Jonathan Thurston, ever-ready on defense. (Shelli Trumbull photo)
Breaking news — few coaches can be as artfully sarcastic as the ol’ ball coach himself, Willie Smith.
The longtime Coupeville High School baseball coach is the master of the quick retort, followed by a huge grin, so when I emailed him about the Wolf JV baseball game played Thursday at Cedarcrest, I should have expected what I got back.
My question: Any scintillating news?
His response: Well, I’ve lost some weight, so that’s pretty exciting…
Nice.
Later, he admitted Coupeville took an 11-1 loss, but there were bright spots as the Wolves faced off with the biggest 2A squad in the league.
“They (Cedarcrest) just hit the ball,” Smith said. “We didn’t make many mistakes, our pitchers threw strikes and didn’t walk kids, which is always a plus.”
Jonathan Thurston, Clay Reilly, Cole Payne and Ethan Marx all rapped out singles while Jimmy Myers “hit the ball hard.”
And, to cap things off, since the Wolf JV baseball squad traveled down to Duvall with the CHS track team, “We got to wait for two hours after the completion of our game and watch the track team compete, so all in all, a pretty productive day!”
I can see his sarcastic smile stretching a foot wide as he wrote the last words. Classic Willie Smith, ladies and gentlemen.
Still the master, after all these years.
Coupeville Sports 
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