Coupeville Sports

Aiden O’Neill (left) and Carson Grove play aggressive defense in an earlier game. (Melanie Wolfe photo)

The winning streak hit a bump in the road.

The Coupeville High School varsity boys’ basketball squad entered play Monday having won three of its last four games but couldn’t get past Auburn Adventist Academy.

The Falcons, who are in the top 10 in the state’s current RPI rankings for 2B schools, jumped on the visiting Wolves from the opening tip and ran away with a 66-35 victory.

The non-conference loss drops CHS to 4-7 on the season, with back-to-back home games against Darrington and Napavine set for this Friday and Saturday.

Brad Sherman’s squad fell behind 17-7 in the first quarter Monday and never got back into the game.

Auburn pushed the lead out to 39-20 at the half, then 51-30 through three quarters, cruising in for a victory which lifts it to 6-2 on the campaign.

Coupeville got most of its scoring from the duo of seniors Camden Glover and Chase Anderson, who banked in 15 and 12 points respectively.

Davin Houston (3), Carson Grove (2), Malachi Somes (2), and Aiden O’Neill (1) also chipped in to the scoring effort, while Nathan Coxsey, Liam Blas, Riley Lawless, and Easton Green rounded out the rotation.

The host team was effective from everywhere on the floor, with Auburn holding a 5-3 advantage on three-balls while also netting seven of nine free throws.

Coupeville got to the line more often than the Falcons did, but couldn’t take advantage, finishing just 10-19 from the charity stripe.

With his 12 points, Anderson moves to 777 for his high school career, which pushes him from #18 to #16 all-time on a CHS boys’ scoring chart which started in 1917.

He passed old-school Wolf legends Barry Brown (769) and Jack Elzinga (770) while in Auburn, with Hawthorne Wolfe (800) and Corey Cross (811) next up.