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Senior Scout Smith leads all CHS girls basketball players in scoring. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

The young guns can shoot.

Take a look at which Coupeville High School basketball players are filling up the net, and the leaders are almost all first or second year players.

Scanning the five Wolf hoops teams, the top scorers are three freshmen, two sophomores, and one senior.

And yes, that makes six, as there’s currently a tie atop the JV girls season scoring chart.

As we head into a busy week, with most Wolf players set to take the court three times, a look at where we stand:

 

Girls Varsity
(6 games):

Scout Smith – 55
Chelsea Prescott – 38
Maddie Georges – 27
Hannah Davidson – 24
Izzy Wells – 22
Avalon Renninger – 18
Carolyn Lhamon – 15
Anya Leavell – 8
Kylie Van Velkinburgh – 8
Tia Wurzrainer – 7
Audrianna Shaw – 6
Mollie Bailey – 4
Nezi Keiper – 2

 

Boys Varsity
(6 games):

Hawthorne Wolfe – 103
Mason Grove – 79
Sean Toomey-Stout – 46
Koa Davison – 30
Jered Brown – 25
Ulrik Wells – 24
Jacobi Pilgrim – 22
Gavin Knoblich – 11
Jean Lund-Olsen – 5

 

Girls JV
(4 games):

Alita Blouin – 29
Gwen Gustafson – 29
Ella Colwell – 20
Ryanne Knoblich – 15
Natalie Castano – 9
Abby Mulholland – 9
Jessenia Camarena – 7
Savana Allen – 6
Morgan Stevens – 3
Samantha Streitler – 2
Heidi Meyers – 1

 

Boys JV
(5 games):

Grady Rickner – 55
Sage Downes – 44
Daniel Olson – 36
Alex Murdy – 21
Alex Jimenez – 18
Logan Martin – 17
Cody Roberts – 17
TJ Rickner – 9
Miles Davidson – 8
Andrew Aparicio – 4
Chris Cernick – 4

 

Boys C-Team
(2 games):

Ty Hamilton – 16
Dominic Coffman – 9
Ben Smith – 9
Brayden Coatney – 8
Alex Wasik – 8
Simon Shelley – 3
Nick Armstrong – 2
Coen Killian – 2
Josh Upchurch – 2

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Battling for a loose ball, or the last cookie at a bake sale? (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Have a spare buck? You’re in luck.

When you pop by the Coupeville High School gym this coming Saturday, Dec. 21, for that afternoon’s basketball doubleheader against Nooksack Valley, there’ll be something extra in the concession stand.

Actually, a whole lot of extra.

Along with the normal hot dogs, Red Vines, and popcorn, baked goods of all sorts will be on display, ready for your purchasing and chomping.

All goodies will be $1, so you can make it rain, just in a more PG kind of way.

Proceeds from the bake sale go to the CHS Class of 2021, whose parents run the concession stand.

Saturday’s games will be the final ones played in 2019, as the Wolf basketball squads head out on winter break afterwards, not returning to action until the first week of January.

Tip-off is 1:00 for girls varsity and boys JV, with boys varsity and girls JV games set for 2:45ish.

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Makana Stone (right), seen back in the day with CHS teammate Lindsey Roberts, continues to tear up the college basketball world. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

They coasted into winter break.

Cruising along nicely in the second half Saturday night, the Whitman College women’s basketball team rolled to a 72-49 victory over visiting Buena Vista University.

Led by Coupeville’s Makana Stone, who banked in eight points and snatched eight rebounds in limited action, the Blues improved to 8-1 heading into a 19-day break.

Whitman doesn’t play again until Jan. 3, when it kicks off the 16-game Northwest Conference schedule with a home game against the University of Puget Sound.

Saturday night the Blues were playing their second, and final game, in the annual Kim Evanger Raney Memorial Classic, which honors a former Whitman hoops star who died of injuries from a 2007 cycling accident.

Coming off of a 35-point blowout of the University of Maine at Fort Kent a night before, Whitman let Buena Vista hang around for a half.

Up 15-13 after one quarter, then 31-26 at the half, the Blues kicked things into overdrive after halftime, pouring in 26 points in a torrid third quarter.

