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Mia Mania spreads to Cali!!

Posted in Basketball, soccer, tagged , , , , on June 28, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Former Coupeville star Mia Littlejohn will play soccer and basketball at Santa Monica College. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

The leading scorer in Coupeville High School girls soccer history has made the jump to college ball — in two sports — and is already practicing and fundraising with her new teammates.

Mia Littlejohn, who graduated from Oak Harbor this spring after playing soccer and basketball for three years at CHS, is now attending Santa Monica College.

And she’s putting in four hours of practice some days, two hours in the morning with the booters, then two hours in the afternoon with the hoops squad.

Santa Monica College, which was founded in 1929, is a two-year school which services 30,000+ full-time and part-time students.

Famous alumni include a pair of two-time Oscar winners in Hilary Swank and Sean Penn, as well as boxing champ Laila Ali, Saturday Night Live star Kenan Thompson and American Idol host Ryan Seacrest.

The school fields teams in 16 sports. The Corsairs play in the 16-team Western State Conference, the oldest community college conference in California.

Santa Monica went 15-3-3 in women’s soccer last season, winning the Southern division of the WSC with a flawless 8-0 mark.

The Corsair booters kick off a new campaign Aug. 28 with a road game at Oxnard.

The SMC women’s basketball team was 9-17 last season.

Littlejohn earned multiple All-Conference honors in both of her sports during her three-year run at Coupeville High School, capping things by being named Olympic League MVP in soccer after her junior season.

She rattled home 27 goals that year, which is the most in school history, girl or boy.

Mia’s career mark of 35, scored between 2014-2016, stands as Coupeville’s best for a female booter, though younger sister Kalia, who will be a senior this fall, is hot on her heels with 33.

On the hardwood, the elder Littlejohn tallied 317 points in three seasons for the Wolves, which puts her 34th on the girls career scoring chart.

 

Santa Monica’s soccer team is running a fundraiser. To help out, and see Mia lead off the team video, pop over to:

http://app.eteamsponsor.com/ETS/supportUs/90805399?fund_participant_id=100634255&program=90805336&fundraiser=90805399&participant=100634253&source=facebook

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Kids, hoop it up this summer!!

Posted in Basketball, tagged , , , , , on April 19, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Want to be a hoops star like Kyla Briscoe? Currently in grades 2-7? Then this summer’s Coupeville basketball skills camp is for you. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Build your t-shirt collection and hone your skills.

Coupeville High School basketball coaches and players are running a youth skills camp this summer, and it shouldn’t be missed.

It’s open to Coupeville School District students who are entering grades 3-8 next fall (so, that means the child is CURRENTLY in grades 2-7) and is just a low, low $10 for three days of activity.

The camp, which will be held in the high school and middle school gyms, is set for June 18-20.

Sessions run from 9-11 AM (boys) and 12-2 PM (girls) each day.

Players will be split up, so younger and older players will have an opportunity to work within their age groups.

Registration deadline is May 31 and payment is due at check-in on the first day of camp. Your $10 gets you three days of instruction and a camp t-shirt.

To register, pop over to:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhv_5OsD4Nho9APrZz3P9N2CLbBn9fO87gIz_fxu-_VPgKqQ/viewform

If you have any questions, contact CHS basketball coaches Brad Sherman (bsherman@coupeville.k12.wa.us) or David King (dking@coupeville.k12.wa.us).

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Our court, today and tomorrow!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, Middle School, tagged , , , , , on March 30, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Ella Colwell, a strong rebounder for the CMS 8th graders, kicks off a final look at Wolf hoops portraits. (Photos by JohnPhotos.net)

Claire Mayne

Allie Lucero

Trinity McGee

Jordyn Rogers

Alana Mihill

Mercedes Kalwies-Anderson

Hannah Mayne

Abigail Ramirez

Angelina Gebhard

The future of Wolf girls basketball is strong.

The Coupeville Middle School 7th and 8th grade teams just capped 8-2 and 6-4 seasons, respectively, and both rosters were chock full of rising stars.

As they exit and head outside for track season, here’s a look at 10 portraits I wasn’t able to use during the regular season.

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Madness, mayhem … and a little grace!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, Middle School, tagged , , , , , , on March 29, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   A rough and tumble season finale at Forks included CMS spark-plug guard Kiara Contreras suffering an ankle injury. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

As season finales go, this one busted out all the fireworks.

After traveling all day Thursday, and then some, to get to Forks, the Coupeville Middle School basketball squads walked head-on into a wild afternoon on the court.

By the time the Wolves exited and headed back to the bus for their final trip home this season, they had two wins in as many games, though one came in an extremely odd manner.

The Wolf 7th graders romped to a 37-24 win, while the CMS 8th graders officially were credited with a forfeit win after the Forks coach pulled his players and took his ball home while trailing by five with 14 ticks left on the clock.

Seriously.

But first, the game that finished.

7th grade:

Carolyn Lhamon has steadily grown as a force in the paint for the Wolves, and she capped her first middle school season by throwing down a career-high 24 points.

While Lhamon by herself would have been enough to match Forks, she wasn’t alone.

Not by a long shot.

Maddie Georges tossed in seven in support, Nezi Keiper and Gwen Gustafson each added a bucket and Alita Blouin knocked down a pair of free throws to round out the attack.

With the win, the CMS 7th graders finished the season at 8-2 for first-year head coach Alex Evans.

The Wolves fell only to Sequim, a large middle school which funnels players to a 2A high school, and both of those games came down to the wire. One was decided late in the fourth, the other in overtime.

8th grade:

Where to begin?

The game was rough-and-tumble, to be charitable, with Coupeville shooting 35 free throws and losing spark-plug guard Kiara Contreras to a leg injury after she was sent intentionally flying by a Forks rival.

Up by one with 50 seconds to go, the home-town Spartans melted down mentally, throwing away the game and their cool.

Wolf scoring ace Anya Leavell struck twice, stealing a ball and turning it into a go-ahead layup, then pilfering yet another pass only to be tackled to the floor.

Unable to continue, she had to be replaced at the free throw line, with Coupeville coach Dustin Van Velkinburgh calling on Abby Mulholland to do the honors.

“Enter the momentum-swinging hero! After playing less than a minute, Abby steps to the free throw line and sinks them both,” said a proud coach.

After that, things went all to heck and beyond, with a steal on an inbound pass, a turnover, a missed Forks shot, a scramble for a loose ball and a Forks coach coming unglued.

Whistled for a technical, he continued to rant while Izzy Wells iced the game with a pair of charity shots.

And then the Forks coach took his ball and went home, refusing to play out the final 13.8 seconds of the season, forfeiting the game and any chance to close with class.

In the midst of a game where a Forks player cursed right at a ref’s face and Contreras was injured on a play that seemed to spring out of a time machine from the era when the Detroit Pistons “Bad Boys” used to throttle Michael Jordan, there was a saving grace.

It came in the way Coupeville’s players handled a potentially explosive situation on a foreign floor.

“There were a lot of times where we could have given into the fight but we didn’t,” Van Velkinburgh said. “We stayed the course, stayed together and got large contributions down the stretch to pull a wrestling match out to be a basketball game win.

“We end our season and I couldn’t be more proud of this group of young ladies.”

His squad finished 6-4, with their losses coming to Stevens and Sequim, two schools several times larger than Coupeville.

The victories built his team’s confidence, and the losses taught them what they need to do to improve.

As they prepare to move up to high school ball, Van Velkinburgh, who has guided these players through several years of SWISH basketball prior to this season, has seen the Wolves grow, develop and bond as a team, on and off the floor.

“I’m very excited for their future,” he said. “My hope is they continue to work hard and that they stay together.

“Amazing group of young ladies that I can truly say I have been blessed to share the court with.”

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Now serving daily beat-downs!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, Middle School, tagged , , , , on March 26, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   CMS 7th grader Maya Lucero outscored Blue Heron by herself Monday afternoon. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

We arrive. We torch your gym. We leave. (Ryan Georges photo)

Rain drops were falling outside Monday, but inside the gym at Port Townsend, a storm was raging.

Dropping the hammer on their foes, both Coupeville Middle School girls basketball squads savaged host Blue Heron, then retreated to the bus to celebrate in style.

The CMS 7th graders opened things with a 37-3 crunching in which three different Wolves outscored their foes by themselves, then Coupeville’s 8th grade unit strolled to a 53-14 victory.

The wins lift the young guns to 7-2 on the season, while the older Wolves are 5-4.

Coupeville wraps its season Thursday with the longest road trip of the year, a jaunt to the land from which Ron Bagby sprang, the misty Twilight-land known as Forks.

8th grade:

The first half was a battle. The second, a rout.

Clinging to a 20-11 lead at the half, Coupeville went nuclear like the Rams in the NFL free agent market, scoring every time they tried anything.

The 33-3 surge after the break brought a smile to CMS coach Dustin Van Velkinburgh’s face.

“Didn’t play very well in the first half, but then we turned it up and played a lot better,” he said.

It was a two-woman show on the offensive end of the floor for the Wolves, with Audrianna Shaw (16 points) and Anya Leavell (12) combining to singe the nets.

They had plenty of help though, with Kylie Van Velkinburgh (9), Izzy Wells (7), Ella Colwell (4), Kiara Contreras (2), Abby Mulholland (2) and Ja’Kenya Hoskins (1) all rattling the rim.

7th grade:

Carolyn Lhamon dominated in the paint, throwing down 15 points to pace five Wolves who penned their name in the score-book.

She was backed up by Alita Blouin, who knocked down eight, Maya Lucero and Maddie Georges, who each tickled the nets for six and Gwen Gustafson, who banked home a bucket.

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