Booming bats carry Wolves over Braves | Softball

Slugging 22 hits, including five for extra bases, the Coupeville High School softball team finished the regular season with a 19-14 win at La Conner Monday, May 16.

Slugging 22 hits, including five for extra bases, the Coupeville High School softball team finished the regular season with a 19-14 win at La Conner Monday, May 16.

The Wolves (9-10) now head to the district tournament where they will face Bellevue Christian (10-6) at 4 p.m. Friday, May 20, in Tacoma.

Coupeville out-hit La Conner 22-7, but the Braves used 11 walks to stay in the non-league game early.

The Wolves scored eight runs in the fifth inning to take the lead for good.

After a scoreless first inning, Coupeville piled up five runs in the second behind a triple by Tiffany Briscoe and singles from Sarah Wright, Veronica Crownover, Hope Lodell and Lauren Rose.

La Conner scored four runs in the second and third innings to take an 8-5 lead, then Coupevile scored twice in the fourth to get within one. Rose circled the bases with an inside-the-park home run, and Kailey Kellner singled and scored on an error and hit from Jae LeVine.

The Braves scored two runs in the bottom of the fourth, but Coupeville countered with eight in the fifth to pull away.

Kellner it a three-run, inside-the-park home run, Katrina McGranahan tripled, Wright doubled and Rose rapped two hits to highlight the inning.

The Wolves rounded out their scoring with four runs in the sixth inning on only two hits, singles by Rose and LeVine.

Rose finished with five hits, LeVine four and Kellner and Briscoe three each. Wright, Lodell and Crownover added two apiece, and McGranahan and Mikayla Elfrank had one.

McGranahan and Wright shared the pitching duties, and McGranahan fanned seven in five and a half innings.

“This was a good game to end the season on and hopefully we can ride it into districts on Friday,” coach Kevin McGranahan said.