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   As they head into the heart of the league schedule, both CHS hoops teams will need big rebounds like this one pulled down by Hannah Davidson. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

The week ahead is the biggest week yet for the Coupeville High School basketball squads.

The Wolf girls play two games, while the boys have three bouts (with one a makeup for a game postponed when the refs failed to show).

All are against Olympic League foes and the results will greatly impact any chance CHS has to add more league titles to the school’s Wall of Fame.

The Wolf girls, three-time defending champs, sit a half-game off of Chimacum and Port Townsend, no matter what the league’s “official” site would like you to believe.

While it waits for OlympicLeague.com to give it proper credit for a win over Klahowya (the Wolves are 2-2 in conference, not 1-2), Coupeville hosts Klahowya Tuesday and travels to Chimacum Friday.

Meanwhile, the Wolf boys, who are a game back of Port Townsend, have trips to Klahowya Tuesday and Saturday, packaged around a home game Friday against Chimacum.

That night marks the 101st anniversary of CHS boys basketball.

By the time the week is done, both Wolf squads will have six of their nine league games in the books (will OlympicLeague.com keep up???), with just a single game against each of their three conference rivals left.

As both teams head down the stretch, the scoring races are heating up, as well.

On the girls side of the ball, Mikayla Elfrank’s ankle injury, which has sidelined her for several games, has allowed Lindsey Roberts to storm past her and claim the #1 spot on the points chart.

With the guys, no one is likely to catch Hunter Smith, who is more than 100 points ahead of Coupeville’s second-leading scorer as he rises up the school’s career scoring list.

Smith, who is averaging 19.1 a night this season, sits #17 all-time, one decent game from cracking the Top 15.

Varsity scoring and league standings through Jan. 14:

Girls:

Lindsey Roberts 105
Mikayla Elfrank 99
Sarah Wright 66
Ema Smith 57
Kyla Briscoe 48
Kalia Littlejohn 38
Scout Smith 29
Chelsea Prescott 25
Hannah Davidson 6
Allison Wenzel 3
Avalon Renninger 1

Boys:

Hunter Smith 248
Ethan Spark 144
Joey Lippo 61
Hunter Downes 38
Mason Grove 15
Kyle Rockwell 15
Cameron Toomey-Stout 15
Jered Brown 14
Dane Lucero 10
Gavin Knoblich 2
Ulrik Wells 2
Jacobi Pilgrim 1

Olympic League girls basketball:

School League Overall
Chimacum 3-2 6-8
Port Townsend 3-2 5-8
COUPEVILLE 2-2 4-11
Klahowya 1-3 3-10

Olympic League boys basketball:

School League Overall
Port Townsend 4-1 8-5
COUPEVILLE 2-1 4-9
Klahowya 2-1 6-7
Chimacum 0-5 0-9

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   Ethan Spark and Coupeville sit atop the league standings after rallying from 12 down in the fourth to stun Port Townsend. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Everything is a little topsy-turvy at the moment.

Only a smidge of the conference season has been played, yet things look totally different than in years past.

A new-look Coupeville High School girls basketball squad dropped its Olympic League opener to Port Townsend, ending a three-year, 27-game winning streak against conference foes.

While there are still miles (and eight conference games) to go, the Wolves find themselves looking up at other teams for the first time since joining the four-team league in 2014.

On the other side of the ball, the CHS boys are tasting rarefied air.

After rallying from 12 points down in the fourth quarter to stun defending league champ Port Townsend in overtime, the Wolves sit atop the standings.

There’s still a lot to be played in that race, as well, but, for the moment, the view from the penthouse is a sweet one.

Both Coupeville teams have a stretch of non-league contests ahead of them, and don’t face off with another conference rival until Jan. 6.

Then, they close with eight of their final 10 games inside the Olympic League, the time period when playoff dreams will truly live and die.

Until then, take a gander at varsity scoring stats and league standings through Dec. 17:

Girls:

Mikayla Elfrank 87
Lindsey Roberts 50
Kalia Littlejohn 38
Ema Smith 24
Sarah Wright 24
Kyla Briscoe 16
Scout Smith 14
Chelsea Prescott 6

Boys:

Hunter Smith 129
Ethan Spark 58
Joey Lippo 16
Hunter Downes 11
Kyle Rockwell 11
Jered Brown 9
Dane Lucero 5
Mason Grove 3
Cameron Toomey-Stout 3
Jacobi Pilgrim 1

Olympic League girls basketball:

School League Overall
Chimacum 2-0 3-2
Port Townsend 1-1 2-4
COUPEVILLE 0-1 1-7
Klahowya 0-1 1-6

Olympic League boys basketball:

School League Overall
COUPEVILLE 1-0 2-5
Klahowya 1-0 1-6
Port Townsend 1-1 3-3
Chimacum 0-2 0-5

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   Dane Lucero and Coupeville are shooting for success. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

The first shots have been fired.

Week two of the basketball season featured the first showdown between Olympic League foes, with Port Townsend and Chimacum getting together for a doubleheader.

The RedHawks and Cowboys split the twin-bill, leaving, for the moment, two different schools atop the very-early league standings.

For Coupeville, it’s all been about non-conference play so far, but that’s about to change.

The Wolves get a taste, but just a taste, of league action Tuesday when they face off with Port Townsend.

Then they don’t return to conference play until Jan. 6.

For the CHS girls, the match-up with the RedHawks gives them an opportunity to kick off a bid for a fourth-straight league title.

The Wolf boys, meanwhile, would like to fire an early warning shot at Port Townsend, which is the defending champs on that side of the ball.

