Hark, the hardwood wants your children.
And your children want to play “God’s Chosen Sport” of basketball, so get crackin’ on signing them up for a new season of the Coupeville Youth Basketball Association.
Registration closes December 1, with the campaign set to play out January 4 through February 27.
The league is open to children in grades K-5, and cost is $60 per player.
For more info and to sign up your hoops hotshots, pop over to:
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Coupeville High School cross country runner Johnathan Jacobsen charges towards the finish line in a meet earlier this season. (Julie Wheat photo)
We hit the tape.
With all fall sports regular season games in the Northwest 2B/1B League having wrapped this week, this is our final standings story for the season.
The weekly feature will be back once high school basketball gets rolling, but for now, a breather.
Where things sit through November 1:
Northwest League boys’ soccer:
| School | League | Points | Overall |
| Orcas Island | 9-0-0 | 27 | 15-0-1 |
| MV Christian | 7-1-1 | 22 | 10-1-3 |
| PC Christian | 7-2-0 | 21 | 9-4-1 |
| Friday Harbor | 5-2-2 | 17 | 8-4-2 |
| Coupeville | 5-3-1 | 16 | 9-5-1 |
| La Conner | 3-6-0 | 9 | 6-9-1 |
| Lopez Island | 3-6-0 | 9 | 4-10-0 |
| Evangel Classical | 2-6-1 | 7 | 6-6-2 |
| CPC-Lynnwood | 1-7-1 | 4 | 4-10-1 |
| Grace Academy | 0-9-0 | 0 | 0-13-0 |
**3 points for a league win, 1 for a tie**
Northwest League football — (11-Man):
| School | League | Overall |
| Friday Harbor | 2-0 | 6-2 |
| Coupeville | 0-2 | 1-6 |
Northwest League girls’ soccer:
| School | League | Points | Overall |
| MV Christian | 12-0-0 | 36 | 14-2-1 |
| Friday Harbor | 8-4-0 | 24 | 8-8-0 |
| Coupeville | 6-4-2 | 20 | 7-5-3 |
| Lopez Island | 6-4-2 | 20 | 6-5-2 |
| La Conner | 5-5-2 | 17 | 5-9-2 |
| PC Christian | 2-10-0 | 6 | 2-10-0 |
| Orcas Island | 0-12-0 | 0 | 1-14-0 |
**3 points for a league win, 1 for a tie**
Northwest League volleyball:
| School | League | Overall |
| Darrington | 8-0 | 19-3 |
| MV Christian | 9-1 | 15-1 |
| Coupeville | 6-4 | 8-7 |
| La Conner | 5-5 | 7-9 |
| Friday Harbor | 3-7 | 4-8 |
| Orcas Island | 2-8 | 5-12 |
| Concrete | 0-8 | 7-14 |
Willow Leedy-Bonifas sends a volleyball back where it came from. (Jacob Lujan photo)
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Finn Price is ready to launch from Lane #2. (Rachel Price-Rayner photo)
He’s tasted collegiate water.
Coupeville grad Finn Price made his debut with the Whitman College men’s swim team this weekend, competing in a pair of meets in Tacoma.
The Blues opened their season at Pacific Lutheran University Friday, before diving in against the University of Puget Sound Saturday.
Price, a freshman majoring in Film and Media Studies, swam in three events against PLU, winning his heat in the 50 free in 24.72 seconds, while also participating in a pair of relays, the 400 free and 400 medley.
He had the fastest time in his group in the second of those two team races.
Saturday Price swam in the 100 free, finishing 5th in 52.81, and the 200 free, hitting the wall 7th in 1:58.45, while setting PRs in both events.
Whitman returns to action November 13-14 when it hosts Linfield University followed by Willamette University.
Price was a three-time state meet qualifier during his Cow Town days, despite CHS not having its own swim program.
Instead, the Lone Wolf trained and traveled with Kamiak, a 4A school in Mukilteo, before breaking off on his own each postseason.
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Wolves Ivy Rudat (left) and Anna Powers are state meet qualifiers. (Photos courtesy Elizabeth Bitting, Kelly Powers, Dan McCutcheon, and Matt Lachnit.)
Make reservations for nine heading off to Eastern Washington.
The Coupeville High School cross country team won a boys team title at the district meet Saturday, while finishing third in a brutal girls’ battle.
Led by a one-two finish from sophomore Cyrus Sparacio and freshman Henry Purdue, the Wolf boys held off Northwest 2B/1B League rival Friday Harbor 19-39 to claim the crown and earn a fourth-straight trip to state as a full unit.
The final run of the season is set for next Saturday, November 7 at the Sun Willows Golf Course in Pasco.
