Ashlie Shank and the Coupeville girls kick off the playoffs Feb. 10 with a home game. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)
Winter belonged to the RedHawks, but the school year has belonged to the Wolves.
Both Port Townsend basketball teams won league titles Saturday, with the girls ending Coupeville’s three-year run atop the standings.
But, if we look at the entire 2017-2018 school year, CHS is the big dog right now.
Looking at the six fall and winter sports the Wolves play (football, volleyball, boys tennis, girls soccer and girls and boys basketball), they have the most varsity wins of any of the four Olympic League teams with 31.
Klahowya, whose boys basketball team had the title sewn up until a late-season collapse, has 28, while Port Townsend sits with 21.
Chimacum, which has suffered win-less campaigns in boys basketball and tennis, brings up the rear with nine total varsity wins.
Spring is on the horizon, and with that comes softball, baseball, girls tennis and boys soccer as we follow the team wins battle.
Track also arrives, but is largely an individual sport disguised as a team sport, and team win totals are all but impossible to keep track of when multiple schools are involved in every meet.
This is the final year of the current set-up of the Olympic League, as Coupeville is bouncing to the new North Sound Conference next fall.
Before the Wolves go, they would love to repeat as unofficial league-wide champs and defend the varsity wins title they copped last year, when they edged Klahowya 51-48.
The Eagles, who spring from the second-biggest student body in 1A, prevailed 52-40 and 45-42 over CHS the first two years of the league, with Chimacum and Port Townsend well behind in every year.
In other matters, the end of the regular season for basketball means the end of the trail for the Coupeville boys.
While the Wolf girls kick off a playoff run Feb. 10, their male counterparts were tripped up by the Olympic League only having two playoff slots this season.
Still, before they were done, a couple of Wolves hit milestones.
Ethan Spark topped the 200-point mark in his senior season, while Hunter Smith’s 382 points was the best single season for a Wolf boy since Mike Bagby tossed in 414 back in 2004-2005.
Smith also came very close to having one of the best seasons in school history, with the tenth-best single-season mark by a Wolf boy being 392 by Wade Ellsworth in 1978-1979.
On the girls side of the ball, Wolf junior Lindsey Roberts, who still has games to play, has more than doubled her previous career total.
With 152 points this season, she’s jumped from 137 career points (#77 all-time for CHS girls) to 289 points (#36 all-time).
Final regular-season varsity scoring totals and league standings:
Girls:
Lindsey Roberts 152
Mikayla Elfrank 99
Sarah Wright 99
Ema Smith 94
Kyla Briscoe 78
Scout Smith 52
Kalia Littlejohn 38
Chelsea Prescott 34
Hannah Davidson 10
Allison Wenzel 5
Avalon Renninger 1
Boys:
Hunter Smith 382
Ethan Spark 216
Joey Lippo 88
Cameron Toomey-Stout 54
Hunter Downes 53
Mason Grove 51
Kyle Rockwell 29
Jered Brown 24
Dane Lucero 16
Gavin Knoblich 5
Ulrik Wells 4
Jacobi Pilgrim 1
Olympic League girls basketball:
| School | League | Overall |
| Port Townsend | 7-2 | 9-10 |
| COUPEVILLE | 6-3 | 8-13 |
| Chimacum | 4-5 | 7-12 |
| Klahowya | 1-8 | 4-15 |
Olympic League boys basketball:
| School | League | Overall |
| Port Townsend | 7-2 | 11-8 |
| Klahowya | 6-3 | 10-10 |
| COUPEVILLE | 5-4 | 7-13 |
| Chimacum | 0-9 | 0-14 |
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