Chase Anderson drains a jumper. (Jackie Saia photo)
Let’s not get cute about it.
You only win a basketball game one way – by scoring more points than the other team.
Yes, defense, hustle plays, making the right pass, sacrificing your body to take a charge, they all matter greatly.
Because they set up a team to score, which is how wins and losses are made.
Points are also the one and only stat which it has been halfway possible to track across the 109-year history of varsity basketball at Coupeville High School.
So, we celebrate the scorers, and we document as best we can who has put the ball in the bucket, whether it’s Roy Armstrong in 1925, Danette Beckley in 1984, or the girls and boys currently repping the red and black.
And Friday night, we reached a milestone in the long and winding road of Wolves hitting the bottom of the net, as CHS senior Chase Anderson cracked the 900-point club.
He did it against La Conner, as part of a 20-point performance in a 66-36 win over the Braves.
How rare is the accomplishment for a player repping Wolf Nation?
Of the 687 Wolves who I’ve been able to document scoring in a varsity game — 432 boys and 255 girls — Anderson is just the ninth boy, and 14th player overall, to reach the mark.
Broken down further, that means he’s part of the top 2% of scorers among all basketball players who have pulled on a varsity Coupeville uniform.
Welcome to the club:
Brianne King – 1,549
Logan Downes – 1,305
Zenovia Barron – 1,270
Makana Stone – 1,158
Mike Bagby – 1,137
Jeff Stone – 1,137
Randy Keefe – 1,088
Megan Smith – 1,042
Mike Criscoula – 1,031
Jeff Rhubottom – 1,012
Bill Riley – 934
Ann Pettit – 932
Pete Petrov – 917
Chase Anderson – 903 (active)
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