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Jimmies softball splits doubleheader at Valley City State

VALLEY CITY, N.D. — The University of Jamestown softball team mounted a comeback late to get a 5-4 win over Valley City State University in the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday, April 12, at the Vikings’ Softball Complex.

The Vikings opened the scoring in the first inning with a solo home run to take a 1-0 lead. The Jimmies responded with a run in the second to make it 1-1 and then Lauren Weigel hit a two-run home run to push the Jimmies in front 3-1.

The Vikings scored one in the fifth and two in the sixth to take a 4-3 lead. The Jimmies loaded the bases in the top of the seventh for Maddie Spaeth who hit a single to score a run and tie the game up at four. Two batters later, the Jimmies worked a bases-loaded walk to take a 5-4 lead and get the final margin.

UJ 5, VCSU 4

UJ: 0 1 0 0 2 0 2–5 9 1

VCSU: 1 0 0 0 1 2 0–4 9 1

WP: Maddie Hairgrove (8-1), LP: Maddy Zander (9-8), SV: Hope Ransome (4)

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The Jimmies could not keep the Vikings in the ballpark and it cost them in a 12-5 loss to the Vikings in the second game of the doubleheader.

The Vikings hit six home runs in the game while the Jimmies hit two of their own.

The Jimmies were the ones to open the scoring in the first when Kayla Quintanilla hit a run scoring double to go up 1-0 before the Vikings’ Ashlyn Diemert hit a solo shot to tie the game up at one and then Kennadi Stone hit a three-run shot to give her team a 4-1 lead in the bottom of the first. The Vikings (17-16, 6-4) were not done there though adding one more in the frame to take a 5-1 lead.

The Jimmies (25-12, 9-1) would not lay down though as in the third, Quintanilla hit a three-run shot to bring it to within one run at 5-4. Dimert continued her big day at the plate with a two run homer in the fourth which was followed by former Jimmie Maddy Zander celebrating senior day with a three-run shot to go up 10-4.

The Jimmies got one back in the fifth to make it 10-5 but the Vikings put the game on ice with another homer in the sixth to go up by seven runs.

The two teams play another doubleheader starting at noon on Sunday, April 12.

UJ 5, VCSU 12

UJ: 1 0 3 0 1 0 0–5 5 2 VCSU: 5 0 0 5 0 2 X–12 11 0

WP: Cooper Klaahsen (2-4), LP: Abby Blair (8-6)

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My name is Max O'Neill. I am a Sports Reporter at The Jamestown Sun. I am a native New Yorker, who graduated from Ithaca College in 2020 with a degree in Television-Radio.

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