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Wolf boys playoff-bound!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , , on February 4, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Steven Cope and his Wolf teammates will get a home playoff game next Thursday. (john Fisken photo)

   Steven Cope and his Wolf teammates will get a home playoff game next Thursday. (John Fisken photo)

Crisis averted.

The Coupeville High School boys’ basketball squad couldn’t upend league champ Port Townsend Saturday, but thanks to Chimacum knocking off Klahowya, the Wolves are officially playoff-bound.

CHS ran into a hot-shooting RedHawk team in the regular season finale and fell 82-55, dropping to 3-6 in Olympic League play, 3-16 overall.

Port Townsend finished 9-0, 15-4.

If Klahowya had won, there would have been a three-way tie at 3-6, which would have meant a one-night, three-team mini-playoff to decide the league’s #2 and #3 playoff seeds.

That’s not necessary now as Chimacum (4-5, 4-13) and Coupeville are in, while Klahowya (2-7, 4-15) is done.

The Wolves will host the #4 team from the Nisqually League (most likely Bellevue Christian) next Thursday, Feb. 9 in a loser-out district playoff game.

Win that and CHS hits the road Feb. 11 for another loser-out game, that one at the home of the Nisqually’s #2 squad.

To see the playoff bracket, pop over to:

http://www.olympicleague.com/tournament.php?tournament_id=2186&sport=3

Saturday night the Wolves got off to a slow start, trailing 23-9 after one quarter, and never recovered.

Port Townsend shared the scoring load, with four different players hitting for 16 or more and Detrius Kelsall banging home a game-high 23.

The RedHawk junior scorched the nets with six three-balls, propelling his team to a season-best scoring performance on their Senior Night.

Coupeville put together its best offensive performance in the second quarter, when Hunter Smith tossed in 11 of the Wolves 17 points.

He finished with a team-high 21, cresting the 300-point barrier in the third quarter. Smith has 303 points (15.9 a night) heading into the postseason.

Ethan Spark chipped in with 14, eight of those coming in a third-quarter explosion, while Joey Lippo (6), Brian Shank (6), Cameron Toomey-Stout (4) and Gabe Wynn (4) rounded out the scoring attack.

Rough start dooms JV :

The second half belonged to Coupeville, but a terrible first quarter (16-5 in favor of the RedHawks) put the Wolves in too deep a hole to dig out.

The 46-31 loss dropped the young guns final record to 7-12 overall, 2-7 in league play.

Freshman Mason Grove knocked down a trio of three-balls as he went for a team-high 13, while Kyle Rockwell and Jacobi Pacquette-Pilgrim banked home five apiece.

Ulrik Wells (4), Jean Lund-Olsen (2) and Nikolai Lyngra (2) all chipped in.

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Wynn, Downes won’t lose easy!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , , on January 3, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Hunter Downes was a beast on the boards Tuesday night. (John Fisken photo)

Hunter Downes was a beast on the boards Tuesday night. (John Fisken photo)

What could have been.

For two-and-a-half quarters, the Coupeville High School boys’ basketball squad went toe-to-toe Tuesday with first-place Port Townsend.

Unfortunately, a cold-shooting first quarter and a late fourth-quarter surge by the visiting RedHawks doomed the Wolves, as they fell 60-39.

The loss drops Coupeville to 1-3 in Olympic League play, 1-10 overall.

With the defeat, the Wolves slide into a tie with Klahowya for third-place in their four-team league, trailing Port Townsend (3-0) and two-time defending champ Chimacum (2-1).

The top three teams earn a trip to the postseason.

There’s still plenty of games ahead, with five more league tilts including the third, and final showdown with Klahowya Jan. 24.

The Wolves and Eagles have split their first two meetings this season, both winning on their home courts.

Coupeville opened Tuesday night’s match-up with just seven active varsity players (or six-and-a-half, if you count Cameron Toomey-Stout valiantly playing through a painful back injury).

It wasn’t the Wolves depth however, but their cold shooting touch, which put them in an early hole.

Unable to only get one bucket to drop — a Gabe Wynn layup off of a long outlet pass — the Wolves went to the first break down 12-2.

Detrius Kellsall stung CHS early, dropping a three-ball from the left side, then making off with a steal for a breakaway bucket.

Port Townsend, a patient team that plays under control and keeps the ball zipping from player to player, made very few mistakes all night.

When Coupeville was at its best, it was because the Wolves were forcing the situation, not because the RedHawks were giving anything away.

Down 14-2 early in the second, CHS put together its most sustained charge, twice cutting the lead down to eight.

The second came when Hunter Smith made a rampaging charge at the hoop, then reared back at the last second and swished a runner over Kelsall’s outstretched hand.

But again, the patience of the RedHawks blunted Coupeville time and again, as Port Townsend found a basket here, a bucket there to keep the lead always hovering just around double digits.

Wynn knocked down the shot of the year, nailing a trey as he got knocked on his rear by two defenders, but as soon as the Wolves pulled to within nine, the visitors had a reply.

