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Time to dig deep!!

April 24, 2018 by David Svien

Emily Fiedler teamed with Jaimee Masters Tuesday to knock off their Chimacum rivals. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

All good things must come to an end. It just wasn’t supposed to happen this early.

Playing with a shuffled lineup Tuesday, the Coupeville High School girls tennis team tasted defeat for the first time in 18 matches against its fellow 1A Olympic League foes.

Falling 4-3 at Chimacum, the Wolves not only saw their four-year unbeaten streak end, but also fell out of first-place for the first time since joining the conference in 2014.

Coupeville (2-1 in league play, 4-7 overall) trails the Cowboys (3-1, 4-6) by half a game, while Klahowya (0-3, 1-9) sits mired in the cellar.

If things break right, though, this is all just a prelude to staging a winner-take-all bout May 3 on Whidbey in what would be the final Olympic League contest for any CHS sports team.

Coupeville is jumping to the new six-team North Sound Conference in the fall, but the Wolf netters still intend to make it four-for-four on league titles before they depart.

Here’s how it lays out:

Coupeville travels to Silverdale this Thursday, Apr. 26 to play a match-and-a-half against Klahowya.

The two squads will complete a rain-delayed match (it currently sits at 2-2 with three matches in flux), then play their regularly-scheduled bout.

Chimacum and Klahowya face off May 1, then the Cowboys come to Whidbey May 3 for the rubber match in their three-game season series with the Wolves.

If the Eagles keep on losing, both Coupeville and Chimacum would enter the finale bearing identical 4-1 records.

There are several other ways the Wolves could win the title, but we’ll just let the most exciting one — a battle royal for all the chips in front of Coupeville’s fans — sit out there as the most tantalizing opportunity.

While the end result wasn’t what he wanted, or intended, Coupeville coach Ken Stange found positives amid the wreckage.

“Zara (Bradley) and Jillian (Mayne) were on fire today!,” he said. “Down 4-0 in the first set, they won seven of the next eight to take the set. Then they dominated.

“Kameryn (St Onge) and Maggie (Crimmins) were solid,” Stange added. “Kam was a magician today.”

Complete Tuesday results:

Varsity:

1st Singles — Genna Wright lost to Gladys Hitt 6-1, 6-3

2nd Singles — Heather Nastali lost to Vilma Jurmu 6-0, 6-2

3rd Singles — Nanci Melendrez lost to Makaela Caskey 6-3, 6-1

1st Doubles — Payton Aparicio/Sage Renninger beat Renee Woods/Emma Craighead 6-2, 6-3

2nd Doubles — Claire Mietus/Tia Wurzrainer lost to Grace Yaley/Chloe Patterson 6-1, 6-2

3rd Doubles — Maggie Crimmins/Kameryn St Onge beat Marley Music/Christina Bell 7-5, 6-3

4th Doubles — Jillian Mayne/Zara Bradley beat Denisse Lopez/Madison Hess 7-5, 6-2

JV:

5th Doubles — Jaimee Masters/Emily Fiedler won 6-2