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Jamestown 34 Briar Cliff 32<\/p>\n
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Jordan Mann<\/a> (JR\/Bismarck, N.D.) threw for a career-high 245 yards and three touchdowns while the defense forced three turnovers as the University of Jamestown football team won its homecoming game over Briar Cliff 34-32 at Rollie Greeno Field.<\/p>\n Mann threw a 48-yard touchdown pass to Marcus Giles<\/a> (FR\/Blaine, Minn.) to give UJ an early 7-0 lead. On the ensuing drive, Briar Cliff answered with a 73-yard scoring pass from Jacob Diaz to Elijah Brown. The missed extra point made it 7-6.<\/p>\n Josiah Cage<\/a> (FR\/Bloomington, Minn.) broke loose for a 44-yard score as UJ led 14-6 with 4:02 remaining in the first quarter. Not to be outdone, the Chargers replied with another Diaz touchdown pass, this one to Logann Freeman for 40 yards.<\/p>\n Briar Cliff took a 19-14 with just under five minutes before halftime on a halfback pass from Noah Ylagan to Khamren Davenport that covered 56 yards.<\/p>\n Mann found James Hagen<\/a> (SO\/Henderson, Nev.) for a 16-yard scoring play with 1:52 in the half as the Jimmies retook a 21-19 lead.<\/p>\n The Jimmie duo would connect from 21 yards\u00a0on the opening drive of the second half to push UJ’s lead to 28-19.<\/p>\n Diaz’s fourth touchdown pass of the game, a 28-yarder,\u00a0went to Brown and brought BCU within 28-26.<\/p>\n Tanner Mathern<\/a> (SO\/Edgeley, N.D.) went in from 16 yards out at 10:34 of the fourth to make it a 34-26 game, but the Chargers would find the end zone one more time on a Diaz to Davenport pass for 14 yards.<\/p>\n Briar Cliff had a chance to take the lead on a 26-yard field goal attempt, but a bad snap prevented the kick from being tried, and Jamestown held on for the win.<\/p>\n Diaz finished 11-of-23 passing for 255 yards. Kwame Johnson added 107 yards on the ground on 15 attempts.<\/p>\n Jimmy Hatch<\/a> (JR\/Sacramento, Calif.) led UJ with 48 yards rushing on 14 carries. Giles, Zach Grismanauskas<\/a> (FR\/Henderson, Nev.), and Liam Huseby<\/a> (JR\/West Fargo, N.D.) each had three catches.<\/p>\n Defensively, Caleb Ellingson<\/a> (SR\/Jamestown, N.D.) made 15 tackles, including 7 solo. Ben Steinolfson<\/a> (SR\/Steele, N.D.) had eight solo tackles and forced a fumble.<\/p>\n Jamestown (2-5 overall, 1-4) GPAC recorded its first-ever GPAC conference win and will have next weekend off before traveling to Dordt (Iowa) October 20. Briar Cliff (4-2, 2-2) hosts Concordia (Neb.) next Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saturday Jamestown 34 Briar Cliff 32 (uj.edu) Jordan Mann (JR\/Bismarck, N.D.) threw for a career-high 245 yards and three touchdowns while the defense forced three turnovers as the University of Jamestown football team won its homecoming game over Briar Cliff 34-32 at Rollie Greeno Field. Mann threw a 48-yard touchdown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":108787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154972","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\/154972","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=154972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154979,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154972\/revisions\/154979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}