Eleven men stranded, 10 in scoring position.

That tells the story in the Coupeville High School baseball team’s 9-8 non-league loss at Bremerton Monday, March 19.

The Wolves scored seven of their eight runs in the fourth inning but left two men on in five of the other six frames.

Bremerton stranded only five in the game.

The Knights scored twice in the first inning and the score remained 2-0 until Coupeville’s seven-run fourth.

The Wolves began the big inning with consecutive hits by Jake Hoagland, Kyle Rockwell (double), Jake Pease, Gavin Knoblich, Nick Etzell, Matt Hilborn and Joey Lippo, then after an out, Dane Lucero doubled. Pease later added another hit in the inning, but the Wolves left the bases loaded.

Etzell walked and eventually scored on an error in the fifth for Coupeville’s final run.

Bremerton (2-2) scored three times in the fourth and four times in the fifth to retake the lead.

Coupeville had runners on second and third in the sixth and didn’t score. Hilborn led off the seventh with a walk and stole second but was stuck there.

Pease finished with three hits and Lippo had two. Hilborn, Hunter Smith, Lucero, Hoagland, Rockwell, Knoblich and Etzell all chipped in with one.

The Wolves stole nine bases. Hilborn, Lippo and Smith had two each.

Lucero picked up the pitching loss.

“Again another opportunity to work on mental toughness and our resilience as a team,” coach Chris Smith said. “We are not defined by our losses but in the manner in which we played and what we learned from it. We played well as a team and fairly error free. Unfortunately, we just stranded more runners on the bases then they did.”

Coupeville (2-2) hosts North Mason (1-6) at 4 p.m. Friday, March 23.