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Nitta rattles rim in road loss

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 17, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Jaylen Nitta dropped in 14 points Thursday as Coupeville’s C-Team invaded Mount Vernon. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Jaylen Nitta was feelin’ it.

The speedy Coupeville High School guard singed the nets Thursday for a season-high 14 points, but it wasn’t enough to derail a very-good Mount Vernon freshman squad.

The Bulldogs, repping a large 4A school, pulled away after halftime, earning a season-sweep of 1A Coupeville’s C-Team with a 62-19 win.

With the road loss, the Wolves drop to 0-6 on the season.

But Coupeville’s C-Team gets a chance to jump right back into action, as it plays four games across the next five days.

The Wolves travel to Granite Falls Saturday for a tournament in which they get two games, then return home Monday to face Oak Harbor.

That match-up is part of a two-game affair between the Island neighbors, as the Coupeville JV girls kick off things with a 3 PM game against the Wildcats.

The Wolf boys face their Oak Harbor C-Team counterparts at 5 PM, and both games are free to the public.

Thursday night, Coupeville kept things close in the first half, trailing by 14 at the break against a Bulldog squad comprised of fast, springy players.

Nitta pumped in 12 of his 14 before the break, opening with six points in the first quarter before throwing down another eight in the second frame.

Mount Vernon’s speed and aggressiveness derailed any chances of a Wolf comeback after the break, however.

“We were fairly close, but they are undefeated this year and showed us why in the second half,” said CHS coach Scott Fox. “We fought hard, but made too many mistakes that they capitalized on.

“On to Saturday’s games!”

Chris Cernick battled in the paint for four points to back Nitta and his 14, while Ben Smith swished a third-quarter free throw to round out the scoring attack.

Jonathan Partida, Andrew Aparicio, Tony Garcia, and Brayden Coatney rounded out the active Wolf roster, all seeing substantial floor time.

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Surf it, scroll it, pause it, click it

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on January 16, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Ja’Kenya Hoskins goes strong to the hoop. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

CHS cheerleaders Coral Caveness (left) and Mica Shipley take their support to the top floor.

Mollie Bailey peeks over the top, looking for an open teammate.

Band wild man Harris Sinclair (right) tries to sweet talk his way into a 45-minute, pyrotechnics-fueled sax solo. “And there’s like a 10-foot wall of fire around me while I perform! Come on, live a little, man … screw the school’s insurance!!”

“I vote for the fire.”

Tia Wurzrainer is tired of other people touching her basketball.

Ja’Tarya Hoskins fires up the crowd.

Varsity players wait for their turn to play.

It took a while, but they finally made it back home.

When the Coupeville High School girls basketball teams played Tuesday night, it was the first time in nearly a month that they faced a foe in their own gym.

With the Wolves back on Whidbey, wanderin’ paparazzi John Fisken poked his head into the gym, and the pics seen above are courtesy him.

To see everything he snapped, pop over to:

https://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/Coupeville-Basketball-2018-2019-boys-and-girls/GBB-2019-01-15-vs-Granite-Falls/

When you do, remember, a percentage of all purchases goes to fund college scholarships for CHS senior student/athletes. So, circle of life and all.

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One more time, with honors

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on January 16, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville grad Makana Stone earned her third Northwest Conference Athlete of the Week honor this season after a phenomenal road trip. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

At this rate, they should just name the award after her.

Coupeville grad, and current Whitman College junior Makana Stone was named Monday as the Northwest Conference Women’s Basketball Athlete of the Week.

It’s the third time this season the former Wolf ace has been tabbed for the award, having already been picked Nov. 19 and Dec. 10.

This time around, Stone is being honored for a road trip in which she threw down three consecutive double-doubles while the Blues took over sole possession of first place in their conference.

Whitman bounced Whitworth, Linfield, and George Fox, which was ranked #12 in NCAA D-III ball, running its record to 6-0 in league play, 12-3 overall.

Stone went for 21 points and 17 rebounds at Whitworth, before following that performance up with 12 and 10 against Linfield and 17 and 11 in a first-place showdown with George Fox.

On the season, she is averaging 16.3 points and 9.1 boards a night.

This time around, Stone shared Athlete of the Week honors with Joey Hewitt of Whitman (men’s basketball), and the Whitworth duo of Cameron Lyon (women’s swimming) and Ryan Grady (men’s swimming).

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Tigers chomp undermanned JV girls

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on January 16, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Audrianna Shaw knocked down an especially impressive bucket Tuesday, but the Coupeville JV couldn’t hold off Granite Falls. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

No excuses, ever.

Despite playing basically four players down Tuesday, the Coupeville High School JV girls basketball team fought visiting Granite Falls from the opening tip to the final buzzer.

