Sunday<\/p>\n
College Baseball<\/p>\n
Jack Brown Stadium<\/p>\n
Jamestown 7 Valley City State 1<\/p>\n
(UJ<\/a>) A three-run first inning provided the necessary offense while Dru Fitz<\/a> (SR\/Gresham, OR) allowed just one run over five innings Sunday as the University of Jamestown baseball team defeated Valley City State (N.D.) University 7-1 at Jack Brown Stadium.<\/p>\n It was the final game of the fall for UJ, which improves its record to 2-4. The Vikings fall to 3-3.<\/p>\n Kendall Yackley<\/a> (SO\/Lynnwood, WA) (wild pitch) and Grant Okawa<\/a> (SR\/Mississauga, ON) (passed ball) scored for UJ without the benefit of a hit. Matt Meraz<\/a> (SR\/Aurora, CO) made it 3-0 with a single scoring Tayler Cullen<\/a> (JR\/Santa Rosa, Calif.).<\/p>\n Avery Bennefeld homered on the second pitch of the third inning to make it a 3-1 game, but Fitz was able to get out of the inning without any further damage.<\/p>\n Okawa\u2019s solo home run leading off the bottom of the fifth put Jamestown back in front by three runs at 4-1.<\/p>\n UJ tacked on three insurance runs in the bottom of the eighth as Tanner Shepard<\/a> (JR\/Grand Rapids, MN), Brian Rice<\/a> (JR\/Vancouver, WA), and Nolan Turin<\/a> (SO\/Sandy, OR) all crossed the plate.<\/p>\n Fitz, who allowed five hits in his five innings of work, struck out three and walked one, and was boosted by a strong effort from the bullpen. Cameron Multer<\/a> (FR\/Greeley, CO) struck out five in three innings, while Aaron Pugh<\/a> (SR\/Boissevain, MB, Canada) retired the side in order in the top of the ninth. VCSU\u2019s last hit came with two outs in the fifth, and Jimmie pitchers retired the next 14 hitters.<\/p>\n Shepard finished 3-for-4 while Okawa and Meraz also had a pair of hits. Braxton Hewitt<\/a> (SO\/Carrington, ND) and Michael Asahara<\/a> (SO\/Spanaway, Wash.) also drove in runs for the Jimmies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunday College Baseball Jack Brown Stadium Jamestown 7 Valley City State 1 (UJ) A three-run first inning provided the necessary offense while Dru Fitz (SR\/Gresham, OR) allowed just one run over five innings Sunday as the University of Jamestown baseball team defeated Valley City State (N.D.) University 7-1 at Jack […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":84297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209477","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\/209477","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=209477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209479,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209477\/revisions\/209479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}