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The gym rats are back!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged Basketball, fall ball, Makana Stone, Mia Littlejohn, Sherry Roberts, Skagit Parks and Rec on September 21, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Wolf freshman Ema Smith holds up well under pressure. (John Fisken photos)

“I said NO SCORING, FOOL!!” Kalia Littlejohn (right) clamps down on defense.

CHS hoops legend turned round-ball guru Sherry Roberts works the sidelines.

Lauren Grove wheels and deals.

Sarah Wright (right) comes flying in to impose her will.

Hoops are hoppin’ again.

The start of a new high school basketball season is still two months away, but a pack of Coupeville High School girls kicked off their fall ball season Sunday in a league run by Skagit County Parks and Rec.

And, while the Wolves dropped two close games, there were signs of progress from a squad that carries four freshmen on its eight-player roster.

Coupeville, which is coached by former Wolf hoops legends Sherry Roberts and Brittany Black, with an assist from Kacie Kiel and Aimee Bishop, fell 39-27 to Meridian and 25-23 to South Whidbey in its opening games.

Nerves cost the Wolves in their opening game, but, once settled down, the young Coupeville squad came alive with hustle plays and had a chance to beat the Falcons at the end of game two.

While wins are certainly aimed for, the focus for the team right now is growth, especially for the younger players who have yet to play a game at the high school level.

When the high school season rolls around in November, the Wolves will enter a new season as the defending 1A Olympic League champs.

However, they did lose six players from the squad that rolled to a 9-0 league mark in 2014-2015, winning every one of those games by 15+ points.

The fall ball squad includes three players from the title winners in senior (and reigning league MVP) Makana Stone, junior Kailey Kellner and sophomore Mia Littlejohn.

Wolf junior Lauren Grove and freshmen Kalia Littlejohn, Sarah Wright, Lindsey Roberts and Ema Smith round out the current squad.

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Canucks carpet bomb Wolves!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, fall ball, Makana Stone, Three Point Bombs on November 10, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Lindsey Roberts, seen here in action earlier this season, drained a picture-perfect three Sunday. (John Fisken photo)

The Wolves listen to coach Scott Hay (left) during a timeout. (Amy King photo)

Canadian hail can be deadly.

At least when it’s a hail of three point bombs being buried from long range, as it was Sunday.

Down just seven at the half, the Coupeville girls’ basketball “fall ball” squad fell 63-34 to a trey-addicted Canuck team in their season finale.

The Wolves got close early in the second half, only to have their opponents open up on them, draining three after three after ever-lovin’ three.

Seemingly any shot the Canadians put up, no matter the distance, went into the bottom of the bucket on this day.

Makana Stone led the resistance, pouring in 12 points, snatching nine rebounds, blocking two shots and making off with a pair of steals, while Rachael Arand chipped in with eight points and nine rebounds.

Kailey Kellner and Lindsey Roberts each popped their own three-pointer, with Kellner tossing in a pair of free throws.

Kacie Kiel, Mia Littlejohn and Monica Vidoni added a bucket apiece to round out the Wolf scoring.

When the Canadians actually missed a shot, the Wolves were quick to snatch up the rebound, with Kiel (4), Lauren Grove (3), Tiffany Briscoe (3), Vidoni (2) and Littlejohn (2) all putting their name on the stat sheet.

Grove added two steals while Littlejohn doled out a pair of assists.

Coming off a successful, winning “fall ball” season, the Wolves will turn around and take the floor for the start of practice for the high school season Nov. 17.

CHS coaches David and Amy King, who were fans during fall ball — Scott Hay and Lark Gustafson ran the Wolf squad — were pleased with the level of commitment they saw from the Coupeville players who carved out time on their busy schedules to keep ballin’.

“We’d like to thank the girls who participated, for taking their time in the off-season to get better,” Amy King said. “The parents who were there every week supporting and to Scott and Lark for taking their personal time to be at the open gyms and make the trip to Burlington or Sedro Woolley every Sunday.”

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Pesky Canucks edge valiant Wolves!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, fall ball, Makana Stone, One Pass Ahead, Rachael Arand on October 20, 2014| Leave a Comment »

CHS freshman Mia Littlejohn has been a key performer for the Wolf “fall ball” girls’ basketball squad. (John Fisken photo)

One Pass Ahead finished one basket ahead.

Taking advantage of a second-half slowdown from the Coupeville girls’ basketball “fall ball” squad, OPA, a Canadian squad, stole away a 26-24 game Sunday afternoon.

The loss dropped the Wolves to 3-2.

