Jeff Rhubottom (left) and Hawthorne Wolfe have combined to score 1,674 points in Coupeville varsity basketball games. (Photo courtesy Stephanie Grimm Streitler)
Two titans passing in the night.
The unofficial Coupeville High School prom brought two Wolf basketball legends face-to-face Saturday, with almost 1,700 points on display.
Jeff Rhubottom, CHS Class of 1978, tossed in 1,012 points while patrolling the hardwood, which leaves him sitting #4 all-time on the school’s boys hoops career scoring list.
The dapper young gentleman next to him in the photo, senior-to-be Hawthorne Wolfe, is shooting up that same list, which covers 104 seasons.
Hawk has 662 points and counting through two full seasons and a pandemic-shortened junior campaign, which leaves him currently residing at #24 all-time.
When Wolfe and his teammates return for what should be a full season during the 2021-2022 school year, he’ll have his work cut out for him if he wants to catch Jeff Stone and Mike Bagby, tied for the program lead with 1,137 points apiece.
To get to 1,138, Wolfe will need 476 points during his senior season – a tall order but certainly reachable.
He averaged 21 points a night across a 12-game season as a junior.
If Wolfe were to score at that clip as a senior, he would need a shade under 23 games to achieve the feat.
Take a full regular season schedule of 18-20 games, add in a playoff run, and we could be in business.
If he were to get up to that 476 or higher mark as a senior, Wolfe would also have the second-best single-season scoring mark in CHS boys history, trailing just Stone’s legendary 644 from the 1969-1970 season.
The second-best season mark currently?
It’s 459 points, tossed in by one Jeff Rhubottom during his own senior season of 1977-1978.
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