Logan Downes and Coupeville will carry a #1 seed into the playoffs. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)
The Wolf boys, some seen here, are 14-0 heading into their regular season finale.
They get by with a little help from their rivals.
The Coupeville High School varsity boys basketball team didn’t take the court Wednesday night, but still achieved a major goal thanks to another squad.
Friday Harbor’s 66-41 win at La Conner guarantees the Wolves are the #1 seed to next week’s District 1/2 tourney and sends CHS straight to the tournament’s title game.
Coupeville, which has already won the Northwest 2B/1B League title, is 14-0 heading into its regular season finale Thursday at La Conner.
Playoff seeding, however, is determined by how the league’s three 2B schools do in games against each other.
The Wolves are 3-0 in that mini rumble entering their finale, while Wednesday’s loss drops La Conner to 1-2.
Friday Harbor, which was playing for its postseason life, is now 1-3, having split the season series with the Braves while being swept by Coupeville.
If CHS bounces La Conner Thursday — the Wolves won 54-26 first time out — the Braves and Friday Harbor will face off in a play-in game to decide the #2 boys seed from the NWL.
The district tournament, which is set to go down in Coupeville, opens Feb. 15 with Auburn Adventist playing the NWL #2 seeds in loser-out games.
The winners return to the CHS gym Feb. 17 for championship games, where the Wolf boys and (very likely) La Conner girls will await.
Win a district title and you also clinch a trip to the state tourney.
The losers of the district title games get a second crack at earning a ticket to the big dance.
The boys runner-up faces a team from District 4, while the girls runner-up squares off with a District 6 squad in winner-to-state, loser-out games either Feb. 19 or 20.
Coupeville’s league title was its first for the boys program since 2002, when current head coach Brad Sherman was still raining three-balls as a player.
The lone district title in program history came in 1970, while the last time the Wolf boys made it to state was 1988.
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