Coupeville Sports

“Chicks dig scars!!” (Shelli Trumbull photo)

And now the pain meds are kickin’ in… (DeeAnna Smith photo)

Adrenaline allowed him to smile for the camera. Later, things got more serious.

Coupeville High School senior Kurtis Smith shattered his finger during a botched play Monday in an American Legion baseball game and may face extensive surgery.

Smith, who is joining four Wolf teammates in playing for South Whidbey this summer, was caught in a rundown when a squeeze play at home didn’t work the way it was supposed to.

Stranded on the base-path, he went into home hard, and collided with the catcher, his hand slamming into the other player’s knee.

“He knew something was wrong and when he took his batting glove off his finger was in the wrong place,” said mom DeeAnna Smith. “It looked dislocated so we asked coach Tom (Fallon) to put it back in.

” He was in the dugout for a while icing it, but we left because we wanted to have it checked out,” she added. “I am glad we did and I am glad coach Tom put it somewhat back together while he was full of adrenalin and before it had time to swell. Would have been a lot more painful to put it back after swelling.”

The fourth finger on his right hand is fractured in a couple places to where it meets the joint.

“We meet with the orthopedic surgeon this morning,” DeeAnna Smith said. “He will look at x-ray and see if he feels he can fix it or if he will send us off island to a hand specialist. I am thinking he will do that. That means we will go back to the hospital today for surgery because they say he definitely needs it pinned.”

The injury ends the summer baseball season a bit early for Kurtis Smith, but he expects to be in the dugout with his team for the remaining bit of the schedule.

He’s set to leave Aug. 1 for an outdoor leadership program in the North Cascades, most likely with the most interesting-looking bandage in the program.