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Lessons learned, future bright!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged Basketball, Brittany Powers, CHS Wolves, Klahowya, Sarah Wright on February 6, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Brisa Herrera fought like a wild woman for every loose ball Saturday. (John Fisken photo)

It wasn’t perfect, maybe, but it was full of positives.

A year after a very polished squad rolled through much of its competition, this year’s version of the Coupeville High School JV girls’ basketball squad was much more of a work-in-progress.

With a roster that included six freshmen, several of whom hadn’t played before, the young guns showed improvement every week, and that’s all that coach Amy King asks.

While Coupeville fell 47-31 to visiting Klahowya Saturday, the Wolves finished 7-11, including a strong 5-4 in league play.

They never had anything longer than a two-game losing streak, and featured several players who should be making the jump up to help the varsity in the coming years.

One of the first who could get the call up to the big leagues is freshman Sarah Wright, who capped her season by pounding away in the paint for a game-high 10 points Saturday.

A ferocious rebounder and enforcer, she’s joined in the let’s-pound-folks department by Brittany Powers.

Listed at a mere five-foot-two in the program — she ties Lauren “Mouse” Rose as the smallest Wolf — Powers spends her time on the floor thrashing people up one side of the court and down the other.

Saturday night was a prime example, as she twice exited, applied ice to another place she had been whacked by rogue Eagles, then charged right back on the court to repay the experience, earning a smile and nod from her coach.

The two mighty mites both tallied seven points apiece, with Powers twice taking the ball coast-to-coast for buckets, while Rose pulled off the game’s best move, slicing the defense for a runner, then tacking on the ensuing free throw.

Allison Wenzel added three, while Skyler Lawrence and Nicole Lester rounded out the scoring with a bucket apiece.

Ashlie Shank and Maddy Hilkey pushed the ball all night, running the Wolf offense, while Lindsey Laxton and Brisa Herrera both shone on defense.

Herrera, in particular, spent most of her time on the floor ripping the ball loose from Eagles hands, making sure every called jump ball she was involved in actually ended with her hands alone on the ball.

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“It was wild!!”

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged 1A Olympic League, Basketball, CHS Wolves, JV, Klahowya, refs suck, you bit me on January 29, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Wolf hoops stars (l to r) Ashlie Shank, Maddy Hilkey and Lindsey Roberts kill time before their games Friday. Later, Hilkey would be bit. Not by her teammates. (Amy King photo)

Some days you win, others you just get chomped.

Apparently Forks is not the only vampire-friendly town in the region, as the Coupeville High School JV girls’ basketball squad returned from Silverdale Friday with several new teeth marks to display.

Wolf frosh Maddy Hilkey was bitten (yes, really), swing player Allison Wenzel got a bloody lip a day after her birthday and super-scrappy Ashlie Shank added to her extensive “floor burn and bruise collection.”

Oh, and the Wolves were nipped 31-30 in a game in which, if they had ten more seconds, they probably would have won.

Charging back hard in the second half after a slow start, Coupeville got what should have, could have been a game-winner.

Brittany Powers nailed a three-ball with five ticks on the clock to put the Wolves up by one, only to have the refs swoop in to save the day for Klahowya.

As the Eagles tried to bring the ball up under pressure, Lauren Rose forced the ball-handler to travel.

Except that’s not how the refs chose to see it, instead whistling a foul on Coupeville and sending Klahowya to the line, where they slid two free-throws through the net to regain the lead.

The Wolves turned the ball over on the ensuing play, but quickly fouled, hoping for a final shot.

The ploy worked, for a second, as the free throw slid off the rim, but then it hit the head of a potential rebounder and shot away, allowing the clock to run out on CHS.

“It was wild,” said Wolf coach Amy King. “I told the girls, we beat them by one more than they beat us and we get them one more time (next Saturday).

“Quite the game.”

The Wolves (6-9 overall, 4-2 in league play) found themselves in a very physical game from the start.

“We got hit by all sides the first half,” King said. “They were majorly aggressive, going after every loose ball, steals, if we rebounded they had three players on the ball, they had a cherry picker down the floor the whole game.

“We couldn’t get any offense going and it took us a while to take a deep breath and dig in. Which we did.”

Swing player Kyla Briscoe led the second-half rally with strong play on defense, while Sarah Wright and Skyler Lawrence made Klahowya pay dearly down low.

To a player, the Wolves amped up their own play to meet the challenge.

“Skyler made them pay for ignoring her at the top of the key. Ashlie and Allison were on the floor more times than we could count,” King said.

“Lauren and Maddy got aggressive on not letting them just make the passes that they wanted and Brittany was a mad woman, voicing loudly when she had the ball,” she added. “Sound like a melee? Kinda was.”

Wright paced Coupeville with 12 points and 14 rebounds, while Lawrence (6), Briscoe (4), Shank (3), Powers (3), Wenzel (1) and Rose (1) also scored.

Shank ripped down nine boards while she and Briscoe each had two steals.

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Banners hang forever!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball, tagged 1A Olympic League, Basketball, CHS Wolves, Klahowya, playoff fever, standings on January 18, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Lauren Grove and the Wolf girls sit atop the 1A Olympic League standings. (John Fisken photos)

Seven games left, one goal for the CHS boys — win a league banner.

There are titles to be won.

And let’s put an emphasis on that S, as both the Coupeville High School girls’ and boys’ hoops squads are in prime position to take the crown in the 1A Olympic League this season.

