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Wolves invade Yakima!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball, Where are they now?, Wolves in college on January 18, 2013| Leave a Comment »

The Wolf hoops honor roll: left to right, Mike Bagby, Jason Bagby, Ron Bagby and Brad Sherman.

Greg Oldham

Wolf Nation is spreading to Eastern Washington, bit by bit.

Former Coupeville High School girls’ basketball coach Greg Oldham is now calling the shots at Yakima Valley Community College, while former Wolf sensation Jason Bagby is suiting up for the same school’s mens’ basketball squad.

Oldham, who led Coupeville to the state tourney on a regular basis, is in his first year in the lead chair. After coaching high school ball at White Swan, Coupeville and West Valley, he became an assistant with the YVCC mens’ team, then bounced into the womens’ job when head coach Cody Butler accepted a position at Boise State.

The Yaks are 9-8 overall, 2-2 in league play under Oldham.

Bagby, a six-foot-four dunking machine, is a sophomore forward at the two-year college. He’s played in 16 games for a 13-5 Yak team that is ranked #8 in the most recent Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges poll.

He’s made 19 of 36 field goals (including swishing his lone three-point try) and 14 of 23 free throws. Bagby is averaging 3.3 points per game (53 total), with a high of 12, and has amassed 183 minutes of playing time, 22 rebounds, 22 personal fouls, 11 steals, four blocks and three assists.

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Eventually you sleep, eat and dream basketball…

Posted in Boys and Girls Club, Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball on January 17, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Aaron Trumbull (left) prepares to drop the boom on a young pupil.

Lauren Escalle mesmerizes her young charges with her amazing shoes.

Mollie Bailey, younger sister of Wolf stars McKayla and McKenzie, breaks down her foe with a nasty cross-over dribble.

Amanda Fabrizi (3) and her team. "Our coach is the one who makes all her shots!!"

Wolf gunner Amanda Fabrizi (3) and her team. “Our coach is a better shooter than your coach!!”

Obviously someone grew up watching former Wolf shot blocker extraordinaire Lexie Black play defense. "I pity the fool who tries to shoot over me!!"

Obviously someone grew up watching former Wolf shot blocker extraordinaire Lexie Black play defense. “I pity the fool who shoots in MY GYM!!”

Forget about school or a social life.

Many Coupeville High School basketball players are pulling double duty these days, and it means long hours in a gym, lost in a world of sweaty socks and sweet fade-away jumpers.

In between practicing and playing during their own seasons, the Wolf hoops stars are also taking time out of their busy schedule to help the Coupeville Boys and Girls Club run its basketball league.

Dedicated to providing another link in the development of this town’s players, the club offers instruction and games for players in kindergarten through 8th grade. Games are held on Saturdays through the end of March.

Sponsors of the program include Allure Salon & Spa, Branch Business Services, Cascade Custom Homes, Cascade Insurance, the Coupeville Booster Club, Coupeville Coffee & Bistro, Fine Line Painting, Hearing Health Services, Porter Stuurmans Insurance, Red Apple Prairie Center and Sherman’s Pioneer Farm.

The volunteers:

K-1 (Pee-Wees):

Katie Kiel
Breeanna Messner
Madeline Strasburg
Scott Stuurmans
Caleb Valko
Greg White

2-3 (Minors):

Aaron Burdge
Kylie Burdge
Rhiannon Ellsworth
Hailey Hammer
Kacie Kiel
Makana Stone
Joel Walstad

4-5 (Majors):

Julia Felici
Jai’Lysa Hoskins
Haley Marx
CJ Roberts
Aaron Trumbull
Bessie Walstad

6-8 (Pros):

Lauren Escalle
Amanda Fabrizi
Dalton Martin
Caleb Valko

Referees:

Oscar Liquidano
Cole Payne
Nick Streubel
Aaron Trumbull
Caleb Valko

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Some people watch a game, others bleed red and black!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Fashionable Fans, Girls Basketball on January 17, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Every game. Without fail.

