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Stop, pop, (watch the bucket) drop

Posted in Basketball, tagged , , , , on June 13, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Cole White, seconds away from burying a jumper. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

The basket keeps jumping, the totals on the scoreboard keep advancing.

With two varsity games left to play — Tuesday at home against Darrington — the four Coupeville High School basketball squads have combined to score 1,502 points during this pandemic-altered season.

Three guys have cracked the 100-point barrier, with another one having a chance to do so in the finale.

What does it all mean?

That scoring is the easiest stat to track in basketball, and it makes for good chatter when you compare numbers.

Buckets equals page views. Simple as that.

Scoring totals through June 13:

 

Varsity girls
(11 games):

Audrianna Shaw 76
Izzy Wells 56
Savina Wells 53
Maddie Georges 30
Carolyn Lhamon 29
Anya Leavell 23
Ja’Kenya Hoskins 19
Gwen Gustafson 15
Ryanne Knoblich 15
Kylie Van Velkinburgh 14
Lyla Stuurmans 13

 

Varsity boys
(11 games):

Hawthorne Wolfe 240
Xavier Murdy 115
Grady Rickner 87
Sage Downes 50
Daniel Olson 49
Logan Downes 43
Alex Murdy 39
Logan Martin 31
TJ Rickner 15
Jonathan Valenzuela 15
Cody Roberts 8
Miles Davidson 4
Cole White 2

 

JV girls
(5 games):

Lyla Stuurmans – 51
Madison McMillan – 33
Jessenia Camarena – 20
Katie Marti – 9
Skylar Parker – 4
Morgan Stevens – 4
Desi Ramirez – 2
Kassidy Upchurch – 2
Reese Wilkinson – 1

 

JV boys
(8 games):

Jonathan Valenzuela – 105
Cole White – 56
Dominic Coffman – 51
Logan Downes – 46
Nick Guay – 32
Zane Oldenstadt – 16
William Davidson – 13
Ryan Blouin – 7
Mikey Robinett – 7
Quinten Simpson-Pilgrim – 2

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Wolfe nets another milestone

Posted in Basketball, tagged , , , , , on June 11, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Hawthorne Wolfe is the 27th player in 104 seasons of CHS basketball to lead a varsity team in scoring in two or more seasons — and the first to do so in non-consecutive seasons. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

In this most unusual of basketball seasons, another quirk.

With one game left to play in a pandemic-shortened season, Hawthorne Wolfe is about to do something no Coupeville High School basketball player, boy or girl, has ever accomplished.

With 240 points in 11 games — 21.8 a night — the CHS junior will lead the boys team in scoring, no matter what happens in Tuesday’s finale against Darrington.

In finishing as the #1 point producer, Wolfe becomes the 15th boy, and 27th player overall in school history, to have topped a year-end varsity scoring chart at least two times during their career.

But, he is the first to ever do it in non-consecutive seasons.

Wolfe paced Coupeville in scoring as a freshman, tossing in 158 points while Sean Toomey-Stout was second-best with 122.

Last season, Hawk came within a bucket of repeating as scoring champ, but was edged out 254-252 by senior Mason Grove.

Now, Wolfe is back on top, with Xavier Murdy angling for runner-up status with 115 points heading into the finale.

Of the 15 CHS boys to top the charts at least twice, only one, Barry Brown, led his squad in scoring three times — something Hawk can chase next year as a senior.

On the girls side of things, six Wolves have pulled off a three-peat, with Megan Smith being the only four-timer.

CHS players with two or more seasons as the top scorer:

 

Girls:

Marie Grasser (1977-1978; 1978-1979)
Kristan Hurlburt (1979-1980; 1980-1981; 1981-1982)
Judy Marti (1982-1983; 1983-1984)
Terry Perkins (1984-1985, 1985-1986; 1986-1987)
Emily Vracin (1989-1990; 1990-1991)
Novi Barron (1995-1996; 1996-1997; 1997-1998)
Tina Lyness (1998-1999; 1999-2000)
Brianne King (2000-2001; 2001-2002; 2002-2003)
Lexie Black (2003-2004; 2004-2005)
Megan Smith (2006-2007; 2007-2008; 2008-2009; 2009-2010)
Makana Stone (2013-2014; 2014-2015; 2015-2016)
Lindsey Roberts (2017-2018; 2018-2019)

