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A million little points!!

Posted in Basketball, tagged , , , , on July 27, 2017| 7 Comments »

Hoops hotshot Jeff Stone (top, left) is joined by (clockwise from top right) Mike Bagby, Randy Keefe, Jeff Rhubottom, Bill Riley, Pete Petrov, Brad Sherman, Denny Clark, Arik Garthwaite, and Bill Jarrell.

Want to impress people with random stats? I’m here for you.

As I pursue the basketball history of Coupeville High School, I’ve reached a milestone, having tracked down (fairly complete) scoring stats for every boys basketball season from 1960-61 to 2016-2017.

That’s 57 seasons and provides a pretty good overview of the Wolf program.

Now, CHS hoops has been playing since 1917, so I still have work ahead of me, though those early decades (with the possible exception of the ’50s) are fairly certain to be low-scoring affairs.

But, as I take a momentary break from digging through the dusty archives, let’s pause a moment and see if you can guess the answer to a bit of trivia.

Over those past 57 seasons, as shorts got longer, three-point bombs became a reality, and numerous sets of brothers passed through the school, how many players do you think scored at least one point in a varsity basketball game?

If you guessed 328 players, you’re either uncanny … or you looked ahead and cheated.

Either way, that’s what my research shows.

Having plowed through newspaper articles (some more helpful than others), yearbooks and (when they could be found) score-books, here’s everyone who put the ball into the hoop for the Wolves from 1960-2017.

With one small caveat. No one is claiming this is 100% correct down to the last point.

When your research is in a million little pieces and scattered to the wind, if you can walk away and say, “Hey, this is 98.6% correct,” then I think we’re OK.

And I feel OK.

CHS boys varsity basketball scorers (1960-2017) — * indicates active player:

