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Banners hang forever!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on January 18, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Lauren Grove (John Fisken photos)

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

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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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Langley, we have incoming bogies!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball, tagged , , , on January 28, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Senior captain Breeanna Messner will lead her squad into enemy territory Tuesday night. (John Fisken photos)

Senior captain Breeanna Messner will lead her squad into enemy territory Tuesday night. (John Fisken photos)

Morgan Payne and the Wolf boys need a win to stay alive in the hunt for a playoff spot.

  Morgan Payne and the Wolf boys need a win to stay alive in the hunt for a playoff spot.

Playoff destiny is on the line.

And yes, the entire season won’t be decided by one game. But that one game will play a huge role.

When Coupeville High School rolls into Langley tonight for a basketball doubleheader against South Whidbey (5:00/6:45), the games will carry huge importance, even beyond the fact it’s rivalry night, Wolf vs. Falcon.

With two of the three 1A schools in the Cascade Conference getting playoff berths — and King’s having clinched the top slot on both the boys and girls side of the standings — the Island rivals are fighting for postseason hopes.

The Wolf girls (6-8 overall, 3-6 in Cascade Conference play) hold a two-game lead over South Whidbey (2-12, 1-8) with five league games left to play.

Coupeville won the first game this year between the two teams, triumphing 42-27 in its home gym.

That game was punctuated by a spectacular play to end the third quarter, when Wolf guard Madeline Strasburg went Maddie Big Time on everyone, stealing the ball and banking home a running three-point bomb at the buzzer.

On the boys side, South Whidbey (3-12, 2-7) holds a game-and-a-half edge over the Wolves (3-12, 1-9). The Falcons have five to play, while the Wolves have four more conference games.

When the two squads met in late December, Coupeville jumped out to a 13-3 lead, but had an epically bad third quarter and fell 67-53.

Both teams were missing a key player that night, as Wolf senior Gavin O’Keefe and Falcon senior Nick French were sidelined by injuries.

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