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Logan Downes rains down fire. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

It was quite the heroic hardwood run.

Logan Downes exited as the top male scorer in Coupeville High School’s 107-year basketball history, and #2 all-time to Brianne King.

Along the way to tossing in 1,305 points, he played a vital role in the Wolves winning a pair of Bi-District titles and advancing to state both times.

The latter two events are things which hadn’t happened for the CHS boys in 50+ and 30+ years, respectively, before Downes pulled on a uniform.

Downes (center) celebrates winning a second Bi-District title.

A four-year varsity player, he had a major impact on the Wolf program.

And now, after recognition from area coaches in previous seasons, the CHS senior is getting flowers from more far-flung regions.

Downes has been picked as an All-State player by the Washington Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association, the highest honor for senior hoops stars.

The 10-man 2B team is headed up by that classification’s Player of the Year, James Grose of Napavine, who poured in 2000+ points during his prep career.

Along with the honor of being named to the team, Downes also gets an invitation to the WIBCA All-Star weekend.

There are five games set to be played Saturday, Mar. 16 at Bellevue College, with the best of 1B facing off with 2B at 12:30 PM.

Downes and Grose will be joined by Lincoln Foland (Liberty of Spangle), Chase Marchand (Lake Roosevelt), Seth Lustig (Colfax), Blake McClure (Tri-Cities Prep), Braeden Salme (Adna), Zach Swanson (Toutle Lake), Beckett Turner (Ilwaco), and Brady Wulf (Brewster).

It’s the second time in three seasons Coupeville has sent a player to the All-State game.

Xavier Murdy scored 10 points during his appearance in 2022, helping the 2B team roll to a 115-95 win.

“You know all those times when we let other players hit you in the face and didn’t call fouls? It was to make you tougher, and see, it worked!”

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Logan Downes prepares to burn the joint down. (Jackie Saia photo)

Dominant on the floor, dominant in the voting.

The Coupeville High School boys’ basketball team, which shared a league title, claimed a Bi-District crown, and advanced to state, got noticed.

When Northwest 2B/1B League coaches voted this week, they tabbed four Wolves, and head coach Brad Sherman, for honors.

Senior Logan Downes, who became his program’s all-time leading scorer, was a slam dunk choice as league MVP.

Also honored were sophomore Chase Anderson and seniors Cole White and Ryan Blouin.

Brad Sherman can still make the net jump. (Bailey Thule photo)

Sherman, who has taken Coupeville to the state tourney twice in the past three seasons, was tabbed as Coach of the Year, while Concrete received the Best Sportsmanship Award.

 

First-Team All-League:

Chase Anderson – Sophomore – Coupeville
Ivory Damien – Senior – La Conner
Lucas Millenaar – Junior – Mount Vernon Christian
Brayden Pedroza – Junior – La Conner
Joe Stephens – Sophomore – Orcas Island

The difference between a First Team and Second Team All-Conference pick? Chase Anderson made the shot, and Chris Gustafson just missed on the block. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

 

Second-Team All-League:

Lucas Bieghler – Senior – MVC
Adam Culver – Senior – Concrete
Chris Gustafson – Senior – Friday Harbor
Remy Lago – Junior – Orcas Island
Cole White – Senior – Coupeville

Cole White tickles the twines. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

 

Honorable Mention:

Ryan Blouin – Senior – Coupeville
CJ Edwards – Junior – La Conner
Corran Eisen – Junior – La Conner

Ryan Blouin sends the net some love. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

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Hurlee Bronec powers to the hoop. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

It’s ever evolving.

Game to game, season to season, the career scoring chart for Coupeville High School boys’ basketball remains fluid.

Even during the offseason it can change, as we continue to hunt down numbers from 107 seasons of Wolf hoops.

We’ve confirmed at least partial scoring totals for 420 varsity players and are pretty dang solid from the ’60s up to 2024.

But we’re still missing chunks from the olden days, from Tom Sahli’s sophomore campaign in 1951-1952 to countless unknown (to me at least) hardwood heroes of the ’20s and ’30s.

