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“We played tough!!”

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 9, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Jake Pease (left), seen here in an earlier game, was a beast on the boards Saturday night. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Mason Grove has a love affair with the bottom of the net.

Continuing his hot early-season shooting, the Coupeville High School sophomore went for 19 points, including five three-balls, Saturday in a 52-34 loss at South Whidbey.

That gives him 22 treys through the first four games of the season for a Wolf JV squad which sits at 1-3.

Coupeville’s young guns came out strongly against the host Falcons, jumping to a 13-9 lead after one quarter of play.

The Wolves couldn’t keep it up, however, as South Whidbey used a 32-13 surge over the middle two quarters to take control of the game.

“We played tough and I am very proud of the guys and how we played,” said Coupeville JV coach Chris Smith. “We played hard all game and I just couldn’t outwit some of the adjustments they made to slow down our offense.”

While Grove has been the go-to man for the Wolves, Smith has been working on mixing things up, combining strong inside play with the rainbows from behind the arc.

“I like how we attempted to get our big guys involved in the offense,” he said. “Jake (Pease) and Jean (Lund-Olsen) were rebounding machines on both ends of the court.”

Lund-Olsen dropped in six points to back Grove, while Sage Downes (3), Pease (3), Ulrik Wells (2) and David Prescott (1) also etched their names in the book.

Alex Jimenez and Daniel Olson also saw floor time for the Wolves.

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Grove scorches nets!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 8, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Mason Grove knocked down 14 points Friday, including hitting four times from behind the three-point arc. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Chris Smith is one of the most upbeat coaches you’ll find.

So, even after his Coupeville High School JV boys basketball squad was torched by a high-quality foe Friday, he could still find a silver lining.

“Tough game … but, on the bright side, we still have some things to work on. At least I know I’ll be busy at practice,” Smith said with a good-natured laugh.

Sequim’s young guns came to Whidbey already highly-polished, while Coupeville’s JV has a huge chunk of newcomers, so the 65-19 final wasn’t a huge surprise.

The loss drops the Wolves to 1-2, but they’ll get a chance to bounce right back with a game Saturday at South Whidbey.

Coupeville fell behind 21-5 after one quarter against Sequim, and didn’t have enough firepower to climb back into the game.

Sophomore Mason Grove went down fighting, though, hitting for a team-high 14 points.

That included four shots from long range, giving the Wolf gunner 17 three-balls in the first three games of the season.

Fellow sophomores Ulrik Wells and Jean Lund-Olsen rounded out Coupeville’s scoring, with three and two points, respectively.

Smith got plenty of playing experience for his still-developing players, with 12 Wolves seeing floor time.

Daniel Olson, Sage Downes, Tucker Hall, Ryan Labrador, Chris Ruck, David Prescott, Alex Jimenez, Jake Pease and Gavin Knoblich all saw action.

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Good to the last shot!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on December 2, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Jean Lund-Olsen’s fingers tell the tale — two JV games Friday, two wins for Coupeville. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

The small gym was hoppin’.

While the varsity basketball teams lit up the Coupeville High School gym Friday, the Wolf JV squads took turns winning thrillers against visiting Mount Vernon Christian across the hallway.

The CHS boys pulled away in the fourth quarter for a 38-36 win, evening their record at 1-1, while the girls emerged from overtime with a 24-22 victory to climb to 2-1 on the season.

Girls fight back:

Trailing 13-7 at the half, the Wolves steadily chipped away at the lead, cutting away three points in both the third and fourth quarters.

After losing its lead, MVC hit a late bucket to re-tie the game, then had a chance to win in the final three seconds.

Wolf frosh Chelsea Prescott read the play nicely, though, intercepting the in-bounds pass and sending the game to overtime, where one perfect play won the night.

Running a play it had recently installed, Coupeville used a “soccer-style” pass from pitch vet Tia Wurzrainer to Mollie Bailey to set up the only bucket of the extra period.

The wild finish capped what CHS coach Amy King termed a “back-and-forth, soccer-style game,” in which the ball was frequently loose, bodies were frequently crashing into one another, shots kept popping back out of the cylinder and there were “a million steals.”

Prescott racked up the best numbers in the scoring column with 10 (she also had five blocks and four steals), while Avalon Renninger (6), Nicole Lester (4), Bailey (2) and Wurzrainer (2) also tallied points.

Boys win a back-and-forth affair:

Both squads took turns surging, with Coupeville up 12-7 after one, down 20-19 at the half, then tied at 25-25 heading into the final eight minutes.

Once there, the Wolves got a pair of crunch-time three-balls from freshman Alex Jimenez, one of five CHS players to score in the fourth quarter.

Sophomore Mason Grove paced Coupeville with a game-high 16, netting five three-point bombs and a crucial free throw, while Ulrik Wells pounded down low for seven points.

Jean Lund-Olsen (6), Jimenez (6), Daniel Olson (2) and David Prescott (1) all chipped in to round out the scoring attack.

“The young guys really stepped up for us tonight,” said Coupeville coach Chris Smith.

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Choppin’ down big trees!!

Posted in Boys Tennis, tagged , , , , , on September 13, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   After opening the season with a pair of singles wins, Mason Grove teamed with Nick Etzell Wednesday to roll to a doubles victory. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

William Nelson is not prone to excessive on-court giddiness.

The Coupeville High School senior netter is a serene, low-key athlete, and he and his doubles partner, Joey Lippo, are the very epitome of the phrase “cooler than the other side of the pillow.”

