Coupeville Sports

   Joel Walstad earned the shutout win in goal for the Wolves Friday night. (John Fisken photo)

Earlier this season, Cameron Boyd broke a tooth during a tussle for a soccer ball.

Friday night, the Coupeville High School senior shattered something else, but was probably a lot happier about it. Scoring his first varsity goal, he helped carry the Wolves to a 1-0 win at Sultan.

The victory broke a five-game winless streak for Coupeville, gave the Wolves a season sweep of the Turks and improved their record to 5-7-1 overall, 4-7 in Cascade Conference play.

It wasn’t enough to keep their slim playoff hopes alive, however.

With wins of their own Friday, South Whidbey (7-2-2 in league) and King’s (7-3-1) clinched the two 1A postseason berths available from the 1A/2A league.

Coupeville has three games remaining, two at home, but the best they could finish in league play is 7-7 and even if King’s were to lose its final three, they would edge out the Wolves by a half game.

Still, even without a trip to the playoffs, this has been a season of improvement for CHS, which went 3-14 a season ago and had little scoring pop.

While big scorers Abraham Leyva, Zane Bundy and Sean Donley were scoreless Friday, Boyd’s goal was all Wolf goaltender Joel Walstad and his defense needed.