Coupeville Sports

Malachi Somes rampages through the paint. (CHS Yearbook Staff photos)

Sometimes you’re the meat and sometimes you’re the grinder.

Wednesday night it was Coupeville’s turn to do the chopping and shredding, as its JV boys’ basketball team torched visiting South Whidbey 73-4.

And no, that’s not a misprint.

The non-conference win against their next-door neighbor lifts the Wolves to 11-2 on the season heading into a road trip Saturday to play Chief Leschi.

While Wednesday’s score might sound bad, it could have been far, far worse.

With Coupeville’s varsity featuring nine seniors, its second unit is filled to the brim with players who in other years would already be playing in the marquee games.

Facing a scrappy, but outmatched Falcon squad, the Wolves threw down the gauntlet early, then did everything possible to give their foes a good rumble while not running up the score unnecessarily.

Coupeville’s starters only played 10 minutes, with most of the game devoted to giving CHS freshmen the run of the floor.

Still, the Wolf starters, even with Johnny Porter in street clothes with an injury, are a potent bunch and they blew out to a 41-0 lead by the first break.

Jack Porter and Camden Glover controlled the boards, using their long arms to yank down rebounds and turn them into second-chance buckets, while Malachi Somes, Aiden O’Neill, and Landon Roberts went on a rampage of backcourt steals.

Camden Glover pounds down low.

The Wolf lead eventually got up to 50-0 after a pair of Jayden McManus buckets wrapped around a three-ball from Davin Houston, before South Whidbey finally broke through.

Drew Staats slipped a free throw through the net with 3:37 to play in the half to get the Falcons on the board, while Elias Wilke nailed a three-ball from the right side for his team’s lone field goal.

After that, it was all Coupeville, all the time, as the Wolves pushed the lead to 60-4 at the half, before coasting in for the win while a running clock kept things hoppin’ in the second half.

Ten of the 11 Wolves to see action scored, with Jack Porter (14), Somes (11), and Glover (10) hitting double digits.

McManus (9), Houston (9), Riley Lawless (6), O’Neill (6), Roberts (4), Sage Arends (2), and Makai Myles (2) also tallied points, while Easton Green spent the night setting up his teammates with crisp passes.