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Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , , , on April 23, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Cole White reached base three times Tuesday, propelling Coupeville to a 10-0 win. (Jackie Saia photo)

What a difference a month makes.

Back on March 26, the Coupeville High School varsity baseball squad fell 14-1 on Orcas Island in a game marred by too many walks and too many errors.

Jump forward to April 23, and it was a completely different story.

Continuing a hot streak of late, the Wolves ran the Vikings off the prairie Tuesday, blanking them 10-0 in a game mercy-ruled after six innings.

The victory, Coupeville’s sixth-straight in league play, lifts it to 7-2 in Northwest 2B/1B League action, 8-8 overall.

It also moves the Wolves into a first-place tie with Orcas (7-2, 10-4) with three games left to play.

Both CHS and the Vikings close against the same three teams — Concrete, Darrington, and La Conner — with Cow Town’s hardball squad playing two of its final three at home.

The Wolves host Concrete Thursday, welcome Darrington to town Saturday for Senior Night, then trek to La Conner May 2 for the regular season finale.

After that comes the playoffs, with it looking increasingly likely Coupeville will be the #1 seed among 2B schools in the NWL.

If that holds, the Wolves will need to win just one district game to punch their ticket for a return trip to the state tourney.

But that’s still in the future.

Landon Roberts and Coupeville are peaking at the right time. (Ember Light photo)

Tuesday was all about the now, and Steve Hilborn’s diamond dogs played to perfection, outhitting Orcas 10-2, while Wolf hurler Seth Woollet tossed a gem.

The senior went all six innings, walking just two batters and whiffing a pair, while deftly sliding out of the few troublesome spots he found himself in.

Orcas punched a two-out triple in the third, but Woollet stranded the runner there, getting the next batter to meekly fly out to Aiden O’Neill.

Then, in the top of the fifth, the Vikings had two runners aboard, but the crafty CHS pitcher induced a weak pop out to Coop Cooper at first base to prematurely end the last gasp the Vikings could muster.

Meanwhile, the Wolves peppered the rival pitchers, scoring three runs in the first, two more in the second, and a lone tally in the third to run the score to 6-0.

The opening rally was set up by a single from Peyton Caveness and a walk to Cole White, with Chase Anderson mashing an RBI single to right to nab the only run that truly mattered.

Two more came home off of a Jack Porter bunt single, however, as Orcas melted down on the play and made wild throws.

Up 3-0, Coupeville pushed it to 5-0 on a pair of big-time RBI base hits in the second inning.

Caveness, who has been a holy terror abusing the baseball all season, smoked a triple to left, before White socked a run-scoring two-bagger to dead center.

Woollet aided his own cause with an RBI single in the third, before CHS closed out the game with four more runs in the bottom of the sixth.

The key hits came from Johnny Porter, Caveness, and Anderson, with Caveness coming around to score on an error to officially close the game by enforcing the 10-run mercy rule.

 

Tuesday stats:

Chase Anderson — Two singles
Peyton Caveness — Two singles, one triple
Coop Cooper — One walk
Steven Gonzalez — One walk
Jack Porter — One single, one walk
Johnny Porter — One single
Landon Roberts — One walk
Cole White — One single, one double, one walk
Seth Woollet — One single, one walk

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Diamond rally falls short

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on April 8, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Chaos reigns on the baseball diamond. (Ryan Blouin photo)

The good news is they rallied. The bad news is it was too little, too late.

Returning from Spring Break Monday, the Coupeville High School varsity baseball squad started off cold, then warmed up a bit in the latter stages of a 9-4 loss to visiting Sultan.

The non-conference defeat drops the Wolves to 3-7 on the season and kick-starts what could be a very busy week.

CHS is slated to travel to Darrington Tuesday, host La Conner Thursday, then trek to Forks Saturday, with the first two of those rumbles against Northwest 2B/1B League rivals.

With 10 regular season games down and nine left to play, the Wolves hope the second half of the campaign plays out like the second half of Monday’s game.

