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Matt Hilborn and Co. sit atop the 1A Olympic League standings as of today. (John Fisken photos)

   Matt Hilborn and Co. sit atop the 1A Olympic League standings as of today. (John Fisken photos)

Wolf goalie Connor McCormick has back-to-back shutouts on the pitch.

Wolf goalie Connor McCormick has back-to-back shutouts on the pitch.

Robin Cedillo and her fellow softball sluggers have won five straight.

Robin Cedillo and her fellow softball sluggers have won five straight.

Now, things get serious.

Spring Break is done (and the rain is back, at least for a bit) and most Coupeville High School spring sports teams start wading into league play full-force starting this week and next.

So, it’s an ideal time to scan the standings and see how the Wolves are standing at the moment.

Spoiler: They’re sitting pretty good. Pretty, pretty, pretty good.

Now, I’m only running standings for three (baseball, softball, soccer) of the five CHS teams, since trying to decipher the track and tennis standings are pointless.

Ignore the Olympic League web site, which is riddled with errors for both sports.

In the real world, the Wolf netters are 1-2 with two matches — a 3-1 lead over Granite Falls and a 3-3 tie with Klahowya — still hanging open, waiting to be finished.

And the track squad?

Somehow the Olympic League web masters have the Wolf boys at 0-2, despite the fact they WON a four-team meet at South Whidbey.

Which would account for THREE wins.

Anyways…

Semi-solid standings, with 1A Olympic League records followed by overall records:

SOFTBALL:

Coupeville 1-0, 6-1
Chimacum 0-0, 4-2
Klahowya 0-0, 5-3
Port Townsend 0-1, 0-4

BASEBALL:

Coupeville 1-0, 4-6
Chimacum 0-0, 2-4
Klahowya 0-0, 6-2
Port Townsend 0-1, 0-6

BOYS SOCCER:

Coupeville 0-0, 2-4-1
Chimacum 0-0, 1-4-0
Klahowya 0-0, 5-1-1
Port Townsend 0-0, 2-2-1

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Hailey Hammer (John Fisken photos)

   Hailey Hammer: “I believe I shall be awesome today. Yep, that’s the plan.” (John Fisken photos)

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You dare to run on Madeline Roberts, you pay the price, fool.

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   Hammer Time prepares to unleash her fury under the gaze of mom Linda (brown blanket) and Robert’s mom, Lisa Edlin (far right).

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“We have liftoff!”

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Hammer gets mobbed at home after breaking a scoreless tie with a tater.

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Roberts (bottom, far left) and her camera-ready squad.

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Everett has photo game, as well.

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Former teammates, always friends.

Don’t hurt ’em, Hammer!

Too late.

In a college softball game Sunday that featured a match-up between former Coupeville High School teammates, Hailey Hammer had the last laugh.

Now a freshman at Everett Community College, Hammer went yard in the top of the seventh, blasting a fences-clearing solo shot to lift her squad to a 1-0 win against host Shoreline CC.

On the other side of the field, her former Wolf running mate, Madeline Roberts, now a sophomore for the Dolphins.

Both teams are now 4-2 in Northwest Athletic Conference play, putting them in a second-place tie behind Bellevue (5-1).

Everett is 9-9 overall, while Shoreline is 8-6.

Hammer’s long ball, her first as a college player, caught her a bit by surprise.

“Right over center field, it barely felt like I hit it far!,” she said with a laugh.

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Scout Smith and Co. will be sporting new uniforms this spring as members of the Central Whidbey Little League juniors softball squad. (John Fisken photo)

   Scout Smith and Co. will be sporting new uniforms this spring as members of the Central Whidbey Little League juniors softball squad. (John Fisken photo)

Thursdays belong to the future.

Having scrambled at the last second to put together its own juniors softball squad, Central Whidbey Little League will kick off a 16-game schedule this coming week, with their home games played at Coupeville High School’s field.

