Saturday<\/p>\n
UJ Women’s Basketball<\/p>\n
Concordia 76,\u00a0 Jamestown 66<\/p>\n
(uj.edu<\/a>))\u00a0 The University of Jamestown women’s basketball team gave No. 2 Concordia (Neb.) University all it could handle Saturday afternoon at Harold Newman Arena.<\/p>\n Trailing by just four entering the final quarter, the Jimmies found themselves down by nine with 5:37 as the Bulldogs pulled away for a 76-66 win in the regular season finale for both teams.<\/p>\n Jamestown (16-14 overall, 9-13 Great Plains Athletic Conference) qualified for the league’s postseason tournament as the seventh seed and will travel to second seed Hastings (Neb.) on Wednesday for a 7 p.m. quarterfinal matchup.<\/p>\n UJ was held to only eight shots in the first quarter, but made four of them, including two three-pointers, to trail by just a bucket at 17-15 after one.<\/p>\n Concordia stretched their lead to nine with 3:37 before halftime only to have the Jimmies reel off five straight points to cut the lead to four.<\/p>\n Hannah DeMars<\/a> (FR\/Grand Rapids, MN) opened the third quarter with a three-pointer to make it 39-37. The Bulldogs countered with a 5-0 run of their own and Jamestown held serve, scoring six straight to trail by just one at the 3:54 mark.<\/p>\n The Bulldogs used a 9-0 run to take a ten-point lead with just under a minute before the end of the third. Back-to-back three-pointers by Kia Tower<\/a> (FR\/Bigfork, MN) and Emma Stoehr<\/a> (JR\/Woodbury, MN) made it 57-53 and set the stage for the closing frame.<\/p>\n Macy Nilsen<\/a> (FR\/Edina, MN) led UJ with a career-high 19 points. DeMars and Courtney Mosloski<\/a> (SR\/Fairmont, MN) both finished with 10. Mosloski and Noelle Josephson<\/a> (SO\/Ramsey, MN) grabbed six rebounds each while Tower and Stoehr both dished out three assists.<\/p>\n All five starters for Concordia (28-2, 21-1 GPAC) hit for double figures, led by Philly Lammers’ 18 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saturday UJ Women’s Basketball Concordia 76,\u00a0 Jamestown 66 (uj.edu))\u00a0 The University of Jamestown women’s basketball team gave No. 2 Concordia (Neb.) University all it could handle Saturday afternoon at Harold Newman Arena. Trailing by just four entering the final quarter, the Jimmies found themselves down by nine with 5:37 as […]<\/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-192448","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\/192448","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=192448"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192474,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192448\/revisions\/192474"}],"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=192448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}