Capahas Baseball

Throughout her storied and Hall of Fame-caliber career as a college coach and administrator, Cindy Gannon developed a keen sense of observance.

Cape Capahas' Cameron Roll received the Mon-Clair League's Rookie of the Year award for the 2021 season. The Capahas finished second in the Mon-Clair League in 2021 with a 15-13 record. Cape was swept in the championship series by the Millstadt Green Machine...

His allegiance belongs to the St. Louis Cardinals, but Cory Crosnoe occasionally dips his toes into Atlanta Braves fandom. Crosnoe played in the Braves’ farm system, so the retired Jackson Junior High principal is allowed to double-dip with National League impunity...

It’s appropriate that the longest-standing amateur baseball team in the country has featured a few long-standing hurlers. Jason Chavez — a former Cape Central standout who went on to pitch at Mineral Area College and Southern Illinois — is among them...

The summer of 2021 for the Cape Capahas was one full of peaks and valleys. Manager Tom Bolen will be the first to tell you it was quite the difficult season, full of rainouts and mass re-scheduled games down the stretch that stretched his team thin, but he couldn’t be more proud of his players as his Capahas lost both games of a possible three game championship series, Saturday, to the eventual Mon-Clair League champions Millstadt Green Machine, 5-3 and 13-7, to finish the Cape season two games above .500 at 15-13.. ...

Cape Capahas manager Tom Bolen can say he has done something in his short managerial career that not even his father done in 50 years of managing the oldest semi-professional baseball team in the nation. In just five years, the son of legendary Capahas manager Jess Bolen, has a chance to bring a league championship back to Cape Girardeau as they will play the Monroe Division winning Millstadt Green Machine Saturday for the Mon-Clair League title. But it will not be an easy feat to overcome...

The Cape Catfish struggled to put runs on the board during Monday night’s game against the Lafayette Aviators, dropping Game 1 of the Prospect League Championship series 5-2 at Capaha Field. Things got off to a rocky start for Cape when starting pitcher Noah Burkey made a fielding error allowing the first Aviators’ batter to reach base...

JACKSON, Mo. — One team from Southeast Missouri is guaranteed to advance to the Mon-Clair League Championship. The Cape Capahas and Southeast Tropics each won their games Saturday and will face off in a 1 p.m. tilt on Sunday at Capaha Field for the St. Clair Division title and a berth in the league championship series...

For the first eight innings of the game on Sunday, Cape Capaha catcher Landon Tenkhoff had not performed well at the plate, going 0-for-4, while leaving several runners stranded.

Having clinched a playoff berth, the Cape Catfish were determined to have some fun in their final regular-season home game against the Alton River Dragons on Tuesday night. The Catfish had a blast, recording 14 hits in a 13-0 mercy-rule victory at Capaha Field...

Cape Capahas manager Tom Bolen was hoping to play two final games against the St. Louis Spikes on Saturday to wrap up the regular season, but mother nature had other plans. That seemed to be a common theme in 2021 for the Capahas. In a previous interview, Bolen said the Capahas summer schedule had been riddled with rainouts, pushing the team to end the season by playing 15 games in 17 games...

The Cape Girardeau Capahas were playing their best baseball of the summer, but making up numerous games in a short amount of time caught up to them on Friday evening, as the Capahas lost both games of the doubleheader, 4-0 and 3-0, to the Valmeyer Lakers, and overall just looked like a team that was worn down...

Capahas manager Tom Bolen put it best when describing what he and his team went through on Tuesday evening when he stated, “It was a long night,” as the Cape Capahas made up two games that were previously rained out on the schedule against the Southeast Tropics, winning the late-night finale, 9-5 at Capaha Field...

Cape Capahas first baseman Sean Bard delivered in game one of a double-header on Tuesday, smashing a walk-off home run to give Cape a 3-2 victory over the Southeast Tropics at Capaha Field. Capahas starting pitcher Kaleb Richards was electric on the mound, throwing seven strong innings, striking out 11 Tropic batters, but would garner a no decision in the game...

The Cape Capahas got five shutout innings from starting pitcher Austin Dill, including just one hit surrendered, as Dill struck out seven and walked just one, leading the Capahas to an 8-0 win over Waterloo on Friday. “He (Dill) was the pitcher of the year in the league last year and when he’s on the mound we know we have a good chance to win against any opponent,” Capahas fifth-year manager Tom Bolen said about his starting pitcher...

Sean Bard didn’t expect to return to the Cape Capahas this season but is enjoying the opportunity to play baseball again. “I was umpiring at a little league game, and Tom Bolen, the head coach, his son was in the game,” Bard said. “He saw me there and he’s like, ‘You still look good and young, why don’t you just come out and play.’ I hadn’t really thought of it and when he mentioned it, I just kept thinking about it and I just wanted to play. ...