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He scores, he makes history

Posted in Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 30, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Chase Anderson drains a jumper. (Jackie Saia photo)

Let’s not get cute about it.

You only win a basketball game one way – by scoring more points than the other team.

Yes, defense, hustle plays, making the right pass, sacrificing your body to take a charge, they all matter greatly.

Because they set up a team to score, which is how wins and losses are made.

Points are also the one and only stat which it has been halfway possible to track across the 109-year history of varsity basketball at Coupeville High School.

So, we celebrate the scorers, and we document as best we can who has put the ball in the bucket, whether it’s Roy Armstrong in 1925, Danette Beckley in 1984, or the girls and boys currently repping the red and black.

And Friday night, we reached a milestone in the long and winding road of Wolves hitting the bottom of the net, as CHS senior Chase Anderson cracked the 900-point club.

He did it against La Conner, as part of a 20-point performance in a 66-36 win over the Braves.

How rare is the accomplishment for a player repping Wolf Nation?

Of the 687 Wolves who I’ve been able to document scoring in a varsity game — 432 boys and 255 girls — Anderson is just the ninth boy, and 14th player overall, to reach the mark.

Broken down further, that means he’s part of the top 2% of scorers among all basketball players who have pulled on a varsity Coupeville uniform.

 

Welcome to the club:

Brianne King – 1,549
Logan Downes – 1,305
Zenovia Barron – 1,270
Makana Stone – 1,158
Mike Bagby – 1,137
Jeff Stone – 1,137
Randy Keefe – 1,088
Megan Smith – 1,042
Mike Criscoula – 1,031
Jeff Rhubottom – 1,012
Bill Riley – 934
Ann Pettit – 932
Pete Petrov – 917
Chase Anderson – 903 (active)

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History made, upset denied

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 23, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Chase Anderson moved from #13 to #10 on the CHS boys’ basketball career scoring chart Friday. (Julie Wheat photo)

They almost shook everything up.

Squaring off with Northwest 2B/1B League heavyweight Orcas Island Friday, the Coupeville High School varsity boys’ basketball squad overcame a substantial foul disparity and a second-quarter defensive letdown to push the Vikings to their limit.

But it wasn’t to be, as the visitors held on late to claim a 64-54 win and stay alive in the battle for a conference crown.

The loss drops Coupeville to 3-4 in league play, 6-9 overall, while Orcas gets to 6-1 in NWL action.

Brad Sherman’s squad heads to Mount Vernon Christian this coming Tuesday to face off with the league’s top team, before hosting last place La Conner Friday on Senior Night.

Friday’s fracas started with a brief road bump, as Orcas hit a pair of three-balls en route to claiming an early 10-2 lead.

After that it was Coupeville’s turn to get torrid behind the arc, as Chase Anderson drilled a pair of treys and Camden Glover splashed home another one across a two-minute span.

Closing the quarter on a 14-4 run, the Wolves claimed their first lead of the night at 16-14 thanks to some precision free throw shooting from Riley Lawless.

The CHS big man scored before actually playing a single second, as he replaced Anderson, who got crunched in the face while driving hard to the hoop.

With his teammate getting looked at in the locker room, then returning with an ice pack, Lawless inherited Anderson’s free throws.

He hit one, then promptly yanked down a rebound on the next play and earned two more charity shots of his own, both of which he drained.

Anderson returned to the lineup to start the second frame, and the Wolves ripped off three straight buckets to cap a 14-0 run and open a 22-14 lead.

The baskets came fast and furious, with Malachi Somes and Davin Houston banging home layups off of passes from Anderson and Carson Grove, respectively, before Anderson took a steal coast-to-coast.

But as suddenly as the offense began to flow, it stopped.

Taking advantage of a steady stream of foul calls on the Wolves, Orcas hit free throw after free throw and slow-crawled its way to its own 16-0 spurt, reclaiming the lead at 30-22.

The bleakness finally stopped as Anderson banked in a bucket a half-tick before the halftime buzzer, and the teams played a back-and-forth brawl in the third.

Glover and Anderson connected on three-balls on consecutive trips down the floor, but Coupeville could never quite regain the advantage.

From seven points down, the Wolves got back to within 41-38 by the end of the period, thanks to a jumper from Liam Blas and two more free throws from Lawless, but that was as close as CHS could get.

Blas rippled the nets on his own three-ball early in the fourth quarter, but Orcas responded with a 9-0 run to push the lead out to 52-41.

Down the stretch, the Wolves hung tough, cutting the deficit to 58-54 with under a minute to play, only to see the Vikings refuse to buckle.

