Perfection isn’t easy.
The Coupeville High School JV baseball team entered play Saturday undefeated on the young season but stumbled for the first time.
Falling 10-3 at South Whidbey in a non-conference rumble, the Wolf young guns see their record slip to 2-1.
The host Falcons jumped on the scoreboard early and often, scoring in each of the first four innings.
Two runs in the bottom of the first, followed by a single tally in the second, then two more in the third stretched South Whidbey’s advantage to 5-1, before Coupeville pushed across two runs in the top of the fourth to cut things to 5-3.
Unfortunately, South Whidbey put together its best offensive surge of the game in the bottom half of that frame, doubling its output with a five-run rally.
Coupeville relief ace Coop Cooper kept the Falcons at bay after that, tossing two scoreless innings while whiffing a pair of hitters.
But there was no late-game rally for the Wolves, as they couldn’t come up with a hit across the final three innings, and also had a runner picked off of first base after walking.
On the day CHS tallied six hits, with Aiden O’Neill, Zane Oldenstadt, Landon Roberts, Camden Glover, Marcelo Gebhard, and Cooper each collecting a base-knock.
The Wolf JV returns to action Apr. 4, when it travels the other direction on Whidbey, heading to Oak Harbor.
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