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Mighty mashers lash La Conner

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , on April 15, 2025| Leave a Comment »

“You want me, Teagan Calkins, to go hit another home run? OK, since you asked nicely…” (David Somes photo)

Everything was clicking.

The weather was sunny in La Conner Tuesday, and the Coupeville High School softball squad was in fine form.

Smacking the crud out of the ball — when they weren’t being walked non-stop — the Wolves rolled to a 20-0 win over the Braves in a game mercy-ruled after five innings.

The victory lifts CHS to 5-0 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 8-1 overall, with a rematch between these two teams set for Thursday in Cow Town.

Coupeville’s pitching ace, fab frosh Adeline Maynes, should be well-rested, as she only tossed two innings Tuesday before handing the golden orb over to sophomore Haylee Armstrong, who added three no-hit frames of work.

The duo combined to whiff 13 Braves, while they and their teammates proved to be mighty mashers once again at the plate.

Coupeville racked up 10 hits to go with 19 walks, with three big blasts forming the highlight reel.

Maynes and Madison McMillan both connected on sharply hit triples, while Wolf catcher Teagan Calkins picked up another home run, while making it interesting.

This time around, “The Red Dragon” walloped a line drive off the fence in deep left field, then turned on the wheels to ramble home with the inside-the-park tater.

Adeline Maynes swung a big bat in La Conner. (Michelle Armstrong photo)

Coupeville put the game away early with six runs in the top of the first, and it could have been many, many more.

All three Wolf outs in the first frame came courtesy of CHS coach Aaron Lucero having players leave base early in a bid to keep the game from being insanely lopsided.

A move he almost was sorry about, at least for a brief moment or two.

“I gave away all three outs, then almost regretted it as we struggled to get base runners for a couple innings,” Lucero said with a laugh.

His faith in his team was rewarded, however, as the Wolves tossed seven runs on the board in the third to stretch the lead into double-digits, then strolled in for the win.

Lucero got to give field time to all 16 girls in uniform Tuesday, always a bonus.

Plus, the Wolves will play their next six games at home on the prairie, making for a shorter commute for players, coaches, and fans.

With Coupeville at the halfway point of its 18-game regular season schedule, Lucero likes what he sees.

“The ladies are doing a great job of playing at a high level and making teams try to play up to them,” he said.

 

Tuesday stats:

Capri Anter — One walk
Haylee Armstrong — Two singles
Taylor Brotemarkle — Two singles, two walks
Teagan Calkins — One single, one home run, two walks
Mia Farris — Three walks
Jada Heaton — Three walks
Emma Leavitt — One walk
Ava Lucero — Two walks
Chloe Marzocca — One single
Adeline Maynes — One triple, one walk
Madison McMillan — One triple, two walks
Sydney Van Dyke — One single, one walk
Mary Western — One walk

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Bash sisters love extra bases

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , , on March 25, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Jada Heaton just wins. Especially on her birthday. (Photo courtesy Jennifer Heaton)

Jada Heaton’s teammates lit off some fireworks for her 18th birthday.

Peppering visiting Friday Harbor with three home runs Tuesday, the Coupeville High School softball squad kept its hot start going, rolling to a 10-0 victory.

The win, which came in six innings thanks to the mercy rule, lifts the Wolves to 1-0 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 4-1 overall.

Now the teams will clash again, with Coupeville making the trek to Friday Harbor Thursday afternoon, as the NWL uses a new-look spring schedule which has conference foes facing off in back-to-back games.

Tuesday’s tilt was hard-fought, but largely one-sided.

Wolf fab frosh hurler Adeline Maynes, coming off a no-hitter, almost made it two in a row, giving up just a fourth-inning single as she whiffed seven.

Friday Harbor got one other runner aboard thanks to a Coupeville error, but neither base runner made it close to tapping home plate.

Not so for the bombers in red and white, who racked up 12 hits, with half of them being for extra bases.

Madison McMillan crunched a pair of home runs, including a game-ending solo shot in the sixth, while Teagan Calkins mashed both a tater and a triple.

Toss in a triple for fleet-footed Mia Farris and a resounding double for the woman who can’t be kept off base — Taylor Brotemarkle — and the Wolf lumber was smokin’ in the rare prairie sunshine.

Softballs fear the wrath of Teagan Calkins. (Michelle Armstrong photo)

“Bats came alive today. Lot of hard-hit balls,” said CHS coach Aaron Lucero.

“Some found gaps, some found gloves, and a few found the other side of the fence!”

Both the power, and the consistency, of Coupeville’s hitting attack was something which pleases the dugout sage.

“We’re making solid in-game adjustments at the plate and really doing a nice job keeping opposing defenses off balance,” Lucero said.

