A strong pitching performance from freshman Hunter Smith and hits from throughout the lineup carried the Coupeville High School baseball team to a 12-2 five-inning win at Port Townsend Friday, May 1.

Coupeville (4-3, 8-8) can wrap up second place in the Olympic League 1A division and a home game in the first round of the playoffs with a win in one of its two final games.

The Wolves host Chimacum (2-5, 2-13) at 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 5, and travel to Klahowya (6-0, 15-0) at 4:15 p.m. Thursday, May 7.

Port Townsend played solid defense, Coupeville coach Willie Smith said, so the Wolves pounded out 11 hits and used aggressive base running to secure the win.

“I was very happy with our approach at the plate,” he said.

“The majority of outs were all well hit balls that were either line drives, deep drives or hard grounders,” he added.

“It was nice to see us actually produce runs through solid hits rather than rolling over on grounders and allowing the other team to make errors to get our runs.”

All but two Wolves rapped base hits; one of those walked and the other did not have a plate appearance.

Coupeville scored in the top of the first inning. Cole Payne hit a two-strike, opposite field single, stole second and scored on Carson Risner’s base hit.

The Wolves added a run in the second when Aaron Trumbull walked, stole second and scored on an error.

A seven-run third inning put the game away. Aaron Curtin walked, and Risner reached on an error and was replaced by courtesy runner Gabe Wynn. Hunter Smith plated both with a double. Run scoring singles by Trumbull and Julian Welling and a two-run base hit by Josh Bayne made it 8-0.

Curtin scored Bayne on a sacrifice fly to finish the big inning.

A three-run fifth inning helped the Wolves 10-run the Redhawks. Walks to Cameron Toomey-Stout and Hunter Smith sandwiched around a single by Wynn loaded the bases. Trumbull drove in all three with a blast into the right-field gap.

The offense was led by Trumbull, who as 2-for-2 with four RBI, and Hunter Smith, who was 2-for-3 with two runs batted it.

While the offense was piling up the runs, Hunter Smith was holding the Redhawks in check. He finished with seven strikeouts, one walk and no earned runs.

The one walk and Coupeville’s only error came in front of a triple, which scored Port Townsend’s two runs in the fourth inning.

Curtin highlighted the defense with two sliding catches in left field.

“I’m sure he was just showboating,” coach Smith said jokingly.