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2018 NAIA Volleyball National Championship, Sioux City, IA<\/p>\n2018 NAIA Volleyball National Championship, Sioux City, IA<\/p>\n
Jamestown def Viterbo W-25-18,25-12,25-13<\/p>\n
SIOUX CITY, Iowa\u00a0 (uj.edu) <\/strong>— The 24th-ranked University of Jamestown volleyball team ended a 10-game losing streak to Viterbo (Wis.), sweeping the No. 7 V-Hawks in pool play action at the 2018 NAIA Volleyball National Championships presented by Delta Hotels.<\/p>\n THE BASICS<\/strong> HOW IT HAPPENED<\/strong> FOR UJ<\/strong> FOR VITERBO<\/strong> UP NEXT<\/strong> 2018 NAIA Volleyball National Championship, Sioux City, IA Jamestown def Viterbo W-25-18,25-12,25-13 SIOUX CITY, Iowa\u00a0 (uj.edu) — The 24th-ranked University of Jamestown volleyball team ended a 10-game losing streak to Viterbo (Wis.), sweeping the No. 7 V-Hawks in pool play action at the 2018 NAIA Volleyball National Championships presented by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":93519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158866","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\/158866","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=158866"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158922,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158866\/revisions\/158922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFINAL SCORE: (24) Jamestown 3, (7) Viterbo 0 (25-18, 25-12, 25-13)
\nLOCATION: Tyson Events Center, Sioux City, Iowa
\nRECORDS: Jamestown 23-9; Viterbo 30-7<\/p>\n
\n*Corina Ruud<\/a> (SO\/Breezy Point, Minn.) and Isabel Wedell<\/a> (JR\/Ellendale, N.D.) each slammed home four kills while Jackie Meiklejohn<\/a> (FR\/Dickey, N.D.) recorded seven assists as Jamestown took the first set 25-18.
\n*After Viterbo got within two points at 16-14, Jamestown scored the next five to create some breathing room with a 21-14 lead.
\n*Jamestown hit .195 compared to Viterbo’s .031 in the opening set.
\n*A balanced offensive attack in set two for Jamestown was key in a 25-12 win. Wedell had three kills in the set while four other players had two kills each.
\n*UJ hit .423 in the second set with only one error in 26 attempts.
\n*In set three, Jamestown stayed hot offensively, hitting .400. Wedell had four kills while Jordan Thomas<\/a> (JR\/Pingree, N.D.), Kennedy Conzemius<\/a> (SR\/Breckenridge, Minn.), and Ruud all had two.<\/p>\n
\n*Wedell had 11 kills and hit .400 for the match. Ruud hit .500 on the strength of eight kills and only two errors in 12 attempts. Conzemius, Thomas, Ellie Michaletz<\/a> (SO\/Aitkin, Minn.), and Britta Knudson<\/a> (JR\/Bismarck, N.D.) all finished with four kills.
\n*Jackie Meiklejohn<\/a> set 19 assists and Miranda Lowman<\/a> (JR\/Mandan, N.D.) 13, helping UJ to a .320 hitting percentage for the match.
\n*Defensively, Anna Holen<\/a> (FR\/LaMoure, N.D.) had seven digs, followed by Meiklejohn and Julina Niemeier<\/a> (SR\/Jamestown, N.D.) with five. Knudson had seven blocks, including three solo.<\/p>\n
\n*Lydia Xu had 11 kils to go along with a .389 hitting percentage. Katie Frohmader had five kills while Miah Garant and Aubrey Aspen added four each.
\n*Lauryn Sobasky had 13 assists and nine digs, and Chole Jakscht racked up 12 assists.
\n*Garant finished with three block assists.
\n*The V-Hawks hit just .080 in the match, with 29 kills and 22 errors in 88 attempts.<\/p>\n
\n*Jamestown finishes pool play Thursday at 2 p.m. against Saint Xavier (Ill.), and a win would send the Jimmies to the championship bracket for the second straight season. Saint Xavier, now 28-11 on the season, was swept by Southern Oregon earlier Wednesday. Viterbo will face Southern Oregon (28-3) 4 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"