Girls win, boys lose in basketball at Coupeville

It was an up and down night for La Conner High School basketball teams at Coupeville to end the regular season Feb. 7.

The girls team improved to 17-4 overall and 7-1 in league action with a convincing 48-22 triumph despite resting Skagit County leading scorer Ellie Marble, who is nursing a lower back strain in advance of bi-district playoffs this week.

With Marble, a 6'-0" senior power forward scoring at a 22.0 point per game clip unavailable, coach Joe Harper's charges did much of their damage from behind the trey arc.

La Conner buried Coupeville with 10 three-pointers, six by Josie Harper,...