Coupeville chipped, chipped, chipped away all afternoon, pushing runners across in five of six innings.

Things got off to a dynamic start when Brotemarkle punched a first-inning single, followed by Calkins launching a longball to stake her squad to a 2-0 lead.

After a scoreless second frame, the Wolves tacked on three more runs in both the third and fourth to stretch the margin out to 8-0.

McMillan went airborne for the first time with a three-run blast in the third, while the fourth featured consecutive RBI hits from Calkins, McMillan, and Farris.

A run in the fifth, with Brotemarkle driving in Chelsi Stevens, pushed the game close to mercy-rule territory, but the Wolves waited for that until the first batter in the bottom of the sixth.

That was McMillan, and the senior slugger put the final bow on things with her second round-tripper.

Now, a day to rest, refine, and reload, then the rematch.

“Friday Harbor always comes to play and today was no different,” Lucero said.

“They tried to bunt, slap, and they did put the ball in play, so hats off to them.

“Michelle (their head coach) has them prepared to fight and I expect Thursday they will ramp it up even more. We look forward to the competition.”

 

Tuesday stats:

Haylee Armstrong — One walk
Taylor Brotemarkle — Two singles, one double, one walk
Teagan Calkins — One triple, one home run
Mia Farris — One single, one triple
Jada Heaton — One walk
Madison McMillan — One single, two home runs, one walk
Chelsi Stevens — One single
Sydney Van Dyke — One single

Madison McMillan gets medieval. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

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“Great team win!”

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , on March 20, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Madison McMillan is a terror on defense. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

Teagan Calkins carries a big bat, and she’s not afraid to use it.

Launching moonballs all day and all night, the Coupeville High School catcher smashed a pair of home runs and a bases-clearing triple Thursday, delivering the kind of performance which will likely scar the next three generations of East Jefferson softball players.

Yes, that includes the ones not even born yet, but who will grow up haunted by the legend of “The Red Dragon” burning Port Townsend down to ash.

And Calkins had plenty of help, as every eligible Wolf hit the field during an 18-0 romp that was mercy ruled after five innings.

The victory over a 1A mash-up of two of Coupeville’s former league rivals — Port Townsend and Chimacum — lifts the 2B Wolves to 2-1 on the season.

Up next? A trip to Meridian Saturday, as Aaron Lucero’s mad mashers play their fourth-straight game against a bigger school.

So far, the Wolves have beaten 1A and 2A foes, while losing by just a single run to a 3A rival.

Thursday’s butt-whuppin’ was administered on both sides of the field.

While the offense was huge, the defense was on point as well.

Freshman flame thrower Adeline Maynes whiffed 12 East Jefferson batters, while Calkins erased the only two rival runners to get aboard.

“Think you can hit this? You can’t.”

The Wolf backstop picked a runner off of first, laying the ball into Ava Lucero’s glove with a quick snap of her wrist, then initiated a rundown which erased a runner straying off second late in the game.

Calkins came charging from behind the plate, bluffed the would-be thief into going the wrong way, then let her teammates chase her down, with Wolf third-baseman Madison McMillan slapping on the tag.

That left Coupeville plenty of time to launch an offensive explosion, and the Wolves were more than up to the task.

Eight hits, with four being of the extra-base variety. Three from Calkins and an RBI double which left the bat of Mia Farris like a laser seeking a moon to destroy.

Fifteen walks.

Thirteen different players reaching base, with 15 playing, including the high school varsity debuts of 8th graders Emma Leavitt and Olivia Martin.

The kind of game which makes for a nice ferry ride back home for the head coach.

“A great team win!” Aaron Lucero said. “They executed all the little things we drill repeatedly.

“Good hitting, pressure on the bases, and just never let up until I dialed them all back.”

 

Thursday stats:

Capri Anter — One walk
Haylee Armstrong — Two walks
Taylor Brotemarkle — One single, two walks
Teagan Calkins — Two home runs, one triple
Mia Farris — One double, one walk
Jada Heaton — One walk
Ava Lucero — Two walks
Olivia Martin — One walk
Chloe Marzocca — One single
Madison McMillan — Three walks
Chelsi Stevens — One walk
Danica Strong — One single
Sydney Van Dyke — One single, one walk

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Big rival, bigger win

Posted in Softball, tagged , , , , on March 13, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Haylee Armstrong and friends dodged bad weather Thursday and captured a season-opening win. (Photo courtesy Michelle Armstrong)

All in all, a pretty solid debut.

Dodging some tricky weather, overcoming the absence of an ill star, and outlasting a rival repping a much-bigger student body, the Coupeville High School varsity softball squad made new head coach Aaron Lucero a winner Thursday afternoon.

