Coupeville Sports

Be there, or these guys will be by later to “talk.” (Shelli Trumbull photo)

Shut the town down, Martha!

Lock the doors early today and get yer patootie to Robert Sherman Field by 4 PM. It’s your civic duty.

Whether you’re one of the 14 survivors of Sideways Freezing Rain Day earlier this season (I still have flashbacks) or haven’t attended a Coupeville High School baseball game since they built the new field out on the prairie, today is your moment.

Playing in the loaded Cascade Conference, where five of the eight schools are 2A and Coupeville is the smallest of the 1A trio, the Wolves have rarely had the chance to host home playoff games.

Today, against Lynden Christian, that changes.

This baseball team, by and large the same group of guys who won a little league state title in 2010, is charging.

Five wins in its last six games and having put a scare into defending 2A state champ Archbishop Thomas Murphy, which had to pull out its big gun to escape Whidbey with a win last visit, they are the team of destiny.

As Wolf assistant coach Chris Tumblin (the man in charge of the 2010 little league team) said, “It’s a state championship that someone has to win. Why not Coupeville?”

Why not, indeed.

It all starts today, at home. In front of their fans. With lone senior Drew Chan taking the field, his field, for the final time in his stellar career.

Be there. Don’t deny yourself the chance to be part of destiny.