Coupeville Sports

   Hard-working Brian Shank (with ball) scored a game-high seven points in Coupeville’s JV loss Tuesday night. (John Fisken photo)

The transition begins.

As the Coupeville High School JV boys’ basketball squad heads down the final stretch of the season, coach Dustin Van Velkinburgh is mixing things up.

His young guns have been throwing up a ton of three-balls in practice, as the team is looking to amp up its offense.

While the Wolves aren’t quite ready yet to play at the pace of say, Loyola Marymount from the late ’80s/early ’90s, they do want to push the flow of the game, mixing treys with layups.

First though, they’ll have to have a better shooting night than they did Tuesday, when Coupeville went 4-of-27 from behind the arc in a 59-25 loss to visiting Chimacum.

The loss dropped the Wolf JV to 2-11 overall, 0-5 in league play.

Brian Shank paced CHS with seven points, while Gabe Eck drained a pair of three-pointers to back him with six.

Ty Eck banked home four, Andre Avila popped for three, Hunter Downes notched two and Ariah Bepler tickled the twines for a free throw.

And yes, that’s 23 and not 25, as the book was missing a bucket from the second quarter.

Someone tell the JV score-keeper they’ll need to be quicker with the pencil, especially if the Wolf young guns start nailing all those three-balls.