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Welcome to the Mason Grove Experience!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, Mason Grove, Port Townsend, road trip, three-balls on January 9, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Mason Grove tossed in 33 points Tuesday, with seven three-point bombs, in a narrow JV loss. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Mason Grove has solved the Port Townsend defense.

Scorching the RedHawks for a second time in as many games this season, the Coupeville sophomore rained down 33 points, and seven three-balls, Tuesday in a narrow 56-52 road loss for the Wolf JV boys.

That performance comes on the heels of a 34-point, 10-trey showcase back in mid-Dec., and Grove will get a final run at PT Jan. 26.

While the loss drops the young Wolves to 0-2 in Olympic League play, 1-9 overall, they didn’t give up without a considerable fight.

“Heart breaker! Great battle right up to the end,” said CHS coach Chris Smith. “We had a number of chances to put the game on ice but just couldn’t get it done.”

If nothing else, the Wolves were remarkably precise, scoring exactly 13 points in each of the four quarters.

“The defense ran a zone press all game and that gave us a lot of offensive opportunities,” Smith said. “Mason flat-out went off.”

Grove mixed things up, scoring 11 in the first quarter while hitting just a single three-ball.

After that, he added nine, seven and six going forward, with his most productive stretch from behind the arc coming in the second quarter, when he rained down a trio of treys.

Ulrik Wells backed him up, banging down low for six points, while Alex Jimenez (3), Koa Davison (3), Daniel Olson (3), Jacobi Pilgrim (2) and Jean Lund-Olsen (2) also scored.

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Brush it off!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged 1A Olympic League, Basketball, CHS Wolves, Hunter Smith, Port Townsend on January 9, 2018| Leave a Comment »

After beating Port Townsend in overtime during their first meeting, Dane Lucero and the Wolves had less luck Tuesday in a rematch. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Forget about tonight, on to the next game.

That was the mantra Tuesday as the Coupeville High School boys basketball squad headed home from Port Townsend.

A rough shooting night doomed them against a confident RedHawks team in a 55-27 loss, but, tomorrow is, as they say, another day.

Wednesday will put the Wolves, now 1-1 in Olympic League play, 3-8 overall, back in their home gym.

And, instead of Port Townsend (4-1, 7-5), the foe will be Chimacum (0-3, 0-7).

Sitting in a tie with Klahowya (1-1, 4-7) at the moment, Coupeville has a prime opportunity to claim sole possession of second-place in league play with a win against the downtrodden Cowboys.

To do so, the Wolves will need to play like they did in the first quarter Tuesday.

Just maybe not like they did in quarters two and three, and definitely not like they did in the final eight minutes.

Up 12-11 at the first break, with senior guard Hunter Smith already having tossed in nine, things seemed to be going swimmingly for CHS.

Then a lid dropped on the rim for the Wolves.

Outscored 15-4 in the second, things went downhill steadily from there for Coupeville.

A 19-11 RedHawk run in the third stretched the lead out to a comfortable margin for the home fans, before a 10-0 fourth quarter added a bit of salt to the wound for the Wolves.

There weren’t a whole lot of bright spots for CHS, but it did out-shoot its hosts at the free throw line, tossing in four of five freebies to Port Townsend’s 2-5 showing.

Smith paced the Wolves with 13, which lifts him to 670 for his career.

He passed Wade Ellsworth (659), Pat Bennett (659) and Foster Faris (668) Tuesday, moving into 20th place on the Wolf boys basketball career scoring chart.

Joey Lippo backed Smith with seven points, while Ethan Spark (5) and Hunter Downes (2) rounded out the somewhat-limited offensive attack.

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Embrace your hoops history, Wolves!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged 1970s, 1980s, anniversary, Basketball, CHS Wolves on January 9, 2018| 2 Comments »

The high-flying ’77-’78 CHS boys basketball squad. Jeff Rhubottom (44) scored 459 points that season, second-best in program history. (Photos courtesy Renae Mulholland and Brad Sherman)

Ron Bagby and his ’87-’88 squad, the last Wolf boys hoops team to make it to the state tourney.

Coupeville’s ’84-’85 hoops stars, back when high school basketball players (or some of them, at least) knew how to rock the ‘stache.

10 days and counting.

Coupeville High School’s boys basketball anniversary shindig goes down Jan. 19, and we’re putting the call out for people to cram the stands.

