{"id":224077,"date":"2021-04-22T18:04:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T23:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=224077"},"modified":"2021-04-23T16:40:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T21:40:47","slug":"jimmies-mens-volleyball-season-ends-loss-to-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=224077","title":{"rendered":"Jimmies Men’s Volleyball Season Ends, Loss To Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

DES MOINES, Iowa\u00a0 (UJ)<\/a>—\u00a0<\/strong>The University of Jamestown men’s volleyball team lost its final pool play match 3-0 to Park (Mo.) University Thursday afternoon at the NAIA Men’s Volleyball National Championship. Set scores were 25-23, 25-17, and 25-17.<\/p>\n

Park advances to the semifinals of the tournament while the Jimmies have their season come to an end with an overall record of 21-3.<\/p>\n

Jamestown trailed 8-5 in set one before scoring eight of the next 11 points to go ahead 13-11. The Pirates scored the next four to take\u00a0a 15-13\u00a0lead, but the Jimmies responded with three straight of their own to pull in front by one. A Caylor Cox<\/a> (FR\/Helena, Mont.) kill made it 22-20 Jimmies, and the final Jimmie lead would come at 23-21. Park finished with the final four points of the set to take a 1-0 match lead.<\/p>\n

UJ was not able to establish a consistent offensive attack in set two, hitting just .045 in the set on eight kills in 22 attempts. Jamestown led 8-6 early in the set, but a 4-0 run by the Pirates gave them a 10-8 edge and the Jimmies were only able to get as close as 17-16 the rest of the way. Park hit .440 in the set and scored eight of the last nine points, going ahead 2-0 in the match.<\/p>\n

The Jimmies put together back-to-back points just three times in the final set,\u00a0 and a 3-0 run by the Pirates early on put them in the lead for good in the clinching set. Park led by as many as five on seven\u00a0different occasions, and 15-12 was as close as UJ would get. As in the previous two sets, the Pirates had a rally of four straight points to clinch the match.<\/p>\n

Derek Owens<\/a> (FR\/Andover, Minn.) led UJ with eight kills and Samuel Jackman<\/a> (SO\/St. Jean Baptiste, Manitoba) had seven. Owens hit a team-high .333 for the Jimmies, who hit just .048 as a team. Derek Correa<\/a> (FR\/Vega Baja, Puerto Rico) had 27 assists while Cox had seven digs and Braden Neumann<\/a> (JR\/Costa Mesa, Calif.) six. Austin Jacob<\/a> (FR\/Houston, Texas) finished with six total blocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DES MOINES, Iowa\u00a0 (UJ)—\u00a0The University of Jamestown men’s volleyball team lost its final pool play match 3-0 to Park (Mo.) University Thursday afternoon at the NAIA Men’s Volleyball National Championship. Set scores were 25-23, 25-17, and 25-17. Park advances to the semifinals of the tournament while the Jimmies have their […]<\/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-224077","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\/224077","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=224077"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224155,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224077\/revisions\/224155"}],"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=224077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}