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Pretty? No! A win? Yes!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on February 2, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Skyler Lawrence gave Coupeville a much-needed spark Tuesday, snatching five boards. (John Fisken photo)

   Skyler Lawrence gave Coupeville a much-needed spark Tuesday, snatching five boards. (John Fisken photo)

Amy King had to pull out the Vince Lombardi speech.

Disappointed by her team’s first-half performance Tuesday, the easy-going Coupeville High School JV girls’ hoops coach let loose a bit at halftime.

“It was an ugly, slow-start, Monday’ish-road-trip sort of game, even though it’s a Tuesday,” she said. “After some ‘strong words of wisdom’ during halftime, the girls were ready to play.”

And they did, using a second-half defensive stand to rally for a 29-20 win at Port Townsend.

The victory, the team’s third in the last four games, lifted the young Wolves to 7-9 overall, 5-2 in 1A Olympic League play.

Coupeville, which had crushed the RedHawks twice earlier this season, played fairly lackluster in the early going.

“Port Townsend came out on fire and our defense was flat-footed,” King said. “We were quiet. Not even rebounding.

“Offensively the ball moved slowly, not strong passes or cutting or anything,” she added. “We tried every man play we knew to try and get something to click.”

Trailing 14-12 at the break, something needed to change.

After King’s halftime talk (no word on whether any chairs were thrown … admittedly, as awesome as that would be, it’s also just as unlikely), things clicked, though.

With freshman Ashlie Shank leading the way, “driving the lanes, taking good shots and quicker on defense,” Coupeville pulled together to hold Port Townsend to just six second-half points.

Swing player Allison Wenzel “brought much needed energy to the floor” and Sarah Wright “ripped the rebounds like she has the past few games, even driving the ball up the floor.”

“Everyone contributed, feeding off of each other in the fourth and taking the win,” King said. “It was a tough one, but it was a win and we are happy for it.”

Wright paced Coupeville with eight points and 10 rebounds, while Shank (7), Wenzel (5), Lauren Rose (3), Skyler Lawrence (3), Maddy Hilkey (2) and Brittany Powers (1) also scored.

The Wolves controlled the boards, ripping down 40, with Brisa Herrera (3), Nicole Lester (2) and Lindsey Laxton (1) backing up Wright, Wenzel (5) and Lawrence (5).

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Perfection maintained!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on February 2, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Lindsey Roberts (John Fisken photo)

   Lindsey Roberts was one of seven Wolves to score Tuesday as Coupeville ran its league mark to 7-0. (John Fisken photo)

Getting a little something from everyone on the roster Tuesday night, the Coupeville High School girls’ basketball squad rolled past host Port Townsend 51-39.

The victory, the team’s fourth straight, lifted the Wolves to 13-4 overall, 7-0 in league play.

Having clinched its second straight 1A Olympic League title a game before, Tuesday was about maintaining momentum (and keeping their almost two-year unbeaten run in league play alive).

They did both, though not without a few hiccups in the early going.

“We struggled out of the gate on defense, a trend that has become all too familiar lately,” said CHS coach David King. “We allowed the RedHawks to get open jump shots or get to the basket.”

When they had the ball themselves, the Wolves attacked the basket, drawing fouls and putting several key Port Townsend players in foul trouble early.

The only problem is, Coupeville, which has been shooting free throws strongly of late, didn’t do so Tuesday, at least in the first quarter.

Clinging to a slim 11-10 lead after the first eight minutes, the Wolves found their groove after the break, throwing down 20 in the second quarter.

Coupeville spread its offense out, getting huge buckets from Tiffany Briscoe (“she came out strong at the beginning to get us going offensively”) Mia Littlejohn and Lindsey Roberts.

With Port Townsend forced to focus on more than one player, that opened up the game and Makana Stone immediately made them pay, throwing down 10 of her game-high 22 in the game-busting second quarter.

Up by 11 at the half, Coupeville cruised home with the win.

While he was happy his team didn’t give anything back, King would have liked to have seen a bit more of a killer attitude after halftime.

“At times we are battling ourselves and play slower than we should be,” he said. “We need to work on playing aggressive the whole game and not play in spurts.”

