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You! Yes, you!! Get your basketball shoes on now!!!

Posted in Boys and Girls Club, Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball, Middle School on January 3, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Want to help Wolf basketball rise, while other teams fall? Start playing hoops at a young age, and some day you can be where Aaron Trumbull is now. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

Want to help Wolf basketball rise, while other teams fall? Start playing hoops at a young age!! (Shelli Trumbull photo)

The Coupeville Middle School gym will soon be hopping again with the sound of basketball shoes squeaking, balls thunking off the hardwood and coaches mumbling, “Play some defense, for heavens sake!”

With the middle school boys’ hoops season done, the CMS 7th and 8th grade girls take the court for their first day of practice Tuesday, Jan. 22.

Before that, though, the Coupeville Boys and Girls Club will kick off its season on Saturday, Jan. 12.

Signups are this Saturday, Jan. 5 at 1:30 PM in the middle school gym (that’s the one that looks out at Prairie Center). There will be a player’s clinic from 1:30-2:30 and then players will be divided into teams.

Four divisions are offered:

Pee Wee (K-1)
Minors (2-3)
Majors (4-5)
Pro (6-8)

Games run on Saturdays through March 2.

For more info contact Eileen Stone at the Boys & Girls Club at 678-5640.

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Dear Everett Herald, are you even trying?!?!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Poking the Herald, Ranting and Raving on January 3, 2013| Leave a Comment »

“My name is Anthony Bergeron. You killed my name. Prepare to die!” (Shelli Trumbull photo)

There are days when I think they are doing it on purpose.

Is it even humanly possible for journalists to misspell so many names from the same school for such an extended period of time without having some kind of ulterior motive? Does the Everett Herald harbor a grudge against Coupeville High School?

Perhaps the Herald writers are still stinging from the incident at the start of fall, when Wolf Nation rose up and torpedoed their football fan poll, outvoting the fat cats at ATM and King’s and giving Coupeville the preseason crown.

Maybe it was when we buried them under emails reminding them “He’s not stumblin’, he’s rumblin’, he’s Jake Tumblin!!”

Or maybe they just can’t spell.

Because, continuing a tradition fine-tuned during the heyday of Taya Boonstra (forever immortalized as Taya Boonscara by Herald writers), they are back at it, massacring Coupeville names like the Huns rolling over Europe, just with a lot less finesse.

Wednesday night presented them with a rare opportunity to misspell four Wolf names, as Drew Chan became Chanv, Aaron Curtin became Curtain and Ben Etzell became Ezzel. Which was a nice start.

The topper though, the one that makes no sense whatsoever (the first three are reasonably close), is when they turned Anthony Bergeron into Anthony Bucchoson.

What?!?!

You got the B at the start and the N at the end right, and then you had a stroke on us, it appears.

I was going to alert the Washington Newspapers Publishers Association. Maybe I should just call 9-1-1 instead.

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Aaron Trumbull got a haircut (and other spiffy photos by his mom)!!

Posted in Boys Basketball on January 3, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Trumbull Trouble rumbles with the new ‘do.

“I’m just sayin’, I pull off the sweater combo look, that’s all!”

Nick Streubel hits second gear and an ATM player screams like a little girl as he gets runs over.

‘Yeah, I’m the Page Hit King. I’m kind of a big deal. I’ll send you a link.”

“Did you see Streubel run over that guy?!?” “All I know is I heard the ATM guy scream like a little girl who just got a pony…”

Back from Christmas break, Aaron Trumbull was sporting a new haircut Wednesday night, as he and his Coupeville High School boys’ basketball teammates tipped off at Archbisop Thomas Murphy.

On site to record the doings was the woman who paid for the haircut, mom Shelli Trumbull, who merrily clicked away. Above, a few of her best photos from the night that was in Everett.

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Trumbull, Etzell have sweet shooting night in Wolf loss!!

Posted in Boys Basketball on January 3, 2013| Leave a Comment »

The Wolf bench has a variety of reactions to action on the court Wednesday night. (Shelli Trumbull photos)

Ben Etzell (far right) and Nick Streubel prepare to squish an ATM player trapped between them.

The long and winding road started Wednesday night for the Coupeville High School boys’ basketball team.

After playing five of six at home before Christmas break, the Wolves will now learn the joys of spending January nights on a bus in a different town each night.

With the exception of this Friday, Jan. 4, when it hosts Granite Falls, Coupeville will play seven of eight on the road, including a three-week, six-game stretch when the only time they will see their home gym is during practices.

They kicked off their never-ending road adventure at the swanky home of Archbishop Thomas Murphy Wednesday, and despite a strong second half, fell 87-44 to the host Wildcats. The loss, despite twin 10-point performances from Aaron Trumbull and Ben Etzell, dropped the Wolves to 0-10 overall, 0-5 in Cascade Conference play.

It was also an unfortunate milestone, as Coupeville recorded its 30th consecutive defeat.

Trailing by just eight after one quarter, the Wolves were unable to stem the tide on defense once the second eight minute period began. ATM threw up 29 points in the second quarter alone and were on cruise control as the teams headed to the locker room.

Breaking recent tradition, however, Coupeville actually picked up the scoring pace in the second half, dumping in 26 of their points after the break.

Big men Nick Streubel and Caleb Valko each pumped in eight in support of Trumbull and Etzell, while Aaron Curtin and Morgan Payne netted three apiece. Senior Drew Chan rounded out the scoring attack with a bucket.

Coupeville and Granite Falls tip-off at 5:15 PM (JV) and 7 (varsity) Friday, then the Wolves don’t play at home again until a rematch with ATM on Friday, Jan. 25.

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

Posted in Girls Basketball on January 2, 2013| Leave a Comment »

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.

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