Held hitless until Cole White plunked a leadoff single in the bottom of the fourth, Coupeville was in a 7-0 hole at that point.

Four errors on defense stung, and an inability to get anything going on offense didn’t help on a cold, windy, slightly rain-splattered day.

White’s base knock finally lit a fire under the Wolves, as they scratched out two runs in the fourth, one more in the fifth, and a final tally in the seventh.

But while Coupeville sliced the lead down to 7-3, it never got closer than that.

Sultan tacked on a pair of runs in the top of the sixth to stretch the margin back out to six runs, before CHS briefly mounted a rally in its final at-bats.

Peyton Caveness thumped his second double of the day, followed by an RBI triple from Johnny Porter, but the Turks escaped thanks to a double play and strikeout.

Sultan finished the day with an 8-5 lead in hits, though the Wolves eked out a 6-4 advantage in walks.

Steven Gonzalez, Aidyn McDermott, and Landon Roberts each earned a pair of free passes, while Coop Cooper collected a single to round out the hit parade.

Coupeville used four pitchers on the day, with Seth Woollet whiffing five in 4.2 innings of work to carry the biggest portion of the load.

He was joined on the hill by Jack Porter, Camden Glover, and Cooper, who combined for another five strikeouts.

It was Cooper’s season debut on the mound, and the Wolf sophomore pitched a perfect seventh inning, setting two batters down on K’s before inducing a groundout back to his glove.

Jack Porter flings heat. (Ember Light photo)

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All I need is some numbers

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on April 4, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Wolf senior Peyton Caveness is filling up the stat sheet. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Every at-bat, every pitch recorded for posterity.

Coupeville High School baseball coaches use Game Changer to record stats, which makes it easy for me to poach their numbers.

So, as the Wolves rest up during spring break, here’s a look at where stats sit through nine games.

Steven Gonzalez rips an RBI single. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

 

HITTING:

 

At-Bats:

Landon Roberts – 26
Peyton Caveness – 25
Yohannon Sandles – 25
Cole White – 24
Jack Porter – 22
Aiden O’Neill – 19
Camden Glover – 16
Coop Cooper – 14
Johnny Porter – 13
Seth Woollet – 9
Aidyn McDermott – 6
Matthew Gilbert – 5
Carson Grove – 2
Jack Farrell – 1
Steven Gonzalez – 1
Jayden Little – 1

 

Hits:

Sandles – 10
Caveness – 9
White – 7
Ja. Porter – 5
Roberts – 4
Jo. Porter – 3
Cooper – 2
Glover – 2
Grove – 2
McDermott – 2
O’Neill – 2
Gilbert – 1
Gonzalez – 1

 

Runs:

White – 7
O’Neill – 6
Ja. Porter – 5
Roberts – 5
Caveness – 4
Glover – 4
O’Neill – 4
Sandles – 4
Cooper – 3
Jo. Porter – 3
Gilbert – 2
McDermott – 2
Grove – 1

 

2B’s:

Caveness – 3
Ja. Porter – 2
Jo. Porter – 1
Sandles – 1

 

3B’s:

Caveness – 3
Ja. Porter – 2
O’Neill – 1

 

RBI:

Sandles – 7
Caveness – 6
Ja. Porter – 5
Cooper – 4
Jo. Porter – 4
O’Neill – 3
White – 2
Glover – 1
Gonzalez – 1
Grove – 1
McDermott – 1
Roberts – 1
Woollet – 1

 

Walks:

Glover – 8
O’Neill – 8
Caveness – 5
Cooper – 5
Ja. Porter – 4
Roberts – 3
White – 3
Jo. Porter – 2
Sandles – 2
Gilbert – 1
McDermott – 1
Woollet – 1

 

Stolen Bases:

Roberts – 9
Caveness – 4
O’Neill – 4
White – 3
Ja. Porter – 2
Glover – 1
McDermott – 1
Ja. Porter – 1