Central Whidbey will play Anacortes, North Whidbey and South Whidbey in the four-team league, with home games on seven of the next eight Thursdays.

The team consists primarily of eighth graders from Coupeville Middle School, such as Scout Smith and Maya Toomey-Stout, with a few seventh graders like Mollie Bailey and Chelsea Prescott sprinkled across the roster.

Led by head coach Charlotte Young and assistant Connie Lippo, the squad will revive the Venom name.

Current high school stars like Katrina McGranahan, Sarah Wright and Lauren Rose went undefeated and earned a trip to state while wearing that name on their uniforms two years ago under Kevin McGranahan.

Last year, with most of that squad moving up to CHS, the few scattered remaining players had to travel to other towns to play.

Now the Venom is back and ready to attack again.

The schedule (all games start at 6 PM):

Tues-Apr. 12 @ South Whidbey
Thur-Apr. 14 North Whidbey
Tues-Apr. 19 @ Anacortes
Thur-Apr. 21 Anacortes
Tues-Apr. 26 @ North Whidbey
Thur-Apr. 28 South Whidbey
Tues-May 3 North Whidbey
Thur-May 5 @ South Whidbey
Tues-May 10 @ Anacortes
Thur-May 12 Anacortes
Tues-May 17 @ North Whidbey
Thur-May 19 South Whidbey
Tues-May 24 @ South Whidbey
Thur-May 26 North Whidbey
Tues-May 31 @ Anacortes
Thur-June 2 Anacortes

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Katrina McGranahan, prairie powerhouse. (John Fisken photo)

Katrina McGranahan, prairie powerhouse. (John Fisken photos)

McGranahan slaps the tag on during a wham-bam play at home.

McGranahan slaps the tag on during a wham-bam play at home.

The WIAA likes Katrina McGranahan.

A lot.

The Coupeville High School sophomore softball slugger, who earlier in the spring was selected as an Athlete of the Week by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association, has now nabbed a second honor.

McGranahan was picked, along with Kelso baseball player Isaac Kjose, to be featured on the WIAA website under its monthly Student Spotlight section.

The stories appear under the group’s Activities Matter! banner.

To read more about Katrina and see photos which were taken by (but not credited to) John Fisken, pop over to:

http://wiaa.com/subcontent.aspx?SecID=1081

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Madeline Roberts, looking spiffy in her college duds. (John Fisken photo)

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   Former Wolf slugger Hailey Hammer (right) has taken her game to Everett. (Photo courtesy Hammer)

Four players, four success stories.

As the college baseball and softball seasons play out across the country, several former Wolves are busy polishing their reps.

Softball sluggers Madeline Roberts (Shoreline Community College), Hailey Hammer (Everett CC) and Monica Vidoni (Rainy River CC) and diamond man Ben Etzell (Saint John’s University) are all sporting different uniforms these days.

But, while they may have departed Coupeville High School, their exploits are still avidly followed by local fans.

A mid-season report card:

Hammer, a freshman, is hitting .333 for a 7-7 Everett squad, with eight hits, four RBI and three runs in 10 games.

She’s cranked a double, drawn two walks and has a .966 fielding percentage for a team that’s 2-0 in conference play.

Roberts has piled up two hits (including a double), four runs, two walks and two stolen bases in seven games thus far in her sophomore campaign.

Shoreline sits at 5-5 overall, 1-1 in league play.

Vidoni’s team, based out of Minnesota, kicked off the season earlier than the Washington schools, and the freshman has seen action in 17 of her team’s 19 games.

The Voyageurs are 12-7 and Vidoni has 11 hits (including an over-the-fence home-run), seven runs, six RBI, two walks and a stolen base.

Etzell, a sophomore, is also in Minnesota, where the Johnnies are 13-7 on the season.

The former Wolf has seen mound time in four games, going 1-0 with a 6.88 ERA, striking out 16 over 17 innings of work.

At the plate, he has six hits (including two doubles), seven runs, four walks and four RBI in 12 games.

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