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Surging Cyclones take lead for final playoff spot! Team has won nine in row

By Gersh Kuntzman
The Brooklyn Paper

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Cyclones 5
Ironbirds 2

Sept. 1 at Aberdeen

A four-run second inning, plus five-plus strong frames by starter Bradley Holt, was all the surging Cyclones needed to win their ninth consecutive game — and take a half-game lead in the race for the New York–Penn League’s lone wild card playoff berth.

Holt did give up a triple in the first and was burned by a two straight walks in the third, but those were the only blots on his line: 5-2/3 innings, two hits, two earned runs and 12 — count ’em, 12 — strikeouts.

In the end, Kirk Nieuwenhuis’s three-run blast in the second was all the Cyclones needed, though Sean Ratliff added an RBI single in the inning. The Clones added a run in the fifth when Nieuwenhuis scored on a Juan Lagares single.

Closure Yury Santana got his 13th save of the year with a three-strikeout ninth.

The win, coupled with a loss by the Jamestown Jammers, puts the Cyclones a half-game ahead in the race for the playoffs.

©2008 The Brooklyn Paper

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