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It’s Mia time!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, Middle School, tagged , , on January 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Mia Littlejohn devours the souls of her basketball opponents with the same ferocity she eats hot dogs. (Melissa Losey photo)

  Mia Littlejohn devours the souls of her basketball opponents with the same ferocity she eats hot dogs. (Melissa Losey photo)

Sisters Mia (right) and Kalia Littlejohn battle it out. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

Sisters Mia (right) and Kalia Littlejohn battle it out. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

The most electrifying basketball player in Coupeville starts a new season today.

Hey, there are some very good hoops hotshots on the rosters of the local high school squads. But none of them play with the reckless abandon, the I-just-stepped-off-a-playground-in-Jersey style of Mia Littlejohn.

The Coupeville Middle School eighth-grader, younger sister of former Wolf star Zepher Loesch, is just one of many players expected to turn out when CMS kicks off its girls’ basketball season Tuesday.

But she gets the headline because she’s, well, a headliner.

Dribbling between her legs, weaving in and out of traffic, sometimes in control, sometimes not, she would have been worth the price of admission last season — if they charged admission for middle school sports.

But don’t worry. This is not 100% about one player.

As soon as CMS coaches Bob Martin (7th) and Brett Smedley (8th) have something resembling rosters, we will get all the girls’ names up here.

Until then, start counting down the days until the first tip-off.

The schedule:

Thursday, Feb. 13 Langley
Tuesday, Feb. 18 @ Granite Falls
Monday, Feb. 24 Northshore
Wednesday, Feb. 26 @ Sultan
Monday, March 3 @ Lakewood
Wednesday, March 5 King’s
Monday, March 10 Granite Falls
Wednesday, March 12 @ Langley

P.S. — Schedules have been known to change. For up-to-the-minute results, check http://coupeville.tandemcal.com/.

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I have WAY too much time on my hands!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on January 20, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Wolf junior Wynter Thorne, posterized. (Original photos by John Fisken)

Wolf junior Wynter Thorne, posterized. (Original photos by John Fisken)

Oscar Liquidano

Oscar Liquidano

Jae LeVine keeps the beat. (Robert Bishop photo)

Jae LeVine keeps the beat. (Original photo by Robert Bishop)

Julia Myers

Julia Myers (foreground) and Amanda Fabrizi. (Original photo by John Fisken)

CHS football coach Tony Maggio

CHS football coach Tony Maggio

I could do this all day long.

Ever since my sister, Sarah Kirkconnell (http://www.gazingin.com/) introduced me to PicMonkey (http://www.picmonkey.com/,) a web site where you can craft all sorts of things out of photos, I have run amuck.

It started with a nearly 60-page picture book that I made for someone, a film noir-influenced tale of hard-bitten private eyes tracking a missing dog.

The real life femme fatale got back her wayward doggie, then got a book to remember the surreal 36-hour adventure of those who went searching for the fluffy pup.

Today I tried out the “posterize” feature on the site and the five “works of art” above are my creations.

They use photos originally shot by John Fisken and Robert Bishop, and pay homage to my one true life-long love — the movies.

Sweet, sweet time-wasting…

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Waiting for tip-off? It’s picture time!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , on January 20, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Wolf freshmen Carlie Rosenkrance (left) and Tiffany Briscoe fire up the sound system. (Amy Briscoe photos)

   Wolf freshmen Carlie Rosenkrance (left) and Tiffany Briscoe fire up the sound system. (Amy Briscoe photos)

Team manager Jae LeVine (left) checks in on injured Wolf Miranda Engle (hence the scooter).

   Team manager Jae LeVine (left) checks in on Miranda Engle, who is getting around on a scooter while rehabbing a hurt leg.

Tiffany Briscoe hangs out with her own personal cheerleaders.

Tiffany Briscoe hangs out with her own personal cheerleaders.

Emily Coulter (middle) and Sophia Jebrail (right), deadly serious about learning the game.

  Emily Coulter (middle) and Sophia Jebrail (right), deadly serious about learning the game.

Briscoe and "adopted big sister" Hailey Hammer show the love.

Briscoe and “adopted big sister” Hailey Hammer show the love.

CHS varsity players (l to r) Julia Myers, Kacie Kiel and Hammer carefully monitor the JV game.

  Varsity players (l to r) Julia Myers, Kacie Kiel and Hammer carefully monitor the JV game.

Skyler Lawrence (left) and Briscoe, smiling now but ready to unleash defensive terror on their foes.

  Skyler Lawrence (left) and Briscoe, smiling now, but ready to unleash defensive terror on their foes.

Anyone can get action shots.

But being a team mom, and, more than that, the team mom that feeds everyone, Amy Briscoe gets behind the scenes access to the Coupeville High School girls’ basketball team.

The photos above are part of her collection of candid shots of the Wolves when they’re not on the court.

A slightly different take on the young women who wear the red and black on game nights.

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Jackie B’s back in town (for a day)!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , on January 18, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Jackie Bykonen (right), returned to Whidbey Friday as a member of the Meadowdale coaching staff. (John Fisken photo)

  Jackie Bykonen (right), returned to Whidbey Friday as a member of the Meadowdale coaching staff. (John Fisken photo)

You can move off Whidbey Island, but you can never really get away.

Friday night, former Coupeville High School girls’ basketball coach Jackie Bykonen came back to the Island — well, the North end at least.

Now a coach with Meadowdale, a 3A school in the Western Conference, she was in town to help the Mavericks keep Oak Harbor winless.

Meadowdale withstood a third quarter charge from the Wildcats and escaped town with a 61-53 win.

The Mavericks are 5-9, while OHHS sits at 0-12. Bykonen’s former squad currently sits at 6-6.

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Big losses, big lessons for Wolf JV squads!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball, tagged , , on January 17, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Wynter Thorne

Wynter Thorne (John Fisken photo)

Some nights you deliver the lesson. Other nights it gets delivered to you.

It was a case of the latter Friday night for the Coupeville High School JV girls’ basketball squad. Coming off of several stellar defensive outings, the Wolves had the tables turned on them by visiting King’s and it wasn’t pleasant.

The 52-15 loss, in which CHS didn’t score until Wynter Thorne banked home an inside shot midway through the second quarter (at which time the Wolves trailed 25-0) was a reminder that you win with grace and lose with grace.

“We’ve been on the other side of this kind of game, and always made sure our girls handled it well,” said Coupeville coach Amy King. “Now, they know how it feels to be on the other side.

“Treat the other team with respect when you win, and hope you’re treated with respect when you lose.”

Down 33-3 at the half, Coupeville put up a much better fight in the second half.

While a running clock kept the score down after halftime, the Wolves stayed within 19-11 behind several big shots from Kailey Kellner.

The recent transfer from England hit a pair of long three-point bombs and two free-throws as she paced Coupeville with eight points.

Thorne hit for four, Carlie Rosenkrance netted a bucket and Emily Coulter tossed in a free throw to round out the scoring.

Wolf JV boys lose: Down in Everett, the Coupeville JV boys suffered virtually the same fate. The Wolves trailed 34-3 at the break, put up a much stronger fight in the second half and fell 55-19.

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