Sean Toomey-Stout, seen here in practice, scorched the nets for 14 Tuesday as the Wolf JV won its third straight. (John Fisken photo)
They are in a groove.
Leading from start to finish Tuesday (except for a brief 2-2 tie), the Coupeville High School JV boys’ basketball squad rolled to its third straight win.
Torching visiting Klahowya 45-36, the Wolves improved to 4-2 overall, 2-1 in 1A Olympic League play.
Unlike its varsity counterparts, who struggled in the early going before clicking, the Wolf young guns came out blazing.
Sean Toomey-Stout banked home a bucket to open things, and then, after Klahowya responded with a layup of its own, things became one-sided really quickly.
Riding five points in the opening quarter from Toomey-Stout and four from Koa Davison, the Wolves bolted out to a 13-4 lead at the first break and never looked back.
The quarter-capping basket was a display of raw power from CHS frosh Jacobi Pacquette-Pilgrim.
Wrestling a rebound away from three Eagles, he spun and powered right back up for the put-back, while finding time to chest-bump one of his defenders off his feet.
Klahowya didn’t go down easy, making several runs to inch within a shot or two of taking the lead.
Each time they did, however, Dustin Van Velkinburgh’s squad didn’t lose its cool and refused to give the lead away.
Clinging to a two-point lead shortly before the half, the Wolves closed on a 7-1 tear, with Pacquette-Pilgrim pounding home another bucket and Toomey-Stout dropping five more.
Things got dangerous again, at 29-28 seconds before the end of the third quarter, and 39-36 with two minutes in the game.
Both times CHS stepped up.
The first time the Wolves put together a 10-2 surge, sparked by a long trey from Mason Grove and a sweet hook shot under extreme duress from Davison.
With the game on the line, Coupeville closed things the old fashioned way, scoring the game’s final six points on free throws.
Jered Brown hit three, Davison netted two and Toomey-Stout swished the final point, while Dawson Houston came off the bench to haul in a game-icing rebound.
Toomey-Stout paced the Wolves with a game-high 14, while Grove scored all 10 of his points during a second-half rampage.
Davison banked home eight in support, Brown popped for five and Ulrik Wells and Pacquette-Pilgrim, who were a deadly duo on the glass all night, dropped in four apiece.
Houston, Nikolai Lyngra and Tucker Hall all saw floor time as well for the high-flying Wolves.
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