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No off days for hoops stars!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, fall ball, Kailey Kellner, Lakewood on September 18, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Kailey Kellner, seen here in last year’s state playoff game, snared 11 rebounds Sunday in a win over Lakewood. (John Fisken photo)

Two very, very different games.

Coupeville High School’s girls’ basketball squad kicked off fall ball action Sunday, and the two halves of its doubleheader couldn’t have had more diverse results.

After being run off the court 41-13 by Burlington-Edison in their opener at Skagit Valley College, the Wolves stormed back to upend former Cascade Conference rival Lakewood 27-25 in the nightcap.

The split, coming against a pair of 2A schools, tips off an eight-game schedule for Coupeville.

The Wolves play doubleheaders Oct. 2, 23 and 30, which gives them a chance to prepare for their regular season.

With high school coaches restricted from coaching teams in the off-season, Sherry Roberts, Aimee Bishop and Kyla Briscoe are calling the shots for CHS, while David and Amy King can only be interested bystanders.

What they witnessed Sunday was an opening game played at a road runners pace, and a finale played at a snails pace.

While they can’t comment, they probably appreciated how the second game played out more than the first.

Burlington, which went 19-4 during last year’s high school campaign, used a full court press and stellar on-ball defense to disrupt the young Wolves offense.

Up 20-4 at the half, the Tigers kept the pressure up in the second half.

While Coupeville was able to put together a solid 10-minute stretch coming out of the break, it wasn’t enough to turn the tide.

Things took a big change for the positive in game two, however.

Settled down and playing much more under control, the Wolves used crisp ball movement and strong defense to thwart Lakewood at every step.

The Cougars had the three-ball going for them — they dropped in four treys in the first half — but Coupeville withstood the barrage, getting scoring from six of the nine players on its roster.

Up 21-15 at the break, the Wolves held off Lakewood down the stretch thanks to their strong work on the boards.

Kailey Kellner paced CHS with 11 rebounds (while also taking two charges), with Lauren Grove and Mikayla Elfrank snagging six caroms apiece.

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Shoot for the stars!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, Kailey Kellner, King's, Mia Littlejohn, shooting clinic on August 10, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Wolf hoops stars (back, l to r) Kailey Kellner, Tiffany Briscoe, Mia Littlejohn and (front, l to r) Kyla Briscoe, Kalia Littlejohn. (David King photo)

Not content to rest.

Coming off of the program’s first trip to state in a decade, the core of the Coupeville High School girls’ basketball squad has been busy this summer.

From team camps to putting in work at open gyms, the Wolves, who return all but one player from last year’s 1A Olympic League champs, have taken advantage of the opportunities which abound in the off-season.

The latest excursion brought five CHS hoops stars — seniors Kailey Kellner and Tiffany Briscoe, juniors Mia Littlejohn and Kyla Briscoe and sophomore Kalia Littlejohn — to Seattle Wednesday.

Taking part in a shooting clinic at King’s High School, the Wolves were part of a group of 60+ basketball players in attendance.

Also on hand (to observe from the cheap seats) was CHS coach David King, who sent back the photo above and some video of a drill.

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Commit, compete, chill out!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, Kailey Kellner, Lindsey Roberts, Ocean Shores, summer camp on June 21, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Lindsey Roberts hangs out with the locals. (Amy King photos)

Ready to claim the gym as their own.

The Wolf varsity listens to coach David King, part one.

And the round-ball guru has more wisdom for his young charges.

The freshmen are awake … sort of.

Roberts (left) and Kailey Kellner work on their beach bodies.

If it’s summer, it’s time to go to camp.

A whopping 19 players accompanied Coupeville High School girls’ basketball coaches David and Amy King to Ocean Shores this year and they’re knee deep in hoops.

With the Wolves fielding both a varsity and JV team at the annual hoops extravaganza, it’s four games a day (at least), with start times as early as 8 AM and as late as 10 PM.

As the two-time defending 1A Olympic League champs work on their game, Amy King and her camera are busy documenting the behind the scenes activity for us.

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Kailey Kellner is an assassin!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, Kailey Kellner, Lindsey Roberts, Steph Curry, summer ball on June 12, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Kailey Kellner (red shorts) scorched the nets Sunday. (Amy King photos)

Wolves (l to r) Brittany Powers, Lauren Grove, Maddy Hilkey, Tiffany Briscoe, Kellner, Kyla Briscoe, Sarah Wright, Mia Littlejohn and Lindsey Roberts.

Kailey Kellner was hotter than the surface of the sun.

Torching the nets for 18 points in a cut-down game Sunday, the Coupeville High School senior-to-be had a love affair going with the basketball net.

By the time she was done, hitting the game-winner in sudden-death double overtime, Kellner had carried the Wolf girls’ basketball squad to a 23-21 upset of 2A Lakewood.

The win gave Coupeville a split in their first action of the summer — the tired Wolves fell to perennial power La Conner in the nightcap — and officially opened the post-Makana Stone era.

Coming off a trip to the regional round of the state tourney last winter, the Wolves can return every player on their roster, with the exception of the two-time 1A Olympic League MVP.

Nine of those players (six varsity vets and three former JV players looking to break into the big time) showed up Sunday to run and gun for David and Amy King.

The opening game was a back-and-forth affair, with Lauren Grove and Kyla Briscoe running the point and Kellner pulling off her best Steph Curry impression from beyond the arc.

