Coupeville Sports

Erin Rosenkranz, being awesome. (John Fisken photos)

Wolf super fans Heni Barnes (left) and Jason Knoll.

Julia Myers was the loneliest girl in town Saturday.

The Coupeville High School goaltender didn’t face a single shot on goal in the first half of her team’s non-conference game against visiting Concrete.

Instead, she spent most of the opening forty minutes enjoying the sunny afternoon, admiring the trees and flowers, and, oh yes, celebrating as her teammates rained down goals on the opposing goalie.

A Wolf squad which had scored four times in nine games erupted for that many in the first half against the Lions and then tacked on a few more, just in case, in a dominating 7-0 victory.

With Marisa Etzell and Makana Stone each banging in a pair of goals, five CHS booters found the back of the net.

Myers even got some action herself, moving out of the net and coming dangerously close to scoring several times in the second half, while Joye Jackson patrolled the goal in her place.

The game was effectively over less than three minutes in, when Etzell, flying down the left side, took a gorgeous cross from Micky LeVine and redirected it past the flailing Concrete netminder.

Just to make sure, however, the Wolf junior doubled her pleasure less than two minutes later, dribbling through a wall of defenders and launching her second goal of the afternoon into the corner of the net.

Not to be outdone, Stone, gliding down the field with long, elegant strides, pulled off a one-woman breakaway. Then, just like Etzell, she struck a second time less than two minutes apart, taking a corner kick from Jennifer Spark and turning it into another goal.

With Coupeville tennis ace Jason Knoll in the stands, delivering play by play in his best Christian Bale growl while clad in a Batman costume, the Wolves continued to romp in the second half to the delight of a partisan crowd.

LeVine put herself in exactly the right position and then knocked in a rebound that hit the crossbar and bounced right to her deadly toe.

Not to be outdone, Spark, backed by a large, boisterous personal cheering section, smacked shot after shot at the increasingly panicky Concrete goalie. When she connected on a roundhouse shot as she rolled to her right, it smacked into the net with a sonic boom and reduced her fans to a screaming mess.

As the day wound down and Coupeville wrapped up its second win of the season, team captain Erin Rosenkranz put the final stamp on the game. After dancing with the goalie in a one-on-one duel, she slapped a shot that shredded the Concrete player’s hands, and soul, finally coming to a rest in the back of the net.

After that, there was nothing left to do but celebrate, as a team of beaming, hugging girls tumbled over each other to bow to the parents, fellow students and fans in the stands.