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All the rules (they want you to follow)

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged Arlington, Boys Basketball, CHS Wolves, state tournament, Tonasket on February 21, 2024| 1 Comment »

Wolf warrior Chase Anderson is bringing his A-game to Arlington. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

The mainland is about to be invaded by Wolf Nation.

Coupeville High School fans travel in packs to almost all off-island sports events, so Saturday’s state tourney game against Tonasket should see a lot of red and black in the stands.

In anticipation of the event, Arlington High School, which is hosting, sent out a collection of pertinent info.

Site:

Arlington High School — 18821 Crown Ridge Blvd. in … Arlington.

Your game-day destination.

Schedule:

4:00 — Coupeville “hosts” Tonasket

6:00 — Arlington hosts Marysville Getchell

8:00 — Tulalip Heritage “hosts” Columbia Adventist

Tickets:

Good for all three games; $13 for adults, $10 for students/senior citizens/military.

Must be purchased online through GoFan (with additional fees) or in person with a credit or debit card. NO CASH SALES.

https://gofan.co/event/1414313?schoolId=WIAA

Streaming:

They will tell you NFHS (and its cruddy cameras and terrible customer service) is your only option. Au contraire, Mon frere (if you’re a Coupeville fan)!

School board prez (and Wolf Mom) Morgan White livestreams on her Facebook page and offers a better picture and running commentary.

For free, unlike NFHS.

Seating:

The “home” teams will be on the East end of the court, while the visiting team will be on the West end.

Student sections will be located across the court from the team bench, while adults will sit behind the team bench.

In our current nanny state, you are “not permitted to make inappropriate comments toward officials and opponents” and can be ejected for doing so.

If you do get the heave-ho, wave at the camera as you go.

That way immature Gen X’ers like myself can pour one out for you while remembering a time when students sections were allowed to be rowdy, and everyone shockingly survived to grow up to become functioning adults.

Functioning adults who live to complain a lot about “the mollycoddlers ruinin’ our beloved game,” but functioning adults nonetheless.

Fresh off winning a Bi-District title, the Wolves want more hardware. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

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Open your (digital) wallet!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged Arlington, Boys Basketball, Brandon Roy, CHS Wolves, no cash, state tournament, Tonasket on February 20, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Want to see Cole “Cash Money” White and Co. play at state? Put away that … cash. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Let the fleecing begin.

With the state basketball tourney upon us, the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association and its chums are here to strip your wallet dry.

But only your digital wallet.

Plan on heading to Arlington High School this Saturday to watch the Coupeville boys clash with Tonasket in a loser-out game, with the victor heading off to Spokane for the remainder of the 2B tourney?

You’re going to pay more for the pleasure of sitting on old-school gym bleachers, and you’re not going to use cash.

Why? The better to charge you handling fees, my dear.

The only way to snag a ticket is to use GoFan’s digital service, where you’ll pay $13.00 (plus fees), or a sorta-modest $10.00 if you’re military, a student, or a senior citizen.

To do so, pop over here:

https://gofan.co/event/1414313?schoolId=WIAA

Now, to be fair, your ticket applies to all games played at the site Saturday.

So, along with Coupeville and Tonasket at 4:00 PM, you can catch two other boys’ hoops clashes.

3A Arlington plays at 6:00 on its own court, against the winner of a play-in game between Kelso and Marysville-Getchell.

Then, an 8:00(ish) tip features 1B boys Tulalip Heritage and either Mount Vernon Christian or Columbia Adventist.

And yes, you read that correctly.

Arlington, like Lynden and Grandview and a few others, gets to open the state tourney on its OWN court, as the WIAA scrambles to have enough sites to handle all the games.

What is that you say? Coupeville should apply to host a slate of state regional games?

Thus raising the possibility Brad Sherman and Megan Smith, if they get their teams ranked high enough, could play state games a mile from my house?

Or, at the very least, giving CHS a chance to rake in some sweet, sweet postseason cash — with Andreas Wurzrainer and associates also running a food truck in the parking lot??

You know who would LOVE a trip to Whidbey Island to see Cow Town and get a special off-season visit to Kapaw’s Iskreme?

Portland Trailblazer legend and man of the people Brandon Roy and his Garfield boys’ basketball dynasty, that’s who.

Just sayin’.

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Net men “host” must-win state tourney opener

Posted in Boys Basketball, tagged Boys Basketball, bracket, Brad Sherman, CHS Wolves, state tournament on February 18, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Ryan Blouin delivers a three-ball under the watchful eye of CHS coach Brad Sherman. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Every game matters.

The Coupeville High School boys’ basketball team opens 2B state tourney play next week, but its first rumble will be a loser-out affair, requiring a win if the Wolves want to go on to the glitz of the Spokane Arena.

CHS, seeded #11 in the 16-team field, plays #14 Tonasket Saturday, Feb. 24 at Arlington High School.

Tipoff is 4:00 PM and the Wolves will be the host team.

