WELLS — The odds are good the Wells baseball team wishes it could play against Cape Elizabeth during each game of the regular season.

For the second time this season, the Warriors proved to be too much for their rival, beating the defending Western Class B champions 8-4 on Friday afternoon.

With the win, Wells (10-5) gets back on track with its winning ways. The Warriors were on a three-game winning streak until Gray-New Gloucester snapped it with a 7-4 win on Thursday. The win over the Capers ensures the Warriors will have a place in the Western Class B playoffs. Entering the game, Cape Elizabeth (11-4) was ranked third in the MPA Heal Point standings.

The Warriors first beat Cape 12-10 on May 9.

“They’re a good team,” Wells catcher Louis DiTomasso said. “We always get pumped up when we play Cape. It’s not a big rivalry but it’s a rivalry in sports with Wells vs. Cape. In the past couple of games, we’ve been kind of dead, we decided to come out and smack the ball around a little bit.”

The Warriors took their second contest against Cape by using their bats, specifically, the bats of DiTomasso, Paul McDonough and Josh Ingalls.

McDonough led the Warriors offensively, going 2 for 2 with a grand slam, a triple and four RBIs. DiTomasso provided two doubles, and Ingalls kicked off the slugfest with what could possibly be the longest home run hit in southern Maine this season.

Down 1-0 in the bottom of the first inning, the Warriors responded with an RBI double by DiTomasso, plating McDonough. DiTomasso scored moments later, when Cole Boston reached base on an error, giving Wells a 2-1 lead.

The Warriors added to their lead the following inning, when Ingalls launched a towering shot some 400-plus feet over the right field fence for the 3-1 lead.

“I just saw a first pitch fastball, jumped all over it, looked up and saw it in the trees,” Ingalls said. “I just knew it was gone. That is by far the farthest hit of my career.”

The home run entertained the entire Wells bench, including McDonough.

“I think that was the farthest hit I’ve ever seen,” McDonough said. “It was 400-something [feet].”

The Capers tied the game 3-3 in the third inning, scoring on back-to-back Warriors’ errors.

Wells regained the lead in the bottom of the inning, after McDonough, who led the inning off with a triple, was plated by DiTomasso on an RBI double to take a 4-3 lead.

The Capers threatened in the top of the fourth inning with runners on first and third with one out. Cape outfielder Jack Barber hit a groundball to McDonough at short, who smartly tossed the ball to home plate to get the lead runner. Wells pitcher Brandon Pridham induced a fly ball out moments later and didn’t allow a run.

DiTomasso, on the receiving end of McDonough’s throw, said he couldn’t have made a better play.

“I think he actually thought [the hit] was going to go in the gap,” DiTomasso said. “Paul was in a good spot, he came right in, threw it in a perfect spot and I just laid the tag right down.”

The Warriors added four more runs in the fourth, thanks to McDonough’s grand slam, a line shot that carried over the center-field fence, giving the Warriors a 8-3 lead.

“I was waiting for a curve, but I think it was a fastball that kind of just stayed up,” McDonough said. “It looked like a balloon, so I just hit it.”

Though he gave up one more run, Pridham held his own on the mound for the Warriors. He pitched a complete game, allowing seven hits and four runs while striking out four batters.

While the Warriors will enjoy the win, they have no doubt in their minds that they could see the Capers again for the rubber match in the playoffs.

“Maybe we’ll see them in the playoffs again,” Ingalls said.

The Warriors finish their season on the road against Falmouth on June 1.

— Contact Dave Dyer at 282-1535 ext. 318 or follow on Twitter @Dave_Dyer.