Coupeville Sports

The shooting shirts for Friday’s Coupeville High School boys basketball anniversary game. (Brad Sherman photo)

One night only. Friday! Friday!! Friday!!!

Tomorrow — Friday, Jan. 19, 2018 — marks the biggest moment in Coupeville High School boys basketball history since, well, probably forever.

Or, at least since the Wolves, playing in front of 2000+ fans in 1970, became the first Whidbey Island hoops team to win a district title.

That’s kind of the defining moment for the program right there.

But this Friday, when Coupeville plays host to Chimacum (JV 3:30, varsity 5:15), will be the culmination of 101 years of Wolf hoops.

The date marks the exact anniversary of the first basketball game in CHS history, a 29-7 shredding of Langley in 1917, and the school is throwing a huge party.

All former Wolf boys basketball players, coaches, managers, stat keepers, time-clock operators, trainers, cheerleaders and fans are invited to come home and cram the gym.

Doesn’t matter if you were an All-League player or support crew — we want EVERYONE to show.

The game program will be an expanded one, chock full of stories written by yours truly and tons o’ vintage photos.

At halftime, that 69-70 team and the top 15 career scorers will be recognized, and after the game the party kicks into high gear.

Local shutterbug extraordinaire John Fisken is going to take an epic “team” photo featuring all the former and current Wolves in attendance.

After that, take a few steps outside the gym doors and head to the health room down the hall (don’t even have to go outside!).

Once there, current Wolf basketball moms will have cake and everyone gets a chance to mingle, remember past glory and make up new stories about how much better the game was in their day.