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Hurricanes swamp Wolf JV

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 27, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Zane Oldenstadt pops a shot. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

The Wolf JV gets back at it this weekend.

Not every night goes your way.

Frustrated by an unforgiving rim Thursday the Coupeville High School JV boys basketball squad fell 50-23 at Mount Vernon Christian.

The loss drops the young Wolves to 1-4 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 2-6 overall.

There are three games left on the schedule, however, with all of them on the road, giving Hunter Smith’s squad a chance to bounce back and exit on a high note.

Thursday night the Wolves found themselves in a hole early, and were never able to dig all the way back out.

Trailing 13-6 at the first break, Coupeville slipped behind 24-12 by halftime and 41-15 heading into the final frame.

Once there, the Wolves put together their best charge, playing MVC virtually straight up with four players rattling home points.

Freshman Hunter Bronec paced Coupeville, rippling the nets on a trio of three-balls en route to a team-high 10 points.

Zane Oldenstadt (5), Nick Guay (4), Landon Roberts (2), and Jack Porter (2) joined him in the scoring column, with Guay also hitting a trey.

Hurlee Bronec, Mikey Robinett, Ryan Blouin, William Davidson, and Quinten-Simpson Pilgrim all saw floor time as well.

Coupeville returns to action this Saturday with a non-conference rumble at Granite Falls.

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Cardiac kids pull off stunner

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 22, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Hunter Bronec was one of three Wolves to score in double digits Saturday, as the Coupeville JV pulled out a comeback win. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

They saved the best for last.

Roaring back from an 18-point deficit Saturday, the Coupeville High School JV boys basketball team pulled off one of the more thrilling wins of the season.

Scoring more points in the fourth quarter than they did in the first three frames combined, the Wolves scorched host South Whidbey 49-43, leaving Falcon Nation staggered, dazed, and bereft.

Now 2-5 on the season after the non-conference victory, Coupeville returns to Northwest 2B/1B League play for its final stretch of games.

The Wolves will be riding on a high when they do so, having used a 25-7 run across the final eight minutes to derail the Falcons.

The comeback was even more impressive than that, however, as CHS trailed 36-18 with 2:30 to play in the third quarter.

That was when Hunter Smith’s squad found some deeply buried magic, scoring six straight points to end the third, before unleashing hardcourt Hell in the fourth.

Six different Wolves scored during the final frame, with Hunter Bronec banging away for seven points.

He was joined by twin brother Hurlee, the other twins – Jack and Johnny Porter, Quinten Simpson-Pilgrim, and Ryan Blouin, in making the net jump.

Hurlee Bronec was a force on both ends of the floor.

The furious finale was necessary largely because of a cold stretch in the middle of the game.

Trailing just 11-10 at the first break, the Wolves came out on the wrong end of a 14-4 run headed into halftime, then another 11-4 surge to begin the third.

But Coupeville stayed strong, and a big part of its success was its ability to get to the free throw line, and then convert once it was there.

The Wolves netted 21 free throws, while South Whidbey could only slip two charity shots through the net.

Hurlee Bronec led CHS with a season-high 15 points, while Hunter Bronec (11) and Simpson-Pilgrim (10) also cracked double digits.

Blouin caressed the nets for six, with Jack Porter (5), and Johnny Porter (2) also scoring, while Carson Field and Landon Roberts scrambled on defense.

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JV girls fierce and full of fight

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on January 22, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Jada Heaton brought hustle and energy to the floor Saturday afternoon. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Jada Heaton is a wrecking ball.

And that’s a good thing. A very good thing.

When the Coupeville High School freshman is on the floor for the Wolf JV girls basketball squad, she’s always hustling, always working, always poking balls away and scrambling after rebounds.

That kind of effort, which was also shown by her teammates Saturday afternoon, makes a loss easier to take.

Yes, the young Wolves, who were missing several players including leading scorer Madison McMillan, fell 40-17 to visiting South Whidbey, dropping their record to 2-6.

But the non-conference defeat to their next-door neighbors is tempered a bit by the growth shown by the Wolves.

Coupeville may have played its best ball in the game’s final two minutes — punctuated by Skylar Parker draining a gorgeous bank shot off the glass — and that fierce fight in a game long-since decided is a huge positive.

Give the South Whidbey JV credit.

The Falcons played with crisp precision and picked apart the defense with strong passes.

But the Wolves kept on the attack, even after falling behind 16-5 after one quarter of play.

The visitors scored 12 of those 16 points in the paint, lobbing the ball over the defense, while also yanking down more than their fair share of rebounds.

