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Rough night, but it’s just a night

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 16, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Wolves Cole White (front) and Logan Downes ponder their place in the universe. (Chloe Marzocca photo)

One step at a time.

A new-look Coupeville High School varsity boys’ basketball team has opened the season with four of its first six games coming against schools from higher classifications.

It’s been a learning experience for the Wolves, one which is hopefully preparing them for defending their Northwest 2B/1B League title.

Thursday night, playing at home for the second time in a 24-hour period, Coupeville hit a bit of a rough patch, falling 50-29 to 2A Sedro-Woolley.

It was a game where the Wolves held their own in the second quarter and dominated in the fourth yet took it on the chin in the other two frames.

The non-conference loss drops CHS to 2-4 heading into a road trip Saturday to Forks.

That clash with the Spartans marks the first time this season the Wolves will face off with a fellow 2B school.

The goal for Coupeville will be to take what it learned while getting run over by Sedro and turn it into positives.

And there were some strong moments for the Wolves, just not in the early going.

Alex Murdy dropped a pair of runners to provide Coupeville’s only offense in the first quarter, while Sedro ran circles around its hosts while building a 16-4 lead.

A three-ball to open the second frame pushed the Cubs out in front by 15 points, and that’s where the margin remained for the rest of the first half.

Coupeville clamped down more on defense, and got some tentative bursts of offense, but couldn’t quite get everything to gel at the same time.

That set up a fairly miserable third quarter, with the Wolves absorbing a 16-2 Cub run fueled by a trio of three-balls.

Mixing up his lineup in the final frame, CHS coach Brad Sherman found a unit which clicked, and the Wolves refused to go quietly.

Coupeville closed the night on a 13-3 tear, with Ryan Blouin and Jonathan Valenzuela dropping buckets while they and their teammates increased the defensive intensity.

The Wolves got under the skin of Sedro-Woolley’s coach a bit, and his whining to the refs earned him a rebuke from the guys in the striped shirts.

So, there was that, which was nice.

Overall, Coupeville’s 29 points was its lowest total of the season, by far, as the Wolves rattled the rims for between 54 and 81 in all of its previous games.

Murdy banked in eight to pace the Wolves, with Logan Downes (6), Blouin (5), Valenzuela (4), Nick Guay (2), Dominic Coffman (2), and Chase Anderson (2) also scoring.

Mikey Robinett, Cole White, Jermiah Copeland, Quinten Pilgrim-Simpson, Zane Oldenstadt, and William Davidson rounded out the roster.

Chase Anderson heads to the rim. (Chloe Marzocca photo)

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Hot start, cold finish for JV boys

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , , on February 4, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Quinten Simpson-Pilgrim and the Coupeville JV continue to battle hard every game. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Shooting touch is a delicate thing.

In the first half Friday night, the Coupeville High School JV boys basketball team had the magic touch.

After the halftime break, not so much.

Unable to hold on to an early lead on the road, the Wolves eventually fell 52-39 to host Friday Harbor.

The loss drops the JV to 1-5 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 3-7 overall, with one game left on the schedule.

Coupeville’s young guns close their season on the road at La Conner Feb. 10, then a few of them will hope to get a call up to the varsity for that team’s playoff run.

Facing off with Friday Harbor, the Wolves were scrappy, fighting for loose balls and rebounds, and played defense with intensity.

But the rim just turned unforgiving as the night rolled on.

“They battled tough but came out on the wrong end of it,” said Coupeville coach Hunter Smith.

The Wolves jumped out to a 14-9 lead after one quarter of play, benefiting greatly from a hot start by Nick Guay.

The sweet-shooting sophomore rattled the rims for 10 points in the first eight minutes, including splashing home a pair of three-balls over outstretched fingers.

Coupeville clung to a 24-23 lead at the half, but a Friday Harbor three-ball a millisecond before the buzzer ended play made things closer than they might have been.

That miracle shot, which was set up by a questionable foul call on the Wolves on the prior play, seemed to light a fire deep inside the host team.

Friday Harbor went on a 17-8 tear in the third, claiming a lead it wouldn’t relinquish.

The Wolves were led by the one-two combo of Guay and Ryan Blouin, who each netted 12 points while combining to drain five three-balls.

Hurlee Bronec (4), Hunter Bronec (3), Landon Roberts (2), Zane Oldenstadt (2), William Davidson (2), and Mikey Robinett (2) also scored, with Jack Porter, Quinten Simpson-Pilgrim, Carson Field, and Johnny Porter rounding out the roster.

