STANDISH —  Some of the Dirigo Cougars altered their appearance with mohawks for the Class C baseball championship.

By the end of the day, though, they had familiar smiles to go with their unusual hairstyles.

Dirigo earned its second Class C baseball title in three years with a 6-1 victory over Calais Saturday at Mahaney Diamond on the campus of St. Joseph’s College.

“You can’t ask for a much better ending to our season, our career,” said shortstop Caleb Turner, one of four seniors on the team and one of three who was part of Dirigo’s state championship basketball team this winter.

The Cougars (19-1), who dropped the first game of the season to St. Dom’s and never lost again, cracked eight hits. Chad Snowman had a single, double and triple, and Turner, who had two doubles.

“Going way back when this team lost the first game to St. Dom’s? This team never looked back, never got down on themselves,” said Dirigo coach Ryan Palmer, who was among those sporting the crude mohawks. “They just knew what the ultimate goal was, and here we are.”

TJ. Frost, Turner and Snowman, the top three in Dirigo’s batting order, combined to go 7-for-9 with two walks, four runs scored and four RBIs.

“We haven’t had a game all year where all three have produced like that,” Palmer said. “They saved the right game to produce, that’s for sure.”

Senior pitcher Ben Holmes didn’t have his best stuff in a 125-pitch complete game (eight hits, one earned run, eight strikeouts, five walks), but he didn’t allow an extra-base hit and stranded 10 base runners.

“I couldn’t locate anything of late,” Holmes said. “I was not happy with that, but we came out of here with a win. I like that.”

Holmes’ Calais counterpart, Adam Geel, struggled even more. The senior righthander, who came into the game with a 30-4 career record and 10-0 mark this season, struck out struck out seven, walked four and had a key wild pitch in the first inning.

“He struggled. He doesn’t usually struggle, but he’s human,” Calais coach Kenny Murphy said. “That’s a very good baseball team over there.”

“We had a somewhat decent scouting report on him,” Frost said. “We knew that he liked to throw off-speed but his off-speed wasn’t that much off-speed from his other ones. We were just trying to wait it out at first, get a feel for him and go with the  pitch.”

Dirigo loaded the bases in the first on two walks and Snowman’s bunt. Holmes nearly cleared the bases when he ripped a pitch 315 feet to the left field fence but just a couple of feet foul.

Holmes popped out to first on the next pitch, and Geel struck out Cody St. Germain for the second out. Up 0-1 in the count to Spencer Trenoweth, Geel threw a breaking ball in the dirt to the right of catcher Lewis Francis, allowing T.J. Frost to score and Dirigo to salvage something from a once promising inning. Geel struck out Trenoweth to limit the Blue Devils’ deficit to 1-0.

Calais (18-2), which lost to Dirigo in the 2010 state final and to St. Dom’s last year, had a chance to respond in the second inning. A two-out single, walk and a wild pitch put runners on second and third, but Holmes caught Logan Johnson looking at strike three to preserve the lead.

Tyler Frost led off the third with a pop fly behind the second base bag. Shortstop Jeremy Beers called for it but had it tip off his glove and over the shoulder of centerfielder Joe Mitchell backing him up.

Hunter Ross walked with one out to put runners at first and second. T.J. Frost singled up the middle to score his younger brother and make it 2-0.

Turner doubled the lead by jumping on Beel’s next pitch and drove it over the outstretched glove of a retreating Mitchell for a two-run double.

“He came in with a fastball and it was a little high and away and I just took it the other way,” Turner said.

Calais got on the board in the third when Holmes issued a one-out walk to Mitchell, a single to Geel to move Mitchell to third and Francis’ ground out to second that scored Mitchell. It was the first earned run allowed by Holmes in 31 1/3 innings.

The Blue Devils stranded two runners apiece in the fourth and fifth, thanks in part to two fine defensive plays. Catcher Jake Dowland made a nice diving catch on a pop fly bunt in the fourth, and third baseman Tyler Frost grabbed a screaming line drive by Jonathan Edwards in the fifth.

The Cougars opened up a five-run lead in the fourth on back-to-back doubles by T.J. Frost and Snowman and an RBI single by Holmes.

Holmes had his first 1-2-3 inning in the sixth with grounders to Turner on three consecutive pitches. Calais put two runners on in the seventh but Holmes ended the game with a ground ball to Tyler Frost, who tagged third for the force out and set off a pig pile between third base and the mound.