From Jimmie Athletics

YANKTON, S.D. (jimmiepride.com)– The Jimmie baseball team won its fifth straight game Sunday with a sweep of Mount Marty University. UJ won the opener 8-5 then held on for a 5-4 win in game two.

Game 1:
Six runs in the fourth inning ended up being the difference for Jamestown in an 8-5 victory.

Kendall Yackley and Xander Orejudos hit back-to-back home runs to open the game, but the Lancers answered with a pair of runs in the second to tie the game at 2-2.

UJ loaded the bases with one out in the top of the fourth, and Alex Alva came through with a pinch-hit single to give the Jimmies a one-run lead. Troy Berg cleared the bases with a double to center and Jamestown opened up a 6-2 lead. One out later, Orejudos doubled to score Berg, and then came home on Triston Madison‘s single to left center.

Mount Marty cut into the lead with a pair of runs in the fifth and added another in the sixth but got no closer.

Orejudos finished with a pair of hits and scored twice. Luke Zimmer improved to 7-1 on the mound, giving up four earned runs in 5 1/3 innings. Hayden Brown recorded his fifth save with 1 2/3 innings of scoreless relief.

Game 2:
Hayden Brown‘s two-run triple and Jordan Singleton‘s RBI single in the third inning helped the Jimmies to a 4-0 lead and they held on for a 5-4 win.

Singleton drove in Kendall Yackley with a first inning double to make it 1-0 before UJ added to the lead in the third. Mount Marty made it a two-run game after scoring in the fifth to make it 4-2, and Jamestown got one of those runs back in the seventh on Isaiah Roebuck‘s pinch-hit single with two outs.

The Lancers had a golden opportunity to tie the game or take the lead in the eighth. Trailing 5-4, Mount Marty loaded the bases and had only one out before Yackley came on in relief and retired the next two hitters with no further damage.

Singleton had a 4-for-4 game at the plate while Yackley recorded a pair of hits and his fourth save of the year. Michael Demand (1-0), the second of five Jimmie pitchers, worked 2 2/3 innings and struck out two to get the win.

Next Up:
The Jimmies (22-16, 11-9 GPAC) will be in Orange City, Iowa, on Monday for a doubleheader against Northwestern College beginning at 1 p.m.