Coupeville Sports

Wade Schaef looks in for the sign. (Shelli Trumbull photo)

Well, it was a change of pace.

After back-to-back one-run games decided only after playing extra innings, Coupeville and Cedarcrest closed out their three-game baseball series Friday with a relative romp.

Unfortunately for Whidbey fans, it was the visitors who ran away with the game, bunching together a bevy of hits and way too many Wolf errors on their way to capturing a 9-3 victory.

The loss dropped Coupeville to 4-6 overall, 3-6 in Cascade Conference play.

The good news is the smallest 1A school in the state is now done with playing the biggest of the big boys, having wrapped their series with league leaders Archbishop Thomas Murphy and Cedarcrest.

Those two schools are a combined 18-4 in league play while Coupeville’s remaining opponents — Lakewood, Granite Falls and Sultan — are a combined 9-18.

The first time the Wolves and Cedarcrest met on Whidbey this season, they went nine innings and finished with a 1-0 game. That wasn’t the case Friday.

After falling behind 2-0 quickly, Coupeville scored three in the bottom of the first to reclaim the lead.

The visitors, behind the hot bat of senior Nick Bowersock, who smacked three hits, blew things open with two in the third and fourth and three more in the fifth.

The Red Wolves collected nine hits off of CHS hurlers Josh Bayne and Wade Schaef, but were greatly helped by five Coupeville errors.