Freshman Melia Welling made a one-handed save Tuesday, one of a ton of dazzling plays pulled off by a red-hot JV volleyball squad. (John Fisken photo)
At this point, the best you can hope for is just to not be hurt.
Face off with the Coupeville High School JV spikers and you will lose — that is pretty much set in stone — so, if you can leave the court with all your body parts in place, winner, winner, chicken dinner for you.
After being thrashed within an inch of their lives Tuesday night, Chimacum’s players had a hundred-yard stare firmly in place as they congratulated the triumphant Wolves.
The score was a tidy 25-14, 25-13, 25-7 and it wasn’t even remotely close, to be honest.
The win, the eighth straight for Wolf JV coach Kristin Bridges and her rampaging squad, lifts them to 7-0 in 1A Olympic League play, 10-2 overall.
Coupeville’s young guns have two matches left, road affairs Thursday at Klahowya and Saturday at Port Townsend.
Win both and they tie Amy King’s 2014-2015 CHS girls’ basketball squad, which also went 9-0 in league, as the best JV team in memory.
Even if they don’t get to ultimate perfection (but you’d be a fool to bet against them), these Wolves are a talented batch of fresh-faced warriors.
With 10 freshmen on a 13-player roster, Coupeville’s JV is considerably younger than Chimacum’s, which boasts six sophomores.
Talent trumps age, however.
From Raven Vick unleashing a serve that kicked off a Cowboy’s face for a point to Melia Welling making a sensational, one-armed save to Willow Vick launching a cannon shot of a spike down the line for a winner, everyone on the roster was humming.
Coupeville was firing on all cylinders at the service stripe, led by Scout Smith, who ran off nine consecutive points on her serve at one point.
Overall, she recorded 15 points on her serve, while Lucy Sandahl peppered Chimacum for 11 and Raven Vick kept the Cowboys jumping as she piled up eight winners.
Raven Vick closed out both the first and third sets with aces, while Willow Vick hit on back-to-back aces in the second set, including one that, like her sister’s earlier serve, shot up and smacked a Cowboy receiver in the face.
That sting was something virtually every Wolf foe has felt this season.
My advice? Better get used to it.
Coupeville Sports 
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