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We can go back (thanks to photos)

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged 50th anniversary, Brianne King, CHS Wolves, girls basketball, Judy Marti on December 21, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Erica (Lamb) Holland returns to the court where she once starred. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

It’s a night which will live large in their memories.

Saturday’s 50th anniversary celebration of Coupeville High School girls’ basketball still lingers, even as the current Wolves continue their season.

The pics above and below, which come to us courtesy photo whiz kid John Fisken, keep the party going.

The Wolfpack is back.

Tina (Lyness) Joiner shows her son where mom scorched the nets.

Brianne King, the undisputed CHS hoops scoring champ.

Wolf greats (l to r) Sarah (Powell) Lyngra, Sherry Bonacci, and Terry (Perkins) Powell reunite.

Former CHS hoops guru David King sees a ref walk by.

Judy Marti, forever a star.

Aimee (Messner) Bishop and daughter Breeanna, hardcourt dynamos then and now.

Kacie and Steve Kiel reminisce about that time Kacie hit a buzzer-beater three-ball to stun Sequim.

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Marti, Armstrong shine in tough loss

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged CHS Wolves, Cle Elum, girls basketball, Haylee Armstrong, Katie Marti on December 20, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Wolf freshman Haylee Armstrong made her varsity debut Wednesday, then joined the sisterhood by scoring. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

A rough night, but with some bright spots.

Playing deep on the road in Eastern Washington Wednesday, the Coupeville High School varsity girls’ basketball team struggled to find its shooting touch and paid the price.

Unable to hit a field goal until early in the third quarter, the Wolves got roughed up 56-17 by host Cle Elum-Roslyn.

But while the non-conference loss drops CHS to 3-5 on the season, the game did feature a strong second-half performance from sparkplug Katie Marti, and the varsity debut of fab frosh Haylee Armstrong.

Plus, there’s another game tomorrow, offering the Wolves a chance to immediately get this one out of their system.

Coupeville squares off with Kittitas Thursday at Central Washington University, then is off until Jan. 5.

Maybe it was tired legs, having traveled 130+ miles on a school bus right after playing Forks at home Tuesday night.

Maybe there was some wayward breeze in the Cle Elum gym, or the rim was tweaked and twisted.

Or maybe it was just a night where nothing was going to drop, no matter what angle the ball went skyward.

Coupeville failed to record a single field goal in the first half, netting just a solitary Mia Farris free throw midway through the second quarter, and trailed 26-1 at the break.

Things got better in the third, thanks to the rampaging force of nature keeping alive the Marti/Messner legacy.

Katie Marti opened the quarter with a free throw, closed it with another one, and in between sank a pair of three-balls on plays where her defender was a step slow to stop her gun-slinging nature.

Cle Elum had plenty of firepower itself, stretching the advantage out to 43-9 heading into the fourth, but the Wolves made sure the locals had to work hard for their points.

Farris made off with a steal to open the fourth, outracing the defenders as she slashed in for a silky layup.

Late in the game, Armstrong and Teagan Calkins connected on back-to-back buckets — the only time all game CHS was able to score on consecutive plays.

Teagan Calkins, here eyeballing mom Jackie Saia, played strongly on both ends of the floor.

It was a milestone moment for Armstrong, as the freshman was making her varsity debut a night after scoring 20 for the Wolf JV in a win.

Her fourth-quarter basket makes her the 243rd Coupeville girl to score in a varsity game across the last 50 years.

Marti paced the Wolves with 10 points, and in doing so, moves into the top 100 scorers in program history.

With 121 career points and counting, she’s #95 all-time, and just five points from passing mom Christi Messner (125).

After that comes Aunt Aimee (Messner) Bishop (168), Cousin Breeanna Messner (235), and Aunt Judy Marti (545).

Farris (3), Armstrong (2), and Calkins (2) rounded out the offensive attack at Cle Elum, while Jada Heaton, Lyla Stuurmans, Reese Wilkinson, Madison McMillan, Bryley Gilbert, and Kayla Arnold also saw floor time for Megan Richter’s squad.

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Wolves scrappy, Spartans deadly

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged CHS Wolves, Forks, girls basketball, Katie Marti, Madison McMillan on December 19, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Katie Marti, always ready to get scrappy. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

The second half was way rougher than the first.

Squaring off with a hot-shooting, hotter-rebounding Forks squad Tuesday, the Coupeville High School varsity girls’ basketball squad hung tough for 16 minutes on its home floor.

But then the basket stopped accepting Wolf shots, and things went South in a hurry.

Scoring only four points across the game’s final two quarters, Coupeville saw a 10-point game turn into a 56-20 loss.

