CAPE ELIZABETH – The Cape Elizabeth baseball team remained undefeated on the season with a big 8-4 road win over Greely in extra innings on Monday.

It’s fitting that the Capers were forced to play extra innings on Monday, seeing as they had a shorter game on Friday afternoon, a 10-0 win over Gray-New Gloucester that was ended in the sixth inning due to the mercy rule.

Against the Rangers, the Capers (3-0) got a win from Cam Brown, who pitched 2 1/3 innings in relief of starter Rob MacDonald.

The game was deadlocked at 4-4 until the top of the ninth inning when the Capers exploded for four runs to break open the game. Chris Robicheaw, Brown, Jack Barber and Kyle Danielson all scored in the game-winning rally.

It was a different story against the Patriots on Friday afternoon, as the Capers broke open a close 2-0 game in the fifth and sixth innings, scoring eight times to put Gray-New Gloucester away. Will LeBlond picked up the win for Cape, throwing five innings, allowing just one hit while striking out four.

Brown opened things up with a first-inning leadoff single and came around to score on MacDonald’s sacrifice fly to make it 1-0.

Cape got another run in the fourth as MacDonald reached on a fielder’s choice and scored on Chris Tinsman’s RBI double to center.

The Capers finally got to Gray-New Gloucester starter Jeff Taylor in the bottom of the fifth as Brown scored on an RBI single from Danielson to make it 3-0. Then, MacDonald stepped to the plate with Barber and Danielson on base and hit an absolute bomb to left center field for a three-run homer to make it 6-0.

After LeBlond put the Patriots down in order in the top of the sixth, the Capers ended things quickly. Robicheaw reached with a double and scored on a Brown RBI double to make it 7-0. Barber then singled and Danielson slammed a three-run homer to make it 10-0 and end things.

“(Both home runs) were well-struck,” Cape Head Coach Chris Hayward said. “A line drive and a big bomb, so they can go out more ways than one.”

Hayward added that while he liked the offensive show against the Patriots, he was also pleased with the team’s defense, citing a fifth-inning play by Danielson that killed a budding Patriot rally at a time where the game was still close.

“It was a 2-0 game until the fifth inning and Kyle Danielson made a fantastic play to end the rally on their part,” he said. “I’m very happy he made that play.”

One strength that the Capers have is a deep bench, something that Hayward said he is glad to have, even if it creates some problems of finding playing time for everyone.

“We probably will have a different lineup every game,” he said. “The kids on the bench are good. We’ve got a 14-man starting lineup in a nine-man game. It makes it a challenge to keep everyone happy.”

Cape’s Kyle Danielson slides into second as Gray-New Gloucester’s Justin McKenna waits for the throw during the fifth inning on Friday.
(Staff photo by Mike Higgins)Cape’s Jack Barber tosses his bat aside as he sprints up the first base line. (Staff photo by Mike Higgins)