Coupeville Sports

Kurtis Smith comes up firing. (Shelli Trumbull photos)

“This is a bat, son. I’m gonna use it to pound on your puny pitching.”

“See, told you! Now, feet, let’s get moving. They don’t call me ‘Wheels’ for nothin’!!”

Aaron Trumbull brings the heat on the mound.

 An actual South Whidbey kid on a South Whidbey squad? It’s true, as Charlie Patterson connects at the plate.

He does what he can.

Forced into exile and made to wear the colors of a rival school, Coupeville High School senior-to-be Kurtis Smith, along with four Wolf teammates, is rockin’ the blue and white for the South Whidbey American Legion baseball squad this spring.

With no Coupeville team this year, Smith, Aaron Trumbull, Aaron Curtin and the Payne boys, Morgan and Cole, are traipsing down South to play alongside Falcons.

And the meshed team is really starting to click, ripping off big wins recently against Marysville (12-2) and Lynden (7-1). The two-game winning streak has lifted South Whidbey’s record to 3-7, with six games left to play on the regular-season schedule.