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Stone in running for big hoops awards

Posted in Basketball, tagged , , , , , on May 14, 2021| 1 Comment »

Coupeville’s Makana Stone continues to tear up the British hardwood. (Photo property Loughborough University)

It’s an honor just to be nominated.

Or so says everyone as they wait with bated breath, hoping to be a winner.

Coupeville basketball fans have a stake in England’s Women’s National Basketball League awards season, which begins May 24.

That’s because Wolf grad Makana Stone is a nominee for Player of the Year, Team of the Year, and Defensive Player of the Year.

The Loughborough University whirlwind has the third-best adjusted efficiency rating (43.9) of the 26 players up for Player of the Year.

She trails just Gonzaga signee Esther Little (55.5) and Harriet Welham (46.7), both of league champ Ipswich.

The top five vote getters in Player of the Year balloting will make up the WNBL Team of the Year.

Stone is also up for Defensive Player of the Year, one of 16 nominees in that category.

The former Wolf is also ranked #3 in that field, with her blocked shots plus steals (4.4 per game) trailing just Reading’s Sitota Gines Espinosa (5.9) and Little (5.6).

Loughbrough, which is 12-5 on the season, 12-3 with Stone in the lineup, faces off with Reading Saturday in the WNBL quarterfinals.

Other awards, none of which Stone is eligible for, include the British Team of the Year, the Young (U19) Player of the Year, Coach of the Year, and Best Streaming.

The daughter of Josh and Eileen Stone, and lil’ sister of Andre, Makana is a graduate of Whitman College, where she put together one of the best runs in the school’s distinguished history of women’s basketball.

Heading into the playoffs, she has 240 points, 215 rebounds, 32 assists, 54 steals, and eight blocks in a Loughborough uniform.

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Fire up the random photo generator

Posted in Football, Volleyball, tagged , , , , , on May 14, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Ben Smith rumbles. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

It’s spring cleaning, but with fall sports photos.

While games have ended, and Wolf athletes are off to play basketball, I’m still working through a backlog of John Fisken photos.

So here you go, some light, non-reading entertainment for your Friday morning.

Alex and Michele Murdy ponder.

“I’m telling you, I left my seeing-eye dog right here!”

Barbi Ford and Bob Martin enforce (the mask mandate).

Hope Lodell amazes.

Genna Wright electrifies.

Sisters (l to r) Christi Messner, Ford, and Aimee Bishop bond.

Sage Downes plots.

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Harriers dash to awards night

Posted in Cross Country, tagged , , , , on May 13, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Mitchell Hall had the fastest time of any CHS boy during a pandemic-altered cross country season. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Nozomi Hagihara was one of 13 Wolves to letter/

First in the clubhouse.

Cross country outsprinted four other Coupeville High School programs to become the first fall sport to honor its athletes for their performance during a pandemic-altered season.

Wolf coach Elizabeth Bitting handed out varsity letters to 13 of her runners Thursday, after first praising them for their refusal to quit, no matter how hard things may have gotten at times.

“Some of you began this crazy season last June and here we are, just about a year later, finally finishing up,” she said.

“I first want to thank those runners for sticking around for that long,” Bitting added. “You could have gotten frustrated and thrown in the towel but you stuck with it.

“Thank you!”

One of the highlights of a four-race season was the chance to host two of those meets at Coupeville’s new home course at Fort Casey State Park.

The second of those two home tilts was the Northwest 2B/1B League Championships, where Wolf senior Catherine Lhamon capped an undefeated season by winning a title by a solid minute-and-a-half.

Lhamon’s best time of 23 minutes, 43 seconds stands as a course record, along with sophomore Mitchell Hall, who zipped to the finish line in 19:23.

Bitting tallied up all of Coupeville’s times from that first home meet, the season opener, then compared them to the finale.

The Wolves as a team went from a combined 5:45.40 to 5:15.29.

“That’s a 30-minute improvement. Impressive!!!,” Bitting said. “There were six of you that PR’d from a very flat course to our gently rolling hilled course!

“Who does that? Who PR’s from a flat course! Great job!!!”

The biggest improvement from opener to finale belonged to Alex Merino-Martinez, who dropped 5:34, and Lhamon, who chopped off 3:17.

With a shortened season, Bitting opted for two ways a Wolf could letter.

They could finish in the top half of a race, which Lhamon, Helen Strelow, Cristina McGrath, Hall, Hank Milnes, and Reiley Aracely did.

Or they could improve their time from their first race to their last race, which seven other Wolves did.

 

Varsity letter winners:

Reiley Araceley
Alex Bowder
Josh Guay
Nozomi Hagihara
Mitchell Hall
Catherine Lhamon
Cristina McGrath
Alex Merino-Martinez
Hank Milnes
Grant Steller
Helen Strelow
Alex Wasik
Tate Wyman

 

Certificates of Participation:

Erica McGrath
TJ Rickner

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Wolf JV girls lose two-thirds of schedule

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

Megan Smith will coach four games, and not 12. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

One schedule is not like the other three.

The Coupeville High School JV girls basketball squad took a major hit Thursday, with their schedule shaved from 12 games to four.

The adjustment is because only three of the seven Northwest 2B/1B League schools will field a second girls hoops squad this season.

Coupeville is joined by Orcas Island and Friday Harbor, but La Conner, Darrington, Concrete, and Mount Vernon Christian will have just a varsity team for girls games.

As of the typing of this story, all seven schools will have boys and girls varsity teams.

Six of seven plan to play boys JV, with Concrete opting out, leaving the Coupeville young guns with a 10-game slate.

For the Wolf JV girls, the new schedule means they will only play once in front of their home fans.

That’s because no fans, varsity or JV, are allowed at the Orcas Island games, per the request of the Orcas School District.

 

The revamped girls JV schedule:

Thur-May 20 — Orcas Island — (5:00)
Sat-May 22 — @ Friday Harbor — (1:00)
Sat-June 5 — @ Orcas Island — (5:00)
Tues-June 8 — Friday Harbor — (5:00)

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WIAA honors Catherine the Great

Posted in Cross Country, tagged , , , , on May 13, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Catherine Lhamon zips through the flowers on her way to another cross country win. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Lhamon, here with family, was named a WIAA Athlete of the Week.

They appreciate her. They really appreciate her.

Coupeville High School senior Catherine Lhamon, who won all four of her cross country races, including the Northwest 2B/1B League Championships, was named an Athlete of the Week Thursday by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association.

The WIAA honors one male and one female athlete from each classification (4A-1B).

Lhamon, who is the lone senior on the CHS cross country squad, has been at the forefront of the sport since the Wolves returned to the harrier life in 2018.

She advanced to the state meet as a junior, and was dominant during a pandemic-altered final campaign.

Three of Lhamon’s four victories this season were by more than a minute, with her win in the league championship meet by a full minute-and-a-half.

 

To read about Lhamon and the other winners, pop over to:

WIAA | Washington Interscholastic Activities Association

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