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WEST HAVEN, Conn. – Darren Ciraco’s two-run home run with two outs in the bottom of the fourth lifted the New Haven County Cutters to a 2-1 victory over the Bangor Lumberjacks in Northeast League play Sunday afternoon.
Ciraco’s blast enabled the Cutters to salvage the final game of their three-game weekend series with the Jacks. Bangor won the first two games, including a 5-2 decision Saturday.
Bangor is now 27-22 overall, 2-1 in the second half of the season. New Haven falls to 26-24, 1-2 as the Northeast League now has its three-day all-star break.
Donnie Ross gave Bangor a 1-0 lead with a two-out home run in the top of the first inning. Bangor would manage just three more hits in the game off New Haven starter Skip Wiley (3-4) and two relievers. Wiley retired 21 of the 25 batters he faced in seven innings. Bangor threatened in the eighth, with Ross and Shin Uchino each singling off reliever Greg McCarthy, but Shane Waroff replaced McCarthy and pitched 1 1/3 innings to earn the save.
Matt Scheuing (5-2) took the loss despite allowing just seven hits and no earned runs over the first seven innings. John Boker pitched a scoreless inning of relief for the Lumberjacks.
Ross and Uchino each had two hits for Bangor.
On Saturday, Jose Garcia singled home the go-ahead run to cap a two-run sixth-inning rally for the Lumberjacks.
Garcia?s hit gave the ?Jacks a 3-2 lead, which grew to 5-2 when Mark Burke hit a two-run homer in the top of the eighth. Ross walked and scored ahead of Burke?s eighth home run of the summer.
Burke singled home Ross in the fourth inning to give Bangor a 1-0 lead, but New Haven scored single runs in the fourth and fifth innings off Lumberjacks? starter Isaac Pavlik to take a 2-1 lead.
Burke finished with a single and a double for Bangor, while Ross scored three runs.
J.C. Huguet (2-2) earned the pitching win with 4 2/3 innings of one-hit relief.
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