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Davin Houston works his way towards a rebound. (Jackie Saia photo)

Balance. All about the balance.

With eight players scoring Friday, and three hitting for double-digits, the Coupeville High School varsity boys’ basketball squad ran visiting La Conner off the floor.

With a 66-36 win on Senior Night, the Wolves get to 4-5 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 7-10 overall.

Next up is the regular season finale Feb. 6, on the road at Friday Harbor, then the start of the double-elimination District 1/2 tourney Feb. 12.

That royal rumble features seven schools fighting for two tickets to state, with the Wolves learning their path when the bracket is released the day after the regular season ends.

Friday night an old rivalry wrote a new chapter, and this tale featured Coupeville (almost) leading from start to finish.

Technically La Conner forged a pair of ties in the first quarter, knotting things up at 3-3 and 7-7, but the Braves never led and never really threatened to do so either.

Coupeville closed the opening quarter with back-to-back buckets from Chase Anderson and Camden Glover to shatter that last tie, before pulling away for good in the second quarter.

CHS senior Aiden O’Neill, a quiet warrior who has bravely fought through multiple injuries across the last four years, banked in a rebound to crack the 100-point career scoring club and set the Wolves off on their game-busting run.

From there, Glover and Anderson traded baskets, with the former shredding the defense in the paint and the latter rampaging from end to end, often after snagging key steals.

Up 33-16 at the half, Coupeville saw its advantage whittled down to 37-26 midway through the third but never blinked.

Davin Houston tickled the twines with a silky three-ball from the left side — Coupeville’s only trey on the night — and Brad Sherman’s squad closed the quarter on a 14-4 surge.

Included in that run was a bucket from Anderson which pushed him up and over the 900-point mark, making him just the ninth Wolf boy to do so across 109 seasons of CHS basketball.

The fourth quarter was an eight-minute highlight reel, as the Wolves continued to pour in buckets, with many of them set up by pinpoint passes.

Anderson was wheeling and dealing, while Glover launched a floor-length lob which hit O’Neill in mid-stride for a breakaway bucket.

Putting together the kind of balanced book every coach loves to see, Coupeville got a game-high 22 points from Glover, 20 from Anderson, and 10 from Houston.

O’Neill (6), Easton Green (4), Carson Grove (2), Malachi Somes (1), and Liam Blas (1) rounded out the attack, with Riley Lawless and Nathan Coxsey also seeing floor time for the Wolves.

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Camden Glover, unstoppable in the paint. (Jackie Saia photo)

The climb continues.

Sparked by a dominant performance from Camden Glover, the Coupeville High School varsity boys’ basketball squad drilled host Concrete Tuesday night, continuing a recent rise up the standings.

With a 72-32 decimation of the Lions, Brad Sherman’s road warriors get to 3-3 in Northwest 2B/1B League action, 6-8 overall.

Cresting at the right time, the Wolves have won five of their last eight games overall, and their last three against conference rivals.

The win lifts CHS into a three-way tie with Darrington (3-3, 9-6) and Friday Harbor (3-3, 3-13) for third place in the seven-team NWL.

Mount Vernon Christian (5-0, 11-4) and Orcas Island (5-1, 9-5) currently top the standings, with Concrete (1-4, 4-12) and La Conner (0-6, 0-15) bringing up the rear.

Easton Green stops ‘n pops. (Danica Strong photo)

Coupeville has four regular season games left on its schedule, all against league foes, starting with a home game Friday against Orcas Island.

The Wolves will enter play that night coming off a wire-to-wire win in Concrete.

With Glover and Chase Anderson combining to singe the nets for 15 points, CHS broke out to an 18-2 lead through one quarter of play, before steadily adding to the lead.

From 35-16 at the half, the Wolves pushed the advantage to 54-22 through three quarters, before rumbling in for the win.

Glover finished with a varsity career-high 28 points, all coming in the first three quarters, while Anderson banked in 14 in support.

