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Clear eyes, full bench, can’t lose

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on January 20, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Mollie Bailey (center) and Audrianna Shaw helped lead the Coupeville JV squad to a lopsided win Monday in Granite. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Megan Smith had a lot of company.

With four varsity bench players swinging down to JV Monday to pick up some quality floor time, the Coupeville High School coach had 15 players on her bench.

And Smith used all of them, getting every girl in the game, getting scoring from more than half, and rolling to a 39-13 win at Granite Falls.

The victory gives the Wolf JV a nice bounce back after a narrow loss Friday, and lifts them to 4-1 in North Sound Conference play, 7-3 overall.

With a ton of players at her disposal, including newly-minted swing players Anya Leavell, Mollie Bailey, Kylie Van Velkinburgh, and Audrianna Shaw, Smith was able to mix and match all night, and every unit she put on the floor seemed to click.

Coupeville jumped out to a 14-6 lead after one quarter of play, with freshman Ryanne Knoblich dropping in six points to lead the attack.

After a defensive-minded brawl in the second frame, the Wolves edged their lead out to 18-9 at the half, then turned on the jets after the break.

Shaw banked in six points during a 9-2 run in the third quarter, before Gwen Gustafson popped for five to spur an 11-2 surge to close the game in style.

Knoblich earned game-high honors with 10 points, while Shaw (8), Gustafson (7), Leavell (4), Abby Mulholland (3), and Van Velkinburgh (3) also came up big.

Rounding out the scoring attack were Bailey (2) and Heidi Meyers (2).

Natalie Castano, Morgan Stevens, Ella Colwell, Claire Mayne, Jessenia Camarena, Alita Blouin, and Savana Allen also saw floor time for the Wolves, who return to action with back-to-back games later this week.

The CHS girls travel to Bothell Friday to face Cedar Park Christian, then hop across to the mainland on the ferry Saturday to play Port Townsend.

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Snow basketball tonight

Posted in Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 14, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Wintery weather conditions will prevent Kylie Van Velkinburgh and Co. from playing basketball Tuesday. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Mother Nature strikes again.

The 2019-2020 Coupeville High School basketball season continues to be jumbled by weather-related incidents.

After twice being tripped up by wind storms, this time around it’s snow bedeviling the Wolves.

CHS was slated to send its girls squads to Granite Falls Tuesday, while the boys teams were set to welcome Cedar Park Christian to town.

With both of those rival schools closing due to the wintery weather, however, gyms everywhere will remain silent.

The games, which are North Sound Conference rumbles, will be rescheduled and the hope is to do it fast.

The girls games at Granite Falls have been bumped to Thursday.

If weather improves, the Wolf boys will play at home Wednesday.

Those games would be set for 5 PM (JV and C-Team) and 6:45 (varsity).

In a twist, the Wolf C-Team would actually play Sultan in the middle school gym, and not CPC, as that game was already on the schedule for Wednesday.

The C-Team could then possibly pick up the Cedar Park game at a later date, said CHS Athletic Director Willie Smith.

Of course, continued snow and ice could make this all moot.

Friday, all five CHS hoops teams are scheduled to travel to Langley to face South Whidbey.

Temperatures are projected to be in the 40’s Island-wide by then.

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CHS boys romp in league opener

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 8, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Sean Toomey-Stout pumped in 10 points Tuesday as Coupeville’s varsity rolled to a big win at Granite Falls. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Rain the three-balls and bang down low.

Proving adept from both long range and in the pits Tuesday, the Coupeville High School varsity boys basketball team returned from a 16-day break in strong fashion.

Led by three guys who reached double digits in scoring, the Wolves romped to a 60-42 win at Granite Falls, and sit just a half-game out of first place in the North Sound Conference.

Coupeville, 1-0 in league play, 4-5 overall, sits right behind King’s (2-0, 6-7), which blasted South Whidbey 78-45 Tuesday.

Cedar Park Christian (2-1, 6-5), South Whidbey (1-1, 9-3), Granite Falls (1-2, 3-7), and Sultan (0-3, 1-9) round out the six-team league, with the cellar-dwelling Turks travelling Friday to Coupeville.

The Wolves showed little rust coming out of their long winter break, bolting out to a 22-9 lead after one quarter of play.

Five different CHS players dropped in points in the opening frame, with Hawthorne Wolfe (9) and Mason Grove (6) leading the way.

While the two teams played to 18-18 and 11-11 ties across the next two quarters, Coupeville never gave the lead back, and closed the game with a 9-4 mini-run in the fourth.

