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Road? Home? Just win, baby!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 19, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Landon Roberts, seen with dad Jon and big sis Lindsey, scored eight points in a win. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

So, this is what the Coupeville High School gym complex looks like.

Playing at home for the first time in six games this season, the Wolf JV boys’ basketball squad didn’t skip a beat, rolling to its fifth straight win.

Thunking visiting Forks 50-35 Tuesday, the Coupeville young guns grab their fifth-straight win and head into the new year boasting a 5-1 record.

While their varsity counterparts hit the road to Eastern Washington for a pair of holiday games, the JV doesn’t return to the court until Jan. 5.

When they do, the Wolves will be right back where they’re used to being — sitting on a school bus bumping down the back roads of America, this time headed for Darrington.

After that, six of their final nine games will be at home.

Squaring off with a rough-and-tumble group of hardwood hooligans from Forks, the young Wolves hit the gas pedal early Tuesday and never let the Spartans get a toehold.

Camden Glover, banging away down low in the paint, dominated in the first quarter, outscoring the visitors 9-8 by himself.

Tack on four apiece for Jack Porter, Landon Roberts, and Johnny Porter, and Coupeville had a 21-8 advantage heading into the first break.

The two teams actually played almost even from that point on, but that also meant Forks had little chance to play catch-up.

The lead slid out to 28-12 at the half, slightly cut back to 42-28 through three, then finished with little reason for the Wolves to sweat.

Glover finished with a game-high 18 points, while Aiden O’Neill and Jack Porter both banked in 10 in support of their big guy.

Roberts (8) and Johnny Porter (4) rounded out the scoring, with Davin Houston, Easton Green, Malachi Somes, Riley Lawless, and Makai Myles crashing the boards and harassing Spartan ballhandlers.

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Young, scrappy, and getting dangerous

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 15, 2023| Leave a Comment »

The Wolves prepare to pounce. (Michelle Armstrong photo)

They got the gang back together.

A game after loaning out Haylee Armstrong and Bryley Gilbert to help Orcas Island field a full team, the Coupeville High School JV girls’ basketball team was back at full force Friday night.

And with 11 players in uniform, the very-young Wolves, who have six 8th graders on the roster, gave host Friday Harbor a serious run for its money.

Getting stronger and stronger as the game unfolded, the CHS hardwood warriors almost caught their rival at the end before falling 36-32.

The loss leaves Coupeville at 0-1 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 1-3 overall heading into a home game Saturday against South Whidbey.

With the Falcons unable to field full boys’ teams for this weekend, the JV girls get to play in the main gym at 5:15 PM, with the varsity following at 7:00.

The 50th anniversary of the Wolf hoops program will be celebrated at halftime of the varsity game.

Kassie O’Neil’s JV players, many of whom will one day play at the upper level, hung tough during a low-scoring first quarter Friday, heading to the break down just 6-4.

While a bump in the second frame stretched the deficit out to 18-9, the Wolves hacked away at the lead after halftime.

Coupeville trimmed the margin down to 24-17 through three quarters, then went off for almost half of their points while winning the fourth 15-12.

Armstrong paced the Wolves, ringing up eight of her team-high 14 points in the final minutes, while Taylor Marrs and Gilbert each chipped in with four.

Tenley Stuurmans (3), Adie Maynes (3), Lexis Drake (2), and Brynn Parker (2) also tallied points, with Capri Anter, Ava Lucero, Chelsi Stevens, and Ari Cunningham rounding out the rotation.

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New town, same old win

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 15, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Malachi Somes (back) was one of nine Wolves to score as Coupeville’s JV rolled to a fourth-straight road win. (Photo courtesy Megan Rickner)

Do they even want to come home?

The Coupeville High School JV boys’ basketball squad has played its first five games on the road this season, going from town to town terrorizing the locals.

Friday night the place to be was Friday Harbor, and once again the young Wolves were in fine form, drilling their hosts 64-50 in the conference opener for both teams.

The victory lifts Coupeville to 4-1 overall, 1-0 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, and pushes its win streak to four games.

The young guns were finally scheduled to play at home Saturday against South Whidbey, but the Falcons had to reschedule, so CHS will wait until next Tuesday, when Forks makes the trek to Cow Town.

Which might not be a bad thing as the JV was battling team-wide sickness Friday.

Not that it slowed the Wolves roll.

The first quarter was a tense affair, with Friday Harbor clinging to an 18-17 lead at the break.

That changed in a hurry, however, as seven different Wolves scored in the second frame, powering a game-changing 17-9 run.

Up 34-27 at the half, Coupeville poured in another 20 points in the third to build a 54-38 advantage, then gave the bench some major playing time in the fourth.

The Wolves got scoring from nine of 10 players in uniform, with Camden Glover (19) and Jack Porter (16) combining for 35 points.

Johnny Porter (9), Aiden O’Neill (6), Landon Roberts (5), Malachi Somes (3), Riley Lawless (2), Makai Myles (2), and Easton Green (2) also scored, while Davin Houston brought defensive heat.

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JV madness sweeps the hardcourt

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 13, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Fab frosh Haylee Armstrong scored seven points Wednesday, while playing against her own team. (Photo courtesy Michelle Armstrong)

Then, things got weird.