The puzzle will likely never be 100% solved — unless a prairie barn out there conceals a treasure trove of old-school scorebooks — but we’re getting closer and closer.

With a loss Saturday at the state tournament, the 2023-2024 edition of CHS hoops closes its chapter.

We have a new all-time top scorer in Logan Downes, and he and his fellow seniors, and their scoring stats, are now frozen in time like Banky Fisher or Dale Sherman.

Hunter Bronec lines up a free throw. (Bailey Thule photo)

There are four active Wolves on the chart, with Hunter and Hurlee Bronec having one more year to amass points, while Aiden O’Neill and Chase Anderson have two.

Who will join them next year?

Camden Glover? Landon Roberts? Jack and Johnny Porter? Perhaps someone we don’t even know yet, a transfer from another town or country?

That’s part of the mystery which drives us forward, year after year, point after point.

Until we know the answer, here’s where things sit as of Feb. 26, 2024, with active players in bold:

 

Logan Downes – 1305
Jeff Stone – 1137
Mike Bagby – 1137
Randy Keefe – 1088
Mike Criscoula – 1031
Jeff Rhubottom – 1012
Bill Riley – 934
Pete Petrov – 917
Brad Sherman – 874
Denny Clark – 869

Arik Garthwaite – 867
Bill Jarrell – 855
Hunter Smith – 847
Corey Cross – 811
Hawthorne Wolfe – 800
Jack Elzinga – 770
Barry Brown – 769
Hunter Hammer – 755
Steve Whitney – 730
Dan Nieder – 729

Tom Sahli – 719 (**MISSING SEASON**)
Chris Good – 688
Gavin Keohane – 677
Virgil Roehl – 674
Foster Faris – 668
Pat Bennett – 659
Wade Ellsworth – 659
Jason McFadyen – 654
Rich Morris – 637
Kramer O’Keefe – 636

Wiley Hesselgrave – 632
John O’Grady – 611
Greg White – 604
Denny Zylstra – 602
Joe Whitney – 601
Brian Miller – 597
Mike Syreen – 594
Gabe McMurray – 592
Pat Clark – 583
Randy Duggan – 552

Roy Marti – 551
Jim Syreen – 550
Marc Bissett – 549
Gary Hammons – 533
Jerry Zylstra – 527
Brad Miller – 526
Gary Faris – 524
JJ Marti – 520
Cody Peters – 518
David Lortz – 502

Jason Bagby – 499
Xavier Murdy – 482
Pat O’Grady – 472
Harold Buckner – 469
Sean Dillon – 469
Frank Marti – 462
Alex Murdy – 448
Del O’Shell – 440
Tony Ford – 432
Caleb Powell – 421

Mason Grove – 414
Ben Biskovich – 407
Casey Clark – 407
Nick Sellgren – 406
Cole White – 405
Blaine Ghormley – 393
Tom Logan – 385
James Smith – 382
Don Cook – 377
Chad Gale – 373

Cole White netted a fair number of jumpers over the past four seasons. (Parker Hammons photo)

Mike Millenbach – 373
JD Wilcox – 373
Ty Blouin – 369
Caesar Kortuem – 369
Ray Harvey – 368
Pat Brown – 355
Dick Smith – 352
Ethan Spark – 352
Glenn Losey – 350
Timm Orsborn – 345

Robin Larson – 342
Byron Fellstrom – 340
Kevin Faris – 339
Michael Vaughan – 337
Jim Yake – 331
Aaron Trumbull – 330
Brad Brown – 328
Charlie Tessaro – 328
Utz Conard – 326
Ian Smith – 324

David Ford – 323
Bob Rea – 320
Chris Marti – 319
Gabe Wynn – 316
Nick Streubel – 314
Ben Hayes – 306
Allen Black – 305
Noah Roehl – 301
Blake Day – 299
Noel Criscoula – 298

