{"id":160356,"date":"2018-12-19T08:01:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T14:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=160356"},"modified":"2018-12-19T08:03:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T14:03:34","slug":"ujs-purintun-named-gpac-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=160356","title":{"rendered":"UJ&#8217;s Purintun named GPAC Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmieathletics.com\/article\/4715.php\">(uj.edu<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.JimmieAthletics.com\/roster\/19\/1\/7639.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-160357\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/purintin-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/purintin-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/purintin-431x236.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/purintin-862x472.jpg 862w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/purintin-768x420.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/purintin-320x175.jpg 320w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/purintin.jpg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Jon Purintun<\/a> (SR\/Linton, ND) has been selected as the Great Plains Athletic Conference\/Hauff Mid-America Sports men&#8217;s basketball Player of the Week, the conference office announced Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Purintun averaged 27.3 points per game in helping the Jimmies to a 3-0 record last week. In Jamestown&#8217;s 87-73 win against Valley City State (N.D.) University on Saturday, Purintun set a new UJ record with 45 points, beating the previous mark of 41 set by Brent Offerdahl in 1994-95.<\/p>\n<p>For the week, Purintun shot 62 percent from the floor (31-of-50) and made five of his 11 three-point attempts. He also shot 15-of-20 (75%) from the foul line.<\/p>\n<p>The Jimmies, now 14-3 this season, travel to Madison, S.D., for a non-conference matchup against Dakota State University Thursday at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (uj.edu) &nbsp; Jon Purintun (SR\/Linton, ND) has been selected as the Great Plains Athletic Conference\/Hauff Mid-America Sports men&#8217;s basketball Player of the Week, the conference office announced Tuesday morning. Purintun averaged 27.3 points per game in helping the Jimmies to a 3-0 record last week. In Jamestown&#8217;s 87-73 win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":160357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160356","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\/160356","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=160356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160359,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160356\/revisions\/160359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/160357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}