Coupeville Sports

Ben Olsen is a beast. (John Fisken photos)

Luke Merriman denies a Langley shooter.

Gabe Eck looks for daylight.

Jake Pease battles for a rebound.

Alex Turner stops ‘n pops.

Joey Lippo takes the inbound pass.

Shane Losey goes up for two.

Cameron Toomey-Stout floats in the paint.

Do not get between Ben Olsen and the basketball, unless you have your life insurance paid up in full.

The Coupeville Middle School eighth grader is a rampaging beast on the backboards, as seen in the photo that leads off this collection.

And while CMS got dinged up pretty good by Langley Wednesday (the 7th grade JV was the only one of four Wolf squads to win), Olsen’s intensity bodes well for the future.

The photos are courtesy traveling photographer John Fisken and you can find all of his work by using the various links below.

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 Wolves (l to r) Ben Olsen, Nick Etzell and Luke Merriman apply defensive pressure. (Joe Lippo photos)

Cameron Toomey-Stout goes up for two.

Contributed by Joe Lippo

The Coupeville Middle School basketball team packed into the school bus at noon Wednesday and headed south to face off with Everett-based Northshore.

There was barely enough room for the players, let alone fans as we packed into the tiny gym.

Anyone who complains about the size of the Coupeville gym should be sentenced to this gym for a week.

The eighth graders would be first and the seriously undermanned JV squad took the floor with only one player on the bench as a sub.

Determined performances by Kyle Rockwell and JT Quinn plus physical play from James Vidoni were outmatched by the Northshore opponents, and the two-quarter game ended 22-6.

Then it was the eighth grade varsity’s turn.

It didn’t look good out of the gate, with Northshore running up 16 points before Joey Lippo hit a jumper to put Coupeville on the board.

This was followed by points from Hunter Downes, Nick Etzell, Luke Merriman and Ben Olson, but the closest the Wolves would get would be 18-8 during a 56-26 loss.

That didn’t keep them from playing hard.

Cameron Toomey-Stout scored four points with the first two fingers of his shooting hand taped together. Merriman led the team with nine points after recovering from an injury.

All of the players played solid, physical defense. But that didn’t change the fact that the Coupeville players were exhausted at the end of the game.

As an aside, somebody needs to capture this injury bug that plagues Coupeville sports and give it a good thrashing.

“We have good talent and good attitudes, and we are willing to work hard and are progressing,” said CMS eighth grade coach Bob Martin. “Our bench is short with six varsity and six JV players.”

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Bob Martin (far left) will head inside, as football is replaced by basketball. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

Basketball is back.

The first to kick off a new season will be the Coupeville Middle School boys’ teams, which hit the road Wednesday, Nov. 6 for a season-opening trip to play Northshore.

A week later the Wolves will see their first home action, when they host Langley.

The sort-of-set-in-stone (AKA not really at all) rosters for 8th grade coach Bob Martin and 7th grade coach Randy King:

8th:

Hunter Downes
Nick Etzell
Jake Hoagland
Kenny Johnson
Joey Lippo
Luke Merriman
Ben Olsen
JT Quinn
Zack Richards
Kyle Rockwell
Cameron Toomey-Stout
James Vidoni

7th:

Cameron Dahl
Gabe Eck
Ty Eck
Kaleb King
Shane Losey
Luke Martin
Jake Pease
David Prescott
Michael Rice
Brian Roberts
Alex Turner

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