Davin Houston (8), Riley Lawless (6), Malachi Somes (6), Carson Grove (4), Liam Blas (3), Easton Green (2), and Aiden O’Neill (1) all kept the scorebook keeper busy, while Nathan Coxsey rounded out the rotation.

With his 14 points, Anderson moves into a tie with Hunter Smith at #13 all-time on the CHS boys’ basketball scoring chart, which launched 109 seasons ago. The duo each have 847 points.

Up next is Bill Jarrell (855) and Arik Garthwaite (867), with Denny Clark (869) sitting at #10 and Anderson’s coach, one Brad Sherman, currently #9 at 874.

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“You want to touch my basketball??? I think not!!!!!!” (Jackie Saia photo)

The sprint to the end begins.

Coupeville High School basketball teams begin the run towards firming up playoff options and such with a pair of Northwest 2B/1B League clashes this coming week.

The Wolves travel to Concrete Tuesday, before playing host to Orcas Island Friday. After that, there are just three regular-season games left on the hoops schedule.

Where things currently sit as of Jan. 18:

 

Northwest League boys’ basketball:

School League Overall
MV Christian 5-0 11-4
Orcas Island 4-1 8-5
Darrington 3-2 9-5
Coupeville 2-3 5-8
Friday Harbor 2-3 2-13
Concrete 1-3 4-10
La Conner 0-5 0-14

 

Northwest League girls’ basketball:

School League Overall
MV Christian 5-0 12-1
La Conner 4-1 9-5
Concrete 3-1 9-3
Friday Harbor 2-3 4-10
Orcas Island 2-3 6-8
Coupeville 1-4 4-9
Darrington 0-5 4-8

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Camden Glover is the hot knife, and the defense is the butter. (Julie Wheat photos)

Consider it an early Christmas gift for Brad Sherman.

Back on the floor after a schedule scramble, the Coupeville High School varsity boys’ basketball squad drilled host Concrete 67-31 Tuesday night, sending their coach to the holiday break on a high note.

The victory, coming in a “non-conference game against a conference foe,” lifts the Wolves to 2-5 on the season.

The game was added to the schedule after CHS was unable to go East this past weekend for games against Manson and Entiat due to bad weather at the passes.

While Coupeville and Concrete are rivals in the Northwest 2B/1B League, the 2B schools such as Coupeville normally only play 1B schools Darrington and Concrete once during the hoops season.

That regularly scheduled rumble will arrive Jan. 20, with the Wolves once again hitting the road to travel to the town made famous on movie screens by Leonardo Di Caprio and Robert De Niro.

Now, barring any more late-breaking additions to the schedule, Coupeville’s boys are off until Jan. 3, when they climb on the bus for a trip to play non-conference foe Morton-White Pass.

Tuesday’s tilt, coming against a winless Concrete squad which dropped to 0-5, was a romp from start to finish.

The Wolves, sparked by 14 first-quarter points from Chase Anderson, ran out to a 21-11 lead by the first break, then stretched the advantage to 40-22 by the half.

Camden Glover banked in 10 points during the second quarter, while Coupeville got scoring from five different players during a 23-2 surge in the third frame to end things with a bang.

Malachi Somes scans the defense.

Sherman was able to spread floor time out between 10 Wolves in uniform, with eight of them scoring on this night.

Anderson finished with a game-high 20, all compiled in the first three quarters, while Glover (12) and Davin Houston (10) also reached double-digits.

Malachi Somes (9), Aiden O’Neill (6), Riley Lawless (4), Easton Green (4), and Sage Arends (2) all chipped in to the offensive attack, with Liam Blas and Carson Grove helping anchor the Wolf defense.

Two Wolves reached personal milestones in the victory, with Anderson cracking the 700-point club for his career — he sits with 709 and counting and is the 22nd CHS boy to reach the mark for a program launched in 1917.

