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Hired guns fuel red-hot baseball squad!!

Posted in Baseball, Little League, tagged , , , , on June 12, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Ty (left) and Gabe Eck. (Kenia Eck photo)

Ty (left) and Gabe Eck. (Kenia Eck photo)

Five men strong and kickin’ booty.

Fueled by their Coupeville Middle School players, who can now be hailed as the Fab Five, the Oak Harbor Babe Ruth baseball squad is on a hot streak as the playoffs near.

The Wildcats, who feature CMS stars Joey Lippo, Hunter Smith, Ty Eck, Gabe Eck and newcomer Jake Pease, have won four straight and qualified for the district playoffs.

After slipping past Anacortes 9-7, the ‘Cats pounded Concrete 14-3 and 12-1. Oak Harbor then edged Burlington 7-6 to keep the streak alive.

While most of the roster is Oak Town-based, the Coupeville five are making an impact.

Lippo is a fixture behind the plate and he and Smith are swinging hot bats.

Meanwhile, the speed demon Eck bothers chip in wherever they play, with Ty seeing mound duty against Burlington while Gabe patrolled center field.

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Lippo, Smith shine in narrow loss!!

Posted in Baseball, Little League, tagged , , , on May 24, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Joey Lippo, future Wolf baseball star.

Joey Lippo, future Wolf baseball star.

Contributed by Joe Lippo

Although pitcher Hunter Smith only allowed a few hits Thursday, the Sedro-Woolley squad was able to exact revenge on the Oak Harbor Babe Ruth team, squeaking out a one-run victory on its home turf.

The game was very close all the way through.

In the second inning, the ‘Cats brought walked batter James Besaw home with a sac bunt by Thomas Anderson and an RBI single from Joey Lippo.

Improved pitching from the Sedro squad stranded Anderson and Lippo.

Smith sat the Sedro batters down in the second and the ‘Cats came back to the plate and managed to generate two more runs on a combination of passed balls and trickery.

On a walk to Cory Roberts, Mackenzie Nuanez (who occupied third) took a huge step towards home while Roberts rounded first at full speed.

On the ensuing toss to second base, Nuanez ran home. Both runners safe.

That would be the end of the scoring for the ‘Cats, and the Sedro squad posted two more in the fifth, making the score 4-3, and that is how the game ended as both pitchers put on a strikeout clinic in the closing innings.

Only 10 hits were spread across both teams in the pitcher’s duel, with Smith (who was robbed, again, of a base hit by a diving Sedro Wolley shortstop) pitching a complete game allowing only six hits.

“We had some mental errors on the base paths and the lack of hitting didn’t help, either,” said Oak Harboe manager Pete Richter. “Something to work on next practice.”

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Wolves spark OH Babe Ruth to epic win!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , on May 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Joey Lippo goes low to snag the ball at short. (Joe Lippo photo)

Joey Lippo goes low to snag the ball at short. (Joe Lippo photo)

(Teresa Besaw photo)

Andrew Eaton (left) and Kamren Mebane, stars on the rise. Time for their parents to move to Coupeville… (Teresa Besaw photo)

Contributed by Joe Lippo

With a January wind blowing in from right field like a freezing typhoon, the Oak Harbor Babe Ruth squad welcomed Sedro-Woolley to town.

Sedro came ready to play, as they were present and accounted for fully an hour and a half before game time.

Josh Margraff started on the mound, and ran into some issues early on, but his fielders kept the ‘Cats in the game, allowing no runs through two innings.

In the third, Coach Trisler changed it up, putting Coupeville eighth graders Joey Lippo and Hunter Smith in at shortstop and catcher, respectively, and installing Chris Trisler on the mound.

Although this is supposed to be a Coupeville sports blog, it was Oak Harbor pitcher Trisler who really stole the show.

Nearly everyone in the lineup got hits, including doubles from Lippo (who is now off the schneid), Gabe Eck, and Kamren Mebane (who advanced to third on an error).

Others were unlucky at the plate, with Smith smacking two really good hits only to be robbed by Sedro outfielders in ESPN Top Ten fashion.

While Oak Harbor steadily racked up the runs, Trisler was just as steadily sitting Sedro batters down, striking out nearly every batter he faced.

Those that made contact were quickly thrown out by the infield of Caleb Fitzgerald, James Besaw and Thomas Anderson.

Likewise, some balls made it to the outfield to be soaked up by Andrew Eaton, Eck and Mebane.

In the bottom of the fifth, with the score 8-0, Mebane, Anderson and Lippo all reached base to load them up for Trisler.

