Saturday
College Baseball
Tucson Invitational
TUCSON, Ariz.-– (uj.edu) The University of Jamestown baseball team split a pair of games Saturday, defeating Bemidji State University 13-7 and falling to Concordia-St. Paul 3-1.
Jamestown (12-4 overall) will face Concordia (Neb.) in a doubleheader Sunday beginning at 5 p.m.
A five-run fourth inning helped stake the Jimmies to a 9-2 lead and UJ held on for a 13-7 win over Bemidji State University.
Jamestown opened the scoring in the first as Grant Okawa (SR/Mississauga, ON) scored on a balk and Lincoln Trujillo (SR/Cheyenne, WY) scored on an error for a 2-0 lead.
Two runs by the Beavers in the top of the of second tied the game, but a bases-loaded walk to Okawa in the bottom half made it 3-2.
Ben Pedigo (JR/Olympia, WA) doubled in a run in the third for a 4-2 lead. Okawa’s two-run home run and Tayler Cullen (JR/Santa Rosa, Calif.)’s two-run double were followed by a Chase Hacker (SR/Millcreek, WA) sacrifice fly to break the game open.
Bemidji State plated two runs in the fifth to make it 9-4, then Hacker scored on an error in the sixth for UJ’s 10th run.
Okawa connected on his second home run of the game with one out in the seventh for an 11-4 lead. A BSU error brought in two more runs later in the inning.
Mitchell Dennis (FR/Okotoks, AB, Canada) (3-1) was the winning pitcher for the Jimmies. Lane Gerber (JR/Hill City, MN) and Cameron Jenkins (JR/West Richland, WA) combined to toss 3 1/3 innings of scoreless relief, allowing just one hit while striking out four.
Okawa finished 3-for-4 with four RBI and scored three times. Pedigo was also 3-for-4 and Derek Almanza (JR/Bow, WA) went 2-for-3.
UJ managed just one run against Concordia-St. Paul in a 3-1 loss.
Dirk Eymundson (SO/Parkland County, AB, Canada)’s second-inning double scored Hacker with the game’s first run.
The Golden Bears answered with a run in their half of the second, then added single runs in the fifth and seventh innings.
Okawa, Cullen, Hacker, Brian Rice (JR/Vancouver, WA), and Luke Shekeryk (JR/Seattle, WA) had hits for the Jimmies.
Kensaku Akiya (SR/Kawasaki, Japan) (0-2) took the loss, despite allowing just two runs on six hits over six innings. He walked one and struck out five.
Sunday….
Tucson Invitational
Jamestown 4 Concordia NE 0
Jamestown 7 Concordia NE 6