But, with two of its top players limited to a single quarter of action, and two more in street clothes, the Wolves suffered a third-quarter let-down and fell 33-20.

The loss, which largely hinged on an 11-2 run by Granite coming out of halftime, drops Coupeville to 3-2 in North Sound Conference play, 6-6 overall.

The Wolves were without the injured Abby Mulholland and Kylie Chernikoff, while starters Izzy Wells and Ja’Kenya Hoskins only made brief cameos so they could remain eligible for extended duty in the varsity game.

That forced CHS coach Amy King to shuffle her roster, and she did, patching together a variety of lineups, while giving Morgan Stevens her first career start.

The high-energy freshman brought a nice intensity to the defensive side of the ball, as did her fellow hustlers like Lily Leedy and Alana Mihill.

Much of Coupeville’s offense came courtesy Anya Leavell, who knocked down eight points with a variety of sweet moves.

She went coast to coast for one bucket, had a pair of baskets on plays where she rolled hard to the hoop, lofting the ball up and over her defender’s fingertips, then capped things with a pull-up jumper.

The game’s best bucket came from Audrianna Shaw, who threw down a wicked mini-hook shot on the move, slicing off a chunk of the backboard before finding pay-dirt.

With the game tied 6-6 after one quarter, Coupeville said farewell to Hoskins. Then, trailing just 18-16 at the half, it was time to bid adieu to Wells.

That gave Granite a chance to bang the ball inside to its big players — one Tiger was six-foot in her socks and camped out all game right beneath the rim — and use a power game to pull away.

The game took a nasty turn in the final moments when Wolf guard Kiara Contreras was launched skyward during a battle for a rebound, before landing hard, smacking her head on the floor.

To their credit, the Tigers, to a player, came over after the game to check on the scrappy CHS ball-hawk, with the Granite player who inadvertently yanked Contreras off her feet offering profuse apologies.

Leavell’s eight points paced the Wolf scoring attack, with Shaw (4), Mollie Bailey (2), Contreras (2), Wells (2), and Hoskins (2) also scoring.

Kylie Van Velkinburgh played strongly on defense, rising up to reject a Tiger shot while the game was still a one-score affair.

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Rim refuses to play nice for Wolf boys

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 15, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville boys basketball coaches Brad Sherman (middle) and Chris Smith (right) couldn’t save their teams Tuesday from poor shooting performances. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Some nights you can’t buy a bucket.

Tuesday was one of those unfortunate evenings for the Coupeville High School boys basketball squads, which took a pair of beatings in Bothell.

How it played out:

 

Varsity:

Cedar Park Christian came out hot and never really cooled off, rolling to a 70-27 win over the Wolves.

The road loss drops CHS to 1-4 in North Sound Conference action, 2-10 overall.

Coupeville, which has played five of its last six games away from home, finally returns to Whidbey this Friday when it kicks off a three-game home stand.

The Wolves sit in fifth-place in its six-team league, and control their own destiny as they chase the conference’s final playoff berth.

A game-and-a-half up on Granite Falls (0-6), CHS beat the Tigers the first time around and close the regular season Feb. 1 at Granite.

Tuesday night, the Wolves ran into a CPC squad which was coming off a huge upset win over South Whidbey, and the Eagles weren’t ready to let their hot streak cool off.

Jumping out to a 20-6 lead after one, Cedar Park stretched the margin to 36-15 at the half, then sealed the deal with a devastating 16-0 surge in the third quarter.

The Eagles rained down nine three-balls in the game, while also hitting more than their share of regular field goals along the way.

Mason Grove sparked the resistance, hitting for a team-high eight points for Coupeville, while Hawthorne Wolfe ruffled the net for five and Sean Toomey-Stout banked in four.

Jacobi Pilgrim (3), Daniel Olson (3), Gavin Knoblich (2), and Jean Lund-Olsen (2) rounded out the scoring, with Olson netting his first varsity points on a fourth quarter three-ball.

 

JV:

For one quarter, Coupeville’s young guns were blazing. Then, they ran out of bullets.

Up 15-13 at the first break, the Wolves scraped together just nine points, and one lonely field goal, over the next 24 minutes, eventually falling 61-24.

The loss drops CHS to 2-3 in league play, 6-6 overall.

Things started off nicely, with Logan Martin swishing a pair of three-balls, Xavier Murdy banging home four points, and the Wolves controlling things in the opening frame.

After that, not so nice.

Sage Downes lofted in a three-ball in the third quarter, but that was the one and only field goal CHS would hit over the final three quarters.

Even with Coupeville’s inability to coax much through the rim, the game wasn’t a true blowout until a 22-1 CPC tsunami in the fourth made the final score more far-fetched than probably needed to be.

Murdy and Martin each finished with six points, while Olson, Grady Rickner and Downes tossed in four apiece to round out the Wolf attack.

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