FREMONT, Neb\u00a0 (uj.edu)\u00a0 The University of Jamestown softball team advanced to the championship game in the Midland Bracket of the GPAC Postseason tournament, defeating Northwestern (Iowa) 11-0 and Dordt (Iowa) 5-4 on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The Jimmies will face the winner of Friday’s noon loser-out contest between Midland (Neb.) and Northwestern\u00a0in the championship at 2:00 p.m. A UJ win in the 2 p.m. game would send them to the best-of-three GPAC Softball Tournament Championship Series on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Jimmies 11, Red Raiders 0 (5 innings)<\/strong><\/u> Meghan Ramage<\/a> (SR\/Grand Forks, ND) and Sydney Prussia<\/a> (SO\/Detroit Lakes, MN) both finished with two hits for Jamestown, who put up six runs in the second inning for an early 7-0 lead.<\/p>\n McCain and Ramage finished with three RBI, while Prussia and Katie Reisdorfer<\/a> (SO\/Fresno, CA) drove in two each.<\/p>\n Prussia drove in Jamestown’s first run with a single to center, scoring Frost, who led off with a walk and moved to second on a single by McCain.<\/p>\n Three Northwestern errors coupled with four Jimmie hits led to a six-run second inning. Reisdorfer’s two-out double scored Morgan Geiszler<\/a> (SO\/Horace, ND) and Prussia to make it 7-0.<\/p>\n Frost and McCain hit back-to-back doubles in the third for UJ’s eighth run, then Ramage brought home two more with a double of her own to make it 10-0. Prussia followed with a single to center scoring Ramage for an 11-0 advantage.<\/p>\n Katie Merchant<\/a> (FR\/South Haven, Minn.) (13-8) recorded her third shutout of the season. In five innings, Merchant gave up five hits, struck out two, and did not issue a walk.<\/p>\n Jimmies 5, Defenders 4<\/strong><\/u> With one out in the sixth, Mariah Martinez<\/a> (FR\/Visalia, Calif.) reached on an error by the Dordt shortstop and advanced to second. Wick walked and moved up a base after Martinez was forced out at third base. McCain followed with a single to center allowing Wick to cross the plate and give UJ a four-run lead.<\/p>\n Back-to-back singles by Dordt opened the seventh inning, and with one out, another single loaded the bases. A two-run Jimmie error cut the lead to 5-3, then a two-out single brought in the third run of the frame and made it a one-run game. UJ reliever Samm Hamilton<\/a> (JR\/Boise, Idaho) got a ground ball to second base for the final out to preserve the win and her first career save.<\/p>\n Jamestown opened the scoring in the bottom of the fourth with four runs, all of which came with two out. Sydney Prussia<\/a> and Katie Reisdorfer<\/a> alternated base hits between the two outs, then Miriah Yoder<\/a> (SR\/Devils Lake, ND) connected for a three-run home run to make it 3-0. Martinez, Wick, and Mikayla Frost<\/a> hit consecutive singles with the latter’s driving in Martinez with the fourth run of the inning.<\/p>\n Dordt broke the shutout with a leadoff triple followed by a sacrifice fly in the top of the fifth.<\/p>\n Wick and Mikayla Frost<\/a> had two hits each to lead the Jimmies. Katie Merchant<\/a> (14-8) won her second game of the day, pitching 6 1\/3 innings while allowing four runs (two earned) on six hits. She struck out two and did not walk a batter for the second straight game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FREMONT, Neb\u00a0 (uj.edu)\u00a0 The University of Jamestown softball team advanced to the championship game in the Midland Bracket of the GPAC Postseason tournament, defeating Northwestern (Iowa) 11-0 and Dordt (Iowa) 5-4 on Thursday. The Jimmies will face the winner of Friday’s noon loser-out contest between Midland (Neb.) and Northwestern\u00a0in 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-171118","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\/171118","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=171118"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171162,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171118\/revisions\/171162"}],"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=171118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMikayla Frost<\/a> (JR\/Melba, ID)\u00a0(JR\/Melba, ID) and\u00a0Allie McCain<\/a> (SR\/Duvall, WA)\u00a0(SR\/Duvall, WA) each had three hits to pace the Jimmies’ 14-hit attack in an 11-0 win over Northwestern (Iowa) in Friday’s opening game of the Midland Bracket in the GPAC Postseason Tournament.<\/p>\n
\nAllie McCain<\/a>‘s two-out single in the bottom of the sixth scored Mariah Wick<\/a> (SO\/Jamestown, N.D.) with the eventual game-winning run as Jamestown held off a Dordt rally in a 5-4 win Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n