Saturday<\/p>\n
College Baseball<\/p>\n
Tucson Invitational<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
TUCSON, Ariz.-–\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> (uj.edu<\/a>) The University of Jamestown baseball team split a pair of games Saturday, defeating Bemidji State University 13-7 and falling to Concordia-St. Paul 3-1.<\/p>\n Jamestown (12-4 overall) will face Concordia (Neb.) in a doubleheader Sunday beginning at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n A five-run fourth inning helped stake the Jimmies to a 9-2 lead and UJ held on for a 13-7 win over Bemidji State University.<\/p>\n Jamestown opened the scoring in the first as Grant Okawa<\/a> (SR\/Mississauga, ON) scored on a balk and Lincoln Trujillo<\/a> (SR\/Cheyenne, WY) scored on an error for a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n Two runs by the Beavers in the top of the of second tied the game, but a\u00a0bases-loaded walk to Okawa in the bottom half made it 3-2.<\/p>\n Ben Pedigo<\/a> (JR\/Olympia, WA) doubled in a run in the third for a 4-2 lead. Okawa’s two-run home run and Tayler Cullen<\/a> (JR\/Santa Rosa, Calif.)’s two-run double were followed by a Chase Hacker<\/a> (SR\/Millcreek, WA) sacrifice fly to break the game open.<\/p>\n Bemidji State plated two runs in the fifth to make it 9-4, then Hacker scored on an error in the sixth for UJ’s 10th run.<\/p>\n Okawa connected on his second home run of the game with one out in the seventh for an 11-4 lead. A BSU error brought in two more runs later in the inning.<\/p>\n Mitchell Dennis<\/a> (FR\/Okotoks, AB, Canada) (3-1) was the winning pitcher for the Jimmies. Lane Gerber<\/a> (JR\/Hill City, MN) and Cameron Jenkins<\/a> (JR\/West Richland, WA) combined to toss 3 1\/3 innings of scoreless relief, allowing just one hit while striking out four.<\/p>\n Okawa finished 3-for-4 with four RBI and scored three times. Pedigo was also 3-for-4 and Derek Almanza<\/a> (JR\/Bow, WA) went 2-for-3.<\/p>\n UJ managed just one run against Concordia-St. Paul in a 3-1 loss.<\/p>\n Dirk Eymundson<\/a> (SO\/Parkland County, AB, Canada)’s second-inning double scored Hacker with the game’s first run.<\/p>\n The Golden Bears answered with a run in their half of the second, then added single runs in the fifth and seventh innings.<\/p>\n Okawa, Cullen, Hacker, Brian Rice<\/a> (JR\/Vancouver, WA), and Luke Shekeryk<\/a> (JR\/Seattle, WA) had hits for the Jimmies.<\/p>\n