John Beasley – 293
Risen Johnson – 291
Brian Fakkema – 290
Matt Frost – 290
Mike Mallo – 282
Keith Jameson – 277
Terry Roberts – 277
Kit Manzanares – 275
Boom Phomvongkoth – 275
Zepher Loesch – 274

Alex Evans – 272
Aaron Curtin – 271
Tyler King – 270
Joe Tessaro – 270
Eric Hopkins – 265
Harvey Wainio – 265
Chase Anderson – 260
Rick Keefe – 259
Troy Blouin – 256
Sean Callahan – 256

Greg Fellstrom – 248
Richard Hammons – 248
Casey Larson – 247
Don Schreiber – 247
Brandon Huff – 245
Grady Rickner – 245
Brad Haslam – 235
Sean Toomey-Stout – 235
Geoff Hageman – 227
Curt Youderian – 226

Rich Vaughan – 219
Ed Wood – 219
Joel Walstad – 217
Richard Cook – 216
Ryan Keefe – 214
Nick Guay – 213
Jordan Ford – 210
Andrew Mouw – 204
Vance Huffman – 203
Tim Quenzer – 202

Alan Hancock – 198
Shawn Ryan – 197
Mitch Aparicio – 195
John Engstrom – 195
Trevor Tucker – 194
Roy Mattox – 191
Dale Sherman – 188
Scott Stuurmans – 188
Ryan Blouin – 185
Pat Millenbach – 181

Caleb Meyer – 179
Wayne Hardie – 178
Chris Cox – 177
Evan Tingstad – 177
Jerry VandWerfhorst – 177
Anthony Bergeron – 176
Mike Ankney – 173
Ron Naddy – 172
Dale Libbey – 169
Roger Sherman – 168

Tim Walstad – 168
Randy Blindauer – 166
Mark Bepler – 165
Chad Brookhouse – 163
Jered Brown – 156
Monty Moore – 155
Geoff Wacker – 154
Bill Baas – 153
Ulrik Wells – 152
Jim Faris – 151

Steve Konek – 149
Gavin O’Keefe – 149
Ryan McManigle – 148
Ryan Griggs – 147
Hugh Abell – 145
George Libbey – 142
Sandy Roberts – 134
Craig Anderson – 132
Scott Franzen – 129
Ben Etzell – 127

Gavin Knoblich – 126
Len Buckner – 125
Brian Shank – 125
Joey Lippo – 121
Jessie Smith – 119
Scott McGraw – 116
Christian Townsdin – 116
Mitch Pelroy – 115
Taylor Ebersole – 114
Eric Taylor – 112

Jim Casey – 111
Jacobi Pilgrim – 111
Jonathan Valenzuela – 110
Brian Barr – 108
Joe Donellon – 101
Jason McManigle – 101
Bryan Hamilton – 99
Brian Knoll – 98
Morgan Payne – 96
Christian Lyness – 95

Koa Davison – 94
Ted Weber – 91
Hunter Downes – 89
James Meek – 89
Dan Miller – 89
Steve Bissett – 87
Hunter Bronec – 87
Andrew Cashen – 87
Carson Risner – 86
John Sinema – 86

Nick Morris – 83
Dominic Coffman – 81
Logan Martin – 81
Roy Armstrong – 80
Cameron Toomey-Stout – 80
Caleb Valko – 78
Ross Buckner – 77
Matt Shank – 77
JJ Johnson – 76
Duane Score – 76

Quinten Farmer – 75
Matt Ortega – 75
Mike Ellsworth – 74
Don Spangler – 72
John Zimmerman – 72
Joe Bruzas – 71
Jason Fisher – 71
Tony Prosser – 70
Les Jacobson – 69
Tom Conard – 68

Dean Grasser – 68
Matt Bepler – 67
Zack Swerdfeger – 66
Ron Lanphere – 65
Sage Downes – 64
Ben Hancock – 63
Randy Stone – 63
Mike Brown – 62
Jason McDavid – 62
Jeremy Staples – 62

