Wolf senior Steven Cope goes up strong Monday night. (John Fisken photo)
The night started off strong and then it kind of went downhill, fast.
Senior Night festivities, honoring Gabe Wynn, Steven Cope and Brian Shank, helped the Coupeville High School boys’ basketball squad kick things off on a classy note Monday night.
Unfortunately, the game itself, a non-conference tilt with 2A Sequim, became a one-sided affair quickly, as the host Wolves fell behind by 20+ points early in the second quarter and never recovered, falling 72-33.
The non-conference loss snaps a two-game winning streak for Coupeville and drops it to 3-14 on the season.
The Wolves will have an almost immediate chance to reconcile things, however, as they travel to Sequim Thursday for the second half of an ultra-rare home-and-away non-conference match-up.
In the next three days, CHS needs to get quicker, much quicker, if they want to turn the tables on the guys in purple.
Sequim used superior speed, a huge edge on the boards and two back-breaking runs — 16-0 in the first half and 15-0 in the third quarter — to turns things into a rout.
Coupeville fell behind 6-0 in the early-going, not scoring until Gabe Wynn hit a pull-back jumper nearly three-and-a-half minutes into the game, and things got progressively rougher from there.
Trailing 21-6 at the first break, the Wolves couldn’t stop the rampage, falling behind by 23 shortly before halftime.
CHS got a few points back on a nice sideline jumper from Cope and a wild end-to-end run by Hunter Smith, who picked up three the hard way (a breakaway bucket and ensuing free throw) but things kept slipping away.
Other than one brief surge late in the third, when the Wolves banked home seven straight points — a breakaway off a steal and a three-ball, both from Smith, and an inside leaner from Shank — there wasn’t much to write home about.
Smith paced the Wolves with a team-high 12, while Shank dropped eight and Ethan Spark singed the nets for seven.
Cope, Wynn and Cameron Toomey-Stout each added a bucket, while Joey Lippo and Kyle Rockwell put in work on the boards.
Payton Glasser led Sequim with 23, dropping in 12 of those in the first quarter alone.
JV roughed up:
Playing without a point guard (freshmen Jered Brown is out with a broken collarbone), the young Wolves went down hard, losing 70-15.
“Worst loss of my career,” said JV coach Dustin Van Velkinburgh, and that was pretty much all he felt like saying on that.
The defeat drops the young guns to 7-10.
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