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Cold start, hotter finish

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 27, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Lyla Stuurmans continues to move up the CHS girls’ basketball career scoring chart. (Jackie Saia photo)

Throw out the first seven minutes, it’s a different ballgame.

The Coupeville High School varsity girls’ basketball team played host Chief Leschi dead even for the final 25 minutes Saturday in Puyallup.

Unfortunately, the Wolves trailed 15-0 after that opening chunk, so a tie the rest of the way still resulted in a 38-23 loss.

The non-conference defeat, coming in the team’s second game without injured star Mia Farris, drops Coupeville to 6-11.

CHS has almost a week off now, returning home for back-to-back games in Cow Town Friday and Saturday, Feb. 2-3.

The first of those contests is Senior Night against Friday Harbor and will largely decide which team advances to the playoffs, while the latter is a non-conference rumble recently added to the schedule.

Saturday’s clash with Chief Leschi started poorly for the Wolves, who surrendered a pair of early three-balls and couldn’t get any of their own shots to stay in the bucket.

Down 15-0 and looking for a spark, the Wolves got it from Katie Marti, who finally cracked the seal on the basket in the final seconds of the first quarter.

Things got much better from there, with CHS holding its own in second and third frames which both ended in 8-8 ties.

Madison McMillan gets out of town fast in an earlier game. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Four different Wolves scored in the second quarter, with sophomore Brynn Parker notching her first varsity bucket.

She’s the 247th Wolf girl to score in the 50-year history of the program, and the second in her family, joining big sis Skylar.

The third quarter featured Coupeville’s best work on the boards, with Marti, Madison McMillan, and Jada Heaton all scoring off of putbacks.

While Chief Leschi slipped away with a 7-5 advantage in the fourth frame, the Wolves hit some free throws down the stretch to keep things interesting.

Marti finished with a team-best nine points, while McMillan (6), Stuurmans (2), Brynn Parker (2), Heaton (2), Kayla Arnold (1), and Teagan Calkins (1) also scored.

Skylar Parker, Reese Wilkinson, and fab frosh Haylee Armstrong got floor time, while Farris avidly rooted for her teammates while in street clothes.

Along with Brynn Parker joining the sisterhood of scorers, Marti and Stuurmans both passed CHS assistant coach Kassie (Lawson) O’Neil on the all-time scoring chart.

Marti now sits in 63rd place with 191 points and Stuurmans perches in 66th with 185 points, which puts her a slot ahead of O’Neil, who rattled the rims for 184 during her stellar prep hoops career.

 

No JV action:

Two days before tipoff, Chief Leschi cancelled the second game after deciding it didn’t have enough players to field a full team.

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Down a star, Wolves win with team ball

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on January 23, 2024| Leave a Comment »

“Your bench is short tonight, mom? Put me in! I’ll burn those nets down!!” (Photo courtesy Megan Richter)

Teamwork makes the dream work, especially when you’re missing a star.

With two-way warrior Mia Farris riding the bench while recovering from a nasty fall in a game this weekend, the Coupeville High School varsity girls’ basketball squad spread the love Tuesday night.

Six different Wolves scored multiple times, and a second-half surge carried Megan Richter’s squad to a convincing 45-24 win over visiting Concrete.

The victory lifts CHS to 2-4 in Northwest 2B/1B League action, 6-10 overall.

It also propels the Wolves from the cellar up to fourth place in the seven-team NWL, with the final days of the regular season fast approaching.

Tuesday’s win was a team effort from start to finish.

Nine players saw the floor, and the three who didn’t score still had a solid impact, with Kayla Arnold and Reese Wilkinson snaring rebounds and tougher-than-she-looks Brynn Parker holding up well under stress while handling the ball.

Brynn Parker slices ‘n dices the defense. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Coupeville came out firing, with Lyla Stuurmans banking home the game’s first shot, before Katie Marti sank a three-ball from the top after being set up by a rebound and kickout pass from Wolf sparkplug Jada Heaton.

The visitors made their one stand of the night in the first, briefly creeping ahead 8-7 on a three-ball at the tail end of the quarter, but then CHS went to work.

The aforementioned Heaton was spectacular in the second frame, getting her hands on seemingly every loose ball and interjecting herself into nearly every play.

While she still showed off her enormous heart by stopping in the middle of a fight for a loose ball to check on a Lion who bounced off the hardwood, she was also a cold-blooded killer when needed.

Peppering Concrete with buckets, Heaton knocked down the shot of the game when she put back a rebound a half tick before the shot clock buzzed, then merrily cartwheeled down the floor, slapping hands left and right as she went.

