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JACKSON HAS FIVE HITS & FIVE RBI AT PT. JERSEY
EXCELSIOR 2B LEADS THE WAY FROM THE TOP OF THE LINEUP AS TEAM SCORES TWO DOZEN RUNS

JERSEY CITY (June 4, 1878) - Excelsior & Port Jersey opened Week Five of P.C.B.L. play in New Jersey at Hoboken & Oakland Park on Tuesday, and the defending Metro champs laid waste to the early season’s surprise team:

By scoring nine runs in the top of the 1st Excelsior put a very quick end to the contest, and their lead grew as large as 24-4 before Pt. Jersey scored two runs at the end of the game to lose by “only” eighteen runs.

Jim Creighton was Excelsior’s pitcher in the win, with the legend putting in a decent performance (CG, 11 HA, 3 ER, 0 BB, 3 ER) as he desperately tries to get his season back on the tracks (6-8, 4.86), but it was Excelsior’s offense that starred in Jersey City.

Everybody in the Excelsior lineup aside from Creighton had multiple base hits, and it was leadoff & 2B Sam Jackson who sparked the Excelsior attack:

• T1: Leadoff Single past 2B off C. King (R)
• T1: 2-run Single to LF off C. King (R)
• T3: Line Out to SS (2 out)
• T5: Leadoff Double to RCF off D. Kunze
• T6: Grounds Out to 2B (3 out)
• T7: 2-run Single to RCF off D. Kunze (R)
• T8: 1-run Single past 2B off J. Caviness
• TOTAL: 5/7 (2B), 3 R, 5 RBI, 88 GMSC

Jackson’s performance was the third-best so far this season by an A.P.B.L. batsman, and it was much needed as the second-year 2B entered the game with a .223 AVG (.596 OPS). On Tuesday, Jackson raised his Batting Average to .252 (.652 OPS) with 19 Runs Batted In (68 RBI/90 G) through the first 25 games of the 1878 season.

Excelsior is 12-13, which is good for fifth place in the Metropolitan Conference at five games behind leaders Knickerbocker. The very surprising Jersey City team is 15-10, 3rd in the Colonial and three games behind leaders Shamrock.