The Dordt University basebal team lost a pair of one-run games to the University of Jamestown in a Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) doubleheader played today at Open Space Park in Sioux Center, Iowa. The Defenders lost game one 5-4 and dropped game two 4-3 on a walkoff single by the Jimmies.
Dordt finished 1-3 in the four-game set against the Jimmies and is now 4-16 in conference play, 16-22 overall, with eight games left in the regular season. Jamestown improves to 9-9 in the conference, 20-16 overall.
Game Two Recap:
Box Score
Troy Berg singled home the winning run with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning to earn the walkoff win for Jamestown in game two.
Tied 3-3, the Defenders threatened in the top of the seventh when they had two runners on base with one out only to have Jamestown turn away the scoring chance with a 6-4-3 double play.
Following a harmless pop out by Jamestown to start the bottom of the frame, Chase Burke walked, stole second and scored the winning run off the single hit by Berg on a close play and collision at home plate.
Dordt totaled six hits and scored all three runs via home runs by
Kaden Davis and
Juan Sanchez. Davis smashed a two-run shot, his sixth home run of the season, in the top of the fifth inning to put the Defenders in front 2-1. Sanchez added a solo home run in the sixth, his second of the year, and extended the Defenders lead to 3-1.
Jamestown came back with two runs and tied the score 3-3 in the bottom of the sixth inning. Triston Madison hit a one-out double that chased the Defenders starting pitcher,
Mike Bruell, and brought in
Diego Benitez (1-2), who served up a two-run home run to Jordan Singleton, his sixth of the season, on a 2-2 pitch.
Bruell, making his third career start and second this season, held Jamestown to six hits and two runs in a career-high 5.1 innings. He walked one and struck out two.
Nolan Christianson led the Defenders at the plate, going 2-for-3, and extended his hit streak to eight games with a leadoff single in the fourth. Sanchez, Davis,
Jason Carrig and
Anthony Rodriguez all had one hit each.
Kendall Yackley (2-0) earned the win for Jamestown as he recorded the final two outs in the top of the seventh. Cade Torgerson started the game for the Jimmies, allowing four hits and two runs while striking out five.
Game One Recap:
Box Score
Dordt rallied from an early 3-0 deficit only to have Jamestown score two runs in the bottom of the sixth to get the win in game one, 5-4.
Logan Harris led the Defenders at the plate, going 2-for-3 with a pair of home runs and three RBIs.
Jason Carrig added two hits, both singles, and
Anthony Rodriguez added a solo home run the fifth inning.
With Dordt trailing 3-0 in the top of the third inning, Harris blasted a 3-2 pitch over the left field fence, scoring
Kaden Davis from first, and drawing the Defenders to within one (3-2).
The score remained the same after both teams went scoreless in the fourth. Dordt then followed wth a two-run fifth inning to take its first lead (5-4) and chase Jamestown starter Elias Harris. Rodriguez tied the game at three when he lined the first pitch from Harris over the centerfield fence. Two batters later, the Defenders went ahead after Harris hit his second home run of the game, a solo shot to left field.
The Defenders lead was short-lived, however, as Jamestown came back with a pair of runs in the bottom of the fifth. Hayden Brown was hit by pitch, advanced to third on a double hit by Ben Patton and scored after a sacrifice fly hit by Chase Burke. Patton later scored the winning run on a ball hit by Troy Berg and misplayed by the Defenders infield.
Chaz Gothard (2-3) pitched well in spite of the loss, holding Jamestown to eight hits and three earned runs and matched his career high with six innings pitched. The junior aloso matched his career-best with six strikeouts.
Connor Nipp (2-2), the second of four Jamestown pitchers, produced the final two outs in the fifth inning and earned the win. Kendall Yackley recorded the final out with the Defenders' tying run at second base to pick up his third save.
Brown and Patton paced the Jimmies offense with two hits each; Burke drove in two runs and added a double.