After that it was time to break out the rye bread and mustard as Trisler launched a walk off grand slam over the center field fence, ending the game in five.

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Wolves power OH baseball squad!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on May 19, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Joey Lippo

Joey Lippo

Contributed by Joe Lippo.

There were four boys from Coupeville who were invited to play on the Oak Harbor Babe Ruth Wildcats travel baseball team.

CMS 8th graders Hunter Smith and Joey Lippo and 7th graders Gabe and Ty Eck made the cut this year.

To recap the start of the season, the Oak Harbor boys were having issues finding the sweet spot, and dropped their first six games.

Admittedly, these games were against teams from the older section of the league, including a Ferndale team that made the Everett Silvertips look small.

However, things started coming together this week.

A trip to Mount Vernon resulted in a loss, but the Cats answered back with a convincing win in the second game of the home and away series.

Saturday they took the long ferry ride to Friday Harbor for a double header.

The first game featured Friday Harbor scoring all its runs in the first and second innings, and then getting totally outplayed in the last five.

Smith and Lippo accounted for two RBI in the comeback attempt, and Gabe Eck made several key catches at center field. Thomas Anderson flashed the leather at third base, while Kamren Mebane soaked up everything that came his way at first.

It was not to be however, and the game ended as several players could be heard wishing for “one more inning” to complete the comeback.

The second game saw the Oak Harbor bats staying alive to take an early lead off hits from James Besaw, Drew Eaton and Chris Trisler.

Through the middle innings, Friday Harbor chipped away at the Wildcat lead, and the score at the top of the 5th was 6-4 in favor of Oak Harbor, but with Friday Harbor coming on strong.

Sensing that the momentum had shifted away from his team, Coach Shawn Trisler put Josh Margraff on the mound, shifted Ty Eck to second and put Lippo in at shortstop.

Then Margraff, Lippo and Smith, who was catching, proceeded to shut down Friday Harbor over the next three innings.

Margraff threw everything under the sun, including a breaking ball that went straight for the batters head, and then sank neatly across the plate.

Lippo made a dazzling play at shortstop, and Smith picked off a runner at third.

The bats also came back in the sixth for Oak Harbor, as it ran the score up to 8-4.

The bottom of the 7th featured a Friday Harbor home run, but that was all they could muster as Margraff helped his own cause with a pickoff at 2nd and a strikeout.

He capped things by fielding a comeback ball neatly, flipping to Besaw at first for the final out and an 8-5 win.

Both games featured a season low for errors (a problem that Oak Harbor has been struggling with), and more hits, a sure combination for victory.

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One final swing for Joey Lippo!!

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , on January 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Joey Lippo at national baseball spring training. (Joe Lippo photos)

Joey Lippo at national baseball spring training. (Joe Lippo photos)

Coupeville Middle School eighth-grader Joey Lippo spent three days at national baseball spring training, the only player in his age group from Washington state.

The following is dad Joe Lippo’s first hand account of the adventure:

Final Day in Mesa.

Only a morning warmup today and the coaches were in “game mode” from the beginning of the day.

They called everyone by their first names, or their new nicknames.

The only Coupeville player present, Joey, AKA “The Most Interesting Man in the World,” warmed up with his bat. He was slotted third in the lineup.

He earned his nickname because he lives on an island, and likes sports teams from Washington and Michigan and none from California.

Then it was time for the 2-0 Black team to face the 0-2 Navy team.

This time, the Navy team brought their ace pitcher to the mound.

Joey, like the two batters before him, struck out swinging.

So began a pitcher’s duel so intense that a “long” inning consisted of four batters. Speed, accuracy, and a variety of curves, breaks, and other assorted cheese frustrated batters from both sides.

Joey didn’t see the plate again until late in the third, and the score was 3-1 in favor of the Navy team.

This time, he hit a short looper just over the pitcher’s head that the second baseman missed catching by a whisker.

The second baseman had an awkward throw to first, so he threw to second, leaving Lippo safe at first on the fielders choice.

He wouldn’t see the plate again, but he played good defense all over the field, including second base and left field. He threw two batters out from the second base position.

Ultimately, the Black team could not match the few hits of the Navy team, and the game ended 5-1 in favor of the Navy team.

Final stats for Joey — .400 batting average (4-10), .500 on-base percentage, two steals, two RBI, one strikeout, no walks and one error.

Spring training is over, but Lippo will bring a little more knowledge, a little more skill, and a whole lot of new drills back to Coupeville to pass on to the teams here.

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