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Jamestown UJ 22-17, 11-10 GPAC
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Winner Northwestern NWC 19-24, 12-11 GPAC
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Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Jamestown UJ 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 4 1
Northwestern NWC 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 4 9 2

W: Reynolds, Ryan (1-4) L: K. Yackley (2-1)

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Winner Jamestown UJ 23-17, 12-10 GPAC
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Northwestern NWC 19-25, 12-12 GPAC
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Jamestown UJ
23-17, 12-10 GPAC
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Northwestern NWC
19-25, 12-12 GPAC
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Jamestown UJ 1 0 0 0 0 1 8 10 9 1
Northwestern NWC 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 9 3

W: T. Hough (3-3) L: Tornow, Brad (1-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | NWC Athletic Communications

NWC Wins Walk-Off Thriller in Game One on Senior Day over Jamestown

Red Raiders end the home slate with a 6-5 record, celebrates 11 seniors on Senior Day

ORANGE CITY, Iowa – The Northwestern College baseball team (18-24, 11-11 GPAC) earned a Senior Day split against the Jamestown Jimmies (23-17, 12-10 GPAC) in a Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) tournament seeding jostle at the Baseball Diamond, as the Red Raiders walk-off Game 1 in the ninth inning.
 
"The 2023 senior class is a memorable class. For four of them COVID cut short their sophomore season while seven of them experienced a unique freshmen campaign. These guys have led our team in an admirable fashion and their commitment to each other and to our team is obvious in the hours they've dedicated toward the game," notes head baseball coach Brian Wede. "To this senior class as you prepare to leave Northwestern, as St. Paul says to the Romans in Romans 15:13, 'May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.' Thank you for who you are and what you have done in our program. I love each of you dearly."
 
GAME 1: Northwestern 4, Jamestown 3 (F/9)
 
Pitching Decisions
Win: Ryan Reynolds (1-4)
Loss: Kendall Yackley (2-1)
Save: None  
How It Happened
In a thrilling Game 1 of the GPAC doubleheader this afternoon on a clear and sunny day in Orange City saw a low-scoring, one-run game that went to the ninth inning, as the Raiders would walk it off with a sacrifice fly and winning 4-3 as no team scored more than one run an inning.
 
The scoring started in the first, as the Jamestown starter struggled to find the strike zone, the Red Raiders would load the bases. Sam Stanford (Jr., Los Angeles, Calif.) would lead-off the home half with a single and would come into score as Noa Vogel (Sr., Castle Pines, Colo.) works an RBI walk.
 
The two team's starters would settle into a groove as neither team would score until the fifth inning, as the Raiders held the 1-0 lead through four. At one point, Raider starter Dylan Kirkeby (Jr., Brandon, S.D.) would retire seven-straight Jimmies.
 
Jamestown would pull even in the fifth, as a grounder back to Kirkeby would be thrown away, allowing the tying run to come across to score. The Jimmies' would get greedy and try to plate a second run on the play, but Isaac Short (Fr., Grimes, Iowa) would recover nicely and get the ball back to Kirkeby covering the plate to keep the game knotted at 1-1.
Northwestern would respond with a run of their own in the bottom half of the fifth to take the lead right back. With two outs and the go-ahead run at second, Kip Cullinan (Sr., Urbandale, Iowa) would double to right field to give NWC the 2-1 advantage.
 
The sixth inning would also see each team plate a run, as the Red Raiders would take a 3-2 lead into the seventh inning. A Hayden Brown long ball tied things up again for the second time on the day. An RBI single from Short would give NWC the 3-2 advantage.
 
Once again, the Jimmies would fight back. A game-tying RBI double in the seventh would knot the game up at 3-3. Despite having the winning run on second base with less than two outs in both the bottom of the seventh and eighth innings, it would take nine innings to finally get the winning run across.
 
The ninth started with Stanford reaching base for the fourth on an UJ error, the rally would begin. With one away, Cullinan would work a walk and put the game-winning run on second base. A single through the left side for Vogel would load the bases, as Mason Porepp (Jr., Pleasant Hill, Iowa) stepped to the plate. Porepp would be the hero as a sacrifice fly to center field would plate Stanford, who dove in just ahead of the tag, would score the game-winning run.
 
Game Notes
  • Sam Stanford has notched 50+ hits in a season in back-to-back seasons.
  • NWC improves to 11-6 when scoring in the first inning and 6-7 in one-run games this season.
  • The game saw three ties, though UJ never held a lead in the contest.
  • It marks the first extra inning game of the season for the Red Raiders in the originally scheduled seven-inning contest.  
  • Stanford tallied three hits in a game for the fifth time this season, going 3-for-5 on the game.
  • Noa Vogel went 2-for-4 with an RBI and a walk.
  • Vogel now has team-leading 23 walks on the season.
  • Mason Porepp went 1-for-3 with a run scored, a walk, and the game-winning RBI.
  • Both Colby Shelton and Drew Dykstra notched doubles in the victory.
  • Dylan Kirkeby went a strong 6.0 innings allowing just two Jamestown hits and two runs (one earned), while striking out five.
  • He now just needs seven strikeouts to hit 200 in his NWC career, and needs seven to break his single-season best of 66.
  • Ryan Reynolds (1-4) picked up his first win of the season, throwing three full innings and allowing just the one run on two hits, striking out eight.
 
GAME 2: Jamestown 10, Northwestern 5
 
Pitching Decisions
Win: Brad Tornow (1-1)
Loss: Trei Hough (3-3)
Save: None
 
How It Happened
It was a heartbreaking loss in Game 2 for the Red Raiders, being two outs away from securing the doubleheader sweep before the Jimmies rallied for eight runs in the top of the seventh inning to walk away with the 10-5 win and the series split.
 
Jamestown would strike first in Game 2 with a first inning home run, jumping out to the 1-0 early lead. Northwestern would respond with two runs of their own in the second inning to take a 2-1 lead. A wild pitch would score Porepp to tie the game and an RBI ground out from Jacob Kindhart (Sr., Shawnee, Kan.) would give NWC their first lead of Game 2.
 
The Red Raiders would put up three more runs in the fourth inning thanks to a two-run home run from Porepp and an RBI double from Eli Rash (Jr., Lake Lotawana, Mo.) to right center field. Jamestown would get one run back on an RBI double in the sixth inning to cut the lead to 5-2.
 
The Jimmies would own the seventh inning, plating eight runs in the top half to take Game 2, 10-5.
 
Game Notes
  • NWC ends the home slate with a 6-5 record at the Baseball Diamond in Orange City this season.  
  • Mason Porepp would hit his fifth home run of the season and notch his seventh multi-RBI game of the season, going 2-for-3 with two runs scored on the day.
  • Noa Vogel was a perfect 3-for-3 in Game 2, scoring a run and recording a stolen base.
  • Eli Rash would record the other extra base hit with his double.
  • Evan Olesen becomes the third Red Raider to notch double-digit multi-hit games on the year with his 2-for-4 day at the plate in Game 2.
  • Drew Dykstra would go a solid 6.0 innings in his 10th start of 2023, scattering just four hits and two runs (both earned).
  • He struck out nine batters, one shy of his career-high 10 against Aquinas (March 13) and issued just one walk.
  • Brad Tornow (1-1) picked up the loss, his first of the season as he and Jakeb Swallow would combine to pitch the seventh inning.
SCOOTER'S PLAYER OF THE GAME
Game 1: Sam Stanford
Up Next: Northwestern will conclude the regular season with a four-game set against rival Dordt University (16-26, 4-20) this weekend in Sioux Center, Iowa on Friday and Saturday, April 28-29.

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