Coupeville tops Chimacum for third time / Baseball

A 6-1 win at Chimacum Friday, April 28, completed a three-game sweep over the Cowboys by the Coupeville High School baseball team this season.

Regardless of the outcome of the Wolves’ final two Olympic League games, they will finish in second place in the conference.

Coupeville (5-2, 10-7) plays league-leader Klahowya (5-0, 9-4) at home at 3:30 p.m. Monday, May 1, and then goes to last-place Port Townsend (0-7, 0-12) at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The Wolves travel to South Whidbey (10-8) at 4 p.m. Thursday for a non-league game and the regular-season finale.

Coupeville opens district tournament play at home with Bellevue Christian (7-9), the Nisqually League’s third-place team, at 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 9, in a loser-out game.

Coupeville 6, Chimacum 1

The Wolves pounded out 10 hits and took advantage of six Cowboys errors to collect the win.

Coupeville scored in five different innings, beginning in the first. Taylor Consford and Clay Reilly singled, and Consford scored on Julian Welling’s double.

In the second, Jake Hoagland reached on an error and scored on Hunter Smith’s ground out.

Dane Lucero reached on an error in the third and scored on Hoagland’s base hit.

The Wolves scored twice in the fourth. Smith got aboard on an error and was singled in by Reilly. Welling doubled again, this time scoring Reilly.

Consford reached on an error in the fifth and scored on Reilly’s grounder to shortstop.

Welling finished with two doubles, Reilly had a double and single and Lucero singled twice. Consford, Joey Lippo, Hoagland and Matt Hilborn each singled once.

Smith tossed an 81-pitch, complete game four-hitter with three strikeouts and no walks. Chimacum’s lone run, which came in the fifth, was unearned.