Jeff Stone 1137
Mike Bagby 1104
Randy Keefe 1088
Jeff Rhubottom 1012
Bill Riley 934
Pete Petrov 917
Brad Sherman 874
Denny Clark 869
Arik Garthwaite 867
Bill Jarrell 855
Corey Cross 811
Barry Brown 769
Hunter Hammer 759
Steve Whitney 730
Dan Nieder 729
Chris Good 688
Gavin Keohane 677
Virgil Roehl 674
Foster Faris 668
Pat Bennett 659
Wade Ellsworth 659
Jason McFadyen 654
Rich Morris 637
Kramer O’Keefe 636
Wiley Hesselgrave 632
John O’Grady 611
Greg White 604
Joe Whitney 601
Brian Miller 597
Mike Syreen 594
Gabe McMurray 592
Randy Duggan 552
Roy Marti 551
Jim Syreen 550
Marc Bissett 549
Brad Miller 526
JJ Marti 520
Gary Faris 518
Cody Peters 518
David Lortz 502
Jason Bagby 499
Pat O’Grady 472
Sean Dillon 469
Hunter Smith 465 (*)
Frank Marti 462
Del O’Shell 440
Tony Ford 432
Caleb Powell 421
Ben Biskovich 407
Casey Clark 407
Nick Sellgren 406
Tom Logan 385
James Smith 382
Chad Gale 373
JD Wilcox 373
Ty Blouin 369
Caesar Kortuem 369
Ray Harvey 368
Pat Brown 355
Dick Smith 352
Glenn Losey 350
Timm Orsborn 345
Robin Larson 342
Byron Fellstrom 340
Kevin Faris 339
Michael Vaughan 337
Aaron Trumbull 330
Brad Brown 328
Charlie Tessaro 328
Ian Smith 324
David Ford 323
Bob Rea 320
Chris Marti 319
Gabe Wynn 316
Nick Streubel 314
Utz Conard 313
Ben Hayes 306
Allen Black 305
Noah Roehl 301
Blake Day 299
John Beasley 293
Risen Johnson 291
Brian Fakkema 290
Matt Frost 290
Mike Mallo 282
Keith Jameson 277
Terry Roberts 277
Kit Manzanares 275
Boom Phomvongkoth 275
Zepher Loesch 274
Alex Evans 272
Aaron Curtin 271
Tyler King 270
Joe Tessaro 270
Eric Hopkins 265
Harvey Wainio 265
Rick Keefe 259
Troy Blouin 256
Sean Callahan 256
Greg Fellstrom 248
Casey Larson 247
Jim Yake 247
Brandon Huff 245
Brad Haslam 235
Geoff Hageman 227
Curt Youderian 226
Ed Wood 219
Joel Walstad 217
Richard Cook 216
Ryan Keefe 214
Jordan Ford 210
Andrew Mouw 204
Vance Huffman 203
Tim Quenzer 202
Alan Hancock 198
Shawn Ryan 197
Trevor Tucker 194
Mike Millenbach 188
Dale Sherman 188
Scott Stuurmans 188
Wayne Hardie 178
Chris Cox 177
Evan Tingstad 177
Jerry VandWerfhorst 177
Anthony Bergeron 176
Mike Ankney 173
Ron Naddy 172
Dale Libbey 169
Tim Walstad 168
Randy Blindauer 166
Mark Bepler 165
Chad Brookhouse 163
Noel Criscuola 162
Monty Moore 155
Geoff Wacker 154
Bill Baas 153
Jim Faris 151
Steve Konek 149
Gavin O’Keefe 149
Ryan McManigle 148
Ryan Griggs 147
Hugh Abell 145
Ethan Spark 136 (*)
Craig Anderson 132
Mitch Aparicio 130
Scott Franzen 129
Ben Etzell 127
Pat Millenbach 126
Brian Shank 125
Jessie Smith 119
Scott McGraw 116
Christian Townsdin 116
Mitch Pelroy 115
Taylor Ebersole 114
Eric Taylor 112
Brian Barr 108
Joe Donellon 101
Jason McManigle 101
Bryan Hamilton 99
Brian Knoll 98
Morgan Payne 96
Christian Lyness 95
Ted Weber 91
James Meek 89
Dan Miller 89
Steve Bissett 87
Andrew Cashen 87
Carson Risner 86
John Sinema 86
Roy Mattox 83
Nick Morris 83
Caleb Valko 78
Ross Buckner 77
Matt Shank 77
JJ Johnson 76
Duane Score 76
Quinten Farmer 75
Matt Ortega 75
Mike Ellsworth 74
John Zimmerman 72
Jason Fisher 71
Tony Prosser 70
Les Jacobson 69
Tom Conard 68
Dean Grasser 68
Matt Bepler 67
Zack Swerdfeger 66
Ron Lamphere 65
Ben Hancock 63
Randy Stone 63
Mike Brown 62
Jason McDavid 62
Jeremy Staples 62
Brian Hageman 61
Erik King 61
David Davis 60
Tom Mueller 59
Brandy Ambrose 58
Steve Smith 58
Martin Walsh 58
Matt Helm 57
Dennis Terrell 57
Drew Chan 56
DeAndre Mitchell 56
Ellis Schultz 56
CJ Smith 54
Asa Owensby 52
Marc Aparicio 51
Chris Chan 51
Joe Kelley 51
Marvin Darst 50
Troy Hurlburt 49
Dalton Engle 48
Jerry Helm 48
Dalton Martin 47
Eddie Fasolo 45
Keith Dunnagan 42
Erick Harada 40
James Jorgensen 40
Nevin Miranda 40
Jeff Thomas 40
John Wyatt 40
Danny Bonacci 36
Hunter Downes 36 (*)
Charlie Toth 36
Jim Marti 35
Zeb Williams 35
Dante Mitchell 34
Dave Brandt 33
Ryan Kelley 33
Joey Lippo 33 (*)
Brian Roundy 32
Richard Barber 31
Ray Cook 29
Tim Leese 29
Ralph Lindsay 29
Rick Marti 28
Toby Martinez 28
Daniel McDonald 28
Joe Rojas 28
Todd Smith 28
Scott Sollars 28
Richard Benson 27
Mike Duke 27
John Holmes 26
Cameron Toomey-Stout 26 (*)
Mark Short 25
Tim Youderian 25
Jared Helmstadter 24
Trent Diamanti 23
Trevor Mueller 22
Dan Schleiffers 22
Jay Roberts 21
Dustin Van Velkinburgh 21
Matt Douglas 20
Jordan Emerson 20
Dean Strom 20
Scott Fisher 19
Scott Losey 19
Matt Petrich 19
Jason Raymond 19
Rob Blouin 18
Rick Keith 18
Marvin Mitchell 18
Gary Boyke 17
Jim Keith 17
Cedric McIntosh 17
Rick Frieze 16
Chad Nixon 16
Josh Wilsey 16
Steven Cope 15
Eric Dyer 15
Mike Lester 15
Brad Rogers 15
Henry Edwards 14
Todd Brown 13
DJ Kim 13
Mike Eaton 12
Guy George 12
Kole Kellison 12
Desmond Bell 11
Bill Hamilton 11
Ken Pickard 11
Jon Roberts 11
Chris Squires 11
Ben Winkes 11
Ron Edwards 10
Travis Hooker 10
Daniel Graham 9
Kyle King 9
Bruce Seiger 9
Fred Wyatt 9
Erik Anderson 8
Rob Fasolo 8
Kraig Gordon 8
Robert Shafer 8
Dave Wells 8
Charlie Cook 7
Brian Folkestad 7
Wayne Hesselgrave 7
Ed Cook 6
Chuck Hardee 6
Kevin King 6
Robert Kirkwood 6
Nic Anthony 5
Ariah Bepler 5 (*)
Jered Brown 5 (*)
Scott Davidson 5
JD Myers 5
Nate Steele 5
Andrew Bird 4
Bill Boze 4
Jason Legat 4
Morgan Roehl 4
Rusty Bailey 3
Luke Currier 3
Frank Mueller 3
Tracy Wilson 3
Teo Benson 2
Norm Enders 2
Chris Locke 2
Jeremy McCormick 2
Rich McCormick 2
Denny Moss 2
Tony Sherman 2
Stephen Stietenroth 2
Robbie Wanamaker 2
Oscar Liquidano 1

