Nathan Hughes JU
12
Winner Aquinas AQB 3-2
2
Jamestown JTWNB 8-3
Winner
Aquinas AQB
3-2
12
Final
2
Jamestown JTWNB
8-3
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Aquinas AQB 1 0 0 0 9 2 0 12 12 1
Jamestown JTWNB 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 4 3

W: Hill, Mason (0-0) L: Mitchell Dennis (0-0)

0
Aquinas AQB 3-3
1
Winner Jamestown JTWNB 9-3
Aquinas AQB
3-3
0
Final
1
Jamestown JTWNB
9-3
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Aquinas AQB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1
Jamestown JTWNB 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 1

W: Andy Reed (0-0) L: Nakagawa, Tomoya (0-0)

Game Recap: Baseball | | DJ Foster, Assistant AD for Communications & Marketing

Nine-Run Inning Propels AQ to Split With Jamestown

Saints take game one (12-2) before falling on 1-0 walkoff

The Aquinas baseball team traveled to Topeka, Kansas to start a four-game series with Jamestown on Saturday (Feb. 29) and the Saints earned a split with the Jimmies. AQ took the opener by a 12-2 score thanks in large part to a nine-run fifth inning before the Jimmies walked off in the bottom of the seventh in game two. 
 
With the split, Aquinas is now 3-3 on the season, while Jamestown is 9-3 overall. The teams will resume the series and play games three and four on Sunday (Mar. 1), with first pitch set for noon.
 
AQ led the opener 1-0 heading into the top of the fifth inning, when the Saints erupted for nine runs on eight hits. The big blow came on a Jacob Holt RBI single, which drove in Brady Paganelli, but Aquinas scored two more runs on the play on a Jamestown error to push the lead to 7-0. 
 
Ahead 10-1 in the sixth, Nick Brzezinski and Kelvin Aracena added RBI singles to make it a 12-1 cushion. The Saints would outhit the Jimmies in game one by a 12-4 margin. Three Jimmies errors helped AQ earn the lopsided victory.
 
Five Saints tallied two hits: Brzezinski, Aracena, Brady Keur, Michael Maher, and Nathan Hughes. All five players also delivered at least one RBI, with Hughes and Brzezinski notching two ribbies each. Notching two doubles, Keur also scored three runs, while Holt and Joseph Kelley scored two runs apiece. Kelley also walked twice. 
 
Mason Hill earned the victory, scattering one run on two hits over five innings. He walked two and struck out three. Richard Steffan posted a similar line, giving up one run on two hits in the final two frames. 
 
Game two was a pitcher's duel, with only nine total hits – five for Jamestown and four for the Saints. The nightcap was scoreless until the bottom of the seventh, when the Jimmies loaded the bases on a walk, an intentional walk, and a bunt single. Moments later, the game ended on a bases loaded walk to allow Jamestown to split the doubleheader.
 
Maher, Hughes, Grant Smitz, and Sean Wing collected AQ's base hits. Keur walked twice.
 
Travis Keys allowed just two hits in four scoreless innings. He walked three and struck out six. Bruce Buurstra retired a pair of batters and gave up just one hit, while Tomoya Nakagawa gave up the game's only run on two hits in 1.2 innings. Nakagawa walked three and struck out five. 
 
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