BRIDGEWATER TOWNSHIP, N.J. – A career-long outing for Tyler Santana and a three-run seventh inning fueled Jacksonville University baseball to a 6-5 win over NJIT on Friday at TD Bank Ballpark.
 
It was the fifth consecutive win for the Dolphins (17-9, 4-0) who are off to its best start in ASUN Conference play since 2010.
 
Jacksonville wasted no time in striking first. Ruben Someillan led off the game with a double and went to third when Dakota Julylia legged out a bunt single. With runners at the corners, Angel Camacho grounded out to drive in Someillan and Cory Heffron delivered Julylia with an infield single of his own. JU led 2-0 after one.
 
NJIT managed only one baserunner in the first three innings off of Santana (3-1), but struck on offense in the fourth. A leadoff single was followed up by two strikeouts, but a two-out walk set up a three-run home run to left field to give the Highlanders the lead, 3-2.
 
The lead was short lived, however, as the Dolphins managed to tie it right back up in the top of the fifth. Reagan Wright drew a walk with one out and Someillan collected a second base hit to put runners on first and second. Julylia hit a ground ball to short, but NJIT could not turn the double play, allowing Wright to come in to score and tie it at three.
 
Santana settled in over the next four innings. After issuing a two-out walk in the fifth, he sat down 10 straight Highlanders to keep them off the board into the ninth.
 
JU retook the lead in the seventh, when Brandon Dudley led off with a single to left, was bunted over by Wright, went to third on a groundout and scored on balk. One pitch later, Julylia collected his third hit of the day on a single to right, and Camacho drove one over the left field wall to make it 6-3. Camacho picked up his team-high 20th, 21st and 22nd RBI of the year on the day, and hit his ASUN Conference leading seventh home run, a new single-season career best.
 
Santana tried to finish what he started, coming out for the ninth and promptly hitting the first batter, before getting a strikeout and flyout. With NJIT down to its final strike, a single to right field scored a run and ended Santana's day. He worked a career-long 8.2 innings, topping his previous career-best of eight against NJIT last year.
 
Zach Bryant relieved Santana and walked the first man before giving up a run scoring single to right, putting the tying run on. He then got a strikeout to end it and picked up his fifth save of the season.
 
Jacksonville is now playing a doubleheader tomorrow starting at 1 p.m. to wrap the series, due to inclement weather in the forecast on Sunday.