Basha hasn't been much of a player in baseball the last two years with a 20-34 record and no postseason appearances. The 2012 Bears are trying to change that.

Basha ran its record to 7-1 overall on Wednesday afternoon, getting plenty of  hits and solid pitching in knocking off visiting sister-school Chandler High, 11-1, in a game shortened to five innings by the 10-run rule.

"We got a lot of hits with two outs and the guys had a lot of fun today," Basha coach Jim Schilling said. "Last year wasn't a good year. The last two haven't been. The guys have toned down their swings. We're hitting the top and inside of the baseball."

Basha's power-point record stayed unscathed at 4-0. Junior right-hander Zach Torriente tossed a two-hitter in his five innings of work. He walked one and struck out six (four in the second inning). Torriente retired the last 10 batters he faced and improved to 2-0.

Leading the offense was leadoff hitter Jamie Westbrook, a junior shortstop. Westbrook, who batted .538 last year, raised his average to .600 for this season with a 3-for-3 day. He scored three times as well.

The game had the makings of a pitcher's duel through nearly four innings. Senior 6-foot-5 righty Brandon Hudson was locked in a 1-1 tie with Torriente in the last of the fourth. Hudson gave up a leadoff single in the inning to Garrett Doane. Doane's courtesy runner, Drew Shasteen, moved to second and then third on consecutive errant pickoff throws. A strikeout followed and then a single past a drawn in infield by Richard Soto broke the tie.

Chandler (3-6, 2-3 ppg) thought it had the second out with a pickoff of Soto at first. But Wolves coach Jeff Tallman couldn't get the call reversed on appeal. A foul out followed, which could have been the third out. Instead, a walk and five straight hits ensued pushing Basha's lead from 2-1 to 6-1. Those were the two-out hits Schilling pointed to that were critical.

Basha closed the game with five more runs in the fifth. The Bears used two hits, a Chandler error, two walks and a hit batter in its outburst. The game ended on Anthony Conforti's  bases-loaded triple. Conforti finished with two hits and four RBI.