From Jamestown Athletics

SIOUX CENTER, Iowa– The University of Jamestown softball team lost a pair of games Wednesday evening against Dordt University, 4-3 in 10 innings and 3-0.

The Defenders scored twice in the bottom of the tenth to take a 4-3 win in game one.

Jamestown scored first, as Gracie Fisher (SO/Bemidji, Minn.) led off the top of the second with a walk. A sacrifice bunt by Katie Reisdorfer (SR/Fresno, Calif.) moved Fisher to second, and then with two outs, Skylar Thorpe (FR/Petaluma, Calif.) tripled to score Fisher.

Dordt tied the game with a run in the bottom of the fourth, but the Jimmies retook the lead in the top of the sixth. LaLa Romero (FR/Surprise, Ariz.) walked and then stole second base. With two out, Reisdorfer doubled to left field, easily allowing Romero to come home to make it 2-1.

The lead was short-lived as the Defenders pushed one run home in the bottom of the sixth, tying the game at 2-2. That score held until the top of the tenth, when Jamestown retook the lead. Thorpe started the inning as the runner at second base. With two out, Ally Battistoni (FR/Elizabeth, Colo.)’s infield single hit the dirt and stuck, allowing Battistoni to reach safely, and Thorpe, who ran on contact, continued all the way around the bases for the go-ahead run.

Kat Miska (SR/Pequot Lakes, Minn.) went the distance for Jamestown, pitching 9 2/3 innings with 10 strikeouts. Reisdorfer had two of UJ’s four hits.

In game two, the Jimmies were held to four hits–a Katie Reisdorfer double in the second, a LaLa Romero single in the sixth, and singles by Reisdorfer and Skylar Thorpe in the seventh.

Dordt scored twice in the bottom of the second, then added another run in the fifth.

Katie Merchant (JR/South Haven, Minn.) pitched a complete game for UJ, striking out four and allowing three unearned runs.

Jamestown is back in action Saturday when they take on Doane (Neb.) University in Aberdeen, S.D., beginning at 12 p.m.