GORHAM – Oak Hill coach Bill Fairchild isn’t concerned that his team’s opponent in the Western Class B final today, top-seeded Gorham, will be playing on its home field, which will also host the Western Class D final between Buckfield and North Yarmouth Academy tonight.

In fact, Fairchild says he’ll make little, if any, mention of the setting for the Western Maine championship game (3 p.m.) to his players. So it’s unlikely that Fairchild will steal a page from Gene Hackman’s character in Hoosiers, and use a tape measure to prove the point that the diamond at Gorham High School is just like any other his Raiders have played on in their lives.

“The Gorham field is in excellent shape, and as far as I know, it’s 90 feet to all of the bases and 60-feet 6-inches to home plate from the mound,” he said.

The longtime Oak Hill coach noted that his team should feel right at home on the spacious Gorham lawn, which at around 320 or so feet down both lines and about 390 feet to dead center is similar to the Raiders’ home field.

Western Maine Conference champion Gorham (15-2) gives the second-seeded Raiders (15-3) plenty to worry about without grousing about the fact that the regional finals were moved south from their perpetual home at St. Joseph’s College this year.

The Rams are strong in all facets in the game, with a powerful offense led by outfielders Dustin Spiller, Sheldon Jones and Brian Schools that drubbed Lisbon, 10-0, in the quarterfinals.

Gorham also has a solid pitching staff led by Schools and freshman Mark Schmidt that has yielded all of one run in the postseason.

“Gorham will always be fundamentally sound and will always have good athletes on the field,” Fairchild said. “(Gorham coach) Rocky (Myers) will have them ready.”

The Raiders look more than ready for their first regional final in eight years, having played “maybe the best 14 innings we’ve played in a long time,” in wins over Gray-New Gloucester and Greely, Fairchild said.

Mike Daggett, the only senior on a deep and talented Oak Hill pitching staff, will likely get the call after throwing a four-hitter against Gray-New Gloucester in the quarterfinals, striking out 13.

The Raider offense, meanwhile, the team’s only question mark heading into the playoffs, may be hitting stride at just the right time. Virtually the whole lineup has taken its cue from the middle of the order of Adam Labbe, Adam Shaffstall and Pat Duchette and has come through with timely hits.

Regardless of how well it is hitting the ball, Oak Hill likes to set runners in motion and put pressure on opposing defenses, and so does Buckfield, which meets undefeated NYA in the Western Class D final (7 p.m.).

The second-seeded Bucks (16-2) lost to the defending state champion Panthers (17-0) in their only regular-season tilt, 5-2. Buckfield starter Steve Abbott (6-2), who will start tonight, was cruising along with a 1-0 lead in the fifth inning before NYA rallied behind two of their top hitters, Tim Lachance and David Griswold.

NYA knocked Buckfield out of last year’s playoffs, and the Bucks have been hoping for a chance at revenge ever since.

“Our kids know NYA is a good team, but they also have confidence in themselves,” Williams said. “(Playing NYA again) is kind of a driving force for them.”

A driving force in this game could be NYA catcher Dan Bartlett, who impressed Williams the last time the two teams hooked up. The Bucks normally run at every opportunity, but Williams says they’ll have to be more selective with Bartlett behind the plate.

“We will have to be a little more careful as far as how we run the bases and when we choose to run the bases, what situations we do it in,” he said.

The Bucks have been hitting the ball well enough lately that they may not have to rely as much on their trademark aggressive play on the basepaths. The top-half of the order, Brendan Harvey, Jeff Russell, Abbott, and Wetherell, has been quite proficient at getting on base of late, and the bottom half of the lineup, led by Matt Lowell and Harry Hayes, has been driving them in.

“I do feel we are swinging the bats as a team now better than we have all year,” Williams said. “They’re coming up with some key hits and driving in runs and we just hope that continues.”