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Hoops teams raise money, awareness for cancer research

Posted in Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 14, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Bennett Boyles (center) will be remembered Friday as Coupeville High School hoops teams host Coaches vs. Cancer games. (Konni Smith photo)

Out of sadness comes hope.

Coupeville High School’s basketball teams will pay tribute to those who have battled cancer this Friday, while also raising money for research to fight the disease.

A home doubleheader against South Whidbey Jan. 18 will be the annual Coaches vs. Cancer Night.

Girls varsity tips at 5 PM, with boys set to go at 6:45.

The Wolf girls will honor a former player and the relative of a current hoops star.

Brisa Herrera, who played her freshman and sophomore seasons at CHS, fought and beat ovarian cancer right before her graduation last spring.

Brisa Herrera was a firecracker on defense while playing for the Wolves. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Also being honored is Ronald Smith, grandfather of freshman Kiara Contreras.

Smith passed away recently at age 77 after a battle with Mesothelioma.

The Wolf boys are paying tribute to one of their own.

Bennett Boyles, who was a key part of a talented group of basketball players now in their freshman year, lost his fight against brain cancer at age 12.

While battling Glioblastoma Multiforme, Boyles remained remarkably upbeat, inspiring his classmates, teachers and the community.

The CHS Class of 2022 continues to hold Bennett close, including him posthumously in their middle school graduation last spring.

Freshman Hawthorne Wolfe, who leads this year’s varsity boys basketball team in scoring, has Bennett’s name inscribed on the shoes he wears while playing.

Never forgotten, always remembered. (Photo courtesy Molly McPherson)

The Wolves will collect donations at both games, with proceeds donated to Project Violet through the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

 

For more info on the work being accomplished, pop over to:

http://www.fredhutch.org/en/labs/clinical/projects/project-violet.html

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Wolves primed for playoff push

Posted in standings, tagged , , , , on January 13, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Koa Davison and the CHS boys hoops team are fighting for a playoff berth. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

If the playoffs started today, both Coupeville High School varsity hoops teams would be postseason-bound.

That being said, there’s still a lot of games to played over the next three weeks.

The Wolf girls, who are solidly camped in third-place in the six-team North Sound Conference, have five games left on their regular-season schedule.

Meanwhile, the CHS boys, who are hanging onto the fifth and final playoff berth right now, still have six more rumbles.

Both teams play twice this coming week, with three of the four games live in the Coupeville gym.

The girls kick off a four-game home-stand Tuesday against Granite Falls, then go for the season sweep of South Whidbey Friday night.

Coupeville’s boys will be back on the bus Tuesday, traveling to Bothell to face Cedar Park Christian.

After that, they also return to Whidbey, with a Friday match-up against their next door neighbors a biggie.

As we head into a new week, with the fate of teams starting to be decided, a look at where we are, through Jan. 13:

 

North Sound Conference girls basketball:

School League Overall
King’s 5-0 10-4
CPC-Bothell 4-1 8-5
Coupeville 3-2 5-7
Granite Falls 2-3 4-10
Sultan 1-4 5-9
South Whidbey 0-5 2-12

 

North Sound Conference boys basketball:

School League Overall
King’s 5-0 11-4
Sultan 3-1 4-8
CPC-Bothell 2-2 6-8
South Whidbey 2-2 9-5
Coupeville 1-3 2-9
Granite Falls 0-5 2-12

 

CHS girls basketball varsity scoring:

Lindsey Roberts – 110
Ema Smith – 73
Chelsea Prescott – 70
Scout Smith – 59
Avalon Renninger – 44
Nicole Laxton – 11
Hannah Davidson – 10
Tia Wurzrainer – 10
Izzy Wells – 9
Mollie Bailey – 8
Anya Leavell – 2

 

CHS boys basketball varsity scoring:

Hawthorne Wolfe – 103
Sean Toomey-Stout – 68
Mason Grove – 67
Ulrik Wells – 52
Jered Brown – 44
Gavin Knoblich – 42
Jacobi Pilgrim – 14
Koa Davison – 11
Jean Lund-Olsen – 3
Dane Lucero – 2

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No stopping Stone, Blues

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , on January 12, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville grad Makana Stone delivered 17 points and 11 rebounds Saturday, as Whitman College won a battle for first-place in its league. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

They can’t pronounce her name, but they also can’t deny her game.

