Coupeville Sports

Teagan Calkins has guided CHS softball to a 9-0 start this season. (Jackie Saia photo)

They’re on an upward path.

After returning from Spring Break with a 10-0 win over visiting La Conner Tuesday on the windswept prairie, the undefeated Coupeville High School softball squad continues to get love from the number crunchers.

The Wolves, now 9-0 heading into road trips to La Conner Thursday and Forks Saturday, moved from #8 to #5 among 2B schools in the latest RPI rankings from the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association.

The Ratings Percentage Index is one part hype machine, one part helpful info nugget, as the rankings are “one tool utilized by the seeding committees to determine first round bracket pairings into the state tournaments.”

Though first you have to punch that state ticket for it to really matter.

Coupeville’s smash sisters have beaten schools from 3A (Oak Harbor), 2A (Lakewood), 1A (East Jefferson and Meridian), 2B (Friday Harbor and La Conner), and 1B (Darrington) thus far.

The Wolves join Liberty (Spangle) as the only 2B squads still unbeaten as the regular season nears the halfway point.

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Capri Anter unleashes. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Don’t stop until you get to the top.

Continuing their meteoric rise, the Coupeville High School softball squad moves up three slots this week in the final Washington Interscholastic Activities Association RPI rankings.

The Wolves, who are 17-1 heading into Thursday’s District 1 tourney in Mount Vernon, currently sit at #4 among 2B schools.

A week ago, CHS was #7, and before that Aaron Lucero’s sluggers spent back-to-back weeks ranked at #9.

Coupeville, which is one win away from advancing to state for the first time since 2019, is the only 2B softball squad left with just a single loss on its record.

That lone defeat came by a razor-thin 5-4 margin to 3A Oak Harbor way back on March 15.

RPI, or Rating Percentage Index, is a statistical system used to rank teams and is based on a team’s winning percentage, as well as its opponent’s winning percentage and its’s opponent’s opponents winning percentage.

When the state tourney seeding committee meets Sunday to set the bracket, RPI is one of the tools it will use.

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Freshman hurler Adeline Maynes has led Coupeville to a 14-1 record in her second season of varsity softball. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Three weeks on the chart.

Coming off wins against Forks and Orcas Island, the Coupeville High School softball squad maintains its hold on the #9 ranking in the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association RPI list.

The Wolves, who sit at 14-1 with three regular season games left on the schedule, are one of just two 2B schools to have only a single loss on their record.

River View, at 16-1 and ranked #4, is the other.

Coupeville has rolled off 13 straight wins since its only defeat, a 5-4 road loss to 3A Oak Harbor.

Aaron Lucero’s sluggers cracked the top 10 in the RPI rankings three weeks ago, debuting at #10. They moved up to #9 last week and hold firm in the same spot this time around.

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