BANGOR – Bangor Lumberjacks rookie lefty Matt Scheuing rebounded from what he termed his “worst outing ever” and first baseman Mark Burke drove in both runs as Bangor edged the New Jersey Jackals 2-1 at the Winkin Complex Tuesday night.

Scheuing improved to 8-3 by tossing 7 2/3 innings of six-hit, one-run ball and Burke drove in both runs with his 11th homer and a seventh-inning double that broke a 1-1 tie.

“This was a good pick-me-up. This will give me some confidence,” said Scheuing, who struck out four and walked two while throwing 93 pitches, 58 for strikes. “All of my pitches worked. And the big thing was my curve came up for me.”

The Jackals had won eight straight.

Scheuing had allowed 11 hits and seven runs in three innings against Quebec in his last outing.

Scheuing mixed in his fastball, curve, change-up and splitter and induced 18 ground-ball outs.

“I got a lot of the ground balls with my change-up,” said Scheuing.

“He worked down in the zone,” said Jackals center fielder Zack Smithlin. “He hit his spots. We hit some balls hard but they were right at people.”

John Boker got the final out in the eighth and hard-throwing Lance Calmus pitched a perfect ninth for his seventh save.

North Division team Bangor improved to 14-8 in the second half while New Jersey, the first-half champ in the South Division, fell to 13-8.

The hard-luck loser was righty Aaron Myers, who allowed six hits and two runs over eight innings with two strikeouts and two walks.

He threw 74 strikes among his 114 pitches.

“I threw decent. I thought I had pretty good stuff,” said Myers, who fell to 5-3. “It’s hard to win when you only score one run. It happens. I’ve had outings when I didn’t pitch well and the guys scored a lot of runs.”

Burke tied the game in the fifth by ripping a 1-1 pitch off the scoreboard in right center field.

Burke said he noticed Myers was throwing a lot of change-ups.

“So I was sitting on an off-speed pitch and he threw me a change-up. He left it up a little bit and I put a decent swing on it,” said Burke.

Burke broke the tie in the seventh after Ryan Kane lined a two-out single to center.

The lefthanded-hitting Burke, who was being played to pull with Smithlin shading him to right center, sliced a long fly ball double into left center to score Kane.

“I figured he would make an adjustment and come at me with fastballs and he did. I had a good swing at one, too,” said Burke.

“That found a hole in the outfield,” said Myers.

The Lumberjacks had received some good fortune in the top of the seventh.

Craig Conway grounded a single to left with one out and raced to third when Jay Laflair blooped a single into right center. Laflair moved to second on the throw to third.

Juan Infante then hit a slow roller to Scheuing and was called out at first although Scheuing’s throw appeared to pull first baseman Burke off the bag.

“The ump made the correct call,” said Burke with an ear-to-ear grin.

Scheuing then fanned the lefthanded-hitting John Anderson for the third time with a sweeping curve.

New Jersey took a 1-0 lead in the second on Laflair’s bases-loaded fielder’s choice.

Chris Rowan had two singles for the Jackals.

The teams will play again Wednesday at 6:30.

LUMBERJACKS 2, JACKALS 1

New Jersey (13-8) Bangor (14-8)

Player AB R H BI Player AB R H BI

Anderson, lf 4 0 0 0 Garcia, rf 4 0 0

Smithlin, cf 4 0 0 0 Hargreaves, c 2 0 0

Grijak, 1b 4 0 1 0 Kohno, cf 3 0 0

Veras, 3b 4 0 1 0 Hammond, lf 4 0 0

Almonte, rf 3 1 0 0 Bello, 2b 3 0 0

Rowan, ss 4 0 2 0 Kane, 3b 3 1 0

Conway, dh 2 0 1 0 Burke, 1b 3 1 2

Laflair, c 4 0 1 1 Powell, ss 3 0 0

Infante, 2b 3 0 0 0 Uchino, dh 3 0 0

Totals 32 1 6 1 Totals 28 2 6 2

New Jersey 010 000 000 ? 1

Bangor 000 010 10x ? 2

E?Veras, Rowan; LOB?Jackals 7; Lumberjacks 5; 2B?Burke, Uchino; HR?Burke (11), DP?Bello-Powell-Burke

New Jersey IP H R ER BB SO

Myers (L, 5-3) 8 6 2 2 2 2

Bangor IP H R ER BB SO

Scheuing (W, 8-3) 7 2/3 6 1 1 2 4

Boker 1/3 0 0 0 0 0

Calmus (S, 7) 1 0 0 0 0 1

HBP? Almonte by Scheuing, Kohno by Myers; T?2:13; ATT?1,418