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Balanced attack spurs league victory

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 17, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Chase Anderson led a balanced offensive attack in a road win. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Balance beat brilliance.

Darrington’s Hunter Anderson went off for a game-high 30 Friday on his home floor, but the Coupeville High School varsity boys’ basketball team had the answer.

Getting points from all nine players to hit the court, the Wolves held the Loggers at bay, heading back to the bus with a 63-51 victory.

The road win lifts Brad Sherman’s squad to 3-2 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 4-10 overall.

It also keeps them solidly in possession of third place in the seven-team conference at the midway point of the 10-game league schedule.

Heading into a week where it will host Concrete Tuesday, then travel to Orcas Island Friday, Coupeville sits a game back of La Conner (4-1) and two off of front-runner Mount Vernon Christian (5-0).

Camden Glover, netting a free throw here, was one of nine Wolves to score Friday.

Balance was the name of the game Friday, as CHS jumped out to an 18-7 lead after one quarter, with five different players rattling the rim for points.

From there the Wolves steadily built up their lead, pushing the advantage to 37-23 at halftime, then 52-35 through three frames.

Chase Anderson led Coupeville with a team-best 16 points, pushing himself to the cusp of a personal milestone.

The Wolf junior heads home with 497 points stashed in the career bank, just a three-ball away from becoming the 51st CHS boy to crack the 500-point club for a program which started play back in 1917.

The Battlin’ Bronec Brothers provided key support against Darrington, with Hurlee banking in 13 and Hunter knocking down 10, while Jack Porter netted eight points.

Landon Roberts (5), Johnny Porter (4), Camden Glover (4), Malachi Somes (2), and Davin Houston (1) also scored for Coupeville in the road win.

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Defense dazzles, fuels huge road win

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 17, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Katie Marti, getting the most out of every moment. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Close for a second, then the defense went to work.

Blanking host Darrington in the second quarter Friday, the Coupeville High School girls’ varsity basketball team turned a nailbiter into a blowout.

Romping to a 45-30 victory, the Wolves won for the third time in their last four games and get to 3-2 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 6-7 overall.

Things were tense in the early going Friday, as recent birthday girl Mia Farris knocked down a pair of early buckets to stake CHS to a slim 7-6 lead at the first break.

That was when Megan Richter’s pack of ballhawks turned up the defensive heat, using a 12-0 surge in the second to carry a 19-6 lead into the halftime break.

Five different Wolves scored during the second frame, with Madison McMillan leading the way, and everyone on the floor sharing the ball.

Madison McMillan (left) and Lyla Stuurmans clamp down on defense in a recent game.

Once it had the advantage, Coupeville kept the pressure on.

With Teagan Calkins and Katie Marti combining to outscore Darrington in the third by themselves, CHS used a 20-11 run to put the game safely on ice.

While defense was the key, the Wolves also spread the offensive love out, with nine of 10 players notching a bucket.

Calkins finished with a team-high 12, while Haylee Armstrong (6), Farris (6), Marti (5), Danica Strong (4), McMillan (4), Lyla Stuurmans (4), Jada Heaton (2), and Tenley Stuurmans (2) also kept the scorekeeper busy, with Capri Anter rounding out the rotation.

Marti continues to move up into the stratosphere, jumping from #40 to #38 on the all-time CHS girls’ scoring chart.

Now sitting with 290 career points, the senior gunner passed Bessie Walstad (288) and tied current Wolf JV coach Scout Smith (290) Friday night.

Coupeville has a chance to jump in the league standings, as well, with two games next week.

The Wolves host Concrete Tuesday, before traveling to Orcas Island for a Friday night rumble.

 

No JV game in Logger Land:

Darrington doesn’t currently have a second squad, so Coupeville’s young guns had the night off.

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Busses rev, hoops stars ready to rumble

Posted in Basketball, standings, tagged , , , , on January 12, 2025| Leave a Comment »

“Give me the ball, woman! I’ll drop 20 a night on these fools.” (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Back on the bus.

Coupeville High School basketball teams play exclusively off the island during the coming week, with two trips planned.

The Wolf boys head off to Napavine Monday for a varsity-only rumble, before the varsity girls and JV boys join them Friday for a trek to Darrington.

The Loggers don’t have a JV girls’ team, so Coupeville’s second squad of female hoops stars has the week off from game action.

After that, there are five regular season games left on the schedule — three of those at home — with all four Wolf squads slated to see action.

As we move forward, here’s where things sit for varsity teams through Jan. 12:

 

Northwest League boys’ basketball:

School League Overall
La Conner 3-0 6-7
MV Christian 3-0 5-6
Coupeville 2-2 3-9
Concrete 1-2 5-7
Darrington 1-2 6-6
Orcas Island 1-2 3-8
Friday Harbor 0-3 0-11

 

Northwest League girls’ basketball:

School League Overall
Concrete 3-0 11-2
MV Christian 3-0 9-2
La Conner 2-0 5-7
Coupeville 2-2 5-7
Friday Harbor 0-2 1-10
Darrington 0-3 4-6
Orcas Island 0-3 7-6

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Cold shooting dooms hardwood heroes

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 10, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Chase Anderson eyeballs the other team during an earlier game. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Get in the dang basket!

