Jonathan Thurston got the start in game one of Saturday’s JV baseball tourney. (John Fisken photos)
JV coach Chris Smith gets his game face on.
Gotta make the gas count.
Having traveled down to the South end of the Island Saturday, the Coupeville High School JV baseball squad played two games, then went into extra innings in the nightcap just for good measure.
The young guns lost both games, falling 7-1 to South Whidbey before being nipped on a ninth-inning walk-off hit against Cedar Park Christian, but 16 innings of late-season baseball is invaluable as a learning tool.
Game one was a one-sided pitcher’s duel, as the Falcon hurler scattered three hits and whiffed eight Wolves.
CHS hurlers Jonathan Thurston and Joey Lippo were decent, but not as sharp as their rival.
“We never really got going,” said Wolf coach Chris Smith. “Positive note — only one error in the game, which came in the sixth as a dropped third (strike) where we could not record the out.”
That inability to hold on to third strikes would haunt the Wolves all afternoon, as it happened twice more in the second game, with the final time allowing CPC to remain alive and tie up the game.
“Aside from that, we were flawless defensively,” Smith said.
CPC took advantage of a short porch and launched a pair of home runs to break the game open.
Julian Welling, Hunter Smith and Nick Etzell teamed up to share the pitching duties in the nightcap, combining for 10 K’s.
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