Coupeville Sports

Tiffany Briscoe outscored Chimacum by herself Tuesday. (John Fisken photo)

Some nights, everything goes right.

Every shot you throw up goes in. Every defensive wrinkle you throw at a team works. The water even tastes better.

Tuesday night was that kind of nirvana for the Coupeville High School JV girls’ basketball team, which massacred host Chimacum 44-4 in a game that could have been much, much worse.

The Wolves pulled back midway through the third, however, trying to run clock, work on plays and not embarrass the Cowboys any more than necessary.

The team’s fourth straight win, it lifted the young guns to 10-5 on the season, 5-0 in Olympic League play.

And it was over fairly quickly, as Coupeville stormed out to a 12-0 lead after the opening quarter.

Even though things didn’t quite work out the way Wolf coach Amy King had it planned.

“Our goal was to jump up quickly on the board, then have a chance to make our first attempt at a press. I told the girls we would press after our first score,” she said. “Of course, it was several times up and down the court before we would score and then just about everyone just ran down the floor, forgetting all about the press.

“We finally got it though, and once we started, the press just flowed beautifully.”

With Kyla Briscoe, Lauren Grove and Lauren Rose harassing Chimacum at every turn, the Wolves spent most of the night scoring off of steals and quick transitions.

When it did have to work the ball around on offense, Coupeville benefited greatly from a more-assertive Tiffany Briscoe.

Normally a terror on defense, she accepted the call to duty on the offensive end in this game, as well.

“Tiffany loves defense … but not so much love for offense,” King said. “We have been working her over pretty good telling her she needs to play a full game – both ends of the court.

“Tonight she was driving, fighting for rebound put backs and just taking the opportunity to score. It was so nice!”

Every one of the eight Wolves brought a smile to their coach’s face on this night.

“These girls really are just playing so well right now,” King said. “Very happy with them all.

“Allison (Wenzel) was everywhere on defense and fought for everything,” she added. “Brisa (Herrera) has really stepped up her game too; she has been grabbing rebounds and following Skyler (Lawrence’s) lead with grabbing onto the ball, trying for steals or causing jump balls.”

Kailey Kellner paced the offense with 11 points before swinging up to join the varsity, with Tiffany Briscoe (10), Grove (9), Rose (5), Herrera (4), Lawrence (3) and Wenzel (2) rounding out the scorers.

Kyla Briscoe snatched eight rebounds and made off with four steals to help spark the super-charged Wolf defense, with big sis Tiffany (six rebounds), Kellner (5) and Lawrence (5) also hitting the boards hard.

Lawrence had a team-high six steals.