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These boards are clean!!

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , on January 17, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   A flashback to when current college baller Kailey Kellner helped lead Coupeville to the state tourney. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Need a rebound? Call Kailey.

A slow start crippled the D’Youville College women’s basketball squad Wednesday, but while the Spartans fell 74-63 at Medaille, it wasn’t for lack of effort from one of its freshmen.

Coupeville grad Kailey Kellner ripped down a season-high nine rebounds, dished out four assists, blocked a shot and dropped in a bucket while playing 25 minutes for the Spartans.

Making her sixth start, the former Wolf raised her season totals to 43 points, 37 rebounds, 18 assists and eight steals.

D’Youville, which has dropped four straight, sits at 3-5 in Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference play, 4-11 overall, while the Mavericks improve to 5-4, 8-8.

Medaille jumped out to a 23-10 lead after the first quarter, then basically played keep-away the rest of the night.

If you only counted the second through fourth quarters, the Spartans finished up by two points … but that, unfortunately, is not how basketball games work.

Kellner and her teammates return to the court Saturday for another road game, but they’ll have their work cut out for them, as they face league power Mt. Aloysius (8-1, 10-4).

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Hardwood snaps for a winter day!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 17, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Maddy Hilkey has had just about enough of the referee’s shenanigans, thank you very much. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

   Spying an opening, Kyla Briscoe slashes to the hoop, leaving a hapless defender sprawled on the floor behind her.

The always calm and cool Tia Wurzrainer puts the steady in steady-cam.

Mollie Bailey eyes the defense with an eagle eye.

   Feeling the heat coming up behind her, Chelsea Prescott looks for an open teammate.

   Sophomore sensation Hannah Davidson hangs out with the president of her fan club.

The sound of basketballs bouncing, sneakers squeaking and cameras clicking washes over the prairie.

Coupeville is deep in to its hoops season, with Klahowya visiting Cow Town Tuesday to face the Wolf girls.

Shutterbug John Fisken popped his head into the CHS gym for a bit, and snagged a collection of shots from both the varsity and JV games.

The pics above are courtesy him.

To see everything Fisken shot, pop over to:

http://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/Coupeville-basketball-2017-2018/2018-01-16-GBB-vs-Klahowya/

And remember, purchases fund college scholarships for CHS student/athletes.

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A thriller! A killer! A chiller!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , , on January 16, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Mason Grove tossed in 11 in three quarters Tuesday as the Wolf JV battled Klahowya through two overtimes. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

They saved the best for last.

With the JV boys playing second Tuesday at Klahowya, the young guns put on a show in the longest game of the season.

Playing the kind of game where everyone involved is sorry to see someone have to lose, the host Eagles held off Coupeville 58-56 in a double-overtime thriller that came down to free throws.

Specifically, it was the four shots from the charity stripe which the Eagles netted in the second overtime which provided the final margin.

The Wolves, who got red-hot in the fourth quarter to stage a successful comeback and force extra basketball, fall to 1-3 in Olympic League play, 2-11 overall.

Coupeville didn’t go down easily, however, using a 23-15 run in the final period of regulation to keep things interesting.

With three Wolves — Sage Downes, Jacobi Pilgrim and Mason Grove — combining to score all of their team’s fourth-quarter points, CHS rallied from a 33-25 deficit to knot things up at 48-48.

In the first overtime, the two squads exchanged buckets, with Downes and Pilgrim swishing three-balls while the Eagles knocked down three baskets of the old-fashioned two-point variety.

Still tied at 54-54, the Wolves and Eagles headed to a second four-minute extra period, and Coupeville’s luck finally ran out.

Koa Davison knocked in a bucket for CHS, but Klahowya slid four of its six free throws through the net in the second OT to finally ice the game.

The wild finale capped a game which started off a little slowly.

Klahowya led just 9-6 after the first quarter, held serve at 16-13 at the half, then inched further ahead with a 17-12 surge in the third.

That was when Coupeville turned up the offensive heat, with Downes, who hadn’t scored before that, suddenly raining down nine points in the fourth.

Pilgrim added eight and Grove hit a pair of three-balls to round out the 23-point uprising for the Wolves.

For the game, Pilgrim paced CHS with 14, while Downes dropped in 12 and Grove, who had seven in the fourth quarter of the varsity game, added 11 in three quarters of JV action.

Davison (6), Daniel Olson (5), Jean-Lund Olsen (5), Gavin Knoblich (2) and Jake Pease (1) also scored for the Wolves, who hit 10 three-balls on the night.

