Friday<\/p>\n
D-I\u00a0 College Men’s Basketball<\/p>\n
Harold Newman Arena<\/p>\n
Jamestown 122 Oak Hills Christian College 75<\/p>\n
Jimmie Pride<\/a><\/p>\n Mason Walters<\/a> (SO\/Jamestown, ND) scored a career-high 35 points to lead five players in double figures as the University of Jamestown men’s basketball team opened their season with a 122-75 victory over Oak Hills Christian College Friday night at Harold Newman Arena.<\/p>\n Twelve players in all found the scoring column to help UJ to its sixth straight win over Oak Hills Christian.<\/p>\n Walters scored 23 points and pulled down 11 rebounds in the first half, while Allante’ Pickens<\/a> (SR\/Chicago, IL) added 11\u00a0as the Jimmies raced out to a 62-34 halftime lead.<\/p>\n UJ shot 61 percent from the floor in the opening half, including 21-of-30 from inside the three-point arc.<\/p>\n The halftime break did little to slow Jamestown down. The Jimmies shot an even higher percentage (.657)\u00a0and connected on 17 of 23 two-point field goals in the second half.<\/p>\n Walters finished with 15 rebounds to post his first double-double of the season. Devon Schultz<\/a> (JR\/Arlington, MN) scored a career-high 16 points off the bench, all of them coming in the second half, while Pickens also added 16. Devan Praska<\/a> (JR\/Thompson, ND) and Marc Kjos<\/a> (SO\/Lake City, MN) finished the night with 11 points each. Brady Birch<\/a> (SR\/Melrose, MN) chipped in with eight points and eight rebounds. Kjos dished out a game-high six assists.<\/p>\n Jamestown (1-0) hosts Presentation (S.D.) College Wednesday at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Friday D-I\u00a0 College Men’s Basketball Harold Newman Arena Jamestown 122 Oak Hills Christian College 75 Jimmie Pride Mason Walters (SO\/Jamestown, ND) scored a career-high 35 points to lead five players in double figures as the University of Jamestown men’s basketball team opened their season with a 122-75 victory over Oak […]<\/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-211056","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\/211056","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=211056"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211072,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211056\/revisions\/211072"}],"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=211056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}