Peyton Caveness cracked two hits Tuesday as Coupeville beat Mount Vernon Christian. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)
Same stats, different results.
Coupeville and Mount Vernon Christian each racked up four hits and three walks Tuesday, but the Wolves took full advantage of their opportunities, while preventing the Hurricanes from doing the same.
That was enough to lift Coupeville’s varsity baseball squad to a 3-0 win on its home diamond, kicking off a busy week of Northwest 2B/1B League action.
The victory lifts the Wolves to 2-0 in conference play, 3-3 overall, with another NWL bout set for Wednesday at home against Darrington.
CHS wraps the week with a doubleheader Friday on the road at defending league champ Friday Harbor.
Tuesday’s tilt was a pitcher’s duel, with the wham-bam combo of Wolf hurlers Cody Roberts and Scott Hilborn combining to whiff 12 Hurricanes.
“Scott and Cody pitched awesome!” said Coupeville coach Will Thayer.
After escaping a big-time jam in the top of the first, Roberts was largely lights out, putting up 10 K’s.
Cody Roberts brings the heat.
The senior righty had the bags full after giving up a pair of singles and a walk, but brought the hammer down with a vengeance, ending the danger with his third punch-out of the frame.
After that, the best Mount Vernon Christian could do was put just a single runner aboard in a given inning, with Roberts and Hilborn stranding every Hurricane who (momentarily) breached their defense.
Coupeville pushed across one runner in the bottom of the second, and two more in the third to claim an advantage it would not surrender.
Xavier Murdy was plunked by a pitch to set up the game’s first run.
After moving to second on a ground-out, X-Man stole third, before scampering home when a third strike — which would have ended the inning — was dropped.
In the third, Wolf 8th grader Chase Anderson whacked a single and Jonathan Valenzuela walked, with the former coming around to tap home on a Hilborn groundout, and the latter scoring on an RBI single from Peyton Caveness.
Coupeville had a couple of other chances, most noticeably in the fourth inning when it had two runners on base, but MVC’s pitching staff held the Wolves at bay.
Not that it mattered much as solid teamwide defense and crackling fastballs from their pitchers helped the Wolves close things out.
Caveness paced CHS with a pair of hits, Anderson and Jack Porter added base-knocks, and Valenzuela (2) and Murdy (1) accounted for Coupeville’s walks.