Now stuff is always sort of kooky when Orcas Island comes to Coupeville, with the varsity playing first, and the JV second, in case anyone has to depart mid-game to sprint for the ferry.

But Wednesday night’s second game came with its own set of quirks.

Short story, the visiting Vikings made off with a 41-15 “win.”

The story behind the story? The game only went three quarters and two Coupeville players suited up for Orcas — and almost combined to outscore their real teammates.

The Vikings arrived in Cow Town with a short roster, so only had a handful of JV players.

To be able to play more than 3-on-3, Orcas reused many of their younger varsity players, then added Wolf snipers Haylee Armstrong and Bryley Gilbert to the roster.

At which point Armstrong, arguably Coupeville’s best JV player, went off for seven points, while Gilbert banked home six in support.

Combine them with scrappy Orcas players like 8th grade buzzsaw Ivy Shaefer, and the Vikings were ready to rumble, roaring out to a 14-2 lead.

Wolf 8th grader Tenley Stuurmans, dropping buckets while older sister Lyla did babysitter duty for CHS varsity coach Megan Richter, nailed back-to-back buckets to end the opening quarter.

That slowed the Orcas assault, but just for a hot second.

Once the second quarter began, the Vikings, powered by Armstrong and Gilbert, ripped off a 13-2 run to push the lead out to 27-8 at the half.

The third quarter offered Coupeville its best sustained offensive run, as Brynn Parker, Capri Anter, and Tenley Stuurmans combined on a 5-0 run.

But then Armstrong picked her classmates apart, rippling the net three times in the quarter to please her new, one-night-only teammates.

The final bucket for the Wolf freshman masquerading as a Viking was a pretty, pretty steal and breakaway bucket, the ball slipping through the net a millisecond before the buzzer sounded.

And that was where the night ended, a quarter short of a full game, as Orcas made a run for the boat and the refs tried to figure out what was going on.

In the end, Tenley Stuurmans led the “real” Wolves with eight points, while Parker (4), Lexis Drake (2), and Anter (1) also scored.

Taylor Marrs, Ava Lucero, Chelsi Stevens, Adie Maynes, and Ari Cunningham, 8th graders all, rounded out Kassie O’Neil’s rotation.

Coupeville, now 1-2 on the season, gets right back at it with a trip to Friday Harbor on Friday, followed by a home game Saturday against South Whidbey.

Hopefully with all their players wearing Wolf uniforms.

Coupeville’s female JV hoops stars hang out with their male counterparts. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

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“In my book it was a good day”

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , , , on December 12, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Wolf JV hoops stars cheer on their middle school counterparts Monday. A day later the high school players roared to their own huge win. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Maybe they just won’t come back home.

Thanks to a quirk in the schedule, the Coupeville High School JV boys’ basketball team hasn’t played a game in its own gym this season, yet is a sterling 3-1.

The latest victory came at Granite Falls Tuesday night, as the Wolves broke open a close game early and romped to a 59-33 triumph.

The third straight non-conference win for the young guns, it sends them to Friday Harbor this Friday for the Northwest 2B/1B League opener riding an emotional high.

And then, and then only, the Wolves finally get their first home game Saturday, when they clash with archrival South Whidbey.

Tuesday’s tilt in Granite was close for about two, maybe three minutes.

The host Tigers actually led at 6-4, and then the tsunami hit and washed away the Tigers.

Johnny Porter and Camden Glover rolled hard to the hoop on back-to-back plays, and the Wolves closed the first quarter on an 11-2 tear, basically ending things on the spot.

Key to Coupeville’s success was the way its players shared the rock.

Then add in a whole bunch of intangibles, and things were looking good for the guys in red and black.

“We had very good ball movement, shared well, spread the wealth, crashed the boards good, shot 90% at the free throw line and everyone got minutes,” said CHS coach Jon Roberts.

“In my book it was a good day.”

Once they had the advantage, the Wolves poured it on, zipping the ball around the horn, looking for the hot hand, and never allowing Granite to have a moment of peace.

Another run, this one 10-0 in the latter half of the second quarter, featured buckets from Riley Lawless, Camden Glover, and Davin Houston, as CHS dominated in the paint.

Setting the table was Landon Roberts, who slashed through the defense, then dropped picture-perfect lobs into the waiting fingers of his big men.

Up 29-13 at the break, Coupeville continued to hammer away at its hapless foes.

Aiden O’Neill spun his defender around like a top, then slashed past him for a bucket, while Jack and Johnny Porter were twin titans of terror, converting offensive rebounds into easy put-backs.

The Wolves kept the flow going throughout the fourth, whether it was Houston and Lawless knocking down buckets, or Malachi Somes, Makai Myles, and Easton Green harassing Tiger ballhandlers into frequent mistakes.

Landon Roberts put the final nail into the coffin, picking off a pass and using his long legs to fly coast to coast to beat the buzzer by half a beat with a game-ending layup.

Coupeville spread its offense around, with Johnny Porter popping for a game-high 13 points, and Jack Porter slapping home 10.

Landon Roberts, Glover, and Lawless had eight apiece, with Houston (6), Green (4), and O’Neill (2) rounding out the attack.

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