SIOUX FALLS, SD – Jamestown Jimmies Baseball began their second series of NSAA play with a split against Mayville State on Sunday. Mayville State took the opener 5-3 before the Jimmies thrashed the Comets in the nightcap 19-7 at the Diamonds at the Sanford Sports Complex. This series was moved here due to recent snowfall in Jamestown.
Game 1: Mayville State 5, Jamestown 3 (7)
Jamestown (22-9, 3-2 NSAA) missed early scoring chances, but still trailed just 2-1 before a pivotal sixth inning.
Ben Bohlmann, pitching for the Jimmies in relief of starter Avery Liestman, threw a wild pitch with the bases loaded and two out. Carson Lundmark scored for Mayville State (10-15, 2-3) for a 3-1 Comets lead, but UJ catcher Triston Madison could not locate the ball, allowing Cameron Goff to also score. Riley Rankin followed with an RBI single and Mayville State was up 5-1.
Will Bachman hit a two-run pinch-double in the bottom of the sixth for Jamestown, but was stranded.
Rankin drove in two runs for MSU. Ryan Muiezlaar hit an RBI double for Jamestown.
Liestman (5-3) gave up only five hits, striking out one and walking one.
Garret Lundmark (2-1) pitched his first collegiate complete game for Mayville State, allowing five hits and striking out four.
Jamestown had runners in five of the seven innings and stranded seven on base.
Game 2: Jamestown 19, Mayville State 7 (7)
Madison, more than atoning for his defensive lapse in game one, drove in four runs in the first two innings as Jamestown (23-9, 4-2) sailed to the win.
The Jimmies’ offense was sizzling from the start of this game, knocking out Mayville State starter Derek Palmiere after only one inning plus seven batters.
Jamestown notched three first-inning runs on a two-run single by Madison and a wild pitch.
The Jimmies then put the game away by sending 13 to the plate in a nine-run second inning. Chase Burke led off the frame with a home run. Madison drove in two more with a double. Isaiah Roebuck drove in a run with a bunt single on a safety squeeze. Ben Patton and Riki Okamoto hit RBI triples, Burke drove in another with a ground out and Muizelaar hit an RBI double.
Five more runs were plated in the UJ third on RBI singles by Landon Runge, Burke and Alex Alva and a two-run double by Muizelaar, who had three doubles and four of Jamestown’s 20 hits, his second four-hit game in nine days.
Runge singled in another run in the fourth.
Luke Zimmer (4-3) benefitted from the big offensive show, working five innings. He allowed seven runs and eight hits. Mayville State (10-16, 2-4) scored six runs in the fifth, including a three-run home run by Goff.
UJ and MSU will play two more games in Sioux Falls on Monday. Coverage will begin at 1:45 PM on The Voice of the Jimmies, Jamestown 107.1.