{"id":280456,"date":"2024-03-07T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=280456"},"modified":"2024-03-07T09:47:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:47:28","slug":"jimmies-split-pair-of-one-run-games-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=280456","title":{"rendered":"Jimmies Split Pair Of One-Run Games Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tucson, Ariz.-<\/strong> The University of Jamestown softball team split a pair of one-run games Tuesday at the Tucson Invitational Games. The Jimmies held off Mayville State (N.D.) 5-4, then had their 11-game winning streak snapped in a 1-0 loss to St. Francis (Ill.)

GAME 1 HIGHLIGHTS<\/strong>
\u2022 Samarah Martinez<\/a> hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the fourth, breaking a 3-3 tie.
\u2022 The Jimmies took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first on a double by Mackenzie Lefebvre<\/a> that scored Martinez and Kayla Quintanilla<\/a>.
\u2022 The Comets tied the game with a pair of runs in the third, but UJ retook the lead on Amanda Burch<\/a>‘s sacrifice fly in the bottom of the third.
\u2022 MSU got one run back in the sixth to cut the Jamestown lead to 5-4.
\u2022 Martinez and Lefebvre each went 2-for-4 at the plate. The Jimmies finished with eight hits in the game.
\u2022 Sunny Halsey<\/a> started in the circle for UJ and pitched two scoreless innings. Bristol Foytik<\/a> got the win, working 3 1\/3 innings, with only one earned run allowed. Hope Ransome<\/a> got the final five outs for the save.

GAME 2 HIGHLIGHTS<\/strong>
\u2022 After Samarah Martinez<\/a> singled with one out in the top of the first, the Jimmies were held without a hit until Hope Ransome<\/a>‘s one-out single in the fifth.
\u2022 St. Francis scored their lone run on a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the first.
\u2022 With one out in the top of the seventh, Ransome doubled to right center, then pinch runner Sonya Rodgers<\/a> took third on a ground out.
\u2022 The Jimmies had a runner at third in two of the last three innings but couldn’t get them to score.
\u2022 Ransome pitched all six innings, giving up three hits, walking two and striking out three.

UP NEXT<\/strong>
\u2022 Jamestown plays two more games in Tucson on Wednesday, taking on Madonna (Mich.) at 10:00 a.m. and Benedictine-Mesa (Ariz.) at 12 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tucson, Ariz.- The University of Jamestown softball team split a pair of one-run games Tuesday at the Tucson Invitational Games. The Jimmies held off Mayville State (N.D.) 5-4, then had their 11-game winning streak snapped in a 1-0 loss to St. Francis (Ill.) GAME 1 HIGHLIGHTS\u2022 Samarah Martinez hit a two-run home run […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":280457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280456","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280492,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280456\/revisions\/280492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/280457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}