Now 3-4 after absorbing the non-conference defeat, the Wolves get an immediate chance to turn things around, playing games the next two days.

Coupeville travels East for clashes with Cle Elum Wednesday and Kittitas Thursday, then is off until Jan. 5.

Facing off with Forks, the Wolves ran into a solid, fundamentally-sound squad which hit the boards with passion and rattled the rims on seven successful three-balls.

In the early going, CHS stayed close next to some inspired shot making of its own.

Madison McMillan put the Wolves on the board with maybe the most sensational shot anyone on the team has hit this season.

Slicing between two defenders, the junior guard hit a running bank shot that got up over the defender’s outstretched arms and back down through the net before she even had time to call “Glass!”

It was a thing of sublime beauty, and added to buckets by Jada Heaton and Katie Marti, it kept the Spartans on their toes.

Down 18-7 at the first break, Coupeville played their visitors virtually even in the second quarter, winning that eight-minute scrimmage 9-8.

Marti had the hottest hand in the frame, banking in a three-ball, before coming back around to score off of a rebound.

That carom came off of her own shot, as she followed the path of the ball, scooting beneath the rim and catching the comebacker off the glass as if she had passed it to herself.

While the Wolves were still trailing as they headed in for halftime, the deficit was just 26-16 and it still felt very manageable.

Jada Heaton fights for a loose ball.

But, after trading buckets to open the third, with Mia Farris drilling a long jumper just a step or two inside the three-point line, Coupeville’s offense vanished.

From that point on Forks ran off 28 unanswered points, hitting four of their three-balls during the explosion and making the final score look much worse to a casual observer who hadn’t seen the rest of the game.

McMillan popped a jumper with several ticks left on the clock to end the Forks run and provide the game’s final bucket, but the previous 15 minutes had been a killer.

Marti paced the Wolves with a team-high seven points, while McMillan (6), Heaton (5), and Farris (2) rounded out the attack.

Lyla Stuurmans, Reese Wilkinson, Teagan Calkins, Bryley Gilbert, and Kayla Arnold also saw floor time, with Arnold earning sustained whoops of excitement from her fan club in the student section.

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Armstrong sparks epic Wolf win

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged Bryley Gilbert, CHS Wolves, Forks, Haylee Armstrong, JV, rout on December 19, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Haylee Armstrong dares you to try and stop her. Spoiler: You can’t. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Haylee Armstrong went off.

The Coupeville High School freshman exploded for 17 of her game-high 20 points in the third quarter Tuesday, propelling the Wolf JV to a 46-18 scorching of visiting Forks.

The non-conference win lifts CHS to 2-4 heading into the holiday break.

While their varsity counterparts head East for a pair of holiday games, the Wolf JV is now off until Jan. 5.

Kassie O’Neill’s band of young ballhawks utterly destroyed Forks after a fairly close first quarter.

The Spartans actually led 9-7 at the break, but then the Wolves unleashed total freakin’ destruction.

Chelsi Stevens (left) and Ava Lucero wait for their moment to deliver major emotional damage to a rival team.

Bryley Gilbert knocked down six points in the second quarter to spark a 13-1 Coupeville run, as she and her teammates claimed the lead for good.

Up 20-10 at the half, the Wolves were unstoppable in the second half.

Armstrong rained down pain from every angle, including netting a three-ball, during her torrid third quarter run.

With a bucket from Gilbert and a free throw off the fingertips of Chelsi Stevens, that made for a game-busting 20-8 surge.

Forks had no answers, and then no points, as it went scoreless in the fourth quarter as the Wolves closed out the romp.

Gilbert finished with a season-high 12 to back up Armstrong’s 20-point outburst, while Tenley Stuurmans (7), Capri Anter (2), Ari Cunningham (2), Adie Maynes (2), and Stevens (1) also scored.

Ava Lucero, Taylor Marrs, and Lexis Drake rounded out the rotation for the Wolves.

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One magical night on the hardwood

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged 50th anniversary, Cherie Smith, CHS Wolves, girls basketball, Judy Marti, Phyllis Textor on December 18, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Judy Marti, who still holds the single-game scoring record for CHS girls, was fondly remembered by family and friends. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

One more time in the gym together.

Former coaches, players, and support staff joined fans of all time periods Saturday as Coupeville High School celebrated 50 years of girls’ basketball.

The top 15 scorers in program history were honored, as was the 1999-2000 team, which was the first to win a game at state.

As two games and the festivities played out, wanderin’ photo snapper John Fisken captured a wide variety of pics, some of which are seen here.

To view everything he’s posting, pop over to:

https://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/Coupeville-Basketball-2023-2024/GBB-2023-12-16-vs-South-Whidbey/