Hurlee Bronec towers over the defense. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)
It was there, then it was gone.
The Coupeville High School varsity boys’ basketball team played host Mount Vernon Christian even through the first eight minutes Tuesday night.
Then things got tough.
The host Hurricanes ramped up their offensive effort across the second and third frames, and the Wolves watched one slip away, falling 69-52.
The loss drops Coupeville to 1-1 in Northwest 2B/1B League action, 2-4 overall.
Still, the Wolves are just a game back of league leader La Conner (2-0) with eight conference bouts left on the schedule, with the first of those coming against winless Friday Harbor Jan. 7.
A rematch against MVC is set for Jan. 28 in Coupeville.
For now, Brad Sherman’s squad will play its next four games against non-league rivals, starting with a home clash against Sultan Friday night.
Squaring off with the Hurricanes, Coupeville battled to a 10-10 tie at the first break but then was overwhelmed 23-11 in the second frame.
MVC kept up the pressure in the third with a 23-16 surge, before the Wolves closed things with a 15-13 run of their own in the fourth.
Chase Anderson, coming off of a career-best 42-point explosion in Coupeville’s last game, paced CHS with a game-high 23.
That gives the junior 377 career points and pushes him from #77 to #69 on the program’s all-time scoring chart, which covers 108 seasons of Wolf boys’ hoops action.
Among the eight former CHS greats he passed Tuesday were Don Cook, Chad Gale, and JD Wilcox.
Easton Green flies into action.
Hunter Bronec (8), Camden Glover (7), Hurlee Bronec (6), Jack Porter (4), Easton Green (2), and Landon Roberts (2) also scored, with Green recording his first varsity points thanks to a fourth-quarter jumper.
The junior guard is the 427th CHS boy I’ve been able to document scoring in a varsity hoops game between 1917 and today.
Johnny Porter, Malachi Somes, and Carson Field rounded out the active roster Tuesday, all seeing floor time.
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