JAMESTOWN – Jamestown Jimmie Softball continued its slugging and an unbeaten NSAA start Monday.
The Jimmies rapped out 32 hits in a sweep of Dakota State 11-2 and 14-4 inside the Nelson Family Bubble. Jamestown leads the NSAA standings by one game at 8-0 and has won 10 straight games.
Game 1: Jamestown 11, Dakota State 2
Maddie Spaeth and Kayla Quintanilla drove in three runs each, Spaeth and Trinity Gregg each had four hits as Jamestown (23-9, 7-0 NSAA) totaled 16 safeties.
Dakota State (4-24, 0-7) trailed just 3-2 before Jamestown scored five runs in the fourth inning on RBI singles by Lauren Weigel and Spaeth and a two-run home run by Quintanilla. In the Jamestown seventh, Spaeth tripled in two runs and Quintanilla hit an RBI ground out.
Kylie Yanzuk took a bases-loaded walk for Jamestown in the first.
Hope Ransome (7-4) improved to 4-0 in conference play, giving up two runs and four hits in five innings with four strikeouts.
Game 2: Jamestown 14, Dakota State 4 (5)
Through three innings, Dakota State (4-25, 0-8 NSAA) led 4-2. Then, Jamestown (24-9, 8-0) scored 12 runs and 10 hits combined in the fourth and fifth innings for a run-rule win.
Spaeth continued her great hitting. She was 4-for-4 and 14-for-18 in the series. Spaeth is hitting .470 and is batting .581 (18-for-31) with three triples, a double, a home run and 15 RBI in eight NSAA games.
Tori Olson was 3-for-4 with 4 RBI. Her run-scoring triple in the fourth brought UJ within 4-3. Sydney Grendler tied the game with an RBI single, then Aspen McInnes-Rourie stole home for a 5-4 Jamestown lead. Spaeth slammed a two-run triple, a sixth run scored on an error and Olson drove in her second run of the inning with a double.
In the Jimmie fifth, Spaeth doubled in one run, Quintanilla doubled in two and Olson singled in two.
Maddie Hairgrove (7-1) won in relief, pitching two and two-thirds scoreless innings with five strikeouts and allowing just one hit and one walk.
Jamestown will play a doubleheader against NCAA Division I program North Dakota Wednesday in Grand Forks.
photo credit: University of Jamestown Athletics