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Chasing history, a bucket at a time!!

Posted in Basketball, tagged , , , , on July 26, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   One of many blast from the pasts as I wander through Coupeville High School’s 100-year basketball history. (Megan Hansen photo)

Where have you gone, Jeff Rhubottom? Wolf Nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

As I plow through my current project — trying to track down the history of Coupeville High School basketball — it’s a mad swirl of players, some of whose exploits have unfairly slipped away into the mists of time.

But we’re going to change that!

Jeff Stone and Corey Cross, Bill Riley and Bill Jarrell, Randy Keefe, Denny Clark and Del O’Shell will once again get their moment in the spotlight, along side latter day legends like Brad Sherman, Mike Bagby and Pete Petrov.

Going through 100 years of hoops history (the first official CHS game was Jan. 19, 1917) is a daunting task.

There is no magical back room at the school where all the records were faithfully kept, so I’m relying on score-books which still exist (less than you’d think), old yearbooks and the dusty newspaper archives at the Whidbey News-Times.

The first thing I had to make peace with was there is simply no way to come up with a definitive historical record for rebounds, assists, steals, blocked shots, etc.

Even with the years where I have score-books to work from, the stat sheets have long vanished and newspaper articles were seriously lacking in non-scoring stats.

For example, Randy King coached CHS boys basketball from 1991-2011 and I obtained 18 of those 20 score-books. But not a single stat sheet.

So, my goals shifted slightly.

While it would be great to raise a basketball record board which showed the full range of stats, it ain’t happenin’ any time soon.

Instead, my plan is to have two boards, one for boys and one for girls, which will showcase the top 10 scoring leaders for a single season and a career.

In addition, the single-game scoring record will be honored.

For the boys, we know Jeff Stone poured in 48 against Darrington during the 1970 district title game, so game over on that one.

When I get to the girls, which will be easier (a lot less years to look at) and harder (painfully thin newspaper coverage in the early days), Judy Marti starts as the player to beat, based on a 32-point night in the early ’80s.

Doing this research, and working towards getting basketball its own record boards like track, football and volleyball, is long hours sprinkled with aha moments.

One of those comes from the aforementioned Rhubottom.

I had heard his name, in passing at least, and knew he was a player likely to appear on my charts, but I was surprised to find just how successful he was back in the day.

