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Fab five earn All-League honors

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , , on May 15, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Peyton Caveness earned First-Team All-League status as a senior. (Jackie Saia photos)

They got some respect from league coaches.

After using a second-half surge to rally to tie for the league crown, the Coupeville High School baseball squad went on to win the district tourney and earn a trip to the state playoffs for a second-straight season.

Now, five of those Wolves have been tabbed to the All-League team by Northwest 2B/1B League diamond skippers.

Seniors Peyton Caveness and Seth Woollet landed on the First Team along with junior Landon Roberts, while sophomore Chase Anderson and senior Cole White were tabbed as Second Team picks.

Cole White snags a grounder, catching the eye of league coaches.

Caveness anchored the Wolves as their catcher, while Woollet became the team’s pitching ace as the season unfolded.

Roberts was a jack of all trades, pitching while also playing first base and in the outfield, with White playing shortstop.

Anderson missed more than half the season with an injury but tore things up as a designated hitter and second baseman after getting back on the field.

Mount Vernon Christian senior infielder Joel Votipka was tagged as league MVP, with Eli Sanders of Orcas Island and Jeremiah LeSourd of La Conner sharing Coach of the Year honors.

La Conner took home the Best Sportsmanship award.

 

First-Team All-League:

Logan Burks — Senior — La Conner
Peyton Caveness — Senior — Coupeville
Mason Chittick — Junior — Darrington
Eddie Cunningham — Senior — Orcas Island
Jackson Feliz — Freshman — Friday Harbor
Calder Jones — Sophomore — Orcas Island
Landon Roberts — Junior — Coupeville
Hayden Shaefer — Senior — Orcas Island
Nathan Symmank — Senior — Mount Vernon Christian
Seth Woollet — Senior — Coupeville

 

Second-Team All-League:

Chase Anderson — Sophomore — Coupeville
Cody Anderson — Senior — Friday Harbor
Trevor Blom — Junior — Mount Vernon Christian
Adam Culver — Senior — Concrete
Bennett Davis — Freshman — Mount Vernon Christian
CJ Edwards — Junior — La Conner
Cooper Green — Junior — Darrington
Floyd Holman — Freshman — Friday Harbor
Moose Kinsey — Senior — Orcas Island
Joe Stephens — Sophomore — Orcas Island
Cole White — Senior — Coupeville

 

Honorable Mention:

Jake Feddema — Sophomore — Mount Vernon Christian
Jefferson Freeman — Senior — Orcas Island
Charles Hill — Senior — Orcas Island
Channing Kleine — Freshman — Friday Harbor
Chase Woodmansee — Freshman — Mount Vernon Christian

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CHS diamond men punch (another) state ticket

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , , on May 11, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Johnny Porter and friends are headed to the state tourney for the second-straight season. (Parker Hammons photo)

As a head coach, Steve Hilborn only knows how to do one thing — take his team to the state tourney.

The Coupeville High School diamond guru made it two-for-two Saturday, guiding the Wolf baseball squad to a Bi-District title and a return trip to the big dance.

Last year, in Hilborn’s first year as head coach, CHS played two games at state, including capturing the program’s first win at the tourney since 1987.

This time around, fresh off a 12-2 drubbing of Friday Harbor at Lakewood High School, the Wolves will carry a seven-game winning streak with them when they hit the road.

It’s the first time CHS baseball has gone to state in back-to-back years since 1990-1991.

Loser-out first round games in the 12-team 2B state tourney go down this coming Tuesday, May 14.

Coupeville, now 11-8 on the season, will find out its foe and the location and start time Sunday when the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association seeds the field.

Run the win streak to eight and the Wolves advance to the state quarterfinals May 18.

Coupeville High School baseball coach Steve Hilborn (grey hoodie, far right) has taken the Wolves to state in both of his first two seasons. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

For the moment, however, the Wolves can bask in the glow of adding another plaque to the Wall of Fame in the CHS gym.

Saturday’s District 1/2 tourney was a three-team affair, with Friday Harbor, the #3 seed, eliminating #2 seed Northwest Christian (Lacey) 9-2 in the opener.

