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Let the camera steal your soul

Posted in Basketball, tagged , , , , on May 31, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Ryanne Knoblich leads off a collection of CHS basketball portraits. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Welcome back to portrait season.

Before the current hoops campaign began, John Fisken stopped by the Coupeville High School gym to snap close-up pics of almost every Wolf basketball player.

As the season unfolds, we’re dispersing said portraits in a somewhat haphazarded manner, and today eight more glossy images pop up on the internet.

There’s two pics for each of the four CHS hardwood teams, chosen in our best eenie-meenie-minie-moe fashion.

Logan Martin

Reese Wilkinson

Nathan Ginnings

Anya Leavell

Alex Murdy

Kayla Arnold

Narciso Lopez

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Scramble for hardwood supremacy heats up

Posted in Basketball, standings, tagged , , , , on May 30, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Gwen Gustafson and Co. have won three of their last four games. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Halfway home, and the battle rages on.

Both Coupeville High School varsity basketball teams sit at 3-3 with six games left to play, though the odds of a conference title for the Wolves greatly varies.

The CHS boys, who could be 5-1 if two plays go differently, are two games back of first-place, and have a legitimate shot of shaking the standings up in the second half.

The Wolves have already handed Mount Vernon Christian its only loss, and the Hurricanes gave Orcas Island its lone defeat.

The Vikings may sit atop the standings at the moment, but nothing seems safe as the hunt for a boys title continues.

On the girls side, however, it’s a two-team race to hang a banner, and no one else is getting into the mix.

Coupeville is a game out of third, but there is no realistic way its gets a top-two finish.

La Conner and MVC are both 5-0 in league play, 6-0 overall heading into a Tuesday clash, and have decimated the other Northwest 2B/1B League schools.

Counting their non-conference tilts (the Braves beat Kings, the Hurricanes KO’d Lummi Nation), La Conner has outscored its foes 438-106, while MVC is at 386-96.

The Wolf girls have a tough week ahead, as they face La Conner and MVC back-to-back, playing the former on the road Wednesday, before hosting the latter Thursday.

A road trip to Orcas Saturday to square off with the team they’re chasing for third-place caps a busy schedule.

The CHS boys play the same trio, at the same locations, with a chance to make some waves.

The La Conner rumble is a rematch, after they lost 59-57 on a last-second bucket at home this past Thursday, then the Wolves go toe-to-toe with the current top two in the standings.

Let the basketballs hit the nets!

Where things stand through May 30:

 

Northwest League boys basketball:

School League Overall
Orcas Island 5-1 5-1
MV Christian 4-1 4-2
Friday Harbor 3-2 3-2
La Conner 3-2 3-3
Coupeville 3-3 3-3
Darrington 1-3 1-3
Concrete 0-7 0-7

 

Northwest League girls basketball:

School League Overall
La Conner 5-0 6-0
MV Christian 5-0 6-0
Orcas Island 4-2 4-2
Coupeville 3-3 3-3
Friday Harbor 1-4 1-4
Concrete 1-6 2-6
Darrington 0-4 0-4

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Flip the net, fill the scorebook

Posted in Basketball, tagged , , , , on May 30, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Dominic Coffman rumbles in for two. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

769 points.

Coupeville High School’s four basketball teams have combined to score exactly that much as we sit at the halfway point of the compressed 2021 hoops season.

That’s come from the efforts of 19 Wolf boys and 15 girls, with four players — Lyla Stuurmans, Logan Downes, Jonathan Valenzuela, and Cole White — having tallied points as both JV and varsity players.

Topping our charts are two juniors, a sophomore, and an 8th grader, and three of the four scoring races are still pretty close.

In the other one, Hawthorne Wolfe is feeling it, averaging 24.7 points a night, with two games of 30+ points across six hardcourt rumbles.

