Freshman Ty Hamilton splashed home a team-high nine points Friday as Coupeville’s C-Team battled with visiting Granite Falls. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)
Fewer bodies, more improvement.
As the season has gone on, the Coupeville High School boys C-Team basketball squad has taken a hit in roster size, but the players who remain continue to show great growth.
Playing with seven players Friday, Patrick Upchurch’s squad hung tough all night before falling 45-29 to visiting Granite Falls.
The young Wolves drop to 1-7 in North Sound Conference play, 2-10 overall, heading into their season finale this coming Tuesday at Sultan.
Win or lose, the C-Team is a scrappy band of ballhawks, and they showed that once again Friday while making their season debut in the big gym.
Down 6-0 at the start, the Wolves clawed their way back into the game, closing the first quarter on a 6-2 tear.
The surge kicked off with Coen Killian draining a three-ball from the top of the arc, then continued through Ty Hamilton slashing hard to the hoop for a bucket, before Killian came back around to net a free throw.
The second quarter was the one frame where Coupeville’s shooting touch vanished, and it hurt.
With just a pull-up jumper on the move from Dominic Coffman, the Wolves found themselves on the short end of a 9-2 stretch, and never were able to fully recover.
CHS made a stand, however, with both teams pouring it on in the third quarter.
After combining to score 25 points in the first half, Coupeville and Granite united to put 23 more up on the board across the eight-minute frame.
Four different Wolves banked home a bucket in the quarter, with the prettiest coming from freshman Nick Armstrong, who rolled under his defender, then popped up and nailed a jumper which barely rippled the net on its way through.
Coupeville got the lead back down to 10 early in the fourth, courtesy an Alex Wasik layup set up by a bullet pass off of Coffman’s magic fingers, but time eventually ran out on the young Wolves.
Hamilton finished with a team-high nine points, with Coffman (6), Brayden Coatney (4), Wasik (4), Killian (4), and Armstrong (2) also scoring.
Josh Upchurch rounded out the Wolf roster, hitting the boards hard and earning a nod of approval from his coach/father.
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