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No easy losses!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on January 12, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Tiffany Briscoe was back in the lineup Monday. (John Fisken photo)

Tiffany Briscoe was back in the lineup Monday. (John Fisken photo)

Toss the third quarter.

Accept that deal and the Coupeville High School JV girls’ basketball team won a thriller Monday night.

Can I get a show of hands? We’re all fine with that and … South Whidbey doesn’t want to go along with that plan?

Dang.

So, add back in the third quarter, a 22-5 Falcon run spurred by swing player McKenzie Collins, and the folks from Langley strolled off with a 41-26 non-conference win.

The loss dropped the young Wolves to 6-5 on the season.

But, like I said, take away that one quarter, when the varsity-experienced Collins terrorized the Wolf ball-handlers, making off with a series of steals, and it was a nail-biter.

Kailey Kellner kicked things off with a game-opening three-point bomb and the two teams battled through a defensive-minded first half that ended with South Whidbey clinging to a 12-10 lead.

“It was a scrappy back-and-forth game for the first half,” said Wolf coach Amy King. “A lot of shots went up on both ends without many falling.”

The second half was a different affair, as Collins and foul trouble both plagued the Wolves.

An already-thin bench got thinner when point guard Lauren Grove fouled out early in the fourth quarter.

“That hurt us,” King said. “She just started to get pressure on their ball handler and got a few steals, then that last foul came and took her tough defense out of the picture.”

Sparked by the return of Tiffany Briscoe, back after missing several games with an injury, the Wolf defense fought hard all night long.

Kellner had the play of the game with “a firm block that was great! Shook the gym and knocked her to the ground.”

The sophomore paced the Wolves with eight points, seven rebounds and three steals, while Grove, Kyla Briscoe and Lauren Rose chipped in with four points apiece.

Skyler Lawrence knocked down three, Tiffany Briscoe popped for two and Allison Wenzel hit a free throw.

Lawrence hauled down a team-high nine boards, while Wenzel snagged six and Tiffany Briscoe snatched five. Rose (4) and Grove (3) paced the team in steals, with Grove also collecting two blocked shots.

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New unis, same old winning team!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 7, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Makana (John Fisken photos)

Makana Stone, floatin’ like a butterfly and stingin’ like a bee … even when being whacked in the groin. (John Fisken photos)

Kailey

   Kailey Kellner made her varsity debut an auspicious one, draining a three-point bomb from the corner.

Mia

“I have the POWER!!” Mia Littlejohn does her best “Masters of the Universe” pose.

Wynter

Wynter Thorne can already taste the basket she’s about to score.

MOnica

Triple teams don’t work! Monica Vidoni goes up strong for two of her eight points.

MAdeline

   “Block my shot?!?! In your dreams, woman!!” Madeline Strasburg comes flying in for a finger-rollin’ bucket.

The Wolves are undefeated.

Well, they are in their new uniforms, at least.

The Coupeville High School girls’ basketball squad is a spiffy 7-4 overall, but a flawless 1-0 in its new duds, after debuting a crisp new look Tuesday night against visiting Port Townsend.

Arriving just after halftime, busy photographer-about town John Fisken fired off these shots capturing the Wolves rampaging to a 55-22 win.

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Plus, your money goes to help fund college scholarships for CHS senior student/athletes, so there’s that, too.

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Wolves fire up the spankin’ machine!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 6, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Kyla Briscoe (John Fisken photos)

   Kyla Briscoe played with this same determination Tuesday, scoring eight in a 49-5 Wolf win. (John Fisken photos)

Brisa Herrera

Brisa Herrera brings the defense every game.

There are nights where just about everything goes your way.

Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015 was one of those nights for the Coupeville High School JV girls’ basketball team, which put visiting Port Townsend through the spanking machine for 32 minutes en route to a 49-5 win.

And no, that is not a misprint. It really is supposed to say 49-5.

The victory, the third in the last four games for the young Wolves, lifted them to 6-4 overall, 2-0 in Olympic League play.

With three players scoring in double digits (and a fourth missing by just a bucket), Coupeville put together a 32-0 run, held the Redhawks scoreless in two separate quarters and gave coach Amy King plenty of time to work on every last play she had highlighted in her book.

