Coupeville Sports

Josh Bayne is here to bring the pain. (John Fisken photo)

Let’s say you had to work last night and couldn’t travel down to Everson.

You would have missed a top-notch high school football game, one in which Coupeville High School made several heroic goal line stops and batted away a Hail Mary pass at the end to escape out of town with a thrilling 20-12 win.

If, like me, you were knee deep in dirty dishes, you wouldn’t have seen Jake Tumblin rumble for 127 yards and then stop a two-point conversion on defense by sacking the Nooksack quarterback. Or watched Josh Bayne throw down an all-around impressive game, lighting up people on both sides of the ball.

But, listen to Wolf stat man Chris Tumblin for a second or two, and you can practically see the knee-buckling action play out in front of you.

The best quote of the year (so far), in which Tumblin describes Bayne unloading on a Pioneer receiver:

“Josh had one tackle on a receiver, folded him in half like a cheap hooker who was punched in the gut by her pimp. He had to sit out for awhile and wait for his liver to start working again.”

Ow.

Bayne had six tackles and made off with an interception, while Wade Schaef also made off with a pick.

Lathom Kelley paced the Wolves with 10 tackles and four assists, while Brett Arnold (9/2), Tumblin (8/5), Nick Streubel (5/1), Jared Dickson (4/3) and Matthew Hampton (3 tackles) all chipped in.

Hampton and Dickson recovered fumbles, while Streubel, who was triple-teamed the entire night, threw enough bodies around to get two sacks and have a third tackle behind the line for a loss.