Coupeville Sports

   William Nelson punched in his fourth goal of the season Thursday night at Port Townsend. (John Fisken photos)

   Zane Bundy is one of 12 Wolf seniors (11 players and manager Sebastian Wurzrainer) who will be honored before Saturday’s game.

Regroup and rebound.

That’s the plan for the Coupeville High School boys’ soccer squad, which took a hard hit Thursday but still has a lot left to play for this season.

Falling 6-2 on the pitch in Port Townsend, the Wolves slid to 1-3 in the 1A Olympic League, 4-7-1 overall.

That guarantees them they can finish no higher than third in the four-team league.

Defending champ Klahowya (4-0, 12-1-1) and upstart Port Townsend (3-1, 6-5-1) are still vying for the conference title with two games to go in the regular season, while the Wolves need to hold off Chimacum (0-4, 1-10) if they want the league’s final playoff berth.

They’ll have a perfect opportunity to do that Saturday (11 AM), when they host the Cowboys on Senior Night.

Sweep the season series (Coupeville won 10-1 the first time around) and the Wolves clinch third-place and eliminate Chimacum from post-season contention.

As the #3 seed out of the Olympic League, CHS would travel to face the #2 team from the Nisqually League (likely Vashon Island) Saturday, May 7 in a loser-out district playoff match.

Win that one and they advance to the double-elimination portion of districts and play the Olympic League’s #1 seed May 10.

Facing off with Port Townsend, the Wolves were hoping to battle them as closely as they did in the two team’s first meeting — a 2-1 RedHawk win — but it wasn’t to be.

Sophomores Ethan Spark and Will Nelson each rattled home their fourth goals of the season — Spark’s coming on a header and Nelson’s on a free kick — to pace the Wolf attack.

The duo moved into a tie with senior Zane Bundy for second-place on the team scoring chart, behind Abraham Leyva’s 18 goals.