Wolf Cole Payne follows the flight of the ball between the rain drops. (Shelli Trumbull photos)
Falcon Colton Sterba makes a bang-bang play at the plate.
Wolf Aaron Trumbull rips a vicious foul ball.
Which pleases his fan club.
Falcon Campbell Albertsen throws liquid smoke between the drops.
Sterba is either going to throw a beautiful heater, or rip every muscle in his back.
Wolf Kurtis Smith is suitably impressed. “Dang, son! You’re throwin’ some nasty stuff today!!”
No, Hell did not just freeze over.
But, it is true, the photos above include both Coupeville and South Whidbey High School baseball players.
What? How can this be true?!?!? After all the grief I have given the Falcons for living on the wrong section of Whidbey Island, have I softened? Am I making nice?
Possibly.
Who knows how long it’ll last.
Once high school sports kick back into action in the fall, it’s entirely likely I’ll go back to tweaking SWHS — because, after all, there are those of us who live in Coupeville, while the rest merely wish they could live here, and that’s a stone cold fact — but for now, as Wolves and Falcons join together to play American Legion baseball, we’ll show a little camaraderie.
Especially when they join together to thump on Oak Harbor.
Because good lord, there’s nothing up there in that strip mall of a Navy town to celebrate. South or Central Whidbey, yes. North Whidbey? Not so much.
And cue a whole new batch of angry “fan mail.”
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