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Small school, huge brains!!

Posted in Science, tagged , , , , on April 14, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   The student bodies of schools Coupeville faced at the Science Olympiad state meet. Almost all claim 500+ more students than CHS. (Mckenzie Meyer photo)

Mckenzie Meyer (left) and Anna Dion work on a project. (Neil Rixe photo)

They’re standing up for small schools everywhere.

Despite having just a fraction of the student bodies that their competitors do, the Coupeville High School Science Olympiad squad soared Saturday at the state meet.

While Camas, with 2,063 students to pull from, walked away with the team title, the Wolves finished 17th, one slot better than last year.

With a hair over 300 students, CHS also faces another hurdle.

Most of the other schools at state are staffed by students who focus 100% on Science Olympiad, while Coupeville’s competitors balance academics with other pursuits like track, soccer and drama.

Seven of the eight Wolves who claimed a Top 10 finish at state either are currently playing a sport or preparing for next weekend’s drama production.

Madison Rixe, who led Coupeville with three Top 10 finishes, is a prime example, juggling track, drama and Science Olympiad in addition to her normal classwork.

Coupeville’s Top 10 finishes:

Disease Detectives – Mckenzie Meyer (9th)

Herpotology – Anna Dion and Madison Rixe (8th)

Mission Possible – Meyer and Dion (8th)

Helicopters – Rixe and Luke Carlson (10th)

Rocks and Minerals – Rixe and Jakobi Baumann (9th)

Towers – William Nelson and Baumann (10th)

Write it, Do It – Carlson and Josh Robinson (10th)

Fermi Questions — Nelson and Seraina Weatherford (10th)

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Jump into the fire!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged , , , , , on April 2, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Coupeville booters Hunter Downes (3) and William Nelson celebrate a goal Monday afternoon. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Forget black and white stripes, these refs are fashion forward in their thinking.

   But are they as ready to hit the runway as CHS assistant coach Luke Pelant? I think not.

   CHS football star Cameron Toomey-Stout, with hand raised, challenges Pelant to a Zoolander-style runway walk-off. Yes, I’m sure that’s what’s happening. Well, pretty sure. OK, maybe .05% sure… 

Back on the pitch, Sage Downes is busy sacrificing his noggin for his team.

It’s not going to get any easier.

The Coupeville High School boys soccer squad is off to a crisp start this year, but Monday marked the start of a four-game swing through the toughest part of the regular-season schedule.

And while the Wolves battled, they began their brush with their own murderer’s row by falling 3-1 to visiting Vashon Island.

The loss drops CHS to 4-3-1 on the season, while the Pirates climb to 6-1-2.

Next up for the Wolves is a home game Saturday against Forks, which is 6-0 and has outscored foes 32-1 this season.

Spartans goalie Gabriel Terrones opened the year with five straight shutout wins before surrendering a single, solitary score to Elma.

After that, Coupeville faces road rumbles with Port Angeles (6-2) and Klahowya (5-2-1).

Monday the Wolves got their lone goal from senior captain William Nelson.

It was his third tally of the season and the 34th goal Coupeville has notched.

With the game played under sunny skies, wanderin’ camera clicker John Fisken swung by Mickey Clark Field and spent some quality time plying his trade.

The pics seen above are courtesy him.

To see everything he shot (purchases help fund college scholarships for CHS student/athletes), pop over to:

http://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/2017-2018-Coupeville-Soccer/2018-04-02-Boys-vs-Vashon/

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Wolf booters gunnin’ for the top!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, tagged , , , , on March 2, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Junior goaltender Brian Roberts is one of 11 returning letter winners for the CHS boys soccer squad. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

One last chance to take down the big dog.

As the Coupeville High School boys soccer team enters its fourth, and final, season in the 1A Olympic League, the Wolves will once again be on the chase to topple Klahowya.

The Eagles have been the dominant program in the conference, and boast a 21-0 mark in league play across the past three seasons.

Meanwhile, the Wolf booters have three consecutive third-place finishes, meaning they need to knock off Port Townsend as well as KSS.

“Klahowya has qualified for the state tournament the last few years and is always the team to beat in our league,” said Coupeville coach Kyle Nelson.

