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Net thriller sets stage for fiery finale

Posted in Girls Tennis, tagged , , , , on April 29, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Jade Peabody fires off a backhand. (Jackie Saia photos)

It comes down to the finale.

Coupeville and Friday Harbor, the only two schools to play girls’ tennis in the seven-team Northwest 2B/1B League, have battled through three tense tussles this season.

Now, with a 3-2 win Wednesday in Cow Town, the visiting Wolverines have the edge in the battle, but there’s still one more match to play.

That comes May 6, when Coupeville island-hops to face the Wolverines a fourth and final time.

CHS will enter that match at 1-2 in league play, 4-4 overall, while Friday Harbor currently sits at 2-1, 3-3.

Come out on top and the Wolves will earn a share of the league crown, before wrapping regular season play at home May 7 against non-conference foe Forest Ridge.

Wednesday’s rumble, in which Friday Harbor swept the doubles matches, and Coupeville claimed both singles contests, was Senior Night for CHS.

Aleksia Jump, Dahlia Miller, and Miles Gerber were honored for their contributions to Wolf tennis.

 

Wednesday results:

 

Varsity:

1st Singles — Milana Light won 6-1, 6-1

2nd Singles — Savannah Coxsey won 1-6, 6-1, 6-3

1st Doubles — Dahlia Miller/Aleksia Jump lost 7-6, 6-4

2nd Doubles — Jade Peabody/Rowan Stoner lost 6-3, 6-3

3rd Doubles — Kauri Hamilton/Jovanah Villagomez lost 6-4, 6-4

 

JV:

4th Doubles — Hazel Goldman/Miles Gerber won 8-7

5th Doubles — Lakshmi Erickson/Annabelle Cundiff lost 6-5

Annabelle Cundiff awaits a serve.

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Milestones reached, much more to come

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , , on April 27, 2026| Leave a Comment »

“Run … if you dare!!” (Jackie Saia photo)

Sweet diamond history was made Monday afternoon.

Playing with precision both at the plate and in the field, the Coupeville High School softball squad demolished host Orcas Island 11-0 in a game mercy-ruled after five innings.

And, while the Wolves still have 20% of the regular season left to play, Monday’s victory means they’ve already achieved two major goals.

Now 9-0 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 15-1 overall — which ties them for the most wins by a 2B school — the Smash Sisters clinched the latest in a string of league titles, while also punching their ticket to the state tourney.

First up is the league finale Wednesday, a rematch with Orcas on the Coupeville prairie, with catcher Teagan Calkins hailed on Senior Night.

Then, non-conference road rumbles with Klahowya, South Whidbey, and East Jefferson.

After that the Wolves head to districts May 14 at the Skagit Valley Playfields, a three-team tango where they’ll be the #1 seed and play the survivor of an opening game for the tourney title.

Since District 1 gets two tickets to state this season, Coupeville is therefore guaranteed a return trip to the big dance, win or lose.

It’s the fifth time a Wolf softball squad has qualified for state, and the first time CHS has accomplished the feat in back-to-back seasons, having split four games at the season-ending championships last year.

Zariyah Allen loves to hit lasers. (Jackie Saia photo)

While some of the pathway has been cleared, don’t expect Aaron Lucero’s diamond dazzlers to back off between now and state, however.

The Wolves, a young team which starts more 8th graders than seniors (2-1), handles its business like a well-oiled machine.

That was evident again Monday, as CHS completely shut the Orcas offense down.

Adeline Maynes started in the pitcher’s circle and retired 12 of the 13 hitters she faced, seven via strikeouts, before Haylee Armstrong came on to fling heat in the fifth, picking up one more K for herself.

When the Vikings did make contact with the ball, the Wolf defense was on point, with infielders Sydney Van Dyke, Allie Powers, Ava Lucero, and Cami Van Dyke all making smooth plays to send Orcas hitters trudging back to the bench.

Coupeville, a team of hit-happy assassins who rip the ball to all fields, started a bit slowly Monday after the long ferry trip, plating just a run in the first and none in the second.

Haylee Armstrong prepares to feast. (Julie Wheat photo)

The opening run came courtesy a booming ground-rule double from Armstrong, followed by an RBI single to left from Calkins, but Orcas hung tough in the early going.

That didn’t last, however, as the Wolves got revved up, slapping three more runs on the board in the third, six in the fourth, and a finally tally in the top of the fifth.

The second run was a straight-up repeat of the first one, with Armstrong crunching a double and Calkins mashing a run-scoring single.