Points, and who is currently scoring them for the red and black:

 

Girls Varsity
(6 games):

Audrianna Shaw 43
Savina Wells 27
Izzy Wells 26
Maddie Georges 21
Carolyn Lhamon 21
Gwen Gustafson 13
Ja’Kenya Hoskins 13
Ryanne Knoblich 9
Kylie Van Velkinburgh 9
Lyla Stuurmans 7

 

Boys Varsity
(6 games):

Hawthorne Wolfe 148
Grady Rickner 50
Xavier Murdy 49
Logan Downes 26
Daniel Olson 23
Alex Murdy 18
Sage Downes 17
Logan Martin 13
TJ Rickner 11
Jonathan Valenzuela 7
Cody Roberts 4
Cole White 2

 

Girls JV
(2 games):

Lyla Stuurmans – 22
Madison McMillan – 18
Jessenia Camarena – 9
Katie Marti – 4
Skylar Parker – 4
Morgan Stevens – 1

 

Boys JV
(4 games):

Jonathan Valenzuela – 43
Cole White – 35
Dominic Coffman – 26
Nick Guay – 15
Zane Oldenstadt – 10
Logan Downes – 9
William Davidson – 8
Mikey Robinett – 4
Ryan Blouin – 2
Quinten Simpson-Pilgrim – 2

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Stone a slam-dunk hoops honoree

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on May 28, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Whether playing in Coupeville or Britain, Makana Stone is among the best on the hardwood.

The American assassin scores one more time.

Coupeville High School grad Makana Stone capped a whirlwind first season of overseas basketball by being named Friday to the Women’s National Basketball League Team of the Year in England.

Repping Loughborough University, the former Wolf finished second in WNBL coaches voting.

Harriet Welham, who led Ipswich to the league title, claimed Player of the Year honors for a second-straight season.

Stone, Esther Little of Ipswich, Isi Ozzy-Momodu of CoLA Southwark, and Sitota Gines Espinosa of Reading round out the All-League squad.

Three of the five honorees are from England, with Stone springing from Cow Town, USA, and Gines Espinosa a Spaniard.

Welham, who topped all WNBL scorers at 25.9 points per game, received five first-place votes from coaches, and 40 total points, with Stone edging out Little 24-23 in voting.

After graduating from Coupeville, Josh and Eileen Stone’s daughter had an impressive four-year run at Whitman College in Walla Walla, then headed off to the land of tea and crumpets, basketball in hand.

She had an immediate impact at Loughborough, helping the Riders go 13-6 and finish third in a 10-team league.

Loughborough, which advanced to the semifinals of the postseason tourney, was 13-4 when Stone suited up, and 0-2 without her.

Andre Stone’s lil’ sis hit the shot of the year — banking in a buzzer beater to KO Ipswich in the team’s first meeting — and routinely threw down double-doubles all season.

She finished with 270 points, 231 rebounds, 33 assists, 58 steals, and eight blocked shots.

 

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Concrete cracked, photos snapped

Posted in Basketball, tagged , , , , on May 27, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Kylie Van Velkinburgh is going to make dang sure the ball belongs to her. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

It’s a two-for-one deal.

Both of Coupeville High School’s varsity basketball teams rolled to big wins Tuesday, and wanderin’ paparazzi John Fisken was camped out in the gym to capture photographic proof.

The pics above and below are courtesy him, but rest assured, he shot much, much more than these eight glossy images.

To see all the images he captured, and consider some early Christmas presents for the relatives, pop over to:

 

Girls:

GBB 2021-05-25 vs Concrete – John’s Photos (johnsphotos.net)

Boys:

BBB 2021-05-25 vs Concrete – John’s Photos (johnsphotos.net)

 

Cole White slices ‘n dices the Concrete defense.

Ja’Kenya Hoskins prepares to hit turbo.

Hawthorne Wolfe glides in to make it 24-0. Yes, 24-0.

TJ Rickner works down low.

Gwen Gustafson goes airborne.

Daniel Olson dominates in the paint.

Carolyn Lhamon ain’t givin’ up the ball. No, ma’am.

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