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Camden Glover slings heat. (Morgan White photos)

Scott Hilborn had a pretty sweet swan song.

The Coupeville High School senior led Wolf baseball to a 17-6 record, league and district titles, and the program’s first state tourney win since 1987.

Hilborn tossed a complete-game shutout in that big dance victory, blanking Toledo 3-0 and capping a stellar run of filling up the stat sheet.

When everything is totaled up, four Wolves appear in a top slot, with senior Jonathan Valenzuela #1 in RBI, walks, and on-base percentage, while being tied for the most triples.

That guy he’s tied with for the most three-baggers?

It’s Hilborn, who tops or is tied for the lead in a staggering 16 of 21 stat categories.

Though he’s not the only Wolf to post strong numbers while playing through rain, wind, and chilly temps for much of the “spring” season.

Jack Porter, ready to run free.

 

CHS varsity baseball season stats, as documented on GameChanger:

 

HITTING:

 

Plate Appearances:

Scott Hilborn — 88
Chase Anderson — 81
Jonathan Valenzuela — 79
Jack Porter — 73
Camden Glover — 66
Peyton Caveness — 65
Coop Cooper — 64
Cole White — 64
Aiden O’Neill — 48
Johnny Porter — 27
Landon Roberts — 23
Yohannon Sandles — 7
Seth Woollet — 7
Piotr Bieda — 5
Jaje Drake — 5

 

At-Bats:

Hilborn – 74
Anderson – 69
Ja. Porter
– 67
Valenzuela
– 59
Caveness
— 56
Cooper
– 56
White
– 54
Glover
– 51
O’Neill
– 41
Roberts
– 22
Jo. Porter
– 21
Woollet
– 7
Bieda
– 5
Sandles – 5
Drake – 3

 

Hits:

Hilborn — 39
Valenzuela — 30
Anderson — 27
Ja. Porter — 24
Caveness — 19
Cooper — 16
Glover — 15
White — 14
O’Neill — 7
Jo. Porter — 5
Roberts — 4
Drake — 1
Woollet — 1

 

Runs:

Hilborn — 39
Valenzuela — 27
Anderson — 21
Caveness — 13
Glover – 13
Ja. Porter – 13
O’Neill — 11
Cooper — 10
White — 10
Jo. Porter — 4
Roberts — 3
Drake — 2
Bieda — 1

 

2B’s:

Hilborn — 10
Valenzuela — 7
Ja. Porter — 4
Anderson — 3
Glover — 3
Caveness — 2
O’Neill — 1
White — 1

 

3B’s:

Hilborn — 3
Valenzuela — 3
Ja. Porter — 1

 

RBI:

Valenzuela — 28
Anderson — 19
Ja. Porter — 17
Hilborn — 16
White — 14
Caveness — 12
Cooper — 12
Glover — 10
Jo. Porter — 3
O’Neill — 2

 

Walks:

Valenzuela — 18
Hilborn — 14
Glover – 12
White – 10
Caveness — 8
Cooper — 8
O’Neill – 7
Anderson – 6
Ja. Porter – 6
Jo. Porter – 6
Drake – 2
Sandles – 2
Roberts – 1

 

Stolen Bases:

Hilborn — 41
Anderson — 27
Valenzuela — 27
White – 15
Ja. Porter — 10
Glover — 8
O’Neill — 7
Caveness — 5
Cooper — 4
Jo. Porter — 4

 

Batting Average:

Hilborn — .527
Valenzuela — .508
Anderson — .391
Ja. Porter — .358
Caveness — .339
Drake — .333
Glover — .294
Cooper — .286
White — .259
Jo. Porter — .238
Roberts — .182
O’Neill — .171
Woollet — .143

 

On-Base Percentage:

Valenzuela — .608
Hilborn — .602
Drake — .600
Anderson — .434
Glover — .422
Caveness — .415
Ja. Porter — .411
Jo. Porter — .407
Cooper — .375
White — .375
O’Neill — .292
Sandles — .286
Roberts — .217
Woollet — .143

 

PITCHING:

 

Earned Run Average:

Cooper — 1.61
Hilborn — 1.64
Glover – 3.50
Valenzuela – 3.50
Anderson – 3.74

 

Games:

Hilborn — 12
Anderson – 8
Valenzuela – 8
Glover — 6
Cooper – 5

 