Coupeville’s boys finished 10th at state in 2023, 9th in 2024, and 11th in 2025.
Senior Kenneth Jacobsen is the only CHS runner to be a member of all four teams, while Sparacio, Ossian Merkel, and Beckett Green advance to state for a second time.
Ready to rumble on Halloween morning.
While the Wolf boys competed against 2B schools from District 1 and 2 at Saturday’s Westside Classic meet at University Place, the girls faced a steeper uphill battle.
Their race also included runners from District 3, and mashed together 1B and 2B teams, while still retaining the same number of qualifiers for state — the top two teams and top 14 runners.
Pope John Paul II out of Lacey, a juggernaut in the harrier biz, ran away with the team title, placing all seven of its runners in the top 10 led by winner Isla Valpiani to notch a paltry 15 points.
The public school champs.
Covenant from Tacoma nipped Coupeville 68-81 to nab the other team berth to state, with Evangel Classical (114), Summit Classical Christian (125), and Mount Vernon Christian (138) also pushing a full seven runners across the line.
As the only public school to field a full team on the 5,000-meter course — Orcas Island, Friday Harbor, Lummi Nation and others had limited rosters — the Wolves did nab two slots to state.
Freshman Anna Powers hit the tape in 11th place, while senior Ivy Rudat claimed the very last golden ticket in 14th, earning her second trip to Pasco.
While the Wolf girls got tripped up a bit by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association being stingy with its allocations, CHS coach Elizabeth Bitting came away pleased with how her runners approached the royale rumble.
“They fought hard!” she said.
“They ran amazing and did SO WELL! I am proud of them and their season.”
Ivy Rudat perfects the art of the run.
Saturday results:
GIRLS:
Anna Powers (11th) 21:58.0 — *STATE QUALIFIER*
Ivy Rudat (14th) 22:19.7 — *STATE QUALIFIER*
Mikayla Wagner (18th) 23:09.3
Devon Wyman (26th) 24:12.9
Claire Lachnit (31st) 24:58.0
Laken Simpson (36th) 25:34.7
Allie Powers (37th) 25:37.1
Henry Purdue comes roaring up on the outside.
BOYS:
Cyrus Sparacio (1st) 17:10.2 — *STATE QUALIFIER*
Henry Purdue (2nd) 17:52.6 — *STATE QUALIFIER*
Kenneth Jacobsen (6th) 18:31.1 — *STATE QUALIFIER*
Ossian Merkel (10th) 19:15.9 — *STATE QUALIFIER*
Archer Schwarz (14th) 19:23.1 — *STATE QUALIFIER*
Leo Davis (15th) 19:43.6 — *STATE QUALIFIER*
Beckett Green (17th) 20:05.9 — *STATE QUALIFIER*
Ossian Merkel stands tall on the awards stand.
Anna Powers eyeballs the paparazzi as she glides on by.
Archer Schwarz shows ’em how it’s done.
Plotting their strategy.
The fastest 2B squad in the region.
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Mia Farris reunites with Scarlett Stuurmans, younger sister of former Coupeville High School teammate Lyla Stuurmans. (Susan Farris photo)
Barring a postseason matchup, they finish in a tie.
Coupeville grads Lyla Stuurmans and Mia Farris met for the fourth time on opposite sides of the net in a college volleyball match Friday, with the former helping Skagit Valley slide past visiting Whatcom in four tense sets.
The Cardinals rallied on the night they honored their sophomores, holding off the Orcas 19-25, 25-22, 25-17, 25-18, earning a split in the season series for the second straight year.
Stuurmans and Farris were both CHS Athlete of the Year winners and key players on a Wolf spiker squad which finished fourth at state during their senior season, and now near the end of their runs at their two-year colleges.
Friday night’s win lifts Skagit to 7-4 in Northwest Athletic Conference play, 14-10 overall, while Whatcom slips to 3-7 and 9-17.
Stuurmans and the Cardinals are in third place in the North Region, with one regular season match left to play, while Whatcom and Farris are in fifth, with two contests still on the schedule.
The top four teams make the playoffs.
Lyla Stuurmans acknowledges her fan club. (Sarah Stuurmans photo)
Farris scraped a fair number of balls off the floor while on the road Friday, piling up 19 digs to go with two assists and a service ace.
Across the net Stuurmans racked up seven kills, 15 digs, an assist, an ace, and a block assist in her final regular season home match.
On the season, Farris has tallied 37 kills, 40 assists, 48 aces, 364 digs, two solo blocks, a block assist, and 87.5 points.
Stuurmans has 148 kills, 15 assists, 24 aces, 225 digs, eight solo blocks, 35 block assists, and 197.5 points.
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