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Wolfe nets another milestone

Posted in Basketball, tagged Barry Brown, Basketball, CHS Wolves, Hawthorne Wolfe, Megan Smith, scoring stats on June 11, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Hawthorne Wolfe is the 27th player in 104 seasons of CHS basketball to lead a varsity team in scoring in two or more seasons — and the first to do so in non-consecutive seasons. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

In this most unusual of basketball seasons, another quirk.

With one game left to play in a pandemic-shortened season, Hawthorne Wolfe is about to do something no Coupeville High School basketball player, boy or girl, has ever accomplished.

With 240 points in 11 games — 21.8 a night — the CHS junior will lead the boys team in scoring, no matter what happens in Tuesday’s finale against Darrington.

In finishing as the #1 point producer, Wolfe becomes the 15th boy, and 27th player overall in school history, to have topped a year-end varsity scoring chart at least two times during their career.

But, he is the first to ever do it in non-consecutive seasons.

Wolfe paced Coupeville in scoring as a freshman, tossing in 158 points while Sean Toomey-Stout was second-best with 122.

Last season, Hawk came within a bucket of repeating as scoring champ, but was edged out 254-252 by senior Mason Grove.

Now, Wolfe is back on top, with Xavier Murdy angling for runner-up status with 115 points heading into the finale.

Of the 15 CHS boys to top the charts at least twice, only one, Barry Brown, led his squad in scoring three times — something Hawk can chase next year as a senior.

On the girls side of things, six Wolves have pulled off a three-peat, with Megan Smith being the only four-timer.

CHS players with two or more seasons as the top scorer:

Girls:

Marie Grasser (1977-1978; 1978-1979)
Kristan Hurlburt (1979-1980; 1980-1981; 1981-1982)
Judy Marti (1982-1983; 1983-1984)
Terry Perkins (1984-1985, 1985-1986; 1986-1987)
Emily Vracin (1989-1990; 1990-1991)
Novi Barron (1995-1996; 1996-1997; 1997-1998)
Tina Lyness (1998-1999; 1999-2000)
Brianne King (2000-2001; 2001-2002; 2002-2003)
Lexie Black (2003-2004; 2004-2005)
Megan Smith (2006-2007; 2007-2008; 2008-2009; 2009-2010)
Makana Stone (2013-2014; 2014-2015; 2015-2016)
Lindsey Roberts (2017-2018; 2018-2019)

Boys:

Tom Sahli (1952-1953; 1953-1954)
Jack Elzinga (1954-1955; 1955-1956)
Mike Criscuola (1958-1959; 1959-1960)
Denny Clark (1962-1963; 1963-1964)
Barry Brown (1965-1966; 1966-1967; 1967-1968)
Jeff Stone (1968-1969; 1969-1970)
Bill Riley (1971-1972; 1972-1973)
Randy Keefe (1973-1974; 1974-1975)
Jason McFadyen (1989-1990; 1990-1991)
Virgil Roehl (1991-1992; 1992-1993)
Chris Good (2000-2001; 2001-2002)
Mike Bagby (2004-2005; 2005-2006)
Wiley Hesselgrave (2014-2015; 2015-2016)
Hunter Smith (2016-2017; 2017-2018)
Hawthorne Wolfe (2018-2019; 2021)

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Brothers (and sisters) of the hardwood unite

Posted in Basketball, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, family, Izzy Wells, Xavier Murdy on June 10, 2021| Leave a Comment »

TJ (left) and Grady Rickner are one of five sets of siblings playing basketball for Coupeville High School. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

All in the family.

There are five different sets of siblings playing basketball at Coupeville High School this season – four brother combos and one sister duo.

There’s a wide range of ages involved, as well, with every class (and then some) represented.

Break down the family affair and we find two seniors, four juniors, two sophomores, one freshman, and even one 8th grader.

With the Wolves moving to the 2B classification, CHS can use middle school students to shore up high school programs struggling with low numbers, such as boys soccer or girls basketball.

So, to the great joy of mom Katie Wells, that has meant daughters Savina (8th grader) and Izzy (11th grader) get two seasons together, and not one as originally expected.

Graduation will break up two of the five sets, with Sage Downes and TJ Rickner set to move on after this season.

But for now, there’s a whole lot of family connections at play in the Wolf hoops programs.

William and Miles Davidson

Savina and Izzy Wells

Logan and Sage Downes

Alex and Xavier Murdy

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Say you, say me, say cheese

Posted in Basketball, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, John Fisken photos, Jonathan Valenzuela, Kylie Van Velkinburgh, portraits on June 6, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Kylie Van Velkinburgh kicks off a series of Wolf basketball portraits. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

The last batch.