Brian Hageman – 61
Erik King – 61
David Davis – 60
Tom Mueller – 59
Brandy Ambrose – 58
Sam Kieth – 58
Steve Smith – 58
Martin Walsh – 58
Matt Helm – 57
Dennis Terrell – 57

Drew Chan – 56
DeAndre Mitchell – 56
Daniel Olson – 56
Ellis Schultz – 56
Dave Stoddard – 56
CJ Smith – 54
Larry Zylstra – 54
Asa Owensby – 52
Marc Aparicio – 51
Chris Chan – 51

Joe Kelley – 51
Marvin Darst – 50
Troy Hurlburt – 49
Stanley Bruzas – 48
Dalton Engle – 48
Jerry Helm – 48
Dalton Martin – 47
Eddie Fasolo – 45
Doug Speers – 45
Banky Fisher – 44

Keith Dunnagan – 42
Zane Oldenstadt – 42
Gaylord Stidham – 41
Erick Harada – 40
James Jorgensen – 40
Nevin Miranda – 40
Jeff Thomas – 40
John Wyatt – 40
John Moskeland – 39
Hurlee Bronec – 37

Danny Bonacci – 36
Chuck Ruthford – 36
Charlie Toth – 36
Jim Marti – 35
Zeb Williams – 35
Robert Cushen – 34
Dante Mitchell – 34
Sid Mudgett – 34
Dave Brandt – 33
Ryan Kelley – 33

Brian Roundy – 32
Richard Barber – 31
Joe Libbey – 31
Ray Cook – 29
Tim Leese – 29
Ralph Lindsay – 29
Kyle Rockwell – 29
Rick Marti – 28
Toby Martinez – 28
Daniel McDonald – 28

Joe Rojas – 28
Todd Smith – 28
Scott Sollars – 28
Richard Benson – 27
Mike Duke – 27
John Holmes – 26
Lewis Berry – 25
Mark Short – 25
Tim Youderian – 25
Jared Helmstadter – 24

Trent Diamanti – 23
Trevor Mueller – 22
Dan Schleiffers – 22
William Davidson – 21
Jay Roberts – 21
Dustin Van Velkinburgh – 21
Matt Douglas – 20
Jordan Emerson – 20
Dane Lucero – 20
Dean Strom – 20

Scott Fisher – 19
Scott Losey – 19
Bud Merryman – 19
Matt Petrich – 19
Jason Raymond – 19
Rob Blouin – 18
Rick Keith – 18
Marvin Mitchell – 18
Guy Walker – 18
Gary Boyke – 17

Jim Keith – 17
Jean Lund-Olsen – 17
Cedric McIntosh – 17
TJ Rickner – 17
Rick Frieze – 16
Frank Nelson – 16
Chad Nixon – 16
Josh Wilsey – 16
Steven Cope – 15
Eric Dyer – 15

Mike Lester – 15
Brad Rogers – 15
Henry Edwards – 14
Todd Brown – 13
DJ Kim – 13
LaVerne Arnold – 12
Mike Eaton – 12
Guy George – 12
Kole Kellison – 12
Glen Lanphere – 12

Desmond Bell – 11
Bill Hamilton – 11
Howard Libbey – 11
Ken Pickard – 11
Jon Roberts – 11
Chris Squires – 11
Ben Winkes – 11
Jermiah Copeland – 10
Ron Edwards – 10
Travis Hooker – 10

Mikey Robinett – 10
Daniel Graham – 9
Kyle King – 9
Bruce Seiger – 9
Jimmy Sullivan – 9
Fred Wyatt – 9
Erik Anderson – 8
Dave Bowers – 8
Rob Fasolo – 8
Kraig Gordon – 8

Cody Roberts – 8
Robert Shafer – 8
Dave Wells – 8
Charlie Cook – 7
Bobby Engle – 7
Brian Folkestad – 7
Wayne Hesselgrave – 7
Aiden O’Neill – 7
Ed Cook – 6
Tucker Hall – 6

