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If they’re travelin’, they’re winnin’

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 16, 2022| Leave a Comment »

CHS coach Megan Richter has her team playing strongly on the road. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

They like life on the bus.

After whacking host Sedro-Woolley 41-29 Thursday, the Coupeville High School varsity girls’ basketball squad remains flawless away from home.

The non-conference win, coming against a 2A school, lifts the 2B Wolves to 3-2 overall, and a pristine 2-0 in road clashes.

So, it’s probably a good thing Coupeville’s next three games involve a trip off-Island.

The Wolves visit bat country Saturday for a showdown with Forks, before heading to Ellensburg after Christmas for a two-day tourney which will also involve Chelan, Kittitas, and Sultan.

Thursday night’s clash took a major turn for the positive in the second quarter.

Trailing 11-7 at the first break, Coupeville completely took all the air out of the opposing fans with an 11-0 surge across the game’s second eight-minute span.

Gwen Gustafson accounted for six of those points, and the fuse was lit.

The Wolves finally surrendered a few points in the third quarter, but just a few, using a 15-6 run to put the game solidly on ice.

While Sedro rallied a bit down the stretch, the Cubs were never able to get their deficit back down under double digits, allowing Coupeville to enjoy its stroll back to the bus.

When she’s not hanging out with the parents, Alita Blouin is a dagger-dropping hoops assassin.

Alita Blouin, droppin’ bombs and takin’ names, led the Wolves with a team-high 11 points, while running mate Maddie Georges added nine.

Both of the Wolf sharpshooters knocked down a three-ball over the Sedro defense.

Gustafson (7), Lyla Stuurmans (6), Ryanne Knoblich (4), Carolyn Lhamon (3), and Katie Marti (1) rounded out the well-balanced attack, with Mia Farris terrorizing the Cubs on defense.

With her nine points, Georges continues to move upwards into ever-rarer air on the CHS girls’ basketball career scoring chart.

The Wolf senior is eight points away from cracking the 300-point club and passed program legends Bessie Walstad (288) and Scout Smith (290) Thursday, while moving from #39 all-time to #37 on a list which began back in 1974.

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Road warriors maul Cubs

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 15, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Madison McMillan rumbles in the paint. (Jackie Saia photo)

The fourth quarter belongs to them.

Ending the game on an electric 18-2 surge Thursday, the Coupeville High School JV girls’ basketball squad turned a nailbiter into a blowout win.

With five different players scoring across the final eight minutes, Kassie O’Neil’s band of road warriors exited Sedro-Woolley with a rousing 50-30 non-conference victory to even their record at 2-2.

The Wolf JV gets right back at it Saturday, with an epic trek to Forks, before heading into winter break.

Apparently, the young guns love hearing the wheels on the bus go round and round, as they are a flawless 2-0 away from their home gym this season.

While Coupeville trailed 8-5 after one quarter of play, it rallied behind the sweet shooting of Desi Ramirez-Vasquez and Madison McMillan in frame two.

With the dynamic duo combining for nine points, the Wolves used a 12-8 surge to claim a razor-thin 17-16 lead at the half.

The third quarter was all about Jada Heaton gettin’ hers, as the super sophomore exploded for all eight of her points in the frame.

That gave Coupeville a bit of breathing room at 32-28, but it wasn’t enough as the fourth quarter barrage proved.

Kierra Thayer prepares to get awesome. (Jackie Saia photo)

Kierra Thayer had the hot hand in the final frame, banking in six points, with McMillan, Bryley Gilbert, Reese Wilkinson, and Kayla Arnold joining in on the offensive eruption.

Eight of 12 Wolves scored, led by McMillan (11), Thayer (10), Ramirez-Vasquez (9), and Heaton (8).

Gilbert (4), Arnold (4), Wilkinson (2), and Tegan Calkins (2) also scored, with Liza Zustiak, Brynn Parker, Kassidy Upchurch, and Skylar Parker seeing floor time.

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Big surge, bigger win

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 14, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Katie Marti makes the net jump. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

OK, you can have one bucket, but that’s it.

