Olivia Martin and associates spent most of Thursday tearing around the basepaths. (Jackie Saia photos)
They were thunderstruck.
While prairie skies were largely clear and blue Thursday afternoon, the Coupeville High School softball squad rained down holy terror on visiting Concrete.
Whacking 27 hits, including inside the park home runs from Sydney Van Dyke and Emily Rains, the Wolves decimated the Lions 28-0 in a game which could have been 100-0 if CHS coach Aaron Lucero had been in a mood.
Instead, the diamond sage spent part of his day playing dodgeball as his catcher, Teagan Calkins, drilled hot shot after hot shot at him in the third base coaching box, every crack of her bat causing him to both grin and possibly suffer heart palpitations.
“Try and dodge this, Aaron!”
With the win, the Wolves get to 8-0 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 13-1 overall.
Up next is a non-conference rumble Friday at home against South Whidbey, before next week brings a two-game set with Orcas Island in which CHS can clinch a conference crown.
First up though was Concrete, a team building for a better tomorrow, but not remotely ready yet to slow down the freight train wearing red and black.
The Wolves, who won the first meeting between the teams 17-1, put this go-around on ice in the flick of a wrist.
CHS hurler Adeline Maynes struck out the first three hitters she faced, then she and her teammates busted out the bats and did their best to explode a few softballs.
Coupeville pushed 12 runs across in the bottom of the first, with 12 of their first 13 hitters reaching base.
The only one not to was still super-efficient, as Chelsi Stevens delivered an RBI groundout following a two-run double from Calkins.
Next at-bat, same inning, Stevens flexed her biceps and crushed a two-run triple to deep left field, proving she can kill you in a multitude of ways.
In between those at-bats, Coupeville picked up RBI-rich hits from Maynes, Zariyah Allen, and Haylee Armstrong, before Sydney Van Dyke launched a solo shot to left, tearing around the bags and sliding under the tag to complete her home run trot.
Everyone was hitting, with the Wolves tacking on seven more runs in the second, taking a breather in a scoreless third, then piling up nine more in the fourth.
In the second, five straight singles kept the runners moving base to base, before Maynes lofted a resounding triple to left to cap things.
Jump to the fourth and it was prime time for the Wolf reserves, as they picked up right where the starters had left off.
Emily Rains, swinging a hot stick and hollering as she tore around the basepaths, came off the bench to wallop an inside the park homer to lead off the inning, before coming back around later in the frame to mash a three-run double while almost overrunning the girl in front of her.
Also coming up big were Zayne Roos, zipping a two-run single into the gap, and Ari Vinson, swatting an RBI double to left.
While 13 of 16 Wolves collected a base hit, Maynes and Armstrong combined to virtually shut down Concrete’s offense. The former whiffed seven of the 10 batters she faced, while the latter came in to toss two scoreless innings of relief.
Even when the Lions did make contact, Coupeville had an answer, with Emma Leavitt collecting the web gem of the day by making a smooth snag on a liner to left while on the run.
Thursday stats:
Zariyah Allen — One single, one walk
Haylee Armstrong — Two singles, one double
Teagan Calkins — Three singles, one double, one walk
Emma Cushman — Two singles
Emma Leavitt — One single, one walk
Olivia Martin — Two walks
Adeline Maynes — One single, one triple, one walk
Allie Powers — One single
Emily Rains — One double, one home run
Zayne Roos — One single
Chelsi Stevens — Two singles, one triple
Cami Van Dyke — Three singles, one walk
Sydney Van Dyke — Two singles, one home run
Ari Vinson — One double
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