DICKINSON – There were two late rallies for the Jamestown Eagles Tuesday, but only one led to a win.
In Legion baseball, the Eagles scored two runs in the sixth inning to take a 5-4 win over the Dickinson Roughriders in the first game of a doubleheader at Dakota Community Bank & Trust Ballpark before Dickinson won the second game in eight innings, 6-5. Jamestown had tied the second game with two runs in the top of the seventh.
Game 1: Jamestown 5, Dickinson 4
Jamestown (1-2, 1-2 AA) trailed 4-3 heading into the top of sixth before winning pitcher Peyton Hochhalter tied the game with an RBI single and Jaxon Kolpin brought in the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly.
Hochhalter and Thomas Newman hit RBI singles in a two-run first inning.
Hochhalter (1-1) allowed four runs and nine hits in five innings with five strikeouts. Newman pitched two scoreless innings for the save, yielding two hits and striking out one.
Game 2: Dickinson 6, Jamestown 5 (8)
Jack Price earned a split for the Roughriders with a game-winning RBI single in the bottom of the eighth off Derek Hatlewick (0-1).
Two seventh-inning runs tied the game for Jamestown (1-3, 1-3). Ethan Oettle reached second base on an error. Tyson Jorissen then singled home courtesy runner Isaac Webster to reduce the Dickinson lead to 5-4, then advanced to third on another error. Adam Sortland followed with an RBI ground out, knotting the game at 5-5.
Nate Walz knocked in two runs with a second-inning single. Hochhalter drove in a run while reaching on a fielder’s choice in the fifth inning.
Newman pitched five and a third innings of relief with five strikeouts.
The Eagles will play Friday and Saturday at the Dakota Classic in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Jamestown will meet St. Michel (MN) on Friday, then Brandon (SD) and Huron (SD) on Saturday.