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Cade Kurland (Florida/Louisiana State), JP Peltier (Wright State/Kentucky) and Ty Smolinski (Kansas State) convened before Game 3 of the Cape Cod Baseball League championship series Aug. 11. All three players had been on the Mariners since June. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTOS

Harwich Championship Powered By Players Who Stuck For The Long Haul

August 19, 2026

HARWICH – There’s no denying that much oxygen and ink is expended discussing the state of the modern Cape Cod Baseball League player tenure. For a...

The Harwich Mariners won the 2026 Cape Cod Baseball League championship after defeating the Bourne Braves in Game 3 4-2 at Whitehouse Field on Aug.11. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTOS

Cape League: Two-Time Champions, Pair Of Brothers, Home Run-Hitting...

August 19, 2026

HARWICH – Emptying out the notebook on the Mariners’ second Cape League championship in three years…Harwich went 6-1 through the postseason, but...

Niko Brini (Wofford/Vanderbilt) and Sean O’Leary (UMass Lowell) stand in front of Harwich’s dugout before Game 2 of the East Division finals against Yarmouth-Dennis on Aug. 8. Brini, from Plymouth, and O’Leary, from Foxborough, were two of several New England-area players on Harwich’s championship-winning roster. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTOS

Mariners’ Championship Another Win For The Local Guys

August 19, 2026

HARWICH – Because of the relationships and contacts inherent to building out a summer ball team, the various clubs that together make the Cape...

The Harwich Mariners celebrate on the field after winning Game 3 of the Cape Cod Baseball League Championship on Tuesday at Whitehouse Field. The 4-2 victory clinched Harwich’s seventh league title all-time. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTOS

Harwich Wins 2026 Cape Cod Baseball League Championship

August 12, 2026

HARWICH – Like so many of their other wins this postseason, the one at Whitehouse Field on Tuesday night didn’t come entirely easy for Harwich.Like...

Quinton Coats (Cincinnati) celebrates on second base after driving in the go-ahead run with a pinch-hit double for Harwich during Game 2 of the East Division finals Saturday against Yarmouth-Dennis. The Mariners won 7-6 to sweep the series and advance to the championship. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTOS

Harwich Sweeps Yarmouth-Dennis To Reach Cape League Championship...

August 12, 2026

HARWICH – A year ago, Yarmouth-Dennis resoundingly ended Harwich’s season by slamming the door shut at Whitehouse Field in Game 3 of the East...

Harwich shortstop Ty Smolinski (Kansas State) receives the throw as Brewster’s Tryston McCladdie (Clemson) steals second base during Game 1 of the East Division semifinals on Aug. 4. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTOS

Harwich Bests Brewster, Chatham Falls To Yarmouth-Dennis In East Semis

August 12, 2026

BREWSTER – Harwich pitchers Luke Morgan and Andrew Basel were just exiting the visitors’ dugout to return back to the bullpen at Stony Brook Field...

Quinton Coats (Cincinnati) stands on second base after hitting a sixth inning go-ahead pinch-hit RBI double to put Harwich ahead 6-5 against Yarmouth-Dennis in Game 2 of the East Division Finals on Saturday. Harwich won 7-6 to advance to the Cape League championship, which begins Sunday. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTO

Cape League Championship Series Begins Sunday

HARWICH – The final series to determine this summer’s winner of the Cape Cod Baseball League has arrived. The championship series, between the...

Charlie Lapp (RPI) receives a pitch against the Brewster Whitecaps on Saturday. Lapp served as the bullpen catcher for Orleans this summer but was pressed into game action when the Firebirds’ roster became thin in July. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTOS

Orleans Bullpen Catcher Becomes Cape League Player And Proves He...

ORLEANS – Charlie Lapp was never supposed to be taking actual at-bats or catching official innings for the Orleans Firebirds this season.His job,...

The Orleans Firebirds played out one of the last games of the Cape Cod Baseball League regular season at Eldredge Park last Friday. The postseason began Tuesday. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTO

Cape Cod Baseball League Postseason Begins

The Cape Cod Baseball League postseason has arrived. Playoff action gets underway with divisional semifinals starting Tuesday. All rounds are...

Vermont natives Oliver Pudvar, a pitcher for the Chatham Anglers out of UConn, and Chase Whitman, a student at Bryant University, grew Chip’s Sunflower Seeds from an idea originally created for a high school business class. PHOTO COURTESY CHASE WHITMAN

Chatham Pitcher, Partner Grow Sunflower Seed Brand Through Cape...

Scan the fringes of a baseball field right in front of the dugouts, and you’ll quickly realize that sunflower seeds are as much a part of the...

Brewster Whitecaps first baseman Dane Harvey (Ohio State) high fives teammates in the dugout after scoring last Friday against Orleans. Brewster won 6-3. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTOS

Brewster Surging As Cape League Regular Season Nears End

SOUTH YARMOUTH – Yarmouth-Dennis seemed unstoppable. As recently as July 10, the Red Sox led the East Division with a 10-point cushion (equivalent...

Harwich Mariners first baseman Quinton Coats (Cincinnati) swings at a pitch during the 2026 Cape Cod Baseball League All-Star Game at Whitehouse Field last Saturday. The game was suspended in the third inning and subsequently cancelled due to rain. CAMPBELL MULLIGAN PHOTOS

Rain Brings Abrupt End To Cape Cod Baseball League All-Star Game In...

HARWICH – The 2026 Cape Cod Baseball League All-Star at Whitehouse Field had no final result Saturday. There was no winner, no loser. No MVP awards...

Orleans manager Kelly Nicholson looks on as second baseman Adam Magpoc stands in the batter’s box against Yarmouth-Dennis last Saturday. Nicholson was Magpoc’s math teacher at Loyola High School in Los Angeles. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTOS

Math Teacher, Student Reunite As Manager, Player For Orleans Firebirds

ORLEANS – Walking around the halls of Loyola High School in Los Angeles, Adam Magpoc always knew his algebra teacher, Kelly Nicholson, was a...

Adrian Beltre Jr. (San Diego) stands on the infield dirt at Fenway Park during the Orleans Firebirds’ and the Cape Cod Baseball League’s day of workouts at the historic ballpark June 2. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTO

Fenway Day A Return To Familiar Place For Some Firebirds

BOSTON – For some participating players, the Cape Cod Baseball League’s Fenway Day on June 2 constituted their first ever visits to the historic...

Brady Miller, a Harwich native and Boston College student, made his first home start for the Mariners on Sunday against the Chatham Anglers. Harwich won, 3-2. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTOS

‘Awesome To Be On This Field’: Harwich Native Brady Miller Makes...

HARWICH – Brady Miller has played on these fields before. For Nauset at home at Eldredge Park and away at Dennis-Yarmouth’s Red Wilson Field, or in...

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