Wednesday<\/p>\n
Trapper Field<\/p>\n
Jimmie Softball<\/p>\n
Game One<\/p>\n
Jamestown 12 Dordt 5\u00a0 (5 innings)<\/p>\n
Game Two<\/p>\n
Jamestown\u00a0 8 Dordt 6<\/p>\n
The University of Jamestown<\/a> softball team opened the home portion of its 2021 schedule with a pair of wins over Dordt (Iowa) University Wednesday afternoon at Trapper Field. UJ took the first game 12-2 in five innings and won the second game 8-6.<\/p>\n Jamestown, now 23-7 overall and 6-2 in the GPAC, are home again on Saturday against Briar Cliff (Iowa) University at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n Gracie Fisher<\/a> (FR\/Bemidji, Minn.)’s two-run home run with one out in the second gave the Jimmies an early 2-0 lead. The Defenders answered with a pair of runs their next trip up to tie the game.<\/p>\n Kassi Ward<\/a> (JR\/Olympia, Wash.) lined a double to deep left center in the bottom of the third, scoring Morgan Geiszler<\/a> (JR\/Horace, N.D.) and Mariah Wick<\/a> (JR\/Jamestown, N.D.) to make it 4-2.<\/p>\n The Jimmies put the game away in the bottom of the fourth with an eight-run inning, which started off with Jenna Remenar<\/a> (FR\/Vancouver, Wash.)’s double to score Alexa Geller<\/a> (FR\/Fort Collins, Colo.). After Steph Cota<\/a> (SO\/Tucson, Ariz.) singled to put runners on the corners, Geiszler smashed a three-run homer to deep center field, clearing the chain-link fence forty feet beyond the temporary fence set up at Trapper Field. Wick came home on a Ward single to make it 9-2, then Sydney Prussia<\/a> (JR\/Detroit Lakes, Minn.) and Katie Reisdorfer<\/a> (JR\/Fresno, Calif.) connected on back-to-back doubles, increasing the lead to 11-2. Up for the second time in the inning, Remenar singled home Reisdorfer for the final run of the inning.<\/p>\n Kat Miska<\/a> (JR\/Pequot Lakes, Minn.) retired the Defenders in order in the top of the fifth to end the game via the run rule. Miska (11-1) allowed just three hits and one earned run while working around six walks. She struck out 10 batters, the ninth time this season reaching double digits in strikeouts.<\/p>\n UJ finished with 13 hits in the opener, led by Wick, Ward, Reisdorfer, Fisher, and Remenar with two hits each.<\/p>\n Game two was more of a back-and-forth affair, and once again a big fourth inning by the Jimmies proved to be the difference.<\/p>\n Dordt took a 2-0 lead after the top of the first, but Geiszler cut the lead in half with a solo home run coming on a 3-2 count leading off the bottom of the first.<\/p>\n Lauren Diemert<\/a> (FR\/West Fargo, N.D.) tied the game in the bottom of the second with a single to right center that scored Megan Neiles<\/a> (FR\/Winnipeg, MB).<\/p>\n The Defenders plated two more runs in the top of the third to go ahead 4-2, but once again the Jimmies rallied in the bottom half. Mariah Wick<\/a> doubled to lead off the inning and moved to third on a groundout. Sydney Prussia<\/a> launched a home run to deep left field to tie the game at four.<\/p>\n Dordt took advantage of a couple of Jamestown fielding miscues in the top of the fourth, scoring the go-ahead run without the benefit of a hit.<\/p>\n Geiszler and Ward had RBI doubles and Wick drove home a pair with a triple as the Jimmies took command of the game 8-5.<\/p>\n A solo homer by the Defenders in the top of the sixth was the final scoring in the game.<\/p>\n