Starts:

Hilborn — 11
Cooper — 3
Glover — 3
Valenzuela — 3
Anderson — 2

 

Hits:

Hilborn — 45
Anderson — 23
Valenzuela – 10
Glover – 8
Cooper – 4

 

Earned Runs:

Hilborn — 15
Anderson – 13
Valenzuela – 10
Glover — 6
Cooper – 3

 

Walks:

Anderson – 23
Hilborn – 21
Cooper – 17
Valenzuela — 17
Glover – 9

 

Hit by Pitch:

Anderson — 8
Hilborn – 8
Valenzuela – 6
Cooper — 2
Glover – 2

 

Strikeouts:

Hilborn – 81
Anderson – 27
Cooper – 20
Valenzuela — 19
Glover – 15

 

Innings Pitched:

Hilborn – 64.0
Anderson – 24.1
Valenzuela — 20.0
Cooper – 13.0
Glover – 12.0

 

Batters Faced:

Hilborn – 269
Anderson — 129
Valenzuela – 98
Cooper – 60
Glover – 54

 

PS — Wondering why the pitching stats add up to 22 games, while Coupeville was 17-6?

One win came courtesy of a forfeit from Concrete, so no stats for that game.

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Wolf senior Scott Hilborn closed his stellar high school baseball career by pitching Coupeville to a win at the state tournament. (Morgan White photo)

It’s a new generation, writing a new story.

Playing with four freshmen and two sophomores in the starting lineup, the Coupeville High School baseball squad broke a 13,147-day dry spell Saturday in Castle Rock, winning a state tournament game for the first time since 1987.

Seeded #10 in the 12-team 2B tourney, the Wolves upended #7 Toledo 3-0 behind timely hits from Chase Anderson and Peyton Caveness, and a big-time pitching performance from Scott Hilborn.

That win propelled CHS into the state quarterfinals, played on the same field as the opener, where likely future Major League Baseball draftee Zach Swanson of Toutle Lake proved to be too much.

The junior hurler whiffed 13 across five innings, carrying the Fighting Ducks — last year’s state runners-up — to an 11-1 win and a trip to next weekend’s semifinals.

#2 Toutle Lake will face #11 Adna, which had a day, shocking #6 Cle Elum-Roslyn and #3 Jenkins (Chewelah), while #1 Brewster, the defending state champs, plays #4 Tri-Cities Prep.

Those four teams will take home trophies, while the Wolves finish at 17-6 in Steve Hilborn’s first year as head coach.

Coupeville shared the Northwest 2B/1B League title with Mount Vernon Christian, won the District 1/2 tournament, then became the first Wolf team in any sport to win a game at state since CHS softball thumped Deer Park 14-2 in 2019.

In terms of a baseball win, the victory over Toledo was the first since May 23, 1987, when the Wolves beat White Swan 2-0 on their way to a program-best 3rd place finish.

How Saturday played out:

 

Game #1:

It was a pitcher’s duel, sort of, through four scoreless innings.

Scott Hilborn retired nine of the first 10 hitters he faced, while Toledo’s pitching staff kept getting into trouble, then getting back out.

Coupeville put runners aboard in every inning but couldn’t break through until the top of the fifth.

Early walks to Hilborn and Coop Cooper weren’t enough to turn a spark into a fire, and the Wolves stranded three in the third.

A one-out single from Hilborn, followed by walks to Anderson and Jonathan Valenzuela, had the bags juiced, but a strikeout and a lineout ended things prematurely.

The Wolves got another walk in the fourth, only to see their runner picked off, but the fifth was magic time.

Hilborn reached on an error, alertly sprinted to second base when Toledo hesitated, then came around to score on an RBI single to right off of Anderson’s bat.

Toledo smacked a pair of singles in the bottom half of the fifth, but Hilborn wasn’t having it, getting out of the frame unhurt before sailing through the sixth.

CHS gave itself some breathing room in the top of the seventh, tacking on two runs to stretch things out to 3-0.

Hilborn walked, Anderson bopped another single, then Caveness crunched a ball to center to break things open.

One run came in on the hit, the other thanks to an error by the Toledo centerfielder on the play, and the Wolves were on the edge of breaking their three-decade-plus dry spell.