Quinten Simpson-Pilgrim walks into history, forever a part of an exclusive club. (Bailey Thule photo)

Chuck Hardee – 6
Kevin King – 6
Robert Kirkwood – 6
Quinten Simpson-Pilgrim – 6
George Smith – 6
Nic Anthony – 5
Ariah Bepler – 5
Scott Davidson – 5
JD Myers – 5
Timothy Nitta – 5

Nate Steele – 5
Ron Zylstra – 5
Andrew Bird – 4
Bill Boze – 4
Miles Davidson – 4
Ralph Engle – 4
Jason Legat – 4
Morgan Roehl – 4
Rusty Bailey – 3
Luke Currier – 3

Frank Mueller – 3
Tracy Wilson – 3
Teo Benson – 2
Norm Enders – 2
Chris Locke – 2
Jeremy McCormick – 2
Rich McCormick – 2
Fred Meadors – 2
Denny Moss – 2
Tony Sherman – 2

Marion Sill – 2
Stephen Stietenroth – 2
Robbie Wanamaker – 2
Paul Baher – 1
Bill Engle – 1
Robert Engle – 1
Bob Franzen – 1
Meryl Gordon – 1
Oscar Liquidano – 1
Raleigh Sherman – 1

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Ready to protect home court advantage. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

The future of Coupeville boys’ basketball is ready for its closeup.

The pics above and below, which come to us courtesy John Fisken, capture Wolf SWISH players on the same court where they hope to excel one day as high school hardwood heroes.

It’s a dynasty being built, one bucket at a time.

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“Outta my way, boy! I’ve got a delivery to make.” (Jackie Saia photos)

Final scores are often deceptive.

A random person wandering past the scoreboard in the Arlington High School gym Saturday right as the boys’ basketball state tourney game between Coupeville and Tonasket ended could glance at the numbers and get the wrong idea.

For while the final score showed the Tigers winning 65-50, eliminating the Wolves from the postseason, the game was never a blowout.

Instead, Coupeville, which finishes 17-6, a win shy of advancing to the Spokane Arena, led in the first quarter, rallied to retake the advantage with a furious third quarter surge, and was down just a point a fraction of a moment before the final frame began.

Unfortunately for Brad Sherman’s squad, they got stung — for the second time — when Tonasket put a rebound back up and in with a second on the clock.

That came on the heels of the Tigers popping a three-ball through the rim with one second to play in the second quarter, as all the luck (and all the freakish plays) went one way on this afternoon.

Stung by the third-quarter gut punch, CHS hit its only cold stretch from the field at the worst possible time, going almost seven minutes without a field goal in the fourth as Tonasket pulled away.

The final score was skewed, as these things often are, by a tsunami of free throws at the tail end, as the Wolves had to repeatedly foul to stop the clock and prolong the season.

As well as the prep hoops career for Coupeville’s nine seniors, who went out the way they came in back during their middle school days — fighting for every ball and playing as an extremely tight-knit pack.

The Wolves get loud.

In the early going Saturday it looked like the Wolves were primed to capture the program’s first state win since 1979.

Cole White drilled a three-ball from the left side to open things — making him and dad Greg the first CHS father-son duo to combine for 1,000 career points — and the Wolves were off to the races.

Logan Downes slashed to the hoop for a bucket, Chase Anderson beat a crowd to the other end of the floor on a breakaway, and Nick Guay pulled off a silky move in the paint, slapping home a layup off a feed from Downes.

With White adding two more buckets during the run, Coupeville opened up a 13-5 lead midway through the first quarter.

But Tonasket, a scrappy, quick squad with multiple weapons, fought back, taking a 16-14 lead at the first break, before stretching things out to 23-16 midway through the second quarter.

A 7-2 Coupeville surge, capped by back-to-back buckets from springy sophomore Anderson, cut the deficit back to 25-23 and the final moments could have gone either way.

The Wolves had a good look on a jumper to tie things, but the ball slid off the rim at the last second, before Tonasket came down and sank the three-ball dagger over outstretched hands.

