SOUTH PARIS – Ray Vallee took out about three days’ worth of frustration for Cony in one swing Friday.

Vallee smashed a two-run, game-winning home run well over 400 feet at the spacious Gouin Athletic Complex field to give Cony a dramatic 4-2 comeback win over Oxford Hills.

With one out in the seventh inning and a runner at first, Vallee swung at Garrett Olson’s first pitch and hit a line drive rocket over the fence in left field to cap a three-run inning.

“I was just hoping I’d get a first-pitch fastball and hoping I could do something with it,” Vallee said.

“We were scuffling a little bit and didn’t capitalize on some opportunities we had today,” he added. “We’ve had a tough week this week and we came out fired up. This was a big win for us.”

The Rams (9-2) entered the week undefeated, but were no-hit by Skowhegan on Wednesday and couldn’t get their bats going in a 6-2 loss to Mt. Blue Thursday.

Friday’s game looked like it would be more of the same, as Cony stranded eight runners, including six in scoring position, and had a runner thrown out at the plate in the first six innings.

But the visitors finally made Olson pay for his persistent control problems (eight walks) in the seventh. Trailing 2-1, Adam Vachon led off with a walk, then stole second. Craig Cameron followed with a bunt to the third base side of the mound. Olson fielded it bare-handed and made an excellent backhand flip to try to nail Vachon at third. Vachon just beat the tag, however, and was able to score on Jon Sanborn’s sacrifice fly to left to tie the game.

“It was such a frustrating first five or six innings,” said Cony coach Al Cloutier. “We were finally able to take advantage of Olson’s walks and Vachon made a great slide at third.”

“Olson battles with the best of them, but you can’t get behind hitters,” said Oxford Hills coach Shane Slicer. “I think they got the first guy on in just about every inning, and you can’t beat them with two runs for very long doing that.”

Cony’s comeback salvaged a fine pitching effort by Bob Webber (seven inning, two unearned runs, three hits, seven Ks, one walk), who worked ahead in the count for much of the game.

Miles Whitlock scored on a passed ball to give Cony a 1-0 lead in the second. But three Cony errors and an RBI single by Kevin Skalski (two-for-three) in the bottom of the frame led to the Vikings’ only two runs of the game.

Webber shook it off and went on to retire 13 of 14 Vikings (9-2), including 10 in a row, before Skalski led off the bottom of the seventh with a single. Cony’s defense then redeemed itself when Vachon went up high to pull down a grounder that took a bad hop on the infield dirt and started a nifty 6-4-3 double play that effectively nixed the Vikes’ comeback bid.

“We didn’t swing the bat particularly well, although the bottom part of our order did. That last inning they hit the ball hard three times,” Slicer said. “That double play was big. If we could have gotten back to the top of the order one more time I would have thought the odds were in our favor.”