HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP : Lonsberry Lifts Saugus to Win With Hit in 7th

Saugus High took sole possession of first place in the Golden League baseball standings Tuesday with an 11-10 victory over visiting Palmdale, but the Centurions’ road to the top has not been easy.

Saugus (8-4, 4-1 in league play), which outlasted Canyon, 14-12, Friday, needed a bases-loaded single from Kyle Lonsberry in the seventh inning to win a game it led, 10-7, after six innings.

Palmdale (6-4, 3-2), which hammered Saugus, 10-5, last week, appeared to be on the ropes after giving up three runs in the sixth, but the Falcons rallied for three of their own, the key hit being a two-run double by Travis Wilson which tied the score, 10-10.

Wilson, who singled home a run in the first and doubled in another in the third, lined Doug Maggiora’s first pitch to the gap in right-center field with one out, then moved to third on a ground out by Jeff Pica, Scott Ruesser flied out to end Palmdale’s rally.

The Falcons stranded 11 runners, including three each in the fourth and sixth.

Josh Nolan was four for four with a home run, double, and three runs batted in for Saugus, the two-time defending league champion.

Maggiora (5-0) won his 16th consecutive game over the past two seasons, despite giving up five runs (four earned) and five hits in 3 1/3 innings.