GRAY– The Gray-New Gloucester baseball team fell to 2-3 on the season with a tough 9-2 loss to Falmouth on Monday.
Falmouth’s Dillon Dresser picked up the win, scattering five hits and two runs to improve Falmouth’s record to 2-1.
According to Patriot Head Coach Nolan Beckwith, Gray-New Gloucester got on the board in the fourth inning when Tim Larette led off with a single and Heath Martell followed that hit up with a single of his own. Ryan Cavallaro then came up and plated Larette with an RBI ground out to make it 4-2 at the time.
But the Patriots couldn’t muster any more offense and Falmouth scored five runs in the last two innings to seal the win.
The loss came after the Patriots had a tough game at Cape Elizabeth on Friday afternoon, falling 10-0 in a game that ended in the sixth inning due to the mercy rule.
The Capers broke open a close 2-0 game in the fifth and sixth innings, scoring eight times to pull away. Will LeBlond earned the win for Cape, throwing five innings, allowing just one hit while striking out four.
Cape’s Cam Brown opened things up with a first-inning leadoff single and came around to score on a sacrifice fly to make it 1-0.
Cape got another run in the fourth as Rob 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 a homer 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. Chris Robicheaw reached with a double and scored on a Brown RBI double to make it 7-0. Jack Barber then singled and Kyle Danielson hit 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.”
After the loss to the Capers, Patriot Head Coach Nolan Beckwith called his team a “work in progress.”
“It’s a matter of us playing defense,” Beckwith said. “We play defense the first four-and-a-half inning and in the fifth inning, we kicked a few balls around. They’re too good of a team to give extra outs. Putting a full game together has been our problem since the preseason.”
Gray-New Gloucester’s Tim Larette slides back into first ahead of the pickoff throw against Cape Elizabeth on Friday. (Staff photo by Mike Higgins)Send questions/comments to the editors.