For a moment, near the start, it looked like it might be a close game.

After Kailey Kellner opened things up for Coupeville with back-to-back buckets, Port Townsend drained a long jumper from the right side to cut the lead to 4-2.

That would be the last time a Redhawk player would find the bottom of the net until late in the third quarter, when a desperation heave from three-point land somehow found just the exact right combination of bounces before flopping through the net with an audible sigh.

While Port Townsend was shooting blanks, the Wolves took turns attacking the basket with glee.

Kellner tossed in 10 in the first quarter alone, then let teammates Skyler Lawrence, Lauren Rose and Kyla Briscoe go on mini-scoring runs of their own.

The play that summed up the disparity between the two teams came midway through the second quarter, when Coupeville snagged four straight offensive boards on one possession.

Finally tired of watching her teammates roll the ball around the rim and off it, Lawrence grabbed the final board and shot back upwards, banking the ball off the glass with a decisive thunk.

The next sound you heard was the sound of five sets of Port Townsend shoulders slumping as the Redhawks stumbled back up court.

Seriously, it made a whooshing sound.

Which was barely audible over the hootin’ and hollerin’ of the small, but vocal, pack of Wolf fans who had made it into the gym for a 3:30 start.

Despite sitting out the fourth quarter, so she could make her varsity debut later in the evening, Kellner paced Coupeville with 14 points, while Lawrence banged home 12 and Rose dropped in 10.

Briscoe tossed in eight, Lauren Grove kicked in three (and spearheaded the Wolf fast break on numerous occasions) and Brisa Herrera banked home her second bucket of the season.

Allison Wenzel was the lone Wolf to go scoreless, but more than made up for it with her ferocity on defense. With her long braid cracking in the air each time, she was a beast on the boards.

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Alone in first!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , , on January 6, 2015| Leave a Comment »

MOnica Vidoni (John Fisken photos)

Monica Vidoni, seen here in an earlier game, scored eight Tuesday as Coupeville romped to a 55-22 win. (John Fisken photos)

Wynter Thorne

Wynter Thorne was a spark plug on both ends of the court.

It wasn’t always pretty, but it didn’t have to be.

Recovering quickly after a stagnant opening four minutes, the Coupeville High School girls’ basketball team kicked it into another gear Tuesday night, crushing visiting Port Townsend 55-22.

The victory, the team’s fifth in its last seven games, lifted the Wolves to 7-4 overall, 2-0 in league play. CHS currently has sole possession of first place in the 1A Olympic League.

Coming off of what coach David King called “its best practice of the season” Monday, Coupeville somewhat surprisingly came out in a bit of a stupor.

Facing a winless Redhawk squad, the Wolves looked out of sync early and fell behind 7-2.

Then, whether it was words of wisdom in the huddle from a somewhat agitated coach or their own natural competitiveness resurfacing, the light clicked on for the Wolves.

In a big way.

Suddenly out-fighting and out-scrambling Port Townsend for nearly every ball, setting up a run of breakaway buckets, Coupeville went on a 40-3 tear that went from midway in the first quarter until the final minute of the third.

It started with a 15-1 surge to end the first, with five different Wolves scoring.

Coupeville then busted the game wide open with a 15-0 run in the second quarter.

Two plays in that streak stand out, one for its take-your-breath-away quality, the other for its sheer display of power.

On the first, Makana Stone soared high to snag a rebound, then spun and fired a baseball pass to Madeline Strasburg.

Catching the ball on her fingertips while in mid-sprint, Maddie Big Time spun her defender around 360 degrees, banked the ball off the backboard and then completed a three-point play when the dazed Redhawk was whistled for a desperate foul.

Two plays later, Wolf post player Monica Vidoni kept the ball alive, outreaching a wall of players to poke a rebound back to teammate Wynter Thorne.

Vidoni then called for the ball, got it back, put her shoulder down and made the best move of her high school career, rolling over two defenders and banking home the shot.

Not slowed a bit by the halftime break, the Wolves scored the first 10 points of the third quarter as well, capping a string of 25 straight CHS points.

