JACKALS NAME MATT PADGETT NEW SKIPPER

The New Jersey Jackals today announced Matt Padgett has been hired as the team's new manager. Padgett played for the Jackals during their 2013 run to the Can-Am League Championship Series and served as a bench coach for the team last year.

In 2017, Padgett will pilot a Jackals club that has reached the playoffs for eight consecutive years and made the league Championship Series five of the last six seasons.