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Mother Nature plays havoc with hoops schedule

Posted in Basketball, tagged bad weather, Basketball, Chimacum, CHS Wolves, Washington State ferries on January 3, 2020| Leave a Comment »

High winds affecting the Coupeville/Port Townsend ferry run Friday prevented Gavin Knoblich and Co. from traveling to Chimacum. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

The wait for basketball to return will go on a bit longer than expected.

Coupeville High School was slated to return from a 12-day break Friday, with three teams planning to set sail to the mainland to play Chimacum.

Mother Nature had other ideas.

Shortly before the Wolves were set to meet at the CHS gym, school officials announced Coupeville’s teams wouldn’t be traveling after all.

The Coupeville to Port Townsend ferry run had been disrupted off and on Friday by high winds and choppy seas, but was back on schedule as of 1:52 PM.

The Wolves were scheduled to leave Whidbey on the 2:45 ferry.

But, with a wind advisory having been stretched out to 10 PM, the chance Coupeville’s hoops stars would be stuck on the other side overnight — or have to take a much-longer return route — became a definite possibility.

Friday’s games, which would have featured girls and boys varsity games, as well as boys JV (Chimacum has no girls JV), were non-conference affairs.

They are also the second set of non-league games removed from the schedule due to wind, as Coupeville’s trip to play Port Townsend December 19 was also sidelined.

There is a slight possibility both matchups will be rescheduled, but put plenty of emphasis on that word “slight.”

With league play kicking into high gear next week for everyone involved, and a far greater emphasis put on getting those games in, it’s unlikely any of the officials at the three schools involved will spend much time looking for open dates.

Coupeville will now be coming off a 16-day break when it returns to play Tuesday.

The Wolf girls host Cedar Park Christian, while the CHS boys travel to Granite Falls, with both games being North Sound Conference bouts.

All Coupeville teams are home Friday, Jan. 10, as well, with Sultan on tap that night.

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Wolf girls prosper, boys in a drought

Posted in history, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, Softball, state tourney, volleyball on January 2, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Softball has the most-recent state tourney team win among Coupeville High School sports programs, thanks to the play of Mollie Bailey and friends. (Karen Carlson photo)

It’s been awhile.

The last time a Coupeville High School boys team won a game at the state tournament, in any sport, Ronald Reagan was the President of the United States.

The day was May 23, 1987 and the Wolf baseball team beat White Swan 2-0 as it wound its way to a 3rd place showing.

Since then, nada.

After beating White Swan, the ’87 CHS diamond men fell 14-7 to Morton, beginning what now sits at a 33-year streak without a team win in a state tourney game for Coupeville’s male athletes.

And I stress the word TEAM, as CHS sports programs where the athletes compete as individuals, have produced big success in that time, topped off by state champs in track and cross country.

Take a look at sports where success hinges on a team, however, and Wolf boys are in a long dry spell.

Wolf baseball (0-5), football (0-2), basketball (0-2), and soccer (0-2) have made it to the big dance multiple times in the past three decades, but none have won since ’87.

That has given the CHS girls a chance to play catch-up, and they have in a big way.

The ’87 baseball win was the fourth state tourney triumph by a Wolf boys team, while the Coupeville girls have now won 16 times.

The first victory came courtesy of the girls basketball squad in 2000, with the most recent W captured by the 2019 softball sluggers.

As we approach the 50th anniversary of the first CHS team to make it to state, in any sport, the 1970 boys basketball team, it’s well past time for modern-day Wolf boys to recapture past glory.

Until they do, the stat sheet speaks for itself, and it tells us this — CHS girls rule the school.

