{"id":220324,"date":"2021-03-01T22:33:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T04:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=220324"},"modified":"2021-03-01T22:48:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T04:48:13","slug":"uj-womens-volleyball-opens-season-with-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=220324","title":{"rendered":"UJ Women’s Volleyball opens spring season with win"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jamestown\u00a0 (UJ<\/a>) The top-ranked University of Jamestown women’s volleyball returned to action since winning the GPAC regular season title last November, sweeping NCAA Division 2 University of Mary Monday night at Harold Newman Arena. Set scores were 25-13, 25-11, and 25-12.<\/p>\n

Jamestown moves to 19-1 overall while the game was an exhibition for the Marauders.<\/p>\n

Jayla Ritter<\/a> (JR\/Forest Lake, Minn.) helped get the Jimmies going in set one, finishing with four kills while hitting .429. Anna Holen<\/a> (JR\/LaMoure, N.D.) and Kalli Hegerle<\/a> (JR\/West Fargo, N.D.) each had three kills in the set, as UJ outhit the Marauders .171 to -.108. Tied at 8-8 in the first, UJ won 10 of the next 12 points, opening up an eight-point lead after a block by Hegerle and Ritter.<\/p>\n

Holen provided the hot hand for UJ in the second set, hitting .500 with five kills. Corina Huff<\/a> (SR\/Breezy Point, Minn.) had three kills in the frame, hitting .750. UMary held a 5-4 lead early in the set, but Kadyn Mehring<\/a> (SO\/Carrington, N.D.) started a string of three straight Jimmie kills as part of a 10-2 run that put Jamestown in front for good. Jamestown won 11 of the final 15 points in the set to take a 2-0 match lead.<\/p>\n

Huff, Hegerle, and Holen all had three kills and Taylor Sabinash<\/a> (JR\/Kensal, N.D.) added a pair in the third set. Jamestown only hit .175 in the set, but took advantage of four service aces and seven UMary attack errors. Leading 13-6, the Jimmies rattled off nine straight points for a commanding 22-6 lead.<\/p>\n

Holen finished with 11 kills while Huff had eight and Hegerle seven. Huff hit a team-high .462 on the night.<\/p>\n

Megan Gaffaney<\/a> (JR\/Jamestown, N.D.) passed out 19 assists and Jackie Meiklejohn<\/a> (JR\/Dickey, N.D.) 18. Holen racked up 20 digs while Sydney Ellingson<\/a> (SR\/Langdon, N.D.) was also in double figures with 17. Huff and Hegerle each had three total blocks.<\/p>\n

Jamestown travels to Bismarck Wednesday to face the Marauders at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jamestown\u00a0 (UJ) The top-ranked University of Jamestown women’s volleyball returned to action since winning the GPAC regular season title last November, sweeping NCAA Division 2 University of Mary Monday night at Harold Newman Arena. Set scores were 25-13, 25-11, and 25-12. Jamestown moves to 19-1 overall while the game was […]<\/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-220324","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\/220324","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=220324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220330,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220324\/revisions\/220330"}],"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=220324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}