“Port Townsend has had our number the last couple of years, but we will be looking forward to our continued tight rivalry.”

The Wolves have a 15-game schedule, kicking off the season by helping debut their school’s new stadium Saturday, Mar. 10 against 2A Olympic.

Growth and development will go hand-in-hand with trying to notch wins.

“My goal is to form a well-organized, disciplined, exciting to watch squad,” Kyle Nelson said. “And with anyone who watches us play this year seeing improvement through the course of the season.

“I would like to finish with a winning record and a berth to the district playoffs.”

Coupeville’s biggest strength will be its veteran players, as the Wolves return 11 letter winners from last year’s squad.

Senior midfielders William Nelson, a three-time All-Conference pick, and Ethan Spark head up the team as captains.

Joining them are senior defenders Laurence Boado, Hunter Downes and Axel Partida, junior defenders Uriah Kastner and Teo Keilwitz and junior goaltenders Dewitt Cole and Brian Roberts.

Sophomore midfielders Aram Leyva and James Wood round out the key returnees.

“We are returning quite a few starting varsity players in most positions on the field,” Kyle Nelson said. “We also have a number of players who played with a select team in the off-season.

“So, we have experience on our side this year.”

Leyva and Spark are the top returning goal scorers, as each beat rival goalies six times a year ago.

William Nelson (4), Downes (2), Wood (2) and Boado (1) also found the back of the net in 2017.

Coupeville’s coaching staff, which includes first-year assistant Luke Pelant, a former All-Conference player for the Wolves before his graduation in 2013, is also hopeful of getting help from several newcomers.

“We will also be looking to incorporate some new players who look to be important to our team,” Kyle Nelson said. “But it can take a while for both the defense and the new players to fully integrate.”

Three who have a solid shot at seeing consistent playing time are foreign exchange student Pedro Gamarra, sophomore Derek Leyva and freshman Sam Wynn.

The first two can slide between playing at the forward and midfield slots, while the young gun is a defender.

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Close enough to taste it!!

Posted in Boys Tennis, tagged , , , , , on October 26, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Wolf netters (l to r) William Nelson, Pedro Gamarra and Joey Lippo hang out at the district tourney. (Connie Lippo photo)

For the second straight year, Coupeville High School netters Joey Lippo and William Nelson came within one win of advancing to the state tournament.

But, despite ending the West Central District III boys tennis tourney Thursday with a victory over league rivals, the Wolf duo have reached the end of a remarkable four-year run together.

Maybe.

Having finished third at districts, Lippo and Nelson are the alternates to state, which means they could still get the call if illness, injury or, say, a kidnapping, were to go down and make life miserable for either of the top two duos.

There’s plenty of time for unforeseen circumstances to develop, as boys tennis is played by some schools in the fall and some in the spring.

That means state isn’t held until late May, when Lippo will likely be playing baseball for CHS and Nelson running the soccer pitch for the Wolves.

If that call doesn’t come, though, the duo can look back on a stellar career, where, except for two matches, they played together as an exclusive doubles team for all four seasons.

Coming off a title at the Olympic League tournament, Lippo and Nelson opened districts with a win Wednesday, then lost a titanic three-set battle to a Vashon team Thursday morning.

Coupeville’s best rebounded to drill a duo from Klahowya, which moved them forward into a rematch with the Vashon netters in the second/third place match.

Except…

District tourney rules are clear — “if a rematch occurs during the tournament this match will not occur and the winner from the first match will advance to the next round.”

While it might seem unfair, Coupeville was dinged by the exact opposite rule a couple of years back, when Aaron Curtin was denied a trip to state when he lost a rematch to a Vashon player he had already beaten.

So, basically, no matter which way the rule is written that year, the rich school will ALWAYS come out on top in the hoity-toity world of high school tennis.

End of story.

While Lippo and Nelson finished districts with a 2-1 record, Coupeville’s other four competitors — singles aces Pedro Gamarra and Jakobi Baumann and doubles duo Nick Etzell and Mason Grove — went two and out.

Baumann, a junior, and Grove, a sophomore, are the only Wolves who could return next season.

Etzell, Lippo and Nelson are seniors, while Gamarra is a foreign exchange student.

