Saturday
UJ Women’s Basketball
Concordia 76, Jamestown 66
(uj.edu)) The University of Jamestown women’s basketball team gave No. 2 Concordia (Neb.) University all it could handle Saturday afternoon at Harold Newman Arena.
Trailing by just four entering the final quarter, the Jimmies found themselves down by nine with 5:37 as the Bulldogs pulled away for a 76-66 win in the regular season finale for both teams.
Jamestown (16-14 overall, 9-13 Great Plains Athletic Conference) qualified for the league’s postseason tournament as the seventh seed and will travel to second seed Hastings (Neb.) on Wednesday for a 7 p.m. quarterfinal matchup.
UJ was held to only eight shots in the first quarter, but made four of them, including two three-pointers, to trail by just a bucket at 17-15 after one.
Concordia stretched their lead to nine with 3:37 before halftime only to have the Jimmies reel off five straight points to cut the lead to four.
Hannah DeMars (FR/Grand Rapids, MN) opened the third quarter with a three-pointer to make it 39-37. The Bulldogs countered with a 5-0 run of their own and Jamestown held serve, scoring six straight to trail by just one at the 3:54 mark.
The Bulldogs used a 9-0 run to take a ten-point lead with just under a minute before the end of the third. Back-to-back three-pointers by Kia Tower (FR/Bigfork, MN) and Emma Stoehr (JR/Woodbury, MN) made it 57-53 and set the stage for the closing frame.
Macy Nilsen (FR/Edina, MN) led UJ with a career-high 19 points. DeMars and Courtney Mosloski (SR/Fairmont, MN) both finished with 10. Mosloski and Noelle Josephson (SO/Ramsey, MN) grabbed six rebounds each while Tower and Stoehr both dished out three assists.
All five starters for Concordia (28-2, 21-1 GPAC) hit for double figures, led by Philly Lammers’ 18 points.
