Tuesday
College Baseball
VALLEY CITY, N.D. (UJ) — An eighth-inning rally by the University of Jamestown baseball team came up short against Valley City State Tuesday night as the Vikings defeated the Jimmies 9-4 at Charlie Brown Field.
Kendall Yackley (SO/Lynnwood, WA)’s two-out solo home run in the top of the third put the Jimmies in front early.
The Vikings responded with two runs in the bottom of the third, then added single runs in each of the next three innings.
UJ rallied for three runs in the top of the eighth on an RBI single by Brian Rice (JR/Vancouver, WA) and a two-run single by Tayler Cullen (JR/Santa Rosa, Calif.) to make it 5-4.
VCSU took advantage of two Jimmie errors, a pair of walks, and strung together three hits to bring in four runs in the bottom of the eighth and stretch their lead to 9-4.
Jamestown went down in order in the top of the ninth and fell to 1-4 this season.
Cullen was 2-for-5 to lead the offense. Michael Asahara (SO/Spanaway, Wash.) and Grant Okawa (SR/Mississauga, ON) also had hits for UJ.
Kensaku Akiya (SR/Kawasaki, Japan) started for Jamestown and lasted 4 2/3 innings, giving up four runs (one earned) on seven hits. He walked two and struck out seven.
The Jimmies close out their fall season on Sunday, October 4, when they host Valley City State at 1 p.m.
