{"id":194059,"date":"2020-03-14T21:39:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T02:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=194059"},"modified":"2020-03-15T12:06:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T17:06:12","slug":"jimmie-baseball-sweeps-dakota-wesleyan-sat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=194059","title":{"rendered":"Jimmie Baseball Sweeps Dakota Wesleyan, Sat."},"content":{"rendered":"

TUCSON, Ariz.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> (uj.edu<\/a>)—\u00a0<\/strong>The University of Jamestown baseball team opened Great Plains Athletic Conference play with a doubleheader sweep of Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.) University Saturday, winning 8-0 and 7-1.<\/p>\n

The sweep improves the Jimmies’ overall record to 17-5 and 2-0 in the GPAC. Dakota Wesleyan falls to 6-10 overall and 0-2 in the GPAC.<\/p>\n

UJ scored early and often in the first inning, getting five runs across in their opening trip to the plate.<\/p>\n

Luke Shekeryk<\/a> (JR\/Seattle, WA) doubled in Brian Rice<\/a> (JR\/Vancouver, WA) for the game’s first run, then Lincoln Trujillo<\/a> (SR\/Cheyenne, WY) blasted his sixth home run of the season to make it 3-0. One batter later, Dirk Eymundson<\/a> (SO\/Parkland County, AB, Canada) connected on his fourth homer of the year for a 4-0 lead, then Ben Pedigo<\/a> (JR\/Olympia, WA) doubled in Chase Hacker<\/a> (SR\/Millcreek, WA), making it 5-0.<\/p>\n

Shekeryk added an RBI double in the fourth and another in the sixth while Derek Almanza<\/a> (JR\/Bow, WA) drove UJ’s other run in the sixth. Shekeryk finished 4-for-4 at the dish with three RBI.<\/p>\n

Pedigo doubled twice as he and\u00a0Trujillo finished with multiple hit games.<\/p>\n

Dru Fitz<\/a> (SR\/Gresham, OR) (2-0) struck out 11 in six shutout innings while allowing just three hits.<\/p>\n

A five-run second inning for Jamestown gave them all the runs they would need in a 7-1 win in game two Saturday.<\/p>\n

Jared Bentley<\/a> (SR\/Washougal, WA), Brian Rice<\/a>, Grant Okawa<\/a> (SR\/Mississauga, ON), and Luke Shekeryk<\/a> accounted for the run-scoring hits in the inning.<\/p>\n

Kendall Yackley<\/a> (SO\/Lynnwood, WA)’s sacrifice fly in the sixth made it 6-0 and a Matt Meraz<\/a> (SR\/Aurora, CO) seventh-inning single scored Okawa for run number seven.<\/p>\n

Kensaku Akiya<\/a> (SR\/Kawasaki, Japan) (1-2) took a no-hitter into the fifth and allowed only two hits over seven innings of work, walking two and striking out five.<\/p>\n

Okawa, Meraz, and Bentley all had two hits for UJ.<\/p>\n

Due to the GPAC suspending all athletic activities from Sunday, March 15-Sunday, April 5, Jamestown’s next scheduled game is a home doubleheader against Dordt (Iowa) University on April 9.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The GPAC stated it will reevaluate its decision on March 27<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TUCSON, Ariz.\u00a0\u00a0 (uj.edu)—\u00a0The University of Jamestown baseball team opened Great Plains Athletic Conference play with a doubleheader sweep of Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.) University Saturday, winning 8-0 and 7-1. The sweep improves the Jimmies’ overall record to 17-5 and 2-0 in the GPAC. Dakota Wesleyan falls to 6-10 overall and 0-2 […]<\/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-194059","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\/194059","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=194059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194081,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194059\/revisions\/194081"}],"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=194059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}