Thursday<\/p>\n
JAMESTOWN (uj.edu)<\/strong>— Despite having an off-night offensively, the University of Jamestown volleyball team found a way to remain unbeaten in Great Plains Athletic Conference play, taking care of Briar Cliff (Iowa) in four sets Thursday evening at Harold Newman Arena.<\/p>\n Set scores were 25-17, 13-25, 25-22, 25-20.<\/p>\n The win improves the Jimmies’ overall record to 10-1 and 3-0 in the GPAC. Briar Cliff falls to 7-4 and 1-2 in the GPAC.<\/p>\n Jamestown was outhit in the match .185-.118 but used a strong team defensive effort along with the double attack of\u00a0 Ellie Michaletz<\/a> (SO\/Aitkin, Minn.) (11 kills) and Britta Knudson<\/a> (JR\/Bismarck, N.D.) (10 kills).<\/p>\n The duo made only two errors in 45 total attempts, good for a .422 hitting percentage. Corina Ruud<\/a> (SO\/Breezy Point, Minn.) was next with nine kills and Kennedy Conzemius<\/a> (SR\/Breckenridge, Minn.) added eight.<\/p>\n As a team, Jamestown finished with 90 digs, led by Julina Niemeier<\/a> (SR\/Jamestown, N.D.)’s 27 and Meghan Orr<\/a> (JR\/Ypsilanti, N.D.)’s 21. All 13 Jimmies registered at least one dig in the match. Knudson and Conzemius both had four total blocks, with Conzemius recording three solo.<\/p>\n Miranda Lowman<\/a> (JR\/Mandan, N.D.) passed out 28 assists and Jackie Meiklejohn<\/a> (FR\/Dickey, N.D.) (17) was also in double figures.<\/p>\n Outside of hitting percentage, the Jimmies had advantages in assists (51-37), aces (2-1), digs (90-60), and made five fewer service errors (11-6) than the Chargers.<\/p>\n Next up for the Jimmies is a GPAC conference match Saturday at home against Northwestern (Iowa) College. The junior varsity starts at 3:30 with the varsity following at 5:00 p.m. Briar Cliff travels to Mayville State (N.D.) for a non-conference match on Friday.<\/p>\n Saturday…<\/strong><\/p>\n Northwestern (Iowa) College def Jamestown -25-19,25-12,25-21<\/p>\n The University of Jamestown volleyball team had its four-match winning streak come to an end Saturday, losing in three sets to No. 16 Northwestern (Iowa) College 19-25, 12-25, 21-25.<\/p>\n Lauryn Hilger had a match-high 18 kills and hit .500 for Northwestern, while Makenzie Fink hit. 560 with 15 kills. Lacey Wacker had 35 assists for the Red Raiders, who improved to 11-4 overall and 2-1 in the Great Plains Athletic Conference.<\/p>\n Kennedy Conzemius<\/a> (SR\/Breckenridge, Minn.) led Jamestown (10-2, 3-1 GPAC) with six kills and a .600 hitting percentage. Isabel Wedell<\/a> (JR\/Ellendale, N.D.) was next with five kills followed by Anna Holen<\/a> (FR\/LaMoure, N.D.) with four. Miranda Lowman<\/a> (JR\/Mandan, N.D.) had 11 assists and Julina Niemeier<\/a> (SR\/Jamestown, N.D.) posted a team-best 12 digs.<\/p>\n Northwestern outhit the Jimmies .415-.183 in the match. Both teams had 11 attack errors and 82 attempts, but the difference was a 45-26 edge in kills. The Red Raiders also had a 42-30 advantage in digs and had one more ace (6-5) than UJ.<\/p>\n Jamestown will play its next four games away from Harold Newman Arena, beginning Tuesday at Valley City State (N.D.)<\/p>\n Thursday JAMESTOWN (uj.edu)— Despite having an off-night offensively, the University of Jamestown volleyball team found a way to remain unbeaten in Great Plains Athletic Conference play, taking care of Briar Cliff (Iowa) in four sets Thursday evening at Harold Newman Arena. Set scores were 25-17, 13-25, 25-22, 25-20. The win […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":93519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153289"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153347,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153289\/revisions\/153347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}