{"id":159670,"date":"2018-12-08T18:38:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T00:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=159670"},"modified":"2018-12-09T09:14:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T15:14:07","slug":"morningside-over-jimmie-men-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=159670","title":{"rendered":"Morningside over Jimmie Men. Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

SIOUX CITY, Iowa\u00a0 (uj.edu)\u00a0 <\/strong>–The University of Jamestown men’s basketball team gave No. 2 Morningside College all they could handle Saturday afternoon, before the Mustangs pulled away for an 87-79 win.<\/p>\n

THE BASICS<\/strong>
\nFINAL SCORE: No.2 Morningside 87, Jamestown 79
\nLOCATION: RVSC-Allee Gymnasium, Sioux City, IA
\nRECORDS: Morningside 11-0 (8-0 Great Plains Athletic Conference), Jamestown 11-3 (5-3 GPAC)<\/p>\n

HOW IT HAPPENED<\/strong>
\n*Despite making just 4-of-18 (22 percent) three-point attempts in the first half, Jamestown trailed by only a 41-34 margin at the half.
\n*Morningside connected on 60 percent (18 of 30) from the field and outrebounded the Jimmies 19-12 in the opening 20 minutes.
\n*The Mustangs led by 10 (54-44) following a Tyler Borchers layup with 14:34 to play. UJ went on a 10-2 run during the next 4:37 to pull within two points, 56-54.
\n*Morningside scored the next six points to push their lead to eight, then eventually extended their advantage to 13 with 55 seconds left.<\/p>\n

FOR UJ<\/strong>
\n*Jon Purintun<\/a> (SR\/Linton, ND)’s career-high 33 points led the Jimmies. Purintun was 12-of-22 from the floor, including 5-of-9 from beyond the arc, and a perfect 4-for-4 at the charity stripe.
\n*Terrell Alfred<\/a> (JR\/Orlando, FL), making his first start of the season, scored 19 points and grabbed six rebounds.
\n*Brady Birch<\/a> (SO\/Melrose, MN) had 11 points and six rebounds off the bench. Isaiah Dobson<\/a> (JR\/Stillwater, MN) chipped in with nine points, five rebounds, five assists, and three steals.
\n*The Jimmies connected on 10-of-34 (29.4%) three-point attempts.<\/p>\n

FOR MORNINGSIDE<\/strong>
\n*Tyler Borchers was one of five Mustangs in double figures, leading the way with 25 points. Zach Imig and Trey Brown added 14, Matt Hahn 11, and Brody Egger 10.
\n*Imig pulled down eight rebounds and along with Borchers and Eggers, passed out three assists.
\n*The Mustangs shot an impressive 61.5% (32-for-52) from the field.
\n*Rebounds were 34-31 in favor of Morningside<\/p>\n

UP NEXT
\n*<\/strong>Jamestown begins a stretch of four non-conference games Monday, traveling to Aberdeen, S.D., to face Presentation College. Tipoff is set for 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SIOUX CITY, Iowa\u00a0 (uj.edu)\u00a0 –The University of Jamestown men’s basketball team gave No. 2 Morningside College all they could handle Saturday afternoon, before the Mustangs pulled away for an 87-79 win. THE BASICS FINAL SCORE: No.2 Morningside 87, Jamestown 79 LOCATION: RVSC-Allee Gymnasium, Sioux City, IA RECORDS: Morningside 11-0 (8-0 […]<\/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-159670","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\/159670","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=159670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159684,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159670\/revisions\/159684"}],"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=159670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}