The Wolf girls are the defending league champs, and remain undefeated as a program in the short history of the league, with both their varsity and JV squads being 11-0 in league play (9-0 last season).

As they prepare for the final seven games of regular season league play — they also have a non-conference tilt left against 12-1 Bellevue Christian — the focus will be on staying the course.

Doing that thing coaches love. Taking one game at a time and not mentally hanging another banner on the gym wall until it’s real.

For the boys, this is fairly new territory.

Coupeville has worked itself back uphill after bottoming out with a win-less season in coach Anthony Smith’s first go-around in 2011-2012 and sits snugly in a tie for second-place in the current standings.

Just a game-and-a-half out of first with seven to play, and two of those against current front-runner Port Townsend, the Wolves will have a large say in their final fate.

Standings through Jan. 18 (league record followed by overall record):

GIRLS

Coupeville 2-0, 8-3
Klahowya 2-1, 3-10
Port Townsend 1-2, 3-9
Chimacum 0-2, 3-10

BOYS

Port Townsend 3-0, 5-8
Coupeville 1-1, 6-6
Chimacum 1-1, 3-10
Klahowya 0-3, 1-13

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1A all the way!!

Posted in 1A Olympic League, tagged 1A Olympic League, Chimacum, CHS Wolves, classification, Klahowya, Port Townsend, WIAA on January 14, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Current 8th graders like Maya Toomey-Stout (3) and Scout Smith (2) now know Coupeville will be a 1A school for their entire high school run. (John Fisken photo)

It’s a done deal. Well, 99% done.

Coupeville High School will remain a 1A school for the next four years, and so will the three other schools who joined the Wolves to form the 1A Olympic League in 2014.

The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association released its 2016-2020 enrollment figures Thursday, with final approval set to come when their executive board meets Jan. 24-25.

After years of doing classification counts every two years, the WIAA is changing that to every four years beginning this year.

Two years ago, Coupeville was the smallest true 1A school in the state, but it no longer holds that distinction.

With 227 students in grades 9-11, it is now the 6th smallest, with Columbia (Burbank) inheriting smallest status with 214.50 students.

Schools can choose to opt up (but not down), and eight schools with 2B numbers decided to do just that, so, technically, CHS has the 52nd biggest student body of the 65 schools which will compete in 1A.

Coupeville’s three league mates all remained in 1A, as well, though Klahowya came close to not making the cut.

The Eagles slid in just under the line, and they will be the 2nd biggest 1A school with 445.07 students.

Port Townsend has 278.25, which is way down from two years ago, and Chimacum sits at 250.38.

As the WIAA dots the I’s and crosses the T’s, there is still one thing to keep an eye on.

Across the state, schools are jumping leagues, either because of moving up or sliding down a level, or for other reasons.

The Everett Herald is reporting the four 2A schools from Coupeville’s former league, the 2A/1A Cascade Conference, are joining up with schools from the Northwest Conference, such as Anacortes, to form a 12-team “super conference” for football only.

That would leave the conference’s four 1A schools — King’s, South Whidbey, Sultan and Cedar Park Christian-Bothell — on their own, at least for the biggest revenue sport.

Whether that could help prod South Whidbey to seek out a chance to rejoin Coupeville is unknown at this time.

If the 1A Olympic League were to expand (Forks has been frequently mentioned in the past, as well), the league could set itself up for more playoff berths in all sports.

Only time will tell, though.

Until then, it’s all just gossip. Juicy, juicy gossip to fill up the day.

To see the final, almost-official WIAA figures, pop over to:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12qwdXCBPepkgxLWG4sbxIJgXo5eDX0FZHM8flfx4pdE/pubhtml?gid=1635670243&single=true

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Rise to the top, but don’t stop!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, John Fisken photos, Klahowya, Lauren Rose, Tiffany Briscoe on December 12, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Desperately need a rebound? Call 9-1-1 and ask them to send Tiffany Briscoe. (John Fisken photos)

Ignoring a taped-up hand, Allison Wenzel nimbly leads the charge up-court.

Mia Littlejohn (21) catches some rare air as she flies in to greet Lauren Grove during pre-game introductions.

Tension? What tension? The JV game might have been super close, but Brittany Powers (with water bottle), Sarah Wright (braids) and photo-bomber Lindsey Roberts are all smiles.

I mustache you … how do you stop Makana Stone? Trick question, cause you don’t.

Skyler Lawrence will not be trifled with.

Highly accomplished long-range gunner Kailey Kellner mixes things up and rumbles in the paint.

“There can only be ONE!!!!!!” My money is on Lauren “Mouse” Rose winning this battle.

They are the school’s premier program.

Coupeville High School girls’ basketball is the only sport to have an absolutely perfect record in 1A Olympic League competition.

Since the league was created last year, the Wolf girls’ hoops squad have each gone 10-0 when facing off with Port Townsend, Klahowya and Chimacum.

Guided by David and Amy King, CHS continued their dominance Friday, with the varsity (47-38) and JV (26-24) both coming out on top in battles with the visiting Eagles.

As the Wolves rolled, travelin’ photo man John Fisken clicked away and some of his best pics can be found above.

To see more (and possibly purchase some, thereby helping fund college scholarships for CHS student/athletes) pop over to:

Varsity — http://www.olympicleague.com/index.php?act=view_gallery&gallery=9970&league=21&page=1&page_name=photo_store&school=175&sport=0

JV — http://www.olympicleague.com/index.php?act=view_gallery&gallery=9972&league=21&page=1&page_name=photo_store&school=24&sport=0

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