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Wolves rampage to big road win

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged Boys Basketball, Camden Glover, CHS Wolves, Concrete, Northwest League on December 23, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Camden Glover is the hot knife, and the defense is the butter. (Julie Wheat photos)

Consider it an early Christmas gift for Brad Sherman.

Back on the floor after a schedule scramble, the Coupeville High School varsity boys’ basketball squad drilled host Concrete 67-31 Tuesday night, sending their coach to the holiday break on a high note.

The victory, coming in a “non-conference game against a conference foe,” lifts the Wolves to 2-5 on the season.

The game was added to the schedule after CHS was unable to go East this past weekend for games against Manson and Entiat due to bad weather at the passes.

While Coupeville and Concrete are rivals in the Northwest 2B/1B League, the 2B schools such as Coupeville normally only play 1B schools Darrington and Concrete once during the hoops season.

That regularly scheduled rumble will arrive Jan. 20, with the Wolves once again hitting the road to travel to the town made famous on movie screens by Leonardo Di Caprio and Robert De Niro.

Now, barring any more late-breaking additions to the schedule, Coupeville’s boys are off until Jan. 3, when they climb on the bus for a trip to play non-conference foe Morton-White Pass.

Tuesday’s tilt, coming against a winless Concrete squad which dropped to 0-5, was a romp from start to finish.

The Wolves, sparked by 14 first-quarter points from Chase Anderson, ran out to a 21-11 lead by the first break, then stretched the advantage to 40-22 by the half.

Camden Glover banked in 10 points during the second quarter, while Coupeville got scoring from five different players during a 23-2 surge in the third frame to end things with a bang.

Malachi Somes scans the defense.

Sherman was able to spread floor time out between 10 Wolves in uniform, with eight of them scoring on this night.

Anderson finished with a game-high 20, all compiled in the first three quarters, while Glover (12) and Davin Houston (10) also reached double-digits.

Malachi Somes (9), Aiden O’Neill (6), Riley Lawless (4), Easton Green (4), and Sage Arends (2) all chipped in to the offensive attack, with Liam Blas and Carson Grove helping anchor the Wolf defense.

Two Wolves reached personal milestones in the victory, with Anderson cracking the 700-point club for his career — he sits with 709 and counting and is the 22nd CHS boy to reach the mark for a program launched in 1917.

Meanwhile, Glover surged into the top 150 scorers all-time, passing former standouts like Ryan Blouin, Dale Sherman, and Scott Stuurmans.

The burly senior now has 195 career points and is currently tied with Mitch Aparicio and John Engstrom at #145 on the career list.

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Hoops teams go into (almost) hibernation

Posted in Basketball, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, La Conner, Northwest League, standings on December 21, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Aiden O’Neill flies into action. (Julie Wheat photo)

No games for you. Or you. Or even you.

Maybe.

The Northwest 2B/1B League is basically taking a week off for Christmas, with the only basketball contests currently scheduled for next week being a pair of non-conference rumbles Monday for La Conner.

Well, that was true until just as I went to publish this story, a game was slipped on the schedule for Tuesday, Dec. 23, sending the Coupeville varsity boys to water-logged Concrete for a “non-conference game against a conference foe.”

That makes up a bit for the Wolves losing their two-game trip to Eastern Washington this weekend due to troublesome weather at the passes.

But, other than that, the hoops landscape is bare until the following week, when a fairly busy New Years week slate of games kicks off Monday, Dec. 29.

Included in that is a trip to Meridian for the Coupeville varsity girls, who are scheduled to play three games in three days Dec. 29-31 at the Trojan Storm Classic.

Though, even as you read this, anything and everything could be changing – tis the season to use a pencil and not a pen to write down scheduling info.

With that in mind, a look at where things presently sit:

Northwest League boys’ basketball:

School	League	Overall
Orcas Island	2-0	5-0
MV Christian	1-0	3-2
Concrete	0-0	0-4
Darrington	0-0	3-2
Friday Harbor	0-0	0-6
La Conner	0-1	0-5
Coupeville	0-2	1-5

Northwest League girls’ basketball:

School	League	Overall
La Conner	1-0	4-2
MV Christian	1-0	4-1
Orcas Island	1-1	4-3
Concrete	0-0	3-1
Darrington	0-0	0-3
Friday Harbor	0-0	1-5
Coupeville	0-2	1-4

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Late surge can’t overcome slow start

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged Aiden O'Neill, Boys Basketball, CHS Wolves, Mount Vernon Christian, Northwest League on December 16, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Easton Green pushes the ball up court. (Julie Wheat photo)

The first quarter was brutal.

The Coupeville High School varsity boys’ basketball team was not in sync for the first eight minutes Tuesday, and that proved fatal against a strong Mount Vernon Christian squad.

Despite playing strongly across the game’s final three quarters, the Wolves could never get back over the hump after falling behind 15-3 at the first break and eventually absorbed a 51-32 loss to the visiting Hurricanes.

The defeat drops Brad Sherman’s hardwood aces to 0-2 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 1-5 overall.

Up next, weather permitting, is a trip to Eastern Washington, with non-conference rumbles Friday at Manson and Saturday at Entiat.

Then, there’s a two-week gap between games, with the Wolves returning Jan. 3, 2026, to travel to Morton White-Pass, and not playing at home again for 21 days, when Friday Harbor arrives in Cow Town Jan. 6.

When they do take the floor, the Wolves will want to be the aggressive, opportunistic team of the last 24 minutes Tuesday, and not the one which failed to hit a shot for nearly seven minutes to open things.

