Coupeville Sports

Jasmine Melena, seen here earlier this season, made her fielding debut Saturday. (John Fisken photo)

One more out. My kingdom for one more out.

Using a late rally Saturday, the Coupeville High School softball squad came dangerously close to pulling off a second straight walk-off win, but ran out of chances at the very end.

Scoring four in the bottom of the seventh, the Wolves pushed visiting Friday Harbor to the limit, before falling 7-6.

The non-conference loss snapped a two-game winning streak for Coupeville and dropped it to 3-5 on the season.

Coming off of an emotional 22-21 win in their previous game, the Wolves came out a bit slower at the plate this time, scratching out single runs in the first and second inning.

Hailey Hammer smacked an RBI single that brought in Katrina McGranahan, while Tiffany Briscoe put up a sac fly that plated Monica Vidoni.

CHS coach Deanna Rafferty would have liked to have seen a consistent offensive attack, but was still pleased with part of what she witnessed.

“My biggest frustration in this game was we didn’t amp our intensity until the seventh inning,” she said. “We could have and should have won, but, as always, all the girls made a little bit of an improvement and I’m incredibly proud of them.”

The visitors won the game with a five-run third inning that was helped along a bit by the umps.

While they did catch a Friday Harbor runner not tagging home, wiping out a run, the umps missed a call on a run-down play.

McKayla Bailey, Hammer and Jae LeVine teamed up to nab a runner, with LeVine going airborne to slap the tag on the girl’s calf, but the call went against Coupeville, allowing a crucial run to score.

Bailey replaced McGranahan in the pitcher’s circle in the fourth and limited Friday Harbor to just one run, while the game also saw the first appearance of Jasmine Melena, who handled her first fielding chance skillfully.

“She did great!,” Rafferty said.

The Wolves, who sit atop the Olympic League standings at 2-0, will put that status on the line Tuesday, when they travel to Klahowya.