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Photos drop as new season looms!!

Posted in Basketball, Cheer, tagged , , , , , on November 26, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Jean Lund-Olsen kicks off a collection of winter sports portraits. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Kylie Van Velkinburgh

Emily Fiedler

Chris Cernick

Heidi Meyers

Jaden Marrs

Chris Ruck

Hannah Davidson

It’s the calm before the storm.

Less than 24 hours from now, the 2018-2019 high school basketball season officially kicks off, with Meridian traveling to Coupeville Tuesday for a girls basketball rumble.

The Wolf boys take the court the next night, hosting Oak Harbor, and the next few months will be jam-packed with hoops action (and the vocal support of the CHS cheer squad).

As the minutes tick down until the first tip of the season, local paparazzi John Fisken swings by to drop off a collection of winter sports portraits.

Sort of a photographic amuse-bouche, as it were.

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Kellner spurs Spartan win!!

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on November 25, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville’s Kailey Kellner, here with parents Tim and Jennifer, knocked down a pair of three-balls Sunday to help D’Youville College win a basketball thriller. (Photo courtesy Kellner family)

Things are on the upswing in New York.

Coupeville grad Kailey Kellner and the D’Youville College women’s basketball team are off to a 3-2 start on the season after pulling out a 69-66 thriller Sunday against Cazenovia College.

That’s a marked turnaround from a season ago, when the Spartans finished 5-20 and claimed only one non-conference victory.

Now, D’Youville has already tripled that number, giving them a boost heading into their first round of Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference games.

During Kellner’s freshman season, the Spartans finished ninth in the 10-team league. Right now, they boast the second-best record of any team from the conference.

D’Youville will get a big test this coming Wednesday, Nov. 28, when it hosts defending league champ Hilbert, which sits at 5-2 in non-conference play.

Winning tightly-contested games, like the Spartans did Sunday, bodes well for the future, though.

The two squads went toe-to-toe, shot-to-shot, swapping razor-thin leads at every break.

D’Youville was up by a single point, 17-16, at the end of the first quarter, while Cazenovia rebounded to claim a 35-34 advantage at the half.

The Spartans poured in 22 third-quarter points, their best showing of the game, to edge ahead 56-55 heading into the fourth, then clamped down on defense to close out the win.

Kellner was a big part of the win, coming off the bench to drop a season-high seven points in 16 minutes of action.

She knocked down a pair of long three-balls, slid a key free throw through the net at the end of the second quarter and also snagged two rebounds and made off with a steal.

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Stone soars, Whitman rolls!!

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , on November 24, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville grad Makana Stone went for 18 points and seven rebounds Saturday as Whitman College drilled McMurry University. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

McMurry University traveled a long way to witness Makana Stone’s excellence live.

The Texas-based War Hawks trekked 1,801 miles from Abilene to get to Spokane, then got thrashed by the Coupeville grad and her college mates.

Having made the journey from Walla Walla for the non-conference bout, Whitman College made sure the return trip would be a pleasant one, savaging McMurry 83-57.

The Blues, who were led by Stone’s 18-point, 7-rebound performance, are now 3-2 heading into the start of Northwest Conference play.

While Whitman heads home, McMurry will hang around the Whitworth Fieldhouse in Spokane and play the arena’s home team Sunday.

Saturday’s game, which was a tuneup before Whitman hosts league rivals Pacific and Willamette next weekend in Walla Walla, was a one-sided affair.

The Blues flew out to a 9-0 lead in the early going before settling for a 22-11 advantage at the first break.

From there, Whitman stretched the margin to 13 at the half and 20 after three quarters.

Stone, who reached double digits in scoring for the fifth time in as many games this season, scored in every quarter as she amassed her game-high points total.

Shooting a solid 8-12 from the field, the Whitman junior scored 11 of her 18 points in the second half, with seven of them coming in the third quarter.

She also blocked two shots, pilfered a steal and doled out an assist in 22 minutes of floor time.

For the season, Stone tops Whitman with 89 points (17.8 a night), 42 rebounds and eight blocked shots.

The former Wolf ace has seven assists and eight steals, and is shooting 55% from the floor (37-67) and 75% from the free-throw line (15-20).

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Primed for tip-off!!

Posted in Basketball, Cheer, tagged , , , , , on November 23, 2018| Leave a Comment »

CHS cheerleader Marenna Rebischke-Smith moves from the gridiron to the basketball court, but retains her pep and spirit. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

The new-look Wolf varsity boys flex.

The JV girls get into the moment.

Coupeville’s C-Team is primed for attack.

Captains Ema Smith (back, left), Scout Smith and Lindsey Roberts (24) strike a pose.

New uniforms, same school spirit.

An almost complete varsity (Tia Wurzrainer missed photo day) stays loose.

The boys JV, ready to get scrappy.

Cheer captains (l to r) Melia Welling, Ja’Tarya Hoskins and Julie Bucio are back for another season.

A new season is upon us.

The arrival of winter sports becomes a reality with the team pics jumping out of the camera of wanderin’ paparazzi John Fisken.

From basketball to cheer and back to much more basketball, Coupeville is primed for the start of actual games, which start this coming Tuesday.

The Wolf girls are at home versus Meridian that night, followed by the CHS boys at home Wednesday against Oak Harbor.

The first week of action wraps Saturday with a home doubleheader against Bush.

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Stone nabs college hoops honor (again)!!

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , on November 19, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville grad Makana Stone was honored Monday as the Northwest Conference women’s basketball player of the week. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

She’s a three-timer.

Coupeville grad Makana Stone, now a junior at Whitman College, was honored Monday as the Northwest Conference women’s basketball player of the week.

It’s the third time she’s received the honor, having been previously picked in Dec. 2017 and Jan. 2018.

Stone received the accolades after tearing up the floor in Spokane this weekend at the Whit Classic.

She broke her personal collegiate high in back-to-back games, throwing down 24 points Friday in a win against the University of Texas at Tyler, then topping it Saturday with 26 in an overtime thriller versus Montana Tech.

The NWC honors athletes weekly in four sports during the winter season, and Stone was joined by men’s basketball player Ryan Lacey (George Fox) as well as swimmers August Bergh (Lewis & Clark) and Kelli Callahan (Puget Sound).

Whitman women’s basketball is 2-2 in non-conference action, with Stone front and center for the Blues.

The former Wolf standout leads her squad in scoring (17.8 points a night) and rebounding (8.8), while shooting 52.7% from the floor (29-55) and 81.3% from the free throw line (13-16).

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