Meshach Wade, and their Harrisburg Heat team-mates.

Don D'Ambra scored three times for seven points and Philadelphia limited the Heat to just one point in the second half as the KiXX advanced to the American Conference Finals with a 14-9 victory on Thursday night at the First Union Spectrum.

Philadelphia thus recorded a 2-0 sweep in the best-of-three first-round National Professional Soccer League play-off series.

Former Heat midfielder/defender Chris Marinos added a pair of two-point goals for the KiXX, who are now headed to the conference finals for the third time in five years. Philadelphia had captured game one, 21-19, in Harrisburg last Sunday as Marinos scored three times.

Marinos, who had a hat-trick in game one, picked up where he left off by opening the scoring with a two-point goal from Kevin Sloan 2:31 into the game.

Gino DiFlorio evened the score at the 4:03 mark with a header, but D'Ambra won a race to the ball with 'keeper Petras and netted a three-point goal to make it 5-2 with 5:46 left in the first quarter.

Harrisburg's Mike Henning narrowed the margin to 5-4 with 2:11 left before Marinos struck again 3:10 into the second period. KiXX defender Hormoz Tabrizi set up D'Ambra for a goal that made it 9-4 at the 5:51 mark before the Heat's Kyle Swords and Ian Carter netted two-pointers 71 seconds apart to reduce the deficit to 9-8 at half-time.

D'Ambra completed his hat-trick with rocket shot from just inside the three-point arc 6:01 into the third quarter to widen the gap to 11-8. After Marinos and Harrisburg's Lester Felician each received two-minute holding penalties at the 8:04 mark, DiFlorio and Boney matched shootout goals as the margin remained at three points (12-9).

Fifteen seconds later, Goran Hunjak stole the ball from Petras near the boards, dribbled into the penalty box and beat a Heat defender for a 14-9 KiXX advantage. Harrisburg were unable to score the rest of the way, despite pulling Petras for a sixth-attacker with 2:35 remaining.

The KiXX will now meet the winners of the Buffalo Blizzard-Baltimore Blast series.