenaline shot right to the heart.

The Coupeville High School sophomore wasn’t alive when Pulp Fiction hit movie screens, but he went all John Travolta on Chimacum Friday night, plunging in the needle and saving a huge football win for the Wolves.

Smith’s interception with just 32 seconds to play sealed a wild 28-26 win, the first-ever for CHS head coach Brett Smedley, and lifted the Wolves into a first place tie in the 1A Olympic League.

Coupeville (1-2 overall, 1-0 in league play) sits atop the league along with Port Townsend (3-0, 1-0), which crushed Klahowya 52-6.

The Wolves will hit the road for a fourth consecutive week next Friday, Sept. 25, when they will meet the high-powered RedHawks in a battle for sole possession of first.

Port Townsend, which entered this week ranked #10 in the state polls, has outscored its first three foes 145-6.

While it will be a daunting task, it’s one to think about on another day.

Tonight, if you hear the roar coming across the water as Coupeville players and fans return on the ferry, there’s reason. Big reason.

Facing a team that is better than its (now) 15-game losing streak might indicate, the Wolves, who were missing several starters, spent the night battling from behind, then surged into the lead in the late going, only to almost have it all ripped away.

Having reeled off 16 straight points, capped by a Zane Bundy field goal, Coupeville staked itself to its biggest lead of the game at 28-20.

Refusing to go down easily, the host Cowboys closed the gap on a touchdown with under a minute to play.

Coupeville blunted the damage by preventing Chimacum from converting on a two-point conversion that would have tied the game, but the Cowboys got a break when they recovered the ensuing onside kick.

With the ball in its hands, Chimacum came up firing only to have Smith, who was the only freshman to earn All-League honors last year, come up huge.

That dagger capped a wild and woolly affair in which the lead changed hands at will, often in the matter of one play.

Coupeville opened the scoring on a touchdown pass in which freshmen twins Gabe and Ty Eck hooked up.

But before the Wolves could really celebrate, Chimacum blocked the PAT and returned it the length of the field for a score of its own to grab a 7-6 lead.

Ty Eck would score again, but the Wolves trailed 13-12 at the half.

The strongest run of the game for Coupeville came in the second half, when the Wolves put together three straight scores to turn a 20-12 deficit into a 28-20 lead.

Wiley Hesselgrave slammed in for one touchdown, then Smith snagged another through the air, before Bundy converted on the first field goal of his short high school career.

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Stats! Stats until your eyes glaze over!!

Posted in Football, tagged CHS Wolves, football, Jacob Martin, Lathom Kelley, Stats, Wiley Hesselgrave on September 12, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Jake Hoagland (8) snagged the first two catches of his varsity career Friday. (John Fisken photos)

Freshman Chris Battaglia (23) is tied for fifth on the team in tackles.

More stats than you can imagine.

OK, maybe not, but I have expanded how many categories I listed (ardent Zane Bundy fans can now track his kicking totals), plus, Friday’s game at Sequim produced results which sent a bunch of new names onto the stat sheets.

So, without further ado, your up-to-the-moment Coupeville High School football stats through week #2, as reported to MaxPreps by the Wolf coaches.

Offense:

Passing:

Hunter Downes 25-46 for 239 yards with 1 TD and 3 INTs
Gabe Eck 4-8 for 13 yards
CJ Smith 1-1 for 10 yards

Receiving:

C. Smith 6 receptions for 120 yards
Wiley Hesselgrave 9-83
Hunter Smith 10-42
Ryan Griggs 1-10
Jake Hoagland 2-7

Rushing:

Lathom Kelley 14 carries for 37 yards
Jacob Martin 7-12
G. Eck 9-0
Chris Battaglia 1-4
Mitchell Losey 1 (-3)
Downes 12 (-49)

Total yards:

Downes 190
C. Smith 130
Hesselgrave 83
H. Smith 42
Kelley 37
G. Eck 13
Martin 12
Griggs 10
Hoagland 7
Battaglia 4

Touchdowns:

Martin 1
C. Smith 1

PATs:

Zane Bundy 2

Points:

Martin 6
C. Smith 6
Bundy 2

Defense:

Tackles:

Kelley 15
Ty Eck 12
Hesselgrave 9
Julian Welling 8
Battaglia 7
Uriel Liquidano 7
Losey 7
Mitchell Carroll 6
Brenden Gilbert 5
Martin 5
Tyler McCalmont 3
Clay Reilly 3
Jordan Ford 2
H. Smith 2
Griggs 1
Jake Lord 1
Josh Robinson 1