Visiting Crescent scored the first basket of the night Wednesday, then the Coupeville High School varsity girls’ basketball squad unleashed a tsunami.

Closing the first quarter on a 21-0 run, with five different players scoring, the Wolves built an insurmountable lead on their way to a 46-22 rout of the Loggers.

The non-conference victory evens Coupeville’s record at 2-2, with road trips to Sedro-Woolley and Forks coming up fast on the schedule.

The first of those two bouts arrives Thursday, the second Saturday.

If the Wolves play in those contests like they did against Crescent, good things are on the horizon.

Attacking the Loggers from the opening tip, Megan Richter’s squad harassed the visitors into frequent turnovers, before converting many of those opportunities.

Maddie Georges delivered the first knife thrust, poppin’ the net on a long, low three-ball, added another bucket off of a steal and breakaway, then became the reincarnation of John Stockton.

Pulling in the Logger defense before zipping note-perfect passes to her teammates, the Wolf senior had the magic touch when it came to racking up assists.

Georges fed Alita Blouin with a laser which tore through a pack of Crescent players, before feeding Ryanne Knoblich for back-to-back short jumpers.

Bouncing off of foes all night, Knoblich dodged bruises and made the Loggers pay for their roughhouse defense, pumping in eight of her game-high 12 points in the opening frame.

Add in buckets off of the fingertips of Gwen Gustafson and Carolyn Lhamon, and Coupeville wouldn’t be denied.

The game did get a bit slower and lower scoring after the torrid opening frame, but the Wolves remained in control no matter what the lineup on the floor.

The second quarter was highlighted by Mia Farris launching a perfect setup pass to Lhamon, who rumbled in the paint for a bucket, while the third featured a buzzer beater.

It came courtesy Farris, who snatched a rebound away from a Logger and slapped the ball back up and off the glass a millisecond before Joel Norris punched the buzzer to signal the end of play.

Delivering superb work on the game clock, plus doling out sweet, sweet chocolate chip cookies to bloggers hanging out in the bleachers, the owner of Kapaw’s Iskreme was in mid-season form.

While the game was well in hand as the fourth quarter began, Coupeville’s players combined to keep things hopping.

Blouin creased the nets with a feathery three-ball to kick things off, before Lyla Stuurmans drilled her own trey while on the move.

Jada Heaton (center) joined an exclusive club Wednesday. (Jackie Saia photo)

The emotional high of the game came from sophomore Jada Heaton, making her varsity debut and becoming the 239th Wolf girl to score since the program was launched back in 1974.

After setting up Blouin’s three-ball with an assist, and snatching several rebounds, Heaton earned a nice roar from the crowd when she knocked down a pressure-packed free throw midway through the fourth quarter.

In all, 10 Wolves saw the floor Wednesday, with nine of them scoring.

Knoblich’s 12 is her best performance at the varsity level, while Blouin (9), Gustafson (8), and Georges (5) provided solid backup.

With 283 career varsity points and counting, Georges continues to climb up the all-time scoring chart.

She passed Hailey Hammer (282) Wednesday, and, at #39, is hot on the trail of Bessie Walstad (288), Scout Smith (290), and Amanda Fabrizi (299) as she makes a run at cracking the 300-point club.

Lhamon (4), Stuurmans (3), Katie Marti (2), Farris (2), and Heaton (1) also scored against Crescent, while Skylar Parker brought big energy to her defensive duties.

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Second-half Sultan surge staggers Wolves

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 10, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville’s varsity girls play three times next week. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

One thing was nothing like the other.

Saturday’s royal rumble between the Coupeville High School varsity girls’ basketball squad and visiting Sultan had halves which played out very differently.

The first 16 minutes was a tense, defense-orientated slugfest, with the Wolves trailing by just a bucket at the break.

The second half, however, featured Sultan discovering a new weapon in the three-point bomb, and the two teams combining for more points in just the fourth quarter than in the entire first half.

By the time things came to an end, Coupeville found itself on the unhappy side of a 60-43 loss, left to wonder a bit just how things fell apart against their non-conference foe.

