Jamestown Tarp Skunks starting pitcher Travis Perry delivers to the plate during Sunday’s PGCBL game against the Elmira Pioneers at Diethrick Park in Jamestown. P-J photo by Matt Spielman

Travis Perry’s first start in a Jamestown Tarp Skunks uniform wasn’t up to his own standards.

On Sunday afternoon, the Youngstown State University right-hander was much better — actually dominant.

Perry threw seven innings of two-hit ball and struck out eight as Jamestown beat the Elmira Pioneers 9-3 in Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League West Division action at Diethrick Park.

“That’s what we expected from him the whole time. … That first start was his first time pitching in Jamestown in front of a new crowd of guys,” Tarp Skunks manager Jordan Basile said. ” … He gave us seven innings and helped our pitching staff going forward this week. That was huge for us.”

The Oil City, Pennsylvania, product threw 62 of his 94 pitches for strikes and walked one while allowing just one unearned run.

Jack Davis and Cody Bey provided the bulk of the offense for the Tarp Skunks.

Davis, a University of North Georgia product, went 3 for 4 with two doubles, two runs scored and an RBI while Bey, a Wagner University product, was 2 for 3 with a two-run double and two runs scored.

“Jack swung the bat great today. A lot of these guys have hit in different spots in the lineup,” Basile said of Davis. ” … It was great to see Jack get the bat going a little bit. It always takes a few games with wood after swinging aluminum during you college season.”

Jamestown (5-3), which rallied from four runs down with five seventh-inning runs to beat the Utica Blue Sox on Saturday night, jumped out to a 2-0 first-inning lead Sunday. Henry Martinez walked to open the game and Yogi Hartigan followed with a single. After a groundout, Bey hit his two-run double to right field.

“It seems like we do score a lot in the beginning of games. … We had some blunders in the middle of games, but we tend to get off to good starts,” Basile said. “Our bats are coming around.”

Davis followed with a single to left field, but Bey was thrown out at the plate on the play.

Perry, who allowed five runs on eight hits in just three innings during his first start last Monday, was perfect through three innings Sunday. A leadoff walk turned into an unearned run on a two-out error in the fourth inning.

“The first one, I struggled a little bit. I felt good the whole time throughout the day. It felt good to get that first inning over with and cruise through the rest of them,” Perry said. “I was just trying to command the zone a little bit. Make sure those offspeeds are for strikes. … Look at that fourth inning, I walked the leadoff guy and he ended up coming around to score.”

The Tarp Skunks responded with three runs in each of the fourth and fifth innings. Bey walked, Davis doubled and Nate Johnson walked to load the bases in the fourth before an error, an RBI single by Jordan King and a sacrifice fly from Julian Thompson plated three runs.

“When we score runs, it’s a relief on the mound,” Perry said. ” … If we keep scoring runs, we’ll never lose.”

In the fifth, Hartigan led off with a walk and scored on a Padraig O’Shaughnessy RBI double down the left-field line. Bey then blooped a single down the right-field line and Davis hit a sacrifice fly to center field. Bey then stole second and scored on an RBI single by Will Dorrell.

After Perry’s hiccup in the fourth and a one-out single in the fifth, Perry retired the final eight Pioneers (3-6) he faced in order.

“He had a little bit of everything today. His slider was good, his changeup was good,” Basile said. ” … It was a great start by Travis.”

Mercyhurst University’s Corey Shields pitched into a jam in the top of the eighth inning, hitting the leadoff batter before three straight two-out walks forced in a run. Basile then sent pitching coach Barry Powell to the mound to talk to Shields, but Basile had already visited the mound earlier in the inning. Umpires confirmed it was Jamestown’s second visit to the mound so Basile turned to Maple Grove senior Tucker Fenton with very little warm-up time.

“It happened so quick that I forgot that I ran out there, then I told (Powell) to go,” Basile said. “We tried to tell the umpires that I never went out and we fooled them for a little bit, but then they said unfortunately you have to take him out of the game.”

Fenton got a fly out to right field to escape the jam and then worked around a pair of hit batters to limit Elmira to just one run in the ninth inning.

“He was just lightly tossing. … He handled it really well, like a pro,” Perry said of Fenton. “He got out of that bases-loaded jam. That was huge for us. That could’ve been a game changer right there. Tucker came in and did his job.”

“That was huge,” Basile added. “Tucker struggled a little bit in his first outing and threw pretty well for us in his second outing. Today, again he threw pretty well. Being a younger guy, going into his first year of college, that’s huge for his confidence.”

Jamestown will travel to Niagara Falls to take on the Power today before hosting Niagara at 11 a.m. Tuesday.