Northwestern College baseball team dropped a 9-6 decision to the University of Jamestown in the first game of the final day of the GPAC Tournament – Jamestown Bracket played today at Jack Brown Stadium. The Red Raiders’ 2019 season comes to end with a 23-25 overall record.
Down 4-2, Northwestern plated two runs in the bottom of the sixth to the host Jimmies, 4-4. Singles by Austin Zylstra and A.J. Nitzschke began the rally and Noa Vogel came through with a pinch-hit double that scored pinch runner Shad Wacker for the first run. Nitchscke then came across on a Jamestown error on a ball hit by Mason O’Donnell.
Still tied 4-4 in the eighth, Jamestown put five runs across, all with two outs and on just one hit, a grand slam by Tanner Roundy. The Jimmies had loaded the bases and scored one run prior to the grand slam on three walks and a hit batsman.
Northwestern came back with two runs in the ninth on a bases loaded walk to Derr and sacrifice fly by Zylstra to make things interesting in the end.
Nitzschke (0-2) took the loss in relief for Head Coach Brian Wede’s squad. Evan Olesen pitched the first 6.2 innings, giving up seven hits and four runs to go with one strikeout.
Zachary Rosson and Ben De Boer had two hits each while Sutton Derr had one hit and two RBIs. O’Donnell, Zylstra, Nitzschke, Vogel and Britton Yoder all had one hit for the Red Raiders.
Jamestown, now 34-16 on the season, led 1-0 (2nd), 2-1 (3rd), 4-2 (6th), only to have Northwestern battle back to tie the game each time. Austin Pesicka earned the win and improved to 4-1, giving up two hits and two runs in 2.1 innings. Roundy (2/4, run, 5 RBI), Grant Okawa (2/4, RBI) and Jaden Yackley (2/3, 2 runs) were the top hitters for the Jimmies.
