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75% of a win!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 21, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Alex Jimenez drilled a three-ball to help kick off Coupeville’s scoring Wednesday in a hotly-contested JV game. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

The second quarter was a killer.

Undone by a 17-2 Concrete run Wednesday, the Coupeville High School JV boys basketball team couldn’t get all the way back and fell 40-28.

The loss drops the Wolf young guns to 1-7 on the season.

Erase that second quarter cold streak and CHS would have pulled out a 26-23 win.

The Wolves “won” the first (8-6) and fourth (10-3) quarters and played tough in the third, but it wasn’t quite enough.

“This was a game that we were never really out of … but also never really in after the first quarter,” said Coupeville coach Chris Smith. “Although we saw scoring from eight different guys, we just couldn’t get the offense clicking.”

Swing player Mason Grove led the offense, hitting for seven points in his two quarters of action, while Koa Davison knocked down five.

Daniel Olson (3), Alex Jimenez (3), Gavin Knoblich (3), Ulrik Wells (3), Sage Downes (2) and David Prescott (2) also scored, while Jean Lund-Olsen, Jacobi Pilgrim and Tucker Hall saw floor time.

While noted sharp-shooter Grove saved his three-balls for the varsity game, where he drained three, four of his teammates hit from distance.

Jimenez, Olson, Knoblich and Davison all dialed up a successful trey from behind the arc.

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Close, very close!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 16, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Wolf frosh Daniel Olson banked home three points Saturday in a narrow JV loss. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

“This game will lay the foundation for our continued improvement over the remainder of the season.”

The Coupeville High School JV boys basketball squad came up a play or two shy of a win Saturday, but Wolf coach Chris Smith walked away largely satisfied.

Despite missing several players and being restricted on how they could use others, CHS chased visiting Bellevue Christian to the very end of a narrow 47-43 loss.

The Wolves survived and thrived despite suffering through a cold spell in the second quarter — when they were outscored 16-4 — “winning” every other eight-minute period.

Coupeville jumped out to a 15-13 lead after one quarter, with Mason Grove going off for 13 points by himself.

Smith could only call on his sophomore gunner in two quarters, leaving Grove available for varsity play.

He still finished with a game-high 18 points, including four balls from behind the three-point arc.

Grove wasn’t Coupeville’s only weapon, though, as fellow sophomore Koa Davison dropped in 10 of his 13 points during a third-quarter run.

“Koa hit the gear I have been waiting to see,” a satisfied Smith said.

After falling behind by 10 at the break, the Wolves steadily chipped away at the lead in the second half.

“I was thrilled that at the end of the game we were thinking about strategy and what we needed to do to win down by four with :47 left on the clock,” Smith said. “We came up a little short, but the energy and excitement were there.”

Ulrik Wells banged home six points in support of Grove and Davison, while Daniel Olson and Jean Lund-Olsen added three apiece.

Sage Downes, Gavin Knoblich, Alex Jimenez, David Prescott and Jacobi Pilgrim also saw floor time for the Wolves, who have played much better than their 1-6 record might indicate.

“I may call this one of our best games of the season,” Smith said. “This was the most balanced game we have played offensively and defensively.

“We went into the game with the goal of playing patient/attacking offense and aggressive/efficient defense,” he added. “For the most part that is what we did and it was working.”

As the Wolves get ready for their final game before the winter break, next Wednesday at home against Concrete, their coach likes the direction they are headed.

“Overall an extremely positive game for us,” Smith said. “If this group plays fundamental basketball, while playing together as a team, they will be tough to beat.”

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“Tia was a monster!!”

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on December 16, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Tia Wurzrainer was a wild woman on defense Saturday, recording six blocks against Bellevue Christian. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Almost at full strength. Almost.

While the Coupeville High School JV girls basketball roster still isn’t 100% healthy, it was as close Saturday as it has been at any point this season.

With nine warriors at her disposal, Wolf coach Amy King almost had to put out a call for extra chairs. Almost.

Facing off with a well-seasoned foe in visiting Bellevue Christian, strength in numbers offered a huge emotional boost for Coupeville.

Now, if a few more shots had dropped, the Wolves might have also had a win to commemorate the moment.

Instead, despite a second-half rally, CHS fell 30-17.

The non-conference loss drops the young Wolves to 4-3 on the season, but they still boast the most successful record of any of the school’s four hoops teams.

Saturday was a tale of two different styles of play, as Coupeville was red-hot on defense for 32 minutes but ice-cold on offense for a considerable chunk of time.

Other than a few razzle-dazzle plays, such as a steal and sizzlin’ pass from Kylie Chernikoff to Ashlie Shank for a bucket, CHS had trouble getting the rim to cooperate.

“Shots went up, but the lid was on, on our end,” King said.

Down 6-1 at the first break, the Wolves gave up a string of fast-break buckets in the second quarter, finding themselves staring up at a 17-4 halftime deficit.

Some locker room adjustments, perhaps a Knute Rockne-style speech from King, and Coupeville came out fired up in the second half, playing to a 13-13 tie over the final 16 minutes.

“The third quarter was better,” King said “Our offense started to have more movement, the girls moved the ball better and took care of it better, less steals for Bellevue.”

Kick-starting the offense was the defense, as Coupeville staged a block party.

Coupeville rejected 11 Bellevue shots, with feisty sophomore Tia Wurzrainer pulling off a Dikembe Mutombo-style rampage with six blocks of her own.

“Tia was a monster on defense,” King said. “Block after block and shutting off a number of shots.”

Toss in two rejections apiece for Avalon Renninger and Mollie Bailey and one for Nicole Lester, and it quickly became a no-shoot zone for the Vikings.