That sent the Wolverines into a winner-take-all affair with their Northwest 2B/1B League rivals, and, for a hot second, Coupeville got set back on its heels.

Friday Harbor scratched out a run in the top of the first, and another in the second, staking itself to a 2-0 lead.

CHS put two runners aboard in the bottom of the first, thanks to a Peyton Caveness single and Coop Cooper getting plunked by a pitch, but neither runner could make it home.

That problem got fixed in the second frame, when the Wolves made their move.

Jack Porter belted a one-out triple to center — the first of a pair of three-baggers on the day — before Wolf pitcher Seth Woollet rapped an RBI single to cut the deficit to 2-1.

Easton Green pinch-ran for his pitcher and promptly stole second, keeping the defense jittery.

Add in a walk to Landon Roberts, and then Coupeville struck, tying the game on a Chase Anderson RBI double to left, before taking the lead for good thanks to a sac fly from Cole White.

Friday Harbor escaped the inning before serious damage could be done, but the game was essentially over at that point.

Seth Woollet, scoring in an earlier game, came up big with his bat and arm Saturday. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Woollet had found his groove on the mound, retiring 11 of the last 12 hitters he faced, and once the Coupeville bats were awake, they got good and loud.

The Wolves busted the game open with an 11-batter, seven-run third inning, pushing the lead all the way out to 10-2 thanks to four hits, two walks, and a pair of Friday Harbor errors.

At one point six straight CHS batters reached base, with Camden Glover and Jack Porter connecting on back-to-back extra-base hits to fuel the fire.

Glover doubled, while Porter tripled, with balls erupting off of bats and sailing off into the wild blue yonder, coming back down to Earth way out in centerfield.

Another sac fly from the precision-minded White made life even sweeter, while two runs came flying in when Friday Harbor botched a ball hit by Cooper.

Coupeville took a brief hiatus from scoring in the fourth, before ending the game early with two more runs in the fifth, invoking the 10-run mercy rule.

Four batters, four hits, with Anderson, White, Caveness, and Cooper rapping base knocks, and the deed was done.

Now, it’s time to wait for the WIAA to decide Coupeville’s next foe, and then a team which has stormed back from a 4-8 start to the season will play on, chasing that state glory.

 

Saturday stats:

Chase Anderson — One double, one single, one walk
Peyton Caveness — Two singles
Coop Cooper — One single, one walk
Camden Glover — One double
Jack Porter — Two triples
Johnny Porter — One single
Landon Roberts — Two walks
Cole White — One single
Seth Woollet — Two singles, one walk

Your District 1/2 champs. (Photo courtesy Jeff Porter)

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Diamond squad honors old dudes

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , , , on April 28, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville seniors (l to r) Aidyn McDermott, Seth Woollet, Peyton Caveness, and Cole White are honored. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

The weather (barely) cooperated Saturday, allowing Coupeville High School baseball to honor its veterans.

With the rain holding off for a bit, the Wolves braved the blustery conditions to pay tribute to their four seniors, then went out and whacked visiting Darrington to move into sole possession of first place in the Northwest 2B/1B League.

Seniors Cole White, Seth Woollet, Aidyn McDermott, and Peyton Caveness have been at the forefront as the CHS diamond squad has come on strong in the second half.

And while Saturday’s rumble was likely their last at home — barring a reschedule of a Concrete game washed away by Mother Nature — there’s still more games to play.

On to La Conner next week, then the playoffs after that.

But first, a moment in the (overcast) spotlight for the old dudes.

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Welcome to first place!

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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Hardball heroes pile up stats

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on April 18, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Jack Porter, ready to rack up some stats. (Ember Light photo)

Another day, another milestone.

With Tuesday’s win over Friday Harbor, the Coupeville High School varsity baseball squad has played 13 of 19 regular season games, reaching the two-thirds mark of the campaign.

As the Wolves prep to square off with Mount Vernon Christian Friday, we take a brief detour to look at up to the moment pitching and hitting stats.

All numbers come from Game Changer, which is run by the CHS coaches.

