At state tournaments the slightest mistakes are amplified.

One or two turnovers will make a difference in a game.

When a team commits 59 turnovers in two contests, however, there’s no hiding from the mistakes.

“That’s been our Achille’s heel the entire season,” said Coupeville head coach Geoff Kappes of turnovers.

Those same regular-season miscues cost the Wolves on the big stage Wednesday and Thursday at the WIAA/Dairy Farmers of Washington 1A Girls Basketball Championship in Yakima.

Coupeville committed 26 turnovers in a first-round 83-32 thumping from Zillah and 33 turnovers in a 60-32 elimination loss to Columbia (Burbank).

“When we turned the ball over most of them were forced and not silly mistakes on our part like they have been in the past,” Kappes said. “I think it was just one of those situations where we had a lot of girls playing in the SunDome for the first time and the other teams had been there before.”

It wasn’t just the way the other teams played defense that showed their experience. Both Zillah and Columbia came out on fire shooting the ball.

In Wednesday’s opener Zillah hit 47.1 percent (32-of-68) shots from the floor en route to the second largest rout in class 1A state tournament history. Its 51-point margin of victory missed tying the tournament record by one point.

Kappes said the Wolves made adjustments to stop the Leopards, but they overcame everything CHS threw at them.

“It really wasn’t anything our girls did defensively,” he said. “We’d get a hand up and they’d still knock down the shots.”

Coupeville led Wednesday’s game 10-6 at the 3:11 mark of the first quarter. Zillah, however, went on a 33-7 run to close the half and pull away for good.

Five Leopard players scored in double figures, led by 5-foot-9 junior post Tefini Uasike with 15. CHS sophomore Hayley Ebersole paced the Wolves with a team-high 10 points.

Unfortunately for Coupeville, it ran into similar problems on Thursday morning. Eight first-quarter turnovers led to another slow start for the Wolves.

At the same time Columbia junior Lauren Rada couldn’t miss. The guard helped the Coyotes to a 25-9 lead behind 15 first-quarter points on 6-for-8 shooting along with three three pointers. She ended the contest with a game-high 24 points on 55 percent shooting.

Columbia led 34-20 at halftime and never allowed Coupeville to pull closer than 12 points.

The Wolves’ high scorers on Thursday were senior Brittany Black with 10 and senior Jennifer Bailey with eight.

Coupeville ended its season at 11-13 overall.