2018 NAIA Volleyball National Championship, Sioux City, IA<\/p>\n
UJ def Saint Xavier 28-26, 32-30, 25-13<\/p>\n
The\u00a0\u00a0Jimmies played in a one-set tiebreaker Thursday night, against Viterbo University, which defeated Southern Oregon 3-2.<\/p>\n
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa\u00a0 (uj.edu)<\/strong>— The 24th-ranked University of Jamestown swept Saint Xavier (Ill.) University Thursday to finish\u00a0pool play at the 2018 NAIA Volleyball National Championships presented by Delta Hotels, with a 2-1 record.<\/p>\n With Viterbo defeating Southern Oregon in the pool’s other match, a one-set tiebreaker between the V-Hawks and Jimmies was played late Thursday evening to see which team would advance to the round of 16. Viterbo came away 25-21 winners and will face Northwestern (Iowa) Friday at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n THE BASICS<\/strong> HOW IT HAPPENED<\/strong> FOR UJ<\/strong> FOR SXU<\/strong> UP NEXT<\/strong> <\/p>\n The Cougars finish out the 2018 season with their second consecutive national tournament appearance, the first time in program history that Saint Xavier has qualified for the tournament in back-to-back seasons. The Cougars end the year with a 28-12 overall record, and set the program record for the most victories (64) in a two-year period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2018 NAIA Volleyball National Championship, Sioux City, IA UJ def Saint Xavier 28-26, 32-30, 25-13 The\u00a0\u00a0Jimmies played in a one-set tiebreaker Thursday night, against Viterbo University, which defeated Southern Oregon 3-2. SIOUX CITY, Iowa\u00a0 (uj.edu)— The 24th-ranked University of Jamestown swept Saint Xavier (Ill.) University Thursday to finish\u00a0pool play […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158973","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\/158973","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=158973"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159038,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158973\/revisions\/159038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFINAL SCORE: (24) Jamestown 3, (RV) Saint Xavier 0 (28-26, 32-30, 25-13)
\nLOCATION: Tyson Events Center, Sioux City, IA
\nRECORDS: Jamestown 24-9, Saint Xavier 28-12<\/p>\n
\n*The Jimmies and Cougars went long in each of the first two sets, with 54 and 62 rallies, respectively, needed to determine a winner.
\n*Six Jimmies had two or more kills in set one, led by Kennedy Conzemius<\/a> (SR\/Breckenridge, Minn.) and Isabel Wedell<\/a> (JR\/Ellendale, N.D.) with four each.
\n*Nine players combined for just 12 kills in the second set, but Jamestown took advantage of 16 Cougar attack errors and two service errors.
\n*UJ regained their stride in the third set, closing out the sweep by hitting .364 and making one error in 33 attempts.<\/p>\n
\n*The Jimmies hit .193 for the match with 42 kills and 14 errors in 145 attempts.
\n*Wedell and Ellie Michaletz<\/a> (SO\/Aitkin, Minn.) had eight kills to lead the offense. Conzemius finished with seven and Corina Ruud<\/a> (SO\/Breezy Point, Minn.) five.
\n*Miranda Lowman<\/a> (JR\/Mandan, N.D.) (19 assists, 11 digs) and Jackie Meiklejohn<\/a> (FR\/Dickey, N.D.) (12 assists, 14 digs) each had a double-double.
\n*Jamestown racked up 83 digs, led by Julina Niemeier<\/a> (SR\/Jamestown, N.D.)’s 24. Anna Holen<\/a> (FR\/LaMoure, N.D.) was also in double figures with 14 digs.
\n*Britta Knudson<\/a> (JR\/Bismarck, N.D.) paced the UJ block defense with six block assists. Wedell had four total blocks (one solo), and Ruud had three (two solo).<\/p>\n
\n*Kate Bontrager had a match-high 11 kills and Helena Atton added 10.
\n*The Cougars hit .035 for the match with 40 kills and 34 errors in 171 attempts.
\n*Cassidy Wyman passed out 33 assists and recorded a double-double with 12 digs.
\n*In addition to Wyman, Grace Murphy (22), Bontrager (15), Emily Mayer (12), and Jessica Belseth (11) all had double-digit dig totals.
\n*Alex Lambros had four total blocks (three assists).<\/p>\n
\n*Jamestown ends their first season as members of the Great Plains Athletic Conference with an overall record of 24-9. Saint Xavier finishes the season at 28-12.<\/p>\n