Haddon Heights thumps Haddonfield in baseball, 13-7

Bases loaded. Two outs. Tie score. A 3-2 count.

In the biggest moment of the game, Steve Sciortino delivered the biggest hit of the game.

Sciortino's two-run single in the bottom of the fifth inning broke a 6-6 tie and sparked Haddon Heights to a 13-7 victory over Haddonfield Monday in a key Colonial Conference baseball game.

"I took a two-stroke approach," Sciortino said. "I just wanted to put the ball in play."

Sciortino, a senior who also had an RBI single in the second, pitched the final two innings for Haddon Heights (7-0).

Mike Wasienko, Sean Sack and Nick Lundholm each drove in two runs, and Rob Migliaccio started three rallies with a single, double and hit by pitch for Haddon Heights.

Kevin Davis and Matt Bhaya each had three hits for Haddonfield (4-2).

"You have to give credit to Haddon Heights," Haddonfield coach Bob Bickel said. "When they needed a clutch hit, when they needed a two-out hit, they always seemed to get it, and that's something we didn't do."

The teams battled back and forth through the early innings at Haddon Heights' 8th Avenue field.

Lundholm and Sciortino delivered RBI singles in the second to give Haddon Heights a 2-0 lead. Haddonfield answered with four runs in the top of the third, as Bhaya and Alex Reinicker rapped RBI singles.

Sack's two-run double highlighted a three-run Haddon Heights rally in the third and the Garnets added an unearned run in the fourth. But Haddonfield tied the score at 6 with a pair of runs in the top of the fifth as Nick Cavanaugh had an RBI single.

Haddon Heights broke the game open with five runs in the fifth. Sciortino's two-run single was the first of four consecutive two-out hits, including an RBI single by winning pitcher Dean Wilson and a two-run single by Wasienko.

"We got a lot of timely hits," Haddon Heights coach Eric Rosen said. "Steve got us going. That's what he does. He gets things started for us."

Wilson worked five innings to raise his record to 3-0. The senior righthander allowed nine hits and six runs, but also struck out nine.

"He didn't have his best stuff but he gutted it out," Rosen said.

Haddonfield    004 020 1 - 7 11 2

Haddon Heights    023 152 x - 13 12 2

WP: Dean Wilson. LP: Mike McLaughlin.

2B: H-Kevin Davis, Chris Davis, Sam Silver; HH-Rob Migiaccio, Sean Sack.