Overall, Coupeville won the side battles, hitting seven treys to three by Orcas, while also shooting a higher percentage at the free throw line (9-12 vs. 16-23 for the Vikings).

Anderson led all scorers with 24 points, while Glover (11), Blas (5), Somes (5), Lawless (5), Grove (2), and Houston (2) also tallied points and Easton Green and Aiden O’Neill rounded out the rotation.

It was a historical night for Anderson, as he jumped from #13 to #10 on the CHS boys’ basketball career scoring chart for a program in its 109th season.

With 871 points and counting, he slid past Bill Jarrell (855), Arik Garthwaite (867), and Denny Clark (869), with the last of that trio having been a top 10 career scorer since 1964.

Heading into Tuesday’s tilt at MVC, Anderson is three points behind the #9 all-time scorer — his coach, Brad Sherman.

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Torch the nets, tally the points

Posted in Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 18, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Haylee Armstrong leads all Wolf girls in scoring this season. (Photo courtesy Michelle Armstrong)

They’ve got their sights set on 2,000.

As they head into a week where they’ll travel to Concrete before hosting Orcas Island, Coupeville High School basketball players have combined to ripple the nets for 1,846 points this season.

Five Wolves have topped 100, with three girls and two boys hitting triple digits, and a number of other hardwood aces hot on their heels.

Here’s where things sit through Jan. 18:

 

GIRLS:

Varsity
(13 games):

Haylee Armstrong – 145
Teagan Calkins – 110
Tenley Stuurmans – 110
Danica Strong – 67
Kennedy O’Neill – 38
Adeline Maynes – 34
Arianna Cunningham – 28
Capri Anter – 6
Sydney Van Dyke – 6
Lexis Drake – 4

 

JV
(9 games):

Ava Lucero – 86
Cami Van Dyke – 43
Anna Powers – 36
Willow Leedy-Bonifas – 27
Zayne Roos – 15
Taylor Marrs – 14
Olivia Hall – 10
Finley Helm – 10
Elizabeth Marshall – 3
Emma Cushman – 2

 

BOYS:

Varsity
(13 games):

Chase Anderson – 234
Camden Glover – 135
Aiden O’Neill – 83
Davin Houston – 59
Malachi Somes – 46
Carson Grove – 24
Riley Lawless – 16
Easton Green – 15
Mahkai Myles – 12
Sage Arends – 10
Liam Blas – 7

 

JV
(11 games):

Jayden McManus – 92
Josh Stockdale – 78
Liam Lawson – 63
Khanor Jump – 53
Carson Grove – 49
Nathan Coxsey – 47
Ayden Warren – 11
Trent Thule – 8
Brian Thompson – 6
Jaden Flores Garcia – 2
Chris Zenz – 2

Chase Anderson is rattling the rims for 19.5 points a night across the 12 games he’s played. (Melanie Wolfe photo)

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Welcome to the big beat-down

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , , on January 16, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Chase Anderson scored a season-high 36 points Friday as Coupeville blew out a solid Darrington squad. (Melanie Wolfe photo)

Darrington came to town as high rollers. It exited as roadkill.

With the Coupeville High School varsity boys’ basketball team playing its most complete game of the season Friday, the Wolves proved win/loss records can be deceptive.

While Brad Sherman’s squad is fighting to get back to .500 and the visiting Loggers carried a 9-4 record onto the floor, the game fully belonged to the home team, which led by as many as 34 points en route to a 75-57 victory.

With the win, its fourth in its last six games, Coupeville gets to 2-3 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 5-7 overall.

The Wolves also move from sixth to fourth in the seven-team NWL, and are third best among the 2B schools, with conference clashes on the schedule next week against Concrete and Orcas Island.

Before that CHS will get another stern test, hosting non-conference foe Napavine (10-3) Saturday, with tipoff set for 2:00 PM.

Fear will not be a factor, as the Wolves showed against Darrington, which began the night in second place in the Northwest League.

After exchanging early buckets, Coupeville seized the momentum with a 15-8 tear to close the first quarter with a 22-14 lead.

Senior sniper Aiden O’Neill, who knocked down five three-balls on the night, nailed back-to-back treys to kickstart the run, with Malachi Somes and Chase Anderson contributing buckets to keep things hopping.

Anderson, enjoying his best shooting performance of the season, went off for 12 points in the opening frame, then tossed in 15 more in the second quarter as CHS stretched the lead out to 45-26.

Slashing to the bucket for layups, spinning past defenders and leaving them grasping at air, or calmly converting free throws, the Wolf senior outscored Darrington by himself across the first 16 minutes.