After her second base knock, the “The Red Dragon” motored home on a wild pitch, before Ava Lucero swatted an RBI groundout to make it 4-0.

Orcas finally cracked for good in the fourth, with Zariyah Allen and Armstrong walking, before the heart of the order rained down run-scoring pain on the Vikings.

Cami Van Dyke zipped an RBI single to center, Calkins brought another run home with a sac fly, then the Wolves went wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am.

Consecutive smashes off the bats of Chelsi Stevens, Sydney Van Dyke, Ava Lucero, and Maynes stretched the advantage out to 10-0, signaling CHS was on its way to enforcing the mercy rule for the 12th time in 16 games.

The cherry on top of the run-scoring sundae arrived in the fifth as Stevens torched the Orcas hurler for yet another RBI single, this one landing deep in right field, as the Wolves have now outscored their foes 255-33.

 

Monday stats:

Zariyah Allen — One single, one walk
Haylee Armstrong — One single, two doubles, one walk
Teagan Calkins — Two singles
Ava Lucero — Two singles
Adeline Maynes — One single
Chelsi Stevens — Two singles
Cami Van Dyke — One single
Sydney Van Dyke — One double, one walk

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Action intensifies, stakes grow

Posted in Baseball, Girls Tennis, Softball, tagged , , , , , on April 26, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Wolf track star Kenneth Jacobsen goes for a run. (CHS Yearbook photo)

It’s not the final lap, but we’re getting closer.

As Coupeville and its Northwest 2B/1B League rivals head into the last week of April, the battle for conference titles heats up, with the postseason coming up quickly.

Both softball and baseball have key series against Orcas Island up next on the schedule, hitting the road Monday before hosting games Wednesday.

That home game for softball will be Senior Night for Wolf catcher Teagan Calkins as well.

Meanwhile, girls’ tennis hosts Friday Harbor in a league clash Wednesday, while track and field travels to Bellevue Saturday for the BCS Invitational, which is the final regular season meet.

As the calendar heads towards May, here’s where things sit through April 26:

 

Northwest League baseball:

School League Overall
MV Christian 8-0 12-3
Coupeville 7-1 9-5
Orcas Island 5-4 6-7
Friday Harbor 4-4 5-8
La Conner 2-5 3-9
Concrete 0-5 0-5
Darrington 0-7 0-12

 

Northwest League girls’ tennis:

School League Overall
Coupeville 1-1 4-3
Friday Harbor 1-1 2-3

 

Northwest League softball:

School League Overall
Coupeville 8-0 14-1
Orcas Island 6-2 7-5
Friday Harbor 4-2 8-6
La Conner 2-4 4-5
Concrete 0-6 0-6
Darrington 0-6 1-9

The rackets are rarin’ to go. (Melanie Wolfe photo)

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Hit machine hammers hapless hurlers

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , on April 23, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Olivia Martin and associates spent most of Thursday tearing around the basepaths. (Jackie Saia photos)

They were thunderstruck.

While prairie skies were largely clear and blue Thursday afternoon, the Coupeville High School softball squad rained down holy terror on visiting Concrete.

Whacking 27 hits, including inside the park home runs from Sydney Van Dyke and Emily Rains, the Wolves decimated the Lions 28-0 in a game which could have been 100-0 if CHS coach Aaron Lucero had been in a mood.

Instead, the diamond sage spent part of his day playing dodgeball as his catcher, Teagan Calkins, drilled hot shot after hot shot at him in the third base coaching box, every crack of her bat causing him to both grin and possibly suffer heart palpitations.

“Try and dodge this, Aaron!”

With the win, the Wolves get to 8-0 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 13-1 overall.

Up next is a non-conference rumble Friday at home against South Whidbey, before next week brings a two-game set with Orcas Island in which CHS can clinch a conference crown.

First up though was Concrete, a team building for a better tomorrow, but not remotely ready yet to slow down the freight train wearing red and black.

The Wolves, who won the first meeting between the teams 17-1, put this go-around on ice in the flick of a wrist.

CHS hurler Adeline Maynes struck out the first three hitters she faced, then she and her teammates busted out the bats and did their best to explode a few softballs.

Coupeville pushed 12 runs across in the bottom of the first, with 12 of their first 13 hitters reaching base.

The only one not to was still super-efficient, as Chelsi Stevens delivered an RBI groundout following a two-run double from Calkins.

Next at-bat, same inning, Stevens flexed her biceps and crushed a two-run triple to deep left field, proving she can kill you in a multitude of ways.

In between those at-bats, Coupeville picked up RBI-rich hits from Maynes, Zariyah Allen, and Haylee Armstrong, before Sydney Van Dyke launched a solo shot to left, tearing around the bags and sliding under the tag to complete her home run trot.

