Coupeville Sports

   Hunter Downes, seen here during football season, knocked in his first two goals as a Wolf soccer player Tuesday afternoon. (John Fisken photo)

They found their scoring touch.

After struggling to find the back of the net just once in their last three games, the Coupeville High School booters unloaded on host Chimacum Tuesday afternoon.

The Wolves pounded away for a season-best scoring performance, rocking the Cowboys 7-0 and moving back within shouting distance of second place in the Olympic League.

With the win, CHS sits at 2-2 in league play, 3-5-1 overall, a half-game off of Port Townsend (2-1, 4-3) and a game and a half back of two-time defending champs Klahowya (3-0, 5-2-1).

Chimacum (0-4, 1-6) remains deeply mired in the basement.

The Wolves control their playoff destiny, with five of their final six games against league foes, including two more meetings apiece with both of the schools they trail.

Before it gets to that, Coupeville plays a final non-league game 5:15 PM Friday, when it hosts 2A Port Angeles.

The 1A Wolves are 1-1-1 against bigger schools this season, having beaten North Mason and tied with Olympic.

Tuesday, CHS spread its goal-scoring among five different shooters, with two booters recording their first goals of the season.

Wolf quarterback Hunter Downes, having just recently made the jump to the pitch, had an immediate impact, rattling home his first two scores in a soccer uniform.

Joining him in a repeat assault on the net was freshman Aram Leyva, who tallied his fourth and fifth goals of the season.

That pulls him within one of the team’s leading scorer, Ethan Spark.

Rounding out the Wolf assault on the net Tuesday were Laurence Boado, Zack Nall and James Wood.

It was Boado’s first goal, while Nall, who laid in a firecracker from 20 yards out, and Wood each tallied their second scores this year.

Spark and William Nelson set up two goals apiece, while Leyva, Wood and Uriel Liquidano also collected assists.

Dewitt Cole and Brian Roberts combined to pull off the shutout, with each Wolf net-minder working a scoreless half.

“It was a great league win,” said CHS coach Kyle Nelson. “It also shows some good growth for our team, being a much better result than our first game with them a month ago.”

Coupeville won 4-3 the first time around, after rallying from a two-goal deficit.