One aspect he was especially happy with was his team’s effort on the boards.

“Our rebounding effort tonight was so much better than the last time we played Port Townsend; that was great to see,” King said. “We also are sharing the ball well, with 7 of 10 players getting in the scoring column.”

Littlejohn drained nine to go with Stone’s 22, while Roberts, Tiffany Briscoe and Kailey Kellner all had five apiece. Lauren Grove banked home three and Allison Wenzel dropped in a bucket to round out the scoring.

Stone snatched 14 rebounds and blocked four shots, while Kellner had five rebounds and four assists. Grove dealt out three assists and rejected two shots.

Kyla Briscoe, Lauren Rose and Skyler Lawrence all saw floor time as well, with Rose snaring a rebound.

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Make it rain!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on February 2, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Ty Eck scorched the nets for 30 Tuesday, most by a Wolf this season. (John Fisken photo)

   Ty Eck scorched the nets for 30 Tuesday, most by a Wolf this season. (John Fisken photo)

Give the scorekeeper no time to rest.

That’s the goal of the Coupeville High School JV boys’ basketball squad these days, as its has adopted a run and gun style dedicated to getting up a steady flow of shots.

When it works, as it did in the early going Tuesday, it’s a sight to behold. But, there are still some kinks to work out of the system.

The young Wolves roared out to a 16-point lead over visiting Port Townsend, but eventually cooled off a bit and fell 78-68 in a wild one.

The game featured the best single-game performance by a Coupeville player, boy or girl, this season, as freshman Ty Eck burnt the nets for a game-high 30 points.

He did his scoring in big bursts, starting with a stretch in the first quarter where he rattled home three straight driving lay-ins off of steals.

By the time Ty was done, he had 13 in the first quarter, teaming with twin brother Gabe for 18 of Coupeville’s 26 points.

With five players scoring (Cameron Toomey-Stout swished a long three-ball while Brian Shank and Hunter Downes worked the boards for put-backs), the Wolves put together runs of 12-0 and 13-3 over the first eight minutes.

Everything was clicking for CHS, but, after looking a bit disorientated in the early going, Port Townsend settled down and went back to work, throwing down 30 of its own points in the second quarter.

Coupeville weathered the storm until a third-quarter breakdown allowed the RedHawks to finally snatch the lead back.

Suddenly down by six, the Wolves rallied, though, ending the third on a 9-4 run, with Ty Eck and Shank each tossing down a pair of buckets.

That set up a pitched battle in the fourth, with six lead changes.

Coupeville snatched its final lead at 67-65 on a trey from Toomey-Stout, but then hit its only real cold shooting stretch of the night — just at the worst possible moment.

With Port Townsend closing the game on a 13-1 tear (a mix of layups and free throws) the final margin got stretched out a bit, but, for those in the paying audience, it was a barn-burner until the final 100 or so seconds.

Gabe Eck rattled home 14 in support of his brother’s 30, while Toomey-Stout (11), Shank (7) and Downes (6) also wrote their names in the score-book.

Beauman Davis, James Vidoni, Ariah Bepler and Andre Avila also saw floor time, but didn’t hurt score-keeper Ryan King’s wrist as much as the others.

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Just one of those nights…

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on February 2, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Risen Johnson did what he could Tuesday, scoring 16 points in a tough loss. (John Fisken photo)

   Risen Johnson did what he could Tuesday, scoring 16 points in a tough loss. (John Fisken photo)

There are bad nights, and then there are nights where you walk away and say, “Nope, never gonna watch the tape of this one ever again.”

Trapped in a perfect storm Tuesday night, the Coupeville High School boys’ basketball squad went down hard.

And while the 80-36 loss to visiting Port Townsend doesn’t erase their playoff berth — that’s already locked into place — it did give their coach cause for concern.

After a long pause, Anthony Smith merely shook his head and declared that no, he didn’t have a single positive thing to say about what he had just witnessed.

Now 8-9 overall, 3-4 in league play, the Wolves sit in third-place in the 1A Olympic League, two games behind Chimacum (5-2) and three back of Port Townsend (6-1) with two left to play.

