Baseball forces deciding game in bracket championship Saturday

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CRETE, Neb.— The University of Jamestown baseball team rallied from a two-run deficit against Doane (Neb.) to force a deciding game, but eight unanswered runs by the Tigers sent the Jimmies to defeat in the bracket title game Saturday afternoon at Doane Ballfield Complex.

THE BASICS

• SCORES: Jamestown 8, Doane 6; Doane 11, Jamestown 4
• LOCATION: Doane Ballfield Complex / Crete, Neb.
• RECORDS: Jamestown 31-19, Doane 38-12 

GAME 1 HIGHLIGHTS

• Jordan Singleton's two-run home run in the bottom of the seventh broke a 6-6 tie and helped lift the Jimmies to an 8-6 victory.
• An inning earlier, Jamestown trailed 6-4 but leveled the score on a solo homer by Hayden Brown and a steal of home by Jackson Bonneville.
• Ryan Muizelaar gave UJ 1-0 lead with an RBI single in the bottom of the first, but a three-run double by Noah Winkelman was the key hit in the Tigers' four-run third inning.
• Singleton's one-out homer in the bottom of the third cut Doane's lead to 4-2, and Jamestown would tie the game an inning later on a double by Julian Sansores and groundout by RJ Woods.
• A wild pitch by Joe Hart in the top of the sixth allowed the go-ahead run to score, then the Tigers would add another run later in the inning on a force play.
• Singleton (3-for-4, 3 RBI, 2 HR) and Brown (3-for-4, 2 R, 1 RBI) led the way for Jamestown. Sansores (2-for-3, 1 R, 1 RBI) also had a multi-hit game.
• Hart (1-0), the fourth UJ pitcher, got the win after throwing 2 2/3 innings of scoreless relief. He struck out four and walked three without giving up a hit.
• Cade Torgerson recorded the final four outs, including two strikeouts, to record his first save.

GAME 2 HIGHLIGHTS

• Chase Burke's squeeze bunt in the top of the third scored Julian Sansores with the first run of the game, but Doane answered with a run in the bottom half and two more in the fourth to take a 3-1 lead.
• Jett Nelson's bases-clearing double with two outs in the fifth put Jamestown back in the lead at 4-3, but those would be the final runs for the Jimmies.
• The Tigers had only one hit in the bottom of the fifth, but a Jimmie throwing error and wild pitch led to two of the three Doane runs in the inning.
• Another run in the seventh made it 7-4 in favor of the Tigers, then a grand slam in the eighth accounted for the final runs of the game.
• Riki Okamoto went 2-for-5 from the leadoff spot, and Alex Alva added a double.
• Connor Nipp (0-2), the third of six Jimmie relievers, took the loss after giving up three runs (two earned) on three hits in two innings.    

UP NEXT

• Jamestown ends the year with an overall record of 31-19, marking 12 out of the last 14 complete seasons that the Jimmies have won 30 or more games.