DICKINSON, N.D. (uj.edu) — The University of Jamestown baseball team took to the road for a home doubleheader Tuesday, serving as the home team against Presentation (S.D.) College at Dakota Community Bank & Trust Ballpark in Dickinson. The games were originally scheduled to be played Wednesday at Jack Brown Stadium in Jamestown, but were moved up a day due to adverse field conditions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Jamestown took game one 9-4 before Presentation forced a split with a 12-5 victory in the nightcap. The Jimmies had their eight-game winning streak come to an end and are now 23-11 this season while the Saints are 14-15.<\/p>\n
UJ is in Nebraska this weekend for a pair of Great Plains Athletic Conference doubleheaders, taking on Concordia University Friday and Midland University on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Game 1: Jimmies 9, Saints 4<\/strong> Jaden Yackley<\/a> (SR\/Lynnwood, Wash.), Chase Hacker<\/a> (JR\/Millcreek, WA), Matt Meraz<\/a> (JR\/Aurora, CO), and Lincoln Trujillo<\/a> (JR\/Cheyenne, WY) each had two hits. Yackley, Hacker, and Tanner Roundy<\/a> (SR\/Henderson, NV) all swiped a pair of bases as the Jimmies finished with nine steals in the game.<\/p>\n Andrew Reed<\/a> (JR\/Woodinville, WA) and Seth Pigg<\/a> (SR\/Reno, NV) each worked an inning of relief to help close out the win.<\/p>\n Game 2: Saints 12, Jimmies 5<\/strong> Jamestown had just one hit, a Jaden Yackley<\/a> double in the bottom of the third, through six innings. Yackley and Drake Pilat<\/a> (SR\/Winnipeg, MB, Canada) would both double in the bottom of the seventh for UJ’s final base knocks.<\/p>\n Jesse Spangler and Kyle Angielski each had four hits for the Saints. Three other PC batters posted two-hit games as the Saints ended with 18 hits off of six Jimmie hurlers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DICKINSON, N.D. (uj.edu) — The University of Jamestown baseball team took to the road for a home doubleheader Tuesday, serving as the home team against Presentation (S.D.) College at Dakota Community Bank & Trust Ballpark in Dickinson. The games were originally scheduled to be played Wednesday at Jack Brown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":98363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169357","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\/169357","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=169357"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169386,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169357\/revisions\/169386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFour runs in each of the first and third innings helped Jamestown to an 8-0 lead. Those runs were more than enough support for Joe Spradlin<\/a> (SR\/Helena, MT), who pitched five innings for the win. Spradlin allowed three unearned runs on six hits, walked one, and struck out six.<\/p>\n
\nPresentation built a 5-1 lead after three innnings, eventually taking a commanding 10-2 advantage in a 12-5 win in game two.<\/p>\n