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Fourth quarter? Our time!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged Anacortes, Basketball, CMS Wolves, Glengarry Glen Ross, SWISH on January 16, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Matthew Kelley had 16 points and 15 rebounds Saturday, sparking Coupeville’s SWISH squad to a big win. (John Fisken photo)

Always be closing.

I doubt a single player on the Coupeville SWISH boys’ basketball squad has ever heard of Glengarry Glen Ross, much less seen it, but they all played Saturday in a way that would have made Alec Baldwin proud.

Putting together their best basketball in the fourth quarter, the Wolves rode a 12-1 surge to turn a one-point deficit into a comfortable 38-28 win over Anacortes in a game played in Mount Vernon.

The opening day win gave Coupeville, which has a mixture of 7th and 6th grade players (and one 4th grader) a strong start to its eight-game season.

The Wolves came out on fire, jumping all over the Seahawks to the tune of a 12-0 start, then regressed for a bit.

Anacortes rallied back to knot things up at 18 heading into the half, before leading 27-26 after three.

Once the fourth quarter started, though, it was Coupeville time.

Connor Barton hit Danny Barajas with a give-and-go pass, then got the ball back and swooped in for what would turn out to be the game-busting layup.

Clinging to a one-point lead, the Wolves amped up their defensive pressure and created a string of turnovers, converting almost all of them into quick buckets.

Down the stretch, Jake Mitten rolled to six of his 14 points, while Matthew Kelley and Sage Downes each chipped in with a fourth-quarter bucket.

Kelley paced the Wolves with 16 points as he and Mitten combined for 30 of their team’s 38 points.

Downes (4), Daniel Olson (2) and Barton (2) rounded out the scorers.

Mitten added 16 rebounds, four assists and two blocks, while Kelley snatched 15 boards, dealt out three assists and pilfered five steals.

Downes and Olson each had two steals, Hawthorne Wolfe chipped in with an assist and a steal and Alex Jimenez and Logan Martin collected a rebound apiece.

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Lose? I think not!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged Always be closing, Basketball, CHS Wolves, Glengarry Glen Ross, Kyla Briscoe, Skyler Lawrence on January 30, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Lauren Rose is showing five fingers, one for each victory in Coupeville’s current winning streak. (John Fisken photos)

Skyler Lawrence sparked the Wolves with 11 points and seven boards Friday.

ABC. Always be closing.

While it’s very possible none of the eight young women on the Coupeville High School JV girls’ basketball team have every heard of, much less seen, the 1992 salesmen-going-crazy film “Glengarry Glen Ross,” they lived out its credo Friday night.

Refusing to buckle after visiting Klahowya used a 12-2 fourth quarter run to snatch away the lead, the Wolves pulled off a flawless final minute to net their fifth straight win.

Closing on a 7-1 surge, with two buckets coming off of steals and another off of a ferocious offensive rebound, CHS snagged a frantic 40-35 win that would have left Wolf coach Amy King hoarse, if she wasn’t already losing her voice to a cold.

Now a shiny 11-5 overall, 6-0 in Olympic League play, Coupeville got the win by remaining composed, remaining focused and being stone-cold, bad-ass assassins.

When your nine-point lead slips away and the clock won’t run out fast enough to save you, most teams would crumble.

Not the Wolves.

A 31-22 lead turned into a 34-33 deficit in a mere heartbeat, the game seemingly slipping away.

Then Coupeville slammed the brakes on. Hard.

Kailey Kellner shredded two defenders to snag an offensive rebound, putting it back up and in to reclaim the lead, before steals by Lauren Rose and Tiffany Briscoe broke Klahowya’s back.

Rose fed Kyla Briscoe, who banged home a layup.

With Coupeville pressing the ball-handler, the Eagles panicked, allowing Tiffany Briscoe to go airborne on the next play, pick off a pass Richard Sherman-style, and find Kellner for the punctuation mark.

The final 60 seconds mirrored the way the first half had ended.

After struggling out of the gate — the JV played second Friday and it seemed to throw both teams off a bit in the opening minutes — Coupeville closed the half on a 10-3 run to take a 17-16 lead in at the half.

Lauren Grove banked home a jumper, then cut inside and took a pass from Skyler Lawrence for a quick layup, while Lawrence scored six during the run.

The final bucket was a marvel of passing, as the Wolves whipped the ball around the perimeter before Lawrence banked home a shot over two defenders that left her fingers a mere micro-second before the buzzer sounded.

With Kellner, the team’s leading scorer, slowed a bit by illness, Lawrence stepped up to fill the gap, dropping in a team-high 11 points.

She got plenty of support, as Kyla Briscoe (8), Grove (6), Tiffany Briscoe (5), Kellner (5, all in the game’s final minute), Rose (4) and Allison Wenzel (1) all chipped in.

Brisa Herrera was the lone Wolf to not make the scoring column, but the freshman was a feisty fighter in the rebounding pit.

While she saved her scoring for crunch time, Kellner did snag 10 boards and make off with three steals. Grove and Lawrence each hauled in seven boards.

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