Chase Anderson wheels and deals.

While the Tigers went to the break leading 28-23, Coupeville rallied in the second half all season, with Sherman apparently Cow Town’s answer to Knute Rockne with his locker room speeches.

Whether inspired by their coach, or just more comfortable with the Arlington court, the Wolves sprang to life in the third quarter.

Downes, who hadn’t been able to get off even a single three-ball attempt in the first half while facing a withering defense, rained down four treys in the frame.

Toss in a couple more sweet jumpers from White, who stood tall while being jostled, poked, prodded, and otherwise whacked around, and Coupeville sprang back into the lead.

From five down, the Wolves went five up at 37-32 as Downes sank a three-ball while flying down court.

Then, after Tonasket twice inched back in front, White flipped the net to push his team back in front at 39-38, before Downes dropped a trey to later cut the deficit to 43-42.

That last three-ball was set up by a magnificent rebound from Hurlee Bronec, who jumped to the ceiling to yank down the carom, then alertly fed his running mate for the shot.

Hurlee Bronec leaves his foes flabbergasted.

It was literally anyone’s game at that moment, but sometimes you get the lucky bounce, and sometimes the other team gets EVERY lucky bounce.

Tonasket’s putback staked it to a 45-42 lead heading into the final eight minutes, and a three-ball on the other side of the break was a killer.

Unable to get the ball to stay in the net in the game’s final minutes, the Wolves failed to convert a fourth-quarter field goal until the 1:14 mark, when Guay snagged a rebound and went right back up for the score.

Unfortunately for Coupeville, the game had slipped away by then, and Tonasket closed things out with seven straight free throws.

With the win, the Tigers send their boys and girls basketball teams to Spokane in the same year for the first time in school history.

The Tonasket girls thrashed Friday Harbor 77-13 in their state opener.

Five of the six Northwest 2B/1B League teams to make the state tourney have been eliminated.

The Mount Vernon Christian boys fell Feb. 20, while both the La Conner girls and boys were KO’d Saturday.

That leaves the second-seeded MVC girls as the last hope for an NWL team to win a state title this season, as they prepare for a 1B quarterfinal game next week.

In their final game together, all nine Coupeville seniors saw the floor, where they were assisted by underclassmen Hunter Bronec, Anderson, and Hurlee Bronec.

Timothy Nitta, Ryan Blouin, Zane Oldenstadt, William Davidson, Quinten Simpson-Pilgrim, and Mikey Robinett joined White, Downes, and Guay in bowing out.

Logan Downes slides under the defense.

Capping a run which carried him to the #1 spot on the CHS boys’ career scoring chart, Downes rippled the nets for a team-high 23 points.

He finishes as the only Wolf player, boy or girl, to have two 500-point seasons (554 as a junior and 527 as a senior), while scoring 1,305.

That puts him well ahead of previous record holders Jeff Stone and Mike Bagby, who both tallied 1,137, and leaves him trailing just Brianne King, who torched the net for 1,549.

She got a full four seasons, including long playoff runs each campaign, while Covid limited the Wolves to just 12 games, and no playoffs, when Downes was a freshman.

White tossed in 12 points in support Saturday, hitting two final milestones.

He finishes with 405 points, becoming just the 65th Wolf boy to crack the club across 107 seasons, while he and pops amassed 1,009 points while playing in two different generations.

Anderson, now the active scoring leader with 260 points at the halfway point of his career, banked in nine in the finale, while Guay popped for five and Hurlee Bronec netted a free throw.

 

Final season scoring totals:

Logan Downes – 527
Chase Anderson – 205
Cole White  205
Ryan Blouin – 137
Hunter Bronec – 85
Nick Guay – 77
Hurlee Bronec – 37
Zane Oldenstadt – 27
William Davidson – 14
Aiden O’Neill – 7
Mikey Robinett – 6
Timothy Nitta – 5
Quinten Simpson-Pilgrim – 4

 

William Davidson and Ryan Blouin share a post-game hug.

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