The University of Jamestown women’s volleyball team took care of Briar Cliff (Iowa) University in three sets Saturday at Harold Newman Arena, defeating the Chargers 25-6, 25-21, and 25-16.<\/p>\n
The Jimmies improve to 5-0 overall and 3-0 in the Great Plains Athletic Conference.<\/p>\n
Once again balance was the name of the game for UJ offensively. Six players finished with six or more kills, led by Corina Huff<\/a> (SR\/Breezy Point, Minn.)’s 11. Huff also hit a team-best .625, with just one error in 16 attempts.<\/p>\n Nicole Schmitz<\/a> (FR\/Oakes, N.D.) added nine kills, followed by Kalli Hegerle<\/a> (JR\/West Fargo, N.D.) with seven, and the trio of Anna Holen<\/a> (JR\/LaMoure, N.D.), Jayla Ritter<\/a> (JR\/Forest Lake, Minn.), and Taylor Sabinash<\/a> (JR\/Kensal, N.D.) all ended with six.<\/p>\n Jackie Meiklejohn<\/a> (JR\/Dickey, N.D.) passed out 24 assists while Megan Gaffaney<\/a> (JR\/Jamestown, N.D.) finished with 17.<\/p>\n Ellie Holen<\/a> (FR\/LaMoure, N.D.) had four of UJ’s nine service aces.<\/p>\n Defensively, Hannah Schiele<\/a> (JR\/Jamestown, N.D.) racked up 17 digs, Holen 16, and Sydney Ellingson<\/a> (SR\/Langdon, N.D.) 15. Hegerle totaled four blocks in the match and Ritter and Corina Huff<\/a> chipped in with three a piece.<\/p>\n The Jimmies outhit Briar Cliff .330-.079, allowing the Chargers just 27 kills against 18 errors in 114 attempts.<\/p>\n UJ is back in action Tuesday night at Presentation (S.D.) College. Match time is 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Game Two<\/p>\n University of Northwestern, St. Paul 3 Jamestown 0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jimmie Volleyball splits, Sat. Game One Saturday Jamestown 3 Briar Cliff 0 The University of Jamestown women’s volleyball team took care of Briar Cliff (Iowa) University in three sets Saturday at Harold Newman Arena, defeating the Chargers 25-6, 25-21, and 25-16. The Jimmies improve to 5-0 overall and 3-0 in […]<\/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-209448","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\/209448","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=209448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209451,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209448\/revisions\/209451"}],"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=209448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}