Clay Reilly had two hits and two RBIs in Coupeville’s Olympic League opener. (John Fisken photos)
Jake Hoagland takes a cut Wednesday afternoon.
This time they’re going to have to fight from behind.
Last season, the Coupeville High School baseball squad won its first seven league games en route to capturing the program’s first conference title in 25 years.
After falling 7-4 to visiting Klahowya Wednesday, the Wolves will need to write a new script in 2017.
The loss snaps a four-game winning streak for CHS and leaves it 0-1 in Olympic League play, 4-3 overall.
The Wolves sit in a tie with Port Townsend (0-1, 0-3) which it plays Friday in a road game.
Klahowya (2-0, 2-3), the league champs in 2015, are a game up on Chimacum (1-1, 3-2) in the very early going.
Wednesday’s match-up was fairly even in the score-book, with the Eagles holding a slight edge in hits at 11-9.
But while Klahowya didn’t deliver any huge blows, they did consistently chip away at the Wolf pitching staff, scoring in five of seven innings.
After both teams exchanged runs in the first — Hunter Smith singled and came around on an RBI ground-out by Clay Reilly for the Wolves — Klahowya built a 5-1 lead heading into the bottom of the fifth.
Coupeville rallied for three runs to turn things back into a one-run affair, but then stalled out.
Matt Hilborn, Joey Lippo, Reilly and Dane Lucero all delivered singles in the inning, as the Wolves plated all three runs after notching two outs.
For the game, three Wolves — Lucero, Reilly and Kory Score — piled up two hits apiece to pace the offense.
With Smith, their starting pitcher, battling a balky back, Coupeville moved him back to shortstop in the second inning and used Taylor Consford, Julian Welling and Hilborn to finish out the game.
To see more photos from this game, pop over to:
http://www.johnsphotos.net/Sports/2017-Coupeville-Baseball/20170329-vs-Klahoway/
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