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Box Score 2 WICHITA, Kan.-- The University of Jamestown softball team split its two games on Sunday at the Friends Invitational, defeating Oklahoma Panhandle State 8-0 in six innings and losing 11-8 to Friends University.
Jamestown, now 10-4 this season, will play a doubleheader Monday at Tabor (Kan.) College beginning at 2 p.m.
UJ 8, Oklahoma Panhandle State 0 (6 innings)
Jenna Remenar (FR/Vancouver, Wash.) went 3-for-4 with a pair of runs scored and two RBI to lead the Jimmies' 14-hit attack in game one.
Katie Merchant (SO/South Haven, Minn.) was 2-for-3 and Morgan Geiszler (JR/Horace, N.D.) and Santina Zito (SO/Boise, Idaho) both were 2-for-4.
Jamestown put up five runs in their first at-bat and never looked back.
Katie Reisdorfer (JR/Fresno, Calif.)'s two-run double in the bottom of the fourth extended UJ's lead to 7-0, and the eighth run of the game came via an error by OPSU.
Kat Miska (JR/Pequot Lakes, Minn.) (4-1) pitched a three-hitter for her third shutout of the season. She struck out 10 and walked just one.
Friends 11, UJ 8
Morgan Geiszler led off the game with a home run, and Santina Zito and Megan Neiles (FR/Winnipeg, MB) had run-scoring singles to stake the Jimmies to a 3-0 lead over Friends in Sunday's second game before the Falcons rallied for eight unanswered runs over the next three innings.
Katie Reisdorfer's single in the fifth scored Gentrey Turin (FR/Sandy, Ore.) and Santina Zito to make it 8-5. UJ tied the game in the sixth, getting four hits and a fielder's obstruction to help account for three runs.
Friends retook the lead in the bottom of the sixth on a two-run home run, then added an insurance run with a single to left.
Reisdorfer was 3-for-4 with three RBI while Geiszler, Zito, Neiles, and Kassi Ward (JR/Olympia, Wash.) all had two hits.
Lucy Sinkkonen (FR/Cloquet, Minn.) (1-2) came on in relief of Katie Merchant in the third inning and pitched the final four innings, allowing three runs on six hits while striking out two.