Coupeville Sports

Coupeville 8th grader Mitchell Hall notched eight points Thursday at Sultan. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Wolf 7th grade coach Greg White and his sharp-shooting point guard (and son) Cole watch a recent high school game.

Four games, four very different results.

The Coupeville Middle School boys basketball squads trekked to the wilds of Sultan Thursday, and while the Wolves lost all four contests, the scores differed wildly.

8th grade varsity:

CMS came within a basket or two of sweeping the season series with their rivals, but fell just short.

Coupeville had strong first and third quarters, but cold shooting in the other two frames doomed it in a 28-26 nail-biter.

The loss drops the Wolves to 1-7 on the season.

“They got us, it sure is a stinger,” said CMS coach Dante Mitchell. “But I can’t be more proud of the guy’s heart and hustle they showed tonight.”

His squad torched the nets for 10 points in the first and third, but were held to two and four in the second and fourth.

Free throws also hurt the Wolves, as they connected on just 2-9 from the charity stripe.

Mitchell Hall and Alex Murdy paced Coupeville with eight points apiece, while Ty Hamilton tossed in four.

Alex Wasik, Kevin Partida and Dominic Coffman rounded out the Wolf scoring machine with a bucket each, with Levi Pulliam, Jesse Wooten and Josh Upchurch also seeing floor time.

7th grade varsity:

The roughest part of the afternoon, as Coupeville inadvertently played the role of the log being force-fed into the chipper.

Facing a brutally-good Turk team, the Wolves, now 2-6, suffered through their coldest offensive performance of the season, falling 47-7.

While his team fought until the end, CMS coach Greg White could see this loss coming.

“Sultan has the best 7th grade team I’ve seen,” he said. “They’ve got some great athletes.”

The Turks blew out to a 17-3 lead after one quarter, stretched the margin to 34-3 by halftime, then coasted home on fumes in the second half.

Cole White, Logan Downes and Mikey Robinett each scored two, while Nick Guay arced a free-throw through the net to complete the limited offensive fireworks for the Wolves.

Ryan Blouin, William Davidson and Zane Oldenstadt rounded out the CMS roster.

7th/8th JV:

A joint team, with three eighth-graders (Pulliam, Wooten and Upchurch) joining the younger crew, played twice, facing off with separate Sultan squads.

CMS doesn’t have enough 8th grade players to form different JV teams this season.

Both final scores were lost to the winds, as Sultan’s books went missing, but we know for a fact Coupeville scored 12 points across the pair of two-quarter games, and they were both Wolf losses.

Robinett had the hottest hand for the Wolves, knocking down a team-high six, while Pulliam netted four and Chris Villarreal added a bucket.

Quinten Pilgrim, Timothy Nitta, Andrew Williams, Alex Clark and Justin Wilkinson all saw floor time as well.

Next up:

Coupeville wraps its 10-game season with a pair of contests on the Island, traveling to Langley Dec. 11, then hosting Granite Falls Dec. 13.