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Hit-happy JV rolls to win

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on April 28, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Landon Roberts, covering first base in a varsity game, got the win on the mound in Thursday’s JV game. (Morgan White photo)

Lights on, bats rarin’ to go.

The first time Coupeville and Darrington clashed in a JV baseball game this season, sunset on the prairie forced a tie after six hard-fought innings.

Thursday was different, as the squads took advantage of the Loggers being able to click on field lights, allowing the Wolves time to hammer out a 16-5 win.

The victory lifts the CHS young guns to 1-4-1 on the season, with two games remaining on the schedule.

Coupeville’s JV is slated to play Monday, May 1 at home against non-conference foe Sultan, then travel to Sedro-Woolley the next day for their finale.

Thursday’s rumble under the lights was all Coupeville, all the way, though Darrington did manage to narrowly avoid being ten-runned after five innings, pushing the game to six frames before the Wolves closed things out.

Coupeville jumped on the Loggers for seven runs in the top of the first to set the mood, added a single tally in the second, then pushed three more across in the third to build an 11-2 lead.

The Wolves failed to score only once, in the fourth, tagging Logger hurlers for three more runs in the fifth and a final two in the sixth.

Coupeville’s biggest blow came from Jack Porter, who launched a legit inside-the-park home run which missed hitting the football stands beyond center field by just a few feet.

The Wolves sent three pitchers to the mound, with starter Landon Roberts whiffing six of the 18 hitters he faced.

Jack Porter came on in relief in the fourth, while Peyton Caveness was lights out in the sixth, setting three straight Loggers down on strikes.

“Peyton had a wicked off-speed pitch that froze guys,” CHS coach Jon Roberts said. “Good game under the lights! Cool experience for all.”

 

Thursday stats:

Piotr Bieda — Two walks
Myca Clarkson — One single
Jaje Drake — Three walks
Jack Farrell — One single, one walk
Marcelo Gebhard — One walk
Matthew Gilbert — One single, two walks
Aidyn McDermott — One walk
Jack Porter — One home run, one walk
Johnny Porter — Two singles, one double, one walk
Landon Roberts — One single
Yohannon Sandles — One walk
Seth Woollet — One single, two walks

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Steady Wolves nab another win

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , on April 27, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Sophomore sluggers Madison McMillan (left) and Jada Heaton have helped carry Coupeville to a 12-5 record. (Jennifer Heaton photo)

They never flinched.

Locked in a low-scoring rumble for a bit Thursday in Darrington, the Coupeville High School varsity softball squad could have panicked when the host Loggers cut their deficit to a single run.

Instead, the Wolves ripped off seven unanswered runs, threw down back-to-back scoreless innings on defense, and rolled to their ninth win in their last 10 games.

Eventually exiting with an 11-5 win, Coupeville gets to 9-1 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 12-5 overall.

Now the Wolves head home for Senior Night Saturday — played at 1:00 PM in the afternoon — then close the season on the road.

After facing off Saturday with La Conner (2-7, 2-13), CHS travels to Friday Harbor (7-1, 10-4) Thursday, May 4, before playing a non-conference game May 12 at South Whidbey.

The Friday Harbor clash will determine the NWL champs, and which team earns District 1’s lone playoff berth for 2B schools.

Thursday’s rumble with 1B Darrington, while having no effect on playoff positioning for the Wolves, was still a solid test for Kevin McGranahan’s squad.

“We had to earn this one today; took us awhile to get the bats going,” Coupeville’s coach said.

“The girls stayed the course, and eventually we got some clutch hits to plate some runs and pull away enough to get the W.”

The Loggers, who sit in third place in the conference, hung tough, trailing just 4-3 after four innings.

Both teams went down 1-2-3 in the first, with Wolf hurler Allie Lucero striking out the side, before Coupeville pushed three runners across in the top of the second.

Walks to Madison McMillan and Allie Lucero primed the well, with Maya Lucero crunching a two-run double to left to get the scoreboard operator working.

Melanie Navarro laced an RBI single over the shortstop’s head to make it 3-0 — one of three times the senior slugger reached base — before Darrington escaped.

Melanie Navarro has swung a big bat for the Wolves. (Jackie Saia photo)

The Loggers scraped together their own run in the bottom half of the inning, capitalizing on a bunt which burrowed deep into the dirt in fair territory, but CHS immediately matched the score.

Taylor Brotemarkle singled, went to second on an error, coasted into third on a wild pitch, then tapped home on a hard-hit grounder off the bat of the always-mashin’ McMillan.