 

Boys:

Tom Sahli (1952-1953; 1953-1954)
Jack Elzinga (1954-1955; 1955-1956)
Mike Criscuola (1958-1959; 1959-1960)
Denny Clark (1962-1963; 1963-1964)
Barry Brown (1965-1966; 1966-1967; 1967-1968)
Jeff Stone (1968-1969; 1969-1970)
Bill Riley (1971-1972; 1972-1973)
Randy Keefe (1973-1974; 1974-1975)
Jason McFadyen (1989-1990; 1990-1991)
Virgil Roehl (1991-1992; 1992-1993)
Chris Good (2000-2001; 2001-2002)
Mike Bagby (2004-2005; 2005-2006)
Wiley Hesselgrave (2014-2015; 2015-2016)
Hunter Smith (2016-2017; 2017-2018)
Hawthorne Wolfe (2018-2019; 2021)

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Night of triumph, year of success

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on June 11, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Grady Rickner tossed in a team-high 12 points Thursday as Coupeville clobbered Concrete, clinching its first winning boys basketball season in more than a decade. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

One part of the mission, accomplished.

Laying waste to winless Concrete on the road Thursday, the Coupeville High School varsity boys basketball squad clinched its first winning season in more than a decade.

With the 64-14 rout of the Lions, the Wolves improve to 7-4 and head home for their season finale next Tuesday, June 15 against Darrington.

That night, they’ll honor seniors Daniel Olson, TJ Rickner, and Sage Downes, then try to close a pandemic-altered season with one final big win.

The last time the CHS varsity boys hoops program posted a winning record was the 2009-2010 season, when the Wolves went 16-5 in the next-to-last season of Randy King’s 20-year run as head coach.

Thursday’s tilt was a gut-check for Coupeville, coming off a heartbreaking one-point loss in overtime to Friday Harbor Tuesday, a defeat which ended Wolf hopes of winning the Northwest 2B/1B League title.

How would CHS respond, facing a rebuilding Concrete squad which went into its finale carrying an 0-11 record?

The answer? Pretty dang well.

CHS coach Brad Sherman, the #2 scorer on the last Wolf boys team to win a league title in 2002, got floor time for all 12 guys in uniform Thursday, with 10 of them scoring.

The lone Wolf not to see action was sophomore sparkplug Alex Murdy, out with an injury.

Much like the first time these two squads faced off, Coupeville jumped on the Lions quickly, built a substantial lead by halftime, then gave its bench a chance to rack up major minutes after the break.

Up 24-4 after one quarter, with Hawthorne Wolfe, Logan Downes, and Grady Rickner each tossing in six points, CHS pushed the margin to 48-8 with an almost mirror-image second frame.

From there, a running clock ended things quickly, with all of the scoring coming from the Wolf bench.

Sage Downes was a force on both ends of the floor.

Junior captain Grady Rickner finished with a game-high 12 points, while Coupeville’s top two scorers this season — Wolfe and Xavier Murdy — did more passing than shooting en route to a combined 10 points.

Seven of those came from Hawk, and all in the very early going, as he eased into another milestone in his journey up the CHS boys career scoring chart.

Wolfe’s last point of the night, coming off of a free throw in the second quarter, gives him 650 points and counting.

He’s #27 all-time heading into the finale of his shortened junior season, a mere 10 points away from hurdling Jason McFadyen (654), Wade Ellsworth (659), and Pat Bennett (659) on a list which covers 104 seasons.

Two current sharpshooters — Sage Downes and Jonathan Valenzuela — popped for eight points apiece Thursday, with Olson and Wolfe banking in seven each.

Freshman Logan Downes lets it fly.

Logan Downes (5), Cody Roberts (4), TJ Rickner (4), Miles Davidson (4), Xavier Murdy (3), and Logan Martin (2) also scored, with Cole White contributing on defense.

Davidson, who has been sidelined by a football injury for much of the season, made his debut, while becoming the 401st CHS boy I’ve been able to document scoring in a varsity hoops game.

