LYNN – Saugus baseball coach Pat Petrone couldn’t have done a better job putting Monday’s lineup together if he’d used a set of blueprints and specs instead of a scorecard.His top three hitters – Craig Cole, Ryan Bateman and Dave Ferreira – were on base nine times, scored four runs, and knocked in six.Small wonder, then, that the Sachems inched their record closer to the .500 mark at Fraser Field with an 8-5 win over Classical that was probably a little too thrilling for Petrone.Click here for a photo gallery.”Wow,” he said, after Classical scored four seventh-inning runs to turn a rout into a seat-squirmer.”Had ’em all the way,” he said with a smile.Saugus has had injury issues with pitchers, so Petrone really wanted to get a complete game out of Mike Silva. And he did. It’s just that Silva, who was practically unhittable in the middle innings, ran out of gas at the beginning of the seventh innings and limped home.That isn’t to take anything away from him. From the time Classical scored its first run (in the third inning) to the time there were two outs in the sixth, Silva didn’t allow a baserunner. And when he finally did, catcher Tyler Calla threw out T.J. Bartlett (who had walked) on an attempted steal.Saugus, meanwhile, kept pounding away at Classical pitchers Greg Rybak and Justin Hart. And between the hitting, and a crucial Ram fielding lapse, Saugus got three extra runs in the top of the seventh to stretch a 5-1 lead to 8-1 – which turned out to be a huge factor in the bottom of the inning as Classical tried to come back.”I give them credit for not quitting,” said coach Mike Zukowski, “but once again, same old story. We’re in the game, and then it gets away from us. And it really hurt today, as you saw.”Saugus had a quick 2-0 lead after two innings thanks to the top third of the order – all onetime members of the 2003 Saugus American Little League World Series team. Cole led off the game with a walk, stole second, and scored on Ferreira’s single (Ferreira was thrown out trying for two when the throw home was cut off).An inning later, Cole was at it again, this time dumping a single into short right field that scored third baseman Vincent Talutto (who had two hits and made two great plays in the field).”People said coming in that the left side of our infield was an Achilles heel,” said Petrone. “Not anymore. Not with Cole at short and this kid at third.”Classical got one back in the third when Brian Kolodziej doubled and scored on Eddie Terreiro’s base hit. Silva then shut the Rams down totally until the seventh.Meanwhile, Saugus kept adding to the lead. The Sachems got three in the fourth inning despite a bizarre instance where Ty Kennedy led off with a double and then actually went BACK to second on Talutto’s booming single to right (the Sachems thinking the ball had been caught when it actually bounced off Wilson Mercado’s glove; third base coach Frank Serino marveled that Mercado even caught up to the ball “since I thought it was way over his head”).So, instead of a run in and a runner at second, Saugus had first and second, none out. It looked as if Saugus would pay dearly for the confusion when Rybak retired the next two hitters (the runners moving up on Mark Sacco’s groundout to the pitcher’s mound). But, again, Cole and Bateman got back-to-back hits, each knocking in a run; and Ferreira scored Cole on a base hit of his own.The Sachems got their final three runs in the seventh, in part, because the home plate umpire ruled that catcher Terreiro didn’t touch home plate on an attempted forceout, allowing Bateman to score. Ferreira and Tyler Calla came home on Talutto’s single.Silva ran into all kinds of trouble in the bottom of the seventh with two out and two on, hitting Kolodziej to load the bases, and then giving up run-scoring singles to Bartlett, Mercado and Terreiro before getting Tyler Gauthier out on a hard smash back to the mound.