ST. PAUL, Minn.-- Kat Miska (JR/Pequot Lakes, Minn.) set a new single-game mark for strikeouts as the University of Jamestown softball team opened its season Wendesday with a pair of wins.

The Jimmies defeated Bemidji State University 9-6 then blanked Minnesota-Crookston 3-0 behind Miska's one-hitter.

UJ will be in Aberdeen, S.D., on Friday and Saturday for a pair of games each day at the Fairfield Inn and Suites PC Dome Classic.

Jamestown 9, Bemidji State 6
A four-run sixth inning ended up being the difference for the Jimmies in a 9-6 win Wednesday.

UJ took a 5-0 lead with a pair of runs in the first and three more on Morgan Geiszler (JR/Horace, N.D.)'s first home run of the year. The Beavers chipped away with three of their own in the third and two more in the fourth to tie the game at five.

Steph Cota (SO/Tucson, Ariz.)'s bases-clearing double and a run-scoring double by Jenna Remenar (FR/Vancouver, Wash.) accounted for the offense in the fourth. Jamestown also took advantage of two Bemidji State errors in the inning to take a four-run lead.

Bemidji State scored once in the sixth to cut the deficit to three, but would get no closer.

Katie Merchant (SO/South Haven, Minn.) (1-0) worked the first four innings for the Jimmies, striking out five and walking five. Lucy Sinkkonen (FR/Cloquet, Minn.) pitched the final three innings, allowing one run on two hits while striking out four.

Remenar was a perfect 3-for-3 at the plate while Cota and Mariah Wick (JR/Jamestown, N.D.) each had a pair of hits. Sydney Prussia (JR/Detroit Lakes, Minn.) doubled and Merchant also had an RBI single. Santina Zito (SO/Boise, Idaho) drove in another run with a sacrifice fly.

Jamestown 3, Minnesota-Crookston 0
A first-inning single was the only blemish on Kat Miska's pitching line in Wednesday's second game. Miska retired the final 19 batters in order, finishing with a new Jimmie record of 15 strikeouts in a 3-0 win over Minnesota-Crookston.

Santina Zito hit a two-run home run and Jenna Remenar singled home another run as part of a three-run fourth inning, providing all the offense Miska (1-0) would need.

Mariah Wick doubled and Katie Reisdorfer (JR/Fresno, Calif.), Katie Merchant, and Sydney Prussia also had hits for Jamestown.