State tourney history for CHS team sports (compiled by WIAA):

Baseball:

First trip: 1973
Most-recent trip: 2014
Total trips: 9
State tourney wins: 2
Schools beaten: Kittitas, White Swan
Best finish: 3rd in 1987

Boys Basketball:

First trip: 1970
Most-recent trip: 1988
Total trips: 5
State tourney wins: 2
Schools beaten: Columbia (Burbank), Montesano
Best finish: No trophies

Boys Soccer:

First trip: 2009
Most-recent trip: 2010
Total trips: 2
State tourney wins: None
Schools beaten: None
Best finish: No trophies

Football:

First trip: 1974
Most-recent trip: 1990
Total trips: 4
State tourney wins: None
Schools beaten: None
Best finish: No trophies

Girls Basketball:

First trip: 1998
Most-recent trip: 2016
Total trips: 7
State tourney wins: 7
Schools beaten: Freeman, Onalaska, Overlake, Winlock, River View, Cascade Christian, Zillah
Best finish: 6th in 2002

Softball:

First trip: 2002
Most-recent trip: 2019
Total trips: 3
State tourney wins: 5
Schools beaten: Cle Elum, Royal, Okanogan, Napavine, Deer Park
Best finish: 3rd in 2002

Volleyball:

First trip: 2001
Most-recent trip: 2017
Total trips: 5
State tourney wins: 4
Schools beaten: King’s, Freeman, Toutle Lake, Zillah
Best finish: No trophies

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He’s king of the gym

Posted in Basketball, Cheer, Polls, tagged Alex Evans, Basketball, Brad Sherman, Cheer, CHS Wolves, coaches, polls on December 30, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville High School boys basketball coach Brad Sherman is our winter poll winner. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

It was the last poll of the decade, and it came down to a mere handful of votes.

In the end, Coupeville High School boys basketball coach Brad Sherman rallied to edge out CMS boys hoops guru Greg White and lay claim to the “much-coveted” title of “Top Coach of the Winter 2019.”

Sherman finished with 176 votes in our 13-coach, 50-hour poll, which wrapped Monday morning, while White racked up 172 tallies.

Rounding out the top five were Alex Evans (154), Arik Garthwaite (108), and Megan Smith (43).

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Up the charts they go

Posted in Basketball, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, Hawthorne Wolfe, scoring stats, Scout Smith on December 29, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Hawthorne Wolfe tosses in another bucket. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

It’s a living, breathing thing.

Sort of.

Over the last couple of years, one of my obsessions has been trying to track down and document a definitive career scoring chart for both Coupeville High School basketball programs.

With the Wolf boys having started play way back in 1917, and the CHS girls joining them in 1974, there’s a lot of moving parts.

I’ve managed to pull together a list which I feel is fairly solid, while also (sort of, kind of) accepting there are some road blocks which may never be fully overcome.

We may never have scoring stats for that first Wolf girls team in 1974-1975, and old school stars Mike Criscuola, Jack Elzinga, and Tom Sahli may not get full credit for their complete stats.

Barring the creation of a time machine, or someone finding missing score books buried in an attic or barn, that’s just reality.

Frustrating as it is.

But, the positive side of this is I have documented the (mostly complete) scoring stats for 392 Wolf boys and 229 girls.

If I was normal, I’d wait until the end of the season, then take the 2019-2020 totals and add them in, updating the list at that point.

Instead, I tweak things after every game, so I can watch history unfold in real time, current players moving upwards, passing the stars of previous eras.

As we depart 2019, here’s all active Wolf players with varsity points to their credit.

That includes sophomores Ja’Kenya Hoskins and Xavier Murdy. Both are injured and yet to see action this season, but have multiple seasons ahead of them.

GIRLS:

Scout Smith (Senior)
221 points
#51 all-time
Next up: Annette Jameson (223), Mikayla Elfrank (227), Ema Smith (228)

Chelsea Prescott (Junior)
192 points
#58 all-time
Next up: Kim Warder (193), Julia Myers (202), Pam Jampsa (202)

Avalon Renninger (Senior)
87 points
#105 all-time
Next up: Toni Thiefault (92), Babette Owensby (93), Lauren Grove (95)

Hannah Davidson (Senior)
75 points
#112 all-time
Next up: Tonnalea Rasmussen (78), Courtney Arnold (78), Cheryl Pangburn (79)

Izzy Wells (Sophomore)
38 points
#141 all-time (tie)
Next up: Jill Keeney (39), Jennifer Meyer (40), Karen Jampsa (40)