The Wolves play Chimacum that night (3:30 JV, 5:15 varsity) and it’s the exact 101st anniversary of the first hoops game in school history (a 29-7 win over Langley in 1917).

Are you a former CHS player, coach, manager, stat keeper, ticket taker? Did you cheer at the games, either in an official capacity or as a fan?

Be there!

Whether you scored one point or 1,000, you are a part of the history of Wolf boys basketball, and this is your night.

There’ll be a special game program, honoring the first game, the immortal ’69-’70 team that still holds all the school records, and the Top 15 individual career scorers.

Toss in halftime festivities and an epic “team” photo after the game — when all former Wolves will be asked to take part — and things will be hoppin’.

There’s a few other things in the works, which will be announced in the next few days, and, as we count down, I am in the market for any and all Wolf basketball pics you might have.

Send them to me at davidsvien@hotmail.com, then rearrange your calendar and make sure you have Jan. 19 circled in red.

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Get some butter, cause they’re on a roll!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Middle School, tagged Basketball, Blue Heron Middle School, CMS Wolves, Hawthorne Wolfe, Xavier Murdy on January 8, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Caleb Meyer was one of seven Wolves to score Monday as the CMS 8th graders rocked Blue Heron 73-49. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Consider it a warning shot fired across the bow.

Playing a day before their respective high school teams clash, the Coupeville Middle School varsity boys basketball squad crushed host Blue Heron (Port Townsend) Monday 73-49.

Powered by a 29-point performance from guard Hawthorne Wolfe, the Wolves romped to their fourth straight win and improve to 5-2 on the season.

The CMS JV, a much-greener team that is still very much a work in progress, fell 50-25 in the opener. The younger Wolves sit at 1-6.

Both teams return home for their next two games, with the first one being Thursday against Chimacum. Tip-off is 3:15.

Monday, everything worked, and all its shots (or, at least a great majority of them) dropped for the Wolf varsity as it hit a season-high in scoring.

Coupeville was remarkably consistent all afternoon, dropping in 19, 19, 18 and 17 in the four quarters.

Wolfe was the man with the golden touch, scoring in every quarter.

After opening with a modest four points in the first eight minutes, he went off for 11 in both the second and third quarters.

Hot on his heels were Logan Martin, who combined a pair of three-balls and some buckets in the paint for a season-best 16 points, and Xavier Murdy, who tickled the twines for 13.

Caleb Meyer (7), Grady Rickner (5), Cody Roberts (2) and Aiden Burdge (1) rounded out the team-wide scoring attack.

Coupeville was active behind the three-point arc, raining down seven treys.

Wolfe led with four, while Martin knocked down a pair and Meyer swished one.

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Wolves in it to win it!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball, tagged 1A Olympic League, Basketball, Ethan Spark, league standings, scoring stats on January 7, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Ethan Spark tossed in 20 Friday against North Mason. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Ema Smith (top) and Lindsey Roberts helped Coupeville topple Klahowya Saturday in a big Olympic League tussle.

It was a weird week.

Back in action after returning from winter break, the Coupeville High School basketball teams found mixed results.

The Wolf girls started with a poor performance at North Mason, but rebounded with a vengeance to grab a huge league win over Klahowya.

Despite playing without its top scorer, Coupeville evened its conference mark and pulled back within a game of Port Townsend as it seeks a fourth-straight league crown.

On the other side of the ball, the Wolf boys lost a heart breaker in overtime to North Mason, then never got to tip off with Klahowya.

A snafu left the two teams without refs, and the game will have to be rescheduled.

Still, thanks to a better winning percentage, Coupeville remains atop the boys standings, though that will be tested next week.

Games against Port Townsend and Chimacum will go a long way towards determining who’s the team to beat as the heart of the league schedule arrives.

Until games start back up Tuesday, a quick look at varsity scoring totals and league standings through Jan. 7:

Girls:

Mikayla Elfrank 99
Lindsey Roberts 80
Sarah Wright 51
Ema Smith 46
Kalia Littlejohn 38
Kyla Briscoe 33
Scout Smith 24
Chelsea Prescott 20
Allison Wenzel 3
Hannah Davidson 2

Boys:

Hunter Smith 192
Ethan Spark 107
Joey Lippo 44
Hunter Downes 24
Mason Grove 15
Jered Brown 14
Kyle Rockwell 13
Dane Lucero 5
Cameron Toomey-Stout 3
Gavin Knoblich 2
Ulrik Wells 2
Jacobi Pilgrim 1