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“It was fun to watch!!”

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on December 15, 2018| Leave a Comment »

Alana Mihill banked home five points Friday, her first at the high school level, as Coupeville’s JV thumped host Concrete. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Things started with a jolt, and ended in a sea of smiles.

Playing second Friday night, the Coupeville High School JV girls basketball team found itself down a coach, but never blinked.

With JV guru Amy King at the Concrete hospital, riding shotgun on injured Wolf varsity player Chelsea Prescott, her husband, David, got to pull double duty.

Coupeville’s varsity coach promptly made it 2-for-2 on the night, guiding the Wolf young guns to a 46-20 win.

The JV’s third-straight victory, it evens their record at 3-3.

Just don’t try and add the W to David King’s career record.

“Amy gets the win; I get an assist,” he said with a laugh. “Coach King girl does such a great job with the JV team that it made my job easy tonight.

“Thank goodness she had everything already prepared well in advance.”

Coupeville’s second unit came out just like its first unit, runnin’, gunnin’ and shredding Concrete’s defense.

Sparked by the surprise use of a 1-2-2 press added to the mix by David King, the Wolves forced the Lions into constant mistakes, then took advantage of said turnovers.

“I think I surprised the JV’ers when I drew it up for them to run,” David King said. “They worked at it and at times got some good things out of it.

“Kiara (Contreras) was a master at harassing their ball handlers all game.”

Mollie Bailey, normally the queen of the set-up game while running the point, decided to taste the joy of being a binge scorer Friday.

Playing on mom Donna’s birthday, the youngest of the “Bailey Bombardiers” dropped shots from every angle, scoring six points in the first quarter, another eight in the second and finishing with a game-high 16.

A 13-2 Wolf lead at the first break morphed into a 24-11 margin at the half and then a 31-16 bulge after three.

That set up the fourth quarter, when Coupeville melted the net with a game-closing 15-4 run fueled by hard-working role players who got a chance to shine on the offensive end of the floor.

Kylie Van Velkinburgh, a defensive hustler, knocked in four points, but it was Alana Mihill and Morgan Stevens who earned the biggest cheers.

Both scored their first high school points, with Stevens drilling a jumper from 10 feet out on the left wing.

Mihill broke through with free throws, swishing three of them, before stepping inside the key and draining a sweet lil’ jumper for her first high school field goal.

“The players on the bench, the high school players, and our fans erupted when both players scored,” David King said. “It was fun to watch both Alana and Morgan get big grins when they scored and due to the cheering.

“Their defense got a little more aggressive, as did their offensive game.”

Bailey’s 16 points paced the Wolves, with Audrianna Shaw and Izzy Wells each adding eight to the cause.

Mihill (5), Van Velkinburgh (4), Contreras (3), and Stevens (2) rounded out the scoring, with Ja’Kenya Hoskins and Abby Mulholland helping control the boards.

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Rough and tumble, and then some!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on January 20, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Tia Wurzrainer netted five points Friday at Chimacum. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Sometimes the score doesn’t tell all.

While the Coupeville High School JV girls basketball squad fell 33-25 at Chimacum Friday, Wolf coach Amy King looked beyond the numbers on the board.

“It was one of the best games JV has played this season,” the sage round-ball wizard said.

While the loss drops the young guns to 2-4 in Olympic League play, 6-10 overall, King was especially pleased with how her players have adapted in the past few days to facing withering defenses.

“Normally, when a team puts a press on us, we panic and rush everything and that results in turnovers,” she said. “For the past two practices we worked on slowing the ball down, spreading out more on the press break, passing more and dribbling less.

“This game, we did all those things that we practiced.”

With Ashlie Shank and Mollie Bailey doing “a great job passing back and forth up the court,” the Wolves showed off some of the “best passing we have done this season.”

With plenty of open shots to be had in the first half, the Wolves jumped out to a 6-4 lead at the first break, then went in tied 12-12 at the half.

Unfortunately, CHS lost Avalon Renninger, as the sophomore spark plug got knocked silly when a Chimacum player plowed right through her.

Adding insult to injury, not only did the Wolf star have to leave the game and go into concussion protocol after hitting her head, the refs also called a foul on her, and not the offensive player imitating a freight train going down a mountain decline with no brakes.

Even playing a woman down, Coupeville regained the lead in the third, with Maddy Hilkey, Tia Wurzrainer and Ashlie Shank all coming up with big shots.

Wurzrainer, who lives, dies and excels on defense, netted hers after a sizzling set-up pass from Bailey and some open encouragement from the varsity coach.

“Mollie made a great pass to Tia and she can hear Mr. (David) King from the bench say “shoot it” and well, if he says to, you do,” Amy King said with a laugh. “She shot it, made it and got a free throw as well.”

The game took a turn for the worse in the fourth, though, as Chimacum reverted to its standard style of “beat the ball-handler black and blue.”

“The game started getting rough,” King said. “Ashlie got pushed out of bounds, flying across the floor. No call. Mollie had visible red on her arm from being slapped. No call.

“We start getting tensed up and they capitalized on the errors we made.”

A 21-18 lead to start the fourth slipped away in a hail of non-calls and questionable decisions from the refs.

Despite playing against more than just the five rivals on the floor, the young Wolves never quit.

“The girls fought and never let down,” King said. “Once the game ended, we were all disappointed, but, during the post game talk, it was determined that we played a really good game despite the score.

“Our passing was great. We took the right shots, broke their press easier than the last time and everyone worked hard,” she added. “We see them one more time on our home court and will continue to work hard to have a different outcome.”

Shank paced the Wolves with eight, Hilkey (6), Wurzrainer (5), Bailey (2), Genna Wright (2) and Lester (2) also scored and Kylie Chernikoff and Julia García Oñoro combined for four rebounds.

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Nipped down the stretch!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 13, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Scout Smith collected six points, four steals and two rebounds Friday night. (John Fisken photo)

   Scout Smith collected six points, four steals and two rebounds Friday night. (John Fisken photo)

Just out of reach.

Tripped up by a fourth-quarter lapse, the Coupeville High School JV girls’ basketball squad suffered a rare loss Friday night.

Unable to crack a tough man press down the stretch, the Wolves were outscored 11-3 to end the game and fell 35-25 at Mount Vernon Christian.

The non-conference loss snaps a three-game winning streak and leaves the young guns, who have played all but one game on the road this season, at 6-3.

Coupeville staked itself to a narrow 6-4 lead after one quarter of play, and stayed close all night, pulling to within 24-22 with just under six minutes left in the game.

The Hurricanes then busted things open with three consecutive baskets off of turnovers or steals set up by their press.

While she wasn’t thrilled with the loss, Wolf coach Amy King did come away with several positives from her team’s performance.

“Our defense improved through each quarter, until the end when we panicked,” she said. “Still, they all played hard. They didn’t quit and just worked until the end.

King doled out praise to freshmen Tia Wurzrainer (“she had a good game; her defense and steals are becoming more frequent and stronger”) and Maya Toomey-Stout, who initiated a number of fast breaks.

Coupeville also worked on running its own full court press for the first time this season.

“We will look forward to using that the rest of the season,” King said.

Ema Smith was front and center, pumping home nine points and corralling eight rebounds to lead the Wolves.

Scout Smith knocked down six points to back her up, while Avalon Renninger (3), Nicole Lester (2), Emma Mathusek (2), Ashlie Shank (2) and Toomey-Stout (1) also scored.

Lester and Renninger each snared six boards, while Toomey-Stout and Scout Smith both made off with four steals apiece.

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