With former Major League Baseball stars such as Bert Campaneris, Orlando Cepeda and Andre Dawson at the Joe DiMaggio Legends Game, it was actually two lacrosse players who shined most.

Cardinal Gibbons High School senior lacrosse players Alex Lambert and Josh St. Thomas helped rally the National League over the American League 12-5 in front of a crowd of 5,500 on Saturday at Fort Lauderdale Stadium.

“I’ve been a bat boy for this [game] before, and we were coming to help out again,” Lambert said. “They asked us if we wanted to play. We said, ‘Yeah. Why not?’ ”

St. Thomas hit a three-run triple — off Spaceman Bill Lee — scoring Ricky Bones, Warren Cromartie and Anthony Telford to tie the score at 5 in the fifth. St. Thomas then scored the go-ahead run on Alex Arias’ RBI single. Orestes Destrade followed by driving in Bruce Aven for a two-run cushion to cap a six-run, fifth inning.

Anthony Gil of ANF Group opened the fifth by hitting an inside-the-park home run, and in the sixth, Lambert provided another big blow with a two-run, inside-the-park home run — again off Lee — for insurance.

“I haven’t played baseball since third grade,” Lambert said, smiling, “and to do that, this was unbelievable. Just playing with [these former major leaguers], it was great.”

In the 24th version of this annual charity game to raise funds for the Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, the former major leaguers had fun for a good cause and also showed signs of past glory. Second baseman Ken Rudolph made a diving stop, and Arias added a solid glove at shortstop.

There were several lighter moments, too, like when Destrade jokingly asked for medical attention and an Advil after being hit by a (now slower) Stan Bahnsen pitch. Destrade, a former Marlins player who works for the Tampa Bay Rays broadcast team, enjoyed returning to familiar surroundings.

“There’s immense history here [Fort Lauderdale Stadium] with the Yankees and the Orioles,” said Destrade, who began his pro career with the Yankees organization. “I played in the Florida State League here [with the Class A Fort Lauderdale Yankees], and we won a Florida State League title with Barry Foote as our manager. I have great memories of this stadium. Spring training here, Lou Piniella as our manager, I can’t say enough, especially being a hometown kid.”

Destrade, who starred at Christopher Columbus High School, and Cookie Rojas, the Miami Marlins Spanish-language TV color commentator, also discussed another baseball venue, the new ballpark in their own backyard.

“At the time that I saw it, it reminded me of Safeco a little bit, in Seattle, with a retractable dome; that’s a beautiful stadium,” Destrade said. “So I think [the Marlins’ new ballpark] is going to be well received, and I think it’s going to be a big hit. They’ve done a nice job of reconfiguring all that area from when it was the Orange Bowl.”

Rojas added: “No question about it that it was needed. It’s going to be very exciting. The club has really spent some money trying to get some ballplayers to make it very competitive. I think our fans are going to love it. No matter where you sit, you’ll have a good view of the game.”

Even the broadcast booth?

“Yes. It’s very good and very comfortable,” he said.

WWE legend Sgt. Slaughter, promoting WWE WrestleMania on April 1 at Sun Life Stadium; Ron Magill of Zoo Miami; the Police Pipes & Drum Corp of Florida; and Lefty Hohlmayer, one of the ballplayers who inspired the movie A League of Their Own, also participated.