A strikeout, a fly ball which settled into Aiden O’Neill’s glove in center, and then out #21 came on a bouncer to Camden Glover at third, the freshman snatching the ball up and firing it to Caveness at first.

And just like that, a new chapter of success written by the modern generation.

Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey, goodbye. Toledo baseball heads home after Coupeville ended its season. (Bennett Richter photo)

 

Game #2:

Toutle Lake lost its first two games of the season to Toledo, and now has reeled off 22 straight wins.

It doesn’t hurt to have Zach Swanson, who committed to Oregon State University as a freshman and now throws 93+ MPH as a junior.

The lanky 6-foot-3 chucker struck out the first seven Wolves he faced, only allowing runners aboard in one inning.

That came in the top of the third, when Cole White broke Swanson’s spell with a one-out single to right.

A couple of wild pitches later, he was bouncing on third base, then came flying home when Hilborn smashed an RBI single to left to cut the margin to 6-1.

But that was it, as Swanson was otherwise untouchable.

Toutle Lake outhit the Wolves 5-2, but it was six errors and seven walks which killed Coupeville in its finale.

An out here, an out there, and things might have been different, as the Ducks scored nine times with two outs.

To make that stat worse, Toutle Lake had two outs with nobody on base in each of the first four innings, yet still put together scoring rallies each time.

It was only in the bottom of the fifth, when the Ducks pushed the game into mercy-rule territory with two final runs, that they did so without first getting two outs.

The game was the final one for Coupeville’s two seniors, Hilborn and Valenzuela.

The former helped carry Wolf teams to state in football and baseball, while the latter, who also played basketball, went to state in all three of his sports.

Of the 10 Wolves to play Saturday, eight can return, with Caveness and White juniors, Landon Roberts and Jack Porter sophomores, and Glover, Anderson, Cooper, and O’Neill just freshmen.

 

Saturday stats:

Chase Anderson — Two singles, one walk
Peyton Caveness — One single
Coop Cooper — One walk
Camden Glover — Three walks
Scott Hilborn — Two singles, two walks
Jonathan Valenzuela — Two walks
Cole White — One single

Peyton Caveness is a key member of a strong group of players who can return next spring. (Morgan White photo)

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Cole White, who went to state with Wolf basketball last year, is rarin’ to go back as a member of the CHS hardball squad. (Morgan White photos)

First, the big farewell. Then, the big game(s).

Coupeville High School baseball returns to the state playoffs Saturday, facing off with Toledo in Castle Rock, the first appearance for the Wolves at the big dance since 2014.

Win its opener, and CHS, which sits at 16-5 on the season, returns to the field later in the day to play Toutle Lake for a spot in the semifinals.

But, before they headed off on their long trek, the Wolves got a farewell from fellow students, teachers, coaches, parents, and hangers-on Friday, keeping alive a time-honored tradition.

The field of dreams in Castle Rock awaits. (Jon Roberts photo)

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Chase Anderson flies around the bases. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

First it was a home game. Then it was off the schedule. And, finally, it became a road trip.

By the time the dust settled, the Coupeville High School varsity baseball squad found itself in Sultan Wednesday, where it absorbed a rare loss.

Despite having runners on base in every inning, the Wolves had trouble getting them all the way around the bags, falling 8-2 to the Turks.

The non-conference loss, only Coupeville’s second defeat in its last 12 games, drops it to 14-5 heading into the regular season finale Thursday afternoon.

That game is also on the road, with the Wolves traveling to Friday Harbor for a Northwest 2B/1B League showdown.

Win or lose against the Wolverines, CHS is the #1 seed for the 2B District 1/2 playoffs, which go down Saturday, May 13 at Lakewood High School in Arlington.

Northwest Christian (Lacey) and Friday Harbor face off in a loser-out game at noon that day, with the victor squaring off with Coupeville at 2:00 (or thereabouts) in a loser-out, winner-to-state clash.

The bout with Sultan was originally intended to be played Monday on Whidbey Island but was bounced from the schedule as the Turks scrambled to complete their league schedule.

With a little tinkering from the AD’s, however, the game was revived, with the Wolf hardball heroes sharing a bus with Coupeville’s track and field team, which was also listening to the wheels go round and round Wednesday afternoon.

Once in Sultan, CHS baseball jumped on Sultan, with leadoff hitter Scott Hilborn thumping a double.

