Don’t make Kacie Kiel come over there and hurt you!!

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Don’t make Kacie Kiel come over there and hurt you!!

January 2, 2013 by David Svien

Stone. Cold. Killer.

Kacie Kiel is a killer.

The five-foot-seven Coupeville High School sophomore probably weighs about 12 pounds, though her dad, Steve, insists she eats non-stop (“Gotta feed the train! Gotta feed the worm!!”) as he massages his aching wallet.

But don’t let her slight frame make you think she’s a pushover.

Put a basketball in her hands and give her a second or two on the clock and she’ll make you pay, as she so ably did at the end of the first quarter of the girls’ JV game Wednesday night.

With the fans shouting “Three! Two! One!” as the clock ran out, Kiel did her best Larry Bird impression, dribbling right at the heart of the defense and then, without a moment’s hesitation, rising up and drilling a buzzer-beating three-point bomb at the exact moment her mom walked into the gym.

Then, a slight smile on her face, she turned back towards her bench and got jumped by her teammates as older sister Katie Kiel screamed her name from the stands, where she and the rest of the Wolf varsity squad were banging on the bleachers in acknowledgment of a stone cold assassin doin’ work.

It would be nice to say that was the start of something special, but, on a night when a very tired looking Wolf squad returned from a 10-day layoff and met up with a brutally quick Archbishop Thomas Murphy team, let’s just bask in Kacie Kiel’s awesomeness for a moment or two longer.

Apart from that, brutal stretches in the first and third quarter killed the Wolves, as ATM ran away with a 53-26 win. The loss dropped the Wolf JV to 4-5 on the season, 2-3 in Cascade Conference play.

Monica Vidoni and Madeline Strasburg paced the Wolves with eight points apiece, with Vidoni’s coming in the paint and Strasburg’s coming on a variety of pedal-to-the-metal sprints down the court.

McKayla Bailey added five, Kiel had her crowd-pleasing three and Wynter Thorne banked in a bucket off of a nice pass from Kiel, who first tracked down a rebound and ripped it free from a much larger ATM player.

Like I said, Kacie Kiel is a stone cold killer.