Dylan Robinett tallied his first points of the basketball season Wednesday afternoon. (Jackie Saia photo)
Strong to the end.
Playing their next-to-last games Wednesday, the Coupeville Middle School boys basketball teams put on a show in Langley.
The Wolf varsity won, completing a home-and-away season sweep of the Cougars, while the Coupeville JV played its best game of the season.
How the day played out:
Varsity:
Camden Glover has been on a tear of late, and the Wolf 8th grader remained red-hot as he spurred his squad to a 44-26 win.
The victory lifts Coupeville to 3-4 heading into its finale Thursday at King’s.
When the Wolves arrive in Shoreline, they’ll be featuring Glover, who has been a wrecking ball unleashed while dropping 19, 20, and 20 points across his last three games.
Wednesday, Stevie Glover’s eldest child poured in seven of his points in the second quarter, while saving the best for last, with an eight-point rampage in the game’s final frame.
Chase Anderson banked in eight points in support of Camden, with Aiden O’Neill kissin’ the glass for seven.
Jayden McManus (7) and Malachi Somes (2) rounded out the offense, with Easton Green helping anchor the Wolf defense.
JV:
You’re killing me, Smalls. You’re killing me.
And in this case, Smalls is an unnamed Langley 6th grader who will never, ever replace June Mazdra as Whidbey Island’s go-to scorekeeper.
Cause he’s the dude who managed to record less than 50% of Coupeville’s points on the day the Wolves very-green second unit put together its best offensive showing of the season.
It’s like you’re driving a stake through my freakin’ stat-obsessed heart, Smalls!!
Anyways.
Bouncing back from a rough outing against Langley back in the season opener, Coupeville made coach Jon Roberts sit up and take notice, pushing the Cougars to the wire in a 26-23 loss.
“They played lights out,” said the veteran roundball sage. “Bench was going nuts!”
Now, we’d love to tell you where all 23 of those Coupeville points came from. But we can’t, thanks to Smalls.
Perhaps he was daydreaming about Keanu Reeves going airborne once again, what with a new Matrix movie arriving in just seven days.
In that case, I understand. Kinda.
What there was of a “book” shows Riley Lawless and Carson Grove banging away for four points apiece, and Dylan Robinett droppin’ in his first bucket of the season.
Which is 10 points, with 13 points forever lost to the wind.
Dang it, Smalls, you had one job. And you did not understand the assignment.
Our mystery pencil scratcher — who didn’t do a whole lot of scratching — did record who saw floor time.
My bet? Some of them probably scored, too.
For now, props to Captain Teuscher, Jacob Schooley, Jonah Weyl, Beckett Green, Max Ohme, George Spear, Matthew Kuzma, Mahkai Myles, Jackson Waterbury, Ethan Walling, Joshua Stockdale, and Kenny Jacobsen.
May you find a more-prepared scorekeeper Thursday in Shoreline.
Plot twist!!:
After a review of the book by many people, it appears all 23 points may be present.
Just placed in unusual spots.
Smalls, dealing with 17 Wolf players and only 15 slots in the book, put Mahkai Myles and Jacob Schooley “off the board,” and their buckets are drifting in a different time zone.
Also, what seemed like a smudge at first may be a bucket for George Spear.
Having looked at a blown-up version of the book, I still disagree with there being two buckets down by Schooley’s name, but, perhaps I just need better glasses.
I await our next go-around, Smalls. I may have underestimated your powers.
The book in question.
Coupeville Sports 
I appreciate the work you put in for local sports, but shaming an anonymous 6th grader is not a good look. They’re instructed to keep track of the running score, fouls, and timeouts because that’s what the referees need to know. At the JV middle school level, tracking individual points is for curiosity and ego, but not a requirement for the function of the game. The scorekeepers aren’t keeping track of rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks, too, but I don’t see any articles lambasting an elementary student about it. I’d love to see +/- numbers for high school games, because that will give a good representation of who played well, but if I want that, then I’ll have to do the work myself. There’s more to basketball than individual points. We need to be building up youth, not tearing them down; that happens too much already with youth referees. I hope you’ll reconsider the tone of this article.