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Hurricanes rain pain from long distance

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 16, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Adeline Maynes fires off a free throw. (Julie Wheat photos)

The Hurricanes made it rain.

Hitting 11 three-balls Tuesday, including five in the first quarter alone, the Mount Vernon Christian varsity girls’ basketball team rolled past host Coupeville 69-28 in a show of dominance.

The loss drops the Wolves to 0-2 in Northwest 2B/1B League action, 1-4 overall, with a three-game trip to the Trojan Storm Classic in Bellingham next up for Scout Smith’s squad.

Coupeville is slated to play Dec. 29-31, opening against Blaine before squaring off with two as-yet-to-be-named rivals the following days.

The Wolves won’t play another league game until Jan. 6, 2026, when they host Friday Harbor, and won’t see MVC again until a Jan. 27 road trip to the mainland.

That should give Coupeville some time to wash away the bad taste of Tuesday’s first quarter.

Things did not go well for the Wolves across the game’s first seven minutes-plus, with the ‘Canes hitting four consecutive treys as part of a game-opening 21-0 tear.

CHS finally broke through when freshman Kennedy O’Neill crashed hard through the paint with just 43 seconds left in the frame, earning a three-point play the hard way, thanks to a bucket and free throw.

Then the pain resurfaced.

Mount Vernon Christian scored five more points in the first quarter, capping a 26-3 frame by netting a three-ball with a single second remaining on the clock, before scoring three straight buckets to open the second.

Down 32-3, the Wolves hung tough, however, closing the half on a mini run of their own to cut the lead back to 36-10.

A three-ball from Teagan Calkins, set up by a Danica Strong offensive rebound, brought an emotional response from the pro-Wolf crowd, while Strong also played beat the buzzer, banking in a shot with two ticks left to play.

Long-range assassin Danica Strong is locked and loaded.

But while MVC didn’t hit any long-range shots in the second quarter, it got right back down to business in the third, splashing home four more treys to push the margin to 55-16.

There were bright spots for the Wolves, though.

Strong hit paydirt on a pair of three-balls while also coming up big cleaning the glass, while Haylee Armstrong showcased her never-say-die attitude, scoring nine of her 12 points in the fourth.

That gives the junior guard a team-best 50 points through the first five games and leaves her just a bucket shy of reaching 150 for her varsity career.

Armstrong’s 12 points was backed up by Strong (8), Calkins (5), and O’Neill (3), with Tenley Stuurmans, Lexis Drake, Sydney Van Dyke, Capri Anter, Adeline Maynes, and Ari Cunningham all seeing floor time.

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JV girls cap 2025, prep for 2026

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 16, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Olivia Hall fires off a jumper. (Julie Wheat photo)

On to the new year!

Playing their final game of 2025 Tuesday, the Coupeville High School JV girls’ basketball team ran into a buzzsaw in blue, falling 55-14 to visiting Mount Vernon Christian.

The loss drops the young Wolves to 0-2 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 1-4 overall.

And for Alita Blouin’s squad, it’ll be a bit before they get back into action against a rival, not playing again until a road trip Jan. 3, 2026, to face Morton-White Pass in a non-conference rumble.

By the time that game comes around, the Wolves will have had plenty of opportunities to move on from Tuesday’s tussle, while mixing some practices with the holidays.

MVC, the premier girls’ hoops team in the NWL, is strong at both the varsity and JV levels, and it showed.

The Hurricanes jumped out to a 16-4 lead by the first break, before steadily pulling away, turning a 27-6 halftime advantage into a 49-12 margin after three frames.

Cami Van Dyke and Ava Lucero led Coupeville’s scoring effort, each knocking down four points, while Olivia Hall and Willow Leedy-Bonifas rattled the rim for three apiece.

Emma Cushman, Zayne Roos, Finley Helm, Anna Powers, Taylor Marrs, and Allie Powers also saw floor time for the Wolves.

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They’re strong to the last shot

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 12, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Anna Powers wheels and deals. (Julie Wheat photo)

They got tougher as the night went on.

The Coupeville High School JV girls’ basketball team played its strongest 16 minutes in the second half Friday on Orcas Island but couldn’t quite catch up to the Vikings.

Despite playing their hosts straight up after halftime, the Wolves ultimately fell 34-26 in a hotly contested conference clash.

With the loss, CHS slips to 0-1 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 1-3 overall, and heads back home to square off with Mount Vernon Christian Tuesday night.

Orcas jumped out to a 10-7 lead after one quarter of action Friday, then stretched the lead out to 23-15 heading into the halftime break.

The Wolf girls responded with an admirable show of grit, however, winning the fourth quarter 7-2 to keep the second half scoring knotted up at 11 points per team.

Ten Coupeville players hit the floor for coach Alita Blouin, with Ava Lucero knocking down 11 points to lead the scoring attack.

