Last modified: Sunday, April 22, 2007 12:32 AM EDT North Attleboro's Anthony Sherman cranks a triple during Saturdays' win over King Philip. (Staff photo by MIKE GEORGE) North bats rip KP BY PETER GOBIS SUN CHRONICLE STAFF NORFOLK - Bashing the baseball and scoring runs aplenty (40 through five games) has resulted in the North Attleboro High baseball team extending its unbeaten streak to five games. Anthony Sherman and Matt Hurley both belted three hits, while Chad Lareau and Kevin Connolly each supplied a pair as the Rocketeers hammered the baseball all over the Pond St. Athletic Complex Saturday morning, taking home an 8-3 victory from King Philip in the Hockomock League game. The Rocketeers scored all eight runs during the first three innings, totaling nine of their 13 hits overall during that span against the ace of the KP pitching staff, Bill Walczak. "We just try to win," offered North coach Paul Sullivan, whose Rocketeers have scored seven or more runs in four of its five starts thus far. "We hit the ball well, the guys are having some good at-bats." Like in the very first inning. Sherman doubled, then with two outs, Connolly and Lareau spanked RBI-singles to put the Rocketeers ahead. Like in the second inning, too. Hurley reached base on a leadoff error and the No. 9 batter Brendan Picini drew a one-out walk. Sherman then uncorked a mammoth two-run triple to center field making it 4-1 in North's favor. And to further add injustice to the KP Warriors, North added four more runs in the third inning. Connolly, the leadoff batter in the frame, doubled, advanced on a Lareau infield single and scored run No. 5 on a wild pitch. Bodinski also reached base on an infield single and Hurley followed suit with a two-run double into left center field. Sherman came to the plate again and socked a two-out, RBI-single into right field. "We thought that we could be one of the better teams in the (Hockomock) League this year, but we threw a stink bomb out there," lamented KP coach Ed Moran of the lacksdasical and uninspired play by his Warriors. The Rocketeers had runners on base in every inning, had the leadoff batter on base in four frames and amassed 61 total bases. It could have been more too as North stranded nine baserunners. But, it could have been a closer game had KP delivered a key hit, the Warriors leaving the bases loaded in the first, third and seventh innings. Bodinski, North's starting pitcher, had only one 1-2-3 inning through five frames, that in the second. KP got on the scoreboard in the first inning as Joe Tornabene drew a leadoff walk and eventually scored on Brett Roye's two-out base hit. That base-loaded jam ended when North second baseman Greg Dusel fielded a grounder for the final out. In the third, KP jammed the bags with two outs already taken. Walczak (three hits) scorched a crazy hop single off the cheekbone of Picini, the North shortstop, then Roye singled into center and Chris Caliendo drew a walk. But that bases-loaded jam ended when Picini converted a fielder's choice at second base. KP netted run No. 2 in the fourth as D.J. Goldberg and Tornabene singled, the pair then executing a double steal. And in the sixth, Tornabene scored the Warriors' third run, reaching base on a fielder's choice and scoring on a Garrick Cronin base hit into center field. The Warriors placed the leadoff batter on base in the first, fifth, sixth and seventh innings too. "We did a nice job of getting on base, but we didn't get a key hit and we had been playing well recently," said Moran of his Warriors (3-3), who travel to Sharon Monday. North, which advanced to the Division 1 South Sectional Tournament finals a year ago, "still have to get more solid all around," said Sullivan. "We have to make the defensive plays and in this league (Monday at Canton) you have to compete every game." North Attleboro 224 000 0-8 13 0 King Philip 100 101 0-3 9 1 Bodinski, Mancini (6) and Hart; Walczak, DiRienzo (7) and Roye.W-Bodinski (2-0). L-Walczak (1-2).