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Vikings ace frustrates Wolves

Posted in Baseball, tagged baseball, CHS Wolves, Coop Cooper, Northwest League, Orcas Island on April 29, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Coop Cooper and company need to regroup before facing league leader Mount Vernon Christian next week. (Jackie Saia photos)

Joe Stephens had a pretty impressive game Wednesday afternoon on the sun-drenched Coupeville prairie.

Unfortunately for Wolf Nation, he plays baseball for Orcas Island and not CHS.

Thus, when Stephens whiffed 16 batters in 6.2 innings of work, plus belted an over-the-fence home run, it led to the visiting Vikings collecting a 9-2 win and a season-sweep of their two-game series with the Wolves.

Now stuck in a three-game losing skid, Coupeville falls to 7-3 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 9-7 overall, with two games left on the regular season schedule.

Those come May 5 and 7, when the Wolves, who sit a half-game up on Orcas (7-4) in the battle for second place, square off with league leader Mount Vernon Christian (8-0).

When Coupeville takes the field against the Hurricanes, they’ll be hoping for a higher-charged offense than the one on display Wednesday afternoon.

Held to just two hits by Stephens, the Wolves also got five batters on board thanks to walks, but were outdone by Orcas, which had eight base knocks and 11 free passes.

Six errors in the field didn’t help either for Steve Hilborn’s squad.

Still, the game was tight for two innings, with the teams knotted up at 1-1, before Orcas began to pull away.

Aiden O’Neill thumped a three-bagger against Orcas.

Coupeville got on the board in the second thanks to the big bat and fleet feet of Aiden O’Neill, who socked a triple to right field before stealing home to send the crowd into a tizzy.

That was where the offense stalled out for CHS however, as Orcas tacked on two runs in the third and a game-busting four in the fourth to go up 7-1.

The tally which broke the tie was a home run belted over the left field fence by Stephens, who was intentionally walked the next three times he came to the plate.

The Wolves finally got a run back in the fourth, with walks to Chase Anderson and Camden Glover starting a brief rally, but a prime opportunity failed in the fifth, with Stephens picking up an inning-ending strikeout to escape a brief bases-loaded jam.

While they didn’t match the totals of their Vikings rival, Wolf pitchers Glover and Anderson did combine for 10 strikeouts, with both seniors picking up five K’s while on the mound.

Wednesday stats:

Chase Anderson — Two walks
Camden Glover — One walk
Riley Lawless — One single
Aiden O’Neill — One triple, one walk
Trent Thule — One walk

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Wolves rally, Vikings escape

Posted in Baseball, tagged baseball, Chase Anderson, CHS Wolves, Orcas Island, road trip on April 27, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Trent Thule gets his bench riled up. (Jackie Saia photo)

The Wolves dug themselves a hole, twice, yet almost made it all the way back.

Unfortunately for the Coupeville High School baseball squad, a late rally fell just short for the second straight game, with Steve Hilborn’s team nipped 14-11 Monday afternoon on Orcas Island.

The loss drops CHS to 7-2 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 9-6 overall, with a rematch against the Vikings set for Wednesday in Cow Town.

With three conference clashes left to play, the Wolves sit in second place in the NWL, a game-and-a-half back of Mount Vernon Christian (8-0) and a game-and-a-half up on Orcas (6-4).

Monday’s royal rumble was a fairly close affair, with Coupeville winning the hit battle 8-5, Orcas edging the Wolves 14-12 in drawing walks, and both teams committing three errors apiece.

But the Vikings spent most of the day out in front on the scoreboard, forcing their visitors to play catch-up.

Carson Grove got CHS on the board first in the top of the first, sacrificing his body by being plunked by a pitch before coming around to score on an RBI single to left off the bat of Chase Anderson.

Orcas responded quickly, however, plating four runs in the bottom half of the opening frame, before pushing across three more in the second to take a commanding 7-1 lead.

Coupeville’s pitchers clamped down after that, tossing three consecutive scoreless innings, while the offense chipped away at the deficit.

Chris Zenz (left) and Chase Anderson combined to smack four hits on Orcas Island Monday. (Julie Wheat photo)

Anderson, having reached base on catcher’s interference in the third, scored on a passed ball, while Leo Rodriguez zipped for the plate in the fourth thanks to an Orcas error.

The Wolves sliced the margin to 7-5 in the fifth, capitalizing on big hits from Anderson and Riley Lawless, but then things went wrong in the bottom of the sixth.

Using a string of walks and two well-placed hits, the Vikings suddenly relit the pilot light on their offense, scoring seven runs to turn a tense tilt into a potential blowout at 14-5.

CHS was not ready to go down easily, though, and launched its own run-scoring barrage while facing its final at-bats in the top of the seventh.

Anderson smacked a leadoff double, followed by four walks — with Aiden O’Neill and Coop Cooper being drilled — before Chris Zenz and Rodriguez popped back-to-back RBI singles to pull Coupeville within 14-9.

The Wolves weren’t done, forcing home two more runs thanks to bases-loaded walks to Grove and Anderson, and had the bases juiced with just one out.

Orcas needed a hero to stop the bleeding and found it, though, with Joe Stephens coming out of the bullpen to whiff both of the batters he faced, ending Coupeville’s rally a few runs short of a complete celebration.

