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All the diamond numbers your heart desires

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on May 9, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Trent Thule flies for home. (Julie Wheat photo)

Time to put the mitts away and add up the stats.

The Coupeville High School baseball squad reached the end of a 9-9 season Thursday, falling at Mount Vernon Christian to end its bid for a playoff berth.

But while the games are done, the numbers are forever.

Thanks to GameChanger, which is used by Wolf coaches to record the action, here’s what we have for the 2026 campaign:

 

HITTING:

 

At-Bats:

Coop Cooper – 52
Camden Glover – 50
Carson Grove – 48
Chase Anderson – 47
Riley Lawless – 43
Aiden O’Neill – 42
Leo Rodriguez – 40
Trent Thule – 35
Killian Shaw – 25
Chris Zenz – 23
Malachi Somes – 21
Avery Eelkema – 7
Aiden Tingley – 6

 

Hits:

Glover – 21
Anderson – 17
Cooper – 12
Grove – 12
O’Neill – 10
Rodriguez – 9
Thule – 7
Lawless – 5
Somes – 5
Shaw – 4
Zenz – 2
Eelkema – 1

 

Runs:

Anderson – 19
Glover – 18
Grove – 17
O’Neill – 13
Rodriguez – 12
Thule – 10
Cooper – 7
Zenz – 7
Shaw – 4
Lawless – 3
Somes – 2
Tingley – 2

 

2B’s:

Anderson – 6
Cooper – 4
Glover – 4
Rodriguez – 3
O’Neill – 1

 

3B’s:

O’Neill – 3
Grove – 1

 

HR’s:

Anderson – 1
Grove – 1

 

RBI:

Grove – 15
Cooper – 13
Glover – 12
Anderson – 9
Rodriguez – 4
Thule – 4
Lawless – 3
O’Neill – 3
Somes – 3
Zenz – 3
Tingley – 2
Shaw – 1

 

Walks:

Thule – 24
Grove – 21
O’Neill – 18
Rodriguez – 18
Glover – 17
Lawless – 15
Cooper – 14
Anderson – 10
Zenz – 6
Tingley – 5
Shaw – 4
Somes – 3
Eelkema – 1

 

Stolen Bases:

Anderson – 26
Glover – 22
Grove – 14
O’Neill – 12
Cooper – 11
Rodriguez – 11
Lawless – 4
Zenz – 4
Thule – 3
Eelkema – 2
Somes – 2
Shaw – 1

 

Batting Average:

Glover – .420
Anderson – .362
Grove – .250
O’Neill – .238
Somes – .238
Cooper – .231
Rodriguez – .225
Thule – .200
Shaw – .160
Eelkema – .143
Lawless – .116
Zenz – .087

Coop Cooper eyeballs a runner. (Julie Wheat photo)

 

PITCHING:

 

Games:

Glover – 13
Anderson – 8
Cooper – 8
Thule – 7
Grove – 6
Somes – 1

 

Starts:

Anderson – 6
Glover – 6
Cooper – 3
Grove – 2
Thule – 1

 

Hits:

Glover – 33
Anderson – 18
Grove – 16
Cooper – 11
Thule – 10

 

Runs:

Glover – 35
Anderson – 31
Cooper – 26
Grove – 18
Thule – 15

 

Earned Runs:

Glover – 23
Anderson – 14
Cooper – 12
Grove – 10
Thule – 5

 

Walks:

Glover – 30
Cooper – 28
Anderson – 26
Thule – 14
Grove – 13
Somes – 1

 

Strikeouts:

Glover – 68
Anderson – 46
Cooper – 36
Grove – 22
Thule – 20
Somes – 1

 

Innings Pitched:

Glover – 39.1
Anderson – 25
Cooper – 18
Thule – 16.1
Grove – 14
Somes – 1

 

Hitters Faced:

Glover – 189
Anderson – 126
Cooper – 96
Thule – 80
Grove – 72
Somes – 3

Aiden O’Neill (left) and Chase Anderson were senior leaders for the Wolf diamond program. (Jackie Saia photo)

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Pain, sweet pain equals a Wolf win

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on April 4, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Carson Grove (and his CHS teammates) sacrificed their bodies for a win Saturday afternoon. (Jackie Saia photo)

Pain is temporary, victories are forever.

Winning in a most unusual manner Saturday, the Coupeville High School baseball team beat visiting East Jefferson 4-3 in extra innings thanks to a walk off hit batsman.

And while sophomore catcher Carson Grove delivered the win by getting plunked with the bases full in the bottom of the eighth inning, he was the fourth(!) Wolf to get nailed in just that frame, and seventh(!) in the game.

With the non-conference win, the Wolves avenge an earlier loss to East Jefferson, finish off a 3-1 week, get to 6-2 on the season, and head into Spring Break on a high.

Coupeville is off until Apr. 13, when it travels down Island to clash with next-door neighbor South Whidbey.

The week-plus break should allow the Wolves to heal up from all their bruises and any lingering injuries, with the hope the bats have warmed up by their return to the diamond.

Base knocks were in short order Saturday, and CHS went into the bottom of the seventh trailing 2-0.

Which just meant it was time for the rally caps to come out on the first truly spring-like game day the Coupeville diamond squads have enjoyed on the prairie this season.

