Avalon Renninger and Co. will play four games in six days to open the season, including facing an Australian traveling team. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)
This schedule is going to 21.
The Coupeville High School girls basketball squad has picked up an extra game this season, and it involves two road trips.
Making the much-longer journey will be Flinders Christian Community College, a traveling team from Australia, which swings by Whidbey Island to play the Wolves Saturday, Dec. 2.
Coupeville, which will be capping a four-games-in-six-days stretch to open the season (it travels to Bellingham Nov. 27, then hosts Blaine Nov. 29 and Mount Vernon Christian Dec. 1), won’t be playing at home, though.
The Wolves will hop on the bus and head down Island to Langley, where the game will be played at South Whidbey High School.
Tip-off for the varsity-only game is 11 AM.
The game is being played in Langley, and not Coupeville, because it’s much closer to the Clinton ferry, making for less of a detour for Flinders Christian as it travels across Western Washington.
The SWHS gym is available because South Whidbey’s girls basketball squad will be out of town.
The Falcons will be at the Friday Harbor Tip-Off Classic, an event Coupeville won the previous two seasons.
While the Aussies come bearing “college” in their name, don’t take that too literally, as the term is used differently Down Under.
Flinders Christian is “an independent, coeducational, interdenominational Christian school” which caters to students in grades K-12.
The school has campuses at Carrum Downes, Traralgon and Tyabb.
Flinders Christian is sending both a girls and boys team on this US tour — which each set to play four games in Washington state and at least one in California.
18 of the 19 players involved hail from the Tyabb campus, which sits 50 miles south of Melbourne.
The tour is set up through a Seattle-based company, Team Travel Experts, and planning started in Mar. 2016.
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