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The battle never ends. (Photos courtesy Michelle Armstrong)

They want to strike out a deadly disease.

The Coupeville High School softball and baseball teams are uniting Saturday, Apr. 4 to stage fundraisers for the WhidbeyHealth Foundation Cancer Center.

The event, the fourth annual one for the sluggers, is tied to home games against non-conference foe East Jefferson.

Wolf baseball players will be wearing t-shirts provided by the foundation, with softball players sporting special socks highlighting different forms of cancer.

Both teams will be selling t-shirts, featuring the logo seen below:

On the back of the t-shirts, it will say, “I wear this shirt for,” and fabric markers will be offered to fans at the games to write names on the back of their shirts.

If you’re not able to make it to the event in person, you can still donate, as shown on this poster:

Across the previous three seasons, the CHS softball squad has raised nearly $3,600 in support of cancer care.

“We would like to thank the Coupeville softball and baseball players, coaches, and supporters for their continued dedication to Coupeville vs. Cancer,” said the WhidbeyHealth Foundation in a statement.

“Your efforts go far beyond the field, making a meaningful difference for patients receiving care in our community. We are truly thankful for your commitment and generosity.”

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Wolf slugger Sydney Van Dyke admires the lace-up job she did on her shoes. (Julie Wheat photo)

Well, let’s try this again.

Wet weather across Washington state washed away most scheduled games this past week, limiting the number of wins and losses posted by Northwest 2B/1B League teams.

But hope burns eternal, so Coupeville and its conference counterparts head into a new week hoping on-field action will replace thumb twiddling.

The Wolf girls’ tennis squad is slated to host Friday Harbor Tuesday, with baseball and softball set for home-and-away clashes with the same rival.

The CHS diamond squads host Wednesday, before bouncing between islands Thursday on a potential road trip.

Finally, Saturday will see the Coupeville track and field squad, or part of it at least, head off to the Stanwood Frosh/Soph Invitational.

As the Wolves plow into another week, here’s where things stand through Mar. 22:

 

Northwest League baseball:

School League Overall
Concrete 0-0 0-0
Coupeville 0-0 1-1
Darrington 0-0 0-1
Friday Harbor 0-0 1-0
La Conner 0-0 0-1
MV Christian 0-0 1-0
Orcas Island 0-0 1-1

 

Northwest League girls’ tennis:

School League Overall
Coupeville 0-0 0-1
Friday Harbor 0-0 0-0

 

Northwest League softball:

School League Overall
Orcas Island 1-0 1-1
Concrete 0-0 0-0
Coupeville 0-0 3-0
Friday Harbor 0-0 1-1
La Conner 0-0 0-0
Darrington 0-1 1-1

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Riley Lawless rumbles down to first. (Julie Wheat photos)

The final score doesn’t tell all.

While Meridian tacked on some runs late to make its 16-7 win Saturday over visiting Coupeville seem more lopsided, the diamond clash was mostly a back-and-forth affair.

And while the non-conference loss drops the Wolf baseball squad to 1-1 on the season, delivering a strong effort against a traditional power, especially one repping a larger student body, is a true positive for Steve Hilborn’s team.

Coupeville, which kicks off Northwest 2B/1B League play next week with a home-and-away series against Friday Harbor, got on the board first Saturday.

The Wolves picked up four of their 10 walks in the top of the first, with Carson Grove gliding home to score on a passed ball.

While Meridian responded with five runs of its own in the bottom half of the frame, CHS picked up two tallies in the second to cut things back to 5-3.

Free passes were again key to Coupeville’s offensive efforts, with Chris Zenz, Chase Anderson, and Grove showing off eagle eyes at the plate.

Camden Glover capped things with an RBI single, one of three base-knocks the senior had on the day.

Off to a sizzlin’ start, he’s racked up seven hits across just the first two games.

From there, both teams picked up a run, before Meridian pushed five runs across in both the fourth and fifth innings to widen the gap.

Even as the game threatened to slip away, the Wolves continued to scrap for runs, however, scoring three in the top of the fifth.

Leo Rodriguez smacked two hits Saturday in Bellingham.

The big blow was a two-run double to left field off the bat of Leo Rodriguez, as he put together one of his best performances in a Wolf uniform.

On the mound, Coupeville split duties between hurlers Coop Cooper, Glover, Grove, and Anderson, with the latter making his first appearance on the baseball diamond since his sophomore season.

