Coupeville Sports

  Wolf quarterback Gunnar Langvold discusses strategy with coach Tony Maggio, pre-injury. (Shelli Trumbull photos)

Carson Risner (55) leads the Wolf line.

Ouch.

A week of nagging injuries caught up with the Coupeville High School football squad Friday night, and then got worse.

Playing without key offensive players Jake Tumblin, Brett Arnold, Wade Schaef and Lathom Kelley (Schaef had a family matter, but the other three running backs were all battling aches and pains of varying degrees), the Wolves — a run-first, second and third team — decided to air it out in a five-receiver set in their non-conference game at Port Townsend.

Then starting quarterback Gunnar Langvold went down with a bad sprain on the first offensive series, and the already-crumbling world fell out from beneath Tony Maggio’s team.

By the time the host Redskins were done putting on their own display of running prowess, Coupeville had absorbed a 41-0 drubbing, an almost complete reversal of their season-opening victory over Bellevue Christian.

Now 1-1, the Wolves will attempt to get healthy in a hurry before they host Lynden Christian next Friday, Sept. 20.

Early reports indicate Langvold will be out 3-4 days.

Without their senior signal-caller operating behind center Carson Risner, junior Josh Bayne slid over from his wing position and scrambled for his life against a revved-up Port Townsend defense. He eventually threw for 140 yards, with key completions to receivers such as Tyree Booker, but couldn’t get Coupeville into the end zone.

The Redskins responded by double and triple teaming the heart of the Wolf defense, Nick Streubel, and pounded away for six scores, all on the ground.

After Matt Cain hit pay dirt on consecutive 10-yard scoring runs, senior quarterback Jacob King broke off touchdown jaunts of 56, 30 and 26 yards.

Port Townsend capped its night and lifted its 2013 record to a shiny 2-0 after Dominick Zack hauled tail 83 yards for a final touchdown. The freshman broke free on a fourth and one from his own 17 and went all the way on his very first carry as a high school varsity player.

Coupeville’s defense did have its moments, picking off two passes and forcing a fumble.