This time it was gunner Seth Spencer, hitting back-to-back third quarter three-balls that gutted Wolf Nation.

The closest Coupeville could get in the fourth was 38-27, after Smith swished a pair of free throws to open the quarter, then Port Townsend started to finally pull away.

With Berkley Hill and Kaiden Parcher dropping eight apiece in the final eight minutes, the RedHawks prevented Coupeville from getting back-to-back buckets down the stretch and made the final score a bit deceiving.

The Wolves fought hard until the end, highlighted by junior Hunter Downes, who ripped offensive rebounds out of the hands of rival players on three successive trips down the floor.

“I’m impressed with Hunter Downes, he worked hard all night,” said Coupeville coach Anthony Smith.

“I liked our effort, if not all our results,” he added. “My guys will battle.”

Wynn paced Coupeville, raining down nine of his game-high 18 in the final quarter, while Hunter Smith banked home seven and Ethan Spark tickled the twines for five.

Brian Shank (4), Toomey-Stout (3) and Downes (2) chipped in, while Ariah Bepler turned in a strong defensive effort for the Wolves.

Port Townsend spread its scoring load out, with Kelsall (13), Hill (12) and Parcher (11) all hitting double digits.

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Gut check time, men!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , , on January 5, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Gabe Wynn, seen here in an earlier game, scored five points Tuesday. (John Fisken photo)

   Gabe Wynn, seen here in an earlier game, erupted for five points in a short time span Tuesday. (John Fisken photo)

It could go either way.

After falling 59-45 to visiting Port Townsend Tuesday night, the Coupeville High School boys’ basketball squad sits on top of a precipice, and now it’s time to seize the moment and choose whether they stay up high or fully tumble down.

Tuesday’s loss was the third straight for the Wolves, as the fallout from a rocky winter break threatens to derail everything which was once going so well.

And yet, at 4-6 overall, 1-1 in conference play, Coupeville still sits snugly in second place in the 1A Olympic League.

Port Townsend is alone atop the standings at 2-0, the only wins the RedHawks have claimed in a 2-7 season, while defending league champ Chimacum and Klahowya are tied in the basement at 0-1.

Those two squads play Friday.

The Wolves, largely a team of role players, have looked very good at times this season, and always when they play as a team, each player stepping up and accepting their part in the grand scheme.

When they degenerate into 1-on-5 players and lose that cohesiveness, as they did at times against a more disciplined RedHawks squad, is when things go wrong.

“We have got to show up, especially for big games like this,” said Coupeville coach Anthony Smith. “We did not execute, at all, tonight.

“They killed us on the second chances, and we helped make them look very good,” he added. “We have three days now to decide if we’re going to come together and play as a team, play for each other.”

The Wolves, who had played in Langley the night before, came out a step behind Tuesday, falling behind 14-6 midway through the first quarter.

The killer was a six-point play, as Port Townsend hit a bucket, got the foul call, then tacked on three more free throws when the call was questionably upped to a flagrant foul, followed by a technical on the Coupeville bench for daring to ask why the call was changed.

Instead of fracturing at that moment, the Wolves used a timeout to sort things out, then ripped off nine straight points, easily their best run of the night.

Wiley Hesselgrave backed his man down for a bucket, then Gabe Wynn erupted for five points in about five seconds.

The Wolf junior hit a sweet trey from the top, then spun his defender around on the next play, slicing past him for a driving layup.

Playing aggressive defense, CHS capped the run with a steal and breakaway bucket from Jordan Ford, claiming their first lead of the night at 15-14.

Unfortunately, that would be the only time the Wolves would lead all night, as Port Townsend regained control of the game and begin to slowly inch away.

A 9-1 spurt, capped by a bucket that beat the first quarter buzzer by less than half a tick, staked the RedHawks to a 23-16 lead at the first break, and they never relinquished the lead.

Coupeville got within two again midway through the second quarter, only to see Port Townsend nail back-to-back three-balls.

One came from the right side, the other from the left, and much of the air went out of the Wolves.

Port Townsend stretched its lead to 11 after three quarters, then poured it on a bit in the fourth, going up by 18 at one point.

The Wolves found a brief bit of redemption at the very end, as JJ Johnson fed Ford for a bucket, then stole the in-bounds pass and shot through two defenders for the game’s closing basket.

Coupeville, which returns to action Saturday with a home non-conference game against Mount Vernon Christian, will use the next few days of practice to work on things like free throws (they were a weak 10 of 23 Tuesday).

One thing they did accomplish against Port Townsend was getting at least a little bit of offense from nearly every player on the roster, as nine guys scored.

Hesselgrave led the way with 11, while Ford banged home eight and Ryan Griggs dropped in six.

Wynn (5), Hunter Smith (4), Dante Mitchell (4), JJ Johnson (4), Risen Johnson (2) and DeAndre Mitchell (1) rounded out the scoring attack.

Jared Helmstadter and Desmond Bell also saw floor time for Coupeville.

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