The win sent CHS coach Brad Sherman back to the bus with a spring in his step.

“I thought our guys stepped up and did their jobs tonight on both sides of the ball,” he said. “Defensively, a really strong team effort, and played very tough in the paint against a physical basketball team.”

Wolfe finished with a game-high 17 points, while Grove rattled the rims for 14 — both Coupeville gunners netted four three-balls apiece — and Sean Toomey-Stout knocked down 10.

Gavin Knoblich (9), Jacobi Pilgrim (8), and Xavier Murdy (2) also scored, with Murdy making his season debut after battling through an injury. Jered Brown and Ulrik Wells rounded out the active roster.

With his 17 points Tuesday, Wolfe reached a personal milestone, soaring past 300 career points.

The CHS sophomore sits with 302 and counting, and he passes Matt Frost (290), Brian Fakkema (290), Risen Johnson (291), John Beasley (293), Noel Criscuola (298), Blake Day (299), and Noah Roehl (301) to rise from #98 to #91 on the Coupeville boys hoops all-time scoring chart.

Grove became the second Wolf to top 100 points this season, having torched the nets for 103 through the trip to Granite.

The CHS senior has 263 points for his career, putting him #111 all-time for a program which is playing its 103rd season.

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Furious finale fuels JV win

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , , on January 7, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Alex Murdy was one of seven Wolf boys to score during a come-from-behind JV win Tuesday at Granite Falls. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Down, but never out.

After trailing for most of three quarters Tuesday night at Granite Falls, the Coupeville High School JV boys basketball team landed a haymaker in the game’s final eight minutes.

With Daniel Olson going wild in the final frame, pouring in 13 of his game-high 26 points, the Wolves roared from behind to turn a three-point deficit into a 14-point win.

Closing on a torrid 23-6 run, CHS exited with a 56-42 win in its North Sound Conference opener.

Now 5-3 overall, the Wolves kicked off the 2020 portion of the 2019-2020 season in style.

Trailing 13-10 at the end of the first quarter, Coupeville sliced the deficit down to 20-18 by the half, but still trailed 36-33 headed into the final quarter.

That was when Wolf coach Chris Smith let his gunners go wild, with Olson and Sage Downes rattling the rim from every angle.

Olson killed the Tigers in multiple ways in the fourth, slipping a three-ball through the net, swishing a pair of free throws, then tacking on four old-fashioned, and very-effective, two-point buckets.

Downes tickled the twines for three buckets in the final frame, as well, with Cody Roberts and Grady Rickner also scoring during the sizzlin’ finale.

Olson collected 22 of his 26 points in the second half, while Xavier Murdy, back on the floor for the first time this season after battling back from an injury, tossed in all eight of his in the second quarter.

X-Man’s younger brother, Alex Murdy, joined Downes in banging home six points apiece, with Grady Rickner (5), Roberts (4), and TJ Rickner (1) also getting into the scorebook.

Alex Jimenez, Logan Martin, and Chris Cernick also saw floor time for the Wolves, who return to action Friday when they play host to Sultan.

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Young guns stay scrappy

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 7, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Ty Hamilton, seen here last season, scored 12 points Tuesday to pace Coupeville’s C-Team. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

It’s been a long time coming.

With wind storms tacked on to winter break, all of the Coupeville High School basketball teams have been sitting for two weeks plus.

But none have waited as long as the boys C-Team.

The Wolf young guns had been out of action 20 days before they stepped on the floor Tuesday night in Granite Falls, and the rust showed a bit at first.

A rough first half derailed Coupeville in what became a 56-28 loss, though a strong second half, when the Wolves played the Tigers virtually even, bodes well for the future.

Now 1-3 on the season, the C-Team gets right back at it in less than 24 hours, hosting 4A Mount Vernon Wednesday in a game which tips off at 5 PM.

Playing in Granite, the Wolves stumbled out of the gate a bit, falling behind 17-4 after one quarter of action, and 34-8 at the half.

Benefitting from a pep talk from coach Patrick Upchurch, Coupeville more than doubled its output, throwing down 12 points in the third, and staying within 22-20 over the final 16 minutes of action.

Freshmen Ty Hamilton and Dominic Coffman paced the Wolves, dropping in 12 and eight points respectively, while Alex Wasik tossed in four.

Josh Upchurch and Ben Smith rounded out the offensive attack with a bucket apiece, with Coen Killian, Simon Shelley, Brayden Coatney, Nick Armstrong, Jaden Goodrich, and Caleb Sonntag also seeing floor time.

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