Coupeville travels to Chimacum Thursday, then closes the regular season Saturday at Klahowya (0-7).

If the Wolves recover and sweep both, while the Cowboys also lose their finale against Port Townsend, Coupeville will finish tied with Chimacum, but take the league’s #2 seed based on a head-to-head tiebreaker.

That would give them a loser-out home playoff game Feb. 13. Win and they advance to the double-elimination portion of districts.

Otherwise, they will be the #3 seed, host a postseason tilt Feb. 11 and have to win back-to-back loser-out games to get to double elimination.

Playing on Senior Night, the Wolves could not catch a break Tuesday night.

Port Townsend played about as flawlessly as humanly possible, running play after play to perfection. They shot extremely well, especially from long-range, but also got every roll and bounce possible.

By the third or fourth time the RedHawks banked home a miracle shot, you knew this was not going to be a night Wolf faithful would remember with great glee.

Coupeville, on the other hand, kicked off the game with back-to-back turnovers and never settled down.

When the Wolves did get anything going, they couldn’t get a basket to drop no matter what angle they came from.

Balls popped back out, took odd bounces off the rim or broke the laws of physics every time CHS got an attempt in the air.

Two free throws from Risen Johnson and an emphatic blocked shot by Dante Mitchell actually staked Coupeville to a 2-0 lead, but things immediately took a bad u-turn.

Port Townsend rolled off 14 straight points before DeAndre Mitchell took a rebound back up for the first Wolf bucket of the evening.

From there, the RedHawks stretched the lead out to 17 at the half (31-14), then got really good, and really lucky, in a wild third quarter.

Raining down 33 points over an eight-minute stretch, Port Townsend hit four three-balls in the third, and missed a fifth by just a sliver.

That shot, however, still went in, as the RedHawk shooting it from a millimeter inside the line somehow got the ball to drop while being gang-tackled by a pair of Wolves.

He then bounced to his feet, a bit unsteadily maybe, and sank the ensuing free-throw to get three the hard way.

Coupeville actually put up its best offensive show in the third, with Johnson zipping to and fro for 12 of his squad’s 18 in the quarter.

But, when you have your best run and still get outscored by 15 in the quarter, there’s a strong chance you’re not going to win.

The Wolves went without a field goal in the fourth — they had only four during the first, second and fourth quarters combined — getting four free-throws from Jared Helmstadter.

Seniors Beauman Davis and Andre Avila made their varsity debuts in the fourth, with Avila, the smallest guy on the court, soaring between the redwoods to snag a rebound.

Johnson paced Coupeville with 16, while Jordan Ford banged down five.

Wiley Hesselgrave (4), Helmstadter (4), Hunter Smith (3), DeAndre Mitchell (2) and Desmond Bell (2) also scored.

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One day, two stars!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, Boys Tennis, Football, Happy birthday, tagged , , , , on February 2, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Will Nelson (John Fisken photo)

   William “Dead-Eye” Nelson prepares to bank home a half-court shot at halftime of a recent CHS girls basketball game. (John Fisken photo)

Tyler Cermak: "I was told there would be cake!!"

Tyler Cermak: “I was told there would be cake!!”

It’s cake day, times two.

Coupeville High School athletes Tyler Cermak and William Nelson share a birthday, and a sense of easy-going cool.

For Nelson, he shows it as he glides across the tennis court and soccer pitch, rarely looking flustered, but always leaving his foes looking downright baffled.

In Cermak’s case, the football player who has had to adapt into becoming perhaps the best manager in the world as he deals with health issues, he never breaks a sweat as well.

Whether it’s scooping up vital info from the gridiron and slipping it my way while never letting the camera bobble as he shoots action, or staying above it all as the longtime Patriots fan is verbally harassed by jealous Seahawk “fans,” he, like Nelson, is one cool dude.

The duo also excel at supporting their classmates, and can be seen at almost every CHS game, knee-deep in the action of the Wolf student section.

As both celebrate their birthday, we just want to send them our best.

Both you guys come across as top-quality dudes, on and off the field, and it’s an honor to have you front and center in Wolf Nation.

Now, did someone say something about cake?!?!

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