WATFORD CITY – For now, the winning for Jamestown Blue Jay Baseball won’t stop.

Jamestown swept Watford City Friday at RRC Field, coming from three runs down to win the opener 8-7 in eight innings and using two seven-run innings for a 17-8 win in the second game. The Blue Jays have now won nine straight games.

Game 1: Jamestown 8, Watford City 7 (8)
Braxton Perkins drove in his fourth run of the game with a go-ahead RBI infield single for Jamestown (9-4, 8-3 WDA) to break a 6-6 tie in the top of the eighth. A second run scored on a throw, and it turned out to be useful because Watford City scored in the bottom of the eighth.

Down 6-3 going into the top of the seventh, the Blue Jays scored three on RBI singles by Brenner Weber and Perkins and a bases-loaded walk to Mason Joseph.

Weber singled in a run in the first inning. Perkins hit an inside-the-park home run in the fourth.

Perkins (2-1) also was the winning pitcher, striking out seven in seven innings. Cayleb Miller earned his first save.

Game 1: Jamestown 17, Watford City 8
Jamestown (10-4, 9-3 WDA) scored seven runs in the second inning to take an 8-4 lead, then scored seven more in the ninth inning.

Kale Verke went 3-for-3, drove in two runs and scored four. Jaxon Kolpin also drove in two runs. He, Thomas Newman and Perkins had two hits each.

Edison Walters (1-1) pitched five and two-thirds effective innings in relief, allowing an unearned run and five hits while striking out seven.

The Blue Jays will host Century in a doubleheader Tuesday at Jack Brown Stadium. Game 1 will be on The Voice of the Blue Jays, Jamestown 107.1, with coverage beginning at 4:15 PM.