Coupeville Sports

Gavin O’Keefe is one of four CHS seniors who will play their final home game next Tuesday. (John Fisken photo)

Take out the second quarter and the Wolves win.

But, since they count all four quarters, a 31-15 explosion Friday by host Sultan denied the Coupeville High School boys’ basketball team its second Cascade Conference win of the season.

The loss, coupled with a South Whidbey win against Lakewood, snuffed out the last flicker of a playoff hope for CHS.

The Wolves (3-15 overall, 1-11 in league play) will wrap their season with a home game Tuesday, Feb. 4 against ATM (Senior Night for Anthony Bergeron, Gavin O’Keefe, Nick Streubel and Morgan Payne) and a road game Thursday, Feb. 6 at Granite Falls.

Two of the three 1A schools in the 1A/2A Cascade Conference earn district playoff berths this season, and those slots will go to King’s (11-1 in league) and South Whidbey (4-7).

Playing at Sultan in a rematch with a team they battled hard the first time around in a 91-80 loss, Coupeville trailed by just four after one quarter (19-15) and won both the third (20-17) and fourth (17-12) periods.

But the second quarter doomed them.

Giovanni Williams paced Sultan with a game-high 25, while the Wolves spread out their offense between eight players.

Bergeron poured in 14, while O’Keefe and Streubel each banged home 10.

Wiley Hesselgrave (9), Joel Walstad (8), Payne (8), Aaron Trumbull (6) and Matt Shank (2) all chipped in, with Walstad, Bergeron and Payne all connecting from three-point land.