JAMESTOWN, ND. (NewsDakota.com) – The Jamestown Blue Jays girls basketball team kept its foot on the gas in the second half to take down Bismarck Saint Mary’s 72-36 in the loser-out bracket of the WDA tournament.
Jamestown’s Annie Nabwe was spectacular once again for the Jays, leading the team in scoring with 23 points and collecting 12 rebounds for another double-double. Senior Grace Hegerle finished with nine points, and Katie Falk had eight points with seven rebounds. Ella Falk chipped in with seven points and five boards.
The Jays led 35-18 going into the halftime break and used an 18-4 run to open the second half to push the Saints out of the game. The victory over St. Mary’s was the third this year for Jamestown in three attempts.
Jamestown, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) –The Jamestown Blue Jays needed 1 criteria point after the wrestling was done to pull out a 33-32 WDA victory over the visiting Bismarck Saint Mary’s (BSM) Saints. An entertaining dual was decided by the fourth criteria rule which was a total amount of matches won by fall/forfeits, which the Jays had a 3-2 advantage. The match started at 113 pounds and the Jays picked up forfeit victories at both 113 (Pete Rasmussen) and 120 pounds (Sam Schlepitz) and led 12-0 early. Grady Anderson (freshman), wrestled up 1 weight class, and defeated Colin Steidler 11-7 at the 126 pound division giving the Jays a 15-0 team lead.