Kayla Arnold goes strong to the hoop. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)
Cold-blooded closers.
Scoring almost half their points in the fourth quarter Friday, the Coupeville High School JV girls’ basketball players exited as winners.
Holding off host Friday Harbor 41-38, the young Wolves wrap an 8-8 season full of great promise.
Kassie O’Neil’s squad reps a 2B school, but they played seven games against 1A, 2A, or 3A teams this season, finishing a solid 3-4 against big-school rivals.
Friday’s rumble pitted the Wolves against a fellow 2B team, and one which beat them the first time around.
Revenge was in the air, and it was fueled by Madison McMillan, who was a mad bomber, dropping a pair of three-balls during an eight-point explosion in the fourth quarter.
Wolf aces Jada Heaton (left) and Madison McMillan celebrate being awesome. (Bailey Thule photo)
Coupeville squeaked out to a 10-9 lead by the first break, ever so slightly stretched the lead to 20-17 at the half, then had its only cold shooting stretch of the night in the third frame.
Not that Friday Harbor was lighting up the rim, either, as the Wolverines used a 6-3 mini-run to knot things up at 23-23.
Then, in the snap of the net flipping high, the rivals went off down the stretch, combining to rain down 33 of the night’s 79 points across the final eight minutes.
McMillan was on fire, but she got help, with Skylar Parker, Kierra Thayer, Teagan Calkins, and Desi Ramirez-Vasquez also scoring in the fourth quarter.
Coupeville spread its offense out, with 10 different players banking in shots.
McMillan led the way with a game-high 12 points, with Thayer (7), Calkins (6), Skylar Parker (6), Kayla Arnold (2), Bryley Gilbert (2), Reese Wilkinson (2), Jada Heaton (2), Carlota Marcos-Cabrillo (1), and Ramirez-Vasquez (1) also scoring.
Kassidy Upchurch, Brynn Parker, and Liza Zustiak rounded out the roster for O’Neil, the former Wolf hoops star in her first season as JV coach.
Final season scoring stats:
Madison McMillan – 133
Kierra Thayer – 73
Desi Ramirez-Vasquez – 57
Carlota Marcos-Cabrillo – 49
Jada Heaton – 44
Teagan Calkins – 40
Reese Wilkinson – 35
Skylar Parker – 20
Bryley Gilbert – 17
Kayla Arnold – 14
Liza Zustiak – 14
Brynn Parker – 7
Kassidy Upchurch – 4
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