Thurs Men’s College Volleyball,\u00a0 Grand View University defeats Jamestown 25 – 22, 25 – 23,\u00a0 25 – 21<\/p>\n
DES MOINES, Iowa\u00a0 (uj.edu)<\/a> —\u00a0<\/strong>The UJ men’s volleyball team faced their toughest competition yet in their brief history in the form of No. 2 Grand View University.<\/p>\n Jamestown gave the Vikings all they could handle Thursday as Grand View emerged with a 25-22, 25-23, 25-21 victory, handing the Jimmies their first loss of the season.<\/p>\n Neither team led by more than two points in the first set until back to back kills by Felix Chapman and Bayron Valdez gave GVU an 18-15 lead. UJ trailed 24-20 before an attack error and a Caylor Cox<\/a> (FR\/Helena, Mont.) kill made it 24-22.<\/p>\n The second set saw much of the same, with Grand View taking leads of 12-9 and 13-10 before stretching their advantage to 19-15. Following a Viking attack error, Jamestown rallied behind the serving of Derek Correa<\/a> (FR\/Vega Baja, Puerto Rico), rifling off three straight points to tie the set at 19.<\/p>\n UJ took four-point leads of 8-4, 10-6, and 12-8 in the third set, and led 17-15 when Grand View used a 6-2 run to pull ahead 21-19 and sway the match’s momentum in their favor. Four of the final six points in the third went the way of the VIkings to secure the match.<\/p>\n Clark Steele<\/a> (JR\/Lake Forest, Calif.) had 14 kills while Cox added 11 and hit .450 for the match. Correa passed out 40 assists. Cox and Braden Neumann<\/a> (JR\/Costa Mesa, Calif.) had seven digs each, and Nick Vanags<\/a> (FR\/San Diego, Calif.) recorded three block assists.<\/p>\n Jamestown had 44 kills to Grand View’s 40 but made 19 errors in 84 attempts, while the Vikings made 12 errors in 77 attempts. Digs were 21-20 in favor of UJ<\/p>\n Next up for the Jimmies (2-1) is a Friday match against Indiana Tech University at 7 p.m. in Oskaloosa, Iowa, as part of the William Penn University Quadrangular.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thurs Men’s College Volleyball,\u00a0 Grand View University defeats Jamestown 25 – 22, 25 – 23,\u00a0 25 – 21 DES MOINES, Iowa\u00a0 (uj.edu) —\u00a0The UJ men’s volleyball team faced their toughest competition yet in their brief history in the form of No. 2 Grand View University. Jamestown gave the Vikings all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":93519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191238","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\/191238","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=191238"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191268,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191238\/revisions\/191268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}