Sebastian Davis (22) and his Wolf teammates will open the playoffs on the road Saturday. (John Fisken photo)
Earning a home playoff game was going to be a long shot.
Going into Wednesday’s regular season finale at Port Townsend, the Coupeville High School boys’ soccer squad needed a win, and then to triumph on a coin flip, to earn that honor.
The Wolves will never know how they would have done with that coin flip, however.
Despite playing what CHS coach Kyle Nelson termed “our best team effort,” Coupeville fell 4-2 to the Redhawks in a shootout after finishing play tied 1-1.
The loss dropped the Wolves to 3-10 overall, 2-4 in Olympic League play and gives them third place in the four-team league.
Coupeville will hit the road Saturday to play the Nisqually League’s #2 seed (most likely Charles Wright Academy) in a loser-out district playoff game.
Win that and they advance to the double elimination portion of the postseason and a rematch with Olympic League champ Klahowya.
With second place on the line Wednesday, the Wolves came out strongly against a team they had been nipped by 3-2 earlier this season.
“We started a little slow, but midway through the first half we got going and it was a tight, hard-fought game from there,” Nelson said. “Quite a few near misses.”
Coupeville’s score came thanks to the Redhawks, who knocked the ball into their own goal after a “a strong, well-placed cross by Abraham (Leyva)“.
While they didn’t get the victory they wanted, the Wolves will turn the page and head into a new season at 0-0, the same as every other team in the postseason.
“We our now looking forward to our district game. I feel good about our chances,” Nelson said.
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