Raining down three-balls as fast as her teammates could set her up, Kellner kept Coupeville within a point at the half.

Around her, the Wolves were getting hustle and scrappiness from everyone on the roster.

“Lots of energy from the whole team, good passing and working hard on getting rebounds,” Amy King said.

Brittany Powers, Maddy Hilkey and Sarah Wright, the three players looking to move up, all chipped in while Briscoe drew a crucial foul late in regulation.

Scrambling for a loose ball, she was run over by a Lakewood player, but bounced back to hit a crucial free throw.

Knotted up at 17-17, the teams went to overtime, which, like the game itself, was shorter than normal.

With just two minutes to play with (instead of the normal five) and no shot clock, Lakewood ran the clock down before hitting a potential game-winner.

At which point Kellner (symbolically) ripped off her jersey to reveal the Superman costume underneath.

First she beat the buzzer with a runner to force a second overtime, then she won the game in the extra period.

With the clock turned off, the second OT was simple — score, win. Don’t score, don’t.

Bringing the ball up for the first time, Coupeville made crisp passes, with Grove hitting Kellner down on the low block.

Ball in the air, ball in the basket, winner winner, chicken dinner.

Worn down a bit after an emotional opener, the Wolves, who, admittedly, are not in game shape, wilted a bit under substantial pressure in game two.

Having watched Kellner’s performance in the opener, La Conner clamped down on her in the nightcap.

Coupeville rallied from a slow start, using a new defense, but couldn’t get all the way back.

Still, their coaches were happy with a lot of what they saw Sunday.

“We had players on the floor going after loose balls, crashing the boards for rebounds,” Amy King said. “All in all, it was fun to see the girls back out on the court; we were really happy with all of their efforts and proud of their fight.”

Along with Kellner and Grove, fellow returning varsity starters Tiffany Briscoe and Mia Littlejohn and sixth-man spark-plug Lindsey Roberts, who had 10 rebounds in the win, joined Kyla Briscoe, Hilkey, Powers and Wright for the doubleheader.

“We did some good things in both games and can be proud of how we played,” David King said. “There are areas that need some work, but that’s what the off-season is for.

“Put in the work now and it pays off big-time once the high school season starts up in November.”

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“This has been a great season!!”

Posted in Softball, tagged Bellevue Christian, CHS Wolves, Kailey Kellner, playoffs, Softball, Tiffany Briscoe on May 21, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Freshman Sarah Wright crunched two hits and was a rock on defense Friday in a district playoff loss. (John Fisken photos)

Everyone in this photo could return next year, as the Wolves have no seniors.

The third time was not a charm.

Unable to hold on to an early lead, the Coupeville High School softball squad left a ton of runners on base Friday night and watched its playoff dreams fade away with them, falling 8-3 to Bellevue Christian.

The loss, coming in Spanaway, dropped the Wolves final record to 9-11.

The Vikings, who won two of three against Coupeville this season, went on to clobber Olympic League champ Chimacum 18-6 in the nightcap Friday and will play for a district crown Saturday.

Their opponent will be Seattle Christian, which drilled Klahowya 10-4.

Coupeville’s league rivals face off early Saturday in a loser-out game, with the winner advancing to state.

Whether it’s the Cowboys or Eagles surviving, they will play a seeding game in the afternoon against the loser of the championship game, with three teams advancing from District 3 to the big dance.

After recovering from a four-hour bus trip through non-stop traffic (at 100.7 miles, Coupeville had the farthest trip to districts of any of the six teams involved, by far), the Wolves came out on fire.

After a Kailey Kellner first-inning single failed to find any back-up, CHS exploded for all three of its runs in the top of the second.

Mikayla Elfrank smacked a double to light the spark, then Tiffany Briscoe plunked a single, one of her two hits on the afternoon.

Taking advantage of the situation, the Wolves plated three runs on back-to-back singles, with Lauren Rose blasting a two-run triple, followed by an RBI double off of Kellner’s bat.

But, as quickly as they snatched a 3-2 lead, the Wolves gave it back, surrendering three runs to the bottom of the order in the back half of the inning.

The game then turned into a pitcher’s duel for several innings, stuck on 5-3 until Bellevue chipped away for a single run in the fifth and two more in the sixth.

Coupeville had its chances, but stranded two runners in each of the fourth, fifth and sixth.

Overall, the Wolves left nine runners aboard, stranding potential runs in every inning except the third.

The most painful might have been the sixth, when Briscoe led off with a single, followed by Rose eking out a walk.

With two on, no one out, and the deficit just three runs, the rally caps were just starting to come out when the Vikings shut down the next three Wolf sluggers in order.

Even in a loss, Coupeville put up strong stats on both sides of the ball.

Sophomore hurler Katrina McGranahan whiffed six, while the Wolves rang up nine hits, spread out among six hitters.

Sarah Wright, Kellner and Briscoe had two base knocks apiece, with Wright bashing a double, while Rose, McGranahan and Elfrank each chipped in with a hit.

First-year CHS head coach Kevin McGranahan fielded a squad with no seniors (and just a handful of juniors) this season, and sees a bright future ahead for the Wolves.

“The girls played a great game and kept their heads in it throughout,” he said. “Wish we could have won and moved on but even though it has come to an end this has been a great first season for me and I could not be more proud of these young ladies and all they have accomplished together.

“Next year we will return every one of them and even get stronger with new freshmen additions.”

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