Navarro doubled to center in the fourth, only to be stranded, while Darrington scored twice during their at-bats– without getting the ball out of the infield — and suddenly it was a nail-biter at 4-3.

But, no fear, no blinking, just going out and executing for the Wolves.

Fab frosh Teagan Calkins used a bit of alert base running to score in the fifth, before CHS tacked on two runs in the sixth and four more in the seventh to stretch the lead back out to 11-3.

Super sophomores Jada Heaton and Mia Farris both picked up two RBI’s during the surge, with Calkins coming back around to swat a two-run single past Darrington’s diving shortstop.

As important as the runs were, Coupeville’s pitching and defense also came up big in the moment, blanking the Loggers in the fifth and sixth.

Allie Lucero, who finished with 11 strikeouts, set down five consecutive Darrington hitters, while McMillan ended the sixth by tracking down a wayward pop fly over second base.

While the Loggers made one final push, scoring two runs in the bottom of the seventh, Calkins ended things.

Jumping out from behind home plate, she plucked a spinning ball off the dirt and fired it to Maya Lucero at first for out #21, sending her team home carrying yet another victory.

 

Thursday stats:

Taylor Brotemarkle — Two singles
Teagan Calkins — Two singles
Mia Farris — One double, one walk
Jada Heaton — One single
Allie Lucero — One walk
Maya Lucero — One double, two walks
Madison McMillan — One walk
Melanie Navarro — One single, one double, one walk
Sofia Peters — One walk

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Timberrrr!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , , on April 27, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Scott Hilborn whacked four hits Thursday afternoon. (Morgan White photo)

They might want to build a storm shelter in Darrington.

Why?

To protect the locals from the kind of missiles being rained down Thursday afternoon.

The red-hot ‘n rollin’ Coupeville High School varsity baseball squad was in town and smashed 19 hits on its way to a 16-6 win before departing town in a blaze of glory.

Twelve different Wolves collected a base knock during the decimation, even with the game mercy-ruled after five innings, as CHS won for the ninth time in its last 10 tilts.

Now 11-1 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 13-4 overall, Coupeville heads home for Senior Night Saturday, when it hosts La Conner (3-9, 4-11).

First pitch is 1:00 PM.

With three regular season games left, and two of those conference clashes, the Wolves have clinched the #1 seed for the District 1/2 tournament, and are tied with Mount Vernon Christian (11-1, 12-3) atop the NWL.

Facing off with a decent Darrington squad — the Loggers are a solid .500 team — CHS abused its hosts all afternoon.

The Wolves pushed four runs across in the top of the first, added a single tally in the second, then broke the game wide-open by slapping eight runs on the board in the third.

Three more visitors tapped home plate in the top of the fourth, stretching the lead all the way out to 16-1.

While the Loggers chipped away at the lead late, it came only after Coupeville coach Steve Hilborn cleared his bench.

The Wolves used two of their three freshman hurlers, with starter Coop Cooper whiffing six in three innings of work, while Camden Glover followed with two punch-outs across two frames.

Fab frosh Coop Cooper slings strikes. (Morgan White photo)

Freshman catcher Chase Anderson threw out a pair of would-be base stealers, keeping Darrington honest, while the Wolves strung together hit after hit while at the plate.

Five of the knocks went for extra bases, with senior slugger Scott Hilborn leading the way with two doubles and a bombastic triple.

Young gun Glover and grizzled vet Jonathan Valenzuela each added a two-bagger, with every Wolf starter, and three back-ups, collecting hits.

 

Thursday stats:

Chase Anderson — Two singles
Peyton Caveness — One single, one walk
Coop Cooper — Two singles, one walk
Jaje Drake — One single, one walk
Camden Glover — One double, one walk
Scott Hilborn — One single, two doubles, one triple, one walk
Aiden O’Neill — One single
Jack Porter — Two singles
Johnny Porter — One single
Landon Roberts — One single
Jonathan Valenzuela — One single, one double
Cole White — One single

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Undefeated? We can fix that!

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , on April 12, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Taylor Brotemarkle (left) and Chloe Marzocca both scored as Coupeville thumped previously undefeated Darrington. (Jackie Saia photo)

“We started pretty fast and kept our foot on the gas.”

Kevin McGranahan had his Coupeville High School varsity softball team primed for Tuesday’s showdown with undefeated Darrington, and it showed.

Pounding out 13 hits, with nine of those base knocks being for extra bases, the Wolves made quick work of the visiting Loggers, rolling to a 15-3 victory.

The win lifts CHS to 4-1 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 6-4 overall, while Darrington falls to 3-1 in conference action.

