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Time to make a move!!

Posted in Basketball, standings, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, Gavin Knoblich, North Sound Conference, standings on December 9, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Gavin Knoblich gets set to fire up a shot. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

The early returns have not been awe-inspiring.

Two weeks or so into a new basketball season, 11 of 12 North Sound Conference varsity hoops teams have a losing record.

The only one which doesn’t, the South Whidbey boys, have scrambled back to .500 in recent days.

Overall, NSC girls teams are 7-22 against non-league foes, while the boys squads are just 4-22.

But wins are coming this week, and that’s guaranteed.

How, you ask?

Because all 12 teams play their first league game this coming week, so, barring any soccer-style ties, we’ll have some (very) early front-runners atop the standings.

Tuesday brings’s Kings vs. Cedar Park and Granite Falls vs. Sultan in girls action, and CPC vs South Whidbey and Sultan vs. Coupeville in boys play.

The Coupeville and South Whidbey girls clash Wednesday, with the Granite Falls and King’s boys waging war Friday.

Around those first league games, there’s still a fair amount of non-conference action left to play out.

For Coupeville, it starts with a doubleheader Friday at Concrete.

After that first league game Tuesday, the Wolf boys don’t play a conference foe again until Jan., while the CHS girls host Sultan Dec. 18, then also wait until the new year for the majority of their league schedule.

Through Dec. 9:

North Sound Conference girls basketball:

School	League	Overall
COUPEVILLE	0-0	1-4
CPC-Bothell	0-0	2-3
Granite Falls	0-0	1-4
King’s	0-0	1-2
South Whidbey	0-0	0-5
Sultan	0-0	2-4

North Sound Conference boys basketball:

School	League	Overall
COUPEVILLE	0-0	0-5
CPC-Bothell	0-0	0-4
Granite Falls	0-0	1-3
King’s	0-0	0-2
South Whidbey	0-0	3-3
Sultan	0-0	0-5

CHS girls basketball varsity scoring:

Lindsey Roberts – 38

Chelsea Prescott – 30

Scout Smith – 19

Avalon Renninger – 18

Ema Smith – 14

Nicole Laxton – 8

Hannah Davidson – 7

Tia Wurzrainer – 6

Anya Leavell – 2

Izzy Wells – 2

Mollie Bailey

Ja’Kenya Hoskins

CHS boys basketball varsity scoring:

Hawthorne Wolfe – 52

Sean Toomey-Stout – 32

Jered Brown – 23

Ulrik Wells – 22

Mason Grove – 18

Gavin Knoblich – 12

Koa Davison – 9

Dane Lucero – 2

Jacobi Pilgrim – 1

Jean Lund-Olsen

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Stone rock-solid, but Saints inspired!!

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, D'Youville College, Kailey Kellner, Kim Evanger Raney, Makana Stone, Whitman on December 8, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Wolf grad Makana Stone scored 16 points and grabbed 13 rebounds Saturday while facing the #4 team in NCAA D-III women’s basketball. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

You have to play the best to be the best, but sometimes that means absorbing a loss or two.

The Whitman College women’s basketball team scrapped all night Saturday, but despite a splendid 16-point, 13-rebound effort from Coupeville grad Makana Stone, could not take down the #4 team in the country.

That squad is Thomas More College, which went to the NCAA D-III Final Four last year, won a national title in 2016 and entered play Saturday with a 10-0 record.

And, powered by 33 points from Madison Temple, the Saints lived up to their rep, holding off Whitman 80-63 in the final game of the Kim Evanger Raney Classic in Walla Walla.

The non-conference loss snaps a four-game winning streak for the Blues, and drops them to 6-3 on the season.

Stone held up well in the spotlight, leading her team in points and grabbing five more rebounds than any other player on the floor.

She also played a season-high 39 of 40 minutes.

For her efforts across two games (she had 25 points and five rebounds Friday against Colorado College), Stone was named to the All-Tournament team.

She was joined by teammate Mady Burdett, while Temple was picked as tournament MVP.

Whitman hung tough with Thomas More, leading early in the game and only trailing 15-12 at the end of the first quarter.

The deficit stretched out to eight at the half, but a 21-21 third quarter stalemate kept hope alive for the Blues.

It wasn’t to be, however, as the Saints proved to be strong closers, wrapping things with a 21-12 surge across the final 10 minutes.

Stone, who leads her squad in scoring, rebounding and blocked shots, has 158 points, 78 rebounds, 13 assists, 14 steals and nine blocks on the year.

She’s shooting 68-121 from the field and 22-30 at the line.

Whitman is off for a week-and-a-half, not returning to play until it travels to California for the UC Santa Cruz Classic Dec. 20-21.

The Blues are scheduled to face Williams College and Northwestern at the tourney, then are off until Jan. 5, when the league season kicks into high gear.

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Stone, Blues torch net!!

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, Kim Evanger Raney, Makana Stone, Whitman on December 7, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville grad Makana Stone tossed in 25 points Friday as Whitman College women’s basketball rolled to its fourth-straight win. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Makana Stone has found her groove.

