JAMESTOWN – Huge offensive and shutdown pitching put the 2026 WDA season off to a good start for Jamestown Blue Jays Softball.

Jamestown swept Minot 20-0 and 14-4 Thursday inside the University of Jamestown’s Nelson Family Bubble, with the Blue Jays’ Maddie Hoff pitching a no-hitter in the first game.

Game 1: Jamestown 20, Minot 0 (4)
Hoff (2-0) struck out 10 and walked two in four dominating innings on the mound for JHS (2-1, 1-0 WDA). At one point, eight consecutive outs by Hoff were strikeouts.

Meanwhile, eight of the nine Blue Jay starters had at least one hit, with Rilie Wolf and Kinlee Klettke each driving in four runs. Brooke Jackson had three hits and three RBI for Jamestown, who scored five runs in the second inning and seven in the third. Eight more runs in the fourth clinched the run-rule win over Minot (4-1, 0-1). Jackson and Klettke had two doubles each. Jordan Mikkelson hit a double and a triple. Jamestown totaled 14 hits and also drew eight walks.

Game 1: Jamestown 14, Minot 4 (5)
Jamestown (3-1, 2-0 WDA) had 14 more hits and scored in each inning before again wrapping the game up early.

Avery Graves, who had driven in two runs in the first game, had a double, two singles and four RBI in this game. Mikkelson had three RBI singles and five RBI for the doubleheader. Jackson and Sophia Bond each had two hits and two RBI.

Morgan Scott (1-1) allowed four hits and four runs in three innings with four strikeouts before Hoff returned to the circle for Jamestown and struck out five more batters in two innings.

Darby Mowbray doubled, tripled and knocked in three runs for Minot (4-2, 0-2).

Jamestown will play a doubleheader at Bismarck High on Thursday, April 9.