SIOUX CENTER, IA (JimmiePride.com) – The University of Jamestown baseball team scored 20 runs Saturday but had to settle for a split with Dordt University, winning 12-4 and falling 9-8 in the second game.

UJ, now 20-12 overall and 7-5 in the GPAC, returns home to host Concordia-Moorhead College in a non-conference, single nine-inning game on Monday at 1 p.m.

Brian Rice (JR/Vancouver, WA) and Brice Foster (SR/Lynnwood, WA) each went 3-for-4 in game one and Kendall Yackley (SO/Lynnwood, WA), Matt Meraz (SR/Aurora, CO), and Luke Shekeryk (JR/Seattle, WA) homered as the Jimmies won the opener 12-4.

Jamestown led 2-1 entering the third and tacked on four runs on four hits in the inning. Shekeryk launched a two-run shot and Foster singled in a pair to help pad the lead.

Yackley homered with one out in the fourth to make it 7-1, but the Defenders came back with a pair in the bottom half to cut the lead to 7-3.

Meraz homered with two outs in the fifth for an 8-3 lead, and a throwing error and groundout led to three more runs for Jamestown in the sixth. Yackly tripled in the top of the seventh and came home on a single by Rice for the final run.

Cameron Jenkins (JR/West Richland, WA) (4-2) pitched 2 2/3 innings of relief, allowing one run on two hits, to get the win. He struck out three and walked one.

Rice and Dudley had doubles for the Jimmies, who finished with 10 hits in the game.

Dordt took a 2-0 lead after the first in game two, but UJ answered with four in the second to go ahead 4-2. Brice Foster, Brian Rice, and Grant Okawa (SR/Mississauga, ON) had run-scoring hits in the inning.

The lead was short-lived as the Defenders scored three in the bottom of the second to retake a 5-4 advantage.

Foster’s two-run homer in the third made it 6-5 Jimmies, which held up until Dordt tied it in the bottom of the fourth.

Rice’s sacrifice fly in the fifth broke the tie, but Dordt took the lead for good in the bottom of the fifth with a three-run inning.

Foster hit a sacrifice fly in the eighth to bring the Jimmies within a run, and UJ was able to get the tying run into scoring position with one out in the ninth.

Jamestown finished with 11 hits. Foster was 3-for-4 and drove in four runs. Matt Meraz went 2-for-3.

Andy Reed (SR/Woodinville, WA) (1-2) was the losing pitcher, giving up two runs on two hits in an inning pitched