{"id":170647,"date":"2019-04-26T21:12:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T02:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=170647"},"modified":"2019-04-26T21:12:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T02:12:47","slug":"jimmie-softball-splits-at-dordt-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=170647","title":{"rendered":"Jimmie Softball splits at Dordt, Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORANGE CITY, Iowa\u00a0 (uj.edu) — Katie Merchant<\/a> (FR\/South Haven, Minn.) tossed a three-hit shutout and Allie McCain<\/a> (SR\/Duvall, WA) had three hits while driving in a pair of runs as the University of Jamestown softball team won 3-0 over Dordt (Iowa) College in the opening game of Friday’s doubleheader.<\/p>\n

The Defenders spoiled a strong pitching performance by Kat Miska<\/a> (SO\/Pequot Lakes, MN) in the nightcap, using a walk-off home run in the bottom of the eighth inning to win 3-2 for a split.<\/p>\n

Jamestown, now 27-15 overall and 11-9 in Great Plains Athletic Conference play, travel to Morningside (Iowa) for a 1 p.m. doubleheader Saturday to finish the regular season.<\/p>\n

Game 1: Jimmies 3, Defenders 0<\/strong>
\nKatie Merchant<\/a> scattered three hits over seven innings to record her second shutout of the season Merchant (12-7) retired 11 batters in a row after giving up a leadoff single in the second and did not allow another hit until a leadoff single in the sixth.<\/p>\n

Morgan Geiszler<\/a> (SO\/Horace, ND) drove in Meghan Ramage<\/a> (SR\/Grand Forks, ND) with a first-inning single to give UJ a 1-0 lead. Allie McCain<\/a> made it 3-0 with a two-run single in the second.<\/p>\n

Geiszler and Sydney Prussia<\/a> (SO\/Detroit Lakes, MN) both had two hits for the Jimmies. Meghan Ramage<\/a>, Katie Reisdorfer<\/a> (SO\/Fresno, CA), and Mariah Martinez<\/a> (FR\/Visalia, Calif.) also recorded hits.<\/p>\n

Game 2: Defenders 3, Jimmies 2 (8 innings)<\/strong>
\nRachel Evavold homered with one out in the bottom of the eighth to give Dordt a 3-2 win and a split of the doubleheader.<\/p>\n

Dordt took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the fourth on a solo home run by Marissa Vandenberg, then led 2-0 after Jessica Oules singled home Brooklyn Van Oort.<\/p>\n

Allie McCain<\/a> cut the lead in half in the Jimmies’ next time at bat, singling through the hole at short to score Steph Cota<\/a> (FR\/Tucson, Ariz.).<\/p>\n

A two-out single by Mariah Martinez<\/a> in the top of the seventh tied the game for Jamestown.<\/p>\n

Miska (12-7) struck out 11 batters in 7 1\/3 innings, the sixth time she has fanned 10 or more batters this season.<\/p>\n

Mikayla Frost<\/a> (JR\/Melba, ID), Morgan Geiszler<\/a>, and Mariah Wick<\/a> (SO\/Jamestown, N.D.) also had hits for UJ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ORANGE CITY, Iowa\u00a0 (uj.edu) — Katie Merchant (FR\/South Haven, Minn.) tossed a three-hit shutout and Allie McCain (SR\/Duvall, WA) had three hits while driving in a pair of runs as the University of Jamestown softball team won 3-0 over Dordt (Iowa) College in the opening game of Friday’s doubleheader. The […]<\/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-170647","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\/170647","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=170647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170648,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170647\/revisions\/170648"}],"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=170647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}