Junior Jada Heaton (12) is the glue that holds the Wolves together. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Still, Concrete hung tough, trailing just 17-13 at the half, with a little help from the world’s thinnest-skinned ref.

His operating style? Spending almost as much time lecturing Coupeville’s coaches for imaginary conversations as he did calling fouls on the Wolves with no time left on the clock.

Ignoring the zesty zebra, the Wolves seized control of the game in the third quarter, however.

Madison McMillan dominated in the paint, Skylar Parker slashed the Lion defense to ribbons, and Teagan Calkins was everywhere and nowhere at once, an assassin making the kill, then vanishing before the victim knew they were dead.

CHS exited the third quarter up 28-17 and it would have been more, only to have a ref try to interject themselves back in the game by waving off a Calkins shot at the buzzer.

Not that it mattered, because even when the officials fouled out Heaton early in the fourth quarter — to the wails of her robust fan club — there was no slowing down the Wolves.

Whipping the ball around the arc, and up and down the floor, Coupeville triggered multiple buckets on precise passes, as everyone got in on the point explosion.

The Wolves closed the game on a 17-3 surge, with five of the last eight baskets directly set up by an assist.

Calkins popped for a game-high 13 points to pace CHS, with Marti banking in nine, and Stuurmans and McMillan both rippling the nets for seven.

Heaton had five, before the refs knifed her in the back, while Skylar Parker added four, making for very balanced books.

With the win in hand, the Wolf girls are off until Saturday, when they travel to Puyallup to face Chief Leschi in a non-conference tilt.

After that comes home matchups with Friday Harbor and Orting, and a road trip to La Conner to wrap the regular season.

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Haylee Armstrong is killin’ folks!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on January 23, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Haylee Armstrong sees your defense, and she is not impressed. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Mama said knock you out, so Haylee Armstrong went and threw some haymakers.

Raining down 20 of her career-high 30 points in the second half Tuesday, the Coupeville High School freshman turned a JV game against visiting Concrete from a nailbiter to a blowout.

The Wolves went into the locker room up by just a single point, only to come away with a 47-26 victory thanks to their hot-shooting guard.

The win lifts Kassie O’Neil’s squad to 1-3 in Northwest 2B/1B League action, 4-6 overall, with a road trip to Chief Leschi Saturday next up on the schedule.

Tuesday’s rumble with Concrete was a sticky one for the first 16 minutes, as the two teams exchanged body blows, warily circling one another.

Armstrong popped for 10 in the first half, propelling the Wolves to an 8-4 lead after one and a narrow 16-15 advantage as everyone heading in for pep talks and (maybe) orange slices.

Whether she got to nibble on citrus or not, the fab frosh came out flexin’ in the second half.

Raining down 11 points in the third quarter alone, Armstrong spurred an 18-8 run to bust the game wide open.

She had some help, with Tenley Stuurmans and Capri Anter combining for seven points in the frame, and the Wolves kept the heat cranked up in the fourth quarter.

Closing on a 13-3 tear, CHS slammed the door shut, locked it, and threw the key away.

While Armstrong’s 30 was the best performance by any Wolf girl this season, varsity or JV, she wasn’t the only young gun to score.

Anter backed up her cousin with a solid seven-point effort, while Stuurmans (6), Brynn Parker (2), and Ari Cunningham (2) also kept the scorekeeper busy.

Ava Lucero, Lexis Drake, Bryley Gilbert, Adie Maynes, Taylor Marrs, and Chelsi Stevens rounded out the rotation for the Wolves, who have four games left in their season.

Ava Lucero dares a foe to try and get past her.

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Wolf girls endure devilish loss

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 20, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Madison McMillan lines up a shot. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

It’s been a rough weekend.

Paired off with two of the best teams in the state, the Coupeville High School varsity girls’ basketball team absorbed a pair of bushwhacking beatdowns.

After falling to Mount Vernon Christian Friday, the Wolves tipped off with visiting Neah Bay Saturday and got blasted 65-12.

Worse, junior standout Mia Farris, the team’s #2 scorer and a dangerous defender, crashed hard to the floor in the second quarter against the Red Devils, eventually leaving the gym on crutches.

Early reports indicate the injury wasn’t as bad as first feared, however, a slim ray of sunshine for the Wolves.

Now sitting at 5-10 after Saturday’s non-conference loss, CHS will get back at it next week with games against Concrete and Chief Leschi, neither of whom are close to the caliber of MVC and Neah Bay.

CHS coach Megan Richter plots strategy during a timeout.

