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Diamond rally falls a run short

Posted in Baseball, tagged baseball, CHS Wolves, Island rivalry, Malachi Somes, SWHS Falcons on April 24, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Wolf first-baseman Riley Lawless smacked a pair of hits Friday in a rivalry game with South Whidbey. (Jackie Saia photo)

They didn’t get a hit until the fourth inning, and didn’t score until the sixth, yet almost pulled off the comeback win.

Unfortunately for the Coupeville High School baseball squad, a torrid finish couldn’t quite overcome a slow start Friday, as the Wolves fell 7-6 to visiting South Whidbey.

The non-conference loss, coming on a rare sunny spring afternoon on the prairie, drops CHS to 9-5 on the season while the upstart Falcons improve to 3-11.

Friday’s fracas was a pitcher’s duel for most of the day, with eight of the 13 runs not being scored until the final inning-and-a-half.

South Whidbey did put together a five-run rally in the top of the third, however, accounting for the only scores until the late going, and that was tough to overcome for the scrappy Wolves.

The big blows were a pair of two-run doubles from Levi Batchelor and Weston Dill, and they staked the Falcons to a lead they never relinquished.

Meanwhile, Coupeville put four runners aboard through the first three innings — all on walks — but came away empty-handed.

In the fourth, the Wolves got another walk, this one from Trent Thule, before Riley Lawless broke up the no-hitter. Once again, however, the runners were stranded far from home.

Steve Hilborn’s squad finally broke through in the bottom of the sixth, pushing three runs across to tighten things up.

Two runs came home on Falcon miscues, while Lawless smoked an RBI single to the left side of the infield to account for the other score.

South Whidbey proved resilient, tacking on two insurance runs in the top of the seventh to go up 7-3, then turned out to need both runs as the Wolves rallied hard in their final at-bats.

Chase Anderson led off the bottom of the seventh by getting drilled in the back, then stole second and third before scooting home on a Camden Glover RBI single.

An RBI groundout from Thule cut the deficit to 7-5 and a bases loaded walk to Killian Shaw made it a one-run game, but South Whidbey hurler Easton Niemi came out of the bullpen to end the game with a strikeout, allowing longtime Falcon coach Tom Fallon to exit with another win.

Friday stats:

Chase Anderson — One walk
Coop Cooper — One single
Camden Glover — Two singles, one walk
Carson Grove — One walk
Riley Lawless — Two singles, one walk
Aiden O’Neill — One single
Leo Rodriguez — Two walks
Killian Shaw — One walk
Malachi Somes — One single
Trent Thule — Three walks

Camden Glover, here crashing in to score in an earlier game, reached base three times Friday afternoon. (Julie Wheat photo)

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Trent Thule too tough for Concrete

Posted in Baseball, tagged baseball, CHS Wolves, Concrete, Northwest League, Trent Thule on April 23, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville freshman Trent Thule was a two-way terror Thursday, striking out 10 on the mound and getting on base three times as a hitter. (Jackie Saia photos)

Trent Thule had himself quite a day.

The Coupeville High School freshman was in the spotlight Thursday, pitching and hitting the Wolf baseball squad past visiting Concrete, even after leaving some of his blood on the prairie thanks to taking a wayward pitch to the face.

Thule finished the day with two base knocks and a walk, with the latter leaving him with a bloody nose and black eye, while also striking out 10 Lions across 6.2 innings of work in a 9-6 win which wasn’t as close as it might sound.

The victory gives Coupeville a season sweep of Concrete, while lifting the Wolves to 7-1 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 9-4 overall.

Steve Hilborn’s squad, which hosts South Whidbey in a non-conference Island rivalry rumble Friday, sits a game off of Mount Vernon Christian (8-0) in the race for a conference crown, with the matchup between those two teams set for the final two regular season games the first week of May.

Thursday’s bout with Concrete wasn’t as lopsided as the first meeting, when CHS won 25-0, but the Wolves were still in control from the first pitch to the last.

Thule didn’t give up a hit until the fourth inning and was just a dropped third strike away from being flawless through three frames.

With their young buzzsaw setting the Lions down in order, the Wolves broke out for three runs in the bottom of the first to get things rockin’.

Leo Rodriguez whacked a leadoff double, then three batters later he came around to score thanks to a two-bagger from cleanup hitter Camden Glover.

Glover also scored on the play when Concrete’s outfielder threw the ball away, and a little later Aiden O’Neill also took advantage of a Lion error to tap home.

Coupeville stretched the advantage to 4-0 in the third, with Thule crunching an RBI single, before tacking on two runs in the fourth thanks to a series of walks mixed with Concrete errors.

The Lions did get one run back in the fifth, but CHS responded with a three-run sixth to open a convincing 9-1 lead.

That frame featured a two-run single off the bat of Glover, but also a number of Wolves being drilled by pitches, including Thule.

Despite being injured, the fab frosh convinced his coach he was ready to return to the mound, and he came within a pitch or two of throwing a complete game.

Concrete rallied late to make things interesting, but Glover came out of the bullpen to get the game’s final out, whiffing the only Lion he faced to slam the door shut on another Wolf win.

Thursday stats:

Chase Anderson — One walk
Coop Cooper — One walk
Camden Glover — One single, one double
Carson Grove — Three walks
Aiden O’Neill — One single, one walk
Leo Rodriguez — One double, one walk
Killian Shaw — One single
Malachi Somes — One single
Trent Thule — Two singles, one walk
Aiden Tingley — One walk

Killian Shaw (9) was one of six Wolves to get a hit in the win over Concrete.

