Coupeville Sports

Camden Glover is the hot knife, and the defense is the butter. (Julie Wheat photos)

Consider it an early Christmas gift for Brad Sherman.

Back on the floor after a schedule scramble, the Coupeville High School varsity boys’ basketball squad drilled host Concrete 67-31 Tuesday night, sending their coach to the holiday break on a high note.

The victory, coming in a “non-conference game against a conference foe,” lifts the Wolves to 2-5 on the season.

The game was added to the schedule after CHS was unable to go East this past weekend for games against Manson and Entiat due to bad weather at the passes.

While Coupeville and Concrete are rivals in the Northwest 2B/1B League, the 2B schools such as Coupeville normally only play 1B schools Darrington and Concrete once during the hoops season.

That regularly scheduled rumble will arrive Jan. 20, with the Wolves once again hitting the road to travel to the town made famous on movie screens by Leonardo Di Caprio and Robert De Niro.

Now, barring any more late-breaking additions to the schedule, Coupeville’s boys are off until Jan. 3, when they climb on the bus for a trip to play non-conference foe Morton-White Pass.

Tuesday’s tilt, coming against a winless Concrete squad which dropped to 0-5, was a romp from start to finish.

The Wolves, sparked by 14 first-quarter points from Chase Anderson, ran out to a 21-11 lead by the first break, then stretched the advantage to 40-22 by the half.

Camden Glover banked in 10 points during the second quarter, while Coupeville got scoring from five different players during a 23-2 surge in the third frame to end things with a bang.

Malachi Somes scans the defense.

Sherman was able to spread floor time out between 10 Wolves in uniform, with eight of them scoring on this night.

Anderson finished with a game-high 20, all compiled in the first three quarters, while Glover (12) and Davin Houston (10) also reached double-digits.

Malachi Somes (9), Aiden O’Neill (6), Riley Lawless (4), Easton Green (4), and Sage Arends (2) all chipped in to the offensive attack, with Liam Blas and Carson Grove helping anchor the Wolf defense.

Two Wolves reached personal milestones in the victory, with Anderson cracking the 700-point club for his career — he sits with 709 and counting and is the 22nd CHS boy to reach the mark for a program launched in 1917.

Meanwhile, Glover surged into the top 150 scorers all-time, passing former standouts like Ryan Blouin, Dale Sherman, and Scott Stuurmans.

The burly senior now has 195 career points and is currently tied with Mitch Aparicio and John Engstrom at #145 on the career list.