Jimmies Baseball in Tues. Sweep

HANNIBAL, Mo.  (UJ)  — The University of Jamestown baseball team swept Hannibal-LaGrange University Tuesday, winning 12-5 and 5-2. The wins improve the Jimmies record to 10-7 this season.

After being held off the scoreboard in the first inning, UJ scored in each of the final six innings, including three runs in the third and fourth, and two more in the fifth and sixth.

Lincoln Trujillo (SR/Cheyenne, WY) had a big day at the plate, going 4-for-5 with a home run, two RBI, and two runs scored. Brice Foster (SR/Lynnwood, WA) also homered and drove in three runs. Foster, Tayler Cullen (JR/Santa Rosa, Calif.), Grant Okawa (SR/Mississauga, ON), and Dirk Eymundson (SO/Parkland County, AB, Canada) all had two hits. Eymundson doubled twice, while Okawa, Michael Asahara (SO/Spanaway, Wash.), and Derek Almanza (JR/Bow, WA) each doubled.

Kendall Yackley (SO/Lynnwood, WA) started for Jamestown and went 3 2/3 innings, giving up two runs on eight hits, walking one and striking out two. Cameron Jenkins (JR/West Richland, WA) (2-2) was credited with the win. Trey Evans (SO/Moses Lake, WA) and Noah Soltero (JR/North Las Vegas, NV) combined to get the final five outs, allowing just one hit with three strikeouts.

In game two, Hannibal-LaGrange took a 1-0 lead after the first inning. The Jimmies rallied for four runs in the top of the third, getting their first run on an RBI triple by Dylan Dudley (JR/Cottage Grove, OR). Lincoln Trujillo followed with a two-run homer to make it 3-1, and Brice Foster scored on a steal of home for UJ’s fourth run of the inning.

Grant Okawa‘s RBI single in the top of the fourth scored Tayler Cullen to push the lead to 5-1. Hannibal LaGrange hit a solo home run in the bottom of the sixth to make it a three-run game.

Mitchell Dennis (FR/Okotoks, AB, Canada) (1-0), making his first start of the season, allowed four hits and one run over four innings to get the win. He struck out five and walked one. Andy Reed (SR/Woodinville, WA) got the three-inning save, his second, striking out four and giving up one run on two hits.

Cullen, Okawa, Trujillo, and Foster all had two hits.

Jamestown will open GPAC play on March 20 at Hastings (Neb.) College.