Coupeville Sports

Aura Corredor (center) with fellow basketball player Sophia Jebrail (left) and CHS cheerleader Camilla Rische.

Count it. Everyone has scored.

With a roster that has swelled as high as 15 or 16 players at times this season, Coupeville High School JV girls’ basketball coach Amy King has had a balancing act to conduct.

Try and get wins, but also get floor time for all of her players, regardless of skill level or experience.

One final bit of business — having every player score this season — was accomplished Wednesday when foreign exchange student Aura Corredor broke into the scoring column.

A newcomer to the sport, the native of Cali, Colombia slid a free-throw through the net during a 38-26 loss to visiting Friday Harbor, then got the full-on treatment from her teammates.

“The actual thrill of the night was when Aura tried to put up a shot and got fouled,” King said. “With this being her first year ever playing basketball and not getting a lot of time on the court so far this year, she was a bit nervous going to the free throw line.

“She’s been working hard on her shots in practice so we all had full confidence in her,” she added. “Her first shot went in and the bench erupted and the crowd got loud.”

Corredor followed up the free throw by collecting her first floor burn of the season (“It was exciting to watch her dive in and try for the rebound”) after narrowly missing her second shot.

The rest of the young Wolves imitated her, giving four hard-played quarters, but coming up short against a Friday Harbor team that used its taller players to control the game.

Coupeville played minus its two swing players — McKayla Bailey and Wynter Thorne — and with limited help from leading scorer Carlie Rosenkrance, as all three saw extended time in the night’s varsity game, which the Wolves won.

Kailey Kellner paced the CHS attack with nine points, including a three-pointer, while Mattea Miller and Lauren Grove banged away for four apiece. Sophia Jebrail (3), Rosenkrance (2), Tiffany Briscoe (2), Skyler Lawrence (1) and Corredor (1) rounded out the scoring chart.

With four games left on the schedule, King is excited with much of what she has seen this season, while a bit sorry to see it near an end.

“This team has a lot of talent and drive. We continue to fight and battle and play as a team,” she said. “And it isn’t always just the same few girls who step up every game and excel – they all have stepped up through this season and make me so proud.

“This group all has great attitudes and whether on the bench or the court they are supporting their team and working hard. I am so impressed with the improvement from them all,” King added. “Win or lose – they are a great group of girls and its sad that we have only one more week together.”