The Preps : Baseball Roundup : Laguna Hills Sets Record for Runs in 23-3 Victory

Laguna Hills High School broke a 5-year-old school record for most runs in one game with a 23-3 victory over Woodbridge in the Pacific Coast League opener for both schools Thursday at Woodbridge.

The previous record of 21 runs was set in 1984.

Second baseman Mark Wells paced a 20-hit Laguna Hills attack with five hits, four runs scored and two runs batted in. Third baseman Joe Bennett had four RBIs on two hits in the first two innings, and his replacement, Tom Lloyd, went three for three with three RBIs.

Rob Milo and Mike Helm each had two hits and three RBIs for the Hawks (4-2), and Chris Sheff scored five times, contributed three hits and drove in two runs.

Ron Kortman (3-0), whose inside-the-park homer started a six-run Laguna Hills fourth inning, allowed four hits and struck out three over the first four innings for the victory.

“We got some key run-scoring hits with two outs which accounted for six of our first seven runs,” Laguna Hills Coach Jack Hodges said. “Without those hits, it would have been an entirely different ballgame.”

Down 19-0 after five innings, Woodbridge (1-5) finally scored two runs in the sixth sixth on Tyrelle Ash’s two-out triple and Dave Smith’s single. Woodbridge also scored in the seventh on a triple by Sean Spelber and Marc Howard’s sacrifice fly.