Having arrived on Whidbey in 1989, a decade after Rhubottom wrapped up his CHS hoops career, I had no clue he torched the nets for 459 points in the 1977-1978 season.

While my list is still a work in progress, with 55 of 100 seasons accounted for, what remains to document is mostly pre-1950s, when scoring would be much lower.

At the moment, Rhubottom sits with the second-best single-season performance (Stone’s mind-boggling 644 in 1969-1970 is untouchable) and is #4 career-wise.

I’m still working on stats for Corey Cross and Tom Sahli, so final standings could change a bit, but Rhubottom is golden. He will be on that board, two times.

And that is what has driven me, through the creation and installation of the school’s Wall of Fame for team titles, the revamp of the football record board and now the pursuit of basketball boards.

By bringing the greats of the past like Rhubottom back into the modern-day conversation, we pay tribute to what they accomplished, remind them they are not forgotten, and give today’s athletes genuine records to shoot at.

Past, present and future, all brought together, as I slowly go cross-eyed in the archives.

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Movin’ on up!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on February 6, 2017| Leave a Comment »

(Sylvia Hurlburt photo)

   Wolf players, trying to figure out their scoring averages. (Sylvia Hurlburt photo)

On to the postseason.

Both Wolf basketball squads punched their ticket to the playoffs — one a little more emphatically than the other — and will join Port Townsend and Chimacum at the next level.

Klahowya, which struggled through a rough, injury-marred winter, will sit out the playoffs on both the girls and boys sides.

The next round begins Thursday for the Coupeville boys, as they host a loser-out district game against the #4 team from the Nisqually League.

The Wolf girls, as league champs, are off until double-elimination play begins Feb. 14.

As we head towards the postseason, one final look at the regular-season standings:

Olympic League girls basketball:

School League Overall
COUPEVILLE 9-0 15-4
Port Townsend 5-4 10-8
Chimacum 4-5 11-9
Klahowya 0-9 3-16

Olympic League boys basketball:

School League Overall
Port Townsend 9-0 15-4
Chimacum 4-5 4-13
COUPEVILLE 3-6 3-16
Klahowya 2-7 4-15

And scoring stats for Coupeville’s varsity players:

Girls:

Kailey Kellner – 163
Mikayla Elfrank – 118
Mia Littlejohn – 113
Lindsey Roberts – 82
Kalia Littlejohn – 63
Tiffany Briscoe – 43
Lauren Grove – 38
Lauren Rose – 30
Sarah Wright – 16
Kyla Briscoe – 7
Allison Wenzel – 4
Charlotte Langille – 2

Boys:

Hunter Smith – 303
Gabe Wynn – 197
Ethan Spark – 132
Brian Shank – 119
Hunter Downes – 36
Joey Lippo – 28
Cameron Toomey-Stout – 26
Steven Cope – 13
Ariah Bepler – 5
Jered Brown – 5

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Six days of suspense!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , on January 30, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Lauren Rose (John Fisken photo)

   With players like Lauren Rose setting up teammates at every turn, the Wolf girls are 13-3 this season. (John Fisken photo)

It’s all about playoff seeding heading into the final week of the regular season for high school basketball.

On the girls side of things, Coupeville is the league champ — for a third-straight season — and Port Townsend has clinched second place.

Chimacum can clinch third place, and the league’s final playoff berth, with a win Tuesday against Klahowya.

If the Cowboys fall to the Eagles, though, things would be guaranteed to go all the way to the final game on both team’s schedule — a rematch Saturday that would then be a winner-take-all.

While Coupeville is locked in regardless, the Wolves do want to win their finale Saturday against Port Townsend.

Do that and they finish 9-0 for the third straight year and stretch the league’s longest unbeaten streak, in any sport, to 27-0.

Over on the boys side, only one of four teams is 100% confident in knowing its fate, and that’s league champ Port Townsend.

The other three schools can all finish anywhere between #2 and #4 depending on how the season’s final six days play out.

Coupeville, which pulled off back-to-back wins against Klahowya and Chimacum to end last week, still has a shot of catching the Cowboys for the #2 playoff seed … or falling completely out of the playoff picture.

