Saturday…<\/p>\n
SIOUX CITY, Iowa\u00a0 (uj.edu)\u00a0 — Looking at the result\u00a0of Saturday’s opening game in the best-of-three GPAC Championship series, one would think the Morningside Mustangs\u00a0would cruise to the title, having won eight in a row and 22 of 24, including three straight against the University of Jamestown by a combined score of 26-3.<\/p>\n
Despite losing 13-0 in five innings in the opener, the Jimmie softball team responded in game two with a 7-5 victory to force a winner-take-all third game. In the finale, Morningside scored twice in the bottom of the fifth and hold on for a 3-1 win.<\/p>\n
The Mustangs (30-9) earn the GPAC’s second automatic qualifying bid to the NAIA National Championship, while the Jimmies most likely have their season end with a record of 30-21.<\/p>\n
Game 1: Mustangs 13, Jimmies 0 (5 innings)<\/strong> Hallie Misiaszek and Alex Nelson combined on a one-hit shutout, facing just two batters over the minimum. Mikayla Frost<\/a> (JR\/Melba, ID)’s two-out single in the top of the third and an error allowing Morgan Geiszler<\/a> (SO\/Horace, ND) to reach in the top of the second accounted for the only Jamestown baserunners.<\/p>\n Katie Merchant<\/a> (FR\/South Haven, Minn.) was roughed up for seven runs on four hits in just an inning and a third. Three of the runs allowed by Merchant were unearned.<\/p>\n Morningside made it 10-0 with a single run in the third, then added three more in the fourth before Nelson retired the Jimmies in order in the top of the fifth.<\/p>\n Game 2: Jimmies 7, Mustangs 5<\/strong> Morgan Geiszler<\/a> and Katie Reisdorfer<\/a> (SO\/Fresno, CA) had run-scoring singles in the fourth to cut Morningside’s lead to 4-2. The Mustangs got one of the runs back in the fifth, making the score 5-2.<\/p>\n Miriah Yoder<\/a> (SR\/Devils Lake, ND) struck out swinging to begin the seventh, but reached first on the dropped strike. Mariah Martinez<\/a> (FR\/Visalia, Calif.) and Mariah Wick<\/a> (SO\/Jamestown, N.D.) both singled to load the bases, then Mikayla Frost<\/a> was hit by a pitch to force in a run. Allie McCain<\/a> (SR\/Duvall, WA) singled to left, scoring Martinez and keeping the bases loaded. A fielder’s choice off the bat of Meghan Ramage<\/a> (SR\/Grand Forks, ND) brought in Wick, tying the game at five while leaving runners at first and second with one out. A passed ball moved the runners up one base each. After a strikeout for the second out of the inning, Geiszler singled to right, scoring McCain and Ramage to give the Jimmies a 7-5 lead.<\/p>\n The Mustangs had their first batter in the bottom of the seventh reach on a single, but Merchant retired the next three hitters in order.<\/p>\n Reisdorfer was 3-for-4 and Geiszler finished 2-for-4 as part of the UJ 10-hit attack.<\/p>\n Game 3: Mustangs 3, Jimmies 1<\/strong> Morningside led 1-0 until the top of the fifth, when Sydney Prussia<\/a> (SO\/Detroit Lakes, MN) singled home Mikayla Frost<\/a> to make it 1-1. Jamestown loaded the bases on a walk and back-to-back errors, then had the lead runner at third forced out on a fielder’s choice.<\/p>\n In the bottom half, the Mustangs’ first batter tripled to left, then the next batter doubled to make it 2-1. A sacrifice fly accounted for the second run of the frame and a 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n Frost and Geiszler each rapped a double, while Ramage and Reisdorfer also had hits.<\/p>\n Merchant went all six innings in the circle, allowing seven hits and three runs. She walked two and struck out two.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n GPAC championship, Sioux City, IA<\/p>\n Best-of-three series<\/p>\n Game 1<\/p>\n Morningside (Iowa) College 13 University of Jamestown 0 (5 innings)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Game 2<\/p>\n University of Jamestown 7, (RV) Morningside (Iowa) College 5<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Game 3<\/p>\n (RV) Morningside (Iowa) College 3, University of Jamestown 1<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saturday… SIOUX CITY, Iowa\u00a0 (uj.edu)\u00a0 — Looking at the result\u00a0of Saturday’s opening game in the best-of-three GPAC Championship series, one would think the Morningside Mustangs\u00a0would cruise to the title, having won eight in a row and 22 of 24, including three straight against the University of Jamestown by a combined […]<\/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-171319","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\/171319","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=171319"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171336,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171319\/revisions\/171336"}],"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=171319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMorningside sent 13 batters to the plate in\u00a0bottom of the second, scoring nine times on five hits, a pair of UJ errors, and a wild pitch. The nine-run outburst put Jamestown in an early hole that was too much to overcome as the Mustangs won 13-0 in five innings.<\/p>\n
\nThe Jimmies found themselves down 4-0 and 5-2, then rallied for five runs in the top of the seventh in a 7-5 win that evened the series at a game apiece.<\/p>\n
\nTwo runs in the bottom of the fifth ended up being the difference as Morningside took the finale by a score of 3-1.<\/p>\n