Coupeville Sports

   Mason Grove scored 34 points, with 10 three-pointers, in Tuesday’s JV game. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Mason Grove can shoot. End of story.

The Coupeville High School sophomore has a quick, deadly stroke from three-point land, something he has demonstrated all season.

Tuesday night, though, Grove took it to another level.

Raining down 10 (count ’em) three-balls, he had arguably the greatest single offensive game any Wolf JV player has ever recorded, scoring 34 points in a 59-48 loss to a high-powered Port Townsend squad.

The loss drops a young, mostly inexperienced CHS team to 1-4, but the Wolves didn’t fall easily.

Trailing 15-7 after one quarter of play, a period in which the offense came from Daniel Olson, Ulrik Wells and Jake Pease, Coupeville (and Grove) lit up the joint in the second.

It started with a trey from the top, and then the balls started falling from every direction.

By the time he was done, Grove had hit five three-balls in the quarter, scored 17 and helped keep the Wolves alive as the two teams battled to a 21-21 stalemate over eight furious minutes.

The few times the long-range shots weren’t falling, Pease cleaned the glass effectively, knocking down a pair of shots.

Three consecutive Grove treys to kick off the third quarter pulled CHS to within a single point at 38-37, but that was when the more-polished RedHawks began to assert themselves.

A 20-5 Port Townsend surge that began at the midway point of the third and crested late in the fourth doomed any chances of a Wolf win, but Coupeville stayed scrappy until the end.

Free throws from Wells and Grove helped, and then the fans, who had been counting down, got what they wanted when Grove splashed home his 10th three-ball in the final minute.

Coupeville’s record for a varsity game is seven treys, set by Gabe Wynn last season. Until then, Brad Sherman, the current CHS head coach, was the high man, with six during a 2001 game.

Grove’s 34 points, very likely a single-game scoring record for a JV game, were just 14 off the Wolf varsity record of 48, set by Jeff Stone (without the three-point line) way back in 1970.

Pease chipped in with six points Tuesday, while Wells and Olson knocked down three apiece.

Jean Lund-Olsen rounded out the scoring with a basket, while David Prescott, Alex Jimenez, Gavin Knoblich, Tucker Hall and Sage Downes saw floor time.