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Wolf rally falls just short

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on June 10, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Carolyn Lhamon played strongly Thursday, but Coupeville fell at Concrete. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Free throws were a killer.

The Coupeville High School varsity girls basketball team almost overcame a terrible start Thursday, rallying from a double-digit deficit and pushing host Concrete hard at the end.

But a 24-point deficit at the charity stripe ultimately doomed the Wolves, as they fell 60-57 to a team they beat by 20 points the first time around.

The loss, Coupeville’s fourth in five games in the month of June, drops it to 4-7 heading into the season finale against Darrington.

That game, which would be Senior Night, except the Wolves have no seniors on their roster, goes down June 15.

Thursday was not what anyone expected, as a Concrete team which only scored 19 points the first time it played Coupeville, suddenly found a roaring offensive attack.

Or at least a trio of refs who helped them along, allowing Concrete to shoot an astounding 45 free throws.

The Lions netted 30 of those shots, and while 67% at the line isn’t Earth-shattering, it’s a heck of a lot better than 25%, which is what Coupeville shot, making just 6-24.

The free throw disparity put a damper on a stirring comeback and a career night for Wolf gunner Anya Leavell.

The junior entered Thursday with 24 career points at the varsity level, then went bonkers in front of a sparse crowd, raining down four three-balls on her way to a game-high 21 points.

Three of those treys came during an 11-point explosion in the final quarter, as Leavell couldn’t miss.

Coupeville’s torrid finish, even while it fell short, was a nice turnaround after the Wolves started ice-cold in the opening quarter.

“We came out flat and never recovered,” said CHS coach Scott Fox. “Anya and Lyla (Stuurmans) played extremely well and kept us in it.

“Always disappointing to lose a winnable game, but at least the kids were fighting hard to claw back.”

The Wolves couldn’t get a shot to drop from the field for much of the first quarter, with just a Savina Wells free throw keeping their half of the scoreboard from registering zero.

But Leavell’s first three-ball of the night finally got things clicking for Coupeville, and, while it trailed at the end of the first quarter, the 15-8 margin wasn’t insurmountable.

Concrete pushed the lead, ever so slightly, out to 28-19 by the half, but the Wolves used a 19-13 third-quarter run to trim things back to 41-38 heading into the final frame.

Five different Wolves scored in the third, something Coupeville repeated in the fourth.

But free throws kept them at bay, with Concrete star Kylie Clark leading the way, netting 13-15 freebies on her way to a team-best 20 points.

Leavell’s 21 earned top honors for CHS, with Wolf 8th grader Savina Wells throwing down nine of her 12 points in the second half.

Audrianna Shaw (9), 8th grader Stuurmans (6), Izzy Wells (4), Carolyn Lhamon (4), Ryanne Knoblich (2), and Ja’Kenya Hoskins (1) rounded out Coupeville’s best offensive showing of the season.

Maddie Georges, Kylie Van Velkinburgh, and Gwen Gustafson all saw floor time as well.

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Brothers (and sisters) of the hardwood unite

Posted in Basketball, tagged , , , , on June 10, 2021| Leave a Comment »

TJ (left) and Grady Rickner are one of five sets of siblings playing basketball for Coupeville High School. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

All in the family.

There are five different sets of siblings playing basketball at Coupeville High School this season – four brother combos and one sister duo.

There’s a wide range of ages involved, as well, with every class (and then some) represented.

Break down the family affair and we find two seniors, four juniors, two sophomores, one freshman, and even one 8th grader.

With the Wolves moving to the 2B classification, CHS can use middle school students to shore up high school programs struggling with low numbers, such as boys soccer or girls basketball.

So, to the great joy of mom Katie Wells, that has meant daughters Savina (8th grader) and Izzy (11th grader) get two seasons together, and not one as originally expected.

Graduation will break up two of the five sets, with Sage Downes and TJ Rickner set to move on after this season.

But for now, there’s a whole lot of family connections at play in the Wolf hoops programs.

William and Miles Davidson

Savina and Izzy Wells

Logan and Sage Downes

Alex and Xavier Murdy

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