Emma Mathusek reeled off seven straight points on her serve Tuesday night, part of a team-wide run of strong serving. (John Fisken photo)
The young guns have a strong service game as well.
Emulating their varsity counterparts, the Coupeville High School JV spikers have been deadly at the line this season, and nothing changed Tuesday night.
Making it all but impossible for visiting Chimacum to get the ball back in play, the razor-sharp Wolves rolled to a 25-11, 25-8, 16-14 victory.
The win lifts the JV squad to 2-0 overall, 1-0 in league play.
Freshman phenom Scout Smith was her team’s deadliest weapon once again, ripping off 14 points on serve in the first set alone, but she wasn’t the only Wolf to have a hot hand.
Raven Vick, Emma Mathusek, Willow Vick and Maddy Hilkey all put together nice runs at the stripe, with Mathusek going on a scoring tear at one point where Chimacum only got a hand on two of seven serves.
Coupeville built leads of 6-0, 8-0 and 3-0 in the three sets, trailing only briefly near the end of the third set, when they were lulled into a brief stupor.
Even then, the Wolves never trailed by more than a single point, putting the match on ice, appropriately, with a Cowboy error (a shot off a ceiling speaker) followed by one last impossible-to-return scorcher from Smith’s serving arm.
While very few balls were in play for more than a hit or two, Coupeville had a couple of nice put-aways.
One came on a sweet tip into open space by Zoe Trujillo, another on a scrambling save by a quick-thinking Maya Toomey-Stout and two others on booming spikes off the fingertips of Hannah Davidson.
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