Skyler Lawrence was one of ten Wolves to score Friday night. (John Fisken photo)
A big ol’ goose egg.
That’s what the Coupeville High School JV girls’ basketball team threw at visiting Archbishop Thomas Murphy in the second quarter Friday night.
Holding the Wildcats scoreless for eight long minutes, and keeping the defense almost equally ramped up in the second half, the Wolves slapped ATM hard, sending them reeling back to the bus after a 35-18 CHS victory.
With 10 of their 12 active players scoring, the Wolves spread the offensive joy around and blew the game wide open with 10-1 and 12-1 runs in the second half.
But it was the refuse to bend, refuse to yield ‘d’ in the second quarter that turned the game around.
Trailing 10-7 entering the quarter, Coupeville’s brightest spots had been a pair of perfectly-banked jumpers from Emily Coulter and Skyler Lawrence.
Then the Wolves got nasty.
Blocking out ferociously, fighting for loose balls, contesting every pass, all five Coupeville players on the floor clamped down.
The only slight problem was they couldn’t buy a bucket themselves, as the two teams jointly went scoreless for almost six minutes.
Coupeville finally broke through when Tiffany Briscoe banged home a bucket off of an in-bounds play, then claimed its first lead — which it never gave back — when spark-plug Wynter Thorne nailed a sweet pull-up jumper over the outstretched hands of two defenders.
The Wolves poured it on in the third, with three baskets from Monica Vidoni packaged with buckets from Kailey Kellner, Carlie Rosenkrance and Sophia Jebrail.
Varsity swing players Thorne (8) and Vidoni (7) paced the Wolf attack, while Lawrence, Coulter and Jebrail each hit for four.
Briscoe, Rosenkrance and Kellner — a transfer from England in her first game as a Wolf — popped for two apiece, while Lauren Grove and Jennifer Spark each tickled the twine for a free throw.
Mattea Miller and Erin Josue saw floor time as well.
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