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Smash, bash, another foe down with a crash

March 31, 2026 by David Svien

Coupeville sophomore first-baseman Ava Lucero was flawless in the field Tuesday and deadly at the plate. (Jackie Saia photo)

Aim for the mountains.

Look out to center field at Darrington, and that’s what you’ll see peeking down on the Loggers softball field — a range of craggy targets.

So, the smash sisters took advantage Tuesday, as the Coupeville High School sluggers lashed liners to all fields, including a Chelsi Stevens moonshot which cleared the fences, en route to demolishing their hosts 21-2.

The lopsided win, in which CHS coach Aaron Lucero was able to get action for all 17 girls on his active roster, lifts the Wolves to 3-0 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 6-0 overall.

Combined with an Orcas Island loss to Friday Harbor, it also moves Coupeville back into sole possession of first place in the conference, with a rematch against Darrington set for Thursday on Whidbey Island.

By that time, they may have found the ball Stevens launched into the stratosphere. Maybe.

It came just four batters into the game yet was already the fourth booming shot unleashed by a CHS squad which has outscored its foes 92-12 this season.

Lethal leadoff hitter Haylee Armstrong jumped on the first pitch of the afternoon, cracking a ball a Darrington outfielder couldn’t handle, while Teagan Calkins mashed a triple to left-center two batters later.

Up to the plate came Stevens, flexing her bat and eyeballing the Logger pitcher.

Boom! The sophomore cleanup hitter delivered with a clang, the ball arcing up, up, and still further up into the blue sky, while the Darrington outfielders watched helplessly as the two-run tater screamed its way halfway back to Whidbey before landing.

It was wash, rinse, and repeat from there for the Wolves, who tacked on another run in the first, thanks to an Ava Lucero RBI double, before pushing six across in the second frame.

Stevens again came up big her second time around, with a long RBI double, while Capri Anter, Lucero, and Emma Leavitt also connected on run-scoring hits.

Wolf hurler Adeline Maynes was unhittable in the early innings, throwing high, hard cheese and collecting strikeouts, with the game put on ice thanks to a 15-batter, nine-run third inning which lasted approximately 45 minutes and change.

Sydney Van Dyke, Calkins, and Stevens walloped back-to-back-to-back extra-base blows to start the frame, with Cami Van Dyke, Leavitt, and Allie Powers chipping in with key base knocks to keep the never-ending rally chugging along.

From midway through the third to the end of the fourth, Aaron Lucero kept his scorebook keeper hoppin’, mixing and matching players in the lineup to give his reserves crucial game action to build for the future while keeping the score from getting to 50-0.

Zariyah Allen, Olivia Martin, Allie Powers, Marina Jadwin, Arianna Vinson, Zayne Roos, and Emily Rains all earned plate appearances, while Emma Cushman (defense) and Emma Leavitt (offense) combined to form a dynamic duo in right field.

Darrington, a plucky team, did scrape out two runs in the fourth, but Calkins and Anter got them back with RBI singles in the fifth.

Flame-throwing Wolf hurlers Maynes and Armstrong combined to net eight strikeouts, while Ava Lucero, playing a spotless first base, pulled off three unassisted put-outs on grounders to highlight a top-flight defense.

 

Tuesday stats:

Capri Anter — Three singles
Haylee Armstrong — One triple
Teagan Calkins — One single, one triple, one walk
Emma Leavitt — One single, one double
Ava Lucero — One single, one double, one walk
Adeline Maynes — Two walks
Allie Powers — One single
Emily Rains — One walk
Chelsi Stevens — Two doubles, one home run
Cami Van Dyke — One single
Sydney Van Dyke — Two singles, one double, one triple

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Diamond men walk to a win

March 31, 2026 by David Svien

Camden Glover struck out eight in four innings Tuesday, earning a win in Darrington. (Jackie Saia photo)

Pick your moments.

For the Coupeville High School baseball squad, the window of opportunity opened in the top of the sixth inning Tuesday afternoon.

To the Wolves credit, they seized it.