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Booming bats, electric arms

Posted in Baseball, tagged baseball, Carson Grove, CHS Wolves, Concrete, home runs, Northwest League on April 21, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Carson Grove had four hits Tuesday, including a grand slam. (Presley Phillips photo)

What a difference a game makes.

Three days ago, the Coupeville High School baseball squad delivered its worst performance of the season. Jump forward to Tuesday and everything was back in order, however.

And far more than that, as three Wolf hurlers combined for a 13-strikeout no-hitter and the batters went bonkers in a 25-0 win on the road in Concrete.

The blowout five-inning victory snaps a brief two-game skid for CHS, lifting Steve Hilborn’s squad to 6-1 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 8-4 overall.

It also keeps them a game back of Mount Vernon Christian (7-0) in the race for a conference crown, with a rematch against Concrete set for Thursday in Cow Town.

Saturday the Wolves struggled in all aspects of the game while dropping a non-conference bout at Forks. Against the Lions, everything was clicking again.

Camden Glover, Coop Cooper, and Malachi Somes combined to shut Concrete’s offense down, giving up just four walks and not surrendering a single base knock to their hosts.

Glover and Cooper each picked up six strikeouts in two innings of work, while Somes, making his mound debut for the Wolves, added a 13th K, then ended the game by inducing a double play.

Malachi Somes gets his first mound action. (Shannon Hilborn photo)

At the plate everything went Coupeville’s way, as the visitors tore the hide off the ball en route to collecting a season-high 20 hits to go with 10 walks.

Four runs in the first got things started, another four in the second stretched the lead out, then CHS tacked on nine more tallies in the third and another eight in the fourth.

The Wolves came roaring out of the gate, with Leo Rodriguez lashing a leadoff single and Carson Grove walking.

That set up Chase Anderson, who delivered the first mammoth blow of the afternoon, smashing a three-run inside the park home run to left to set the tone.

Tack on an Aiden O’Neill triple, followed by Cooper bringing him around to score with a hot grounder, and it was 4-0 before Concrete’s fans could even get settled into their seats.

From there the Wolves continued to rain down unholy pain on the Lions, with Grove and Glover delivering RBI-rich hits in the second before coming back around to do the same in the third.

That frame featured not one, but two CHS players picking up RBIs in unique fashion, as both Anderson and Somes were drilled by wayward pitches with the bases loaded.

Up 17-0 heading into the fourth, there didn’t seem to be much more the Wolves could do that they hadn’t already done.

Not so fast, as Grove belted an inside the park grand slam to really make the scoreboard pop.

Overall, nine different Wolves collected a hit on the day, with 11 reaching base.

And the scorekeeper’s fingers? Probably buried deep in a bucket of ice right about now.

Tuesday stats:

Chase Anderson — One single, one home run, one walk
Coop Cooper — Three singles
Camden Glover — One single, one double, one walk
Carson Grove — Three singles, one home run, one walk
Riley Lawless — One walk
Aiden O’Neill — One single, one triple
Leo Rodriguez — One single, one walk
Killian Shaw — One single, one walk
Malachi Somes — Two singles, one walk
Trent Thule — Three singles, one walk
Aiden Tingley — Two walks

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Wolf grads shine on college diamonds

Posted in Softball, Wolves in college, tagged baseball, CHS Wolves, Edmonds College, Landon Roberts, Madison McMillan, Softball, Walla Walla College on April 20, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Landon Roberts is back in black.

Give them their moment, and they’ll deliver.

Coupeville grads Landon Roberts and Madison McMillan are part of deep diamond rosters at Walla Walla College and Edmonds College, respectively, so neither former Wolf is playing full-time as a freshman.

But they’re drawing notice when they get the call.

Roberts is part of a pitching staff which has used 14 hurlers this season, but he’s appeared in four games, which puts him in the thick of things for a squad where no mound man has more than nine games to their credit.

His best performance came recently against Wenatchee Valley, where he came on in relief and picked up his first collegiate strikeouts, whiffing two of the four hitters he faced.

Madison McMillan (left) is pounding the softball.

McMillan, meanwhile, is part of an Edmonds squad which is streaking at 27-2 after sweeping a doubleheader against Shoreline Sunday.

The power-hitting third baseman picked up four hits, three runs, and a walk as the Tritons came out on top 26-2 and 20-0 in games mercy-ruled after five innings.

On the season McMillan has racked up a .394 batting average across 19 games, with 12 runs, 13 hits, three doubles, three home runs, 18 RBI, and seven walks.

Unofficially, she should be sitting with five taters but has twice had umps wave off moonballs due to team base-running technicalities.

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Survive, thrive, play on

Posted in Baseball, Girls Tennis, Softball, tagged baseball, CHS Wolves, girls tennis, Northwest League, Softball, standings on April 19, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Wolf netters (left to right) Kauri Hamilton, Aleksia Jump, and Dahlia Miller are super-thrilled to play in the swirling winds of a prairie “spring.” (Melanie Wolfe photo)

The season rolls on.

The weather hasn’t been stunning, but most Coupeville High School athletic events on the schedule have been played this spring, as the Wolves survive and thrive.

Looking at the week ahead, it’s heavy on home affairs, with five of nine contests set to go down on the prairie.

Chief among those is the Cow Town Classic Invite, hosted by the CHS track and field team Saturday morning.

While the Wolf girls’ tennis team travels to Granite Falls Monday and University Prep Saturday, both of Coupeville’s diamond squads get to play two of three on their own fields.

The Smash Sisters and diamond men travel to Concrete Tuesday, before hosting back-to-back games Thursday and Friday.

The first of those are against the same Lions squads they play earlier in the week, with Friday’s twin-bill a non-conference rumble with Island rival South Whidbey.

As we head into the next-to-last week of April, a look at where things currently sit:

Northwest League baseball: