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Carson Grove faced three batters in Darrington, striking them all out. (Photo courtesy Mindy Grove)

They’ve got a shot at sharing first place.

After toppling Darrington 13-1 in five innings Monday, the Coupeville High School varsity baseball squad will immediately turn around and play its biggest game of the season Tuesday.

Now 6-2 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 7-8 overall, the Wolves host Orcas Island (7-1, 10-4) in a game set to kick off at 4 PM on the prairie.

Win that one and CHS earns a series split with the Vikings and moves into a tie atop the conference standings with three games left to play.

For a couple of hours at least, however, the Wolves can bask in the afterglow of decimating the Loggers to claim their fifth-straight league win.

Coupeville dominated the game in every aspect, racking up 10 hits and 13 walks, while using five pitchers to limit Darrington to just two base knocks.

The Wolves jumped on their hosts quickly, putting up a three-spot in the top of the first, and never looked back.

Peyton Caveness rapped a leadoff single, Cole White walked, then Steven Gonzalez plated the game’s first run on an RBI groundout.

A walk to Chase Anderson kept things hopping, with Jack Porter putting a punctuation mark on things with another hit.

Not content to stop there, CHS blew the game wide open with an eight-run rally in the second inning, turning a 3-1 lead into an 11-1 rout.

Five walks, including Aiden O’Neill and Jack Porter getting plunked, helped, while Johnny Porter socked both a double and triple in the same frame.

Johnny Porter is a hit machine. (Ryan Blouin photo)

Not that Coupeville really needed it, but the visitors added two more runs in the fourth to set the final score.

This time it was Anderson and Seth Woollet with key hits, while Easton Green, Jayden Little, and Landon Roberts all eked out free passes to keep the basepaths full.

Darrington’s hitters offered little resistance, with CHS coach Steve Hilborn able to juggle his pitching staff and limit everybody’s workload.

With three more games this week — the Wolves host Orcas Tuesday, Concrete Thursday, and Darrington Saturday on Senior Night — they’ll need fresh arms.

Monday saw Roberts get the start, then depart quickly, as he shared time on the mound with Carson Grove, Caveness, Coop Cooper, and Jack Porter.

The five-pack combined to whiff 10 Loggers, with Grove and Porter each striking out the side in their one inning of work.

 

Monday stats:

Chase Anderson — Two singles, one walk
Peyton Caveness — Three singles
Jack Farrell — One walk
Camden Glover — One walk
Easton Green — One walk
Steven Gonzalez — One walk
Nick Laska — One walk
Jayden Little — Two walks
Aiden O’Neill — One walk
Jack Porter — One single, one walk
Johnny Porter — One double, one triple
Landon Roberts — One single, one walk
Dylan Robinett — One walk
Cole White — Two walks
Seth Woollet — One single

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Taygin Jump, livin’ life on the East Coast. (Photo courtesy Christina Jump)

Everywhere you look, a former Wolf busy at the next level.

Multiple Coupeville grads competed Friday and Saturday in college sports events, from track and field to baseball.

How they did:

 

Taygin Jump:

The Plattsburgh State freshman earned points for her team in both her events at the Middlebury Outdoor Invitational in Vermont.

Jump finished third (out of 11 competitors) in the javelin, chucking it 94 feet, four inches, then came back around to claim sixth (out of 12) in the hammer, with a throw of 113-02.

 

Joey Lippo:

A senior at the University of Maine at Presque Isle, he recorded three hits and scored twice Saturday in Cambridge as the Owls were swept in doubleheader diamond action.

UMPI, which sits at 2-15 on the season, gets right back at it Sunday with another twin bill against the same school.

 

Logan Martin:

The Central Washington University sophomore was at home during the CWU Wildcat Invitational in Ellensburg.

Martin finished fifth in the hammer (out of 21 throwers), launching the implement 170-02, while also claiming eighth (of 20) in the discus with a lob of 135-04.

 

Tate Wyman:

The Oregon Tech freshman was super-busy this weekend, competing in four events at the Raider Invitational in Ashland.

Wyman opened by nailing a PR of 23.53 seconds in the 200 Friday, then ran in the 110 hurdles (16.88), 400 (57.39), and 4 x 100 relay (45.22) a day later.

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Jack Farrell comes up firing on defense. (Jackie Saia photo)

Don’t look now, but Coupeville is making its patented second-half move.

Upholding a longstanding tradition, the 2024 edition of Wolf baseball stormed from behind to topple host Mount Vernon Christian 10-5 Friday.

That pushes Coupeville’s win streak in Northwest 2B/1B League games to four-straight, gets them to 5-2 in conference action, and lets them hurdle the Hurricanes to move into sole possession of second place.

The Wolves, who are 6-8 overall, are a game-and-a-half back of frontrunner Orcas Island (7-1), with MVC (5-3), Friday Harbor (4-4), La Conner (2-4), Concrete (1-5), and Darrington (1-6) rounding out the combatants.