Cami Van Dyke (4), Anna Powers (4), Finley Helm (2), Willow Leedy-Bonifas (2), Emma Cushman (2), and Elizabeth Marshall (1) put their names in the scoring column, with Olivia Hall, Taylor Marrs, and Allie Powers also earning floor time.

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Free throws trip up Wolf girls

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 12, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville junior Haylee Armstrong rattled the rims for a team-high 14 points Friday night on Orcas Island. (Julie Wheat photo)

“We gotta make free throws.”

Coupeville High School varsity girls’ basketball coach Scout Smith, who was a precision shooter in her own playing days, could do little but watch in silent horror Friday as her squad gave one away on Orcas Island.

Despite getting to the line twice as many times as the host Vikings, the Wolves could not get the ball to stay in the basket, and it stung them badly in a 42-39 loss.

The defeat, coming in the Northwest 2B/1B League opener for both teams, drops CHS to 0-1 in conference action, 1-3 overall heading into a Tuesday home tilt with NWL powerhouse Mount Vernon Christian.

Friday’s fracas was decided at the charity stripe, and it could have been a blowout for Coupeville.

The Wolves earned 24 chances at the stripe to just 12 for Orcas — a rare case of the road team getting the benefit of the doubt — but the rim was unforgiving.

While the Vikings were just 5-12 with the action stopped, they still made two more free throws than their foes, as Coupeville netted just 3-24.

That blew a huge hole in the Wolves ability to hold on to the lead, or rally back in the final moments.

Up 13-10 after one quarter of play, with Haylee Armstrong going off for seven points to lead the way, the Wolves settled for a 19-19 tie at the half.

Coupeville was still within 31-29 after three frames but couldn’t quite get there and will look for some sweet revenge when Orcas travels to Cow Town later in the season.

Armstrong paced the Wolves Friday, pumping in 14 points, while Teagan Calkins banked in 11 in support.

Tenley Stuurmans (5), Adeline Maynes (4), Kennedy O’Neill (4), and Ari Cunningham (1) also scored, with Lexis Drake providing a defensive spark in her time on the floor.

The game marked a return to action for Maynes, who sat out two games after being crunched in the head in the season opener, while Stuurmans, a sophomore, cracked the 100-point career scoring club and now sits with 103 points.

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Live by the streak, die by the streak

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 10, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Tenley Stuurmans hits nothing but net. (Julie Wheat photo)

I see your surge, and raise you.

The Coupeville High School varsity girls’ basketball team busted out a 10-0 run at one point Tuesday night against visiting East Jefferson.

Unfortunately for the Wolves, the Rivals, who feature a mashup of players from Chimacum and Port Townsend, went on their own 21-2 and 14-2 tears en route to a 59-42 victory.

The non-conference loss drops Coupeville to 1-2, with CHS set to head to Orcas Island Friday for its first road trip, and first Northwest 2B/1B League game of the season.

Playing a third-straight home game Tuesday, the Wolves fell behind 6-0 in the game’s first minute, before finding their best groove of the evening.

Tenley Stuurmans nailed a silky pullup jumper over the outstretched arms of a defender to kick off the aforementioned 10-0 surge, and she and her teammates were off and running.

Teagan Calkins and Haylee Armstrong added buckets during the seemingly game-busting run, with Stuurmans swooping in to deliver multiple crowd-pleasing baskets, and the Rivals were stuck in reverse.

It wouldn’t last, however.

With Coupeville eventually ahead 12-8, East Jefferson went to a full-court press, and it worked wonders.

Throwing off the Wolf ballhandlers and creating a series of rapid-fire steals, it allowed the visitors to retake the lead at 14-12 heading into the first break.

After freshman Kennedy O’Neill banked in a bucket to open the second frame and knot things back up, East Jefferson’s defense got especially brutal, keying a 15-0 run from which Coupeville never fully recovered.

The Wolves, down 33-18 at the half, played the Rivals almost bucket-for-bucket after the break, but could never quite get back over the hump.

CHS cut the deficit down to seven several times in the third, with Calkins and Danica Strong popping three-balls and Armstrong soundly rejecting an East Jefferson shot, but that was as close as Scout Smith’s squad would get.

Another 10-0 explosion from the Rivals in the fourth stretched the margin back out to 19, and the rally died for good.

Penina Vailolo, a senior from Chimacum, was the prime-time killer, knifing Coupeville for a game-high 26 points, while Stuurmans led the Wolves with 15.

Calkins, O’Neill, and Strong each added seven points, while Armstrong hit for six and moved into the top 100 scorers all-time for CHS girls’ basketball, which launched its program in 1974.

Now with 122 career varsity points and counting, the Wolf junior sits at #98 all-time, while Calkins, a senior who has torched the nets for 265 varsity points, moved from #45 to #42, passing Sarah Mouw (259), Carly Guillory (260), and Madeline Strasburg (261).

Ari Cunningham and Lexis Drake rounded out the rotation Tuesday, both bringing heat on the defensive end of the floor.

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