Jimmies win fourth straight with DH sweep of Warriors

FREMONT, Neb.-- The Jimmie baseball team posted its second straight Great Plains Athletic Conference sweep with a pair of victories over Midland University on Saturday afternoon.

Jamestown scored a combined total of 29 runs in the doubleheader, winning game one 16-4 and taking game two by a score of 13-4. UJ improves to 15-11 overall and 4-4 in GPAC play.

The Warriors led 2-1 after two innings in game one, only to have the Jimmies score ten straight runs to break the game open.

Kendall Yackley and Hayden Brown each drove in runs in the top of the third to retake a 3-2 lead.

UJ opened the floodgates in the top of the fourth on Alex Tolbert's pinch-hit grand slam and a three-run shot by Kendall Yackley. Two walks and a pair of hit batsmen helped lead to another run.

Jordan Singleton's three-run double was the big blow in a five-run inning for Jamestown in the seventh. The Jimmies sent all nine batters to the plate in extending their lead to 16-4.

Luke Zimmer (6-0) allowed four runs on six hits over 5 2/3 innings to get the win. Yackley, Singleton, and Payton Smith all had three hits for Jamestown. Yackley drove in five runs and scored three times, and Singleton drove in three and scored three.

In game two, Singleton put UJ on the board with a three-run shot in the top of the first. Chase Burke launched the Jimmies' second grand slam of the day in the second inning, part of a seven-run frame that saw UJ open up a 10-1 advantage.

Midland cut into the lead with three runs in the third, but single runs by the Jimmies in the fifth, sixth, and ninth were more than enough insurance.

Connor Nipp (1-0) came on in relief in the fifth and held the Warriors off the scoreboard for the final five innings, striking out seven.

Julian Sansores was 3-for-4 while Yackley and Reece McKenzie both had a pair of hits.

Jamestown (15-11, 4-4 GPAC) will play at Briar Cliff (Iowa) University on Sunday in a doubleheader beginning at 12 p.m.