Coupeville had a narrow 15-14 lead at the half, but, despite one heads-up play by Rachael Arand, couldn’t keep the same flow going after halftime. The Wolves were running a smooth offense, but the basketball gods were unkind, as shots repeatedly popped out or rolled off the rim at the last second.

Arand made sure the ball went down and stayed down on her stellar play, however.

At the line for one free throw after scoring a basket, she rimmed out her charity stripe shot.

Only, no one on the line moved, apparently all forgetting Arand only had one free throw attempt, and not two.

Taking advantage, the graceful tower of power swooped into the key, snagged her rebound and put it back up and in, completing a four-point play as everyone gaped at her.

Makana Stone paced the Wolves with eight points, 10 rebounds, five steals, a block and an assist, while her running mate, Arand, poured in seven points and hauled down 11 rebounds.

Kailey Kellner tossed in six and Mia Littlejohn banked home three to round out Coupeville’s scoring.

Littlejohn, Kacie Kiel, Monica Vidoni and Lauren Grove nabbed two rebounds apiece, while Kiel handed out two assists and Vidoni registered a teeth-rattling blocked shot.

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Red hot and rollin’!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, fall ball, Makana Stone, Monica Vidoni, Rachael Arand on October 6, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Monica Vidoni rolls hard to the hoop. (John Fisken photos)

Makana Stone (right) makes dang sure her player isn’t getting to any rebounds.

The undefeated Wolf squad brings out the gun show.

Kailey Kellner slices ‘n dices.

Can’t be beat. Won’t be beat.

Overcoming a rash of turnovers and some early cold shooting, Coupeville’s “Fall Ball” girls’ hoops squad pounded Marysville-Pilchuck 30-21 Sunday in a game that was more of a blowout than the score might sound.

Now 3-0, the Wolves (and their one ringer from Bush High School) were the much stronger squad, but allowed their hosts to hang around for awhile.

Monica Vidoni banged inside for the game’s opening bucket, and that already equaled as many field goals as Marysville would get in the entire first half.

But numerous fouls called on a somewhat-tired Wolf squad allowed Marysville to stroll to the free throw line on numerous occasions.

Sinking six of their freebies (Coupeville only had three free throw attempts the entire game) kept the Tomahawks close at the half, trailing just 14-8.

The Wolves turned up the heat a bit in the second half, getting many of their buckets off of fast breaks.

When they didn’t convert the first time, they controlled the boards with the trio of Vidoni, Makana Stone and Rachael Arand dominating in the paint and got second, third and fourth shots.

Arand, the lone non-CHS player on the Wolf squad, paced Coupeville with nine points, while hauling down five boards and rejecting four Marysville shots.

Vidoni (seven points, four rebounds, two blocks) and Stone (four points, 12 rebounds, three assists, three steals) filled up the stat sheet, with Kacie Kiel, Lauren Grove, Kailey Kellner, Mia Littlejohn and Tiffany Briscoe each dropping in a bucket in support.

Kiel, Kellner and Briscoe each had two rebounds.

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Wolves make impressive fall ball debut!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, fall ball, Rachael Arand, Scott Hay on September 22, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Makana Stone (center) (John Fiskern photo)

Makana Stone (center) was a beast as a sophomore. Now she’s been working all off-season on her game. Prepare for complete annihilation. (John Fisken photo)

Monica Vidoni (24) and Rachael Arand (23) team up Sunday in the fall ball opener. (Amy King photo)

The high school season hasn’t started, but they’re already undefeated.

A “fall ball” team made up of eight Coupeville players and a ringer from the South End, won its opener, bouncing Everett 24-10 Sunday.

“The team played great defense and got going offensively in the second half,” said CHS assistant coach Amy King, merely a fan on this day. “We owned the game from the time we stepped onto the court until the last whistle blew.

“Our defense was so awesome, the other team did not get more than 10 shots off in the first half,” she added. “We could see the frustration on the Everett faces. We couldn’t help but just smile the entire game.”

The squad, coached by Scott Hay and Lark Gustafson, is headed up by Wolves Makana Stone, Monica Vidoni, Kacie Kiel, Lauren Grove, Tiffany Briscoe, Kailey Kellner, Mia Littlejohn and Lindsey Roberts.

Joining them is Rachael Arand, a star at Bush High School.

Arand, who lives on South Whidbey, played with Stone on a club team that traveled across the country this summer.

Fall ball teams don’t typically keep stats, but a few facts from Sunday’s game filtered out.

Arand scored the first three points of the game on free throws, Kiel drained a second-half three-point bomb and Vidoni dropped in several buckets.

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