Coupeville stretched the lead out as far as 36 points in the fourth quarter and took advantage of the blowout to give sophomore Kailey Kellner her first taste of varsity playing time.

The JV squad’s leading scorer, Kellner promptly went all Larry Bird on Port Townsend, draining a sweet three-point bomb from deep in the right corner, causing her large fan section to go bonkers.

Coupeville spread its scoring out, with Stone pumping in a game-high 19 and Strasburg bobbing and weaving for 14.

Vidoni dropped in eight, while Hailey Hammer (4), Thorne (4), Julia Myers (3) and Kellner (3) rounded out the scoring attack.

Kacie Kiel, Mia Littlejohn and McKenzie Bailey went scoreless, but all three chipped in with hustle and intangibles.

Coupeville now has a two-week break before it plays another league game.

The Wolves host South Whidbey Jan. 12, then travel to Mount Vernon Christian Jan. 17 for non-conference games, before beginning its run at a league title.

The team’s final seven games — starting with a a home game against Chimacum Jan. 21 — are all league games as CHS aims for its first league title since 2002.

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“I appreciate their dedication and hard work!!”

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on January 4, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Kyla Briscoe put up eight points and eight boards Friday. (John Fisken photo)

Kyla Briscoe put up eight points and eight boards Friday. (John Fisken photo)

They needed every body.

Down to just seven players with rebounding machine Tiffany Briscoe sidelined with an injury, the Coupeville High School JV girls’ basketball squad was super-thin Friday night in La Conner.

So, despite being super sick, sophomore spark plug Lauren Grove reached down and pulled off her best Michael Jordan impression, playing through the haze and almost helping the Wolves pull off a stunner.

Grove’s eight points, two rebounds, two steals, one block performance, coming in the muggy gym from Hell, got her brownie points from her coach, even if CHS eventually fell 43-40.

“These girls are pushing themselves,” Wolf coach Amy King said. “Lauren had to be taken out more often to give her a chance to hydrate. I know she shouldn’t have been at this game, but this is how tough she is.

“Kailey (Kellner) had to come out once because the air was so thick she just couldn’t catch her breath,” she added. “I appreciate their dedication and hard work.

“They are communicating more and really have bonded as a team. We would have loved to have taken that game, but had to find the positive in making a comeback, playing better in the second half and knowing we gave it all we had.”

Kellner was lights-out awesome, pumping in a team-high 11, while snagging 15 rebounds and making off with three steals.

As bothersome as the heat was, she never blinked.

“Kailey had a lot of rebounds, but her best of the night was in the second half of the fourth quarter,” King said. “Every time we took a shot and it didn’t go in, there were three La Conner girls and Kailey.

“Kailey’s hand went up higher and brought the ball down very strong before she would take it back up. She fought for everything.”

Despite the heat and a short bench, Coupeville (5-4 on the season) got out to an early lead, before La Conner went to the long ball to shake things up.

With three different Braves banging home treys in a short time span, La Conner used a 19-12 surge in the second quarter to build a 27-21 halftime lead.

Things got better for Coupeville in the second half, but time just ran away from the Wolves in the end.

“We did a lot of good things in the second half. Our energy picked up, our offenses ran better and our defense got more aggressive,” King said. “At one point, Brisa (Herrera) just grabbed the ball out of the hands of her opponent and made a great pass to her teammate.

“I love things like that.”

With Lauren Rose, Kyla Briscoe, Grove and Kellner anticipating passes and Allison Wenzel and Skyler Lawrence dominating inside, the Wolves were a scrappy, if overheated, team in the late stages of the game.

“Skyler directed on defense the whole game,” King said. “She is such a tough player; she talked the whole night, got in great position for open shots and at one point drove the ball up the court as no guards were open.

“Allison played great defense, stretching her hand above her opponents so no shots could be taken,” she added. “She was scrappy on rebounds and got her basket on a rebound put back.”

While Kellner and Grove topped the stat sheet, every one of the seven Wolves in action put up nice numbers.

Briscoe netted eight points and eight rebounds, while Rose popped for six, snagged three boards and pilfered two steals.

Lawrence (four points, seven rebounds), Wenzel (three points, four rebounds) and Herrera (three rebounds) all chipped in with stellar effort.

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