Trailing 2-1 at Darrington, with two outs and nobody aboard, struggling to scrape out hits, Steve Hilborn’s diamond men pulled off a stunning reversal, getting eight consecutive hitters on base from that point and pulling away for what would become a 6-2 win.

The victory, coming less than 24 hours after a non-conference loss to East Jefferson, gets the Wolves to 3-0 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 4-2 overall, with a rematch against Darrington set for Thursday on Whidbey Island.

It also pushes CHS back into a first-place tie with Mount Vernon Christian atop the conference at the quarter mark of the 12-game league schedule.

Things were looking a bit dire in the sixth for the Wolves, despite Coop Cooper leading off the frame with a double.

A groundout, followed by a successful pick-off play from Darrington, and Coupeville seemingly had nothing to work with.

CHS hadn’t scored since the first, and had stranded three runners an inning before, allowing the Loggers to hold on to their lead by the narrowest margin.

Then Darrington’s pitchers forgot how to throw a strike. Literally.

Consecutive walks to Trent Thule, Malachi Somes, and Chris Zenz loaded the bases, before a free pass to Carson Grove pushed a runner home to knot things at 2-2.

That brought leadoff hitter Chase Anderson to the plate, and he delivered, crushing a bases-clearing double to center — one of just four Wolf hits on the afternoon — and the entire game had flipped.

Not that Darrington was done walking folks.

Aiden O’Neill got a free trip to first, before the Loggers went to a new pitcher, who promptly plunked Camden Glover and Cooper wham-bam to give Coupeville its final run.

Glover, who tossed four innings after coming on in relief of Anderson, made that stand up, retiring six of the final seven hitters he faced, with five going down on strikeouts.

For the game, the Wolf pitchers combined to whiff 13, with Glover tops with eight, while limiting Darrington to just two hits across seven innings.

While Coupeville didn’t get many more base knocks of their own, three of their four hits were of the extra-base variety, while CHS also racked up 12 walks.

The visitors opened the scoring in the top of the first, with O’Neill walking (what else?), stealing second and third, then scampering home to score on a Darrington error.

While the Wolves went down 1-2-3 in both the second and third, strong defense, including nailing a runner trying to steal third, kept the game at 1-0 until the Loggers scraped out a run in the third, and another in the fourth.

The first Darrington run came in on a passed ball, the second on an RBI single, but after that Anderson and Glover were largely lights out the rest of the way.

Coupeville loaded the bases in the fifth, packaging walks to Riley Lawless and O’Neill around an Anderson single, but the Loggers escaped by snagging a two-out pop up in foul territory.

That set the stage for the sixth, and this time the Wolves were able to take advantage, keeping an early-season run of success going.

 

Tuesday stats:

Chase Anderson — One single, one double
Coop Cooper — One double, one walk
Camden Glover — Two walks
Carson Grove — One walk
Riley Lawless — One walk
Aiden O’Neill — Three walks
Leo Rodriguez — One double
Malachi Somes — One walk
Trent Thule — Two walks
Chris Zenz — One walk

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Rivals edge Wolves in close contest

March 30, 2026 by David Svien

Chris Zenz rapped an RBI single Monday afternoon. (Jackie Saia photo)

They were a hit or two away.

The Coupeville High School baseball squad put 14 runners aboard Monday in Port Townsend but couldn’t get enough of them home in what became a 7-5 loss to East Jefferson.

The non-conference defeat, which kicks off a week in which the Wolves are slated to play four games in six days, drops CHS to 3-2 on the season.

Coupeville gets right back at it Tuesday with a trip to Darrington for a Northwest 2B/1B League clash, before hosting Darrington Thursday and East Jefferson Saturday in a rematch which will feature a cancer fundraiser.

Monday’s tilt started in favor of the hosts, who are a mash-up of Chimacum and Port Townsend, before the Wolves made things interesting in the middle of the game.

East Jefferson pushed two runners across in the bottom of the first, then tacked on another tally in the second, while Coupeville struggled to get its offense going.

The Wolves wiped away a somewhat sluggish start by showcasing a solid knowledge of the strike zone in the top of the third. And a willingness to embrace the pain.

