Jamestown\u00a0 (uj.edu)\u00a0 The 21st-ranked University of Jamestown men’s basketball team opened up a 20-point first half lead, then shot 65 percent in the second half on the way to a 95-68 victory over Concordia (Neb.) University Saturday afternoon at Harold Newman Arena.<\/p>\n
THE BASICS<\/strong> HOW IT HAPPENED<\/strong> FOR UJ<\/strong> FOR CONCORDIA<\/strong> UP NEXT<\/strong> Jamestown\u00a0 (uj.edu)\u00a0 The 21st-ranked University of Jamestown men’s basketball team opened up a 20-point first half lead, then shot 65 percent in the second half on the way to a 95-68 victory over Concordia (Neb.) University Saturday afternoon at Harold Newman Arena. THE BASICS FINAL SCORE: (21) Jamestown 95, Concordia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":97231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162592","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\/162592","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=162592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162593,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162592\/revisions\/162593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFINAL SCORE: (21) Jamestown 95, Concordia 68
\nLOCATION: Harold Newman Arena, Jamestown, ND
\nRECORDS: Jamestown 19-4 (9-4 Great Plains Athletic Conference), Concordia 11-11 (4-10 GPAC)<\/p>\n
\n*Jon Purintun<\/a> (SR\/Linton, ND) scored seven of Jamestown’s first 10 points as the Jimmies opened up leads of 10-0 and 24-12 midway through the first half.
\n*Isaiah Dobson<\/a> (JR\/Stillwater, MN) gave UJ its largest lead of the first half, 15 points, with a three-pointer at the 3:50 mark.
\n*Brady Birch<\/a> (SO\/Melrose, MN) closed out the half with Jamestown’s last five points to make it a 20-point game (48-28) heading to the break.
\n*The Jimmies shot 17-for-26 in the second half, including 6 for 10 from three-point range.
\n*Concordia was only able to cut the lead down to 13 points at the 12:56 mark following Grant Wragge’s basket.<\/p>\n
\n*The Jimmies had two players finish with 20 or more points. Kevin Oberweiser<\/a> (SR\/Drummond, MT) poured in a game-high 24 and Purintun finished with 20.
\n*Brock Schrom<\/a> (SO\/Grand Rapids, MN) filled the stat sheet with 14 points, seven rebounds, and five blocked shots.
\n*Both Oberweiser and Purintun shot 8-of-13 from the field, with Oberweiser connecting on five three-pointers and Purintun two.
\n*Jamestown turned the ball over just 12 times while shooting 59.3 percent overall.<\/p>\n
\n*Brevin Sloup was the only Bulldog in double figures, scoring 16.
\n*A trio of players–Tanner Shuck, Justin Wiersema, and Sammy Adjei–all had nine points.
\n*Adjei also had seven rebounds.
\n*The Bulldogs had a three-game winning streak, their longest of the season,\u00a0come to an end.<\/p>\n
\nJamestown travels to Yankton, S.D., to face Mount Marty College Wednesday. Tipoff is set for 8 p.m.
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