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VALLEY CITY, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – Jamestown scored in every inning on the way to an 11-3 win over the Valley City Barons 11U team Tuesday morning at Sam’s Field.

Kyler Perkins two run single started the scoring for the visitors in the first. Giffin Gegelman added an rbi single in the second to make it 3-0. They would add two more in the third for a 5-0 lead.

Valley City would get those two back on the bottom of the third when Andrew Sykora and Andon Buelow went back-to-back with home runs over the center field fence to cut the lead back to 5-2.

Back Jamestown would get two more back in the top of the fourth for a 7-2 lead.

Valley City would score one more in the bottom of the fourth for a 7-3 lead.

But Jamestown would finish the scoring with four in the fifth for the win.

Gegelman had three hits for Jamestown. He scored twice and drove in two. Joe Trumbauer, Evan Harty, Kyler Perkins and Brady Anderson all had two hits for Jamestown. Perkins had three rbi. Trumbauer had three runs scored while Anderson scored twice.

Andrew Sykora had three of Valley City’s four hits. Buelow’s long ball that nearly took out the window at Washington Elementary, was the fourth.

Jamestown would take the second game as well.

The 12U’s played two as well and split this double header. Valley City took the first game 8-0 and Jamestown too the second 11-7

In game one, the Valley City Monarchs scored six times in the second inning, highlighted by Jack Samuelson’s grand slam. Two batters later, Isaac Norby hit a solo shot and Boston Larson had a sacrifice fly earlier in the inning.

The Monarchs would score two more on back-to-back mammoth shots by Samuelson and Corbin Powell. Both shots landed on the roof of Washington Elementary. For Samuelson, it was home runs number three and four and for Powell it was number four.

The two also combined on the two hit shutout. Samuelson started and went the first four innings for the win. He allowed both hits with three walks and ten strikeouts. Powell pitched a scoreless fifth helped out by nifty game ending double play started by second baseman Trevor Fetsch. Fetsch field the grounder off the bat of Michael Cramer, tagged the runner coming by. After getting spun around, fired a strike to first baseman Andrew Sykora for the double play.

Jamestown would take the second game 11-7.