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Former Wolves light up OHHS court

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on November 27, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Lauren Marrs makes the net jump. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Former Coupeville High School hoops coach Scott Fox sports a new purple and gold ensemble while gracing the Oak Harbor bench.

Once were Wolves, now are Wildcats.

Oak Harbor High School kicked off a new basketball season Saturday with “A Night with the Cats,” featuring various OHHS teams squaring off on the hardwood.

On the girl’s side of things, two participants have a Coupeville connection.

Sweet-shooting Lauren Marrs, coming off a stellar season on the soccer pitch, torched the nets in Cow Town back in her middle school days.

A proficient scorer for the Wolves, she’s back to lofting jumpers and remains a fan favorite.

Also reappearing on the sidelines is former Coupeville coach Scott Fox, now sporting purple and gold clothes.

The longtime hoops swami worked with both male and female players during his time at CHS.

Fox started with the Wolf boys’ program, then led the school’s varsity girls through two seasons of play before stepping down to focus on health issues.

And thus concludes our brief detour into Wildcat territory, home to the school which issued me a high school diploma.

There will be no rivalry games between Oak Harbor and Coupeville during the 2022-2023 season.

Having been KO’d by the 2B Wolves last season in a boy’s game, the 3A Wildcats constructed a schedule without a rematch this season.

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Coupeville has Onalaska’s number (sorta)

Posted in Football, Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on November 10, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Lexie Black and friends beat Onalaska the one time the schools played at the state tourney. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Coupeville doesn’t lose to Onalaska in the state playoffs.

That’s just a stone-cold fact.

Sorta.

As we head towards Saturday’s gridiron rumble between the Wolves and Loggers, I decided to look back and see if the two schools had ever met before at the big dance.

And lo and behold, they have, and Coupeville won the showdown.

No, we’re not talking about the Wolf football team.

Instead, the one previous time Onalaska and CHS met in the state tourney, it was the school’s girls’ basketball squads which faced off in Mortal Kombat.

The date was Feb. 27, 2002, and the Wolves held off the Loggers 39-31 in a first-round game, the first of two victories Coupeville captured as they advanced to the semifinals.

A 53-37 dunking of Overlake the next day pushed CHS to within two wins of a state title, but it wasn’t to be, as losses to Colfax and Brewster left the Wolf hoops stars with a 6th place trophy.

The 2001-2002 Coupeville girls’ hardwood team remains the highest scoring unit in program history, rippling the nets for 1,499 points as six players topped triple-digits.

Brianne King led the way with 386 points, with Ashley Ellsworth-Bagby (266), Sarah Mouw (259), Erica Lamb (174), Amy Mouw (137), and Tracy Taylor (115) also making the nets pop.

Rounding out a deep roster were Vanessa Davis, Carly Guillory, Christine Larson, Lexie Black, Whitney Clark, and Taniel Lamb.

And what does this all mean?

Well, probably not a whole lot, seeing as how those Wolf basketball players are all in their mid to late 30’s now, and no current CHS football player was alive in 2002.

But it is a fun fact.

And if Coupeville fans holler “The Wolves don’t lose to Onalaska!” Saturday, well, facts are facts, even when they’re cherry-picked by bloggers with possibly too much time on their hands.

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Killer Kassie movin’ on up

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on October 29, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Kassie O’Neil (far left) is the new CHS JV girls basketball coach. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

She’s changing gyms but remains a Wolf forever.

After a year with the Coupeville Middle School girls basketball program, Kassie O’Neil is crossing the hallway and joining the high school coaching staff.

One of the hardest-working Wolves to ever grace the hardwood back when she was dropping daggers, O’Neil is the new JV girls hoops coach for CHS.

She joins a program headed up by varsity coach Megan Smith and replaces Greg Turcott, who moved to Eastern Washington.

O’Neil’s hiring was confirmed Friday by Coupeville Athletic Director Willie Smith and will be official after school board approval.

The new girls JV coach once played on the same court where she’ll now pass on wisdom to a new generation.

Killer Kassie (second from left), during her playing days.

Part of a highly successful athletic family which includes siblings Kayla, Katie, and Kurtis, Killer Kassie was a hustler and a scrapper, a rebound and pass-first basketball player with an uncanny knack for draining big-time shots.

She cracked the CHS varsity basketball team near the end of her freshman season, making her debut with the top squad at the state tournament.

O’Neil, now a mother of a pack of boys, became a varsity captain in later seasons, topping the Wolves in rebounds and assists.

She also delighted in making the richniks at King’s shed sweet, sweet tears, twice knocking down buzzer-beating three-balls against the highly ranked Knights.

After high school, O’Neil played basketball at Whatcom Community College.

Now, as she preps for her newest challenge, she’s sky-high.

“I am so excited,” O’Neil said.

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Stone torches Norwegian nets

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on October 17, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville grad Makana Stone is averaging a double-double while playing pro ball in Norway. (Photo property Marianne Maja Stenerud)

She’s a winner everywhere she goes.

Coupeville High School grad Makana Stone collected a basketball victory in yet another country Sunday, tossing in a team-high 19 points in Norway, sparking Baerum to a 60-59 win over Ullern.

The triumph lifts Stone and her new teammates to 1-1 on the season, pulling them into a second-place tie in the Kvinneligaen.

The difference in the game came down to shooting, as Ullern struggled from the field, popping in just 34.2% of its shots.

By contrast, Stone was sizzlin’, connecting on 8-11 from the floor and 3-4 at the free throw line.

She added eight rebounds, two assists, and two steals to go with her point explosion, while running mate Julie McCarthy snatched a game-high 14 rebounds.

Abbey Hoff banked in 12 points for Baerum in support of Stone, with Camilla Gjerstad knocking down 11, as the trio combined for more than two-thirds of their team’s offensive output.

Ullern’s Laura Basora rippled the nets for four three-balls en route to a game-best 20 points.

Stone, who played professionally in Britain last season, has 32 points, 20 rebounds, two assists, five steals, and a blocked shot through her first two games in Norway’s pro league.

Baerum returns to action next Sunday, Oct. 23, when it faces off with Storm U.

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Wolf JV hoops coach heads East

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on August 15, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Greg Turcott enjoys a lighter moment with some of his players. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

There’s an opening on the bench.

After one season of coaching the Coupeville High School JV girls basketball team, Greg Turcott has moved to the other side of the state.

The longtime hoops guru will teach and coach boys basketball at White Swan High School in Yakima.

Turcott finished 3-8 while guiding a fairly inexperienced Wolf JV team and was part of a coaching staff which went 9-9 at the varsity level under head coach Megan Smith.

During his year on the CHS bench, Turcott balanced coaching in Cow Town with teaching middle school social studies and PE in Edmonds.

Prior to his arrival at Coupeville, he had high school stints at Archbishop Thomas Murphy, Kamiak, Bishop Blanchet, and South Whidbey.

Turcott also coached Shoreline Community College when its men’s hoops squad twice led the nation in scoring.

He and wife Amy, also a teacher, have three daughters.

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