The Cape Elizabeth softball team is determined to defend their Class B state softball title this year.

The Capers, who sit in second place in the most recent Heal Point standings with a 9-1 record, with the only blemish coming in a 1-0 loss to top-seeded Fryeburg Academy on May 16.

On May 15, the Capers traveled to Freeport and blew past the Falcons 13-0 in a game that came just a seventh-inning single short of being a no-hitter for Cape pitcher Tricia Thibodeau.

Thibodeau was dominant on the mound for Cape, mowing down the Falcons in order for five innings before allowing her first base runner when she hit the Falcons Kayla Bibeau with a pitch, she quickly settled down and got out of the inning to keep her no-hit bid alive, but that was spoiled with two outs in the seventh when Freeport’s Caitlin Swanda doubled to break up the no-hitter. Thibodeau finished the game with 14 strikeouts, and in fact, only allowed two balls out of the infield the entire game, both in the seventh inning.

On the offensive side, the game was a close one for the first two innings until Cape broke things open in the top of the third. Cape’s Colleen Martin (1-4, 1 RBI) led off the inning with a long homer to right field. Delaney Rockwell (2-3, 1 RBI) followed that up with a solid triple and then Thibodeau walked and Elizabeth Hobbs, running for Thibodeau, stole a base to put runners on second and third. (1-2 with a home run and three RBIs) scored Rockwell on a sacrifice and Gabe Donohue (1-2, 1 RBI) brought home Hobbs with a single.

The Capers’ Abby Flynn (2-2, 3 RBIs) continued the attack, scoring Donohue with a long triple. Emily Donovan (2-3, 1 RBI) wrapped up the scoring with an RBI single.

The Capers kept up the attack in the fourth, scoring two runs when Flynn got an two-run single, scoring Donovan and Donohue.

The Capers added three runs in the fifth when Emily Richardson (1-3) singled, advanced to second on a passed ball and then scored on an RBI single from Rockwell. After another passed ball moved Rockwell to third, she scored on a single from Thibodeau.

The Capers closed out the scoring in the top of the seventh, the highlight coming when Donovan smacked a long two-run homer to make the score 13-0 and sealed the win for Cape.

After facing St. Dom’s on May 21 (a game played after the Current’s deadline), the Capers will take on Yarmouth at home on May 26, Falmouth comes to Cape on May 28 and then the Capers will travel to York on May 30.

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