JAMESTOWN – Two games were tight for Jamestown Blue Jay Baseball against St. Mary’s, but both were wins.
JHS swept St. Mary’s 5-3 and 6-5 Tuesday at Jack Brown Stadium for their second and third straight wins.
Game 1: Jamestown 5, St. Mary’s 3
There’s a baseball adage that says, “A walk is as good as a hit.” The Blue Jays (3-4, 2-3 WDA) had plenty of that sort of good in this game, drawing 11 walks.
Two of those walks scored in a go-ahead three-run rally in the bottom of the fourth after there had been two out and nobody on. Braxton Perkins doubled. Ethan Oettle and Hudson Rode both walked to load the bases, then Kale Verke walked to force in the tying run and a 2-2 score. Thomas Newman, held to one RBI in the first six games, then singled in two and Jamestown led 4-2.
Verke drew another bases-loaded walk in the sixth and Jamestown was up 5-2.
Jaxon Kolpin drove in the first JHS run in the first inning with a sacrifice fly.
Derek Hatlewick (1-1) pitched through adversity, allowing at least one runner in every inning, but he pitched a five-hit complete game with six strikeouts.
Connor Schatz had two hits for St. Mary’s (1-7, 0-5).
Game 2: Jamestown 6, St. Mary’s 5
Patience at the plate again paid off for Jamestown (4-4, 3-3 WDA) in a four-run rally in the third inning for a 5-1 lead.
Hudson Rode was hit by a pitch and Braxton Perkins walked, both with the bases full, before Mason Joseph hit a two-run double to left.
An error scored the sixth Jamestown run in the fifth before St. Mary’s (1-8, 0-6) scored four runs in the sixth. Zach Gaiser then got the Jays out of the inning and pitched the seventh for the save.
Braxton Perkins (1-1) allowed just one unearned and no hits in five innings while striking out five.
Oettle singled in Jamestown’s first run in the first inning.
The Blue Jays will play a doubleheader at Bismarck High on Thursday.