BRANDON, SD – Lessons continue to come up for Jamestown Jimmies Baseball.  The latest is situational hitting.

The lack of that may have cost the Jimmies a chance at a second conference win Friday in a 6-2 loss to Minnesota Crookston at First National Bank Field at Aspen Park.

While UJ (5-17, 1-9 NSIC) had at least one baserunner in eight of the nine innings, the Jimmies stranded 12 runners, eight of which were scoring position (second or third base).  Jamestown managed only one hit in 15 at bats with runners in scoring position.

Jamestown left the bases loaded in the third inning and stranded two runners each in three different innings.

Aaron Wensloff and Americo Sculati each had three hits for Minnesota Crookston (12-10, 5-5).  Wensloff and Jackson Fliflet homered for the Golden Eagles.

Trayson Kostial hit his sixth home run for Jamestown to give the Jimmies a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second inning.

Wensloff’s solo home run tied the game for UMC in the second and Fliflet’s solo shot put the Golden Eagles ahead in the third.

Wensloff hit an RBI single in the fifth for Minnesota Crookston, who later scored a seventh inning run on a double play and an eighth inning run on a wild pitch.  Connor Bushbaum drove in a run with a ninth inning single.

Adrian Warcken drove in the other Jamestown run with an eighth inning double.

Isaac Wensloff (3-1) earned the win, allowing just a run and a four hits in five innings of relief.

Isaac Hanson (2-2) yielded four runs and five hits in four and a third innings for the Jimmies.

Jamestown will again meet Minnesota Crookston in Brandon on Saturday, this time for a doubleheader.  Coverage will begin at 11:45 AM on The Voice of the Jimmies, Jamestown 107.1.