Complete Thursday results:

Singles:

Pedro Gamarra:

Lost to Zain Mian (Charles Wright) 6-3, 6-0
Lost to Amadeo Gallina (Vashon) 6-1, 6-3

Jakobi Baumann:

Lost to Jacob Kraft (Klahowya) 3-6, 6-3, 6-3

Doubles:

William Nelson/Joey Lippo:

Lost to Wyatt Kepler and JJ Bogaard (Vashon) 6-4, 4-6, 7-5
Beat Morgan Seidel/William Stewart (Klahowya) 7-5(8-6), 6-1

Mason Grove/Nick Etzell:

Lost to Mason Rice/Hank Rogers (Vashon) 7-6, 6-4

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Play from the soul, win from the heart!!

Posted in Boys Tennis, tagged , , , , on October 23, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Pedro Gamarra won two of three matches Monday at the Olympic League tennis tourney, earning a trip to districts. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

   Jakobi Baumann is overcome after pulling off a stunning come-from-behind win to qualify for districts. (Ken Stange photo)

Guts.

Determination.

An indomitable will to win.

Coupeville High School junior Jakobi Baumann showed all that, and more, Monday, as he pulled off a stunning reversal of fortune to kick off the long-delayed 1A Olympic League boys tennis tourney.

After being rained out twice on Whidbey, the netters found clear skies and dry courts in Chimacum, and the Wolves took advantage, with six of their nine competitors earning a trip to districts.

Of the six, it might mean the most to Baumann, who trailed Chimacum’s big-hitting, highly-vocal JJ Klaric 4-0 in a loser-out pro set.

Two weeks ago, the pair met up in a regular-season match and Klaric came out on top in a three-set thriller.

Monday, it was Baumann’s turn to wrest the spotlight away, as the cerebral cool cat battled for an hour-and-a-half before eliminating his ornery foe 8-6.

With that victory, he joins fellow singles player Pedro Gamarra and the doubles teams of Joey Lippo/William Nelson and Mason Grove/Nick Etzell, in punching their tickets to Tacoma.

The Wolves open the two-day district tourney Wednesday afternoon at Sprinker Tennis Center.

Lippo and Nelson, making a final bid at reaching the state tourney as seniors, claimed the league doubles title Monday, rolling to a 3-0 record on the day, while Klahowya’s Taylor Fite captured the singles crown.

Gamarra was third and a mentally drained Baumann fourth in singles play, while Grove and Etzell played the most matches of any Wolves, splitting four bouts to claim third place.

Coupeville’s #3 seeds, singles ace Nile Lockwood and doubles duo Zach Ginnings and Drake Borden, were knocked out of the tourney in the single-elimination first round.

Klahowya will also send six netters to districts, with Fite and Jacob Kraft being joined by the duos of Morgan Seidel/William Stewart and Joe Bowman/Nick Hytinen.

Neither Chimacum or Port Townsend advanced any players.

Complete Monday results:

Singles:

Pedro Gamarra:

Beat Drew Kraft (Kla) 8-6
Lost to Jacob Kraft (Kla) 6-0, 6-2
Beat Jakobi Baumann (Cp) 6-4, 6-4

Jakobi Baumann:

Beat JJ Klaric (Chim) 8-6
Lost to Taylor Fite (Kla) 6-0, 6-0
Lost to Pedro Gamarra (Cp) 6-4, 6-4

Nile Lockwood:

Lost to Taylor Fite (Kla) 8-0

Doubles:

William Nelson/Joey Lippo:

Beat Mason Lawson/Roman Powell (Chim) 8-0
Beat Nick Etzell/Mason Grove (Cp) 6-4, 6-2
Beat Morgan Seidel/William Stewart (Kla) 6-3, 6-1

Mason Grove/Nick Etzell:

Beat Parker Short/Carson Short (Kla) 8-2
Lost to William Nelson/Joey Lippo (Cp) 6-4, 6-2
Beat Joe Bowman/Nick Hytinen (Kla) 6-4, 6-2
Lost to Morgan Seidel/William Stewart (Kla) 7-6(7-2), 6-7(4-7), 11-9

Zach Ginnings/Drake Borden:

Lost to Morgan Seidel/William Stewart (Kla) 8-2

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