Too many shots spun off the glass, rolled around the rim and popped back out, or just missed their intended target Friday night for the Coupeville High School varsity boys’ basketball team.

Unable to buy a break, or a bucket, the Wolves fell 55-41 to visiting La Conner in a game which seemed very winnable.

Now 2-2 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 3-9 overall, Coupeville hits the road next week, playing at Napavine on Monday and Darrington Friday.

The first of those games, a non-conference tilt, is a rumble with a major force in 2B sports, while the latter will bring CHS to the halfway point of the 10-game league season.

Friday’s showdown with La Conner started on a good note for the hometown hoops stars, as Coupeville busted out to a quick 4-0 lead.

Camden Glover set up Hurlee Bronec for a bucket in the paint, before Chase Anderson turned a steal into a breakaway layup, and things were looking rosy.

Unfortunately for the Wolves, that would be the only lead they enjoyed.

La Conner carried a 13-7 lead into the first break, before stretching its advantage out to 28-11 late in the second quarter.

CHS closed the half on a 6-1 mini-run with Jack Porter, Hurlee Bronec, and Johnny Porter scoring, but Brad Sherman’s squad was never able to get the deficit down to single digits once the Braves put together their game-cracking push.

Two buckets from Hurlee Bronec and a sweet lil’ one-handed jumper from Landon Roberts had the Wolves within 35-24 midway through the third, but La Conner had an immediate response, rolling off 10 unanswered points.

In a somewhat chippy game — which featured plenty of back talk to the refs, as well as the Braves both earning a technical foul and losing a key player to a bloodied mouth — the final frame was a back-and-forth slugfest.

Anderson, crashing hard to the hoop while hunting for free throw opportunities to stop the clock, rattled the rim for 10 of his team-best 14 points down the stretch.

But La Conner responded almost every time, dropping a series of jumpers which were like daggers and prevented the Wolves from breaking off any substantial late runs.

Braves gunner Brayden Pedroza topped all scorers with 22 points, while Hurlee Bronec, working hard in the paint, banked in 11 to back Anderson’s 14.

Glover (5), Jack Porter (5), Roberts (2), Johnny Porter (2), and Hunter Bronec (2) also scored, with Malachi Somes, Davin Houston, and Carson Field seeing floor time as well for the Wolves.

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Hot start, hot finish, lukewarm middle

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 10, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Tenley Stuurmans turns on the jets. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

“We just need to do it for four quarters.”

As she pondered life post-game Friday night, Coupeville High School varsity girls’ basketball coach Megan Richter could see all the positives her squad showed against visiting La Conner.

But she could also see some negatives, and it was those down moments which sent the Wolves tumbling to a 43-30 loss.

Now 2-2 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 5-7 overall, the CHS girls are off until next Friday, Jan. 17, when they travel to Darrington for another conference rumble.

The bout against the Braves, coming in Coupeville’s first home game in three weeks, was a tense thriller for the first 12 minutes and change.

The Wolves came out with electricity rippling through their shooting fingers, netting back-to-back three-balls to open the game.

Teagan Calkins banked in the first one from the top of the arc, while Katie Marti splashed home a long rainbow from the right side to pass Hailey Hammer and become the 40th best career scorer across the 51 seasons played by CHS girls hoops teams.

The lead didn’t last long, as a jittery, skittery group of La Conner players who seemed to travel on every other play — without it being called — closed the opening quarter on a 13-3 tear.

But the Wolves weren’t going anywhere.

Marti drilled a jumper to open the second, Jada Heaton flexed her biceps with a putback off of an offensive rebound, and then Mia Farris zipped a truly beautiful pass through a forest of arms to set up Madison McMillan.

The ball arrived right on her waiting fingertips, the senior post player slapped home the layup while being smacked, and then she punctuated the play with a successful free throw.

That gave McMillan her 150th career point and pulled Coupeville within 18-16, setting off cheers from the crowd.

And then things fell apart. Big time.

The Wolves didn’t net another field goal from the mid-point of the second quarter to the mid-point of the fourth frame, with just two Tenley Stuurmans free throws during a 16-minute-plus dry spell.

That allowed La Conner to start pulling away, carrying a 29-16 lead into the half, before stretching things out to 38-18 by the end of the third.

And yet, Coupeville proved resilient.

The fourth quarter, or most of it, belonged firmly to the Wolves, as they clamped down on defense, then finally rediscovered their shooting touch.

Neither team scored for four-minutes-plus, until Haylee Armstrong tore off the bottom of the net, hitting her second three-ball of the game.

That sparked a 12-2 CHS surge, with Tenley Stuurmans pouring in seven of her team-high nine points during the frantic finale.

La Conner netted a last moment three-ball of its own to get the final margin back out to 13, but if you only watched the fourth quarter, you would have expected the Wolves to come away with the win.

Armstrong finished with six points to back up Tenley Stuurmans, with Marti (5), McMillan (3), Calkins (3), Heaton (2), and Farris (2) also scoring.

Danica Strong and Lyla Stuurmans rounded out the rotation, with the former hitting the boards with intensity and the latter using up every one of her available fouls as she harassed the Brave ballhandlers.

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