Hunter Smith tossed in 17 in a win Saturday and finished as the #12 scorer in Wolf boys basketball history. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)
Mason Grove dropped in 12 in Coupeville’s JV win, giving him 337 in 19 games for the second Wolf squad.
They closed the season on fire.
Raining down three-balls in both games Saturday, with almost everyone on the roster scoring, the Coupeville High School boys basketball squads put a final stamp on their campaigns, crushing host Chimacum.
The Wolf varsity rolled 60-31, while the JV cruised in for a 61-23 victory.
With the wins, the first squad finished 7-13 overall, 5-4 in their final season of Olympic League play.
Coupeville’s second team closed out at 5-14, 4-5.
Varsity:
Facing a win-less Cowboys team limping to the finish, the Wolves put them down hard and fast, busting out to a 24-2 lead at the first break and not slowing down.
“The boys should be proud of how strong they finished out the season,” said Coupeville coach Brad Sherman. “Taking care of the ball, shooting well, tough on defense – playing their best team basketball.
“Says a lot about them, their character, and how hard they worked,” he added. “They can hold their heads high.”
Nine of the 10 Wolves to see action Saturday scored, with Hunter Smith leading the way as he tossed in 17 in three quarters of action.
That gave him 382 for the season and 847 for his career.
Despite missing a chunk of his sophomore year with an injury, Smith finished as the 12th highest scorer in Wolf boys basketball history.
Fellow senior Ethan Spark banked home 13, which gives him 216 for the season.
Cameron Toomey-Stout knocked down 10 in support of the big two, with Dane Lucero (6), Hunter Downes (4), Gavin Knoblich (3), Mason Grove (3), Kyle Rockwell (2) and Ulrik Wells (2) also scoring.
Lucero, a big man who plays in the paint most of the time, shocked the world in the finale, scoring all of his points off of a pair of three-point bombs.
James Vidoni was the lone Wolf not to score, but he drew praise from Sherman for “his toughness on the boards.”
JV:
The big quarter was the third in this one, as the Wolves used a 22-4 surge to ice the game.
Much as in the varsity game, Coupeville spread its scoring out, with 11 of 13 tallying at least one point.
Freshman Sage Downes and sophomore Mason Grove tied for top honors with 12.
That brought Grove’s final mark to 337 over 19 games this year, just shy of the unofficial school JV record of 347, set by Allen Black in 2002-2003.
Grove, who hit double figures in 16 games, and topped 30 three times, was denied the record by his own success.
In the latter stages of the season, he stopped playing full JV games, so he could swing up to varsity, where he finished sixth on the #1 squad in scoring in very limited court time.
The JV scoring Saturday was rounded out by Jake Pease (9), Tucker Hall (7), Koa Davison (5), Daniel Olson (4), Alex Jimenez (4), Vidoni (2), David Prescott (2), Trevor Bell (2) and Knoblich (2).
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