Aiden O’Neill opened his team’s last set of at-bats by being plunked, before moving up to third thanks to a passed ball and an East Jefferson error.

The Wolves only manufactured four hits on the day, but Grove delivered one at a key moment, lacing an RBI single to center to plate O’Neill and finally get his team on the board.

The speedy backstop pilfered second base and came in to tie the game up at 2-2 thanks to another error by the unraveling visitors, but East Jefferson escaped, barely.

That sent the game to extra frames, with both teams scoring in the eighth.

A walk and a long double plated the go-ahead run for the visitors, but Wolf hurler Camden Glover closed out a strong performance on the mound by forcing a pop fly to first baseman Riley Lawless.

That set up the most improbable of finishes in the bottom of the eighth, as the Wolves sent five batters to the plate, got all five aboard, and brought two in to score.

Trent Thule got whacked by a wayward pitch to kick things off, followed by Glover lacing a single. After that, it was pain, sweet pain.

Coop Cooper got plunked to juice the bags, before O’Neill wore a pitch to force in the tying run, and Grove capped the HBP parade, absorbing one more jolt to set off the prairie victory celebration.

The strong finish more than made up for a slow start, as Coupeville struggled a bit in the early going.

East Jefferson pushed across a score in the first and another in the third, while the home team seemed stuck in neutral.

The Wolves had two runners aboard in the first after Glover socked a double, but had a runner nailed at home. An inning later, CHS again put two on base, only to see both of them picked off.

The third, fourth, and fifth went by too quickly for CHS, with just a Lawless walk, though the sixth provided an intriguing hint of things to come, as Leo Rodriguez and Thule got smacked by pitches that got away from the East Jefferson pitcher.

Glover did his part, whiffing 10 Rivals across eight innings of work, and kept things close while chucking 106 pitches.

After that, all the Wolves needed was a little luck … and a high tolerance for pain.

 

Saturday stats:

Coop Cooper — One walk
Camden Glover — One single, one double, one walk
Carson Grove — Two singles
Riley Lawless — One walk
Aiden O’Neill — Three walks
Leo Rodriguez — Two walks
Trent Thule — Two walks
Chris Zenz — One walk

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Diamond men walk to a win

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , , on March 31, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Camden Glover struck out eight in four innings Tuesday, earning a win in Darrington. (Jackie Saia photo)

Pick your moments.

For the Coupeville High School baseball squad, the window of opportunity opened in the top of the sixth inning Tuesday afternoon.

To the Wolves credit, they seized it.

Trailing 2-1 at Darrington, with two outs and nobody aboard, struggling to scrape out hits, Steve Hilborn’s diamond men pulled off a stunning reversal, getting eight consecutive hitters on base from that point and pulling away for what would become a 6-2 win.

The victory, coming less than 24 hours after a non-conference loss to East Jefferson, gets the Wolves to 3-0 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 4-2 overall, with a rematch against Darrington set for Thursday on Whidbey Island.

It also pushes CHS back into a first-place tie with Mount Vernon Christian atop the conference at the quarter mark of the 12-game league schedule.

Things were looking a bit dire in the sixth for the Wolves, despite Coop Cooper leading off the frame with a double.

A groundout, followed by a successful pick-off play from Darrington, and Coupeville seemingly had nothing to work with.

CHS hadn’t scored since the first, and had stranded three runners an inning before, allowing the Loggers to hold on to their lead by the narrowest margin.

Then Darrington’s pitchers forgot how to throw a strike. Literally.

Consecutive walks to Trent Thule, Malachi Somes, and Chris Zenz loaded the bases, before a free pass to Carson Grove pushed a runner home to knot things at 2-2.

That brought leadoff hitter Chase Anderson to the plate, and he delivered, crushing a bases-clearing double to center — one of just four Wolf hits on the afternoon — and the entire game had flipped.

Not that Darrington was done walking folks.

Aiden O’Neill got a free trip to first, before the Loggers went to a new pitcher, who promptly plunked Camden Glover and Cooper wham-bam to give Coupeville its final run.

Glover, who tossed four innings after coming on in relief of Anderson, made that stand up, retiring six of the final seven hitters he faced, with five going down on strikeouts.

For the game, the Wolf pitchers combined to whiff 13, with Glover tops with eight, while limiting Darrington to just two hits across seven innings.

While Coupeville didn’t get many more base knocks of their own, three of their four hits were of the extra-base variety, while CHS also racked up 12 walks.

The visitors opened the scoring in the top of the first, with O’Neill walking (what else?), stealing second and third, then scampering home to score on a Darrington error.

While the Wolves went down 1-2-3 in both the second and third, strong defense, including nailing a runner trying to steal third, kept the game at 1-0 until the Loggers scraped out a run in the third, and another in the fourth.

The first Darrington run came in on a passed ball, the second on an RBI single, but after that Anderson and Glover were largely lights out the rest of the way.

Coupeville loaded the bases in the fifth, packaging walks to Riley Lawless and O’Neill around an Anderson single, but the Loggers escaped by snagging a two-out pop up in foul territory.

That set the stage for the sixth, and this time the Wolves were able to take advantage, keeping an early-season run of success going.

 

Tuesday stats:

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

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Diamond men duel with big city boys

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , , on March 21, 2026| Leave a Comment »

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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Glover lights up prairie on Opening Day

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , , on March 11, 2026| Leave a Comment »

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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