Thursday
College Volleyball
ORANGE CITY, Iowa– (UJ) The University of Jamestown women’s volleyball team lost its first match of the season Thursday night, falling 3-1 against Northwestern College. Set scores were 20-25, 17-25, 25-23, and 13-25.
The Jimmies, now 15-1 overall and 12-1 in the Great Plains Athletic Conference, play at Briar Cliff (Iowa) University Friday.
NWC jumped out to a 4-0 lead in set one and eventually took a 15-11 advantage. UJ responded with four straight points to tie the set at 15. UJ would get as close as 20-19 on an Anna Holen (JR/LaMoure, N.D.) kill, but the Red Raiders scored three straight and five of the next six for an opening set win.
Trailing 13-10 in set two, Jamestown rallied with Ellie Holen (FR/LaMoure, N.D.) at the service line. The Jimmies scored six in a row to pull ahead 16-13. Northwestern staged a six-point rally of their own to lead 19-16. Following an attack error to end the streak, NWC scored the last six for a 2-0 match lead.
Down 20-18 in the third set, the Jimmies won four points in a row and took a 22-20 lead. Northwestern responded with back-to-back points to tie the set, but UJ won three of the last four points to cut NWC’s lead to 2-1.
Jamestown got as close as 12-9 in the third set only to have the Red Raiders go on a 12-2 run and stretch the lead to 24-11. UJ won back-to-back points for just the second time in the set, then NWC finished the match off with a kill and the win.
Kalli Hegerle (JR/West Fargo, N.D.) had 15 kills for the Jimmies. Anna Holen was also in double figures with 10 and had a double-double with 16 digs. Corina Huff (SR/Breezy Point, Minn.) hit a team-best .286 on six kills.
Jackie Meiklejohn (JR/Dickey, N.D.) recorded a double-double of 24 assists and 10 digs. Megan Gaffaney (JR/Jamestown, N.D.) passed out 19 assists.
Sydney Ellingson (SR/Langdon, N.D.) posted 17 digs while Hannah Schiele (JR/Jamestown, N.D.) added 10. Jayla Ritter (JR/Forest Lake, Minn.) had four total blocks.
The two teams will meet again a week from Saturday in Jamestown.