Three consecutive walks, with Leo Rodriguez and Chase Anderson getting plunked, loaded the bases, with Camden Glover lofting an RBI sac fly to left to get his team on the board.

While East Jefferson escaped after that, the Wolves put together their best offensive surge in the fourth, plating three runners to retake the lead at 4-3.

Walks were again key, but a Chris Zenz RBI single — Coupeville’s first hit on the afternoon — was big.

In a recurring theme, though, the Wolves left runners on base, as they frequently came close to breaking things wide open, only to come up just short.

East Jefferson, which outhit CHS 10-3, put together its own three-run rally in the bottom of the fourth, reclaiming the advantage at 6-4.

This time, the Rivals didn’t give the lead back.

The teams traded runs to make it 7-5, with Coupeville scoring in the bottom of the sixth thanks to doubles from Anderson and Glover, but the Wolves were unable to get all the way back a second time.

CHS coach Steve Hilborn used three pitchers in the game, with Coop Cooper, Carson Grove, and Trent Thule combining to record nine strikeouts across six innings.

Thule, who also picked up four walks as a hitter, came on to throw the final two frames, topping the Wolf hurlers with four K’s.

Coupeville’s defense played strongly behind the mound trio, as well, playing error-free ball.

 

Monday stats:

Chase Anderson — One double, one walk
Coop Cooper — One walk
Camden Glover — One double
Carson Grove — One walk
Aiden O’Neill — Two walks
Leo Rodriguez — One walk
Trent Thule — Four walks
Chris Zenz — One single

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Sundays are made for chuckin’ hammers

March 30, 2026 by David Svien

Khanor Jump, seen here as a freshman. (Photo courtesy Christina Jump)

He’s like a traveling gunfighter, but with a hammer in his hand instead of an Old West pistol.

Coupeville High School sophomore Khanor Jump was back on the road Sunday, a day after competing with his classmates at a 12-team meet in Stanwood.

This time around, he was back in Lone Wolf mode, participating in the fourth edition of the season-long Hammer Meet Series hosted by the Evergreen State College in Olympia.

Jump chucked his hammer 108 feet, nine inches Sunday, earning a fourth-place finish while vying with rivals from schools such as Kamiak, Tumwater, and Aberdeen.

That’s his second-best throw of the season, and third-best of his high school career.

Following in the footsteps of older sister Taygin, who throws for Plattsburgh State in New York, Khanor’s PR in the hammer throw is 117-02.

The hammer throw is not generally part of regular season high school meets in Washington state, so throwers have to follow their own path, with a season-long series which culminates in a state championship separate from the one offered by the WIAA.

Jump finished 22nd at the hammer throw state championships as a freshman, second-best for a 9th grader.

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Fab four hitting high marks

March 30, 2026 by David Svien

Wolf freshman Cyrus Sparacio is among the best distance runners in 2B so far this season. (Marquette Cunningham photo)

They’re the fab four.

Coupeville High School currently has a quartet of track and field athletes who land among the top 10 in at least one event when we look at the best statewide in the 2B classification.

Freshmen Tamsin Ward and Cyrus Sparacio are joined by sophomores Lillian Ketterling and Wyatt Fitch-Marron, with Fitch-Marron the highest-ranked.

The only one of these four Wolves with a state meet medal already to his credit, he’s currently #2 in the high jump, an event where he finished 7th at last year’s big dance.

There are still two months to go in the track season, with Coupeville’s next meet coming Wednesday, when it travels to Mount Vernon.

But through Mar. 30, here’s where the Wolves land among the best in 2B:

 

GIRLS:

Shot Put — Tamsin Ward (5th) 30-10

High Jump — Ward (8th-tie) 4-08

Pole Vault — Lillian Ketterling (7th-tie) 7-00

 

BOYS:

1600 — Cyrus Sparacio (6th) 4:46.29

3200 — Sparacio (7th) 10:47.10

High Jump — Wyatt Fitch-Marron (2nd-tie) 5-10

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