The Red Devils are super quick and blitz from every angle, something the Wolves had trouble with.

The game was firmly in Neah Bay’s hands after the visitors rolled out to a 19-1 lead after one quarter of play.

CHS netted just a Teagan Calkins free throw in the opening frame, and while it picked up a few more points after that, they were few and far between.

The Wolves scored half of their 12 points in the second quarter, with Katie Marti popping for five — a three-point play the hard way on a bank shot and free throw, and a pair of charity shots later.

Reese Wilkinson, who came off the bench to pound the boards while fans ogled her hand-crafted jewelry and carvings displayed on her Instagram page, also slipped a free throw through the twines.

Trailing 36-7 at the half, Coupeville could only muster a pair of field goals the rest of the way.

Skylar Parker drilled a third-quarter three-ball, while Lyla Stuurmans sank a late jumper to close the scoring.

Marti finished with a team-high five points, with Skylar Parker (3), Stuurmans (2), Calkins (1), and Wilkinson (1) also scoring.

Kayla Arnold, Brynn Parker, Jada Heaton, Madison McMillan, Haylee Armstrong, Bryley Gilbert, and Farris also saw floor time for Megan Richter’s squad.

 

For those wondering, here’s Wilkinson’s Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/reese.w1234/

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Hurricanes howl, but Wolves drop some bombs

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 20, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Katie Marti is coming for all your records before the next family barbecue. (Coupeville High School Yearbook Staff photo)

Katie Marti is halfway home to having all the family bragging rights, female division.

Banking in a trio of three-balls Friday night against Mount Vernon Christian, the Wolf junior moved into a tie with Aunt Aimee (Messner) Bishop on the Coupeville High School girls’ basketball career scoring chart.

Katie, now sitting with 168 points, already passed Aunt Rose Marti (57) and mom Christi Messner (125), with Cousin Breeanna Messner (235) and Aunt Judy Marti (545) still ahead.

And, since I said “female division,” that means we’re not worrying about dad Frank Marti or any of Katie’s many uncles and male cousins.

At least at the moment.

While Katie’s offensive explosion, all of which came in the first quarter, wasn’t enough to totally derail a very-good MVC squad, it does provide a positive from a 68-24 loss.

The defeat, coming against the #3 team in 1B, drops Coupeville to 1-4 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 5-9 overall.

Up next is a Saturday rumble at home with the #1 team in 1B, Neah Bay.

Will the Red Devils leave their starters in and continue to shoot three-balls two minutes deep into the fourth quarter, like the Hurricanes did?

Only time will tell.

Perhaps MVC, flustered a bit by Marti’s assault from behind the arc, felt the need to pour it on late to appease a chattering fan base which loudly protested a ref’s call while ahead by 40.

In a game in which those same officials in black and white gave Coupeville exactly zero free throw attempts, I’m sure that one pro-Wolf call must have chilled Hurricane fans to the bone.

Marti, with no help from the refs, even when she was being tweaked, twisted, and tossed about while standing two inches in front of them, kept things close early with her treys.

The first one cut the margin to 4-3, the second one sliced the lead to 10-6, and the third one, an improbable bank shot from an odd angle, snipped the deficit to 12-9.

After that, Mount Vernon used its superior speed and height, plus a little friendly help from the rules crew, to pull away.

Up 18-9 at the first break, the ‘Canes stretched the margin out to 39-18 at the half.

It could have been worse, but Wolf gunner Mia Farris went off for nine points in the second quarter, including the best shot of the night.

With the clock racing to 0:00 as the locker room beckoned, the Wolf junior threw her hands up in frustration, with the ball going along for the ride.

It hung in the air for a very long second, stuck its tongue out at the visiting fans, then splashed home for three points as the Wolves went bonkers.

Things took a downturn after that, with MVC ripping off 23 straight points to open the third quarter, setting off a running clock.

Making things (slightly) better was the sight of one ref being hit twice, once by each team.

Coupeville scrapper Teagan Calkins knocked the ball off the official’s face at close range, before a Hurricane ballhandler drilled a pass off the dude’s knee.

At least we hope it was his knee…

Teagan Calkins, dreaming about throwing the ball off someone’s face. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

CHS coach Megan Richter gave floor time to 11 players, with Farris (13), Marti (9), and Calkins (2) combining to handle all the scoring.

Madison McMillan, Haylee Armstrong, Brynn Parker, Jada Heaton, Kayla Arnold, Reese Wilkinson, Skylar Parker, and Lyla Stuurmans also went into the trenches, fighting for rebounds and eyeballing the refs.

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