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One bad stretch dooms Wolves!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on January 16, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Nicole Lester dropped in four points and was a force on the boards Tuesday against Klahowya. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

For two quarters-plus Tuesday, the Coupeville High School JV girls basketball squad was locked in a war with visiting Klahowya.

But then it all slipped away.

A 16-0 third-quarter run by the Eagles, spurred by a shutdown press defense, lifted the visitors to a 41-27 win in a game that felt a lot closer than the score might sound.

The loss drops the Wolf young guns to 2-3 in Olympic League play, 6-9 overall.

Coupeville, which led after the first quarter, knotted things at 16-16 on the opening play of the second half.

Maddy Hilkey cranked up a jumper from the left side and hit nothing but net, causing local fans to lean forward in anticipation.

Even after Klahowya netted a layup and free throw to edge out in front, the Wolves countered with their own freebie off of the fingertips of Avalon Renninger.

With the deficit just a bucket at 19-17, anything seemed possible.

Except it wasn’t.

Frustrated by the Eagles, who launched a back-court trap on them, the Wolves went through an extremely rough stretch for several minutes.

CHS turnovers piled up, with Klahowya turning many of them into breakaway layups, and what was a close game turned into a 35-17 rout as the third-quarter clock headed towards 0:00.

Renninger finally stopped the bleeding, hitting a silky runner in the paint off of a ball tipped her way by Hilkey, and the Wolves showed some grit down the stretch.

Coupeville closed the game on a 10-6 surge, scoring the final two buckets in both the third and fourth quarter.

Better yet, that late run featured four different Wolves — Renninger, Nicole Lester, Ashlie Shank and Genna Wright — banking home buckets.

Wright’s came on a put-back off of a rebound, nice payback after she got her head yanked clean off her neck by a rabid Eagle on a previous play.

So blatant it caused dad Ron to bellow “Hey now!” from the stands, it, nonetheless, failed to generate a foul call from refs who were letting the clock run out as they apparently had dinner reservations they needed to make.

Shank paced the Wolves with eight points, while Renninger (7), Lester (4), Hilkey (4), Wright (2) and Mollie Bailey (2) also scored.

Tia Wurzrainer, Kylie Chernikoff and Julia García Oñoro also saw floor time for Coupeville, with each playing tough defense down in the trenches.

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“Just not in sync tonight…”

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , , on January 16, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   With 725 points, Hunter Smith needs six Friday to move into 15th place all-time on the Coupeville boys career scoring chart. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

This one stings a bit.

Suffering through a cold-shooting night Tuesday, the Coupeville High School boys basketball squad dropped a game it needed and wanted.

Falling 51-37 on the road at Klahowya, the Wolves took a step back, sliding into third-place in the Olympic League.

Coupeville gets a strong chance to bounce back Friday, when it hosts win-less Chimacum on the 101st anniversary of the first hoops game in school history, but that doesn’t lessen Tuesday’s dashed hopes.

“Really just not in sync tonight. Never could get much going,” said CHS coach Brad Sherman. “Not the game we expected, but it is what it is.

“Thankfully we play them three times,” he added. “The series is still up for grabs and we know those are games we are more than capable of competing to win.”

Coupeville drops to 2-2 in league play, 4-10 overall, which leaves the Wolves trailing Port Townsend (4-1, 8-5) and Klahowya (3-1, 7-7). Chimacum (0-5, 0-9) brings up the rear.

The Wolves still have five league games left, however, with a trip back to Klahowya Saturday coming hot on the heels of Friday’s bout with Chimacum.

So, while he would have preferred a win Tuesday, Sherman knows there is still much to be resolved.

“We aren’t even half way done with our league schedule, so yes, that one hurts, but we have to keep our focus on the next one,” he said. “This group of guys is very capable of putting a run together, but they really need to believe it.

“Back to work tomorrow!”

The Eagles never really blew the Wolves out, but just steadily built a lead, turning a 14-9 advantage after one into a 23-13 lead at the half, and a 34-20 bulge headed to the final eight minutes.

In that final quarter, Coupeville held its own, with the two teams ramping up their offenses in a 17-17 battle royal.

Sophomore Mason Grove, popping up for a quarter from the JV squad, nailed a pair of three-balls and a free throw in the final quarter to pace the Wolf attack.

For the game senior Hunter Smith topped CHS with 12 points, running his career total to 725.

He is six points from passing Dan Nieder (729) and Steve Whitney (730) to move into 15th place on the Wolf boys hoops career scoring list.

Ethan Spark dropped in eight in support, while Grove and Joey Lippo knocked down seven apiece and Cameron Toomey-Stout hit a three-ball.

John Hartford led Klahowya with a game-high 18.

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