So, when Nelson jumped a good six inches in the air after Wednesday’s match, it was equal to another player ripping all their clothes off, setting their hair on fire, then sprinting laps around the school screaming “We are the Champions” at the top of his lungs while being chased by a fire extinguisher-wielding Mr. Black.

In other words, you knew big stuff had gone down.

What inspired this show of emotion?

Nelson and Lippo had rallied twice, once from a set down, then from a 3-0 hole in the third set, to stun a very good Kingston doubles duo and stay unbeaten on the season.

Even better, their 3-6, 6-0, 6-4 victory proved to be the difference as lil’ 1A Coupeville (227 students) knocked off their visitors, sending the 2A Buccaneers (605 students) home on the losing end of a 4-3 contest.

The non-conference win, coming on the heels of a pair of razor-thin 4-3 losses to other 2A schools, lifts the Wolves to 1-2 and gives them momentum heading into an important match.

That comes Friday, when Coupeville heads to Silverdale to face Klahowya in the first league match of the season.

As two-time defending 1A Olympic League champs, CHS would like nothing more than to get off to a strong start with a win over their toughest league rival.

If the Wolf doubles teams play Friday like they did Wednesday, that shouldn’t be a problem.

Along with Lippo and Nelson, CHS also got wins from the duos of Nick Etzell/Mason Grove (who threw down a double bagel, then tried to explain to their parents how that phrase translates to a 6-0, 6-0 win) and Zach Ginnings/Drake Borden.

Grove and Ginnings are also 3-0 on the young season, giving Coupeville four unbeaten players.

Rounding out the Wolf winners Wednesday was #3 singles ace Nile Lockwood, who crawled off his death bed, ignored possible pneumonia and rolled to a straight-sets victory.

Complete Wednesday results:

Varsity:

1st Singles — Pedro Gamarra lost to Ian Schmidt 6-0, 6-0

2nd Singles — Jakobi Baumann lost to Ethan Griffin 6-4, 6-3

3rd Singles — Nile Lockwood beat Tyler Bates 6-2, 6-2

1st Doubles — William Nelson/Joey Lippo beat Ethan Sax/Dawson Clark 3-6, 6-0, 6-4

2nd Doubles — Nick Etzell/Mason Grove beat Preston Gunnell/Giani Nguyen 6-0, 6-0

3rd Doubles — Jaschon Baumann/Tiger Johnson lost to Tristan Schmidt/Eli Guedea 6-3, 6-1

4th Doubles — Drake Borden/Zach Ginnings beat Tyler Krantz/Thomas Brown 8-3

JV:

5th Doubles — Thane Peterson/Koby Schreiber tied Jacob Diehl/Skylar Beyer 6-6 (ferry)

6th Doubles — Harris Sinclair/Etzell trailed Riley Odell/Gunnell 5-3 (ferry)

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In it till the end!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , , on January 20, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Kyle Rockwell was one of seven Wolves to score in Friday night's JV game. (John Fisken photo)

   Kyle Rockwell was one of seven Wolves to score in Friday night’s JV game. (John Fisken photo)

The score was deceptive.

Walk into the gym in the final seconds Friday and you would have seen the Coupeville High School JV boys’ basketball squad lost 52-43 to visiting Port Townsend.

Arrive a bit earlier and you would have been front and center for a back-and-forth affair where the Wolves came within one missed shot of having a chance to tie or win at the very end.

Closing on a 6-2 run, with buckets from Jacobi Pacquette-Pilgrim, Koa Davison and Sean Toomey-Stout, Coupeville was within four with the ball in its hands in the final minute.

Unfortunately, the Wolves then hit their only sustained shooting slump of the night, and the RedHawks took advantage to stretch out the final deficit.

The loss drops the CHS young guns to 7-7 overall, 2-4 in Olympic League play.

Coupeville controlled the game for much of the first half, with Toomey-Stout dropping in 10 of his team-high 14 points along the way.

He scored on a variety of moves, with back-to-back buckets in the second quarter that drew some oohs and ahs from the fans in the stands.

On the first play, Toomey-Stout slashed to the hoop without the ball, hopped into the air, caught a bullet pass, then drilled the soft jumper before heading back down to Earth.

Very next trip down the floor he was back at it.

A pesky RedHawk defender jarred the ball loose as he tried to set up a play, so Toomey-Stout whirled, snatched the loose ball from behind his back, then spun and left the Port Townsend player flatfooted as he flew by him for a layup.

Holding on to a one-point lead, the Wolves put a cap on the half with a team-wide display of defensive aggressiveness.

Port Townsend had the ball with 16 ticks on the clock, but under extreme pressure from all five Wolves, failed to get a shot off before the halftime buzzer sounded.

Mason Grove drilled back-to-back three-balls to kick off the second half, and the two teams traded the lead back and forth through much of the final 16 minutes.

A huge RedHawk trey as the shot clock threatened to run out midway through the fourth was tough to overcome for the Wolves, but they fought back behind Davison.

He dropped a sweet mini-hook that evoked memories of Magic Johnson pulling off a Kareem tribute in the 1987 NBA Finals (look it up on Wikipedia, kids…), then banked home a loose ball that he plucked from a rival.

Seven Wolves scored, with Toomey-Stout’s 14 backed up by nine from Grove and eight from Jered Brown.

Branden Newhard (5), Davison (4), Pacquette-Pilgrim (2) and Kyle Rockwell (1) also tickled the twines, while Gavin Knoblich, Ulrik Wells, Nikolai Lyngra, Elliott Johnson, Tucker Hall, Jean Lund-Olsen and Ariah Bepler all saw floor time.

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