When BC did get a shot up and away, the Wolves cleaned the glass with a fury, with Maddy Hilkey and Bailey pacing the team by snatching four caroms apiece.

While the Vikings had a height advantage, Chernikoff and Lester “fought all night against a couple of tough post players,” doing a “nice job keeping the other team from driving into the key.”

Lester paced the scoring attack with five points, while Renninger (4), Bailey (3), Hilkey (2), Shank (2) and Chernikoff (1) all chipped in to the effort.

Chelsea Prescott, limited to one quarter so she could play varsity, racked up two rebounds, a steal and an assist, while Shank snagged two boards in her season debut and foreign exchange student Julia García Oñoro “held her own on the defensive end.”

Even in defeat, King came away with positives.

“We did some good things despite the loss,” she said. “The girls are getting more confident with dribbling against pressure, rebounding and putting the ball back up and shooting in general.

“We will make a few adjustments over the next few practices and will be ready for our next game.”

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Roll on, mighty Wolves!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 13, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Nicole Lester collected two points, five rebounds, three steals and an assist Tuesday in a Wolf JV win. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

   Chelsea Prescott, getting her hair done by Catherine Lhamon, scored 19 points, with 13 coming in the fourth quarter.

Imagine how good they’ll be when they have a full roster.

Despite playing every game this season with multiple players in street clothes, the Coupeville High School JV girls basketball team has set the standard.

Now 4-2 overall, 1-0 in Olympic League play after polishing off host Port Townsend 27-14 Tuesday, the Wolf young guns are red hot and rolling.

And that’s even though they played with just seven of 11 players active against the RedHawks.

With a few dings healing up, some practice time caught up, and a hoped-for banishment of the flu, Amy King’s squad could be at full force as early as its next game, which arrives Saturday.

If not, no big whoopee, as whomever is in uniform will surely step up and play huge.

Facing off with Port Townsend, the Wolves had seven in uniform, but swing players Avalon Renninger and Chelsea Prescott were restricted to just two quarters apiece.

No problem, as Prescott dumped in 13 of her game-high 19 in the fourth quarter, turning a close, defensive-minded game into a rout.

“We spread them (Chelsea and Avalon) out to cover all quarters and keep the stability on the court,” King said. “Both stepped up and did their part, strong on defense and getting scrappy off an on throughout the game.”

While she always enjoys a win, King was less thrilled with how drowsy a game it was.

“Something about playing in that gym. The game seems to slow down,” she said. “We were very quiet on defense most of the night, even though we did a pretty good job shutting down their main player.

Maddy Hilkey, Mollie Bailey and Tia Wurzrainer formed a three-headed defensive dynamo, “cutting off shots and slowing down drives.”

Nicole Lester played a strong all-around game, ripping down five boards and making off with three steals while Spanish sensation Julia García Oñoro collected a career-high three rebounds.

“Julia looked more comfortable; she has shown so much improvement since this season started,” King said.

While the game was a snooze for a big chunk, and Port Townsend’s crew struggled mightily with its shot clock and possession arrow duties, the Wolves rose to the moment when it was required.

“The girls battled and did pick up when they needed to,” King said. “We took good shots all night, and I tell the girls to keep looking at the basket and keep shooting – those shots will fall.”

Hilkey tossed in four points to back Prescott, while Lester and Wurzrainer rounded out the attack with a bucket apiece.

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The kid can’t miss!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 12, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Mason Grove scored 34 points, with 10 three-pointers, in Tuesday’s JV game. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Mason Grove can shoot. End of story.

The Coupeville High School sophomore has a quick, deadly stroke from three-point land, something he has demonstrated all season.

Tuesday night, though, Grove took it to another level.

Raining down 10 (count ’em) three-balls, he had arguably the greatest single offensive game any Wolf JV player has ever recorded, scoring 34 points in a 59-48 loss to a high-powered Port Townsend squad.

The loss drops a young, mostly inexperienced CHS team to 1-4, but the Wolves didn’t fall easily.

Trailing 15-7 after one quarter of play, a period in which the offense came from Daniel Olson, Ulrik Wells and Jake Pease, Coupeville (and Grove) lit up the joint in the second.

It started with a trey from the top, and then the balls started falling from every direction.

By the time he was done, Grove had hit five three-balls in the quarter, scored 17 and helped keep the Wolves alive as the two teams battled to a 21-21 stalemate over eight furious minutes.

The few times the long-range shots weren’t falling, Pease cleaned the glass effectively, knocking down a pair of shots.

Three consecutive Grove treys to kick off the third quarter pulled CHS to within a single point at 38-37, but that was when the more-polished RedHawks began to assert themselves.

A 20-5 Port Townsend surge that began at the midway point of the third and crested late in the fourth doomed any chances of a Wolf win, but Coupeville stayed scrappy until the end.

Free throws from Wells and Grove helped, and then the fans, who had been counting down, got what they wanted when Grove splashed home his 10th three-ball in the final minute.

Coupeville’s record for a varsity game is seven treys, set by Gabe Wynn last season. Until then, Brad Sherman, the current CHS head coach, was the high man, with six during a 2001 game.

Grove’s 34 points, very likely a single-game scoring record for a JV game, were just 14 off the Wolf varsity record of 48, set by Jeff Stone (without the three-point line) way back in 1970.

Pease chipped in with six points Tuesday, while Wells and Olson knocked down three apiece.

Jean Lund-Olsen rounded out the scoring with a basket, while David Prescott, Alex Jimenez, Gavin Knoblich, Tucker Hall and Sage Downes saw floor time.

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