Meanwhile, Glover surged into the top 150 scorers all-time, passing former standouts like Ryan Blouin, Dale Sherman, and Scott Stuurmans.

The burly senior now has 195 career points and is currently tied with Mitch Aparicio and John Engstrom at #145 on the career list.

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Camden Glover can torch the net from inside or outside. (Julie Wheat photo)

They needed this.

After playing three hotly contested games to open the season, while coming up on the short end of each rumble, the Coupeville High School varsity boys’ basketball team led from (almost) start to finish Tuesday to capture its first victory.

Beating visiting East Jefferson 64-47, the Wolves, who rep a 2B school, crushed the Rivals, a 1A program which combines two former CHS Olympic League foes – Port Townsend and Chimacum.

Now 1-3 after the non-conference win, Brad Sherman’s squad hits the road Friday to travel to Orcas Island for the first Northwest 2B/1B League game of the year.

If the Wolves play like they did Tuesday, they’ll stand a strong shot at sitting atop the (very early) conference standings.

Coupeville, playing once again without a full roster as various players work through early season injuries, jumped right on East Jefferson.

The Rivals notched the game’s first bucket, and held one last lead at 4-3, but then the Wolves tore their foes to shreds for the rest of the opening frame.

CHS big man Camden Glover, who owned the paint all night, took a dish from Chase Anderson and rolled past his defender to slap home a bucket, and Coupeville was launched on a game-busting 20-1 eruption.

The Wolves attacked from all angles, with Anderson going off for 15 points in the first quarter, mixing a pair of three-balls with breakaway buckets in which he simply outran the defense before elevating and delivering gifts to the hoops gods.

Fellow seniors Glover and Aiden O’Neill combined for eight points during the tear, forcing East Jefferson to try and account for multiple incoming bogeys, while missing out on stopping any of them.

The Rivals did claw back, a bit, cutting a 23-7 deficit at the first break back down to 25-17 midway through the second quarter.

Coupeville’s answer?

More Anderson, slashing to the hoop on give-and-go plays.

More Glover, asserting his dominance down low every time he touched the ball.

And a bit of razzle-dazzle from Davin Houston, taking a break from terrorizing the Rivals on defense to hit a swooping layup which had highlight reel written all over it.

Up 35-22 at the half, Coupeville kept up the pressure in the third quarter.

Glover grabbed center stage, with eight more points in the frame, but Houston also returned for another swooping bucket which showed off his high-energy hops, and then Easton Green made his presence known.

A largely unsung role player who embraces doing the kind of dirty work which warms a coach’s heart, the Wolf senior got his biggest offensive showcase Tuesday night.

Green slipped a pair of free throws through the net, bounced outside to drill the bottom of the net out on a three-ball, then came around later in the game to slash to the hoop and knock down a layup off a perfect entry pass.

Everything was rosy at 55-35 heading into the fourth, at which point the Wolves decided to give their coach a brief burst of angina.

East Jefferson hit back-to-back three-balls to key an 11-0 surge which cut the lead back to single-digits and make the always-calm Brad Sherman ever so slightly hunch his shoulders.

Not to worry, however, as the Wolves stiffened up on defense, holding the Rivals to just a single point over the game’s final four minutes, stretching the final margin back to 15 and assuring they would not be running lines from now until Friday.

For the first time this season, CHS had two players top 20 points in the same game, with Anderson banking in 25, and Glover powering his way to 21.

With his season-best performance, Glover joins the 150-point career club (he’s actually sitting at 160), while his running mate continues to move up into rarefied air.

Anderson, now with 663 career points, bounces from #29 all-time to #26 on the Wolf boys’ scoring chart, passing Jason McFadyen (654), Wade Ellsworth (659), and Pat Bennett (659) and moving within five of #25 Foster Faris (668).

Green and O’Neill each popped for seven Tuesday, while Houston knocked down four, and Malachi Somes and Liam Blas saw floor time.

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