That’s a “short” 60-mile trip for Coupeville, and a 211-mile slog for Tonasket.

While there are 16 teams in the state tourney field, the penny pinchers at the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association only have 12 advance to Spokane, where tourney action plays out Feb. 28-Mar. 2.

Teams seeded #1-#8 are guaranteed at least two games, while teams #9-#16 have to win their opening bout to advance.

If Coupeville, which sits at 17-5 on the season, beats Tonasket (14-10), it will face either #3 Colfax (25-0) or #6 Toutle Lake (20-5) Feb. 28 in Spokane.

To see the bracket, pop over to:

https://www.wpanetwork.com/wiaa/brackets/tournament.php?act=view&tournament_id=4186&school_year=2023-24&district=0&sport=3&class=0

Coupeville advanced to state by winning the District 1/2 title, beating Auburn Adventist Academy 64-50 and La Conner 60-44.

The Braves (16-7) rebounded to knock off AAA 68-57 to claim their own state ticket and are seeded #15.

La Conner opens state against #10 Adna in a loser-out game of its own, with that contest slated to go down at W.F. West High School in Chehalis.

The Wolves celebrate a Bi-District title with defensive guru Randy Bottorff.

And what of Coupeville’s first round foe?

Tonasket, which sits 240 miles away from Cow Town, plays in the Central Washington B League, which is comprised of 18 schools.

Featuring a mix of 1B and 2B institutions, the league includes traditional powers like Lake Roosevelt (seeded #4 in this year’s boys’ state tourney), Okanogan, and Brewster.

Tonasket finished second in the District 6 tourney, then held off Kettle Falls 63-55 in a District 6/7 crossover game to advance to state.

The Tigers were ranked #20 in the WIAA’s RPI, while Coupeville was #9.

A roster on MaxPreps lists eight players, with three seniors.

Half of Tonasket’s roster is recorded at being 5-foot-8 or shorter, with just two Tigers topping six-foot.

That duo is 6-4 junior Bradon Prock and 6-3 junior Kristian Jones, who both reportedly push the scale to just 160 pounds.

Jones averages 13.6 points and seven rebounds a night, while senior Jade Ramon leads Tonasket with 13.9 points per game.

Sophomore Tanner Tompkins (11.2) and Prock (10.8) give the Tigers four players averaging double figures, though none comes close to Coupeville’s leading marksman, Logan Downes.

Depending on whether we count the Chief Leschi game, where he played just two minutes before leaving with an injury, the Wolf senior is averaging either 24.0 or 22.9 per appearance.

Logan Downes has a scoring quota to fill.

Sophomore Chase Anderson (8.9) and senior Cole White (8.8) sit #2 and #3 for Coupeville this season.

This marks Tonasket’s eleventh trip to the state tourney, but its first since 2017.

The Tigers best finish came in 1981-1982, when they placed 3rd while playing in the 1A classification.

Coupeville is making its seventh appearance, and its second in the past three seasons after playing Kalama and Lake Roosevelt in 2022.

And some quick-hitting non-basketball facts about Tonasket to round out your Sunday?

According to the whiz kids at Wikipedia, the town, located along the eastern bank of the Okanogan River, was officially incorporated Dec. 16, 1927, and is named after Chief Tonasket.

He was a local leader who “assumed the status of grand chief of the American Okanogan after the drawing of the Canada-United States border by the Oregon Treaty of 1846.”

The area is “a hub for agricultural and forestry industries” and “the location of three major fruit storage and processing facilities.”

Plus, Walter H. Brattain, son of a pioneer family, shared the 1956 Nobel Prize for Physics for the invention of the transistor.

Other memorable folks to spring from Tonasket include Wendy J. Fox, author of “The Seven Stages of Anger and Other Stories,” three-time Olympic biathlete Jeremy Teela, and former Nevada state senator Dean Rhoads, hailed as a “consummate rural lawmaker.”

You came for the basketball, you left with obscure trivia.

We call that a win-win in the blogging biz.

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Volleyball state trip features a reunion

Posted in Volleyball, tagged bracket, CHS Wolves, seeding committee, state tournament, volleyball on November 5, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Jada Heaton (left) and Lyla Stuurmans open state tourney play Wednesday morning in Yakima. (Jackie Saia photo)

The path is set.

The Coupeville High School volleyball team, headed back to the state tournament for the first time since 2017, now knows its opening round foe.

The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association released the official bracket Sunday morning, having seeded the 16 qualifiers for the Nov. 8-9 royal rumble.

The Wolves?

Sitting at 12-5, having won 11 of their last 12 matches, they’re #12, and begin their adventure at the Yakima SunDome against #5 Lind-Ritzville-Sprague.

Oh, and by the way, Coupeville spiker coach Cory Whitmore is a Ritzville grad (Class of 2009) who was a standout three-sport athlete there in his younger days.

His dad Greg, now superintendent in Entiat, was also a longtime coach, teacher, and athletic director at the school, so ties still run deep.

