Capri Anter and crew are state-bound. (Jackie Saia photo)
It’s the Wolves vs. the Coyotes.
The Coupeville High School softball squad has been seeded #8 in the 16-team double-elimination 2B state tourney and will open against #9 Kittitas.
The Wolves, who sit at 18-2, are making their fifth appearance at the big dance and are going in back-to-back seasons for the first time in program history.
Kittitas, which carries a 15-10 record to the Gateway Sports Complex in Yakima, has qualified in four straight campaigns and 17 overall.
CHS and KHS are slated to face off at 11:00 AM Friday, May 22.
Win or lose the Wolves return to action later in the day against either #1 Freeman or #16 Friday Harbor, with the latter being the team they just beat to capture the District 1 title.
You can see the bracket here:
From last year’s field of 16, there were 13 teams which made it back to state this season, with Coupeville and Kittitas both splitting the four games each played a year ago.
Raymond-South Bend, Northwest Christian, and Tonasket fell by the wayside this season, with Brewster, Rainier, and Friday Harbor taking slots in the 2026 tourney.
Kittitas plays in the highly competitive Eastern Washington Athletic Conference, which divides its 10 softball-playing schools into two five-team divisions.
The Coyotes finished 8-0 in league play to sweep to the title in the West division, while River View (7-1) and Warden (7-1) shared top honors in the East.
Those three, plus West runner-up Cle Elum-Roslyn (6-2) made the cut for state.
Numbers-wise Coupeville’s Smash Sisters have outscored their foes 298-49 this season, which breaks down to a 14.9-2.5 average, while Kittitas is at 282-182 or 11.3-7.3.
With their schools sitting 166 miles apart, the Wolves and Coyotes haven’t played a ton of games against each other over the years.
But CHS did travel East in 2019, where it rode a wham-bam rushing attack led by Andrew Martin to garner a 28-0 win.
The schools have also played several times in recent seasons in holiday basketball tourneys.
Coupeville and Kittitas have clashed twice in state events, but both were way back in the 1970’s.
Wolf baseball won 14-0 in 1977, while Kittitas boys’ basketball came out on top 63-54 in 1970.
PS — For social media snoops, here’s the Kittitas softball Instagram page:
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