{"id":211485,"date":"2020-10-29T23:20:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T04:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=211485"},"modified":"2020-10-29T23:20:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T04:20:48","slug":"jimmies-volleyball-sweeps-mayville-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=211485","title":{"rendered":"Jimmies Volleyball Sweeps Mayville St."},"content":{"rendered":"
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(UJ) The University of Jamestown women’s volleyball<\/a> team won their 13th straight match Thursday night, sweeping Mayville State (N.D.) University in non-conference action at Harold Newman Arena. Set scores were 25-18, 25-12, and 25-17.<\/p>\n

Thursday’s win was the 29th straight for UJ over the Comets, and the 12th sweep in the last 13 meetings. Mayville State last defeated the Jimmies back on September 29, 2007.<\/p>\n

Jamestown returns to conference action on Saturday at 5 p.m. when they host Mount Marty (S.D.) University.<\/p>\n

In set one, Mayville State took an 8-6 lead but three straight Jimmie points put the home team ahead. After the Ctomets closed the gap to 14-12, UJ rallied for seven of the next eight points to go in front 21-13. Mayville State went on a 4-0 run to close the gap, but the Jimmies won three of the last four points to take the set.<\/p>\n

The second set was all Jamestown, which took a 9-4 lead and eventually went up 20-10. The Comets won back-to-back points just once in the set, and UJ closed on a 10-3 run to take a 2-0 match lead.<\/p>\n

Mayville State tied the third set at 9-9 before Jamestown pulled ahead 17-12. UJ would lead by as many as eight at 23-15, and after the Comets made it 23-17,\u00a0back-to-back kills secured the win for UJ.<\/p>\n

Anna Holen<\/a> (JR\/LaMoure, N.D.) had 14 kills and 20 digs to pace the Jimmies. Jayla Ritter<\/a> (JR\/Forest Lake, Minn.), Corina Huff<\/a> (SR\/Breezy Point, Minn.), and Kalli Hegerle<\/a> (JR\/West Fargo, N.D.) all had nine kills while Nicole Schmitz<\/a> (FR\/Oakes, N.D.) added eight. Huff hit a team-best .500 and Ritter finished at .474 for the match.<\/p>\n

Jackie Meiklejohn<\/a> (JR\/Dickey, N.D.) passed out 28 assists while Megan Gaffaney<\/a> (JR\/Jamestown, N.D.) had a double-double of 21 assists and 13 digs.<\/p>\n

Sydney Ellingson<\/a> (SR\/Langdon, N.D.) chipped in with 17 digs. Huff had three blocks and the trio of Schmitz, Ritter, and Taylor Sabinash<\/a> (JR\/Kensal, N.D.) had two.<\/p>\n

Jamestown outhit Mayville State .344-.026, with 56 kills to just 21 for the Comets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(UJ) The University of Jamestown women’s volleyball team won their 13th straight match Thursday night, sweeping Mayville State (N.D.) University in non-conference action at Harold Newman Arena. Set scores were 25-18, 25-12, and 25-17. Thursday’s win was the 29th straight for UJ over the Comets, and the 12th sweep in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211485","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\/211485","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=211485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211486,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211485\/revisions\/211486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}