DES MOINES, Iowa  (UJ)— The University of Jamestown men’s volleyball team lost its final pool play match 3-0 to Park (Mo.) University Thursday afternoon at the NAIA Men’s Volleyball National Championship. Set scores were 25-23, 25-17, and 25-17.

Park advances to the semifinals of the tournament while the Jimmies have their season come to an end with an overall record of 21-3.

Jamestown trailed 8-5 in set one before scoring eight of the next 11 points to go ahead 13-11. The Pirates scored the next four to take a 15-13 lead, but the Jimmies responded with three straight of their own to pull in front by one. A Caylor Cox (FR/Helena, Mont.) kill made it 22-20 Jimmies, and the final Jimmie lead would come at 23-21. Park finished with the final four points of the set to take a 1-0 match lead.

UJ was not able to establish a consistent offensive attack in set two, hitting just .045 in the set on eight kills in 22 attempts. Jamestown led 8-6 early in the set, but a 4-0 run by the Pirates gave them a 10-8 edge and the Jimmies were only able to get as close as 17-16 the rest of the way. Park hit .440 in the set and scored eight of the last nine points, going ahead 2-0 in the match.

The Jimmies put together back-to-back points just three times in the final set,  and a 3-0 run by the Pirates early on put them in the lead for good in the clinching set. Park led by as many as five on seven different occasions, and 15-12 was as close as UJ would get. As in the previous two sets, the Pirates had a rally of four straight points to clinch the match.

Derek Owens (FR/Andover, Minn.) led UJ with eight kills and Samuel Jackman (SO/St. Jean Baptiste, Manitoba) had seven. Owens hit a team-high .333 for the Jimmies, who hit just .048 as a team. Derek Correa (FR/Vega Baja, Puerto Rico) had 27 assists while Cox had seven digs and Braden Neumann (JR/Costa Mesa, Calif.) six. Austin Jacob (FR/Houston, Texas) finished with six total blocks.