Malachi Somes (left), Camden Glover, and crew are still in the playoff hunt, but the margin of error has tightened. (Jackie Saia photo)
The ball slipped through their hands, and now the playoffs may as well.
Committing a season-high 10 errors Tuesday, the Coupeville High School baseball squad fell 14-1 to visiting Mount Vernon Christian in a mercy-ruled game which complicates the Wolves pursuit of a postseason berth.
Now 7-4 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 9-8 overall after absorbing its fourth straight loss, CHS sits in a tie with Friday Harbor (7-4) and Orcas Island (7-4) in the battle for the #2 and #3 tickets to the district tourney.
MVC, at 11-0, will be the top seed and face the winner of that #2 vs. #3 loser-out game May 14 in the District 1/2 championship game at Skagit Valley College.
Both teams in the finale advance to state.
But first Friday Harbor faces La Conner (3-7) Wednesday, while Orcas clashes with Darrington (2-8) Thursday to close out regular season league play.
Coupeville will have a more difficult task, travelling to Mount Vernon Thursday for a rematch with the Hurricanes.
Steve Hilborn’s diamond men will need a short memory heading into that game, as there is probably little they want to dwell on from Tuesday’s home swan song.
MVC jumped on the Wolves for two runs in the top of the first, before capitalizing on a rash of CHS errors to push seven more across in the second.
Coupeville garnered its lone run in the bottom of the third, after trailing 13-0, as Chase Anderson thumped a double, stole third, then scooted home on one of two errors committed by the ‘Canes.
That was largely it for offense, though, as the Wolves only had a handful of runners, stranding two in the first, and leaving lone runners short of home in three of the other four innings.
CHS used four pitchers, with Anderson, Camden Glover, Coop Cooper, and Trent Thule combining to whiff five batters across five innings of work.
Thule, the lone non-senior in that group, had the most success, recording a 1-2-3 inning in the fourth.
Tuesday stats:
Chase Anderson — One single, one double
Camden Glover — One walk
Riley Lawless — One walk
Aiden O’Neill — One single
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