Getting a big-time performance from freshman pitcher Adeline Maynes, and key offensive contributions from everyone in the lineup, the Wolves thunked visiting Lakewood 8-4.

The non-conference win, coming against a 2A school, kicks off a run in which the 2B Wolves will play four straight bigger schools to start the season.

Up next is a trip to 3A Oak Harbor Saturday, then treks off-Island to play 1A schools East Jefferson and Meridian.

Thursday’s victory came despite Mother Nature throwing her annual early-season hissy fit.

The skies unleashed over the prairie about an hour before game time, delivering a mix of rain and hail, but Coupeville’s field held up under the assault.

“I’m glad our field drains well, but we still had to put down about 600 pounds of Field Dry and the game got started a bit late,” Aaron Lucero said with a chuckle.

“Not exactly what I normally do for pregame!”

When Coupeville took the field, it did so without starting centerfielder Mia Farris, who was home battling strep throat, but the Wolves never missed a beat.

They jumped on Lakewood for five runs in the bottom of the first inning, putting the first six batters on base to stake their claim as the dominant team.

Haylee Armstrong and Taylor Brotemarkle got things going, reaching on back-to-back errors, before Teagan Calkins, Madison McMillan, Sydney Van Dyke, and Jada Heaton smoked base knocks to make the scoreboard jump.

Chelsi Stevens pushed the fifth run across on an RBI groundout, and the visitors were rocked on their heels.

Lakewood couldn’t catch up to the smoke being thrown by Maynes, who opened her second season as the varsity ace by whiffing nine batters.

Coupeville pushed another run across in the second, and had the bases juiced in the fourth thanks to three straight walks but just missed out on busting things wide open.

A bang-bang defensive gem in the top of the third kept Lakewood at bay, with Maynes snagging a comebacker, getting the out at first, then watching approvingly as Ava Lucero pegged a throw to home where catcher Teagan Calkins was waiting.

“The Red Dragon” slapped the tag on the incoming runner to complete the double play, and the Wolves rolled into the fifth inning up 6-0.

While Lakewood took advantage of a brief CHS letdown to slice the deficit back to 6-4, Maynes shut down the rally, then her teammates tacked on two insurance runs.

Capri Anter and Stevens delivered big hits in the bottom half of the fifth, with Ava Lucero and Armstrong picking up RBIs.

That set up Maynes, who closed with a bang, retiring eight of the final nine batters to seal the win.

Aaron Lucero, who made the jump from Wolf assistant coach to head coach after former main man Kevin McGranahan moved across the country, came away pleased with a lot of what he witnessed.

“When we needed a bunt down to advance runners we did; we executed baserunning for the most part, and our defense was solid,” Lucero said.

“We pressured the defense every opportunity we could, and we really did the “little things” to be successful.

“I’m excited for this team for their commitment to excellence.”

 

Thursday stats:

Capri Anter — One single
Haylee Armstrong — One single
Taylor Brotemarkle — One single, two walks
Teagan Calkins — Two singles, one walk
Jada Heaton — Two singles
Madison McMillan — Two singles, one walk
Chelsi Stevens — One single
Sydney Van Dyke — One single

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Hoops coaches hail Wolves

Posted in Basketball, tagged , , , , on March 12, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Hurlee Bronec rolls to the hoop. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

They made a positive impression on rival coaches.

Four Coupeville High School basketball players were honored Tuesday when Northwest 2B/1B League hoops gurus selected the All-Conference teams.

On the boys’ side of things, junior Chase Anderson was tabbed as a First-Team selection, while senior Hurlee Bronec earned Second-Team status.

Chase Anderson charges into action. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Anderson led all Coupeville players, boy or girl, in scoring this season, rattling the rims for 339 points.

Bronec, in his first full season as a varsity hoops player, emerged as a tower of power in the paint, especially in the second half of the season and the playoffs.

Teagan Calkins is a star on the rise. (Parker Hammons photo)

For the girls, junior Teagan Calkins popped up as a Second-Team pick, with senior Mia Farris receiving Honorable Mention status.

Calkins developed a deadly eye from three-ball territory, and led the Wolves in scoring, topped by a 24-point performance against Concrete.

Farris was a lethal two-way player, providing a spark at both ends of the floor as a shot-maker and shot-denier.

Mia Farris collects another honor. (Bailey Thule photo)

Seniors Ruthie Rozema of Mount Vernon Christian and Brayden Pedroza of La Conner were tabbed as league MVPs, while Haley Cruz Winchell of Orcas Island and Lance Lopez of La Conner were named Coach of the Year winners.

The Orcas Island girls and MVC boys received the team sportsmanship awards.

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