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Jackals Win First Series Against The Other Jersey Team

Date:  Source: New Jersey Jackals

Little Falls, NJ -- The rain held up for this evening matchup between the Jackals and the Miners as 4th July weekend kicked off in Little Falls. Playing great baseball as of late, the Jackals took the first game of the series by a score of 12-3 in Sussex County and were poised to keep the winning ways rolling as the series shifted to Yogi Berra Stadium on Saturday.


The Jackals turned to Charles Cywin, who made his first career professional baseball start, and he didn’t disappoint. The rookie threw four complete innings, allowing just two runs on four hits while also tallying two strikeouts. The bullpen was spectacular as well, using three arms (Dylan Peiffer, Hansel Rodriguez, and Jefry Valdez). In five innings, they only surrendered two hits without giving up any runs and striking out six. Jefry Valdez came in and closed the door in
the ninth to record his first save of the season.


The Jackals started the scoring in the contest when Justin Wylie hit a sacrifice fly to center to drive in Todd Isaacs in the first. The Jackals continued in the second when Trevor Abrams smashed his seventh home run of the year the opposite way just inside the right field foul pole to put the Jackals ahead 2-0.
Sussex responded when Martin Figueroa hit a sacrifice fly of his own to score Errol Robinson in the top half of the third. After an error committed by the Jackals’ defense, Mikey Reynolds scored to knot the game at 2. 
 
The Miners picked right up where they left off in the third when Webb Little grooved a fastball that cleared the right field fence to give Sussez their first
lead of the game at 3-2.
 
The back and forth play continued as New Jersey loaded the bases with no one out in the fifth for Alfredo Marte. Before Marte got a pitch to hit, Todd Isaacs scored on a wild pitch to once again tie the game. Marte capitalized on the momentum swing as he dunked a single into left field scoring both Dalton Combs and Santiago Chirino which gave the Jackals a 5-3 lead.
 
The reigning Frontier Player of the Week, Josh Rehwaldt, continued his torrid stretch, scorching his seventh long ball in nine games and that was all the Jackals needed to lock down the 6-3 victory. This hit from Rehwaldt solidified a nine game hitting streak for the South Dakota native.

Another hitting streak to keep an eye on is from first baseman Dalton Combs. Combs is on a 16-game home hitting streak and a 14-game hitting streak overall.
 
A great all around win for the Jackals, who are now winners of 7 for their last 11 games. They will look for a sweep of the third place Sussex County Miners on Sunday with first pitch slated for 6:00pm in Sussex. You can go to Jackals.com to purchase tickets for future events.
 
PHOTO CREDIT: Phil Hoops
 
REPORTING BY: Will Tallant, Jackals Press Box and Media Relations Intern