Wolf boys’ basketball coach Anthony Smith has his squad in position to fight for a league title in the last week of the regular season. (John Fisken photos)
Girls coach David King, with valuable insight from his numbers guru, assistant coach/wife Amy, has guided CHS to a 15-0 mark in league play over the past two seasons.
And here they come down the backstretch.
Six days. Three games. The whole season on the line.
Sort of.
The Coupeville High School girls’ basketball squad has already clinched a second-straight 1A Olympic League basketball crown and is playing for perfection, not playoff positioning.
Win or lose this final week, they know what their postseason path will be.
Now, it’s all about wrapping up a second straight 9-0 league season and tying last year’s team with 15 regular season wins.
For the Wolf boys, it’s more complicated.
They know they’re in the playoffs, but they can still finish anywhere between first (with a bit of luck) and their current third.
Being #1 gets you a banner to hang in the gym and you skip right to the double-elimination portion of districts, where you would need only one win in two games to advance to regionals.
Finish #2 or #3 and the Wolves get a home playoff game, but also have to endure at least one loser-out game.
The Olympic League #2 will have one of those, while #3 gets two (if you survive the first game, of course).
Coupeville, which trails Port Townsend by two games and Chimacum by a game, needs to close as strongly as they did Friday, when it scored the final eight points and upended Klahowya 64-60.
They’ll get a great chance, as the final three games are against their league foes.
The remaining schedule:
Girls:
Tues-2 @ Port Townsend — 3:15 JV/5:00 varsity
Thur-4 @ Chimacum — 5 JV/3:15 varsity
Sat-6 Klahowya (SENIOR NIGHT) — 3:30 JV/5 varsity
Boys:
Tues-2 Port Townsend (SENIOR NIGHT) — 4:15 JV/6 varsity
Thur-4 @ Chimacum — 3:15 JV/5 varsity
Sat-6 @ Klahowya — 3:30 varsity/5:15 JV
Current standings:
Girls:
Coupeville 6-0, 12-4
Port Townsend 3-3, 6-10
Klahowya 2-4, 3-13
Chimacum 1-5, 4-13
Boys:
Port Townsend 5-1, 7-10
Chimacum 4-2, 6-11
Coupeville 3-3, 8-8
Klahowya 0-6, 1-16
To see what the district playoff brackets will look like, pop over to:
Coupeville Sports 