Ulrik and Izzy Wells were two of five Central Whidbey diamond dandies to play with Oak Harbor this week. (Katy Wells photo)
Katy and Lyle Wells have been busy bees lately.
With three children, all whom play for different diamond squads, the family has been bouncing all over the place.
Now, with the two oldest kids having wrapped their seasons this week, things may slow down a bit.
Maybe.
With Oak Harbor’s Babe Ruth baseball squad and North Whidbey Little League’s Majors softball team being eliminated one game shy of a state tourney berth, Ulrik and Izzy Wells will be spectators when lil’ sis Savina takes the diamond next week.
The youngest Wells is a key player on Central Whidbey Little League’s Minors softball squad, the Yellow Jackets, which opens its best-of-three District 11 championship tilt July 5.
Sedro-Woolley is the foe and the games (Tuesday, Wednesday and possibly Thursday) will be played at Rhododendron Park in Coupeville.
The Yellow Jackets, who went 13-1, are the only one of Central’s three softball squads which were able to advance to All-Stars as a team.
The 13-3 Venom (Juniors) and 15-0-1 Crush (Majors) didn’t have enough players sticking around to go on as complete teams.
So, Izzy Wells and Crush teammate Abby Mulholland jumped over to North Whidbey to keep playing, and the Purple Thunder took Sedro to a full three games in their tourney.
After falling 9-5 in the opener, North Whidbey won the middle game 8-3, then was nipped 7-4 in the finale.
Wells gunned down eight batters from the pitcher’s circle in the championship game.
The Babe Ruth squad, which features three Coupeville players — Daniel Olson, Gavin Knoblich and Ulrik Wells — split a pair of games in a round-robin tourney, but was eliminated from advancing to state by run differential.
Oak Harbor beat Sedro 6-5, then fell hard to Friday Harbor, losing 13-3.
Sedro bopped Friday Harbor 12-6 in the other game, leaving all three teams with 1-1 records.
Sedro advanced to state based on giving up the fewest runs, as they surrendered 12 to Friday Harbor’s 15 and Oak Harbor’s 18.
Knoblich ripped a double and a single in the finale, while Olson had a pair of singles. Both he and Wells knocked in runs, as well.
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