CRETE, Neb.\u00a0 (UJ<\/a>) \u2014<\/strong>The University of Jamestown baseball team advanced to the championship game of the Doane bracket in the GPAC postseason tournament, defeating Northwestern (Iowa) College 10-1 and Mount Marty (S.D.) University 9-5.<\/p>\n Jamestown, now 30-22 this season, will face Doane University Saturday at 10 a.m. The Jimmies will need to defeat the Tigers twice to advance to the GPAC championship game.<\/p>\n A bases-loaded walk to Tayler Cullen<\/a> (JR\/Santa Rosa, Calif.) and a two-run single by Mike Asahara<\/a> (SO\/Spanaway, Wash.) staked the Jimmies to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first against Northwestern in Friday’s opener.<\/p>\n Tanner Shepard<\/a> (JR\/Grand Rapids, MN) and Dylan Dudley<\/a> (JR\/Cottage Grove, OR) each drove in a run in the top of the fifth to make it 5-0, then Luke Shekeryk<\/a> (JR\/Seattle, WA) scored on a wild pitch and Cullen doubled in another run for a 7-0 Jimmie lead.<\/p>\n Grant Okawa<\/a> (SR\/Mississauga, ON) came home on a passed ball in the top of the sixth as UJ pushed the advantage to 8-0. Northwestern got on the scoreboard in the bottom half to make it 8-1.<\/p>\n Cullen homered in the seventh and Lincoln Trujillo<\/a> (SR\/Cheyenne, WY) homered in the ninth to round out the Jamestown scoring.<\/p>\n Kensaku Akiya<\/a> (SR\/Kawasaki, Japan) (3-5) went seven innings, allowing one run on five hits. He walked three and struck out five.<\/p>\n Shekeryk and Cullen both had two hits for Jamestown.<\/p>\n Faced with another loser-out game, the Jimmes trailed Mount Marty 2-1 heading into the bottom of the sixth, with their only hit being Brian Rice<\/a> (JR\/Vancouver, WA)’s solo home run leading off the bottom of the first.<\/p>\n Dylan Dudley<\/a> doubled in Grant Okawa<\/a> to tie the game at 2, then Brice Foster<\/a> (SR\/Lynnwood, WA) singled home Lincoln Trujillo<\/a> to give UJ a 3-2 lead. Matt Meraz<\/a> (SR\/Aurora, CO)’s sacrifice fly later scored Foster to make it 4-2.<\/p>\n Mount Marty cut the lead to 4-3 with a single run in the top of the seventh, but UJ broke the game open with a four-run bottom half. With one out, Okawa doubled and Luke Shekeryk<\/a> was intentionally walked. Trujillo came through with a single to score Okawa and move Shekeryk to second. Foster tripled to score Trujillo and Shekeryk, then came home as Tayler Cullen<\/a> reached on an error.<\/p>\n Shekeryk’s single in the eighth scored Chase Hacker<\/a> (SR\/Millcreek, WA) to make it 9-3. The Lancers added a pair of unearned runs in the ninth for the final runs of the game.<\/p>\n