Shane Losey snags a grounder Tuesday during an extra-innings game. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)
In a game of rallies, the final one fell just a hair short.
The Coupeville High School JV baseball team made it back from six runs down Tuesday to force extra innings, but couldn’t quite overcome a five-run deficit in their final at-bats.
Leaving the tying runner aboard, the Wolves fell 11-10 to visiting 2A Sequim in a game which went nine innings, two beyond the normal allotted schedule.
The loss drops Coupeville’s young guns to 1-3 on the season.
That the game went nine innings might have been a surprise to anyone who walked by midway through the game, glanced at the scoreboard, then moved on to other events.
CHS surrendered five runs in the third inning, and had some early trouble getting its own offense on track, trailing 6-0 heading to the bottom of the fifth.
That was where the Wolves finally put together a sustained rally, using a handful of walks, a Sequim error and a single from freshman Daniel Olson to plate four runners.
Two more came around in the sixth, with Jacob Zettle and Olson delivering key base-knocks.
After rambling through scoreless seventh and eighth innings together, the two teams decided to heat things up, a lot, in the ninth, scoring almost half of the game’s runs in one frame.
Sequim dropped a five-spot on the scoreboard for the second time in one day, but Coupeville answered with four of its own in the bottom of the inning.
The Wolves put their first five hitters on, with Johnny Carlson, Olson, Jered Brown and Mason Grove all coming around to score, but then the visitors clamped down.
A strikeout changed the flow of the game, and, two batters later, Sequim escaped with the win on a come-backer to the mound.
Olson (3) and Zettle (2) paced the Wolf offense in the loss, combining for five hits.
Coupeville Sports 
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