GRAND FORKS – It took a lot of work and some extra baseball, but Jamestown Eagles Legion Baseball was able to take something good out of a wild doubleheader.
Grand Forks rallied to defeat Jamestown 4-2 in the first game of a Thursday doubleheader at Kraft Field before the Eagles won the second game in 10 innings 6-4.
Game 1: Grand Forks 4, Jamestown 2
Grand Forks (9-8, 4-3 AA Legion) came from 2-0 down to win as Alex Seaver had a go-ahead RBI single in the bottom of the fifth inning.
Matt Dosch extended the Royals’ lead to 4-2 with a solo home run in the bottom of the sixth.
Jamestown (7-10, 2-7) took the game’s first lead on a two-run single by Brenner Weber with two out in the top of the second.
Grand Forks evened the game in the bottom of the fourth when Zander Waind smacked a two-run double.
Hudson Rode (0-2), pitching in relief, took the loss, allowing the runs in the fifth and sixth innings. Starter Shayne Martin gave up two runs and three hits in four innings.
Game 2: Jamestown 6, Grand Forks 4 (10)
In their first extra-inning game of the season, the Eagles (8-10, 3-7 AA Legion) scored two runs in the top of the 10th inning. After the go-ahead run scored on a passed ball, Ethan Oettle padded the Jamestown lead with an RBI single.
Grand Forks (9-9, 4-4) missed multiple chances to win, leaving the bases loaded in the seventh and eighth innings and stranding 16 runners for the game.
Royals catcher David Larson struck a two-run single in the first inning for a 2-0 Grand Forks lead.
Braxton Perkins drove in Jamestown’s first run on a safety squeeze bunt in the fourth, as deft baserunning by Colton Gerlach brought him home just after Perkins was thrown out at first.
In the fifth, Brady Nenow stole home to tie the game of 2-2 with one of Jamestown’s seven stolen bases in the game. Jamestown then took the lead in that same inning on a throwing error by Seaver.
Ryne Richau tied the game for Grand Forks in the home fifth with an RBI single.
Kale Verke gave the lead back to Jamestown with a run-scoring single in the top of the seventh, but Grand Forks tied the game in the bottom of the seventh inning when Waind was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.
Cody Busch (1-0) worked four innings of relief for the victory. Verke recorded the last three outs in the bottom of the 10th for his second save. Starter Cayleb Miller struck out four in five innings.
Jamestown will play Friday at East Grand Forks.
