CRETE, Neb.\u00a0 (uj.edu) — The University of Jamestown baseball team closed out its regular season Sunday with a pair of one-run games. The Jimmes took the opener 4-3 before the host Tigers rallied for a 1-0 win in game two.<\/p>\n
Jamestown (31-16 overall, 19-9 Great Plains Athletic Conference) clinched the number two seed for the postseason conference tournament and will host one of the two four-team brackets. The eight-team playoff begins Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n Game 1: Jimmies 4, Tigers 3<\/strong> Jamestown trailed 3-1 going into the top of the fifth, but RBI singles by Chase Hacker<\/a> (JR\/Millcreek, WA) and Tanner Roundy<\/a> (SR\/Henderson, NV) brought the Jimmies level.<\/p>\n Okawa, Hacker, and Jaden Yackley<\/a> (SR\/Lynnwood, Wash.) all had two hits for UJ. Lincoln Trujillo<\/a> (JR\/Cheyenne, WY) walked twice and stole two bases. Hacker, Wrigg, and Matt Meraz<\/a> (JR\/Aurora, CO) also had steals.<\/p>\n Dru Fitz<\/a> (JR\/Gresham, OR) (5-2) went all seven innings on the mound, allowing three runs (one earned) on eight hits. He walked two and struck five.<\/p>\n Game 2: Tigers 1, Jimmies 0\u00a0<\/strong> With two out, Lukas White singled to center against Jimmie reliever Joe Spradlin<\/a> (SR\/Helena, MT) (2-1). Pinch-runner Justin Matthews moved to second following a single by Talon Little, chasing Spradlin. Tanner Gettman greeted Joe Harris<\/a> (SO\/Recluse, WY) with a single to left, scoring Matthews with the game-winner.<\/p>\n Tanner Roundy<\/a> pitched six innings for UJ, giving up just one hit with one walk and three strikeouts. Spradlin went 2 2\/3 innings and allowed three hits, walked one, and struck out one.<\/p>\n Jamestown had just three hits in the game–one each by Jaden Yackley<\/a>, Drake Pilat<\/a> (SR\/Winnipeg, MB, Canada), and Zach Zurbrugg<\/a> (SR\/Bremerton, WA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CRETE, Neb.\u00a0 (uj.edu) — The University of Jamestown baseball team closed out its regular season Sunday with a pair of one-run games. The Jimmes took the opener 4-3 before the host Tigers rallied for a 1-0 win in game two. Jamestown (31-16 overall, 19-9 Great Plains Athletic Conference) clinched the […]<\/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-170696","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\/170696","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=170696"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170737,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170696\/revisions\/170737"}],"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=170696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNick Wrigg<\/a> (JR\/Helena, MT)’s sixth-inning single scored Grant Okawa<\/a> (JR\/Mississauga, ON) from second base, breaking a 3-3 tie as the Jimmies held on for a 4-3 win in game one.<\/p>\n
\nJamestown and Doane traded zeroes for eight-and-a-half innings before the Tigers broke through with the game-winning run in the bottom of the ninth.<\/p>\n