WALES — Patience served the Oak Hill Raiders well when they turned a 1-5 start to the season into a winning record. It also served them well last week when they held on to beat Maranacook to clinch a home playoff game.

Nothing that happened in Tuesday’s preliminary rematch with Maranacook will convince the Raiders to do things any differently.

No. 8 Oak Hill pounded out 11 hits and made No. 9 Maranacook’s pitchers pay for their wildness in a 13-3 victory shortened to five innings by the 10-run mercy rule.

The Raiders (10-7) will face top-seeded Cape Elizabeth (15-1) in Thursday’s quarterfinal. The Black Bears, who lost to Oak Hill three times this season, finished at 7-10.

Cody Plourde, Craig Morrill, Josh Prue and Adam Soucy clubbed two hits apiece for the Raiders. Morrill reached base four times with two walks, scored twice and drove in a run. Plourde scored twice and knocked in two. Prue had a two-run triple and scored twice. Tim Levesque drove in three runs.

“We’ve been hitting well, just seeing strikes and trying to get the pitchers to work,” Morrill said. “We’re relaxed at the plate.”

Oak Hill took five walks and three Raiders got plunked. They scored in every inning and tallied eight of their runs with two outs.

“We’ve been talking about being patient at the plate for a long time, so it’s not just against Maranacook that we’ve been doing that,” Oak Hill coach Chad Drouin said. “We’ve been seeing a lot of pitches. We’ve got that reputation in the league (the KVAC).”

Like last Wednesday’s win at Readfield, the Raiders bolted out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning, thanks to RBI singles from Soucy and Cam Labrecque and a potential force out at home that tipped off the top of the catcher’s mitt. 

Plourde battled through some control problems of his own as Maranacook scored three times without a hit in the second. Two errors, two walks, a hit batter and a wild pitch tied the score. But that was all the Bears would muster against Plourde, who shut them out before giving way to Josh Martin for the final two outs of the game in the fifth.

“The best part of today’s game is the fact that he kept it together after he struggled that inning, because I’ve seen him lose it and not be able to come back from it,” Drouin said. “He knows that’s big for us.”

Oak Hill regained the lead against Maranacook starter Ebben Ballard in the bottom of the second. Plourde led off with a walk, then broke for second as Morrill slapped a hit-and-run single into the spot vacated by the second baseman. Levesque brought Plourde home with a ground out to second.

After Brett Turcotte was hit by a pitch, Prue cranked a fly ball over the center fielder’s head for a two-run triple and a 6-3 lead.

The Raiders added two more in the third on a sacrifice fly by Plourde and Morrill’s RBI single, then broke it open with five in the fourth. Cam Morin (sacrifice fly), Plourde (RBI single) and Levesque (two-run single) drove in four of the runs, with the other coming on a hit batter.

The Raiders will travel to Cape Elizabeth, winners of seven of their last eight.

“From the beginning of the season, we prepare for this spot,” Drouin said. “We don’t get real excited about winning a playoff game. We expect to go out and win every single day that we play and it doesn’t matter who we’re playing. These guys know the history of Oak Hill. We’ve beaten a lot of number ones in past years in the playoffs and we think we can do it again.”