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Men’s Basketball…<\/strong><\/p>\n JAMESTOWN– (UJ.edu)\u00a0 \u00a0Sam Johnson<\/a> (SR\/Mora, Minn.) tied a career high with 24 points and was one of three UJ players with 20 or more points in a 109-88 win over Presentation (S.D.) College Saturday evening.<\/p>\n Kevin Oberweiser<\/a> (JR\/Drummond, Mont.) finished with 23 points, 6 assists, and 5 rebounds, while Leighton Sampson<\/a> (SR\/Worthington, Minn.) doubled down with 22 points and 10 rebounds. The Jimmie big man also recorded 6 blocked shots. Starters Christian Kvilvang<\/a> (JR\/Cando, N.D.) and Jon Purintun<\/a> (JR\/Linton, N.D.) were also in double figures with 15 and 12, respectively.<\/p>\n Jamestown (14-5 overall, 4-3 North Star Athletic Association) entered the game ranked third in overall field goal percentage (52.3 percent) and tops overall in three-point field goal percentage (43.9<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Women’s Basketball…<\/strong><\/p>\n JAMESTOWN– McKayla Orr<\/a> (SR\/Ypsilanti, ND) tied a career high with 22 points to help the 6th-ranked Jimmie women’s basketball extend their winning streak to 14 games with a 93-58 win over Presentation (S.D.) College Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n Orr added seven rebounds, three assists, and three steals while making five of her seven three-point attempts. Jamestown (18-2 overall, 7-0 North Star Athletic Association) also got 17 points off the bench from Allison Jablonsky<\/a> (SO\/Blaine, MN), who was 5-for-8 from beyond the arc;\u00a013 points, five rebounds, and five assists from Paige Emmel<\/a> (SR\/Bismarck, ND); and 12 points, six assists, and three steals from Bryn Woodside<\/a> (SR\/Albert Lea, MN).<\/p>\n The Jimmies used a 17-0 first quarter run to build a nine-point lead after the first ten minutes. The Saints opened the second quarter on a 5-0 run to get within four points after an Allison Cox basket, but Jamestown with five straight points of their own to get the nine-point advantage back. UJ ended the first half by scoring 11 of the final 13 points and led 45-27 at the break.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" UJ Men’s Basketball… JAMESTOWN– (UJ.edu)\u00a0 \u00a0Sam Johnson (SR\/Mora, Minn.) tied a career high with 24 points and was one of three UJ players with 20 or more points in a 109-88 win over Presentation (S.D.) College Saturday evening. Kevin Oberweiser (JR\/Drummond, Mont.) finished with 23 points, 6 assists, and 5 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":116550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136508"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136526,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136508\/revisions\/136526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}