Coupeville Sports

   Kameryn St Onge dominated at the net Thursday, propelling the Wolf JV spikers to a straight-sets win. (John Fisken photo)

Tonight, we’re going to talk about the JV first.

And why not? It’s the easier story to write, because, if one thing went perfectly Thursday, it was the performance laid down by Coupeville High School’s young volleyball spikers.

Hitting on every cylinder, the Wolf JV routed visiting Chimacum in straight sets, and it got progressively easier the further into the match they went.

The 25-16, 25-14, 25-9 win, the third in the last four matches for the squad, lifted Coupeville to 3-3.

Other than a brief dry spell at the very start of the match, this was one of those nights where everything went in favor of the women wearing red and black.

Battling back from an early mini-deficit, the Wolves claimed the lead for good at 9-8 in the first set on a nice tip for a winner from Kenzi LaRue.

Coupeville took immediate advantage, with Allison Wenzel striding to the service stripe and crushing the first ball she saw for a blistering ace.

Staying hot on serve, the Wolves got aces from LaRue, Ashley Menges and Maddy Hilkey as they began to roll to victory, then really stepped up the assault in the second set.

That was when Sarah Wright went off, reeling off eight straight points on serve at one point.

She got some help, with Kameryn St Onge and Maggie Crimmins each dropping in winners off of perfectly-placed tips.

Coupeville thoroughly controlled play, with Chimacum getting its points mainly off of errors and not off of anything special the Cowboys could come up with.

When the Wolves went for winners, they sent the Cowboys reeling, never more so than when Menges went airborne, virtually scraping the gym ceiling for the prettiest tip of the match.

The third set was a stroll in the park for Coupeville, with St Onge controlling all the action at the net in a performance that earned her a promotion later in the night.

The hard-hitting Wolf sophomore took her killer hops to the night’s second match, where she made her varsity debut in the third set.