“He’s gonna crush me like a grape. He’s gonna step on me and splat, after I spent all this time growing this little mini goatee, too… Dang!” (Shelli Trumbull photo)
Season-long consistency was rewarded last week.
Coupeville High School junior Nick “The Big Hurt” Streubel, who banged with the big boys in the paint game after game, was the lone Wolf boys’ basketball player to receive acknowledgement from Cascade Conference coaches in All-League voting.
He received Honorable Mention status after leading Coupeville in scoring and rebounding, joining freshman Makana Stone and senior Bessie Walstad, who received similar recognition on the girls side of the ball.
Zach Taylor of Cedarcrest was selected over the league’s top scorer — Brock VandenEkart of Sultan — as the league MVP, while Archbishop Thomas Murphy’s splendid center, Beth Carlson, easily notched the honor.
Two South Whidbey players, Nick French and Ellie Greene, were named to the Second Team, while two local players were ignored in voting, one more so than the other.
Wolf junior Ben Etzell, who missed chunks of the season at the start and end, yet rang up games of 24 and 21 and had the league’s 12th best scoring average (11.4 per game) was ignored, as was South Whidbey senior Hayley Newman.
Newman’s snub, coming after the Falcon senior quit her team with two games to play, is hard to understand, unless league coaches are punishing her for her early exit. She was the #3 scorer in the conference, behind Carlson and Susan Kenney of Cedarcrest, both First Team selections.
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