Coupeville Sports

Aaron Wright and the lads won big Friday night. (John Fisken photo)

Josh Datin was called up to varsity action and played solid defense in the victory.

The goals came back.

A game after suffering its first shutout of the season, the Coupeville High School boys’ soccer team rediscovered its shooting touch and peppered visiting Granite Falls Friday night.

With Abraham Leyva scoring twice, the Wolves pounded the winless Tigers 4-1 to clinch a better record than the squad had last season — and they still have more than half the regular season left to play.

Now 4-3 overall, 3-3 in Cascade Conference play, CHS moved into a tie with King’s for the second 1A playoff spot out of the 1A/2A league. The Knights are 4-4, 3-3 after losing 4-2 to Cedarcrest Friday.

Coupeville travels to Everett to play the first of two match-ups against King’s Tuesday, April 15, the start of four straight games on the road.

Included in that span is a rematch with South Whidbey (6-2, 4-2), which holds a slim edge among 1A teams, despite a 1-0 loss to Archbishop Thomas Murphy Friday.

Coupeville won the first meeting of the Whidbey rivals this season.

Two of the three 1A schools in the eight team league qualify for the postseason.

With the win Friday, the Wolves assured themselves that, even with nine games left on the schedule, they will finish better than the 2013 squad, which went 3-14.

Coupeville did it, as they have all season, with an electrifying offense that caused soccer mom Janine Bundy to declare “Sweet victory! It was fun!!!”

Her son, sophomore sensation Zane Bundy, bounced back from a recent lung infection to break open the scoring a mere 45 seconds into play. It was his fourth goal of the year.

After that, the goals came fast and furious, with senior Sean Donley punching in his second of the season and Leyva hitting twice to run his team-leading total to six.

Joel Walstad got the win in goal for the Wolves, who also gave playing time to two JV hustlers.

Ryan Freeman and Josh Datin made the transition and both had an impact, with Freeman pushing hard on offense and Datin scrappin’ on D.