CAPE ELIZABETH – As long as it had solid footing on the ground, Cape Elizabeth felt it could go to the air for Saturday night’s Campbell Conference meeting with Poland.

The impending heavy rain forced the game to be switched from Poland to Cape Elizabeth’s synthetic turf. The Capers took advantage of the unexpected home field advantage, throwing for four touchdowns in the first half to drown the Knights, 34-7, in a steady rain.

QB Ezra Wolfinger laughed off the elements by completing eight of 10 pass attempts for 202 yards and the four scores in the first half.

“The turf’s good and our quarterback has pretty big hands, so he’s able to throw the ball,” said Cape Elizabeth coach Aaron Fileo. “We were hoping to be able to throw it.”

Poland QB Trey Ouellette spoiled the shutout with a 49-yard TD run off a broken play in the third quarter. But it was Wolfinger who exploited some mistakes in the Poland secondary to vault the Capers (4-0) to touchdowns on their first three possessions.

The first mistake was a missed tackle on a quick out to Tom Foden on the second play of the game. Once the speedy Cape running back got by his man, he was off to the races for six points.

Poland (0-4) has had problems holding onto the football all season, and Saturday night’s wet conditions didn’t help. The Knights fumbled the ensuing kickoff and Matt Weiss recovered for Cape at the Knights’ 23 to set up their next score. On 4th-and-14, Wolfinger found Finn Melanson (four catches, 102 yards, three TDs) over the middle for a 26-yard TD that made it 13-0 just under three minutes into the game.

The Knights put the ball on the carpet 10 times on the night, many times at the snap, and the Capers recovered it four times.

“They made plays when they needed to and our guys, I don’t know, it’s like they’re playing scared a little bit,” Poland coach Mark Soehren said. “I don’t know why they’re afraid to make mistakes. They should just go out there and play.”

Another fumble on Poland’s next possession gave Cape the ball at the Knights 33. On 4th-and-16, Wolfinger lobbed one to the back of the end zone and Melanson timed his leap perfectly over a Poland defender to haul it in and make it 20-0.

A 35-yard TD pass to Melanson on 3rd-and-25 closed the scoring in the first half.

Ouellette got the Knights on the board with 4:22 left in the third quarter, taking a missed hand-off to the fullback to the middle, then cutting left to daylight at around the 40.

“Quite honestly, we called it a ‘Soehren Special’ over the headsets because it was a broken play,” Soehren said. “I thought he’d fumbled the snap. But he followed the (blocker) that would have been the correct lead and nobody knew where the ball was.”

Moments later, the Knights had a chance to make another dent when Pat Collins returned an interception to the Cape 10, but another fumbled snap thwarted that bid. Weiss later capped the scoring with a five-yard run.