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(NewsDakota.com)- The run the Jimmie baseball team is on has begun to creep toward legendary. After winning their first two NAIA national tournament games Thursday they Jimmies have stretched their streak to 17 games in a row.

In 14-innings they took down Northwestern College 8-5, then three hours later had to play the brackets top-seed and No. 2 team in the country Oklahoma City. The Jimmies knocked off the Stars by a final of 3-0.

After Northwestern scored to tie the game at five in the bottom of the seventh inning, the two teams traded zeros until the Jimmies finally broke through in the 14th.

Nolan Skrownek drove in the tie breaking run with a sacrifice fly to center and two batters later Nico Moreno delivered a two-run single to give the Jimmies some cushion. Nick Smart worked two innings in relief for the win.

But it was Kacy Gardiner’s 5.1 scoreless innings that held the Red Raiders in check well into extra innings.

The Jimmies gambled in game one sending Paul Roers to the hill rather than ace Blake Stewart, to try to save Stewart for a potential match-up with Oklahoma City.

The gamble paid off in a big way.

Blake Stewart pitched a complete game two-hit shutout as the Jimmies shocked the Stars. Stewart allowed just two hits while striking out 11 and faced just four over the minimum.

Stewart and OKC’s Cody Crabaugh matched zero for zero until Jamestown finally broke through in the seventh with a pair of run scoring hits. Skrownek drove in the first run and Matt Achter followed suit in the next at bat.

Nico Moreno got on base in the 8th inning and came around to score, after stealing two bases, on a wild pitch.

Jamestown College will play Sterling (KS) in the semi-finals Friday at 2:30pm.

The Jimmies are two wins away from their third trip to the NAIA World Series.