If they turned off the scoreboard and you only watched the final minutes of the Coupeville High School boys basketball team’s loss to visiting Lakewood Wednesday, Jan. 11, you would have never guessed the score.

The Wolves lost big again, this time 58-21. However, the intensity of Coupeville’s high-energy play never wavers.

Coach Anthony Smith has his young team playing hard, regardless of the score.

Smith’s team (one senior, one junior, three sophomores and three freshmen) is inexperienced and undersized and is plagued by youthful mistakes — turnovers and poor shooting. It does not lack for effort.

Lakewood’s 6-foot-6 Dustin Stanton (Coupeville’s tallest player is 6-1) scored the games first six points and the Cougars ran to a 10-0 lead.

The Wolves narrowed the gap to 12-6 at the quarter, then failed to make any of its 15 second-quarter field goal tries and trailed 27-8 at the break.

Coupeville hit its first two shots of the second half, then went scoreless the rest of the quarter and trailed 46-12 after three periods.

For the game, the Wolves shot only 18 percent (7-for-38), while the Cougars hit on 39 percent (21-for-54).

Coupeville had 34 turnovers, Lakewood 18.

Stanton, an Oregon State tight end recruit, finished with 15 points in two-and-a-half quarters.

Gavin O’Keefe scored eight points for Coupeville, followed by Taylor Ebersole with six. Mitch Pelroy, Carson Risner and Drew Chan had two apiece and Aaron Curtin one.

The Wolves (0-7, 0-11) play Cedarcrest (4-3, 8-5) in Coupeville Friday, Jan. 13, at 7 p.m.