Coupeville Sports

   Shoreline Community College’s 2014-2015 womens’ basketball squad, including Wolf grad Madeline Roberts (32).

Mad Dog

Cue the record scratch.

Pulling off a surprise move, Mad Dog has jumped sports venues and is now ready to rain down buckets.

In one of the more unexpected bits of athletic news in 2014, former Coupeville High School softball sensation Madeline Roberts has picked up a second sport in college.

Now a freshman at Shoreline Community College, where she’s on scholarship to play softball, Roberts walked on the Dolphin womens’ basketball squad, which opened its season Friday with a loss to Wenatchee Valley.

“Yeah, haha, they didn’t have enough girls and needed some extra bodies, so I tried out,” Roberts said.

Despite not having played competitively in four years (she last ran the hardwood as a CHS freshman), her natural athletic skills took over and she’s now a gym rat again.

She apparently even convinced the person doing the SCC roster to believe she’s five-foot-four. Uh huh…

Shoreline plays in the Northwest Athletic Conference and has a 20+ game schedule that stretches through Feb.

That’ll keep Roberts active and on the go until it’s time to revert back to her glory days of being a slap-hitting lead-off hitter with dangerous speed and unexpected pop in her bat.