Four pitchers combined to toss six innings for CHS, with Anderson, Cooper, Glover, and Grove sharing mound duties.

Cooper emerged as top dog, whiffing eight Vikings across 4.1 frames.

Monday stats:

Chase Anderson — Two singles, one double, one walk
Coop Cooper — One single, two walks
Camden Glover — One single, one walk
Carson Grove — Two walks
Riley Lawless — One single
Aiden O’Neill — One walk
Leo Rodriguez — One single, two walks
Malachi Somes — One walk
Trent Thule — Two walks
Chris Zenz — One single

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Action intensifies, stakes grow

Posted in Baseball, Girls Tennis, Softball, tagged baseball, CHS Wolves, girls tennis, Northwest League, Softball, standings on April 26, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Wolf track star Kenneth Jacobsen goes for a run. (CHS Yearbook photo)

It’s not the final lap, but we’re getting closer.

As Coupeville and its Northwest 2B/1B League rivals head into the last week of April, the battle for conference titles heats up, with the postseason coming up quickly.

Both softball and baseball have key series against Orcas Island up next on the schedule, hitting the road Monday before hosting games Wednesday.

That home game for softball will be Senior Night for Wolf catcher Teagan Calkins as well.

Meanwhile, girls’ tennis hosts Friday Harbor in a league clash Wednesday, while track and field travels to Bellevue Saturday for the BCS Invitational, which is the final regular season meet.

As the calendar heads towards May, here’s where things sit through April 26:

Northwest League baseball:

School	League	Overall
MV Christian	8-0	12-3
Coupeville	7-1	9-5
Orcas Island	5-4	6-7
Friday Harbor	4-4	5-8
La Conner	2-5	3-9
Concrete	0-5	0-5
Darrington	0-7	0-12

Northwest League girls’ tennis:

School	League	Overall
Coupeville	1-1	4-3
Friday Harbor	1-1	2-3

Northwest League softball:

School	League	Overall
Coupeville	8-0	14-1
Orcas Island	6-2	7-5
Friday Harbor	4-2	8-6
La Conner	2-4	4-5
Concrete	0-6	0-6
Darrington	0-6	1-9

The rackets are rarin’ to go. (Melanie Wolfe photo)

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I’m ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille

Posted in Baseball, Softball, tagged baseball, CHS Wolves, Jackie Saia, portraits, Softball, Zayne Roos on April 25, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Wolf catcher Carson Grove is ready for his modeling contract. (Jackie Saia photos)

It’s portrait season.

The sun was shining on the prairie Friday, Coupeville High School softball and baseball teams were in action, and Jackie Saia’s camera was busy.

The wanderin’ photographer snapped the pics you see above and below, and is nice enough to share them with the rest of Wolf Nation.

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Diamond rally falls a run short

Posted in Baseball, tagged baseball, CHS Wolves, Island rivalry, Malachi Somes, SWHS Falcons on April 24, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Wolf first-baseman Riley Lawless smacked a pair of hits Friday in a rivalry game with South Whidbey. (Jackie Saia photo)

They didn’t get a hit until the fourth inning, and didn’t score until the sixth, yet almost pulled off the comeback win.

Unfortunately for the Coupeville High School baseball squad, a torrid finish couldn’t quite overcome a slow start Friday, as the Wolves fell 7-6 to visiting South Whidbey.

The non-conference loss, coming on a rare sunny spring afternoon on the prairie, drops CHS to 9-5 on the season while the upstart Falcons improve to 3-11.

Friday’s fracas was a pitcher’s duel for most of the day, with eight of the 13 runs not being scored until the final inning-and-a-half.

South Whidbey did put together a five-run rally in the top of the third, however, accounting for the only scores until the late going, and that was tough to overcome for the scrappy Wolves.

The big blows were a pair of two-run doubles from Levi Batchelor and Weston Dill, and they staked the Falcons to a lead they never relinquished.

Meanwhile, Coupeville put four runners aboard through the first three innings — all on walks — but came away empty-handed.

In the fourth, the Wolves got another walk, this one from Trent Thule, before Riley Lawless broke up the no-hitter. Once again, however, the runners were stranded far from home.

Steve Hilborn’s squad finally broke through in the bottom of the sixth, pushing three runs across to tighten things up.

Two runs came home on Falcon miscues, while Lawless smoked an RBI single to the left side of the infield to account for the other score.

South Whidbey proved resilient, tacking on two insurance runs in the top of the seventh to go up 7-3, then turned out to need both runs as the Wolves rallied hard in their final at-bats.

Chase Anderson led off the bottom of the seventh by getting drilled in the back, then stole second and third before scooting home on a Camden Glover RBI single.

An RBI groundout from Thule cut the deficit to 7-5 and a bases loaded walk to Killian Shaw made it a one-run game, but South Whidbey hurler Easton Niemi came out of the bullpen to end the game with a strikeout, allowing longtime Falcon coach Tom Fallon to exit with another win.

Friday stats:

Chase Anderson — One walk
Coop Cooper — One single
Camden Glover — Two singles, one walk
Carson Grove — One walk
Riley Lawless — Two singles, one walk
Aiden O’Neill — One single
Leo Rodriguez — Two walks
Killian Shaw — One walk
Malachi Somes — One single
Trent Thule — Three walks