Coupeville Sports

Anthony Bergeron scored a career-high 23 Friday night. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

They’re back in the playoff hunt.

With senior Anthony Bergeron throwing down a career high 23 points Friday night, the Coupeville High School boys’ basketball squad claimed its first Cascade Conference win in three seasons.

Better yet, the 59-57 win at Lakewood, coming against the second-biggest 2A school in the league, pulls the Wolves to within a game of South Whidbey in the hunt for a 1A playoff spot.

The Wolves head to Langley Tuesday — after a home game against league leader King’s Saturday (2:30 tip for JV, 4 PM for varsity) — for a rematch with the Falcons, who edged Coupeville earlier this season.

The Wolves are 3-11 overall, 1-8 in league, while South Whidbey, which lost 77-76 against Cedarcrest Friday, is 2-12, 2-7.

Of the three 1A teams in the conference, the top two will advance to districts, with King’s (13-2, 8-1) firmly in control of the first slot.

With Bergeron tying Makana Stone for the biggest single-game output by a Wolf this season, Coupeville won its first conference game since the 2010-2011 season.

That year CHS went 6-8 in league play in Randy King’s final season in a 20-year-plus head coaching career.

Coupeville went winless in 2011-2012 under first-year head coach Anthony Smith, then won a non-conference game against Mount Vernon Christian in 2012-2013. This season they had won non-conference bouts with MVC and Orcas Island.

Junior Matt Shank, who is in his first season as a Wolf after his family moved from Utah, backed Bergeron up with 12 points, while four players (Joel Walstad, Nick Streubel, Wiley Hesselgrave and Aaron Trumbull) all hit for six points apiece.

Lakewood (5-10, 2-7) was led by Ryan Alford, who matched Bergeron with 23.