Everyone was hitting, with the Wolves tacking on seven more runs in the second, taking a breather in a scoreless third, then piling up nine more in the fourth.

In the second, five straight singles kept the runners moving base to base, before Maynes lofted a resounding triple to left to cap things.

Jump to the fourth and it was prime time for the Wolf reserves, as they picked up right where the starters had left off.

Emily Rains, swinging a hot stick and hollering as she tore around the basepaths, came off the bench to wallop an inside the park homer to lead off the inning, before coming back around later in the frame to mash a three-run double while almost overrunning the girl in front of her.

Also coming up big were Zayne Roos, zipping a two-run single into the gap, and Ari Vinson, swatting an RBI double to left.

While 13 of 16 Wolves collected a base hit, Maynes and Armstrong combined to virtually shut down Concrete’s offense. The former whiffed seven of the 10 batters she faced, while the latter came in to toss two scoreless innings of relief.

Even when the Lions did make contact, Coupeville had an answer, with Emma Leavitt collecting the web gem of the day by making a smooth snag on a liner to left while on the run.

 

Thursday stats:

Zariyah Allen — One single, one walk
Haylee Armstrong — Two singles, one double
Teagan Calkins — Three singles, one double, one walk
Emma Cushman — Two singles
Emma Leavitt — One single, one walk
Olivia Martin — Two walks
Adeline Maynes — One single, one triple, one walk
Allie Powers — One single
Emily Rains — One double, one home run
Zayne Roos — One single
Chelsi Stevens — Two singles, one triple
Cami Van Dyke — Three singles, one walk
Sydney Van Dyke — Two singles, one home run
Ari Vinson — One double

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Trent Thule too tough for Concrete

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on April 23, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville freshman Trent Thule was a two-way terror Thursday, striking out 10 on the mound and getting on base three times as a hitter. (Jackie Saia photos)

Trent Thule had himself quite a day.

The Coupeville High School freshman was in the spotlight Thursday, pitching and hitting the Wolf baseball squad past visiting Concrete, even after leaving some of his blood on the prairie thanks to taking a wayward pitch to the face.

Thule finished the day with two base knocks and a walk, with the latter leaving him with a bloody nose and black eye, while also striking out 10 Lions across 6.2 innings of work in a 9-6 win which wasn’t as close as it might sound.

The victory gives Coupeville a season sweep of Concrete, while lifting the Wolves to 7-1 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 9-4 overall.

Steve Hilborn’s squad, which hosts South Whidbey in a non-conference Island rivalry rumble Friday, sits a game off of Mount Vernon Christian (8-0) in the race for a conference crown, with the matchup between those two teams set for the final two regular season games the first week of May.

Thursday’s bout with Concrete wasn’t as lopsided as the first meeting, when CHS won 25-0, but the Wolves were still in control from the first pitch to the last.

Thule didn’t give up a hit until the fourth inning and was just a dropped third strike away from being flawless through three frames.

With their young buzzsaw setting the Lions down in order, the Wolves broke out for three runs in the bottom of the first to get things rockin’.

Leo Rodriguez whacked a leadoff double, then three batters later he came around to score thanks to a two-bagger from cleanup hitter Camden Glover.

Glover also scored on the play when Concrete’s outfielder threw the ball away, and a little later Aiden O’Neill also took advantage of a Lion error to tap home.

Coupeville stretched the advantage to 4-0 in the third, with Thule crunching an RBI single, before tacking on two runs in the fourth thanks to a series of walks mixed with Concrete errors.

The Lions did get one run back in the fifth, but CHS responded with a three-run sixth to open a convincing 9-1 lead.

That frame featured a two-run single off the bat of Glover, but also a number of Wolves being drilled by pitches, including Thule.

Despite being injured, the fab frosh convinced his coach he was ready to return to the mound, and he came within a pitch or two of throwing a complete game.

Concrete rallied late to make things interesting, but Glover came out of the bullpen to get the game’s final out, whiffing the only Lion he faced to slam the door shut on another Wolf win.

 

Thursday stats:

Chase Anderson — One walk
Coop Cooper — One walk
Camden Glover — One single, one double
Carson Grove — Three walks
Aiden O’Neill — One single, one walk
Leo Rodriguez — One double, one walk
Killian Shaw — One single
Malachi Somes — One single
Trent Thule — Two singles, one walk
Aiden Tingley — One walk

Killian Shaw (9) was one of six Wolves to get a hit in the win over Concrete.

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