DAVENPORT, FL – With an excellent pitching performance, Jamestown Jimmies Baseball made history Saturday.
In the second game of a doubleheader, Isaac Hanson struck out 10 and Jamestown earned its first NSIC win with a 5-4 win over Concordia-St. Paul at Northeast Regional Park. CSP had won the first game 11-5.
1st Game: Concordia-St. Paul 11, Jamestown 5 (7)
Chase McQuade had two hits and four RBI to pace CSP (6-7, 3-2 NSIC). After Adrian Warcken homered for Jamestown (3-13, 0-5) in the top of the first inning, McQuade’s three-run double highlighted a four-run second for the Golden Bears.
McQuade also singled in a run in a three-run third inning and CSP scored four more in the fourth.
Warcken later drove in another run with a double for the Jimmies. Ben Patton and Jett Nelson also had RBI doubles and Trayson Kostial hit a sacrifice fly.
Ben Bohlmann (0-3) saw his early-season struggle continue. He gave up four runs with two hits and six walks in an inning and a third.
2nd Game: Jamestown 5, Concordia-St. Paul 4
Hanson couldn’t earn the win, as he lasted just four and two-thirds innings. But he threw 68 pitches and left the game with the lead. Five Jimmie relievers combined to allow just two hits in four and a third innings. Grayson Sargent (1-0) was the winner and Ben Patton earned his first save.
Jamestown (4-13, 1-5) again scored in the first inning, this time with three runs. Kostial had an RBI double and Nelson hit a two-run single.
CSP (6-8, 3-3) scored one run in the home fourth, but Warcken doubled in a run in the UJ fifth for a 4-1 lead.
The Golden Bears scored a run in the the fifth, but the Jimmies answered in the sixth with a sacrifice fly by Melvin Maldonado. CSP scored single runs in the seventh and ninth. The Golden Bears had runners on first and third with two out in the bottom of the ninth, but Jack Setterlund grounded out to Patton to end the game and give Jamestown its historic win.
Jamestown will close its run of games in Florida Sunday by again playing CSP, but that will be a non-conference game.
photo credit: Concordia-St. Paul Athletics