Cory Whitmore, Ritzville legend, now rockin’ Coupeville colors. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

“Looking forward to matching up with my alma mater, see some familiar faces in the crowd,” Cory Whitmore said.

“They’re a strong team and I recognize a good number of the names.

“Cari Galbreth’s (head coach) kid is their setter and I definitely remember Zoe splashing around the city pool I lifeguarded at each summer.

“Gotta love the small-town connections. Go Wolves!”

PS — If you’re wondering about that pool, the internet remembers forever:

https://www.ritzvillejournal.com/story/2012/06/21/news/pool-managers-prepare-for-swim-season/2724.html

Coupeville and Lind-Ritzville-Sprague, which is 17-2 on the season, play at 9:45 AM on Court #5.

You can see the bracket here:

http://www.wpanetwork.com/wiaa/brackets/tournament.php?act=view&tournament_id=4082&school_year=2023-24&district=-1&sport=10&class=2B

Win or lose that opening match, Coupeville returns to the courts later in the day as the tourney is a double-elimination event.

#4 Goldendale (19-1) and #13 Liberty of Spangle (12-5) are opposite the Wolves and Broncos.

Right now, the losers from those two matches are slated to clash at 3:30, with the winners vying at 7:15, but time flows at its own pace once a state tourney begins.

Overall, four teams will go two and out Wednesday, while four more will be sliced early Thursday, with the final eight guaranteed to bring home a trophy.

Coupeville’s Northwest 2B/1B League rival La Conner, which is the four-time defending state champs, have their lowest ranking in years.

The Braves (12-7), who edged the Wolves for the bi-district crown after CHS ended La Conner’s 12+ year conference win streak, are seeded #11 and open against #6 Toutle Lake (14-6).

Top-seeded Adna (18-0) and #2 Manson (20-0) are the last unbeaten teams standing, while #15 Kalama (11-11) is the only school to reach state without posting a winning record.

Wolf spikers Lyla Stuurmans (4), Madison McMillan (11), and Mia Farris (3), ready to write their own tale. (Bailey Thule photo)

This is Coupeville’s sixth trip to the state volleyball tourney, and its first as a 2B school.

The previous five appearances all came at the 1A level.

Whitmore, now in his eighth season at CHS, led the Wolves to the royal rumble in 2017, where they fell to Castle Rock and Lakeside (Nine Mile Falls).

Prior to that, Kim Meche and Toni Crebbin guided Coupeville as it qualified four straight seasons between 2001-2004.

The Wolf spikers went 4-8 at state in that span, collecting a win each time around.

Coupeville KO’d King’s (2-0), Freeman (2-0), Toutle Lake (3-2) and Zillah (3-1) in successive years, but came up just short of bringing home a trophy.

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Net aces chasin’ that state dream

Posted in Volleyball, tagged bracket, CHS Wolves, districts, state tournament, volleyball on October 27, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Madison McMillan directs traffic. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Two wins to punch a ticket to Yakima.

The Coupeville High School volleyball team carries a nine-match winning streak into the District 1/2 tourney Monday, on the cusp of earning a state berth for the first time since 2017.

Four teams enter — two from District 1 and two from District 2 — with two advancing on to the big dance at the SunDome Nov. 8-9.

That’s up from recent years, where the D1/2 tourney only had one slot to award to a 2B school.

The Wolves begin their playoff quest on the road Monday in Lacey, facing off with Northwest Christian.

Win or lose, they take Tuesday off for Halloween, then get back at it Wednesday at La Conner High School, when everything will be decided in one torrid night of spikes, sets, and digs.

Teagan Calkins (7), Taylor Brotemarkle and Co. are on a roll with nine straight wins. (Jackie Saia photo)

What you need to know:

The bracket:

http://www.wpanetwork.com/wiaa/brackets/tournament.php?act=view&tournament_id=4102

Ticket prices:

Monday’s match, being played at a District 2 site, costs $1 more to attend than Wednesday’s multiple match setup.

Oh, it’s true.

Adults or students without ASB – $9 (Monday) or $8 (Wednesday)
Children (5-12) – $6
Senior Citizen (62+) – $6
Students with ASB – $6

There’s also a quirk to buying tickets.

In Lacey, you can only buy your ticket online, as District 2 has an agreement with GoFan. Click on the link in the bracket to purchase.

Cash is accepted at concessions, however.

Back in District 1, we work all the angles, so La Conner offers both online sales and in-person cash sales at the door.

Where to go:

Northwest Christian High School — 4710 Park Center Ave NE in Lacey

According to their Athletic Director, “the high school is the building immediately on your right as you pull into the parking lot. Come down the stairs and that leads you to the gym foyer.”

La Conner High School — 502 N 6th St in, technically, Mount Vernon.

Team capsules:

Auburn Adventist Academy

Season record: 13-6

Sets W/L: 38-19

RPI ranking: #19

League: Sea-Tac 1B/2B — #2 seed

Trips to state: Two (Most recent: 2011)

Coach: Lina Aiolupotea

Seniors: Not available

Mascot: Falcons

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