The announcers working the stream for Saturday’s women’s college basketball rumble between Whitman College and host George Fox University were rabid homers, but they were blown away by Coupeville’s Makana Stone.

They loved her power in the paint. Her speed on the open floor. Her ability to soar above others and snatch rebounds away, then spin and knock down a second-chance bucket.

Even if they kept on saying her first name as if there were somehow an E and not an A sitting there as the second letter.

But, let’s cut them a small break, as they spent the second half all but only weeping into the microphone, as Stone and Whitman decimated George Fox in the biggest game of the season.

It was a match-up which pitted two teams undefeated in Northwest Conference play, though, after a sensational third quarter, only Whitman can still lay claim to a zero in its record.

Busting out 31 points across 10 torrid minutes, Stone and Co. turned a one-basket game into a blowout, rolling past George Fox to the tune of 73-54.

The win, the sixth-straight for Whitman, lifts it to 6-0 in league play, 12-3 overall.

After knocking off the #12 team in NCAA D-III basketball, the Blues sit alone at the top of their league, a game up on George Fox (5-1, 12-3) and two ahead of Pacific Lutheran and Puget Sound (both 4-2, 11-3).

While there’s still 10 games left in the conference schedule, including a rematch with George Fox Feb. 8 in Walla Walla, Saturday’s win was huge for Whitman.

The Blues jumped out to a quick lead behind a pair of buckets from Stone, who finished with 17 points and 11 rebounds, then the two teams went toe-to-toe.

Whitman knocked down a jumper right before the first quarter buzzer – after yanking down four straight offensive rebounds – to exit with a 17-15 lead, then things got tense.

With both squads jabbing at each other, neither team could get more than a bucket or two ahead and were tied with under 30 seconds to play in the half.

Taylor Chambers and Kaelan Shamseldin each notched a single free throw to push the lead out to 31-29 at the break, but things seemed set up for a knock-down, drag-out brawl in the second half.

Except only one team came out ready to go in the third quarter.

Whitman struck fast and it struck hard, clamping down on defense, grabbing every rebound and then pushing the ball at the hoop.

With Stone slapping home seven of her points in the quarter, including getting three the hard way on a sensational flying layup and ensuing free throw after being belted upside the head, the Blues went nuclear.

They doubled their point total, using a 31-11 explosion to reduce George Fox fans to a deafening silence.

Two stats stand out in particular.

George Fox was astonishingly bad shooting the ball Saturday, draining just 19 of 76 shots, including missing 23 of 26 tries from behind the three-point arc.

Then, when the ball skipped off the rim, the Blues dominated, pulling down 53 rebounds with Maegan Martin (12) and Stone (11) playing the role of twin titans.

The duo were a powerful one-two combo, both scoring 17 points apiece, while Mady Burdett popped for 13.

Stone added three assists and a steal to her stat line, and, for once, wasn’t picked on by road refs, not whistled for her first foul until the fourth quarter.

On the season, the former Wolf star, who leads Whitman in most major stat categories, has 245 points, 138 rebounds, 25 assists, 20 steals and 17 blocks.

She’s shooting 104-199 from the field and 37-49 at the charity stripe.

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“Very proud that we came out on top”

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 12, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Kylie Van Velkinburgh and the Coupeville JV captured a win Friday at Sultan. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

It was a wild and woolly kind of night.

Missing players, then taking the court after the varsity, though before the tail pipe on their bus got busted, the Coupeville High School JV girls basketball squad just went about their business Friday in Sultan.

Competing in a foul-heavy affair CHS coach Amy King called a “fast-paced, rugby type of game,” the Wolves eventually headed home with a 33-22 win to their credit.

Well, after their battered bus finally made it out of the parking lot later than expected.

The victory lifts the Wolf young guns to 3-1 in North Sound Conference play, 6-5 overall.

It also ties them with the JV boys for the most wins this season by a CHS squad.

Missing the injured Kylie Chernikoff and Abby Mulholland, the Wolves also found themselves facing a Turk who didn’t play the first time these schools met.

