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Do the victory dance (times two)!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged Basketball, buzzer beater, CHS Wolves, Hunter Smith, overtime, Ty Eck on February 6, 2016| Leave a Comment »

JJ Johnson drilled three treys Saturday as Coupeville won a thriller. (John Fisken photos)

Brian Shank teamed with Ty Eck to score 43 points Saturday, fueling a come-from-behind OT win for the Wolf JV.

The game-winning play from the varsity game. (Photo courtesy Trent Diamanti)

Hunter Smith is a killer.

The Coupeville High School sophomore capped a stellar performance Saturday by drilling a game-winning three-ball from the corner at the buzzer, lifting the Wolves to a 54-53 victory at Klahowya.

The win snapped a two-game losing streak for CHS and sent them into the postseason with a 9-10 record. Coupeville finished 4-5 in league play.

As the #3 team from the 1A Olympic League, they will open the postseason with a home game next Thursday, Feb. 11. Tip-off is 7 PM.

It will be a loser-out game against Bellevue Christian, the #4 team from the Nisqually League — a team they beat 53-50 very early in the season.

To see the district bracket, pop over to: http://www.olympicleague.com/tournament.php?tournament_id=1814&sport=3

Smith’s heroics capped a very close game, as the Eagles were looking to avenge a come-from-behind win by Coupeville just a week ago.

The game was knotted at seven after one, before the Wolves crept ahead 19-17 at the half.

Klahowya immediately turned the tables, using a 15-13 third quarter advantage to tie things up again entering the fourth.

With the game winding down, Coupeville was clinging to a 51-50 lead with 55 seconds to play, but went cold from the field.

Klahowya wasn’t much hotter, but crept back ahead 52-51, only to send Coupeville’s Wiley Hesselgrave to the line with a chance to tie with five ticks left on the clock.

The senior guard, normally the best free-throw shooter on the Wolf roster, missed the front end of a one-and-one, and the Eagles added a free throw of their own to pad the margin to two with 2.9 seconds to play.

During his final time-out, Coupeville coach Anthony Smith turned to his assistant, Dustin Van Velkinburgh, who drew up the game-winning play.

Then the Wolves went out and ran Coach V’s play to perfection, with Risen Johnson taking the in-bounds pass and finding Smith for the dagger.

The trey gave Smith 16 for the night, while Gabe Wynn and JJ Johnson each chipped in with nine. Johnson hit one three-ball for every J in his name.

Jordan Ford banged in the paint for seven, while Hesselgrave (5), Risen Johnson (5), Dante Mitchell (2) and Desmond Bell (1) also scored.

JV wins a thriller as well:

Roaring back in the second half, the young guns forced overtime, then pulled away for a 54-49 win.

The Wolves knotted the game at 45, then controlled the extra period to a 9-4 tune to snap a 10-game losing streak and end their season at 3-14.

Defense was a key, as Coupeville held Klahowya to just 16 second-half points.

That helped them overcome a fairly horrifying night at the free-throw line in which they made just 17 of 55 shots.

Ty Eck hit for 25 to pace the Wolves, while Brian Shank knocked down 18, Gabe Eck rattled the rims for seven and Cameron Toomey-Stout chipped in with four.

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Beat the buzzer, win the Island!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged Basketball, buzzer beater, CMS Wolves, Matthew Kelley, South Whidbey cries, SWISH on January 23, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Matthew Kelley lets fly. (John Fisken photos)

Boom!

Matthew Kelley plunged the dagger in big-time Saturday, as he and his Coupeville SWISH 7th grade boys’ basketball squad pulled off a rally in the final seconds to stun arch-rival South Whidbey.

Kelley scored the game’s final five points, including a buzzer-beating three-ball, to lift the Wolves to a 24-21 win.

The victory improved Coupeville to 2-0 heading into a showdown next weekend with a very strong Mount Vernon Mayhem squad.

After leading for much of the game Saturday, the Wolves fell behind at the worst possible moment.

Down 21-19 with 36 seconds to play, they needed big plays and got them.

