It took 10 innings, but the Coupeville High School baseball team broke a tie for second place in the Olympic League with a 6-5 win at Chimacum Monday, April 24.

Dane Lucero led off the 10th with a double and eventually scored on a wild pitch for the winning run.

With the win, the Wolves are now 3-2 in conference and 8-7 overall. Chimacum dipped to 2-3 and 4-5.

The Cowboys came back several times to keep it close throughout.

Coupeville scored in the top of the second. Julian Welling doubled and scored on Joey Lippo’s hit. Chimacum used a triple and single off Coupeville starter Taylor Consford to tie the game in the bottom half of the inning.

The Wolves scored twice in the third. Consford walked and Clay Reilly singled in front of a two-run base hit by Welling.

Coupeville made it 4-1 with a run in the fourth. Consford singled in Matt Hilborn, who had doubled.

Chimacum scored once in the fourth and twice in the fifth to knot the score at 4.

The scoring stopped for three innings, then Coupeville pushed across a run in the top of the ninth. Hilborn singled and scored on an error. The Cowboys countered with a single, error and groundout to send it to the 10th.

Consford pitched into the fifth inning, giving up five hits and striking out four. Hilborn pitched four and a third innings, allowing five hits and striking out six.

Jonathan Thurston tossed the 10th and overcame a one-out walk.

Hilborn led the offense with three hits; Welling and Hunter Smith added two each. Consford, Reilly, Lucero, Lippo and Nick Etzell also had hits.

Coupeville hosts winless Port Townsend (0-5, 0-9) at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 26.