OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – The University of Jamestown baseball team rallied from a 7-0 deficit to defeat #20 Concordia (Neb.) 11-9 in the first game of Sunday's doubleheader at Piedmont High School in Oklahoma City, Okla., then the Bulldogs took game two by a score of 10-4.
THE BASICS
SCORES: Jamestown 11-4, Concordia 9-10
LOCATION: Piedmont High School / Oklahoma City, Okla.
RECORDS: Jamestown 7-3, Concordia 4-1
GAME ONE: JAMESTOWN 11, CONCORDIA 9 (7-inning game)
- The Jimmies trailed 7-0 after the Bulldogs scored three in the first and four more in the second.
- Jordan Singleton drove in UJ's first run with a single in the top of the third to score Ryan Muizelaar, then later in the inning, Isaiah Roebuck reached on an error that allowed Singleton and Triston Madison to score.
- Jamestown got with 7-6 after top of the fourth, scoring three more runs. Chase Burke led off the inning with a triple and Muizelaar followed with a single to make it 6-4. After stealing second, Muizelaar came home on a double by Alex Alva. Alva later scored on Roebuck's RBI double with two outs.
- UJ took the lead in the top of the fifth with another three-run inning, and all three runs came with two outs. Alva's two-run single made it 8-7, then Madison drove in Alva to extend the lead to 9-7.
- In the top of the seventh, Roebuck gave the Jimmies a pair of insurance runs with a two-out, two-run double that scored Singleton and Alva, and UJ took an 11-8 lead into the final inning.
- The Bulldogs scored once in the bottom of the seventh, but Ethan Petty got the final hitter to ground out to end the game.
- Avery Liestman (3-1) got the win, pitching five innings and striking out four while walking one. Petty recorded his first save.
- Jamestown finished with 13 hits in the game, with Burke, Muizelaar, Alva, Singleton, Madison, and Roebuck getting two hits each.
GAME TWO: CONCORDIA 10, JAMESTOWN 4 (9-inning game)
- Jamestown took a 2-0 lead in the top of the first on a triple by Alex Alva that scored Chase Burke, and an error by the Bulldogs allowed Alva to score as well.
- That would be the only offense for the Jimmies until the top of the seventh. Concordia scored once in each of the first and second innings, then three times in the third and four more in the fourth to lead 9-2.
- Landon Runge and Ben Swennumson had RBI singles for the Jimmies in the seventh to cut the deficit to 9-4, but the Bulldogs scored another run in the bottom of the seventh for a 10-4 lead.
- Runge finished 2-for-3 at the plate to lead UJ.
- Luke Zimmer (2-2) started for Jamestown and lasted 3 innings, giving up six earned runs on four hits, striking out 4.
UP NEXT
Jamestown will be the home team on the scoreboard Monday as the two teams wrap up their neutral site series in Oklahoma City starting at 10:00 AM.