Like a boss.

I don’t know their names.

I could get off my lazy butt and ask them, but two things I never liked very much about being a reporter was butting into people’s personal affairs and having to do … actual … work.

So, I’ll let the photos of John Fisken do most of the work for me, as he gives us a brief window into the night of two of Coupeville High School basketball’s most dedicated fans.

They are at every game, in the same part of the bleachers, boys or girls, win or loss.

He is a dead-eye long-ball shooter who starts nervously bouncing in his seat as the moments tick down until the halftime half-court shot contest starts. I have seen him win at least three times, returning to the stands, hands over head, waving another memento for what has to be a very large t-shirt collection.

She has been known to needle the refs, but does it in a way where her words hit home without permanently marking the very thin skin of the men and women who wear the whistles.

They have their notebook (for keeping stats, I assume). They have their snacks — Cup o’ Noodles and candy bars. They take great delight in being in place to lob the warm-up balls to the players as they come back to the court.

They enjoy themselves, night in and night out. Many people know them and they know many people. They are an integral part of the experience.

I could butt in. I could ask them their names. I could find out their story.

But I already know the most important fact. They are Wolves, through and through.

What more do I need to know?

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Get out a #2 pencil! There’s going to be a quiz later!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball on January 17, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Wolf playoff hopes hinge on players emulating JV star Wynter Thorne and going hard to the hoop the next three weeks. (John Fisken photo)

Wolf playoff hopes may rest on players emulating JV star Wynter Thorne and going hard to the hoop the next three weeks. (John Fisken photo)

A win a day and you can be as happy as Carson Risner (left) and Josh Wilsey. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

The playoff push has begun in earnest.

Friday night’s Coupeville/South Whidbey doubleheader rumble for Island basketball supremacy (the Wolf boys tip off at 5 PM in Langley, with the girls taking the court at 6:45), will pit two of the three 1A schools in the eight-team 1A/2A Cascade Conference.

While all three 1A schools are guaranteed a playoff berth (and at least two postseason games), Coupeville is battling neck and neck with the Falcons for the #2 seed, which would result in a slightly easier playoff outlook.

The Wolf girls (5-10 overall, 3-6 in league play) actually have a (very slim) shot at still catching King’s (7-2) for the #1 seed.

All it takes is four straight losses for King’s, four straight wins for Coupeville (including an upset of 9-0 Archbishop Thomas Murphy) and the final Wolf regular season game — Friday, Feb. 1 at King’s — would be a winner-take-all battle.

Barring that miracle, Coupeville will be playing for the #2 seed, which they currently own. Both South Whidbey and the Wolves are 3-6, but Coupeville has the tiebreaker because they won the two team’s first meeting in mid-December.

Seeding is important, because when the three Cascade Conference seeds open the district playoffs, they will face off against the top five schools from the Northwest Conference. A #2 seed gets the Wolves an opening match-up against the #3 seed from the NWC, while a #3 seed finds them pitted against the NWC #1.

Districts, held Feb. 4-9, is a double elimination event, with three teams advancing on to tri-districts.

And what about the Wolf boys?

While neither Coupeville or South Whidbey will catch King’s (9-0), the #2 seed is very much up for grabs. South Whidbey (3-12, 1-8) won the first meeting, but a Wolf (1-14, 0-9) win Friday would leave the two squads knotted up with four to play.

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And when did you become Women’s Wear Daily?!?!

Posted in Girls Basketball, Must be the shoes on January 16, 2013| Leave a Comment »

“How many of these do we have to look at?!?!”

“Ooh, that is a nice one, Korb!!”

Equal time for equal play.

Having highlighted some of the various brightly-colored shoes worn by the Coupeville High School girls’ basketball varsity team, we sent high fashion photographer John Fisken back on the court to get some snaps of the sizzlin’ styles worn by the Wolf JV players.

Oh lord, has it really come to this? Am I this in love with hauling in page views?

Yes, yes I am.

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