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It’s rainin’ awards!!

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on December 10, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Makana Stone (right), seen at her 2016 high school graduation with Lindsey Roberts, continues to rack up college basketball honors. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Maybe they should just rename the award in her honor.

Coupeville grad Makana Stone’s body of work on the court for Whitman College continues to attract praise from those around her.

Monday, she was named as the Northwest Conference Women’s Basketball Athlete of the Week for the second time in less than a month.

Stone, who also was tabbed for the honor Nov. 19, was hailed for her work this past weekend at Whitman’s annual Kim Evanger Raney Memorial Classic.

She went off for 25 points in a win over Colorado College, then put up 16 points and 13 rebounds in a battle to the wire with undefeated Thomas More College, the #4 team in NCAA D-III basketball.

Jordan Jenkins, a senior forward for Willamette University, was honored as the league’s Men’s Basketball Athlete of the Week.

Whitman, which is off until Dec. 20, sits at 6-3 overall, 2-0 in league play, with Stone, a junior, leading the team in 14 of 22 stats categories. She’s second in three others.

On the season, she has 158 points, 78 rebounds, 13 assists, 14 steals and nine blocks, while shooting 68-121 from the field and 22-30 at the line.

Stone is on the cusp of a personal statistical mark, as well, as she is just two points shy of scoring 700 for her collegiate career.

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Pics, all day and all night!!

Posted in Band, Basketball, Cheer, Fashionable Fans, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 10, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Barbi Ford enjoys quality grandma time during a recent basketball game. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

CHS girls hoops coach David King (left) offers Whidbey News-Times Sports Editor Jim Waller tips on his jump shot.

Wolf cheerleader Kaley Grigsby enjoys her evening.

Four shooting stars momentarily sitting still – l to r, it’s Koa Davison, Derek Leyva, Natalie Hollrigel and Sarah Wright.

Defensive dynamo Tia Wurzrainer replenishes her body’s nutrients after a night of terrorizing her foes on the hardwood.

Heidi Meyers, a hot second away from breaking free and dropping the greatest flute version of “Welcome to the Jungle” you’ve ever heard.

Sherry Roberts, forever keeping an extra eye in the back of her head to monitor lil’ brother Danny Bonacci, in case shenanigans break out.

Volleyball stars (l to r) Emma Smith, Maya Toomey-Stout and Ashley Menges, the first people to ever make Coupeville’s bleachers look semi-comfortable.

Sometimes John Fisken is almost too productive.

Almost. I said almost.

Whidbey’s top-ranked paparazzi gave me so many glossy pics the first time he hit a Coupeville High School basketball doubleheader last week, I wasn’t able to use all the side pics immediately.

So, here you go, a few days down the road, some more snappy pix capturing Wolf fans, the band, cheerleaders and cute babies.

Always with the cute babies, cause page views.

Probably should have started a blog called cutebabies.com and not Coupeville Sports back in 2012…

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Respect? Maybe a smidge…

Posted in Basketball, Polls, tagged , , , , on December 9, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Wolf hoops star Avalon Renninger finds your polls a little sour. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

If either Coupeville High School basketball team hangs a league championship banner this season, it will come as a surprise to the forecasters.

The Daily Herald in Everett, the largest newspaper to cover the North Sound Conference on a regular basis, recently commissioned a poll of league coaches to determine the projected order for the league’s first hoops season.

The good news?

The Wolf girls garnered a few more votes than their male counterparts.

The bad news?

Neither team is viewed as a juggernaut.

Now, a poll like this is a bit tricky, since Coupeville played in the Olympic League the last four seasons, and not the Cascade Conference, the now-dead 1A/2A league that, at its demise, belched forth the North Sound Conference.

So, a fair amount of league basketball coaches have never stood on a sideline and stared down at a Wolf squad.

Which means, basically, this is all a lot of guess-work and ultimately means diddly and squat.

Nothing is guaranteed, and everything will be decided between the lines when NSC players lace up their high-tops and take the hardwood.

But you know me. Never miss an opportunity to toss another article out there, so here we go.

Projected order of finish, as voted by league coaches (who could NOT vote for their own teams).

 

GIRLS:

King’s
Cedar Park Christian
South Whidbey
Coupeville
Granite Falls
Sultan

 

**King’s received all 1st place votes, but one coach declined to vote.**

 

BOYS:

King’s
South Whidbey
Cedar Park Christian
Sultan
Granite Falls
Coupeville

 

**King’s received all but one 1st place vote. The other 1st place went to South Whidbey, which won the Cascade Conference title last year while being led by the now-graduated Lewis Pope.**

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Time to make a move!!

Posted in Basketball, standings, tagged , , , , 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 , , , , , , 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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