Maddie Georges (Freshman)
31 points
#147 all-time (tie)
Next up: Lauren Rose (32), Min Powell (35), Shawn Diem (35)

Tia Wurzrainer (Senior)
25 points
#157 all-time (tie)
Next up: Kim Stuurmans (26), Tina Jansen (26), Sarah Vass (27)

Carolyn Lhamon (Freshman)
15 points
#171 all-time (tie)
Next up: Kristina Clark (16), Carol Estes (17), McKenzie Bailey (17)

Mollie Bailey (Sophomore)
12 points
#175 all-time (tie)
Next up: Lindsey Tucker (13), Carolyn Lhamon (15), Nicole Laxton (15)

Anya Leavell (Sophomore)
12 points
#175 all-time (tie)
Next up: Lindsey Tucker (13), Carolyn Lhamon (15), Nicole Laxton (15)

Kylie Van Velkinburgh (Sophomore)
10 points
#184 all-time
Next up: Emily Wodjenski (11), Michelle Riddle (11), Naomi Prater (11)

Audrianna Shaw (Sophomore)
6 points
#197 all-time (tie)
Next up: Carlie Rosenkrance (7), Michelle Smith (8), Kristine Macnab (8)

Ja’Kenya Hoskins (Sophomore)
5 points
#206 all-time (tie)
Next up: Janie Wilson (6), Corrin Skvarla (6), Audrianna Shaw (6)

Nezi Keiper (Freshman)
2 points
#217 all-time (tie)
Next up: Jaime Townsdin (3), Ashlie Shank (3), Samantha Roehl (3)

BOYS:

Hawthorne Wolfe (Sophomore)
285 points
#98 all-time
Next up: Matt Frost (290), Brian Fakkema (290), Risen Johnson (291)

Mason Grove (Senior)
249 points
#114 all-time
Next up: Sean Callahan (256), Troy Blouin (256), Rick Keefe (259)

Sean Toomey-Stout (Senior)
183 points
#140 all-time
Next up: Scott Stuurmans (188), Dale Sherman (188), Roy Mattox (191)

Jered Brown (Senior)
138 points
#166 all-time
Next up: George Libbey (142), Hugh Abell (145), Ryan Griggs (147)

Ulrik Wells (Senior)
121 points
#172 all-time (tie)
Next up: Brian Shank (125), Ben Etzell (127), Scott Franzen (129)

Gavin Knoblich (Senior)
90 points
#190 all-time
Next up: Ted Weber (91), Christian Lyness (95), Morgan Payne (96)

Jacobi Pilgrim (Senior)
80 points
#199 all-time (tie)
Next up: Nick Morris (83), John Sinema (86), Carson Risner (86)

Koa Davison (Senior)
41 points
#256 all-time
Next Up: Dave Stoddard (42), Keith Dunnagan (42), Banky Fisher (44)

Jean Lund-Olsen (Senior)
17 points
#312 all-time
Next Up: Guy Walker (18), Marvin Mitchell (18), Rick Keith (18)

Tucker Hall (Senior)
6 points
#354 all-time (tie)
Next up: Wayne Hesselgrave (7), Brian Folkestad (7), Bobby Engle (7)

Daniel Olson (Junior)
5 points
#359 all-time (tie)
Next up: George Smith (6), Robert Kirkwood (6), Kevin King (6)

Xavier Murdy (Sophomore)
4 points
#366 all-time (tie)
Next up: Nate Steele (5), Daniel Olson (5), JD Myers (5)

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Bide your time, watch the standings

Posted in Basketball, standings, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, North Sound Conference, standings, Sultan on December 29, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Jered Brown returns to action January 3. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

There were basketball games this week, just none involving Coupeville.

The Wolves are on Day 8 of a 12-day break between contests, not returning to action until Friday, January 3, when they travel to Chimacum.

But other North Sound Conference teams did lace up the shoes and head to the hardwood, so we’re back to provide a look at where everyone’s win/loss record sits.

Have to fill the time somehow, so here’s where things sit:

North Sound Conference girls basketball: