{"id":166354,"date":"2019-03-04T22:38:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T04:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=166354"},"modified":"2019-03-04T22:38:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T04:38:12","slug":"jimmie-softball-tucson-invite-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=166354","title":{"rendered":"Jimmie Softball Tucson Invite Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

TUCSON, Ariz.\u00a0 (uj.edu)\u00a0 <\/strong>— The 24th-ranked University of Jamestown softball team opened play at the Tucson Invitational Games with wins in four of their first six games, including a 5-4 victory over No. 7 Indiana Wesleyan University.<\/p>\n

Jamestown split their doubleheaders on Saturday and Sunday before picking up two wins on Monday, pushing their overall record this season to 10-5.<\/p>\n

SATURDAY<\/strong><\/u>
\nJamestown 5, Indiana Wesleyan 4\u00a0<\/strong>
\nKat Miska<\/a> (SO\/Pequot Lakes, MN) tied the UJ single-game record with 14 strikeouts as the Jimmies held off a late Indiana Wesleyan comeback bid to start the Arizona trip with a 5-4 victory.<\/p>\n

Sydney Prussia<\/a> (SO\/Detroit Lakes, MN) and Meghan Ramage<\/a> (SR\/Grand Forks, ND) each had a pair of hits and drove in two runs.<\/p>\n

Miska became the third Jimmie pitcher to strike out 14 hitters in a game, joining Tamara Rodgers (1998) and Hanna Dunnigan,\u00a0who accomplished the feat in both the 2016 and 2017 seasons.<\/p>\n

Siena Heights (Mich.) 9, Jamestown 1 (5 innings)<\/strong>
\nThe Jimmie offense mustered just one hit and one run in a 9-1, five-inning loss to Siena Heights in Saturday’s second game.<\/p>\n

Siena Heights led 3-0 before Meghan Ramage<\/a>‘s RBI single cut the lead to 3-1 in the fourth. The Saints then put up six in the bottom of the fifth to end the game via the eight-run rule.<\/p>\n

SUNDAY<\/u><\/strong>
\nSaint Francis (Ill.) 5, Jamestown 4<\/strong>
\nA UJ rally came up just short against 15th-ranked Saint Francis (Ill.) on Sunday. Mariah Martinez<\/a> (FR\/Visalia, Calif.) gave the Jimmies a 1-0 lead with an RBI single in the bottom of the second.<\/p>\n

Saint Francis plated five runs in the top of the fifth to go ahead 5-1. In the bottom of the sixth, Miriah Yoder<\/a> (SR\/Devils Lake, ND) doubled home a run to make it 5-2, then Martinez later drove in another run, cutting the deficit to 5-3.<\/p>\n

Jamestown had the tying run at second base following Kassi Ward<\/a> (SO\/Olympia, WA)’s RBI double, but was unable to get a two-out hit to extend the game. The Jimmies managed 12 hits, with Martinez and Morgan Geiszler<\/a> (SO\/Horace, ND) each getting three. Morgan Flann<\/a> (SO\/Lake Lillian, MN) was 2-for-4 with a pair of runs scored.<\/p>\n

Jamestown 4, Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) 1<\/strong>
\nSteph Cota<\/a> (FR\/Tucson, Ariz.), Meghan Ramage<\/a>, and Mariah Martinez<\/a> all had run-scoring singles\u00a0as the Jimmies broke a 1-1 tie with three runs in the bottom of the fifth against Embry-Riddle (Ariz.)<\/p>\n

Katie Merchant<\/a> (FR\/South Haven, Minn.) went the distance in the circle, allowing one run on two hits while striking out five.<\/p>\n

Martinez was 3-for-3 while Allie McCain<\/a> (SR\/Duvall, WA), Miriah Yoder<\/a>, Morgan Geiszler<\/a>, Santina Zito<\/a> (FR\/Boise, Idaho), and Hailey Sandoval<\/a> (JR\/Lake Stevens, Wash.) also had hits for the Jimmies.<\/p>\n

MONDAY<\/u>
\nJamestown 8, Benedictine (Kan.) 7 (8 innings)<\/strong>
\nDown 6-2 after four innings, the Jimmies rallied with two runs in the fifth and three in the seventh to force extra innings against Benedictine (Kan.)<\/p>\n

Allie McCain<\/a> came home on a groundout by Morgan Geiszler<\/a> in the top of the eighth for the eventual game-winning run.<\/p>\n

Kassi Ward<\/a> hit\u00a0a two-run homer in the top of the first to stake the Jimmies to an early 2-0 lead. Benedictine answered with one run in the second and four more in the third, then added single runs in each of the fourth and fifth innings.<\/p>\n

Katie Reisdorfer<\/a> (SO\/Fresno, CA) had a two-run single in the top of the fifth to make it a 6-4 game. After Benedictine tacked on a run in the bottom of the sixth, Morgan Flann<\/a> doubled home Ward in the top of the seventh to cut the lead to 7-5. An error by the Benedictine catcher allowed Reisdorfer and Flann to score on the play, tying the contest at seven.<\/p>\n

Jamestown 13, Madonna (Mich.) 5 (5 innings)<\/strong>
\nAfter going into extra innings in Monday’s first game, the Jimmies ended their game against Madonna early.<\/p>\n

UJ took a 10-0 lead after three innings, then added three more in the top of the fifth in recording its highest run total yet this season.<\/p>\n

Morgan Geiszler<\/a> was 3-for-4 with three runs scored while Santina Zito<\/a> and Mariah Martinez<\/a> each recorded a pair of hits.<\/p>\n

Martinez, Kassi Ward<\/a>, Steph Cota<\/a>, and Katie Reisdorfer<\/a> all knocked in two runs. Meghan Ramage<\/a> drove in another with a solo home run and Lorigan Steuben<\/a> (FR\/Yacolt, Wash.) plated another for the Jimmies.<\/p>\n

Kat Miska<\/a> tossed a complete game, striking out five over five innings. She gave up three earned runs on five hits and walked four.<\/p>\n

Jamestown is back in action Tuesday with a 10 a.m. contest against Waldorf (Iowa), then will face Missouri Valley College at 12 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TUCSON, Ariz.\u00a0 (uj.edu)\u00a0 — The 24th-ranked University of Jamestown softball team opened play at the Tucson Invitational Games with wins in four of their first six games, including a 5-4 victory over No. 7 Indiana Wesleyan University. Jamestown split their doubleheaders on Saturday and Sunday before picking up two wins […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":98364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166355,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166354\/revisions\/166355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}