Unfortunately for the Wolves, that was where they started to spin their wheels, following the two-bagger with three consecutive strikeouts to end the top of the first without a run.

That was a trend which stung Coupeville all game, as the Turks continually dodged dangerous situations to emerge mostly unscathed.

CHS batters hit into three double plays, with two of those coming after the Wolves started the inning with two runners aboard and no outs on the scoreboard.

Coupeville did push a runner across in the top of the third to knot things up at 1-1, thanks to Hilborn and his speed demon feet.

The spry senior lashed a two-out single, stole second, went to third on a wild pitch, then zipped home on a passed ball.

Sultan responded quickly, however, and fairly brutally, ringing up seven unanswered runs to blow the game wide open.

A couple of hits, and several Wolf errors, allowed the Turks to plate four runs in the bottom of the third, while five straight Sultan base knocks in the fourth tacked on three more tallies.

Trailing 8-1, Coupeville scratched out a run in the fifth, with Peyton Caveness walking and coming around to score on an error, but that was it for the Wolves.

Jonathan Valenzuela led off the sixth with a single, followed by Camden Glover wearing a pitch, but a double play sucked the life out of the rally.

An inning later, down to their final at-bats, the Wolves put two more aboard, with Caveness walking and Hilborn singling, but a pop up ended the game.

On the mound, Hilborn struck out five through 5+ innings of work, while Valenzuela came on late to retire both of the hitters he faced.

Three of Coupeville’s five losses have come to bigger schools, with the Wolves bowing to 1A rivals Meridian, South Whidbey, and Sultan, in addition to defeats to 2B Forks and 1B Mount Vernon Christian.

The six-run loss to the Turks is the most lopsided defeat of an otherwise stellar season for the Wolves.

 

Wednesday stats:

Peyton Caveness — Two walks
Camden Glover — One single, one walk
Scott Hilborn — Two singles, one double
Jack Porter — One single
Jonathan Valenzuela — Two singles

Coupeville’s baseball players had to get a second ride home after their bus tore up its serpentine belt. (Jon Roberts photo)

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Cole White picked up two RBI Saturday as Coupeville strolled to a 14-1 win. (Morgan White photo)

Precision pitching, precision hitting.

Sparked by a five-inning no-hitter from hurler Scott Hilborn, the Coupeville High School varsity baseball squad pounded out 15 base knocks Saturday, routing visiting La Conner 14-1.

The Senior Night win, coming on an afternoon when the Wolves honored Hilborn, Jonathan Valenzuela, and foreign exchange student Piotr Bieda, gives CHS 10 wins in its last 11 games.

Now 12-1 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 14-4 overall, Coupeville sits alone in first place, a half-game up on idle Mount Vernon Christian.

The Hurricanes are 11-1 in NWL play, with two conference tilts left to play, while the Wolves finish the regular season with a road trip Thursday to play Friday Harbor.

Coupeville was supposed to have a home non-league rumble with Sultan Monday, but that game was suddenly canceled by the Turks, who are scrambling to finish their own conference schedule.

The Wolves, playing Saturday under sunny skies and with no prairie wind buffeting them for the first time all season, closed their home campaign in style.

Chase Anderson, lashin’ lasers.

Scott Hilborn retired the first 10 hitters he faced, surrendering only a pair of walks in the late going.

He whiffed 10 Braves, with La Conner eking out its lone run in the fourth inning thanks to a walk, a stolen base, a wild pitch, and an RBI groundout.

Coupeville was ahead 9-0 at the moment the Braves finally got on the scoreboard, having pushed five runners across the plate in the first, three more in the second, and a lone tally in the bottom of the third.

The Wolves responded to La Conner scoring by tacking on five more runs in the fourth, pushing the game into mercy-rule territory.

All nine CHS players to see action in the game scored, with seven of them recording hits.

Freshman Chase Anderson had the hottest bat, peppering La Conner with four hits, while Jack Porter blasted a pair of doubles while racking up a team-high four RBI.

 

Saturday stats:

Chase Anderson — Four singles
Peyton Caveness — Two walks
Coop Cooper — One single
Camden Glover — One single, one walk
Scott Hilborn — Two singles, one double
Jack Porter — One single, two doubles
Jonathan Valenzuela — One single, one double, one walk
Cole White — One single

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