How to pronounce “sauger” in English

And right off the bat, we were playing all last week in the deep, deep, dirty South.And then we came back Sunday and we were playing up in Saugerties, New York, way past New Paltz, and this lady comes up to me and she says" I received a letter from your commander, and frankly I find it embarrassing he doesn't know how to spell the word 'quintet'."