Coupeville Sports

   Ema Smith notched her first goal of the season Thursday in Sequim. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Don’t sleep on Ema Smith.

The Coupeville High School junior is normally a role player for the girls soccer squad, but she has a dangerous goal-scoring toe or two at her disposal, as she showed Thursday night.

Smith notched her first score of the season, beating the Sequim goaltender (with a little assist from a rival player’s head), the only Wolf to do so in a 4-1 loss.

The non-conference defeat, coming on the road against a large 2A school, snaps a two-game win streak for CHS and drops it to 2-2 on the season.

While the final score didn’t come out in favor of his squad, Wolf coach Kyle Nelson saw genuine positives in his team’s performance.

“It was a closer game than the score shows,” he said. “It is also a good game for us against a good opponent to show us the things we need to work on.

“We will use this to get better.”

Coupeville, which is tied with Klahowya for the early lead atop the 1A Olympic League, has a key game coming up on Saturday.

The Wolves (1-0 in league play) travel to Port Townsend for a 1:15 game.

That match-up with the RedHawks closes out a three-game road trip for Coupeville.

After that game, CHS won’t have to play more than one road game in a row the remainder of the regular season.