Champions 7, Jackals 2

(Ottawa wins series 3-1)

The Ottawa Champions are heading for the Can-Am League championships.

The Ottawa baseball team, in its second year of existence, completed an upset of the first-place-finishing New Jersey Jackals with a 7-2 victory on Saturday night at Little Falls' Yogi Berra Stadium in Game 4 of a best-of-five semifinal.

The Champions will now move on to meet the winner of the other semifinal between the Quebec Capitales and the Rockland Boulders. Quebec took a 2-0 series lead into a Saturday night game in Rockland.

The first two games of the best-of-five championship series will be played in Ottawa, with Game 1 a 7:05 p.m. start Tuesday at RCGT Park.

The Jackals had comfortably taken top spot in the regular-season standings with a record of 62-38 — Ottawa was fourth at 51-49 — but it was all Ottawa after an 11-2 New Jersey win in Game 1. The Champions eked out a 4-3 win in Game 2 at home before the series shifted to the Jackals' home park, where the visitors took a series lead with an 8-3 win on Friday night.

On Saturday night, shortstop Daniel Bick had a two-run home run while third baseman Donal Duarte went three-for-five with two runs scored. Right-fielder Adron Chambers, first baseman Alexander Malleta and designated hitter Kenny Bryant had two hits apiece.

Starter Steve Borkowski got the win, scattering seven hits and three walks over five innings, keeping the Jackals to two earned runs while striking out five.