July 21, 2007 / Sports / Brooklyn Cyclones

Cyclones off to best start ever

By Gersh Kuntzman

The Brooklyn Paper

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The Brooklyn Paper / Gary Thomas

Jason Jacobs scores in the third inning off a double by Will Vogl during Tuesday night’s game at Keyspan Park.

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This team isn’t only a roll, they’re on a steamroll! During a six-game winning streak, the Cyclones outscored their opponents 49–12.

Cyclones 6
Valley Cats 3

Game I, July 12, at Tri-City

The suddenly hot Raul Reyes went 2-for-3 with a homer, ending the Cyclones’ skid at just one. Reyes singled in the first inning, walked and scored in a five-run third and belted a solo shot, his fourth. Will Vogl and Jacob Eigsti added RBI singles. Reliever Grady Hinchman (1–1) picked up the win and closer Stephen Clyne got the save.

Valley Cats 7
Cyclones 3

Game II, July 12, at Tri-City

In the nightcap, the Cyclones got on the board first, thanks to RBI singles by the dynamic duo, Will Vogl and Jacob Eigsti. But relievers Josh Appell and David Koons yielded six runs in the Valley Cats’ sixth. Koons (3–1) took the loss.

Cyclones 16
Tri-City 7

July 13, at Tri-City

The Cyclones scored four runs in the first two innings and 10 in the last two, rapping out 22 hits in a slugfest. Jacob Eigsti had his second homer and drove in three runs to raise the Brooks’ record to 18–7. Lucas Duda, Raul Reyes and Jason Jacobs combined for nine hits and six RBIs. Starter Nick Carr raised his record to 2–0), despite giving up four runs in five innings.

Cyclones 13
Spikes 1

July 14, at State College

A 1–1 pitchers’ duel turned into a rout as the Cyclones scored 12 runs in the last three innings, thanks to a Lucas Duda homer in the seventh, homers by Raul Reyes (5), Jason Jacobs (3) and Jefferies Tatford (1), and a two-RBI single by Jacob Eigsti in the eighth, a Tatford RBI single and an Eigsti sac fly in the ninth.

Cyclones 8
Spikes 1

July 15, at State College

This blowout featured two RBIs by Joaquin Rodriguez and Christopher Fournier and one by the hot Jacob Eigsti. Three errors by the Spikes didn’t hurt, either. Starter Dillon Gee got the win with 6-2/3 strong innings. He struck out four. Josh Appell tossed zeroes the rest of the way. Fourier (.389) was 3-for-4.

Cyclones 4
Spikes 2

July 16, at State College

The Clones completed the three-game sweep of the Spikes — and made David Koons the team’s first four-game winner, thanks to his four innings of three-hit relief of undefeated starter Edgar Ramirez, who left after giving up the Spikes’ only two runs. The Brooks got on the board early, with single runs in the first — on a Will Vogl single — and in the second, on a Jacob Eigsti single. The team added insurance runs in the sixth and eighth — both off singles by Matthew Bouchard.

Cyclones 5
Crosscutters 1

July 17, at Keyspan Park

Finally, starter Nick Waechter looked like the pitcher we’ve heard about, tossing five innings — and notching nine strikeouts — for his first win, and the Cyclones’ fifth straight. The hot-hitting Will Vogl went 3-for-4 with a two-run single in the third to give Brooklyn a 3–1 lead and improve the team’s record to 21–7, the Cyclones’ best start ever. Jason Jacobs added a two-run homer in the fifth, his fourth of the year.

Cyclones 3
Crosscutters 0

July 18, at Keyspan Park

Dylan Owen, Dan McDonald and closer Stephen Clyne combined on a two-hitter, as the Cyclone winning streak ran to six. The Clones got all the offense they’d need in the fourth, thanks to Jason Jacobs’s RBI double. Later in the inning, Lucas Duda plated Jacobs with a single. Catcher Jefferies Tatford’s seventh-inning double ended the scoring. Owen is now 4-0 with a 1.65 ERA. Clyne’s save was his team-leading sixth.

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