Ty Eck scorched the nets for 30 Tuesday, most by a Wolf this season. (John Fisken photo)
Give the scorekeeper no time to rest.
That’s the goal of the Coupeville High School JV boys’ basketball squad these days, as its has adopted a run and gun style dedicated to getting up a steady flow of shots.
When it works, as it did in the early going Tuesday, it’s a sight to behold. But, there are still some kinks to work out of the system.
The young Wolves roared out to a 16-point lead over visiting Port Townsend, but eventually cooled off a bit and fell 78-68 in a wild one.
The game featured the best single-game performance by a Coupeville player, boy or girl, this season, as freshman Ty Eck burnt the nets for a game-high 30 points.
He did his scoring in big bursts, starting with a stretch in the first quarter where he rattled home three straight driving lay-ins off of steals.
By the time Ty was done, he had 13 in the first quarter, teaming with twin brother Gabe for 18 of Coupeville’s 26 points.
With five players scoring (Cameron Toomey-Stout swished a long three-ball while Brian Shank and Hunter Downes worked the boards for put-backs), the Wolves put together runs of 12-0 and 13-3 over the first eight minutes.
Everything was clicking for CHS, but, after looking a bit disorientated in the early going, Port Townsend settled down and went back to work, throwing down 30 of its own points in the second quarter.
Coupeville weathered the storm until a third-quarter breakdown allowed the RedHawks to finally snatch the lead back.
Suddenly down by six, the Wolves rallied, though, ending the third on a 9-4 run, with Ty Eck and Shank each tossing down a pair of buckets.
That set up a pitched battle in the fourth, with six lead changes.
Coupeville snatched its final lead at 67-65 on a trey from Toomey-Stout, but then hit its only real cold shooting stretch of the night — just at the worst possible moment.
With Port Townsend closing the game on a 13-1 tear (a mix of layups and free throws) the final margin got stretched out a bit, but, for those in the paying audience, it was a barn-burner until the final 100 or so seconds.
Gabe Eck rattled home 14 in support of his brother’s 30, while Toomey-Stout (11), Shank (7) and Downes (6) also wrote their names in the score-book.
Beauman Davis, James Vidoni, Ariah Bepler and Andre Avila also saw floor time, but didn’t hurt score-keeper Ryan King’s wrist as much as the others.
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