
James Vidoni was one of 11 Wolves to score Friday as the Coupeville JV rolled to a 58-25 win. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)
Only one man could stop Mason Grove, and that was his coach.
The sophomore sharpshooter netted 22 points in just a handful of minutes Friday, then was stashed away for later use in the varsity game, as the Coupeville High School JV boys basketball squad romped to its biggest win of the season.
Scoring the first 23 points of the game, with 17 of those coming from Grove, the Wolves shredded visiting Chimacum 58-25.
The win lifts the young guns to 2-3 in Olympic League play, 3-11 overall.
Playing on the 101st anniversary of the first basketball game in school history, the Wolves gave the early bird fans a lot to cheer about.
Just a few seconds into the game, Koa Davison pilfered a steal, then threw it down for a layup, effectively ending the game in one dazzling play.
Just to make sure, Grove buried five shots from behind the three-point arc over the next two minutes.
Adding a layup off of a breakaway, he matched his season-best one-quarter performance with 17 points, and CHS rolled into the first break up 25-8.
If the rain of baskets wasn’t enough to scar the Cowboys, a resounding block from Wolf big man Ulrik Wells killed their last shred of hope.
Elevating, then smacking the ball like he was at a volleyball net, the lanky sophomore sent dad Lyle into a fit of joyous delirium and made the fans filling up the gym come to a momentary halt.
From there, it was all Wolves all the time, with a 13-1 second quarter stretching the lead out to 38-9 and allowing CHS coach Chris Smith to amply use his bench.
Whether it was Jean Lund-Olsen ripping a rebound out of a Cowboy player’s hands and immediately throwing the ball back up and in for a bucket, or David Prescott banking home a runner, everything went Coupeville’s way on this night.
Grove’s 22 gives him 268 in 14 JV games (a 19.1 average), while Daniel Olson, Sage Downes and Davison each added six.
Lund-Olsen (4), Wells (4), Gavin Knoblich (2), James Vidoni (2), Prescott (2), Alex Jimenez (2) and Jake Pease (2) also scored, while Tucker Hall was a force on the boards.
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