Michael Laska, the mighty mite, ripped down a rebound to give the ball back to Coupeville.

After Kelley dropped a quick runner in the key to knot things at 21, the Wolves pressed on the ensuing in-bounds play and disrupted South Whidbey on back-to-back chances.

On the first one, Sage Downes knocked the ball out of bounds.

On the second one, the Falcons threw the ball away, the basketball zinging over the head of a player who turned and clasped his head in frustration.

With the ball in their hands and five ticks on the clock, Coupeville gave the ball to Kelley and he charged straight up-court.

South Whidbey went back on its heels and Kelley went straight up and drilled the wide-open trey, looking a whole lot like Wolf legend Ian Smith when he did the same thing in a high school varsity game at Langley five years ago.

Both shots were game-winners and both shots induced tears in Falcon Nation — a beautiful combo for Wolf fans everywhere.

Kelley paced Coupeville with 13 while Jake Mitten dropped in six.

Hawthorne Wolfe and Daniel Olson added a bucket apiece while Connor Barton rounded out the scoring with a free-throw.

“The boys all played strong,” said Coupeville coach Pat Kelley. “We were just really off until the very end, when it mattered most.”

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Klahowya, you got Shanked!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged 1A Olympic League, Ashlie Shank, Basketball, buzzer beater, Ema Smith, Kyla Briscoe on December 11, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Ashlie Shank, mere seconds before she won the game for Coupeville Friday night. (John Fisken photo)

The youngest one is making a play for the throne.

Coupeville High School freshman Ashlie Shank has been living in the athletic shadow cast by older brothers Matt and Brian, but Friday night she seized the spotlight all for herself.

Nailing a running jumper a tick before the buzzer, she completed a wild final play and lifted the Wolf JV girls’ basketball team to a thrilling come-from-behind 26-24 win over visiting Klahowya.

The victory, which kept CHS girls’ basketball perfect in 1A Olympic League play (the Wolf varsity and JV are a combined 20-0 since the league debuted last year), lifted the JV to 2-3 overall, 1-0 in league play.

And it only happened thanks to a game-ending surge and a final play that worked to perfection.

Having snagged the ball with the game tied and the clock madly ticking down, Ema Smith shot up the right side of the court.

As a defender lurched at her, the Wolf frosh rose up and lobbed the ball to Kyla Briscoe, who caught it, whirled and found Shank in stride.

With no hesitation at all, Shank went straight at the hoop, pulling up at the last second and letting fly with a soft lil’ jumper that splashed nothing but net.

As the ball dropped through, hitting the floor, the clock went under two seconds, and all Klahowya could do was throw a full-court desperation heave that only traveled less than half the distance before crashing back to Earth.

Shank’s dagger capped an 8-2 run to close the game for the Wolves.

After leading for the entire first half, Coupeville briefly lost the advantage in the third, then regained it, only to give it right back thanks to a stretch of ice-cold shooting.

Trailing 22-18, the Wolves got huge plays from Smith, who banged home a rebound to cut the margin to two, and Briscoe, who hit back-to-back jumpers.

Her only two buckets of the game, the first one forced a 22-22 tie, then the second one re-knotted the game at 24 after Klahowya had reclaimed the lead off of an offensive rebound.

The Eagles had the ball and a chance to take the lead, but failed against a hawkish defense employed by five Wolves who had listened to coach Amy King in the timeout huddle and came out aggressive but smart.

That set up Smith to Briscoe to Shank, which will now reside in lore when folks talk about great finishes at Coupeville hoops games.

Shank and Lauren Rose paced the Wolves with seven points apiece, with Rose dropping all of her points in the first half, when she was a one-woman wrecking crew.

Her steal and breakaway bucket, coming on the heels of a softly arcing jumper from Maddy Hilkey, gave Coupeville its biggest lead at 5-0.

Smith and Briscoe added four apiece, while Hilkey and Allison Wenzel each chipped in with a bucket to round out the scoring stats.

Skyler Lawrence didn’t score, but thoroughly controlled the paint, ripping down rebound after rebound, staring down any Eagle who dared to put a finger on the ball.

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