Hunter Smith singed the nets for 332 points last season, the best performance by a Wolf boy since 2009. (John Fisken photo)
300 is a magical number.
You win 300 games as a Major League Baseball pitcher, you’re almost certain to be bound for Cooperstown.
Roll a 300 on the bowling lanes, and you are el perfecto.
And how many Spartans did Leonides need to hold the line against Xerxes? Yep, you’re getting it.
When we turn to high school basketball, 300 holds up. Score that many points in a season, which usually ranges from 20-27 games, and you had a great year.
While 400 points in a season is truly rarefied air, and 200 still very solid, 300 sits as a nice way to mark the gold standard, so that’s what we’re doing today.
Look at the history of Coupeville High School (100 years of boys teams and 43 of girls) and 300 points in a season has been achieved 56 times, by 41 athletes.
Boys hold the edge (42-14 in seasons and 32-9 in players), though Brianne King is the only CHS hoops star to achieve the feat three times.
While 13 other players (10 boys, three girls) have two 300-point seasons, King is also the lone Wolf to crack 400 points in a single campaign twice.
Some other facts to sprinkle into your next halftime conversation:
Twice, three Wolf boys have topped the mark during the same season.
1975-176 gave us Bill Jarrell (415), Randy Keefe (397) and Marc Bissett (302) while ’78-’79 featured Wade Ellsworth (392), Roy Marti (342) and Steve Whitney (337).
And yet, neither one of those CHS squads holds the single-season team scoring mark, which belongs to the ’69-’70 team led by Jeff Stone’s single-season record 644 points.
Those Wolves, the first Whidbey hoops team to win a district title, had five guys hit 200+ points (though only Stone cracked 300) en route to pouring in 1,815 points in 24 games.
On the girls side of the ball, there has been three times when a duo netted 300+ in the same year, with one of those times coming dangerously close to hitting the trifecta.
The ’86-’87 squad, the first girls team to make the playoffs, got 314 from Terry Perkins, 307 from Marlene Grasser and (just missing) 274 from Tina Barker.
Zenovia Barron and Ann Pettit also torched the nets together in back-to-back years, first in ’96-’97 (Novi 378, Ann 317) and ’97-’98 (Novi 376, Ann 363).
And while 300 is the magic mark, you have to give a brief shout-out to Tina Lyness (’99-’00) and Megan Smith (’09-’10), who came up one slim point short, each tallying 299 in a season.
Though, don’t feel too bad for Smith, who is on our list for a different season.
Also earning “close but no cigar” status are Pat O’Grady (296 in ’69-’70) and Lexie Black (295 in ’04-05).
But, we’re here to hail those who did achieve 300-point nirvana, the scorers and the dreamers, the best single-season performers in CHS hoops history:
(644) Jeff Stone ’69-’70
(459) Jeff Rhubottom ’77-’78
(446) Brianne King ’00-’01
(442) Brianne King ’02-’03
(442) Pete Petrov ’95-’96
(427) Makana Stone ’15-’16
(423) Arik Garthwaite ’97-’98
(415) Bill Jarrell ’75-’76
(414) Mike Bagby ’04-’05
(398) Randy Keefe ’74-’75
(397) Randy Keefe ’75-’76
(396) Brad Sherman ’02-’03
(392) Wade Ellsworth ’78-’79
(391) Del O’Shell ’81-’82
(388) Bill Riley ’72-’73
(388) Joe Whitney ’79-’80
(386) Brianne King ’01-’02
(386) Bill Riley ’71-’72
(380) Cody Peters ’08-’09
(378) Zenovia Barron ’96-’97
(376) Zenovia Barron ’97-’98
(374) Gavin Keohane ’97-’98
(367) Makana Stone ’14-’15
(365) Denny Clark ’63-’64
(364) Mike Bagby ’05-’06
(363) Ann Pettit ’97-’98
(357) Bill Jarrell ’74-’75
(355) Gabe McMurray ’94-’95
(348) Foster Faris ’76-’77
(345) Timm Orsborn ’87-’88
(342) Roy Marti ’78-’79
(341) Virgil Roehl ’92-’93
(340) Pat Bennett ’99-’00
(337) Steve Whitney ’78-’79
(333) Corey Cross ’70-’71
(332) Hunter Smith ’16-’17
(331) Amanda Allmer ’94-’95
(328) Rich Morris ’95-’96
(327) Megan Smith ’08-’09
(325) Jeff Rhubottom ’76-’77
(319) Denny Clark ’62-’63
(319) Randy Duggan ’71-’72
(319) Chris Good ’01-’02
(317) Ann Pettit ’96-’97
(317) Jeff Stone ’68-’69
(314) Terry Perkins ’86-’87
(313) Dan Nieder ’87-’88
(312) Judy Marti ’83-’84
(310) Tom Sahli ’52-’53
(309) Rich Morris ’96-’97
(307) Marlene Grasser ’86-’87
(305) Allen Black ’03-’04
(305) Chris Good ’00-’01
(302) Marc Bissett ’75-’76
(302) Hunter Hammer ’09-’10
(300) Gavin Keohane ’98-’99
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