Davin Houston works his way towards a rebound. (Jackie Saia photo)
Balance. All about the balance.
With eight players scoring Friday, and three hitting for double-digits, the Coupeville High School varsity boys’ basketball squad ran visiting La Conner off the floor.
With a 66-36 win on Senior Night, the Wolves get to 4-5 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 7-10 overall.
Next up is the regular season finale Feb. 6, on the road at Friday Harbor, then the start of the double-elimination District 1/2 tourney Feb. 12.
That royal rumble features seven schools fighting for two tickets to state, with the Wolves learning their path when the bracket is released the day after the regular season ends.
Friday night an old rivalry wrote a new chapter, and this tale featured Coupeville (almost) leading from start to finish.
Technically La Conner forged a pair of ties in the first quarter, knotting things up at 3-3 and 7-7, but the Braves never led and never really threatened to do so either.
Coupeville closed the opening quarter with back-to-back buckets from Chase Anderson and Camden Glover to shatter that last tie, before pulling away for good in the second quarter.
CHS senior Aiden O’Neill, a quiet warrior who has bravely fought through multiple injuries across the last four years, banked in a rebound to crack the 100-point career scoring club and set the Wolves off on their game-busting run.
From there, Glover and Anderson traded baskets, with the former shredding the defense in the paint and the latter rampaging from end to end, often after snagging key steals.
Up 33-16 at the half, Coupeville saw its advantage whittled down to 37-26 midway through the third but never blinked.
Davin Houston tickled the twines with a silky three-ball from the left side — Coupeville’s only trey on the night — and Brad Sherman’s squad closed the quarter on a 14-4 surge.
Included in that run was a bucket from Anderson which pushed him up and over the 900-point mark, making him just the ninth Wolf boy to do so across 109 seasons of CHS basketball.
The fourth quarter was an eight-minute highlight reel, as the Wolves continued to pour in buckets, with many of them set up by pinpoint passes.
Anderson was wheeling and dealing, while Glover launched a floor-length lob which hit O’Neill in mid-stride for a breakaway bucket.
Putting together the kind of balanced book every coach loves to see, Coupeville got a game-high 22 points from Glover, 20 from Anderson, and 10 from Houston.
O’Neill (6), Easton Green (4), Carson Grove (2), Malachi Somes (1), and Liam Blas (1) rounded out the attack, with Riley Lawless and Nathan Coxsey also seeing floor time for the Wolves.
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