Hunter Bronec and Co. close their season next week.

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That’s the taste of victory

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , , on January 4, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Ryan Blouin tossed in 11 points Tuesday, helping spark the Coupeville High School JV boys to their first win. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Undefeated in the new year.

Kicking off 2022 with a vengeance, the Coupeville High School JV boys basketball team throttled visiting La Conner 40-14 Tuesday night.

The victory, coming after a three-week holiday layoff, lifts the Wolves to 1-1 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 1-3 overall.

It was a solid team effort across the board, with 12 players seeing action, and half of those dropping in points as Coupeville ran away from the Braves.

Up just 7-3 at the end of the first quarter, the Wolves used a 12-4 run in the second frame to push the advantage out where La Conner wouldn’t be able to touch it.

Then, just to make sure, CHS clamped down big time in the third quarter, with Nick Guay tossing in six points during a game-busting 16-1 tear.

Ryan Blouin and Hunter Bronec paced the Wolves, with both parts of the duo knocking down 11 points.

Mikey Robinett and Guay backed them up with six apiece, while Quinten Simpson-Pilgrim banked in four, and Zane Oldenstadt rounded out the offensive attack with a bucket.

Coupeville also got strong play from Landon Roberts, Hurlee Bronec, Jack Porter, William Davidson, Carson Field, and Johnny Porter, with every Wolf bringing the heat to help nab the W.

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Young guns keep on scrappin’

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , , on December 4, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Ryan Blouin dropped in a team-high nine points for Coupeville Saturday. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

“We’re young, we’ve got some talent, we just need to keep working and learning.”

That was the assessment by veteran coach Randy Bottorff after the Coupeville High School JV boys basketball team battled visiting Forks down to the wire Saturday in a narrow loss.

The Wolves, who were without injured big man William Davidson, did get seven players into the scoring column in a 41-33 non-conference defeat.

Now 0-2 on the young season, the Wolf JV has time to work on fine-tuning things, with their next game a week away.

Forks withstood an early barrage of points by Coupeville gunner Ryan Blouin and carried a 12-9 lead into the first break.

The Wolves sliced their deficit to 21-19 at the half, and were still just down 29-25 heading into the final frame.

Nick Guay has been a steadying presence for a young Wolf team.

Blouin finished with a team-high nine points — five of those coming in the opening quarter — while Zane Oldenstadt dropped in eight in support.

Nick Guay (6), Hunter Bronec (4), Johnny Porter (2), Landon Roberts (2), and Jack Porter (2) also scored, with Quinten Simpson-Pilgrim, Hurlee Bronec, and Mikey Robinett chipping in with defense and hustle.

For freshmen Roberts and Johnny Porter, Saturday’s buckets accounted for their first points as high school basketball players.

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JV boys hang tough in opener

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged , , , , on December 1, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Quinten Simpson-Pilgrim and the Wolf JV made their season debut Wednesday night. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Good start, good finish, rough middle.

The Coupeville High School JV boys basketball squad held its own with Oak Harbor in the first and fourth quarters Wednesday, but an offensive letdown in between led to a 55-28 loss in the season opener.

The non-conference tilt, which featured a 2B school hosting a 3A one, was a tense affair for eight minutes.

With Nick Guay and Ryan Blouin dropping three-balls to lead the way, the Wolves went to the first break tied at 14-14.

Unfortunately, things fell apart a bit after that, with Oak Harbor using 18-4 and 15-0 runs across the next two frames to essentially put the game on ice.

Coupeville fought until the end, however, outscoring the visiting Wildcats 10-8 in the fourth quarter, with four different Wolves getting in to the scoring column.

Sophomore Mikey Robinett led the CHS offense, pouring in eight points, with Blouin banking in seven, and Hunter Bronec popping for six.

Guay added five, while Jack Porter hit a fourth-quarter bucket to round out the Wolf attack.

Oak Harbor was led by the one-two combo of Jackson Wesley and Taylen Bader, who went for 17 and 12, respectively.

Coupeville coach Hunter Smith, kicking off his second season at the helm of the JV program, doled out playing time to all 12 players in uniform.

Landon Roberts, Hurlee Bronec, Carson Field, Quinten Simpson-Pilgrim, Zane Oldenstadt, William Davidson, and Johnny Porter all saw action for a Wolf squad which returns to action Saturday at home against Forks.

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