Playoffs next for Coupeville / Soccer

After wrapping up the regular season with a 2-0 loss at Port Townsend Friday, April 28, the Coupeville High School soccer team can now focus on the postseason.

The Wolves (3-6, 4-10-1), the third-place team in the Olympic League, play the Nisqually League’s fourth-place team, most likely Bellevue Christian (5-7), in a loser-out, district play-in match at 5 p.m. Thursday, May 4, at Oak Harbor’s Wildcat Memorial Stadium.

If Coupeville wins, it will go to Vashon Island (8-4-1), the Nisqually League’s second-place team, Saturday, May 6, in another loser-out contest. The starting time has not been set. That winner advances to the four-team, double-elimination portion of the district tournament May 11 and 13 at Silverdale Stadium. The top two teams qualify for state.

Coupeville coach Kyle Nelson said his team “had a good defensive effort, absorbing a lot of pressure” in the loss to Port Townsend (5-2, 7-6), “but we were not able to apply enough ourselves.”

“We are looking forward to the start of the playoffs,” he added.