Aaron Trumbull drops down and plays picture-perfect defense Tuesday. (Shelli Trumbull photos)
Facing a triple team, Nick Streubel makes the smart move and kicks the ball back out of the paint to a waiting shooter.
You can end the football season, but you can’t make Caleb Valko stop tackling people.
The basket was no friend to the Wolves Tuesday night.
Despite their best entreaties, the hoop refused to accept the majority of the shots thrown up by the Coupeville High School boys’ basketball team. Playing against the top team in the Cascade Conference on its home court, that doomed them, as they fell 54-16 at King’s.
The loss, which dropped the Wolves to 0-12 overall, 0-7 in league play, kicked off a brutal six-game road trip.
Even with ice-cold shooting, Coupeville stayed close through one quarter, using a bruising defense to limit the Knights to just a 9-2 lead after the first eight minutes. King’s then found its rhythm, however, pouring in double digits (19, 12, 14) in each of the remaining quarters.
The 16 points matched a season-low for the Wolves, who had been coming off of their best offensive showings of the season.
Aaron Trumbull and Ben Etzell paced Coupeville with five apiece, while Drew Chan, Aaron Curtin and Nick Streubel each banked in a bucket.
The Wolves travel to Cedarcrest Friday, Jan. 11, then team up with the Coupeville girls for a double header at Mount Vernon Christian the next day.
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