 

Batting Average:

Gonzalez – 1.000
Grove – 1.000
Sandles – .400
Caveness – .360
McDermott – .333
White – .292
Jo. Porter – .231
Ja. Porter – .227
Gilbert – .200
Roberts – .154
Cooper – .143
Glover – .125
O’Neill – .105

 

Landon Roberts deals. (Morgan White photo)

 

PITCHING:

 

Games:

Glover – 6
Caveness – 5
Roberts – 4
O’Neill – 3
Gilbert – 2
Grove – 2
White – 2
Woollet – 2
Ja. Porter – 1

 

Starts:

Roberts – 4
Caveness – 3
O’Neill – 1
Woollet – 1

 

Hits:

Roberts – 18
Woollet – 11
Caveness – 10
Glover – 10
Grove – 6
O’Neill – 3
White – 3

 

Runs:

Roberts – 29
Caveness – 16
Glover – 10
O’Neill – 9
Woollet – 8
Grove – 6
Gilbert – 5
White – 3

 

Earned Runs:

Roberts – 14
O’Neill – 8
Caveness – 7
Glover – 6
Gilbert – 2
White – 2
Woollet – 2

 

Walks:

Roberts – 25
Glover – 23
Caveness – 22
O’Neill – 14
Grove – 5
Gilbert – 4
White – 4
Ja. Porter – 1
Woollet – 1

 

Strikeouts:

Roberts – 18
Caveness – 16
Glover – 15
Gilbert – 3
Grove – 3
Woollet – 3
Ja. Porter – 2
O’Neill – 1
White – 1

 

Innings Pitched:

Roberts – 16.1
Caveness – 13.2
Glover – 10.0
Woollet – 4.1
O’Neill – 3.0
Grove – 2.1
Gilbert – 1.0
Ja. Porter – 1.0
White – 0.1

 

Batters Faced:

Roberts – 100
Caveness – 74
Glover – 62
Woollet – 28
O’Neill – 26
Grove – 15
Gilbert – 10
White – 9
Ja. Porter – 4

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Diamond men ready for a break

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on March 30, 2024| Leave a Comment »

It’s been that kind of season. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Time to step back and take a deep breath.

Coming off a 14-1 loss to visiting South Whidbey Saturday, the Coupeville High School varsity baseball squad sits at 3-6 on the season.

But the defeat to their Island rivals, while it stings, came in a non-conference rumble.

The Wolves are 2-2 in Northwest 2B/1B League play and just a game out of first place with eight more conference clashes ahead on the schedule.

In other words, there are days when Coupeville’s diamond men play really solid ball. And a few when things don’t necessarily go in the direction they intend.

So, with spring break arriving, it’s a perfect time for the Wolves to get some rest, let things go for a bit, then get back at it on the other side.

CHS returns to action April 8 with a home non-conference game with Sultan, then plays eight of its final nine against NWL rivals.

When the Wolves return to play, they’ll likely be focused on cutting down defensive errors and increasing scoring opportunities.

Both of which stung Coupeville Saturday, as five errors and 16 walks allowed South Whidbey to pile up some runs.

While the Wolves were also outhit 5-3, the hometown heroes put runners on base in every inning.

Unfortunately, the guys in red and black didn’t bring anyone all the way around the basepaths until they scraped out a late run in the bottom of the fifth, and final, inning.

Before then, the Wolves put two runners on base in the first, second, and third, and a solo man aboard in the fourth.

But Coupeville kept on missing on getting that one key hit to really kick a rally off, and stranded runners each time until Peyton Caveness tapped home very late in the game.

Peyton Caveness has been a rock for the Wolves this season.

The visitors, by contrast, pushed four runs across in the top of the first, another three in the second, and one more in the third.

The Wolf defense stiffened in the fourth, holding South Whidbey scoreless for a frame, but then the Falcons threw six more runs on the board in the fifth to ice the game.