With the game in hand, Whitman went deep on its bench, giving 15 players floor time, and limiting its starters a bit.

Stone played a slim 21 minutes, but also tossed in a blocked shot and assist to go with her eight and eight.

Mady Burdett led Whitman with 12 points, while Kaylie McCracken popped for 11, and Natalie Whitesel made the nets jump for 10.

On the season, Stone sits with 137 points, 69 rebounds, 13 assists, 11 steals, and 11 blocks.

She’s shooting 55-95 (57.8%) from the floor and 25-30 (83.3%) at the free throw line.

For stat hounds out there, the former Wolf star reached two career milestones Saturday, making her 75th collegiate start (she’s played in 92 games) and collecting her 50th block.

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Coupeville’s Makana Stone, here with mom Eileen, is now the #7 scorer in Whitman College women’s basketball history. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

First they honored her, then she impressed them some more.

Coupeville’s Makana Stone was hailed Friday for becoming just the ninth player in Whitman College women’s basketball history to top 1,000 career points, then went out and tossed 12 more onto the stat sheet.

Paced by their senior star, who added 11 rebounds to post another double-double, the Blues blitzed the University of Maine at Fort Kent 84-49, kicking off the 2019 Kim Evanger Raney Classic, and their home schedule.

With the non-conference win, Whitman improves to 7-1 headed into a Saturday match-up with Buena Vista University, which sits at 1-8 on the season.

After that game, Stone and the Blues will be off for nearly three weeks, not playing again until Jan. 3, when they begin Northwest Conference play against the University of Puget Sound.

Whitman began the season with a seven-game road trip, so Friday night was the first chance for its fans to fill the Sherwood Athletic Center.

Those in attendance got to see Stone, who cracked 1,000 points in a win over Whittier College, continue to move up the career scoring chart.

Friday night she passed Mary Kincaid, who scored 1,056 between 1982-1986.

Now #7 all-time with 1,057, the former Wolf ace is hot on the heels of #6 Casey Poe (1,145), who she played alongside during her first two seasons at Whitman.

Katie Rubenser, a star from 1990-1994, is #1 with 1,693 points, and was in attendance Friday for Stone’s ceremony.

Bouncing back from its only loss of the year, which came last week to highly-ranked Mary Hardin-Baylor, Whitman took control early Friday and never let go of the lead.

Up 25-12 after one quarter of play, the Blues surged to a 52-25 lead at the half, then took their feet off the gas pedal a bit and coasted home for the win.

Stone played a tidy 21 minutes, adding two blocked shots and an assist to her 12 points and 11 boards.

Four different Whitman players scored in double figures, led by Kaelan Shamseldin, who tallied a team-high 14 points.

On the season, Stone has 129 points, 61 rebounds, 12 assists, 11 steals, and 10 blocks.

She’s shooting 52-89 (58.4%) from the floor and 23-28 (82.1%) at the free throw line.

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Don’t cheer for Mason Grove Friday, until Coupeville scores its 10th point of the game. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Don’t cheer for the Wolves.

At least not at first.

When Coupeville High School boys basketball hosts Concrete Friday (7 PM tip), things will be a little different if everything goes to plan.

Following in the footsteps of Indiana’s Taylor University, the Wolves are planning a Silent Night.

Fans are encouraged to wear festive outfits, and then keep their cheer to themselves (for a hot moment, at least).

“Any holiday-themed dress,” said Coupeville Athletic Director Willie Smith. “Ugly sweaters (including any UW sweater), reindeer ears, blah, blah blah … or is it humbug, humbug, humbug.”

Under Silent Night guidelines, those in the stands (and camped around the court) stay dead quiet from opening tip-off until Coupeville scores its 10th point of the game.

If Concrete gets there first, silence still reigns.

Coupeville. 10th point. And then everyone gets crazy.

Literally at Taylor University, where students often flood the floor during the celebration.

With refs in on the plan, no technical foul is called, and the event has been going strong for 20+ years.

For Coupeville’s inaugural try, Smith is more about the celebration happening off the court, and not on it.

“We won’t storm the court,” he said. “But there is just a lot of them (students/fans) around the court and, yes, I’d like (to see) that replicated.”

 

To see a well-oiled machine pull off the event, take a gander at:

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