Monday…Women’s Basketball<\/p>\n
Mount Marty College 55 Jamestown 53<\/a><\/p>\n YANKTON, S.D.–<\/strong>\u00a0Facing a 23-point deficit after 30 minutes, the University of Jamestown women’s basketball team erupted for 31 points in the final quarter, but their rally came up just short in a 55-53 loss to Mount Marty College.<\/p>\n Jamestown (6-3 overall, 2-2 Great Plains Athletic Conference) will play an exhibition game at Concordia-St. Paul on Saturday before returning to GPAC action on Wednesday, December 5 against Dordt (Iowa).<\/p>\n UJ shot just 6-for-27 from the field in the first half and trailed 31-17 at the half.<\/p>\n The Jimmies’ shooting woes continued in the third quarter as they connected on just one of 15 shots for a total of five points in the frame.<\/p>\n In the fourth quarter, Jamestown shot 8-for-18, including three three-pointers,\u00a0and went 12-for-17 at the free throw line to outscore the Lancers 31-10.<\/p>\n Hannah DeMars<\/a> (FR\/Grand Rapids, MN) converted a three-point play with 37 seconds left to make it a single-possession game at 50-48. She later got the Jimmies within a point 51-50, but as UJ was forced to foul to save clock time, Karlee McKinney and Hannah Williams sank both of their free throws to put the game away.<\/p>\n Kia Tower<\/a> (FR\/Bigfork, MN)’s three-point shot went in at the buzzer to make it a two-point game.<\/p>\n DeMars led UJ scorers with 12 points and added four assists. She was joined in double figures by Olivia Anderson<\/a> (SR\/Edgeley, ND) with 10. Grace Benz<\/a> (SO\/Steele, ND) finished with nine points and tied a career-high with eight rebounds. Tower and Paige Schmidt<\/a> (SR\/Tappen, ND) recorded three steals each.<\/p>\n McKinney led Mount Marty (5-3, 1-3 GPAC) with a double-double of 16 points and 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Monday…Women’s Basketball Mount Marty College 55 Jamestown 53 YANKTON, S.D.–\u00a0Facing a 23-point deficit after 30 minutes, the University of Jamestown women’s basketball team erupted for 31 points in the final quarter, but their rally came up just short in a 55-53 loss to Mount Marty College. Jamestown (6-3 overall, 2-2 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":97231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185740","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\/185740","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=185740"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185799,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185740\/revisions\/185799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}