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Wolves say g’day to a new foe!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on November 21, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Avalon Renninger and Co. will play four games in six days to open the season, including facing an Australian traveling team. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

This schedule is going to 21.

The Coupeville High School girls basketball squad has picked up an extra game this season, and it involves two road trips.

Making the much-longer journey will be Flinders Christian Community College, a traveling team from Australia, which swings by Whidbey Island to play the Wolves Saturday, Dec. 2.

Coupeville, which will be capping a four-games-in-six-days stretch to open the season (it travels to Bellingham Nov. 27, then hosts Blaine Nov. 29 and Mount Vernon Christian Dec. 1), won’t be playing at home, though.

The Wolves will hop on the bus and head down Island to Langley, where the game will be played at South Whidbey High School.

Tip-off for the varsity-only game is 11 AM.

The game is being played in Langley, and not Coupeville, because it’s much closer to the Clinton ferry, making for less of a detour for Flinders Christian as it travels across Western Washington.

The SWHS gym is available because South Whidbey’s girls basketball squad will be out of town.

The Falcons will be at the Friday Harbor Tip-Off Classic, an event Coupeville won the previous two seasons.

While the Aussies come bearing “college” in their name, don’t take that too literally, as the term is used differently Down Under.

Flinders Christian is “an independent, coeducational, interdenominational Christian school” which caters to students in grades K-12.

The school has campuses at Carrum Downes, Traralgon and Tyabb.

Flinders Christian is sending both a girls and boys team on this US tour — which each set to play four games in Washington state and at least one in California.

18 of the 19 players involved hail from the Tyabb campus, which sits 50 miles south of Melbourne.

The tour is set up through a Seattle-based company, Team Travel Experts, and planning started in Mar. 2016.

 

For more info on Flinders Christian, pop over to:

https://www.flinders.vic.edu.au/

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Hoops stars ready for their closeup!!

Posted in Basketball, tagged , , , , , on November 21, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   A random number generator plucked out Sage Downes to be the first Wolf hoops player to see their headshot hit the internet. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

   Coupeville’s varsity girls, seeking a fourth-straight league title, have no time for your shenanigans.

First-year boys JV coach Chris Smith (back, far left) has a deep bench.

Seniors (l to r) Mikayla Elfrank, Kyla Briscoe and Allison Wenzel hang out.

Ema Smith does not fear your random number generator.

   Wolf hoops legend turned varsity coach Brad Sherman (back, far left) welcomes his first team to the floor.

The Wolf JV girls are a scrappy band of warriors.

   Seniors dominate the boys roster, with (l to r) Joey Lippo, Hunter Downes, Ariah Bepler, Cameron Toomey-Stout, Kyle Rockwell, Hunter Smith and Ethan Spark.

It’s every grandma’s favorite event – picture day.

Wanderin’ photo man John Fisken slid by the Coupeville High School gym recently to snag individual and group shots of every Wolf player in attendance.

Then he was nice enough to slip me a bunch of them.

Along with four team photos, and two collections of seniors, I used a random number generator to pluck two head-shots for use.

That means Ema Smith and Sage Downes beat the odds. So, they got that going for them, which is nice.

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Embrace the dark art of the dribble!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on November 21, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Tia Wurzrainer leads a charge up-court. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

   Nicole Lester pounds the wall on the hardwood, while daydreaming about droppin’ elbows on rival player’s heads.

Mollie Bailey brings the shake, and the bake, to her dribbling.

Eyes scanning the court, Kyla Briscoe looks for an open teammate.

Maddy Hilkey’s dribbling style? Smooth, like butter.

   Genna Wright heads off on a dribbling drill, while Kalia Littlejohn prays this won’t be a five-hour practice.

Scout Smith, breakin’ ankles every day.

Chelsea Prescott gets a 1-on-1 lesson from CHS coach David King.

It all starts with a dribble.

Basketball success is predicated on many factors, but owning strong ball-handling skills is pretty high on the list.

As three-time defending Olympic League champs, the Coupeville High School girls squad knows that and embraces it.

Working under the guidance of longtime hoops gurus David and Amy King, the Wolves worked on building their game from the ground floor up during the early days of practice.

Wandering through the gym was mad clicker John Fisken, who delivers unto us the pics seen above.

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Kellner scorches college nets!!

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on November 20, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Wolf grad Kailey Kellner scored 11 points Monday while making her first start as a college basketball player. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Everything but the win.

Coupeville grad Kailey Kellner got her first college basketball start Monday and responded with season-highs in minutes, points, rebounds, assists and steals.

But, despite her best efforts, D’Youville College let a close one slip away in the final minutes, falling 66-58 to visiting Wells College.

The non-conference loss, coming in the home opener for Kellner and her Spartans teammates, drops them to 0-4 on the still-young season.

During her first three games playing college ball for the Buffalo, New York-based school, Kellner had come off the bench and earned decent minutes.

That changed Monday when she was inserted into the starting lineup and promptly scored D’Youville’s first six points on a pair of three-balls.

Kellner added a third-quarter layup, coming off of a steal, and a trey late in the game, to break double digits for the first time as a college player.

Her first three games? Eight points, four rebounds, one steal and one assist.

Monday vs. Wells? 11 points, six rebounds, three assists and two steals.

Kellner, who wears #33 in college, played a team-high 33 minutes in her first start.

The game was a back-and-forth fight all night, with D’Youville clinging to a 16-15 lead after one quarter.

The Spartans then busted out on a 10-2 run, sparked by Kellner’s assists, and seemed to be taking command.

It wasn’t to be, though, as Wells fought back to knot things up at 31-31 heading into the break, then inched ahead 47-44 after three quarters.

Kellner’s last trey closed the gap to 50-47, but D’Youville went a bit cold from the field down the stretch and couldn’t fight all the way back.

Wells, which captured its first win in three tries this season, was led by Carley Ryan and Kamarie Maturine, who went for 24 and 22, respectively.

Darian Evans banged away for 17 to join Kellner in giving D’Youville two players in double figures.

The Spartans get the rest of Thanksgiving week off, returning to action with a home game against undefeated Cazenovia College Sunday, Nov. 26.

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Makana, unleashed!!

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on November 18, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Makana Stone is averaging a team-high 16 points a night through the first three games of her sophomore season at Whitman. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Call her Ms. Double-Double.

Throwing down like a beast for the second time in as many days, Coupeville grad Makana Stone went for 18 points and 11 rebounds Saturday to spark Whitman College to a huge tourney win.

With Stone controlling the paint and freshman Kaelan Shamseldin drilling three-balls from beyond the arc, the Blues bounced Whittier 64-52 in their finale at the Ramada at Spokane Airport Whit Classic.

Whitman, which has played without preseason All-American Casey Poe so far, is 2-1 on the season.

A huge key to that success? Stone.

As a freshman, the former Wolf was a starter on a Whitman squad which went to the Elite Eight of the NCAA D-III women’s tourney. As a sophomore, she is fast becoming the focal point of the Blues offense.

Stone has hit double figures scoring in every game (10, 20, 18) and leads Whitman at 16 points a night.

With her 11 boards, which ties her best single-game college performance, she pulls within one carom (27-26) of veteran Emily Rommel for the team lead in that category, as well.

Her shooting has been locked-in from the opening tip of the season, as Stone is hitting 58% (15-26) from the floor and 86% (18-21) from the free-throw line.

She’s #1 on the Blues in free throw percentage and #2 in field goal accuracy.

That last stat is a little skewed, as the only teammate Stone is chasing, Anissia Hughes, has built her 60-58% lead while taking far fewer shots, hitting 6-10 from the floor.

Playing against Whittier, Stone divvied up her points, throwing down six in the first quarter, adding five more in the third, than closing like a champ with seven in the game-clinching fourth.

Her back-to-back double-doubles landed Stone a spot on the All-Tournament team.

Shamseldin, who hit six bombs from three-point land Saturday, added 23 points.

Whitman returns to action next weekend, when it plays in the Kim Evanger Raney Classic Nov. 24-25. The Blues play Walla Walla University and the Evergreen State University.

Killer Kailey hits the floor:

Stone wasn’t the only former Wolf to play in a college basketball game Saturday, as her former teammate, Kailey Kellner, suited up for D’Youville College in New York.

Kellner netted two points off a jumper, while also piling up a rebound, assist and steal as the Spartans fell 56-35 to SUNY-Canton.

D’Youville, which is 0-3 on the season, returns to action Monday with a game against Wells College.

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