Saturday<\/p>\n
Women’s College Basketball<\/p>\n
At Harold Newman Arena<\/p>\n
(uj.edu<\/a>)<\/p>\n Correy Hickman<\/a> (JR\/Morris, MN)’s three-point play with 52 seconds left in the fourth quarter put the University of Jamestown women’s basketball team ahead 53-52 and the Jimmies held on for a 56-52 win over College of Saint Mary (Neb.) Saturday afternoon at Harold Newman Arena.<\/p>\n Jamestown, which trailed by as many as 12, did not take its first lead until Makensi Higlin made a pair of free throws to put UJ ahead 39-38 with 9:27 remaining.<\/p>\n The Saints later went ahead by as many five (50-45) following Madelyn Turner’s free throws with 5:10 to play.<\/p>\n A 5-0 UJ run tied the game with 2:37 to go, and the score held at 50 until Trista Merrival made a pair of free throws to give CSM a 52-50 lead.<\/p>\n Hickman’s three-point play ignited a 6-0 run that helped the Jimmies close out the game, with four of UJ’s final six points coming from the foul line.<\/p>\n Jamestown finished 23-of-32 at the foul line, while College of Saint Mary was 5-of-6. The Jimmies shot just 25.4 percent (16-of-63) overall, including 1-of-23 (4.3 percent) from three point range. The Flames were 20-of-57 (35.1 percent) overall and 7-of-22 (31.8 percent) from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n UJ held a 50-39 rebounding edge, including a commanding 22-9 advantage on the offensive glass.<\/p>\n Higlin’s 11 points off the bench led the Jimmies. Kia Tower<\/a> (FR\/Bigfork, MN) and Noelle Josephson<\/a> (SO\/Ramsey, MN) both finished with eight. Tower grabbed a team-high seven rebounds while Macy Nilsen<\/a> (FR\/Edina, MN) had three assists.<\/p>\n Merrival had 15 to lead CSM. Lynsey Curran was also in double figures with 11.<\/p>\n The Jimmies (14-9 overall, 8-8 Great Plains Athletic Conference) travel to Aberdeen, S.D., Monday for a non-conference game against Presentation College at 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saturday Women’s College Basketball At Harold Newman Arena (uj.edu) Correy Hickman (JR\/Morris, MN)’s three-point play with 52 seconds left in the fourth quarter put the University of Jamestown women’s basketball team ahead 53-52 and the Jimmies held on for a 56-52 win over College of Saint Mary (Neb.) Saturday afternoon […]<\/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-190861","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\/190861","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=190861"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190874,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190861\/revisions\/190874"}],"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=190861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}