Now 1-2 on the season, the Wolves get right back at it with three games next week.

The varsity girls host Crescent Wednesday, travel to Sedro-Woolley Thursday, then wander off the end of the map with a trek to Forks Saturday afternoon.

After that comes a two-game Christmas tournament in Eastern Washington, with league games starting up in early 2023.

One thing the Wolves will need to consider working on between contests is their collective aim at the free-throw line.

Crashing hard and often to the hoop against a hack-happy rival, Coupeville had plenty of charity shots Saturday, but couldn’t drill them often enough.

The Wolves left a lot of points hanging out in the air, netting just 17 of 33 from the free-throw line, good for 52% as a team.

Sultan was 15-20 at the stripe, including rippling the twine for 10-12 in the fourth quarter.

But it wasn’t just free throws which hurt Coupeville, as Sultan netted five three-balls — all in the second half — and cleaned up on the offensive boards.

Even with the refs frantically calling fouls on almost every other play, the Wolves held up well in the first half.

Alita Blouin splashed home a shot from behind the arc for Coupeville’s first points, before Lyla Stuurmans banked in a beauty of a runner to cut the early deficit to 6-5.

Powered by a seven-point run from Blouin, the Wolves snatched the lead away early in the second quarter and looked like they might be ready to bust things open.

But the Turks refused to fade, running off an 8-3 mini tear of their own right before the close of the half.

Maddie Georges made the net jump on a three-ball to knot things at 19-19, but Sultan knocked down the final bucket before the buzzer, then turned things up several notches after that.

The Wolves went without a field goal for most of the third quarter, and by the time Stuurmans swished a runner over her defender’s outstretched arms to end the skid, CHS was trailing by double-digits.

The final frame was an offensive showcase, with the schools combining for 41 points, but while Coupeville sliced the deficit to nine, it could get no closer than that.

Sultan nailed three long-distance bombs, each one exploding at just the right moment to stop a brief Wolf rally, before the Turks closed the game on a 10-3 tear.

Blouin and Georges paced CHS with 14 and 13 points, respectively, while defensive dynamo Stuurmans chipped in with a season-best seven.

Gwen Gustafson, Katie Marti, and Ryanne Knoblich rounded out Coupeville’s offense, adding three points apiece, with Carolyn Lhamon and Mia Farris working hard on the boards.

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Wolf young guns stay scrappy

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 10, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Cousins Jada Heaton (left) and Liza Zustiak form a dangerous duo for Coupeville’s JV hoops squad. (Photos courtesy Jennifer Heaton)

Future hoops stars, working hard to bring that Halloween candy home.

The odds were better than the evens.

Facing off with visiting Sultan Saturday, the Coupeville High School JV girls’ basketball squad put together its best effort in the first and third quarters.

Unfortunately, the Turks stung the Wolves in frames two and four, sending Kassie O’Neil’s team to a 42-23 loss.

The non-conference defeat drops the CHS young guns to 1-2 heading into their final week of games before the Christmas break.

While Coupeville’s varsity girls have five games left to play in the tail end of 2022, that includes a varsity-only contest with Crescent and two games at an Eastern Washington tournament.

The JV girls travel to Sedro-Woolley Dec. 15 and Forks Dec. 17, and don’t play at home again until Jan. 4, when they kick off three straight games in their own gym.

Playing in front of their home fans Saturday, the Wolves hung tough in the early going, trailing just 7-3 at the first break.

Sultan used a 13-4 run in the second frame to pad its halftime lead to 20-7, but Coupeville responded with its best offensive performance of the night.

With Madison McMillan and Jada Heaton each rumbling for six points in the third quarter, the Wolves outscored the Turks 14-12 to stay combative until the end.

McMillan paced CHS with a game-high 12 points, while Heaton banked in seven and the duo of Kayla Arnold and Reese Wilkinson added a bucket apiece.

Kassidy Upchurch, Brynn Parker, Liza Zustiak, Desi Ramirez-Vasquez, and Skylar Parker also saw floor time for the Wolves.

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