Anderson’s final two points of the half came with no time left on the clock, after the refs issued a technical foul to a chippy Logger.

Darrington’s fans got loud in response, then quieted down just as quickly as both charity shots barely rippled the net as they gracefully dropped through.

Camden Glover fights through the defense. (Jackie Saia photo)

The third quarter was a master class for the Wolves, as senior big man Camden Glover began to rampage through the paint for buckets while Anderson and O’Neill continued to slice ‘n dice.

Coupeville moved the ball effectively, with precision passes setting up buckets, and very few CHS shots popping back out.

Davin Houston zipped an especially nice set-up pass into the hands of the waiting Glover on one play, while rough ‘n ready duo Liam Blas and Riley Lawless, playing like the rampaging forces of nature they are, threw Darrington players out of their way in pursuit of rebounds.

Up 70-37 after three quarters, Coupeville had the look of a team that could score 100, but Sherman smartly rested his starters in the fourth, keeping them as fresh as possible for Napavine on a fast turn-around.

Darrington came hard in the fourth quarter, closing the game on a 17-1 surge across the final six minutes, but it was academic at that point.

Anderson finished with a season-high 36 points in three quarters of action, cracked the 800-point club, and continued his march up the CHS boys’ basketball career scoring chart.

Now sitting with 813 points, the Wolf senior passed Hawthorne Wolfe (800) and Corey Cross (811) Friday to move into 14th place all-time for a program launched way back in 1917.

He had plenty of support against Darrington, as O’Neill rattled the rims for 17 points and Glover banked in 13.

Houston (4), Somes (4), and Lawless (1) rounded out the attack, with Easton Green, Nathan Coxsey, and Blas also seeing floor time for the Wolves.

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Rally kings capture road thriller

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 3, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Davin Houston slices ‘n dices the defense. (Jackie Saia photo)

They saved the best for last.

Capping a long day of hoops far from home Saturday, the Coupeville High School varsity boys’ basketball squad stormed from behind late to topple host Morton-White Pass 47-41.

The non-conference win gives the Wolves back-to-back victories for the first time this season and lifts them to 3-5 heading into an important week.

Brad Sherman’s squad has two Northwest 2B/1B League clashes on the schedule, hosting Friday Harbor Tuesday before traveling to La Conner Friday.

With those two teams a combined 0-19 on the season, the time is ripe for the Wolves to take care of business and get a true hot streak going.

Saturday’s game was a nice gut check for Coupeville, and it passed the test.

Missing three players, including #2 scorer Camden Glover, the Wolves spent a lot of time sitting as they waited for their game, the fourth of the day, to tip off.

Once on the floor, that showed a bit, as CHS fell behind 11-5 at the first break.

Second-quarter three-balls from Riley Lawless and Aiden O’Neill kept the Wolves close, within 20-13 at the half, before things began to change in the second half.

That was when senior Chase Anderson caught fire, throwing down 20 of his game-high 26 points to fuel the comeback.

Coupeville cut the deficit down to a single point at 30-29 heading into the fourth, then put the game away with a 18-11 surge across the final eight minutes.

Anderson dropped in 11 of his points in the fourth, including hitting six of seven free throws to ice the win.

While the Wolves didn’t set any records at the charity stripe, hitting just 50% of their shots at 12-24, they got there a whole lot more than MWP, which was just 4-6 on freebies.

CHS also won the three-ball war 5-3, with Anderson and Davin Houston joining Lawless and O’Neill in torching the net.

While Anderson’s 26 provided the bulk of the offense, Coupeville spread out its other 21 points between six players, with Lawless (5), Houston (5), O’Neill (4), Carson Grove (4), Malachi Somes (2), and Easton Green (1) scoring.

Liam Blas rounded out Sherman’s rotation, providing strong work on the defensive side of the ball.

Chase Anderson (20) and Hawthorne Wolfe compare their career scoring totals. (Julie Wheat photo)

With his 26 points, Anderson moves from #22 to #19 on the Wolf boys’ career scoring chart, which was launched back in 1917.

He has 735 points and counting, passing Tom Sahli (719), Dan Nieder (729), and Steve Whitney (730) Saturday, with Hunter Hammer (755), Barry Brown (769), Jack Elzinga (770), and Hawthorne Wolfe (800) next up.

Though, as I always like to point out, Sahli — the only Coupeville grad to play against NBA Hall of Famer Elgin Baylor in college — is still being shortchanged.

His 719 points reflect his junior and senior seasons at CHS, but his scoring totals from his sophomore season are still AWOL, with the missing scorebook from the 1951-1952 season being my personal holy grail.

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