Coupeville held its own in the second quarter, winning the frame 6-5 behind a pair of buckets from sparkplug Katie Marti and a silky-smooth slash up the middle by Mia Farris.

But the basket refused to play nicely with the Wolves after that, as they were held to just free throws in the second half until Parker made her highlight reel-worthy shot.

Heaton and Co. continued to put out extra energy on defense, however, with Brooklyn Thayer coming up big on the boards.

Marti topped the scorebook for the Wolves with five points, with Thayer (4), Farris (3), Kayla Arnold (2), Parker (2), and Heaton (1) also scoring.

The active Wolf roster was rounded out by Edie Bittner and Reese Wilkinson, with the former getting a big roar from her cheering section after coming up strongly on the defensive end of the floor.

Kayla Arnold lets fly.

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Wolf JV girls crush rivals

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 19, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville sharpshooter Desi Ramirez-Vasquez outscored Friday Harbor by herself Wednesday night. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

They unleashed the big guns.

With eight different players notching a bucket Wednesday, the Coupeville High School JV girls basketball team ran visiting Friday Harbor right off the floor.

Holding the visitors scoreless in the second half, the Wolves claimed a resounding 37-6 win on a night when their varsity counterparts were sidelined by Covid protocols.

The victory lifts the JV squad to 2-3 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 2-5 overall.

Coupeville came out hot and never looked back, building an 11-4 lead by the first break.

Desi Ramirez-Vasquez had the hot hand in the opening frame, dropping in six points, while Gwen Gustafson, Brooklyn Thayer, and Madison McMillan chipped in to help fuel the offensive explosion.

CHS stretched the margin to 20-6 by the half, then went into relentless lock-down mode after the break.

Friday Harbor couldn’t hit a bucket from anywhere in the second half, as the Wolves closed the game on a 17-0 tear.

Skylar Parker (14) and Katie Marti (45) clamp down on D.

Ramirez-Vasquez paced Coupeville, banking in a game-high 10 points to outscore Friday Harbor by herself.

She had plenty of help, however, with McMillan and Gustafson going off for seven points apiece.

Katie Marti (4), Thayer (3), Jada Heaton (2), Reese Wilkinson (2), and Mia Farris (2) also scored, with Edie Bittner, Kayla Arnold, and Skylar Parker chipping in on the defensive end for Greg Turcott’s team.

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A loss, but plenty of fight

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , , on January 19, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Nick Guay tossed in a team-high 13 points Wednesday for Coupeville’s JV. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

The rim was a relentless foe.

Despite getting plenty of strong looks at the basket Wednesday, the Coupeville High School JV boys basketball team struggled all night to get the ball to stay in the bucket.

That, combined with an opportunistic Friday Harbor defense, doomed the Wolves during a 58-28 home loss.

The defeat drops Coupeville’s JV to 1-3 in Northwest 2B/1B League action, 1-5 overall.

The Wolves came out cold in the mid-week game, and the visitors took advantage, claiming a lead they would never relinquish on the night’s very first bucket.

Down 8-0 in the early going, Coupeville got back within 12-8 right before the end of the first quarter, only to see Friday Harbor net a three-ball to end the frame with an exclamation point.

The best Wolf bucket in the early going came on a swooping layup by Johnny Porter, who snagged a crisp entry pass from Ryan Blouin and beat his man to the rim.

But Coupeville was never able to put together back-to-back buckets in the second or third quarter and saw its deficit mushroom.

Trailing 26-13 at the half, the Wolves slipped behind 38-21 heading into the fourth quarter.

Nick Guay caressed the net on a pair of three-balls, then added another one in the final period, but Friday Harbor used an aggressive defense to force frequent turnovers, frustrating Hunter Smith’s young team.

CHS hung tough, however, putting together a 7-0 run late in the fourth quarter to keep the visitors honest.

Guay finished with a team-high 13 points, including his trio of treys, while Jack Porter knocked down four points in support.

Blouin (3), Hurlee Bronec (2), Johnny Porter (2), Quinten Simpson-Pilgrim (2), and Mikey Robinett (2) also scored for the Wolves, while Carson Field, Landon Roberts, and Hunter Bronec also saw floor time.

Roberts, playing as proud mom Sherry beamed at him while working the scorer’s table, was ferocious on defense.

Even with his team trailing big late, he remained scrappy, scrambling back the length of the court to trip up a Friday Harbor ball handler and make away with the ball.

Landon Roberts was a standout on defense.

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