JAMESTOWN, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – Dawson Douty’s single to left scored Jeremy Williams with the g0-ahead run in the top of the seventh inning lifting Jamestown to a 2-1 win over the Bismarck Reps Friday afternoon at Jack Brown Stadium to advance to the championship game of the Southwest Division Tournament and assure a berth into the Class A State Tournament in Williston next weekend.

Trailing 1-0 heading into the seventh, Drew Murray opened the inning for Jamestown with a ground ball to third baseman Cole Richey. Richey fielded the grounder cleanly, but his throw pulled first baseman Reed Trottier off the back. The base umpire called Murray out, but after a meeting with the home plate umpire, the call was reversed and Murray was called safe. Murray stole second then moved to third on Kohl Kratz’s single. With Jacoby Nold at the plate, Murray headed home on the first pitch it what was supposed the be a suicide squeeze. But when Nold missed the ball, Reps catcher Skyler Strand was waiting to tag Murray at home. The two players made contact causing Strand to drop the ball. But the home plate umpire called Murray out for not sliding.

Kratz who did not advance on the play, stole second two pitches later. He then moved to third on Nold’s ground out to second. Jeremy Williams would hit a flare into left field that fell just out of the reach of shortstop Connor Weikum and left fielder Luke Domres. Kratz was able to score easily to tie the game at 1. Williams would steal second, then score on Douty’s single to left. Douty was thrown out trying to go to second to end the inning.

Ryder Lunzman would retire the Reps 1-2-3 in the bottom of the inning to preserve the win. Lunzman allowed just three hits, one unearned run with two walks and nine strikeouts in seven innings.

Nick Hinsz was the tough luck loser for Bismarck. He allowed seven hits, two earned runs in seven innings. He walked one and struck out two.

Williams had two of the seven hits for Post 14.

With the win, Jamestown improves to 15-10 on the year and will move on to the Southwest Division championship Saturday afternoon. They will wait to see who they will play in the championship. Bismarck will take on Mandan in the elimination game at Noon with the winner to play Jamestown at 2:30.

Mandan stayed alive with a 10-9 win over the Bismarck Caps earlier in the day and a 6-1 win over Washburn in the last game of the day.

The Championship game can be heard on 1400 ESPN/107.1 -FM and NewsDakota.com with coverage beginning at 2:15pm.