CHS has five conference clashes left on the schedule, with three of those, including a second meeting with Orcas, slated to go down in Cow Town.

No baseball escapes Aiden O’Neill’s glove. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Friday, playing on the mainland, the Wolves came out strongly, slipped up for a bit, then reclaimed the lead and never let it go.

Coupeville took advantage of Hurricane errors all day, beginning in the second inning, when it used a wild pitch, a passed ball, and two bobbled balls to push three runs across the plate.

Wolf hurler Seth Woollet kept MVC largely at bay, getting some slick defensive play from 8th grader Carson Grove at second base, though eventually the hosts regained the lead for a hot second.

With CHS unable to score across the third, fourth, and fifth innings, the lead slipped to 3-1, then went to a 3-3 stalemate, before the Wolves fell behind at 4-3.

Never fear.

The final two frames thoroughly belonged to Coupeville, as the road warriors surged for seven runs to claim the win.

Three more ‘Cane errors in the top of the sixth helped a lot, then Steven Gonzalez tore the hide off the ball, lacing a two-run single to left field to push CHS ahead 7-4.

Landon Roberts prepares to inflict great harm on the baseball. Nothing personal, just business. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

MVC got one run back in the bottom half of the inning, but the Wolves iced things in the seventh as Coop Cooper walked, before Landon Roberts and Johnny Porter laced back-to-back base knocks.

The final blow came off the bat of Peyton Caveness, with Mount Vernon committing its sixth, and final error, on the play to compound matters.

Up 10-5, Woollet handed the ball off to Roberts, and the lanky lefty struck out the side in the seventh to close things down.

 

Friday stats:

Chase Anderson — Two singles, one walk
Coop Cooper — Two walks
Steven Gonzalez — One single
Carson Grove — One walk
Jack Porter — One walk
Johnny Porter — One single
Landon Roberts — One single
Cole White — One single, one walk
Seth Woollet — Two singles

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Jack Porter, ready to rack up some stats. (Ember Light photo)

Another day, another milestone.

With Tuesday’s win over Friday Harbor, the Coupeville High School varsity baseball squad has played 13 of 19 regular season games, reaching the two-thirds mark of the campaign.

As the Wolves prep to square off with Mount Vernon Christian Friday, we take a brief detour to look at up to the moment pitching and hitting stats.

All numbers come from Game Changer, which is run by the CHS coaches.

“Time to get those numbers, gentlemen.” (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

 

HITTING:

 

At-Bats:

Landon Roberts – 39
Peyton Caveness – 37
Cole White
– 37
Jack Porter
– 35
Camden Glover
– 30
Aiden O’Neill
– 29
Coop Cooper
– 27
Yohannon Sandles
– 25
Johnny Porter
– 16
Steven Gonzalez
– 12
Seth Woollet – 12
Carson Grove
– 9
Aidyn McDermott – 9
Matthew Gilbert 
– 5
Chase Anderson – 4
Jack Farrell – 1
Jayden Little – 1

 

Hits:

Caveness – 15
Sandles – 10
Roberts – 9
White – 9
Glover – 8
Ja. Porter – 8
Cooper – 5
Grove – 5
O’Neill – 4
Jo. Porter – 4
Gonzalez – 3
McDermott – 2
Anderson – 1
Gilbert – 1
Woollet – 1

 

Runs:

White – 12
Caveness – 10
O’Neill – 8
Roberts – 7
Glover – 6
Ja. Porter – 6
Cooper – 5
Jo. Porter – 4
Sandles – 4
McDermott – 3
Gilbert – 2
Gonzalez – 2
Woollet – 2
Grove – 1

 

2B’s:

Caveness – 7
Ja. Porter – 4
Glover – 3
Jo. Porter – 1
Sandles – 1

 

3B’s:

Caveness – 3
Ja. Porter – 2
O’Neill – 1
Jo. Porter – 1

 

RBI:

Caveness – 9
Ja. Porter – 7
Sandles – 7
Cooper – 5
Roberts – 5
Glover – 4
Gonzalez – 3
Grove – 3
O’Neill – 3
White – 3
McDermott – 1
Woollet – 1

 

Walks:

Caveness – 10
Glover – 9
O’Neill – 8
Cooper – 7
White – 7
Ja. Porter – 5
Roberts – 5
Gonzalez – 4
McDermott – 3
Jo. Porter – 3
Sandles – 2
Gilbert – 1
Woollet – 1

 

Stolen Bases:

Roberts – 12
Caveness – 10
White – 8
O’Neill – 6
Glover – 3
Cooper – 2
Grove – 2
Ja. Porter – 2
Gonzalez – 1
McDermott – 1
Woollet – 1

 

Batting Average:

Grove – .556
Caveness – .405
Sandles – .400
Glover – .267
Anderson – .250
Gonzalez – .250
Jo. Porter – .250
White – .243
Roberts – .231
Ja. Porter – .229
McDermott – .222
Gilbert – .200
Cooper – .185
O’Neill – .138
Woollet – .083