“Time to get those numbers, gentlemen.” (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

 

HITTING:

 

At-Bats:

Landon Roberts – 39
Peyton Caveness – 37
Cole White – 37
Jack Porter – 35
Camden Glover – 30
Aiden O’Neill – 29
Coop Cooper – 27
Yohannon Sandles – 25
Johnny Porter – 16
Steven Gonzalez – 12
Seth Woollet – 12
Carson Grove – 9
Aidyn McDermott – 9
Matthew Gilbert – 5
Chase Anderson – 4
Jack Farrell – 1
Jayden Little – 1

 

Hits:

Caveness – 15
Sandles – 10
Roberts – 9
White – 9
Glover – 8
Ja. Porter – 8
Cooper – 5
Grove – 5
O’Neill – 4
Jo. Porter – 4
Gonzalez – 3
McDermott – 2
Anderson – 1
Gilbert – 1
Woollet – 1

 

Runs:

White – 12
Caveness – 10
O’Neill – 8
Roberts – 7
Glover – 6
Ja. Porter – 6
Cooper – 5
Jo. Porter – 4
Sandles – 4
McDermott – 3
Gilbert – 2
Gonzalez – 2
Woollet – 2
Grove – 1

 

2B’s:

Caveness – 7
Ja. Porter – 4
Glover – 3
Jo. Porter – 1
Sandles – 1

 

3B’s:

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

 

RBI:

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

 

Walks:

Caveness – 10
Glover – 9
O’Neill – 8
Cooper – 7
White – 7
Ja. Porter – 5
Roberts – 5
Gonzalez – 4
McDermott – 3
Jo. Porter – 3
Sandles – 2
Gilbert – 1
Woollet – 1

 

Stolen Bases:

Roberts – 12
Caveness – 10
White – 8
O’Neill – 6
Glover – 3
Cooper – 2
Grove – 2
Ja. Porter – 2
Gonzalez – 1
McDermott – 1
Woollet – 1

 

Batting Average:

Grove – .556
Caveness – .405
Sandles – .400
Glover – .267
Anderson – .250
Gonzalez – .250
Jo. Porter – .250
White – .243
Roberts – .231
Ja. Porter – .229
McDermott – .222
Gilbert – .200
Cooper – .185
O’Neill – .138
Woollet – .083

 

PITCHING:

 

Games:

Glover – 9
Roberts – 6
Woollet – 6
Caveness – 5
Cooper – 3
O’Neill – 3
Gilbert – 2
Grove – 2
Ja. Porter – 1
White – 2

 

Starts:

Roberts – 4
Caveness – 3
Woollet – 3
Glover – 1
O’Neill – 1
Ja. Porter – 1

 

Hits:

Woollet – 32
Roberts – 21
Glover – 11
Caveness – 10
Grove – 3
O’Neill – 3
White – 3
Cooper – 2
Gilbert – 1

 

Runs:

Roberts – 30
Woollet – 21
Caveness – 16
Glover – 15
O’Neill – 9
Grove – 6
Gilbert – 5
Cooper – 3
Ja. Porter – 3
White – 3

 

Earned Runs:

Roberts – 15
Glover – 9
O’Neill – 8
Caveness – 7
Woollet – 7
Grove – 6
Gilbert – 2
White – 2

 

Walks:

Glover – 30
Roberts – 25
Caveness – 22
O’Neill – 14
Woollet – 8
Grove – 5
Gilbert – 4
White – 4
Ja. Porter – 3
Cooper – 2

 

Strikeouts:

Glover – 23
Roberts – 21
Caveness – 16
Woollet – 14
Cooper – 4
Ja. Porter – 4
Gilbert – 3
Grove – 3
O’Neill – 1
White – 1

 

Innings Pitched:

Woollet – 24.0
Roberts – 17.1
Glover – 14.0
Caveness – 13.2
O’Neill – 3.0
Cooper – 2.1
Grove – 2.1
Ja. Porter – 2.0
Gilbert – 1.0
White – 0.1

 

Batters Faced:

Woollet – 120
Roberts – 106
Glover – 86
Caveness – 74
O’Neill – 26
Grove – 15
Cooper – 13
Gilbert – 10
Ja. Porter – 10
White – 9

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