Coupeville Sports

   With players like Lauren Rose setting up teammates at every turn, the Wolf girls are 13-3 this season. (John Fisken photo)

It’s all about playoff seeding heading into the final week of the regular season for high school basketball.

On the girls side of things, Coupeville is the league champ — for a third-straight season — and Port Townsend has clinched second place.

Chimacum can clinch third place, and the league’s final playoff berth, with a win Tuesday against Klahowya.

If the Cowboys fall to the Eagles, though, things would be guaranteed to go all the way to the final game on both team’s schedule — a rematch Saturday that would then be a winner-take-all.

While Coupeville is locked in regardless, the Wolves do want to win their finale Saturday against Port Townsend.

Do that and they finish 9-0 for the third straight year and stretch the league’s longest unbeaten streak, in any sport, to 27-0.

Over on the boys side, only one of four teams is 100% confident in knowing its fate, and that’s league champ Port Townsend.

The other three schools can all finish anywhere between #2 and #4 depending on how the season’s final six days play out.

Coupeville, which pulled off back-to-back wins against Klahowya and Chimacum to end last week, still has a shot of catching the Cowboys for the #2 playoff seed … or falling completely out of the playoff picture.

Both are very long shots, though, with the odds heavily in favor of the Wolves finishing #3 and hosting a first-round loser-out postseason game.

To get #2, CHS has only one option — it has to beat Port Townsend in the season finale, while needing Chimacum to lose twice in five days to Klahowya.

That’s it.

Any other result and the Wolves can’t pull off the stunning late-season reversal.

They don’t have a tiebreaker against Chimacum, having lost two of three to the Cowboys, so have to finish with a better record.

To go to the other extreme, the only way Coupeville misses the postseason is if Klahowya wins its final three games (two tilts against Chimacum wrapped around a meeting with Port Townsend) and the Wolves drop that final battle with the RedHawks.

Will things end quickly — a Chimacum win Tuesday at Klahowya ends all speculation — or go down to the final day? Stay tuned.

Where things sit through Monday morning:

Olympic League girls basketball:

Olympic League boys basketball:

And scoring stats for Coupeville’s varsity players:

Girls:

Kailey Kellner – 148
Mikayla Elfrank – 98
Mia Littlejohn – 90
Lindsey Roberts – 60
Kalia Littlejohn – 55
Tiffany Briscoe – 37
Lauren Grove – 36
Lauren Rose – 30
Sarah Wright – 15
Kyla Briscoe – 7
Allison Wenzel – 4
Charlotte Langille – 2

Boys:

Hunter Smith – 255
Gabe Wynn – 184
Brian Shank – 103
Ethan Spark – 99
Hunter Downes – 36
Joey Lippo – 20
Cameron Toomey-Stout – 18
Steven Cope – 11
Ariah Bepler – 5
Jered Brown – 5