BISMARCK – A younger Jamestown Blue Jay baseball squad took the field for the first time in 2024 with mixed results.

Jamestown opened its season Tuesday with a doubleheader split with Bismarck Century.  The Blue Jays won the first game 7-6 before the Patriots rallied to win the nightcap 10-5 at Aaron Haaland Memorial Field.

Game 1: Jamestown 7, Century 6

Consecutive three-run innings in the fourth and fifth vaulted Jamestown (1-0, 1-0 WDA) to a 6-0 lead.  Tyson Jorissen, one of four seniors returning from last season’s WDA regular season champs, drove in a run in the fourth with a double and two more with another two-base hit in the fifth.  Ethan Oettle, winning pitcher Thomas Newman and Jaxon Kolpin also drove in runs for Jamestown.

Newman (1-0) allowed one hit in four scoreless innings.  Jaden Prochnow earned the save by working the last two and two-thirds innings.

Andrew Brubakken drove in two runs for Century (0-4, 0-1).

Game 2: Century 10, Jamestown 5

The Blue Jays held a 5-4 lead before Century (1-4, 1-1) rallied for four runs in the fifth inning off Kolpin (0-1).  Gavin Lill provided the final margin with a two-run home run in the sixth.  Kaiden Hakanson, Braxton Perkins and Adam Sortland drove in runs for Jamestown (1-1, 1-1).

Sortland allowed four runs (one earned) in five innings with four strikeouts.

Jamestown will have its first home games of the season at Jack Brown Stadium Friday, hosting Minot in a doubleheader.