TUCSON, Ariz.-- Meghan Ramage (JR/Grand Forks, ND) was 3-for-4 with a home run and drove in four runs as the 21st-ranked University of Jamestown softball team defeated Dordt (Iowa) College 9-4 Tuesday afternoon at the Tucson Invitational Games.

Jamestown improved to 17-3 on the season and are 6-1 in Tucson with five games remaining on the road trip. Just about a half hour before Tuesday's first pitch, the Jimmies cracked the NAIA Coaches' Top 25 Poll for the first time in program history.

Emma Keller (SR/Poulsbo, WA) and Tiffany Buis (SO/New Lenox, IL) also homered for UJ, who finished with 14 hits in the game. Keller was 3-for-4 with three runs scored and knocked in a pair of runs, and Buis rapped a double as part of a 2-for-3 day at the plate. Mikayla Frost (SO/Melba, ID) also had three hits while Kassi Ward (FR/Olympia, WA) and Tifani Schorzman (SR/Coeur d'Alene, ID) each drove in a run.

Ann-Marie Crandlemire (FR/Sicamous, BC) (3-0) earned the win, pitching four innings and giving up two runs on four hits. She struck out two and did not walk a batter in her longest outing since she went 4 1/3 innings against Presentation (S.D.) on February 17. Jasmine Pipella (FR/Boissevain, MB) worked the final three innings, giving up two runs on five hits, striking out one.

The Jimmies scored twice in the top of the first and added another run in the second to take a 3-0 lead. Dordt got within a run after a sacrifice fly by Corinne May and a single by Carley Deroin made it 3-2.

Schorzman's fifth-inning double scored Keller, and one batter later, Ramage connected on a three-run homer to bump the lead to 7-2.

Keller's two-run shot in the sixth made it 9-2, but Dordt got two of the runs back on Deroin's triple. Pipella got out of the inning with no further damage and kept the Defenders off the board in the seventh.

Jamestown plays twice on Wednesday, taking on Marymount California University at 11:00 a.m. CDT and Dordt at 1:00 p.m. CDT.