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Cold, hard numbers tell the tale!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball, tagged 1A Olympic League, Basketball, CHS Wolves, Hunter Smith, Mia Littlejohn, Stats on December 12, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Junior Hunter Downes is #5 on the scoring chart for the Wolf boys. (John Fisken photos)

Mikayla Elfrank, here tracking down a runaway ball, is the #3 scoring threat for the CHS girls team.

History seems to be repeating itself.

While we’re only a few games into the season, the Coupeville girls and Chimacum boys, both two-time defending champs, sit atop the current 1A Olympic League basketball standings.

Of course, with all four teams having seven or eight league games left on their schedule, anything is still possible.

Tuesday night brings Coupeville vs. Klahowya and Port Townsend vs. Chimacum, girls and boys, another chapter in the still-to-be-written story of the hoops season.

Here’s where things stand through Monday:

Olympic League girls basketball:

School	League	Overall
COUPEVILLE	1-0	3-2
Port Townsend	1-0	2-1
Chimacum	0-1	3-2
Klahowya	0-1	2-2

Olympic League boys basketball:

School	League	Overall
Chimacum	1-0	1-4
Port Townsend	1-0	2-0
Klahowya	1-1	2-4
COUPEVILLE	0-2	0-5

And scoring stats for Coupeville’s varsity players:

Girls:

Mia Littlejohn – 40
Kailey Kellner – 36
Mikayla Elfrank – 29
Lauren Rose – 18
Lindsey Roberts – 15
Tiffany Briscoe – 12
Kalia Littlejohn – 7
Lauren Grove – 6
Allison Wenzel – 2
Sarah Wright – 2
Kyla Briscoe
Charlotte Langille

Boys:

Hunter Smith – 65
Gabe Wynn – 41
Brian Shank – 33
Ethan Spark – 24
Hunter Downes – 6
Jered Brown – 5
Steven Cope – 4
Ariah Bepler – 3
Cameron Toomey-Stout – 3
Joey Lippo – 2
Kyle Rockwell

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Nothing but net for young stars!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged Basketball, Chelsea Prescott, CMS Wolves, SWISH, tourney play on December 11, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Allie Lucero shows off her team’s hardware. (Jess Lucero photos)

Head coach Lark Gustafson (far right) celebrates with his 6th grade hoops stars.

Maya Lucero gets some face-time with the trophy.

Coupeville’s 7th/8th grade SWISH squad, which went undefeated for 99% of the season. (Katy Wells photo)

They capped their seasons by putting a trophy on top of things.

Both of Coupeville’s SWISH girls’ basketball squads brought home hardware Saturday from their postseason tourneys.

The 6th grade Wolves collected a 4th place trophy, while the 7th/8th grade team finished 2nd.

That was despite getting the short end of the stick after romping through the season undefeated.

The older Wolves, instead of being rewarded as league champs, were shoved into a more dangerous postseason bracket.

They survived, upending an elite traveling Canadian team before falling to a very-talented Mount Baker squad in the championship game.

While the season ends for the 6th graders, the middle school hoops stars will kick off their school seasons Jan. 30.

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“It’s about being consistent!!”

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, Coaches Corner, David King, deep thoughts on December 11, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville girls basketball coaches Amy and David King.

Learn from the past, build for the future.

The Coupeville High School girls’ basketball team is 3-2 heading into a game at Klahowya Tuesday night.

The Wolves were in the exact same situation last season — same record, same upcoming foe — and eventually finished 16-6, having advanced to state for the first time in a decade.

As he ponders Saturday’s non-conference loss to South Whidbey and the road ahead, CHS coach David King swings by the Coaches Corner to offer his early-morning thoughts.

Time to reflect after five games in our season.

At times we play at a high level. Then there are times we do not play well.

During the down times we are making the same mistakes and aren’t learning from them.

It’s about being consistent.

My first thought was we aren’t a consistent team. Then watching video and reflecting a little deeper I have a change of heart.

We are consistent in being inconsistent.

We need to start making changes and not repeat the same mistakes.

If we can figure out how to be consistent in a positive way, we have the athletes and players to play well against any opponent.

The season is still young, we have league games to play and some tough non-league teams to play.

I’m looking forward to seeing what the players do to take the next step in their games.

We can handle being consistently bad or consistently good. By that I mean, if we are bad all of the time, we know what to fix.

And can improve quickly.

Consistently good, means we have things figured out and playing well as a team.

It’s the inconsistency that is causing our issues.

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No hope against Pope!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, Hunter Smith, Lewis Pope, South Whidbey on December 10, 2016| 1 Comment »

Ethan Spark hit for 10 Saturday, but Coupeville couldn’t derail South Whidbey. (John Fisken photo)

Let’s give credit where it’s due.

Lewis Pope is the best high school basketball player on Whidbey Island, and Kody Newman could not miss a three-ball right now if you paid him to do so.

Riding their terrific twosome, who are backed by a deep collection of tree-toppers, the big, fast, hyper-efficient South Whidbey High School boys’ basketball squad pulled away after a close first quarter Saturday and buried host Coupeville 80-45.

The loss drops the undermanned Wolves, who are playing with an eight-man roster, to 0-5 on the season.

The two teams played fairly even for eight, maybe nine minutes, than the Falcons found a different level and didn’t look back.

Brian Shank dropped in three buckets in the first quarter, and Coupeville led three separate times, the last at 8-7.

Trailing 12-10 at the first break, the Wolves were keeping it a game at 17-13 early in the second, only to then witness the Pope and Newman show come to life.

The final link in arguably South Whidbey’s most successful athletic family, Kody Newman revived memories of his many older siblings, drilling treys from every angle imaginable.

If the net moved even once as he drilled five three-balls on his way to a game-high 21, I didn’t see it happen.

Things were set up for him by Lewis Pope, son of the late, well-loved SWHS coach Henry Pope, who continues to develop into a premier player in every way.

A step ahead of everyone, and always planning out three moves ahead while gliding down the court, he picked apart Coupeville’s defense, both with his shots and his set-ups for his teammates.

The Wolves, while over-matched, didn’t back down, putting together their best run in the fourth quarter, when they fought to a 14-14 tie.

CHS junior Hunter Smith did what he could, throwing down a team-high 19, including two long treys of his own.

Shank, who has come alive on the offensive end in the past few games, attacked the basket relentlessly, eking out 12, while Ethan Spark banked home 10.

Cameron Toomey-Stout sank a three-ball on the game’s final play for his first points of the season, while Gabe Wynn added a free throw to round out the scoring.

Ariah Bepler, Hunter Downes and Kyle Rockwell also saw floor time, with Downes netting attention for two plays.

On one, the Wolf quarterback threw a full-court pass to Smith, who hauls in his bombs on the gridiron as well.

On the other, he put a wayward Falcon down hard to the floor during a battle for a rebound, drawing favorable comparisons to the work of former CHS enforcer Julia “Elbows” Myers, who was in the crowd and gave the play a smile of approval.

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Falcons trash Wolves, gym!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, litter bugs, Mia Littlejohn, South Whidbey on December 10, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Lauren Rose hit a long trey Saturday night, one of the highlights in a tough loss to Island rival South Whidbey. (John Fisken photo)

And you will know South Whidbey by the trail of trash it leaves behind.

The Falcon varsity girls basketball players are tall, strong, veteran players, very consistent in running their offense, and completely, utterly incapable of picking up after themselves.

Those are the two conclusions one could draw after watching them pick apart host Coupeville 43-29 Saturday, and then watching them depart the gym leaving a never-ending pile of discarded drink bottles all over the CHS gym floor.

At least when King’s or ATM smack someone around, their players stop to throw their own trash away on the way out the door.

So, let’s give South Whidbey credit for their on-court performance, and arch an eyebrow at their lack of social graces.

The Falcons were certainly consistent in the flow of the game, hammering the ball inside to their post players, then draining treys if they couldn’t get an easy bucket.

Catching Coupeville on a night when a lot wasn’t clicking for the Wolves, South Whidbey dominated the first half, then coasted home after the break for the non-conference win.

Wolf point guard Mia Littlejohn got CHS on the board first, muscling her way into the paint before banking a runner off the glass, but then the Falcons took over.

Three separate three-balls, one from the right side, one from the left, and one from the top, sparked a 14-2 tear and put Coupeville on its heels.

Unable to put together back-to-back scores until a late stand in the fourth quarter, the Wolves had little answer for their visitors in the first half and trailed 25-11 at the break.

The second half was a little different story, as the two squads battled even, but CHS couldn’t get over the hump.

Lauren Rose nailed a very long trey late in the third to get Coupeville within 12, but South Whidbey rolled off nine straight points to end one quarter and begin the next, building its biggest lead of the night.

The Wolves, who fought hard all night — CHS coach David King praised the grit and hustle of Allison Wenzel and Tiffany Briscoe for diving for loose balls and battling for rebounds — finally put together a run in the game’s final five minutes.

With four different players scoring, the Wolves closed the night on an 11-4 run.

Mikayla Elfrank capped things by turning a pair of steals into breakaway buckets against her former school.

Mia Littlejohn paced the Wolves with 10 points, while Lindsey Roberts (4), Elfrank (4), Kalia Littlejohn (3), Rose (3), Kailey Kellner (2), Lauren Grove (2) and Sarah Wright (1) also scored.

Charlotte Langille and Kyle Briscoe also saw floor time for Coupeville.

The Wolves, now 3-2 on the season, are scheduled to play their next six games on the road, starting with a 1A Olympic League game at Klahowya Tuesday.

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