Coupeville Sports

   Maggie Crimmins prepares to unleash “The Knuckler.” (Justine McGranahan photos)

Wolf libero Jae LeVine (in red) gives her team a pep talk.

Maggie Crimmins is tricky.

The Coupeville High School freshman volleyball player serves underhanded, and why not? She’s deadly that way.

With her serves taking wicked spins and moving in a completely different manner than expected, visiting Friday Harbor was unable to master Crimmins Thursday night.

The Wolf JV spikers won 15 points off of her serves — almost double that of any other CHS server — as they romped to a 25-15, 25-7, 25-18 non-conference win.

The victory evened their record at 1-1.

Crimmins display of serving artistry came over the final two sets, with the Wolves scoring six points on her serve in the second set and nine in the third.

Coupeville was strong at the line all night, winning nine points apiece off of serves by Payton Aparicio, Lauren Grove and Hope Lodell.

The Wolves jumped out to big leads in all three sets, had momentary burps in the first and third, and were lights out in the second.

Along the way, they got masterful plays from almost everyone on the floor.

Katrina McGranahan was a force of nature at the net, while Brittany Powers and Grove were everywhere, getting hands on almost every ball remotely in their vicinity.

Kameryn St Onge, Mackenzi Valko and Sophia Hassapis chipped in with hustle, Allison Wenzel had two beautiful tip plays to win points and Grove, Kayla Rose and Jae LeVine closed out the sets at the service stripe.

LeVine, as is her fashion, then did a quick happy dance after Friday Harbor failed to return her match-ending serve.

Dance on, Jae, dance on.