The Coupeville grad threw down 25 points Friday night, missing her collegiate-high by just a single point, as Whitman College women’s basketball crushed visiting Colorado College 99-60.

The victory, coming in the first of two games the Blues will play in their annual Kim Evanger Raney Classic, is Whitman’s fourth-straight and sixth in its last seven games.

Now 6-2 on the season, Stone and her associates return to their home court in Walla Walla Saturday to face Thomas More College.

Whitman came out red-hot Friday and never cooled off, with the 99 points its second-best team scoring performance of the season.

The Blues dropped 107 on Walla Walla College in an earlier game.

It actually took Stone a minute or two to lock in, as she rimmed out her first three shots.

Things changed when she pulled off the kind of play Coupeville fans grew accustomed to enjoying during her prep career, as she picked the pocket of a rival ball-handler, then beat the crowd to the other end for a layup.

After that, Stone was unstoppable, tossing in eight points in both the first and second quarter.

With the game turning into a blowout, she added seven more in the third, then a single basket in the fourth before heading to the bench early.

Stone finished the game 12-18 from the field, snatched five rebounds and added an assist to go with her steal.

It was the fourth time she has topped 20 points this season, and the Whitman junior has hit double digits in seven of eight.

The 25 points was one shy of the 26 she banked home against Montana Tech.

Whitman surged to a 27-11 lead after one quarter Friday, but Colorado stiffened its chin a bit and eked out a 23-23 tie in the second frame.

After the halftime break, it was back to being all Blues, all the time, as Whitman threw down 23-11 and 26-15 runs in the final two quarters.

Four Blues players scored in double figures, with Mady Burdett knocking down 21.

Stone, who leads her squad in scoring, rebounding and blocked shots, has 142 points, 65 rebounds, 10 assists, 12 steals and nine blocks on the year.

She’s shooting 62-109 from the field and 18-24 at the line.

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“I can’t be more proud of the guys!!”

Posted in Basketball, Middle School, tagged Basketball, CMS Wolves, Cole White, Dominic Coffman, road trip, Sultan on December 6, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville 8th grader Mitchell Hall notched eight points Thursday at Sultan. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Wolf 7th grade coach Greg White and his sharp-shooting point guard (and son) Cole watch a recent high school game.

Four games, four very different results.

The Coupeville Middle School boys basketball squads trekked to the wilds of Sultan Thursday, and while the Wolves lost all four contests, the scores differed wildly.

8th grade varsity:

CMS came within a basket or two of sweeping the season series with their rivals, but fell just short.

Coupeville had strong first and third quarters, but cold shooting in the other two frames doomed it in a 28-26 nail-biter.

The loss drops the Wolves to 1-7 on the season.

“They got us, it sure is a stinger,” said CMS coach Dante Mitchell. “But I can’t be more proud of the guy’s heart and hustle they showed tonight.”

His squad torched the nets for 10 points in the first and third, but were held to two and four in the second and fourth.

Free throws also hurt the Wolves, as they connected on just 2-9 from the charity stripe.

Mitchell Hall and Alex Murdy paced Coupeville with eight points apiece, while Ty Hamilton tossed in four.

Alex Wasik, Kevin Partida and Dominic Coffman rounded out the Wolf scoring machine with a bucket each, with Levi Pulliam, Jesse Wooten and Josh Upchurch also seeing floor time.

7th grade varsity:

The roughest part of the afternoon, as Coupeville inadvertently played the role of the log being force-fed into the chipper.

Facing a brutally-good Turk team, the Wolves, now 2-6, suffered through their coldest offensive performance of the season, falling 47-7.

While his team fought until the end, CMS coach Greg White could see this loss coming.

“Sultan has the best 7th grade team I’ve seen,” he said. “They’ve got some great athletes.”

The Turks blew out to a 17-3 lead after one quarter, stretched the margin to 34-3 by halftime, then coasted home on fumes in the second half.

Cole White, Logan Downes and Mikey Robinett each scored two, while Nick Guay arced a free-throw through the net to complete the limited offensive fireworks for the Wolves.

Ryan Blouin, William Davidson and Zane Oldenstadt rounded out the CMS roster.

7th/8th JV:

A joint team, with three eighth-graders (Pulliam, Wooten and Upchurch) joining the younger crew, played twice, facing off with separate Sultan squads.

CMS doesn’t have enough 8th grade players to form different JV teams this season.

Both final scores were lost to the winds, as Sultan’s books went missing, but we know for a fact Coupeville scored 12 points across the pair of two-quarter games, and they were both Wolf losses.

Robinett had the hottest hand for the Wolves, knocking down a team-high six, while Pulliam netted four and Chris Villarreal added a bucket.

Quinten Pilgrim, Timothy Nitta, Andrew Williams, Alex Clark and Justin Wilkinson all saw floor time as well.

Next up:

Coupeville wraps its 10-game season with a pair of contests on the Island, traveling to Langley Dec. 11, then hosting Granite Falls Dec. 13.

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