 

PITCHING:

 

Games:

Glover – 9
Roberts – 6
Woollet – 6
Caveness – 5
Cooper – 3
O’Neill – 3
Gilbert
 – 2
Grove
– 2
Ja. Porter 
– 1
White – 2

 

Starts:

Roberts – 4
Caveness – 3
Woollet – 3
Glover – 1
O’Neill – 1
Ja. Porter – 1

 

Hits:

Woollet – 32
Roberts – 21
Glover – 11
Caveness – 10
Grove – 3
O’Neill – 3
White – 3
Cooper – 2
Gilbert – 1

 

Runs:

Roberts – 30
Woollet – 21
Caveness – 16
Glover – 15
O’Neill – 9
Grove – 6
Gilbert – 5
Cooper – 3
Ja. Porter – 3
White – 3

 

Earned Runs:

Roberts – 15
Glover – 9
O’Neill – 8
Caveness – 7
Woollet – 7
Grove – 6
Gilbert – 2
White – 2

 

Walks:

Glover – 30
Roberts – 25
Caveness – 22
O’Neill – 14
Woollet – 8
Grove – 5
Gilbert – 4
White – 4
Ja. Porter – 3
Cooper – 2

 

Strikeouts:

Glover – 23
Roberts – 21
Caveness – 16
Woollet – 14
Cooper – 4
Ja. Porter – 4
Gilbert – 3
Grove – 3
O’Neill – 1
White – 1

 

Innings Pitched:

Woollet – 24.0
Roberts – 17.1
Glover – 14.0
Caveness – 13.2
O’Neill – 3.0
Cooper – 2.1
Grove – 2.1
Ja. Porter – 2.0
Gilbert – 1.0
White – 0.1

 

Batters Faced:

Woollet – 120
Roberts – 106
Glover – 86
Caveness – 74
O’Neill – 26
Grove – 15
Cooper – 13
Gilbert – 10
Ja. Porter – 10
White – 9

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Camden Glover socked two doubles Tuesday, sparking Coupeville to a win on Friday Harbor. (Ryan Blouin photo)

Hit ’em hard, hit ’em fast, hit ’em more than once.

Jumping out to a big lead early Tuesday, the Coupeville High School varsity baseball squad scorched host Friday Harbor 9-3 to capture an important win.

All victories matter, but earning a season split with one of their chief rivals pushes the Wolves into the lead in the chase for playoff seeding.

Coupeville returns to Whidbey with a 4-2 record in Northwest 2B/1B League play and are currently the top 2B school in the conference, a half game up on Friday Harbor (4-3) and well ahead of La Conner (1-4).

The Wolves, who are 5-8 overall, head to Mount Vernon Christian Friday, where they’ll go for a season sweep of the Hurricanes.

Tuesday’s tilt on Friday Harbor was all Wolves, all day, as they avenged an earlier season loss to the Wolverines.

Two runs in the top of the first, with Peyton Caveness and Cole White walking, before Steven Gonzalez drilled a run-scoring groundout and Jack Porter whacked an RBI double, set the stage.

With Wolf senior Seth Woollet putting up goose eggs on the scoreboard, CHS tacked on three more runs in the second, and another three in the third to stretch the lead out to 8-0.

The big hits in the second inning came courtesy 8th grader Carson Grove, who looped a two-run single to right, and sophomore Chase Anderson, who smoked an RBI single to left.

It was the season debut for Anderson, who has been dealing with an injury, and he promptly delivered in the DH role.

Turn to the third and the base knocks continued to fly to all fields, with Camden Glover and Caveness socking back-to-back RBI doubles to left.

White sent another runner screaming for home on a hot grounder to shortstop, and Coupeville was flying high.

Seth Woollet was in control against Friday Harbor. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Woollet, who gave up a double to the first batter he faced, then retired nine straight.

He allowed just four baserunners across six innings of work, striking out two and keeping the Wolverines off balance all day.

Friday Harbor finally pushed a runner across in the fifth, though Coupeville matched it with a final tally of its own in the top of the seventh.

Landon Roberts bounced a single through the defense, then came around to score on a two-out double off the bat of Glover.

With Woollet leaving the mound before the seventh, Coop Cooper and Glover tag-teamed the final three outs, with Glover ending the game emphatically with a strikeout.

Coupeville dominated the stat sheet, outhitting Friday Harbor 9-5, and picking up seven walks to go with its base knocks.

Glover and Aiden O’Neill paced the offense with two hits apiece, while Grove, Caveness, Roberts, Porter, and Anderson each had one.

White walked three times, with Caveness and Cooper getting aboard twice thanks to free passes.

In fitting fashion, four of those seven walks came when Wolf hitters got plunked by wayward pitches.

Making a run at playoff contention. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

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