It didn’t take the Cape Elizabeth baseball team long to get going this season.
The Capers sent nine men to the plate in the first inning of the season opener at home against Falmouth on April 16, scoring four times to erase a one-run deficit and roll to an 8-1 win.
Cape (1-0) went into the bottom of the first trailing 1-0 after Falmouth’s Matt MacDowell singled home Kyle Weeks, who had led the game off with a single. That was the only blemish on the day for Cape pitcher Jason Guay, who allowed only three hits and one walk (while striking out two) in his five innings of work, picking up his first win of the season.
The Capers quickly erased that lead, touching up MacDowell, who started on the mound for the Yachtsmen, for four hits and four runs in the bottom of the first. Cape second baseman Kyle Piscopo got the Capers’ first hit of the game, smacking a solid single to left on a 2-0 count. After Guay singled and Robert McDonald was hit by a pitch, Cape had the bases loaded for Will Pierce.
Pierce came through in a big way for Cape, getting a solid two-RBI single up the third base line, scoring Piscopo and Guay to give Cape a 2-1 lead. MacDowell loaded the bases again by walking Cape’s Conor Moloney, and Tanner Garrity made him pay for that, picking up two RBIs with a long double to center.
After the Yachtsmen went down in order in the second, Cape made the score 5-1 in the bottom of the inning as McDonald smacked a long double to right center to score Guay, who had walked earlier in the inning.
Guay found his groove on the mound in the third and fourth innings, putting the Yachtsmen down in order both times.
Cape got three more runs to put the game completely out of reach in the bottom of the fourth as they loaded the bases as Zach Breed walked, Piscopo reached on an error and Guay worked a walk. McDonald got his second and third RBIs of the game as he singled home Breed and Piscopo and Garrity got his third RBI of the game when he singled home Guay.
After the game, the Capers got a break from the cold Maine early-spring weather as they headed down to Florida for six games over the April school vacation. The Capers will resume their regular season on April 27 when they travel to Poland for a 4 p.m. game. Cape’s next home game comes on April 29, when the take on Gray-New Gloucester. First pitch for that game is scheduled for 4 p.m.
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