Archbishop Thomas Murphy won the second game of its three-game Cascade Conference baseball series with Coupeville 9-0 Wednesday, March 24, at Sherman Field.

The Wildcats (2-2, 3-2) will look to sweep its series with Coupeville (0-2, 2-2) when the two teams meet Friday, March 26, at Archbishop Murphy.

In Wednesday’s game, University of Washington pitching recruit Ty Kane threw six innings, gave up no runs, struck out nine and walked two. He also hit a two-run home run.

He got more offense help from Johnny Varriano, who missed a cycle by a single and scored and knocked in three runs. Keanon Albright was 3-for-5 with two doubles.

The game turned ugly quickly for Coupeville. In the top of the first the Wildcats started out: double, single, home run, error, double, RBI groundout. That made it 5-0.

After that Coupeville starter J.D. Wilcox settled down and gave up just an unearned run in the third inning and another run in the fourth when an outfielder lost the ball off the bat that fell for a gift triple.

Coupeville squandered its best chance to score in the fourth when it got three of its five hits. Erik King and Jason Bagby led off with singles.

Bagby’s single was hit so sharply the ATM right fielder thought he had a shot at forcing King at second. The throw was wide and skipped to the fence behind third; King was thrown out trying to advance to third.

Chad Brookhouse followed with a single, and both he and Bagby moved up a base on a wild pitch.

Kevin Eaton, who singled earlier in the game, hit a line shot that the Wildcat second baseman snagged with a fine leaping grab, then he doubled Brookhouse off second to end the threat.