Coupeville Sports

There were buns waiting to be paddled yesterday, and paddled hard.

For it is not an opinion or a random thought, it is fact — no one paddles Friday Harbor’s collective buns like the Coupeville High School tennis team does. Whether it be boys or girls, the Wolves have taken great delight in thrashing their league opponent over the last half decade.

Which is why Wolf tennis guru Ken Stange had be chompin’ at the bit at the thought of setting his biggest roster ever (a super-sized 24 racket wielders) loose in Coupeville’s season opener Friday afternoon.

But then, it all fell apart in a mix of excuses. Talk of low numbers and a lack of practices for Friday Harbor. An apparent unwillingness to get their buns paddled, metaphorically at least, and a team that simply didn’t show up.

Long bus rides home are kind of hard when your posterior is aglow...

Which left Stange to try and control a team full of revved-up and ready to go netmen anxious for their first crack at someone other than their teammates.

“Oh, we would have whipped them … had they had a team for us to play!,” Stange said. “Hopefully we get to play them in a week or two. We need a match because I’ve got 24 kids ready to swing!”

Now the Wolves just need something, or someone, to paddle.