Wolf fans were expecting action like this Saturday. It didn’t happen, though, as a lack of refs forced a rare postponement. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)
Talk about anticlimactic.
The stage was set Saturday for an exciting evening of high school basketball, with Klahowya in town for a big Olympic League game.
Win, and Coupeville would improve to 2-0 in conference play and sit alone atop the league.
If you’re a stats hound, you also knew Wolf senior Hunter Smith, who is averaging 19.2 points a night, needed just 20 Saturday to jump from #23 to #18 on the CHS career scoring chart.
In doing so, he would have swept past Wolf legends Wade Ellsworth, Pat Bennett, Foster Faris, Virgil Roehl and Gavin Keohane.
But then, in one fell swoop, all the air went out of the gym.
For reasons yet unclear, not a single ref showed for the game, and, despite scrambling, CHS officials were unable to track down any local ones sitting around their house on a Saturday evening.
Faced with no other choices, the game was officially postponed, and all tickets were refunded.
The game will be rescheduled at a later date.
While the Wolves and Eagles could have played the JV contest without official refs, using coaches in their place, that’s not allowed for varsity contests.
So, for the moment, Coupeville remains 1-0 in league play, with three games, the first two league clashes, scheduled for next week.
CHS travels to Port Townsend Tuesday, welcomes Chimacum to town Wednesday, then heads to Sultan for a non-conference rumble next Saturday.
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