The wind blew steady and strong across the Coupeville High School baseball diamond Friday, April 10, but it was pitcher Aaron Curtin and not Mother Nature who blew away La Conner in the Wolves’ 7-0 nonleague win.

The nasty wind made life difficult for fielders trying to track fly balls, but Curtin made sure his defenders didn’t have to worry about the weather conditions.

Curtin, who pitched a two-hitter, registered 15 strikeouts. The other six outs were all from ground balls.

La Conner’s defense wasn’t so lucky, misplaying several fly balls batted around by the wind into base hits.

Curtin and Coupeville were in control from the beginning.

After Curtin struck out the side in the top of the first, Coupeville struck for two runs in the bottom half of the inning.

Josh Bayne started the inning with a walk, stole second and moved to third on a wild pitch. With two outs, Curtin walked, then Bayne scored on a double steal. Carson Risner followed with a single to score Curtin.

The Wolves added two runs in the second inning. A single by Reilly and a walk to Hunter Smith got things going, and the he pair moved up on a stolen base.

With Bayne at the plate, the Wolves attempted a suicide squeeze, but the pitch was wild and bounced off the backstop. Reilly was able to sneak under the catcher’s tag for the first run. Cole Payne later singled in Smith.

In the third inning, Curtin led off with a triple, hitting the fence on the fly in straight-away right field. He scored on a sacrifice fly by Aaron Trumbull to make it 5-0.

The Wolves finished the scoring in the fourth. Reilly singled and stole second and took third on Smith’s single. Like the first inning, the Wolves were able to score on a double steal. Smith scored the final run on a ground out.

Reilly finished the day 3-for-3 with a double, three stolen bases and two runs.

Coach Willie Smith was pleased with his team’s effort: “That’s two games in a row we didn’t play down to our competition.”

Coupeville (1-0, 4-4) hosts Concrete (1-4) at 3:30 p.m. Monday, April 13, in a nonleague game and then returns to conference play when it meets Chimacum (1-1, 2-6) at home Thursday at 4 p.m.