{"id":212845,"date":"2020-11-13T22:43:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T04:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=212845"},"modified":"2020-11-13T22:43:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T04:43:02","slug":"uj-volleyball-fri-title-game-sat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=212845","title":{"rendered":"UJ Volleyball, Fri., Title Game, Sat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jamestown (UJ<\/a>) The University of Jamestown women’s volleyball team moved one step closer to capturing the Great Plains Athletic Conference regular-season championship, defeating Morningside (Iowa) College 3-0 Friday night at Harold Newman Arena. Set scores were 25-19, 25-21, and 25-16.<\/p>\n

The winner of Saturday’s matchup between Northwestern (Iowa) and Jamestown takes the GPAC title. The Jimmies will enter Saturday’s tilt at 14-1 in conference play while the Red Raiders are 13-2.<\/p>\n

Despite hitting just .219 for the the match, including .000 in the second set on 39 attempts, the Jimmies used a strong defensive presence at the net, finishing with nine total blocks and forcing the Mustangs into 22 attack errors of their own.<\/p>\n

UJ and Morningside played a see-saw first set, with neither team leading by more than two, until Jamestown went ahead 18-15. After the Mustangs cut the lead to 18-16, the Jimmies won seven of the final ten points in a 25-19 win.<\/p>\n

In set two the Jimmies used\u00a0a 6-0 run midway through to create some separation. UJ would lead by as many as seven before settling for a 25-21 win.<\/p>\n

Momentum stayed with Jamestown in the third set as the home team raced out to a 6-1 lead, not letting Morningside get within three points the rest of the way. Runs of 6-2 and and 8-4 eventually gave UJ a nine-point cushion and the Jimmies won 25-16.<\/p>\n

Anna Holen<\/a> (JR\/LaMoure, N.D.) and Kalli Hegerle<\/a> (JR\/West Fargo, N.D.) paced the offense with eight kills each. Nicole Schmitz<\/a> (FR\/Oakes, N.D.) added seven kills and Jayla Ritter<\/a> (JR\/Forest Lake, Minn.) and Corina Huff<\/a> (SR\/Breezy Point, Minn.) both had six.<\/p>\n

Jackie Meiklejohn<\/a> (JR\/Dickey, N.D.) posted a double-double of 25 assists and 14 digs, while Megan Gaffaney<\/a> (JR\/Jamestown, N.D.) finished with 12 assists.<\/p>\n

Sydney Ellingson<\/a> (SR\/Langdon, N.D.) turned up 17 digs and Hannah Schiele<\/a> (JR\/Jamestown, N.D.) 15 as UJ outdug Morningside 59-45.<\/p>\n

Huff had six block assists followed by Hegerle with five and Ritter three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jamestown (UJ) The University of Jamestown women’s volleyball team moved one step closer to capturing the Great Plains Athletic Conference regular-season championship, defeating Morningside (Iowa) College 3-0 Friday night at Harold Newman Arena. Set scores were 25-19, 25-21, and 25-16. The winner of Saturday’s matchup between Northwestern (Iowa) and Jamestown […]<\/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-212845","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\/212845","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=212845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212846,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212845\/revisions\/212846"}],"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=212845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}