Coupeville didn’t get on the board until Malachi Somes roared through the paint for a bucket-and-free-throw combo at the 1:15 mark of the first quarter.

By that point, MVC was up 13-0 and grabbing seemingly every rebound in sight.

Somes three-point play seemed to light a spark in the Wolves, however, and they finally caught full fire in the second frame.

Trailing 16-3 after a Hurricane free throw, CHS launched an 11-4 surge, started by Camden Glover splashing home a three-ball, while Davin Houston got dramatic.

The high-energy rampager snagged the ball, lowered his head, and knocked his defender to the ground — while making it look like the ‘Cane was the aggressor — drilling a fall-away jumper and the ensuing free throw.

A pair of Chase Anderson free throws cut the deficit to 20-14, and it seemed like we were set for a nailbiter.

It wasn’t to be, though.

MVC immediately packaged a pair of three-balls around a steal and breakaway bucket in the next few seconds, and Coupeville would never get the lead back down to single digits for the remainder of the evening.

The Wolves cut the deficit to 10 points twice in the second half, at 28-18 after a swooping bucket from Aiden O’Neill, and at 40-30 after Anderson turned a crisp Glover pass into a careening layup.

But the Hurricanes had a swift answer both times, immediately drilling another three-ball on the very next possession to blunt any comeback hopes.

The visitors finished with seven treys to three from CHS, and it felt like each and every one of those seven came at the absolute worst time for Coupeville.

Anderson finished with a team-high 13 points, with Glover (7), O’Neill (5), Somes (3), Houston (3), and Easton Green (1) also scoring, while Liam Blas, Riley Lawless, and Carson Grove saw floor time as well.

With his performance, Anderson continues his climb up the CHS boys’ basketball career scoring chart, jumping from #24 to #22 all-time on a list started in 1917.

The Wolf senior sits with 689 points, having passed old-school scoring legends Gavin Keohane (677) and Chris Good (688) Tuesday night.

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Hurricanes rain pain from long distance

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged Adeline Maynes, CHS Wolves, girls basketball, Mount Vernon Christian, Northwest League on December 16, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Adeline Maynes fires off a free throw. (Julie Wheat photos)

The Hurricanes made it rain.

Hitting 11 three-balls Tuesday, including five in the first quarter alone, the Mount Vernon Christian varsity girls’ basketball team rolled past host Coupeville 69-28 in a show of dominance.

The loss drops the Wolves to 0-2 in Northwest 2B/1B League action, 1-4 overall, with a three-game trip to the Trojan Storm Classic in Bellingham next up for Scout Smith’s squad.

Coupeville is slated to play Dec. 29-31, opening against Blaine before squaring off with two as-yet-to-be-named rivals the following days.

The Wolves won’t play another league game until Jan. 6, 2026, when they host Friday Harbor, and won’t see MVC again until a Jan. 27 road trip to the mainland.

That should give Coupeville some time to wash away the bad taste of Tuesday’s first quarter.

Things did not go well for the Wolves across the game’s first seven minutes-plus, with the ‘Canes hitting four consecutive treys as part of a game-opening 21-0 tear.

CHS finally broke through when freshman Kennedy O’Neill crashed hard through the paint with just 43 seconds left in the frame, earning a three-point play the hard way, thanks to a bucket and free throw.

Then the pain resurfaced.

Mount Vernon Christian scored five more points in the first quarter, capping a 26-3 frame by netting a three-ball with a single second remaining on the clock, before scoring three straight buckets to open the second.

Down 32-3, the Wolves hung tough, however, closing the half on a mini run of their own to cut the lead back to 36-10.

A three-ball from Teagan Calkins, set up by a Danica Strong offensive rebound, brought an emotional response from the pro-Wolf crowd, while Strong also played beat the buzzer, banking in a shot with two ticks left to play.

Long-range assassin Danica Strong is locked and loaded.

But while MVC didn’t hit any long-range shots in the second quarter, it got right back down to business in the third, splashing home four more treys to push the margin to 55-16.

There were bright spots for the Wolves, though.

Strong hit paydirt on a pair of three-balls while also coming up big cleaning the glass, while Haylee Armstrong showcased her never-say-die attitude, scoring nine of her 12 points in the fourth.

That gives the junior guard a team-best 50 points through the first five games and leaves her just a bucket shy of reaching 150 for her varsity career.

Armstrong’s 12 points was backed up by Strong (8), Calkins (5), and O’Neill (3), with Tenley Stuurmans, Lexis Drake, Sydney Van Dyke, Capri Anter, Adeline Maynes, and Ari Cunningham all seeing floor time.

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Hoops teams dodge wicked weather

Posted in Basketball, standings, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, Darrington, Northwest League, standings on December 14, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Sage Arends prepares to fire off a free throw. (Julie Wheat photo)

The season continues to unfold, when Mother Nature plays fair.

Multiple high school basketball games, though none involving Coupeville, were postponed this week as Western Washington deals with massive flooding.

Being on Whidbey Island and hopping over to play on another rock Friday — Orcas Island — the Wolves were featured in the only Northwest 2B/1B League games to be played that night.

With the week ahead, Coupeville hosts NWL rival Mount Vernon Christian Tuesday, with the CHS boys then scheduled to head East for two non-conference games.

Brad Sherman’s varsity boys are slated to play at Manson Friday and Entiat Saturday, though the condition of the passes will likely tell the tale of whether those contests are played.

For the moment, here’s where things sit through Dec. 14:

Northwest League boys’ basketball: