Securing second place in the Olympic League, the Coupeville High School baseball team defeated mistake-prone Chimacum 8-1 at Robert Sherman Field Tuesday, May 5.

Regardless of the outcome of the Wolves’ final league game, a trip at 4:15 p.m. Thursday, May 7, to Klahowya (7-0, 17-0), Coupeville will finish second in the Olympic League. Chimacum (2-5, 2-14) had a shot of finishing second had it beaten Coupeville (5-3, 9-8).

The second-place team earned a home game in the first round of the District 3 tournament. Coupeville will host the Nisqually League’s third-place team, Cascade Christian, at 12 p.m. Saturday, May 9, in a loser-out game.

By placing third, Chimacum will have to travel to Vashon Island to start the tournament.

In Tuesday’s win over Chimacum, Coupeville got the scoring going in the second inning with a run. Singles by Hunter Smith, Aaron Trumbull and C.J. Smith and an error led to the tally.

Singles by Josh Bayne and Carson Risner helped Coupeville score again in the third.

The Wolves pushed across three runs in the fifth. Singles by Bayne and C.J. Smith and several errors fueled the inning.

A single by Clay Reilly and three errors led to three more runs in the sixth.

Cole Payne also collected a hit for the Wolves.

Pitcher Aaron Curtin took a one-hitter into the seventh, then the Cowboys bunched together several hits to pick up their only run.

Curtin struck out nine and walked one.

(Aaron Curtin prepares to fire a pitch in Tuesday’s game. The senior collected nine strikeouts in the win. Photo by Jim Waller.)