– UJ Sat. Women’s GPAC Soccer Tourney, Baseball Results

Saturday

Women’s Soccer

HASTINGS, Neb. (UJ) — The University of Jamestown women’s soccer team advanced to the semifinals of the GPAC postseason tournament, winning 2-1 over Hastings College Saturday afternoon.

Update….

(JimmiePride.com) – The University of Jamestown women’s soccer team looks to clinch a spot in the finals of the GPAC postseason tournament, but will have to get past No. 18 Briar Cliff (Iowa) University in a semifinal matchup Tuesday at 1 p.m.

Jamestown (12-7), seeded fifth in the postseason tournament, won on the road Saturday at fourth-seed Hastings (Neb.) College by a 2-1 score. Briar Cliff (12-1-2), the tournament’s top seed, took care of Dordt (Iowa) 4-1 on Saturday.

Tuesday’s other semifinal matchup has seventh seed Midland (Neb.) at third seed Concordia (Neb.) beginning at 7 p.m.

The winners of Tuesday’s games will meet Friday in the championship game with the higher seed hosting.

Previously…

Jamestown, the fifth seed in the tournament, will play at the top-seeded Chargers on Tuesday. Game time is to be determined.

Hastings opened the scoring in the 21st minute on an unassisted goal by Dekota Schubert.

Following a corner kick by Kamryn Fiscus (SO/Yakima, Wash.) in the 38th minute, a scramble for the ball ensued in front of the Hastings goal. Briana Perry (JR/Las Vegas, Nev.) came out with the ball and found Autumn Opperud (JR/Huntington Beach, Calif.), who drew the Jimmies level with her second goal of the season.

The score remained 1-1 until the 56th minute, when a sublime cross from Claire Struble (JR/Murrieta, Calif.) connected on time with a streaking Penelope Hoppe (JR/Temecula, Calif.), and Hoppe headed the ball into the back of the net for the go-ahead and eventual game winner.

UJ’s defense allowed just one second half shot on goal, and three for the entire match. Jamestown outshot the Broncos 18-6 overall and 9-3 on target. Alex Nowka (SO/Anchorage, Alaska) made two saves between the sticks for the Jimmies.

Jamestown improves their record to 12-7 and will face the 18th-ranked Chargers for the second time this season. Briar Cliff defeated UJ 3-1 in Sioux City on October 31.

Saturday

UJ Baseball…

SIOUX CENTER, Iowa (UJ) — The University of Jamestown baseball team scored 20 runs Saturday but had to settle for a split with Dordt University, winning 12-4 and falling 9-8 in the second game.

UJ, now 20-12 overall and 7-5 in the GPAC, returns home to host Concordia-Moorhead College in a non-conference, single nine-inning game on Monday at 1 p.m.

Brian Rice (JR/Vancouver, WA) and Brice Foster (SR/Lynnwood, WA) each went 3-for-4 in game one and Kendall Yackley (SO/Lynnwood, WA), Matt Meraz (SR/Aurora, CO), and Luke Shekeryk (JR/Seattle, WA) homered as the Jimmies won the opener 12-4.

Jamestown led 2-1 entering the third and tacked on four runs on four hits in the inning. Shekeryk launched a two-run shot and Foster singled in a pair to help pad the lead.

Yackley homered with one out in the fourth to make it 7-1, but the Defenders came back with a pair in the bottom half to cut the lead to 7-3.

Meraz homered with two outs in the fifth for an 8-3 lead, and a throwing error and groundout led to three more runs for Jamestown in the sixth. Yackly tripled in the top of the seventh and came home on a single by Rice for the final run.

Cameron Jenkins (JR/West Richland, WA) (4-2) pitched 2 2/3 innings of relief, allowing one run on two hits, to get the win. He struck out three and walked one.

Rice and Dudley had doubles for the Jimmies, who finished with 10 hits in the game.

Dordt took a 2-0 lead after the first in game two, but UJ answered with four in the second to go ahead 4-2. Brice Foster, Brian Rice, and Grant Okawa (SR/Mississauga, ON) had run-scoring hits in the inning.

The lead was short-lived as the Defenders scored three in the bottom of the second to retake a 5-4 advantage.

Foster’s two-run homer in the third made it 6-5 Jimmies, which held up until Dordt tied it in the bottom of the fourth.

Rice’s sacrifice fly in the fifth broke the tie, but Dordt took the lead for good in the bottom of the fifth with a three-run inning.

Foster hit a sacrifice fly in the eighth to bring the Jimmies within a run, and UJ was able to get the tying run into scoring position with one out in the ninth.

Jamestown finished with 11 hits. Foster was 3-for-4 and drove in four runs. Matt Meraz went 2-for-3.

Andy Reed (SR/Woodinville, WA) (1-2) was the losing pitcher, giving up two runs on two hits in an inning pitched