TRENTON – For more than 100 high school baseball players from all over the East, Waterfront Park really was a field of dreams yesterday.

The players, who hailed from as far away as Pittsburgh and as close as Hamilton, were on hand as part of The Baseball Factory’s EASTON Premier Baseball & Academic Targeting Service.

Better known as B.A.T.S., the program is a comprehensive service that helps place high school juniors and seniors in the appropriate collegiate programs.

And it’s been very successful.

“We place 97 percent of our kids with college baseball programs,” Steve Sclafani said, “and 75 percent get scholarships,”

Sclafani is a former All-Ivy League second baseman for the University of Pennsylvania who, along with former Quakers teammate Rob Naddelman (the one-time Hightstown High standout), started B.A.T.S. in 1994.

“What we try to do,” Sclafani said, “is try to give an unbiased evaluation of a player’s talent. We’re not emotionally involved with a player like a parent or coach would be.

“Then we sit down with the player and his parents and target 20 colleges that we feel would be a good match athletically and academically.

That’s important to us. Matching a player with a program where he will be able to compete. We don’t think it makes sense to send a player’s tape to a school where he has no chance of playing.”

THE AREA players who went through their paces yesterday included Princeton’s Bennett Fischer; Notre Dame Chris Graziano, Mike Miller and Neal Lynch; Lawrence’s John Schneider; West Windsor-Plainsboro’s Mike McGill and Sonny Sol and Burlington City’s Ryan Varga.

Each got the chance to field, hit, throw and run in front of an audience that included coaches from St. John’s, Pace, the United State Naval Academy, Towson State, Salisbury (Md.) State, Dartmouth, Drew, Rutgers, the University of Delaware, Princeton, The College of New Jersey, Mercer County College and Penn, as well as scouts from the Padres, Devil Rays, Rangers, Braves and Indians.

And, just in case anyone missed anything, everything is on video.

Among the more successful B.A.T.S.,/b> graduates are Marc Proctor, who was selected in the 15th round of this year’s draft by the Mets, and Matt Halloran, who was selected in the first round by the Padres.