Varsity scoring stats and league standings through Dec. 10:

Girls:

Mikayla Elfrank 68
Kalia Littlejohn 38
Lindsey Roberts 36
Kyla Briscoe 15
Sarah Wright 15
Ema Smith 13
Scout Smith 13

Boys:

Hunter Smith 69
Ethan Spark 40
Joey Lippo 10
Hunter Downes 7
Dane Lucero 4
Jered Brown 3
Cameron Toomey-Stout 3
Jacobi Pacquette-Pilgrim 1

Standings:

Olympic League girls basketball:

School League Overall
Chimacum 1-0 2-1
COUPEVILLE 0-0 1-5
Klahowya 0-0 1-3
Port Townsend 0-1 0-4

Olympic League boys basketball:

School League Overall
Port Townsend 1-0 2-2
COUPEVILLE 0-0 1-3
Klahowya 0-0 0-4
Chimacum 0-1 0-4

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   Mason Grove fires up a serve for a Wolf tennis squad which came within a whisker of winning a third-straight league title. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

   Allison Wenzel and Hope Lodell (1) are part of a deep senior class which carried the CHS spikers to back-to-back league crowns.

   Coupeville’s football season started strongly, but an astonishing run of injuries made life difficult in the second half of the season.

   Lauren Bayne’s fan club saw her help lead the Wolf soccer squad to a program record-tying eight wins.

Surprises, until the end.

Capping the final day of regular-season play for fall sports, Chimacum football shocked Klahowya 17-14 in overtime Friday night.

The first time the Cowboys have beaten the Eagles on the gridiron since the 1A Olympic League formed in 2014, it gave Chimacum’s oldest players a great parting gift on their Senior Night.

Preventing Klahowya from notching another league win also aids Coupeville, allowing the Wolves to stay right on the heels of the Eagles for varsity wins spread across four fall sports.

With conference play complete in girls soccer, volleyball, boys tennis and football, KSS holds a 21-20 edge over CHS as we exit the fall and head for the basketball court.

Port Townsend, with seven wins, and Chimacum, with five, are lagging way back in the hinterlands at the moment.

Coupeville, which captured the varsity wins crown in 2016-2017, after two years of narrowly being nipped by Klahowya, is riding high thanks to its female athletes.

An undefeated, league-title winning volleyball squad and a solid, second-place soccer unit have compensated for a football team which was ripped asunder by a historic run of injuries.

With two Olympic League teams still active in the postseason (Coupeville volleyball and Klahowya soccer are state-bound), standings through Nov. 5:

Olympic/Nisqually League football:

School League Overall
Cascade Christian 7-0 9-1
Charles Wright 6-1 8-2
Bellevue Christian 4-3 4-6
Klahowya 3-4 3-7
Port Townsend 3-4 3-7
Chimacum 2-5 4-6
Vashon Island 2-5 2-8
COUPEVILLE 1-6 3-7

Olympic League volleyball:

School League Overall
COUPEVILLE 9-0 13-3
Klahowya 5-4 7-9
Port Townsend 3-6 6-12
Chimacum 1-8 1-11

Olympic League girls soccer:

School League Overall
Klahowya 9-0 17-1
COUPEVILLE 6-3 8-9
Chimacum 2-7 2-11-1
Port Townsend 1-8 2-13

Olympic League boys tennis:

School League Overall
Klahowya 4-1 12-2
COUPEVILLE 4-2 6-7
Chimacum 0-5 0-11

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   Lauren Rose and Coupeville volleyball sail into the postseason flying high. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

It’s a donnybrook, and we’re only (almost) a third of the way into the fight.

With regular season play done for volleyball, soccer and tennis, and just one more week of football left, year #4 of the Olympic League is again a two-team tussle.

Klahowya, the second-biggest 1A school in the state, and Coupeville, the sixth-smallest, are all but tied as we begin to make the turn and look ahead to basketball season.

The Eagles hold a narrow 21-20 lead on the Wolves, when varsity wins across those four sports are totaled up.

Meanwhile, way in the back, Port Townsend sits with seven victories and Chimacum four.

Coupeville volleyball and Klahowya soccer, which both went 9-0 in conference action, winning their second and fourth consecutive titles, respectively, were the cream of the crop.

With both tennis squads tying with four wins apiece, the edge has come down to football, where the Wolves have been hammered by the worst spate of season-ending injuries in several decades.

KSS is not only much healthier, but gets the better draw in the season’s final game next week, traveling to Chimacum, while CHS visits state-ranked Cascade Christian.

However those games break down, one thing is certain — the battle for league supremacy remains truly a battle as we head into the second of three legs.

League standings, through Oct. 29:

Olympic/Nisqually League football:

School League Overall
Cascade Christian 6-0 8-1
Charles Wright 5-1 7-2
Bellevue Christian 3-3 3-6
Klahowya 3-3 3-6
Port Townsend 3-3 3-6
Vashon Island 2-4 2-7
COUPEVILLE 1-5 3-6
Chimacum 1-5 3-6

Olympic League volleyball:

School League Overall
COUPEVILLE 9-0 12-2
Klahowya 5-4 7-8
Port Townsend 3-6 5-11
Chimacum 1-8 1-11

Olympic League girls soccer:

School League Overall
Klahowya 9-0 15-1
COUPEVILLE 6-3 8-9
Chimacum 2-7 2-11-1
Port Townsend 1-8 2-13

Olympic League boys tennis:

School League Overall
Klahowya 4-1 12-2
COUPEVILLE 4-2 6-7
Chimacum 0-5 0-11

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