The Black ‘n Blue Sisters, (Brittany, left, and Lexie Black) reunited in the CHS gym they once owned.
A new generation picks up the mantra, Spartacus-style, “I am … Lexie Black!!”
Other lil’ guys want to grow up to be like The Big Hurt himself, Nick Streubel.
Beginning their path, they pick up dribbling skills from Dalton Martin.
Or, practice the Crane Style…
A style Wolf star Lauren Escalle may have to employ in the near future.
At least she has sympathetic teammates and … yeah … well, laughter is the best medicine.
Thunk, thunk, thunk, swish.
The sound of multiple basketballs slamming against hardwood, with the occasional one gently swishing through a receptive net, echoed throughout Coupeville Thursday night.
Freed from her day job, ace photographer Shelli Trumbull hit the streets and, despite fighting off the flu, went deep into the heart of the basketball jungle to record the action.
In the high school gym, former Wolf stars Lexie and Brittany Black, Ashley Ellsworth-Bagby and Erik King joined up with CHS assistant Ashley Kellison (who played her high school hoops for Woodland) for an impromptu scrimmage with the current Wolf girls’ squad.
The Lex-i-nator was back in the building and Ellsworth-Bagby was slicin’ people off at the knees again, for one afternoon at least, and it was all fun and games until Lauren Escalle hurt her foot. Then it was time to forget about practice and crowd around Escalle to take group pics with their fallen comrade.
Down the hallway, in the middle school gym, members of the Wolf boys’ basketball teams were working with young ballers from the Coupeville Boys and Girls Club.
Somewhere in the crowd of players being coached by Nick Streubel, Joel Walstad, Dalton Martin and other Wolves are the future of CHS basketball. The next Escalle. The next Aaron Curtin. The heir to the Black ‘n Blue sisters.
They are there, and they are coming. Wolf Nation’s resurgence on the basketball court is being built one player, one lesson, one night at a time.
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