The home game, played on a day when the sun peeked out over the prairie, the rain stayed away, and the wind made but the smallest of rustles, kicks off a busy week for Coupeville.

The Wolves travel to La Conner Thursday to face a winless Braves squad, then head off to Onalaska Saturday for a doubleheader against a tough non-league foe.

Based on win/loss records, Tuesday’s tilt with Darrington might have been expected to be a tightly-contested affair.

It was not.

Wolf hurler Allie Lucero struck out the side in the top of the first, kicking off a day in which the senior would record nine K’s, and then the offense went to work.

Coupeville crunched four doubles in the bottom of the first en route to grabbing a 3-0 lead, with Mia Farris, Taylor Brotemarkle, Allie Lucero, and Maya Lucero all finding their groove.

The hits kept coming in the second frame, as 8th grader Haylee Armstrong led off with a triple, launching a gorgeous line drive to deep centerfield that brought to mind memories of former Wolf hitting star Chelsea Prescott.

The middle school masher, who worked her way into the starting lineup with her defense, is proving her bat is ready for prime time as well, something her coach noted.

“We had big hits all over today, but none bigger than the one from the smallest girl out there today,” McGranahan said with a big smile.

Two batters later Armstrong tapped home after freshman catcher Teagan Calkins bopped a double down the third-base line, and the rout was on.

Darrington briefly cut its deficit to 4-1 in the third, scoring on a botched play in which a Logger got caught in a two-out rundown, only to escape when the Wolves threw the ball away not once, but twice.

While that play might have given McGranahan and his assistant coaches a touch of angina, it was soon washed away by the glory of the Wolf bats.

Coupeville plated eight runners in its half of the third inning, before tacking on three more in the fourth to firmly put the game into mercy rule land.

Jada Heaton and Farris walloped doubles in the third, while Darrington fell apart in a wild mix of errors, walks, wild pitches, and mental meltdowns.

The defining play might have been Calkins, alertly scampering to first on a dropped third strike.

A smart move from a young gun who already plays like a grizzled veteran, it kept the Wolf rally at full tilt and never gave the Loggers a chance to recover from their mistakes.

 

Tuesday stats:

Haylee Armstrong — One single, one triple
Taylor Brotemarkle — One double, two walks
Teagan Calkins — Two doubles
Mia Farris — Two singles, one double
Gwen Gustafson — One single
Jada Heaton — One double
Allie Lucero — One double, one walk
Maya Lucero — One double, one walk
Madison McMillan — Two walks
Sofia Peters — One double

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CHS diamond men bash Loggers

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on April 12, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Wolf freshman Camden Glover dominated on the mound Tuesday afternoon. (Photo courtesy Stevie Glover)

Two innings of destruction was all it required.

Using a mix of big hits, precise base-running, and botched plays by their foes, the Coupeville High School varsity baseball team broke open a scoreless tie in the third inning Tuesday, then romped to a 10-0 win over visiting Darrington.

The conference victory lifts the Wolves to 4-1 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 6-3 overall, with a road trip to La Conner looming Thursday afternoon.

CHS controlled every aspect of the game against Darrington, outhitting the Loggers 9-1, stealing nine bases, and forcing the visitors to commit six errors.

Freshman hurlers Camden Glover and Coop Cooper prowled the mound for the Wolves, giving their senior counterparts a rest day while piling up nine strikeouts in five innings of work.

Both pitchers allowed just two Darrington hitters to reach base, with Glover recording six K’s to three from Cooper.

Even with the young duo poppin’, the game was scoreless heading into the bottom of the third.

Coupeville only had two baserunners of its own through its first two series of at-bats, and those came courtesy a Darrington error and a dropped third strike.

That changed in the third, however, with Scott Hilborn and Chase Anderson whacking back-to-back one-out singles to get things going.

Anderson came flying home on an error to make it 2-0, before a sac fly from Glover and yet another Logger miscue helped the Wolves stretch the advantage to 4-0.

The CHS bats really came alive during a six-run rally in the fourth, with Jonathan Valenzuela clobbering a two-run triple and Hilborn mashing a two-bagger.

Anderson and Glover also picked up singles, while a wild pitch and two more Darrington errors allowed Coupeville to make it a 10-run game.

The visitors had one chance to keep the mercy rule from being used, but meekly went down 1-2-3 in the fifth, as Cooper closed things with an exclamation point.

 

Tuesday stats:

Chase Anderson — Two singles
Peyton Caveness — One single
Camden Glover — One single
Scott Hilborn — One single, one double
Jack Porter — Two singles
Jonathan Valenzuela — One triple, one walk
Cole White — One walk

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