“They put in a player who wasn’t on the court our first time around – a six-foot girl who hung out around the free throw line,” King said. “Ja’Kenya (Hoskins) and Kylie (Van Velkinburgh) did a great job moving up on her, but she still had her moments with shooting, feeding her teammates and then hitting free throws when we fouled her.”

Trailing 10-9 after one quarter of action, the Wolves started pulling away, bit by bit, thanks in large part to their defense.

“The whole team worked hard. We pressed, we got steals – nobody let down,” King said. “Ja’Kenya and Mollie (Bailey) worked to defend down low on our zone, Anya (Leavell) and Audrianna (Shaw) up top.

“Alana (Mihill) and Lily (Leedy) did a nice job up top on offense and Morgan (Stevens) came down with some key rebounds.”

Bailey netted a huge three-ball to spark Coupeville, and the Wolves turned a 15-12 lead at the half into 22-14 heading into the fourth.

Down the stretch, CHS put the ball into the hands of freshman Izzy Wells, and she carried her team home, banging home nine of her team-high 11 points in the final frame.

“The game was definitely closer than the first time against them,” King said. “Both teams shot a lot of free throws because it was that kind of a battle.

“Very proud that we came out on top.”

The two teams combined to put up 46 free throws, including 19 during a fourth quarter which went on for some time.

Hoskins banked in eight points and snatched seven rebounds (“the other coach says she just loves watching her rebound”), while Wells had five boards, five steals and two blocks to go with her 11 points.

Shaw (6), Leavell (4), Bailey (3), and Van Velkinburgh (1) also scored, and Kiara Contreras chipped in with two rebounds and three steals.

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Second-half woes hurt CHS boys

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 12, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Hawthorne Wolfe is just the fifth CHS boy in 102 years to top 100 varsity points as a freshman. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Second half, not the same as the first.

Finding its shooting touch after halftime Friday, the Sultan High School varsity boys basketball squad turned a close game into a blowout, romping past visiting Coupeville 67-28.

The killer was a 27-3 Turk run in the third quarter, which turned a seven-point lead into a 31-point advantage.

The loss drops the Wolves to 1-3 in North Sound Conference action, 2-9 overall.

Coupeville still has a game-and-a-half lead on Granite Falls (0-5) for the fifth and final playoff spot from the six-team league.

King’s (5-0), which routed Granite 84-25 Friday, is flying high, while Sultan (3-1) sits in second, a game up on Cedar Park Christian (2-2) and South Whidbey (2-2).

CPC shocked Coupeville’s Island neighbors Friday, winning a 55-53 thriller.

Facing Sultan for the second time this season, the Wolves hung tough for a half.

Down 13-6 at the first break, CHS played the Turks even through a 10-10 second quarter.

Then, something went really, truly wrong for the Wolves after the halftime break.

While Gavin Knoblich netted a three-ball, that was all the offense Coupeville could muster in the third.

Sultan answered with 11 buckets, three of them from behind the three-point line, and tossed a pair of free throws onto the bonfire, effectively ending the game.

The fourth quarter, while not much better for the Wolves, did feature a couple of milestones.

Freshman Xavier Murdy and sophomore Daniel Olson made their varsity debuts, while Hawthorne Wolfe joined an elite group.

The sweet-shooting guard, who leads Coupeville in scoring, went coast to coast for a layup to become only the fifth boy in 102 seasons of Wolf basketball to score 100 varsity points during his freshman season.

With six regular season games left, then a possible postseason run, Wolfe, who has 103 points, has a legitimate shot to eclipse the four frosh boys who came before him.

Mike Bagby tops that list, with 137 points in the 2002-2003 season, with Mike Criscuola (115), Taylor Ebersole (114), and Arik Garthwaite (109) also on the list.

A fourth Wolf achieved a personal milestone Friday, as junior guard Jean Lund-Olsen recorded his first varsity points, netting a first-half three-ball.

Sean Toomey-Stout paced Coupeville with seven points, while Mason Grove netted a pair of treys en route to six. Wolfe (5), Knoblich (5), Lund-Olsen (3) and Jacobi Pilgrim (2) also scored.

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