Both are very long shots, though, with the odds heavily in favor of the Wolves finishing #3 and hosting a first-round loser-out postseason game.

To get #2, CHS has only one option — it has to beat Port Townsend in the season finale, while needing Chimacum to lose twice in five days to Klahowya.

That’s it.

Any other result and the Wolves can’t pull off the stunning late-season reversal.

They don’t have a tiebreaker against Chimacum, having lost two of three to the Cowboys, so have to finish with a better record.

To go to the other extreme, the only way Coupeville misses the postseason is if Klahowya wins its final three games (two tilts against Chimacum wrapped around a meeting with Port Townsend) and the Wolves drop that final battle with the RedHawks.

Will things end quickly — a Chimacum win Tuesday at Klahowya ends all speculation — or go down to the final day? Stay tuned.

Where things sit through Monday morning:

Olympic League girls basketball:

School League Overall
COUPEVILLE 8-0 13-3
Port Townsend 4-3 8-7
Chimacum 2-5 9-9
Klahowya 0-6 3-13

Olympic League boys basketball:

School League Overall
Port Townsend 7-0 13-3
Chimacum 3-4 3-12
COUPEVILLE 3-5 3-13
Klahowya 1-5 3-13

And scoring stats for Coupeville’s varsity players:

Girls:

Kailey Kellner – 148
Mikayla Elfrank – 98
Mia Littlejohn – 90
Lindsey Roberts – 60
Kalia Littlejohn – 55
Tiffany Briscoe – 37
Lauren Grove – 36
Lauren Rose – 30
Sarah Wright – 15
Kyla Briscoe – 7
Allison Wenzel – 4
Charlotte Langille – 2

Boys:

Hunter Smith – 255
Gabe Wynn – 184
Brian Shank – 103
Ethan Spark – 99
Hunter Downes – 36
Joey Lippo – 20
Cameron Toomey-Stout – 18
Steven Cope – 11
Ariah Bepler – 5
Jered Brown – 5

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Headed down the stretch!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball, tagged , , , , , on January 23, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Kyla Briscoe and Co. are one win away from clinching their third-straight Olympic League crown. (John Fisken photo)

   Kyla Briscoe and Co. are one win away from clinching their third-straight Olympic League crown. (John Fisken photo)

One is riding sky-high, the other is fighting for its playoff life.

With two weeks left in the regular season, the Coupeville High School basketball squads are going in opposite directions.

The Wolf girls need just one win in their final four league games to clinch a third-straight Olympic League crown, while the CHS boys sit a half game off of their conference’s final postseason slot.

Now 23-0 all-time in Olympic League play, the girls will go for the clincher at home Tuesday against last-place Klahowya.

After an unprecedented eight straight games on the road — Tuesday’s tilt will be their first home game in 45 days — the Wolf girls play five of their final six in their own gym.

The CHS boys, who came within a play of stunning league champ Port Townsend Friday night, will have to succeed on the road, as they travel off of Whidbey four of their final five games, including all three league affairs left to play.

Where things sit through Monday morning:

Olympic League girls basketball:

School League Overall
COUPEVILLE 5-0 10-3
Port Townsend 4-3 8-6
Chimacum 2-4 8-8
Klahowya 0-4 3-11

Olympic League boys basketball:

School League Overall
Port Townsend 7-0 12-3
Chimacum 3-3 3-10
Klahowya 1-4 3-12
COUPEVILLE 1-5 1-13

And scoring stats for Coupeville’s varsity players:

Girls:

Kailey Kellner – 112
Mia Littlejohn – 80
Mikayla Elfrank – 75
Kalia Littlejohn – 44
Lindsey Roberts – 38
Lauren Grove – 32
Lauren Rose – 30
Tiffany Briscoe – 25
Sarah Wright – 13
Kyla Briscoe – 7
Charlotte Langille – 2
Allison Wenzel – 2

Boys:

Hunter Smith – 195
Gabe Wynn – 157
Brian Shank – 92
Ethan Spark – 85
Hunter Downes – 36
Joey Lippo – 18
Cameron Toomey-Stout – 18
Steven Cope – 9
Ariah Bepler – 5
Jered Brown – 5

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