Sage Downes, seen here in an earlier game, helped the CMS 7th grade varsity have the closest game of the afternoon Monday. (John Fisken photos)
Jean Lund-Olsen scored buckets in two separate games.
Some days you’re rolling and others you just get rolled.
Monday was the second kind of day for the Coupeville Middle School boys’ basketball program, as all four of its teams were routed by visiting Stevens.
It was the final home game for the Wolf boys (they travel to Sequim Thursday to wrap the season), but, facing off with a ginormous school that feeds 2A Port Angeles, Coupeville had little chance for a sweet swan song.
At the eighth grade level, with a couple of players missing, the Wolves fielded seven players for their varsity game and just six for the JV contest.
Stevens, by contrast, routinely swapped out all five players at the same time, running in platoons on a regular schedule.
Buoyed by fresh legs, Stevens steamrolled to 56-20 (varsity) and 57-12 (JV) wins in 8th grade play.
Across the hall in the middle school gym, their 7th grade counterparts picked apart the Wolves 48-25 (varsity) and 48-12 (JV).
8th grade varsity — An atrocious start, with CMS falling behind 16-0 midway through the first, proved impossible to overcome.
Sean Toomey-Stout finally broke the drought for the Wolves, picking up a loose ball and taking it coast to coast for a bucket.
A sweet running hook off the fingertips of Mason Grove and a couple of soft jumpers from Jacobi Pacquette-Pilgrim were the highlights the rest of the way, but Stevens used a sizable height and strength advantage to control the game in the paint.
Coupeville put together its best run in the fourth, with Toomey-Stout and Pacquette-Pilgrim both tossing in four.
Toomey-Stout’s buckets, coming on consecutive possessions, were the prettiest of the day, as the left-hander muscled his way past his defender, went airborne, then hung in the air, leg kicking out as he drained the jumper.
Pacquette-Pilgrim topped the scoring chart with eight, while Toomey-Stout (6), Grove (2), Jean Lund-Olsen (2) and Jered Brown (2) penciled in their names as well.
8th grade JV — The Wolves had trouble controlling the ball and getting into any kind of offensive flow, not hitting their first basket until late in the second quarter.
Things went uphill a bit in the second half, when hard-working Omar Moralez scored all six of his points.
The first bucket came on a pullback jumper, as he charged into a pack of Stevens players, then fell back and lofted up the ball over the outstretched hands of multiple defenders.
His other baskets both came off of rebounds.
One of them, after he ripped a rebound away from a rival, banked in off the glass with 0:01 on the clock in the third, raising the biggest cheer of the afternoon from the Wolf high school players in attendance.
Dawson Houston added four, while Aram Leyva and Gavin Knoblich each netted a free-throw for CMS.
7th grade varsity — Jake Mitten was the lone Wolf to reach double digits, powering to a team-high 14 in the closest game of the day.
Daniel Olson tossed in four, Dakota Eck hit for three and Matthew Kelley and Sage Downes each chipped in with a bucket to round out the scoring.
7th grade JV — Tucker Hall and Michael Laska led the way with three apiece, while Ben Smith, Alex Jimenez and Lund-Olsen netted two apiece.
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