Wolf leadoff hitter Landon Roberts, who had two hits Saturday, lets coach/dad Jon Roberts get a photo op. (Sherry Bonacci photo)
The score doesn’t tell the whole story.
While the Coupeville High School JV baseball squad fell 8-6 at Mount Vernon Saturday, the very-young Wolves have taken great leaps and bounds since the two teams clashed earlier this season.
Repping a 2B school, and facing a large 3A program, CHS started multiple 8th graders and yet hung with the big boys all afternoon.
“We played a far better game this time, and it shows the improvement my boys have made in just a little over two weeks,” said Wolf coach Jon Roberts.
“I’ve said it before, and I’ll continue to say, the future of Coupeville baseball is in good hands!”
The first time the schools met in JV action, Mount Vernon claimed a 13-1 win.
This time around, with Aiden O’Neill, Landon Roberts, and Jack Porter sharing time on the mound, Coupeville, now 3-5-1 on the season, stifled the Bulldogs for quite some time.
The hosts pushed across a single run in each of the first, third, and fourth innings, then Coupeville struck back in the top of the sixth to claim the lead.
The Wolves had placed runners aboard in three of the first five innings but couldn’t get that one big hit to crack the seal on the scoreboard.
In the sixth, though, it finally happened.
Coop Cooper led off the frame by getting plunked by a wayward pitch, and that lit a fire under Coupeville.
An RBI single from Cole White plated one run, before Porter lashed a two-run triple to knot the game up at 3-3.
The Wolves weren’t finished, though, as Seth Woollet brought Porter in to score with a well-placed grounder, pushing Coupeville in front.
Mount Vernon rebounded in the bottom half of the sixth, scoring five runs with two outs, but Coupeville went down fighting in the final frame.
Kai Wong walked to kick things off, followed by Cooper and Landon Roberts smacking back-to-back singles.
An RBI groundout from White got Coupeville back within 8-6 before the Bulldogs finally escaped with a hard-fought victory.
Wolf hurlers O’Neill and Roberts finished the game with three strikeouts apiece.
Saturday stats:
Coop Cooper — 1 single, 1 walk
Aiden O’Neill — 1 single
Jack Porter — 1 triple
Johnny Porter — 1 single
Landon Roberts — 2 singles, 1 walk
Cole White — 1 single, 1 walk
Kai Wong — 1 walk
Coupeville Sports 
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