“You dare to shoot on ME?!?!” Wolf goalie Lauren Grove suffers no fools. (John Fisken photos)
Mia Littlejohn ran wild Thursday, rattling home four more goals to give her 16 in just six games.
Someone call the fire department, because Mia Littlejohn is torching folks.
The Coupeville High School junior booter is on a goal-scoring tear like none ever seen in these parts, and her en fuego leg is carrying the Wolves to new heights.
Thursday night Littlejohn tallied four more goals, lifting CHS, a small 1A school, to a stunning 4-1 non-conference victory over visiting North Mason, which hails from the 2A rung of the state classification system.
The third straight win for the Wolves, it lifts them to 4-1-1, just two wins off the program’s record for victories in a single season, and sets up a mammoth match next Tuesday.
Coupeville, which is 2-0 in 1A Olympic league play, travels to Silverdale to face two-time defending league champ Klahowya (4-0-1 overall, 2-0 in league).
The lone stain on the Eagles record this year?
A 2-2 tie with the same North Mason crew Coupeville just smushed.
While Klahowya, a state champ in 2014, has never lost in Olympic League play, going 12-0 over the past two years, this year would seem to offer Coupeville its best chance yet of toppling the kingpin.
The Wolves are romping while Littlejohn is raining down goals in a way rarely seen in Cow Town.
Her four scores Thursday marks her fourth hat trick in six games (she’s scored every time out) and gives her an astonishing 16 goals on the still-young season.
She blitzed sister Kalia’s single-season Wolf girls’ scoring record of 10 and is rapidly approaching Abraham Leyva’s school record of 20 goals in a season.
“Total domination!!!,” said a jubilant Coupeville coach Troy Cowan.
Mia Littlejohn netted her first goal Thursday on a penalty kick after being fouled in the box.
After getting a sweet set-up off a corner kick from Sage Renninger for goal #2, Littlejohn went solo for scores #3 and #4, refusing to be denied.
“She is just in full control and the great part is she is sharing the ball well and getting her teammates involved,” Cowan said.
North Mason’s lone score came after Wolf goaltender Lauren Grove dove for a ball in the box and inadvertently collided with a rival player.
The Bulldogs were awarded a questionable at best penalty kick, and, while he grumbled in the moment, Cowan didn’t want the moment to detract from the solid night enjoyed by his net-minder.
“Grove was a beast in the box and left NO doubt who was in charge!!!,” he said.
Helping her out was a Wolf defense in lock-down mode.
Joining stalwarts Lauren Bayne and Lindsey Roberts in containing the Bulldogs was senior transfer Megan DePorter, who made her debut in a CHS uniform an impressive one.
“Megan is legit,” Cowan said. “Took no time to cement herself as a defensive juggernaut and dictating the pace and flow of the match.”
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