Emma Leavitt (left) and Inara Maund are a great support crew for fellow CMS hoops players. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)
Three more names in the scoring column.
Making their next-to-last road trip of the season Monday, the Coupeville Middle School girls’ basketball teams went bucket for bucket with host Sultan across 2.5 games.
As they did so, three more Wolves — Selah Rivera, Laken Simpson, and Taylor Marrs — recorded their first points of the campaign.
That gives CMS 29 players with at least a bucket heading into the season finale Tuesday at South Whidbey.
That trip will be a much-shorter affair than Monday’s march to the wilds of Sultan, where “it was rowdy!” according to Wolf coach Brooke Crowder.
How the day played out:
Level 1:
An immediate rematch, as these two schools tangled in Coupeville four days prior.
Sultan came out on top again, but it was closer this time, as the Wolves, who fell by 17 Thursday, lost 33-21 on the road.
The defeat drops CMS, which was missing top scorer Tenley Stuurmans for a second-straight game, to 1-6.
Lillian Ketterling, zipping around the court, paced the Wolf attack with a team-high eight points as she continues to blossom into a dangerous scoring threat.
Tamsin Ward backed her up with four points, with Adie Maynes (3), Marrs (2), Simpson (2), Ari Cunningham (1), and Sydney Van Dyke (1) joining the scoring effort.
Coupeville’s top squad also got quality minutes from Olivia Hall, Ava Lucero, and Chelsi Stevens.
Level 2:
The hottest team in Wolf Nation netted the season sweep of Sultan, downing the Turks 18-13 thanks to a fourth-quarter comeback.
CMS, now 5-2 on the season, actually went scoreless in the first quarter but turned up the defensive heat and trailed just 2-0 at the break.
Proving the clampdown was no fluke, the Wolves held the Turks scoreless across the second seven-minute segment, pulling ahead 5-2 at the half.
A temporary slowdown on offense cost Coupeville in the third quarter, however, and it went into the final frame trailing 9-7 in a tense, low-scoring affair.
The Wolves needed a spark, and they got one from Kennedy O’Neill and Willow Leedy-Bonifas, who combined to outscore Sultan 11-4 down the stretch.
O’Neill banked in seven of her game-high 10 points in the final quarter, while her running mate tossed in four of her six.
Defensive stalwart Amelia Crowder rounded out the attack with a third-quarter bucket, while Amaiya Curry, Elizabeth Marshall, Sage Stavros, Sophia Batterman, Allison Powers, and Isa Mc Fetridge played key roles in the win.
Level 3:
These two didn’t play Thursday, as Sultan didn’t have enough healthy girls to field a third team.
This time around, they made it through two quarters, with the Turks holding on for a 13-8 win that leaves the Wolves at 3-2 on the year.
Zayne Roos came alive for CMS, scoring four points to lead the way, with Rivera and Cameron Van Dyke both tossing in a bucket.
Claire Lachnit, Brooklyn Pope, Cassandra Powers, Emma Cushman, Kaleigha Millison, Annaliese Powers, and Zariyah Allen rounded out the rotation for the Wolves.
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