Coupeville Sports

   Lauren Rose, seen here in an earlier game, was one of three Wolves to hit for eight Friday in a Wolf JV win.  (John Fisken photo)

Mouse was back in the house, and all was right.

Back after missing time with an illness, spark-plug Lauren Rose threw down five of her team-high eight points in the first quarter Friday, sparking the Coupeville High School JV girls’ basketball squad to a runaway win on its home court.

The 36-22 victory over a scrappy Port Townsend team lifted the young Wolves to 5-8 overall, 3-1 in 1A Olympic League play.

For a second, the game was a close one, as the two rivals exchanged opening baskets.

Wolf freshman Sarah Wright went down low for a hard-earned bucket in the paint, before the most popular visiting player in all the land, Port Townsend’s always-smiling Amelia Breithaupt, threw down a running hook shot to answer.

After that, it was all Coupeville, all the time, until coach Amy King called off the attack late in the third.

The Wolves blew the game open with an 11-0 run after Breithaupt’s bucket, with Skyler Lawrence banging home three baskets around a pair of scores from Rose.

The crafty sophomore ace put a rebound back up and in, then drilled a three-ball from somewhere out in the parking lot.

CHS continued to push the pace, with different players showing a hot hand, eventually stretching the lead out to 32-8 late in the third.

From that point on, the Wolves went into clock-eating mode, working on plays.

Rose shared scoring honors with Lawrence and Wenzel, as each of the swing players scored eight points apiece. Wright and Maddy Hilkey rounded out the attack, each dropping in six.

Two of Hilkey’s points came when she swished a pair at the free-throw line, which is notable because there were so few visits to the charity stripe on the night.

Between the JV and varsity games, Coupeville owned a 5-0 advantage on made free throws Friday, with the JV sinking three of those.

Wright paced the Wolves on the boards, snatching 14, while Lawrence and Ashlie Shank had four apiece.

Hilkey pilfered four steals, with Brittany Powers and Nicole Lester making off with two apiece.