Hawthorne Wolfe is the 27th player in 104 seasons of CHS basketball to lead a varsity team in scoring in two or more seasons — and the first to do so in non-consecutive seasons. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)
In this most unusual of basketball seasons, another quirk.
With one game left to play in a pandemic-shortened season, Hawthorne Wolfe is about to do something no Coupeville High School basketball player, boy or girl, has ever accomplished.
With 240 points in 11 games — 21.8 a night — the CHS junior will lead the boys team in scoring, no matter what happens in Tuesday’s finale against Darrington.
In finishing as the #1 point producer, Wolfe becomes the 15th boy, and 27th player overall in school history, to have topped a year-end varsity scoring chart at least two times during their career.
But, he is the first to ever do it in non-consecutive seasons.
Wolfe paced Coupeville in scoring as a freshman, tossing in 158 points while Sean Toomey-Stout was second-best with 122.
Last season, Hawk came within a bucket of repeating as scoring champ, but was edged out 254-252 by senior Mason Grove.
Now, Wolfe is back on top, with Xavier Murdy angling for runner-up status with 115 points heading into the finale.
Of the 15 CHS boys to top the charts at least twice, only one, Barry Brown, led his squad in scoring three times — something Hawk can chase next year as a senior.
On the girls side of things, six Wolves have pulled off a three-peat, with Megan Smith being the only four-timer.
CHS players with two or more seasons as the top scorer:
Girls:
Marie Grasser (1977-1978; 1978-1979)
Kristan Hurlburt (1979-1980; 1980-1981; 1981-1982)
Judy Marti (1982-1983; 1983-1984)
Terry Perkins (1984-1985, 1985-1986; 1986-1987)
Emily Vracin (1989-1990; 1990-1991)
Novi Barron (1995-1996; 1996-1997; 1997-1998)
Tina Lyness (1998-1999; 1999-2000)
Brianne King (2000-2001; 2001-2002; 2002-2003)
Lexie Black (2003-2004; 2004-2005)
Megan Smith (2006-2007; 2007-2008; 2008-2009; 2009-2010)
Makana Stone (2013-2014; 2014-2015; 2015-2016)
Lindsey Roberts (2017-2018; 2018-2019)
Boys:
Tom Sahli (1952-1953; 1953-1954)
Jack Elzinga (1954-1955; 1955-1956)
Mike Criscuola (1958-1959; 1959-1960)
Denny Clark (1962-1963; 1963-1964)
Barry Brown (1965-1966; 1966-1967; 1967-1968)
Jeff Stone (1968-1969; 1969-1970)
Bill Riley (1971-1972; 1972-1973)
Randy Keefe (1973-1974; 1974-1975)
Jason McFadyen (1989-1990; 1990-1991)
Virgil Roehl (1991-1992; 1992-1993)
Chris Good (2000-2001; 2001-2002)
Mike Bagby (2004-2005; 2005-2006)
Wiley Hesselgrave (2014-2015; 2015-2016)
Hunter Smith (2016-2017; 2017-2018)
Hawthorne Wolfe (2018-2019; 2021)
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