Football<\/p>\n
Midland\u00a035 \u00a0Jamestown 28<\/p>\n
FREMONT, Neb (uj.edu) <\/strong>— Payton Nelson’s 12-yard touchdown pass to Jordan Johnson in overtime\u00a0was the game-winner as Midland (Neb.) defeated the University of Jamestown 35-28 Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n The game was a see-saw affair, with four lead changes and four ties during the course of the afternoon.<\/p>\n Midland took the opening kickoff and went 73 yards in seven plays over 3:31 to take a 7-0 lead. Lukas Vopnford went in from five yards out for the score.<\/p>\n Jordan Mann<\/a> (JR\/Bismarck, N.D.) connected with Barry Williams Jr.<\/a> (FR\/Las Vegas, Nev.) on a 16-yard pass six seconds into the second quarter to tie the game. Mann gave Jamestown its first lead with a one-yard scoring run. The Kai Madela<\/a> (FR\/Henderson, Nev.) extra point made it 14-7 with 12:24 before halftime.<\/p>\n Vopnford found paydirt for the second time in the half with a one-yard plunge at the 4:23 mark of the second quarter\u00a0to make it 14-14.<\/p>\n In the second half, Jamestown went ahead 21-14 on Mann’s second touchdown pass of the game, this time a four-yard pass to Marcus Giles<\/a> (FR\/Blaine, Minn.), to cap off a 51-yard, 10-play drive.<\/p>\n Nelson hit Jordan Jackson with a 12-yard pass for Midland to tie the game at 21 seventy seconds into the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n Nick Thompson<\/a> (JR\/Max, N.D.) was on the other end of Mann’s third scoring pass of\u00a0the day as UJ retook a 28-21 lead with 11:22 in the fourth.<\/p>\n Nelson scored from one yard out to tie the game for Midland with 7:43 in regulation.<\/p>\n Mann had a career day throwing the ball, completing 22 of 36 passes for 234 yards. Giles had 90 yards on four catches and Williams caught five passes for 51 yards. Allen Jevning<\/a> (SO\/Brainerd, Minn.) carried 17 times for 78 yards while Mann and Jimmy Hatch<\/a> (JR\/Sacramento, Calif.) each ran for 44 yards.<\/p>\n Caleb Ellingson<\/a> (SR\/Jamestown, N.D.) made 15 tackles (9 solo). Ellingson, Bisherie Steward<\/a> (JR\/Rialto, Calif.), Zach Philips, Aundre Purnell<\/a> (SO\/Garden Grove, Calif.), and Gavin Pancirov<\/a> (JR\/Las Vegas, Nev.) all registered tackles for loss. Cedric Terry<\/a> (JR\/Minneapolis, Minn.) and Andrew Jensen<\/a> (SR\/Gardnerville, Nev.) intercepted passes.<\/p>\n Nelson was 11-for-23 for 138 yards passing and ran for 84 yards. Adrian Kellogg rushed for 117 yards on 16 carries. Jackson had three catches for 37 yards.<\/p>\n Jamestown (1-5, 0-4 GPAC) hosts Briar Cliff next Saturday at 1:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Football Midland\u00a035 \u00a0Jamestown 28 FREMONT, Neb (uj.edu) — Payton Nelson’s 12-yard touchdown pass to Jordan Johnson in overtime\u00a0was the game-winner as Midland (Neb.) defeated the University of Jamestown 35-28 Saturday afternoon. The game was a see-saw affair, with four lead changes and four ties during the course of the afternoon. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154429","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\/154429","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=154429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154441,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154429\/revisions\/154441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}