Big milestone, bigger win. (Angie Downes photos)
Almost everybody got some.
Rolling into 2024, the Coupeville High School varsity boys’ basketball squad scorched host Darrington 72-30 Friday night to get to 2-0 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 8-2 overall.
Along the way, 13 Wolves saw the floor, 11 of them scored, and three hit milestones.
The biggie was senior Logan Downes, who became the sixth CHS boy, and 10th player in school history, to crack the 1,000-point club when he slashed his way through a forest of defenders for a buzzer-beating bucket at the end of the first quarter.
On the same night he hit four digits, teammates Timothy Nitta and Aiden O’Neill joined the inner circle, notching their first varsity buckets.
And while he may not have hit a milestone, Ryan Blouin was content to hit nothing but the bottom of the net, raining down six three-balls on his way to a game-high 20 points as the Wolves crushed their rivals.
Darrington could do little to stop Coupeville, which jumped out to a 12-0 lead, before running the margin to 27-5 by the end of the first quarter.
Downes entered 2024 needing 11 points to reach 1,000, and he got all of those in the opening frame.
A three-ball to open the night was followed by a putback, another trey, a runner in the paint, and then a note-perfect capper in which he hopped, skipped, and eluded multiple defenders, the ball kissing off one of the distinctive rounded backboards which loom large in Darrington’s gym before dropping through the twines.
With one milestone reached, the Wolves spread the offensive love out, and Blouin went ballistic.
Raining down three of his long-range missiles, before converting a layup off of a back-and-forth exchange with Chase Anderson, the Coupeville gunner with the sweet shooting touch scored 11 of his points in the second frame, staking CHS to a 50-19 lead at the break.
Blouin wasn’t done, swishing treys #5 and #6 in the third quarter, while Nick Guay drilled a three-ball of his own in the fourth as the Wolves connected on nine shots from behind the arc on the night.
The Wolves pay tribute to #3 after the game.
Downes finished with 16 points in limited minutes to support Blouin’s 20, and heads home for Monday’s non-conference rumble with Auburn Adventist Academy sitting with 1,005 points.
That has him at #6 on the CHS boys career scoring chart, coming up fast behind ’70s big man Jeff Rhubottom (1,012) and ’50s stud Mike Criscoula (1,031).
Chase Anderson (13), Guay (7), Hunter Bronec (6), Nitta (2), O’Neill (2), William Davidson (2), Cole White (2), Hurlee Bronec (1), and Zane Oldenstadt (1) also scored, with Anderson pulling up right behind his dad on the career scoring chart.
Now one of Coupeville’s JV coaches, Craig Anderson netted 132 points back in the day, while his son sits at 131 heading into next week.
Quinten Simpson-Pilgrim and Mikey Robinett rounded out the rotation for Brad Sherman’s squad, providing hustle on defense in the impressive league win.
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