{"id":166755,"date":"2019-03-08T14:45:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T20:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=166755"},"modified":"2019-03-08T14:46:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T20:46:11","slug":"jimmie-softball-end-tucson-swing-with-win-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=166755","title":{"rendered":"Jimmie Softball end Tucson swing with win, Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TUCSON, Ariz.<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>(uj.edu) &#8212; <a id=\"rosterLink0\" class=\"rosterProfileLink \" href=\"http:\/\/www.JimmieAthletics.com\/roster\/19\/11\/8067.php\">Katie Merchant<\/a> (FR\/South Haven, Minn.) pitched a complete game, striking out a career-high 12 batters, and <a id=\"rosterLink1\" class=\"rosterProfileLink \" href=\"http:\/\/www.JimmieAthletics.com\/roster\/19\/11\/8048.php\">Morgan Geiszler<\/a> (SO\/Horace, ND) was 3-for-4 with a home run, three runs scored and 2 RBI as the 24th-ranked University of Jamestown softball team finished its Arizona trip with an 8-3 win over Park (Mo.) University Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Jamestown, now 16-6 on the season, went 10-3 at the Tucson Invitational Games.<\/p>\n<p>RBI doubles by Geiszler and <a id=\"rosterLink2\" class=\"rosterProfileLink \" href=\"http:\/\/www.JimmieAthletics.com\/roster\/19\/11\/8056.php\">Katie Reisdorfer<\/a> (SO\/Fresno, CA) in the first inning and a two-run error in the second put the Jimmies in front 4-3. <a id=\"rosterLink3\" class=\"rosterProfileLink \" href=\"http:\/\/www.JimmieAthletics.com\/roster\/19\/11\/8033.php\">Meghan Ramage<\/a> (SR\/Grand Forks, ND) doubled to score Geiszler and <a id=\"rosterLink4\" class=\"rosterProfileLink \" href=\"http:\/\/www.JimmieAthletics.com\/roster\/19\/11\/8047.php\">Sydney Prussia<\/a> (SO\/Detroit Lakes, MN) in the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Geiszler homered with two outs in the sixth to make it 7-3, then <a id=\"rosterLink5\" class=\"rosterProfileLink \" href=\"http:\/\/www.JimmieAthletics.com\/roster\/19\/11\/8066.php\">Mariah Martinez<\/a> (FR\/Visalia, Calif.) drove in <a id=\"rosterLink6\" class=\"rosterProfileLink \" href=\"http:\/\/www.JimmieAthletics.com\/roster\/19\/11\/8063.php\">Steph Cota<\/a> (FR\/Tucson, Ariz.) with a single for UJ&#8217;s final run in the seventh.<\/p>\n<p>Merchant (8-3) recorded at least one strikeout in all seven innings and fanned all three batters in the fourth. Her previous high for strikeouts (7) came on March 2 against Siena Heights (Mich.)<\/p>\n<p>Reisdorfer finished with two hits as the Jimmies racked up 11 in all.<\/p>\n<p>UJ is off until March 20, when they are scheduled to host Mount Marty (S.D.) College in the home opener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUCSON, Ariz.\u00a0 (uj.edu) &#8212; Katie Merchant (FR\/South Haven, Minn.) pitched a complete game, striking out a career-high 12 batters, and Morgan Geiszler (SO\/Horace, ND) was 3-for-4 with a home run, three runs scored and 2 RBI as the 24th-ranked University of Jamestown softball team finished its Arizona trip with an [&hellip;]<\/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-166755","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\/166755","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=166755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166756,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166755\/revisions\/166756"}],"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=166755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}