Now a senior, Anderson transitioned to track and field as a junior, earning two medals at the state meet, and he competed in this year’s opening track meet Wednesday in La Conner.

Saturday, he picked up two strikeouts in an inning of work, while Cooper (5), Glover (1), and Grove (2) made it 10 K’s for the team.

 

Saturday stats:

Chase Anderson — One walk
Camden Glover — Three singles, one walk
Carson Grove — Two walks
Riley Lawless — Two walks
Leo Rodriguez — One single, one double, one walk
Killian Shaw — One single
Trent Thule — Two walks
Chris Zenz — One walk

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Wicked weather, happy fans, as CHS spring sports teams are off to a 3-0 start. (Julie Wheat photo)

Nothing but wins.

While we’re only a week into “spring” sports action and still waiting for our first beam of sunlight on the cold, windswept prairie, the weather hasn’t slowed down Coupeville High School teams.

Wolf softball and baseball have combined to go 3-0 so far, with track and girls’ tennis slated to kick off their campaigns this coming week.

The netters are first up (weather permitting), with matches against East Jefferson and Granite Falls set for this coming Monday and Tuesday.

The first is as home, the second on the road.

Track travels to La Conner Wednesday for a Northwest 2B/1B League meet, before trekking further down the road Saturday for the Rainier Icebreaker meet.

And those winning diamond squads?

Both return to action Saturday with a trip to Bellingham to square off with Meridian.

We still have a long way to go, but here’s where things sit through Mar. 14:

 

Northwest League baseball:

School League Overall
Concrete 0-0 0-0
Coupeville 0-0 1-0
Darrington 0-0 0-0
Friday Harbor 0-0 1-0
La Conner 0-0 0-1
MV Christian 0-0 0-0
Orcas Island 0-0 1-0

 

Northwest League girls’ tennis:

School League Overall
Coupeville 0-0 0-0
Friday Harbor 0-0 0-0

 

Northwest League softball:

School League Overall
Concrete 0-0 0-0
Coupeville 0-0 2-0
Darrington 0-0 0-0
Friday Harbor 0-0 1-0
La Conner 0-0 0-0
Orcas Island 0-0 0-0

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Coupeville’s Camden Glover, seen here last season, brought his A-game to Opening Day 2026. (David Somes photo)

Camden Glover is already in mid-season form.

Kicking off a new high school baseball season in style Wednesday, the Coupeville senior piled up 13 strikeouts as a pitcher and four hits as a batter, sparking the Wolf varsity to an 8-6 home win against Oak Harbor’s JV.

Playing on a dank, dark, cold day on the prairie — or “spring,” as it’s known in these parts — Cow Town’s diamond men, repping a 2B school, rallied twice to take down a squad from a 3A school.

With head coach Steve Hilborn calling the shots for a fourth season, the Wolves opened the game with a bang, as leadoff hitter Carson Grove led off the bottom of the first with a triple to right field.

Two batters later he scampered home, sent there by the first of Glover’s four base knocks, and CHS starting pitcher Coop Cooper had an early lead to work with.

While Oak Harbor scraped out a pair of runs in the second thanks to three walks and an error, Coupeville hung tough, eventually tying the game at 2-2 in the fourth, before going off for three runs in both the fifth and sixth to claim the lead for good.

The Wolves knotted things up by putting together four walks in the fourth, with Avery Eelkema getting plunked and Grove forcing in the run with a bases-loaded free pass.

In the fifth inning, walks to Cooper and Chris Zenz, combined with another hit from Glover and a key RBI groundout off the bat of Aiden Tingley turned out to be big.

Coupeville eked out 10 walks on the day, with Grove and Killian Shaw getting aboard in the sixth before Glover and Riley Lawless delivered back-to-back RBI singles to cap the scoring.

Oak Harbor had two runners on base in the top of the seventh, but Glover emphatically closed things out by delivering his 13th K for the game’s final out.

Cooper, who pitched the game’s first two innings, and Glover combined for 19 strikeouts, while surrendering just a single hit.

Fresh off the win, Coupeville will go back to enjoying practice for a bit, with game #2, a road trip to Bellingham to play Meridian not scheduled until Mar. 21.

 

Wednesday stats:

Coop Cooper — One single, one walk
Avery Eelkema — One single, one walk
Camden Glover — Four singles
Carson Grove — One triple, two walks
Riley Lawless — One single, one walk
Leo Rodriguez — One walk
Killian Shaw— One walk
Aiden Tingley — Two walks
Chris Zenz — One walk

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