As we’ve worked our way through the high school hoops season, I’ve been dispersing all the portraits shot by John Fisken — sometimes one at a time, sometimes in big clumps.

With nine days left in the season, and eight head shots still waiting to see the light of the internet, here you go.

Want to see other stuff, like action shots, which have popped out of Fisken’s camera? Take a look over at:

John’s Photos (johnsphotos.net)

Alex Wasik

Grady Rickner

TJ Rickner

Andrew Williams

Ryan Blouin

Jonathan Valenzuela

Cole White

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Make the net sing a sweet song

Posted in Basketball, tagged Audrianna Shaw, Basketball, CHS Wolves, Hawthorne Wolfe, scoring stats on June 6, 2021| Leave a Comment »

William Davidson fires up a free throw. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

“Go and score, my queen.”

They keep the scorebook keepers busy.

The players on Coupeville High School’s four basketball teams have combined to tally 1,210 points this season — as best as I can tell.

The front-runner, by a lot, is net-tickler Hawthorne Wolfe.

With 215 points across nine games, the junior guard is averaging 23.9 a night, and has accounted for almost 18% of all Coupeville points by himself.

Fellow Class of 2022 gunner Xavier Murdy became the second player to crack the 100-point barrier this season, while JV players Desi Ramirez and Reese Wilkinson are the latest to join the scoring parade.

Where point totals stand with nine days left in the pandemic-altered 2021 hoops season:

Girls Varsity
(9 games):

Audrianna Shaw 59
Izzy Wells 45
Savina Wells 30
Maddie Georges 28
Carolyn Lhamon 23
Ja’Kenya Hoskins 18
Gwen Gustafson 15
Ryanne Knoblich 13
Kylie Van Velkinburgh 13
Lyla Stuurmans 7
Anya Leavell 2

Boys Varsity
(9 games):

Hawthorne Wolfe 215
Xavier Murdy 105
Grady Rickner 67
Alex Murdy 39
Daniel Olson 36
Sage Downes 33
Logan Downes 28
Logan Martin 25
TJ Rickner 11
Jonathan Valenzuela 7
Cody Roberts 4
Cole White 2

Girls JV
(4 games):

Lyla Stuurmans – 43
Madison McMillan – 25
Jessenia Camarena – 14
Katie Marti – 7
Skylar Parker – 4
Morgan Stevens – 3
Desi Ramirez – 2
Reese Wilkinson – 1

Boys JV
(7 games):

Jonathan Valenzuela – 85
Cole White – 56
Dominic Coffman – 42
Logan Downes – 37
Nick Guay – 27
Zane Oldenstadt – 14
William Davidson – 12
Mikey Robinett – 7
Ryan Blouin – 4
Quinten Simpson-Pilgrim – 2

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Any fingernails left to bite?

Posted in Basketball, standings, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, La Conner, Northwest League, standings on June 6, 2021| Leave a Comment »

CHS basketball coach Brad Sherman was the #2 scorer on the program’s last league champion team in 2001-2002. Now he has the Wolves in contention for another title. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Nine days to play, two titles up for grabs.

Technically.

A person might come along and randomly look at the Northwest 2B/1B League basketball standings for the first time today and think both races are all-out wars.

It’s not true, though.

While the Mount Vernon Christian girls are a very-good team, and do sit just a half-game off of La Conner, I am here to tell you to take all your money to Vegas and bet on the Braves and not the Hurricanes.

The one loss for MVC came against La Conner, and it wasn’t close, with the Braves rolling to a 58-33 win.

That’s the second-closest any team has come to toppling the 2B powerhouse, with the other being 1A royalty King’s, which fell 44-39 in a war of teams which would be playing for state titles in a non-pandemic world.

La Conner and MVC face off a second time, in the season finale June 15, and I could turn out to be an idiot.

If the Hurricanes win, I’ll tip my hat to them.

But I don’t think I’ll need a hat that day.

On the other side of the standings, it is a legitimate war, but, after a 3-0 week, the Coupeville boys control their own destiny.

While MVC has the same 6-3 record as the Wolves, CHS swept the season series with the Hurricanes, and will play three more games to Mount Vernon’s two.

Win out, while playing Friday Harbor (5-3), Concrete (0-9), and Darrington (2-3), and Coupeville, which is on a four-game winning streak, can’t be stopped.

The first, and biggest of those contests comes Tuesday on Whidbey, followed by a road trip Thursday to the wilds of Concrete.

Senior Night arrives the following Tuesday, June 15, four days after graduation, and could be one of the biggest nights in Coupeville boys basketball history.

Where things stand through June 6:

Northwest League boys basketball: