After coming from behind, the Coupeville High School softball team buried Concrete with a big eighth inning to defeat the host Lions 10-5 in extra innings Friday, March 18.

The Wolves left seven runners stranded in the first five innings and trailed 4-0 heading into the sixth. They then tallied five times to take their first lead.

The Wolves mixed two walks, an error, a triple by Katrina McGranahan and singles by Sarah Wright and Kailey Kellner in the uprising.

Concrete scored once in the sixth to tie the game, and both teams failed to score in the seventh, sending the game to extra innings.

Coupeville sent 11 batters to the plate in the eighth and scored five runs to cement the win.

Singles by Tiffany Briscoe, Jae LeVine, Mikayla Elfrank and Kellner highlighted the inning.

Pitcher McGranahan retired the Lions in order in the eighth to sew-up the victory.

McGranahan weathered two early home runs and finished with six strikeouts and only two walks.

LeVine led the offense with three hits; Elfrank, Kellner and Wright had two each. Lauren Rose doubled and Hope Lodell walked four times.

“Just a gritty, tough-fought win,” coach Kevin McGranahan said. “The score doesn’t reflect how tight it was at the end and how they fought back as a team. This is what we are this year — a scrappy team that just won’t go away.”

Case in point, McGranahan said, was Briscoe’s effort trying to catch one of Concrete’s home run balls. Briscoe knocked the wind out of herself ramming into the fence; she later came back to single to start the eighth-inning rally.

Coach McGranahan said he would take the win, adding, “I wish we could start games as fast as we finish them.”

Coupeville (3-1) hosts Bellevue Christian (2-0) at 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 23.