Chimacum scored all of its runs in the first three innings and then hung on to defeat the visiting Coupeville High School baseball team 5-4 Wednesday, April 11.

The Cowboys (3-0, 4-5) moved into first place in the Olympic League, skipping over the Wolves (2-1, 7-4).

Coupeville plays two non-league games before returning to conference action. It hosts Sequim (4-6) at 3:30 p.m. Monday, April 16, and goes to La Conner (2-3) at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 19.

Chimacum 5, Coupeville 4

All of the scoring came in the first half of the game, as neither team tallied in its final three at bats.

Coupeville put the tying run on second base in both the fifth and sixth innings but couldn’t produce the needed run.

Coupeville stranded seven runners to Chimacum’s three in the game.

The Wolves scored the game’s first run in the top of the first when Hunter Smith hit a two-out triple and scored on Julian Welling’s base hit.

Chimacum wasted little time taking the lead. Coming into the game, Smith, Coupeville’s starting pitcher, had not walked a batter in 26 innings this season but issued free passes to the first two Cowboys. Both scored on a double.

The Cowboys added a run on a passed ball in the second inning to go up 3-1.

Coupeville knotted the game in the top of the third. Nick Etzell doubled, Smith was hit by a pitch and Welling came up with another clutch hit, driving in both.

Chimacum answered with its final two runs in the bottom half of the inning when it strung together three hits, half its total for the game.

Coupeville, down 5-3, got one run back in the fourth. Jake Pease walked, moved up on an error and scored on Matt Hilborn’s single.

Welling finished with three hits and three RBI. He doubled with one out in the fifth inning but was stranded.

“Tough loss,” coach Chris Smith said. “Good game, (but we) couldn’t get any of the breaks to go our way and we missed a few opportunities to help ourselves out.

“Either way, we focus on winning or learning and we did some learning today.”