Coupeville Sports

   Kyla Briscoe played with this same determination Tuesday, scoring eight in a 49-5 Wolf win. (John Fisken photos)

Brisa Herrera brings the defense every game.

There are nights where just about everything goes your way.

Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015 was one of those nights for the Coupeville High School JV girls’ basketball team, which put visiting Port Townsend through the spanking machine for 32 minutes en route to a 49-5 win.

And no, that is not a misprint. It really is supposed to say 49-5.

The victory, the third in the last four games for the young Wolves, lifted them to 6-4 overall, 2-0 in Olympic League play.

With three players scoring in double digits (and a fourth missing by just a bucket), Coupeville put together a 32-0 run, held the Redhawks scoreless in two separate quarters and gave coach Amy King plenty of time to work on every last play she had highlighted in her book.

For a moment, near the start, it looked like it might be a close game.

After Kailey Kellner opened things up for Coupeville with back-to-back buckets, Port Townsend drained a long jumper from the right side to cut the lead to 4-2.

That would be the last time a Redhawk player would find the bottom of the net until late in the third quarter, when a desperation heave from three-point land somehow found just the exact right combination of bounces before flopping through the net with an audible sigh.

While Port Townsend was shooting blanks, the Wolves took turns attacking the basket with glee.

Kellner tossed in 10 in the first quarter alone, then let teammates Skyler Lawrence, Lauren Rose and Kyla Briscoe go on mini-scoring runs of their own.

The play that summed up the disparity between the two teams came midway through the second quarter, when Coupeville snagged four straight offensive boards on one possession.

Finally tired of watching her teammates roll the ball around the rim and off it, Lawrence grabbed the final board and shot back upwards, banking the ball off the glass with a decisive thunk.

The next sound you heard was the sound of five sets of Port Townsend shoulders slumping as the Redhawks stumbled back up court.

Seriously, it made a whooshing sound.

Which was barely audible over the hootin’ and hollerin’ of the small, but vocal, pack of Wolf fans who had made it into the gym for a 3:30 start.

Despite sitting out the fourth quarter, so she could make her varsity debut later in the evening, Kellner paced Coupeville with 14 points, while Lawrence banged home 12 and Rose dropped in 10.

Briscoe tossed in eight, Lauren Grove kicked in three (and spearheaded the Wolf fast break on numerous occasions) and Brisa Herrera banked home her second bucket of the season.

Allison Wenzel was the lone Wolf to go scoreless, but more than made up for it with her ferocity on defense. With her long braid cracking in the air each time, she was a beast on the boards.