Tuesday…
College Baseball…
Tucson Invitational
Jamestown 4 Antelope Valley College 1
TUCSON, Ariz. (uj.edu) — Four pitchers combined to hold Antelope Valley (Calif.) to one run as the University of Jamestown baseball team won 4-1 Monday afternoon at the Tucson Invitational Games.
Grant Okawa (SR/Mississauga, ON) had a monster day at the plate, driving in all four UJ runs while going 3-for-4 with a home run.
Jamestown trailed 1-0 entering the bottom of the fourth. Chase Hacker (SR/Millcreek, WA) was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning and Okawa followed with his fourth homer of the season for a 2-1 lead.
Okawa struck again in the fifth, with a one-out single that scored Michael Asahara (SO/Spanaway, Wash.) and Jared Bentley (SR/Washougal, WA).
Kendall Yackley (SO/Lynnwood, WA) went the first four innings on the bump for UJ, allowing one run on three hits while striking out two. Austin Pesicka (SR/West Linn, OR) tossed two scoreless innings, followed by a scoreless frame from Aaron Pugh (SR/Boissevain, MB, Canada). Andy Reed (SR/Woodinville, WA) worked the final two innings for his fourth save.
Bentley, Lincoln Trujillo (SR/Cheyenne, WY), and Matt Meraz (SR/Aurora, CO) also had hits for the Jimmies, who will be back in action Friday with a conference doubleheader against Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.)