Coupeville, which was ending a very busy week, mixed and matched its pitchers, using Caveness, Cole White, Jack Porter, and Camden Glover on the hill.

The foursome combined to whiff six Falcons, two more than the number of K’s racked up by South Whidbey’s pitching staff.

The Wolf hits — all singles — came from Coop Cooper, White, and Caveness, while Aiden O’Neill walked twice and Landon Roberts and Yohannon Sandles both eked out a free pass.

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Hit-happy Wolves crack Concrete

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , , on March 29, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Scoring runs is dusty work. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Concrete was the cure.

A Coupeville High School varsity baseball squad which had tallied 20 runs across its first seven games topped that total in just five innings of play Friday afternoon.

Rapping out hit after hit, including three separate three-run triples, the Wolves pasted their hosts, cracking Concrete 25-7 in a game mercy-ruled.

The win lifts CHS to 2-2 in Northwest 2B/1B League action, 3-5 overall heading into a home showdown Saturday with next door neighbor South Whidbey.

Coupeville’s offense was unstoppable Friday, rolling up a season-high 20 hits and 11 walks. Overall, 14 of the 16 Wolves to see the field reached base.

Concrete had one brief glimmer of hope in the top of the first, then things went sideways in a hurry.

Wolf leadoff hitter Peyton Caveness crunched a triple but was nabbed trying to come home on a ball off the bat of Landon Roberts.

After that, it was all Coupeville, all day.

CHS pushed seven runs across in the first, with Yohannon Sandles delivering a two-run single and Aiden O’Neill clearing the bags with a triple to right field.

With Seth Woollet dealing on the mound and punching an RBI single of his own through the Lion defense, the Wolves shoved the lead out to 12-0.

Caveness delivered his team’s second three-run triple to cap the early push.

Peyton Caveness prepares to get dramatic.

While Concrete scraped out a pair of runs in its half of the second, Coupeville scored in every inning, with the advantage eventually ballooning out to 25-2 through the top of the fifth.

In the third, the big blow was an RBI double from Jack Porter, while in the fourth it was an RBI triple from the very same batter.

The fifth was brutal for Concrete, as the hometown nine couldn’t get off the field quickly enough, surrendering eight more runs.

Jack Porter, having himself a day, blasted Coupeville’s third, and final, three-run triple, with Camden Glover, Carson Grove and Jayden Little all plating runners with base-knocks.

Grove, just an 8th grader, was superb in relief, tossing two shutout innings for the Wolves, holding his foes to a single hit across the third and fourth.

Concrete, looking for a little redemption, or at least a positive note to end its tortured day, scored five runs in the waning sunshine in the bottom of the fifth, but it was too little, too late.

Woollet, Grove, Matthew Gilbert, and Glover combined for the win, with the group racking up nine strikeouts.

At the plate, Jack Porter was a man afire, blasting two doubles and two triples while being credited with a team-high five hits and five RBI.

Caveness collected a pair of triples as part of a three-hit day, while White, Grove, and Sandles each added a pair of singles.

Cole White can kill you with his bat or glove.

Rounding out the hit parade were O’Neill (3B), Glover (2B), Johnny Porter (1B), Gilbert (1B), Little (1B), and Coop Cooper (1B).

Glover and O’Neill both walked three times, with Aidyn McDermott, Sandles, Roberts, and Cooper showcasing eagle eyes while collecting a free base.

Easton Green and 8th grader Nick Laska also saw playing time, with the latter making his varsity debut.

Saturday’s rumble with South Whidbey, which is a rematch from earlier in the season, is scheduled to start at 1:00 PM.

It’ll be part of a busy day on the prairie, with the Wolf softball squad slated to host Onalaska in a doubleheader starting at the same time.

In other words, a perfect time to do some spring cleaning in the morning, then bring your no longer needed DVD’s down to be left next to my green ‘n dirty Xterra in the parking lot as I build a secret underground shrine to Videoville’s glory days.

Just sayin’.

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