Sophomore Julian Welling was a bright spot for Coupeville HS baseball Tuesday, pitching strongly and crunching an RBI single. (John Fisken photos)
Senior booter Zane Bundy (left), who missed most of last year with an injury, scored his first goal of the season Tuesday.
Some days you’re the big dog and some days you’re not.
Tuesday was one of those days when not much went right for the home town guys, as 2A Sequim came to Whidbey and polished off 1A Coupeville’s baseball and boys’ soccer squads in record time.
The visiting Wolves broke open a 2-2 tie on the pitch and romped past the host Wolves 7-2, just hours after Sequim jumped on Coupeville for eight runs in the first inning en route to a 13-1 romp on the diamond.
The non-conference losses dropped the CHS booters to 0-3 and the hardball squad to 2-3.
Both Coupeville teams get a bit of a break now, with several days to work on things before they face another live opponent.
Baseball returns to action with a trip to Friday Harbor Saturday, the first of a stretch in which it plays six of seven on the road.
Soccer is home through early April, but doesn’t play again until next Tuesday, Mar. 29, when the Wolves host Vashon Island.
The Coupeville booters struck early Tuesday, netting goals from Zane Bundy (his first of the season) and Abraham Leyva (his third in as many games).
But defensive miscues hurt the Wolves in the latter stages of the game, allowing Sequim to break open a 2-2 tie and eventually run away with what became a one-sided affair.
Coupeville has now been outscored 18-5 in its opening three games.
Over on the baseball diamond, things took a quick, and painful turn for the Wolves, as Sequim came out swinging from the heels.
A double, an RBI single, a three-run home run that cleared the fence in left with room to spare and another RBI single plated five runs before Coupeville could get a single out in the top of the first.
Sequim tacked on three more before the first frame was done, with the only saving grace being that two of the runs came home on a fielder’s choice and a sac fly, generating outs.
Making his first appearance this season, sophomore Julian Welling came on in relief in the first and provided the one bright, shining ray of hope for Coupeville.
He got out of the inning, finishing things with a come-backer to the mound, then crushed an RBI single in his first at-bat of 2016, plating CJ Smith in the bottom of the first.
Unfortunately, while Welling pitched strongly, retiring the first eight batters he faced, Coupeville’s offense went into a deep funk after his RBI single.
A third-inning single from Hunter Smith and a fifth-inning walk to pinch-hitter Cameron Toomey-Stout was all the Wolf hitters could come up with as the game moved quickly to its conclusion.
“It was a learning game,” Coupeville coach Marc Aparicio said. “Gave us a chance to mix people around and slowly rotate in guys who were returning (after being out the first four games).
“After this, we’ll put our best team forward, go for it and come out strongly.”
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