Wednesday…<\/p>\n
Jamestown\u00a0 (uj.edu)\u00a0 In a Great Plains Athletic Conference matchup of two top-20 teams, it was No. 5 Northwestern (Iowa) College coming away with a 73-71 win over the 20th-ranked University of Jamestown women’s basketball team.<\/p>\n
THE BASICS<\/strong> HOW IT HAPPENED<\/strong> FOR UJ<\/strong> FOR NWC<\/strong> UP NEXT<\/strong> Wednesday… Jamestown\u00a0 (uj.edu)\u00a0 In a Great Plains Athletic Conference matchup of two top-20 teams, it was No. 5 Northwestern (Iowa) College coming away with a 73-71 win over the 20th-ranked University of Jamestown women’s basketball team. THE BASICS FINAL SCORE: (5) Northwestern 73, (20) Jamestown 71 LOCATION: Harold Newman Arena, […]<\/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-159475","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\/159475","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=159475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159491,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159475\/revisions\/159491"}],"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=159475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFINAL SCORE: (5) Northwestern 73, (20) Jamestown 71
\nLOCATION: Harold Newman Arena, Jamestown, ND
\nRECORDS: Northwestern 9-1 (5-1 GPAC), Jamestown 5-6 (2-5 GPAC)<\/p>\n
\n*Jamestown trailed by 11 points with 2:23 left in the first half, but closed with a 9-1 run to make it a 33-30 Northwestern lead at the half.
\n*The Jimmies shot 5-for-14 from both three-point range and inside the arc in the first 20 minutes.
\n*Northwestern was just 2 of 9 on three-pointers, but scored nearly half of their points (16) inside the paint.
\n*In the third quarter, neither team managed more than a three-point lead.
\n*Noelle Josephson<\/a> (FR\/Ramsey, MN) gave UJ a 67-65 lead on a three-pointer with 2:41 remaining. Northwestern retook the lead with a three of their own by Sammy Blum, then got an insurance bucket by Hailey Birks to make it 70-67.<\/p>\n
\n*Josephson made her second straight start and finished with a career high 19 points and tied career highs with seven rebounds and five steals.
\n*\u00a0Emma Stoehr<\/a> (SO\/Woodbury, MN) added 15 points and dished out eight assists, a new career high.
\n*Jenna Doyle<\/a> (SR\/Princeton, MN) was also in double figures with 12 points.
\n*Jamestown shot 40.6% (26 of 64) in the game.
\n*UJ turned 18 Red Raider turnovers into 19 points.<\/p>\n
\n*Three players–Birks (26), Darbi Gustafson (20), and Kassidy De Jong (20) accounted for 66 of the Red Raiders’ 73 points.
\n*Gustafson pulled down a game-high 11 rebounds and added three steals.
\n*NWC was just 3 of 11 from three-point range.
\n*The Raiders had a 38-28 edge in points in the paint and a narrow 13-12 advantage in second-chance points.<\/p>\n
\n*Jamestown travels to Sioux City, Iowa, Saturday for a GPAC matchup against Morningside (Iowa). Tipoff is set for 2 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"