Coupeville Sports

Camden Glover (left) and Landon Roberts both had hits Wednesday. (Photo courtesy Stevie Glover)

You win some, and you learn some lessons in the other ones.

That’s always the hope for coaches, at least.

Given the chance to have sole possession of the home diamond Wednesday, the Coupeville High School JV baseball team had one of those second type of games.

Jumped on early by Mount Vernon, the young Wolves fell 13-1 in a game in which they almost matched the Bulldogs in hits but were undone by walks and errors.

The loss to a large-school foe drops Coupeville’s second squad to 3-2 on the season.

While the game was mercy-ruled after five innings, there were bright spots for the Wolves.

“Even though the score was lopsided the boys did well,” said CHS coach Jon Roberts. “They are hitting the ball well and Mount Vernon’s pitcher was a quality pitcher with several pitches.”

Aiden O’Neill paced the Wolf attack, smacking a leadoff double in the bottom of the first inning, then coming back around to collect a single later in the game.

He scored Coupeville’s lone run, scooting home on an RBI single from Camden Glover, while Landon Roberts, Johnny Porter, and Cole Hutchinson also had base-knocks.

Coupeville was only outhit 9-6 in the game, but lost the walks and errors battle 15-1.

Eight fielding miscues, with three of them coming during an eight-run Mount Vernon top of the first inning, stung.

“There were about four bone head errors and four that were just youth,” Roberts said. “They are learning.”

Coupeville now heads back to the practice field to get more reps in and is scheduled for a rematch with Mount Vernon later in the season.

Up next for the JV, if the weather holds, is a road trip to Olympic Apr. 23, followed by another trek Apr. 28 to South Whidbey.