DICKINSON – Tuesday was a good night for Jamestown High School Basketball on the road, but still not perfect.
The Blue Jays did pick up two victories. The girls ended their eight-game losing streak with a 54-51 win over Dickinson at Dickinson High School and the Blue Jay boys closed their regular season well, playing strongly in an 83-79 road win.
Perfection would have been for the JHS girls to qualify for the WDA Tournament. However, the margin of victory wasn’t enough to keep Jamestown from playing in a play-in game.
Girls: Jamestown 54, Dickinson 51
Freshman Adisyn Yunck, who scored a career-high 25 in the Blue Jays’ win over Dickinson last month at the Jamestown Civic Center, scored 22 on Tuesday, including four three-pointers for the game and three in the second half. Haley Attleson had 13 points and four three-pointers for Jamestown (5-16, 2-14 WDA), who broke an eight-game losing streak. Attleson’s last three gave Jamestown the lead for good late in the second half.
Jamestown needed to win by at least six points to clinch the seventh seed in the WDA Tournament and avoid a play-in game. The Blue Jays finished in a three-way tie for seventh place with Dickinson and Williston. Head-to-head competition between the three teams decided nothing, so point differential, the second tiebreak criteria, was needed, and Dickinson won out there to earn the tournament spot. This makes Williston the eighth seed and Jamestown ninth, since the Coyotes swept the Blue Jays in the regular season.
Therefore, Jamestown will play at Williston in the girls WDA play-in game on Friday. Coverage will begin at 4:30 on The Voice of the Blue Jays, Jamestown 107.1.
Boys: Jamestown 83, Dickinson 79
Thomas Newman scored 16 of his game-high 24 points for Jamestown (7-14, 5-11), who had last four straight games to Dickinson.
Dalton Lamp added 13 points and Jaxon Kolpin, with increased playing time due to the unavailability of Noah Meissner, scored 11.
Blue Jay forward Ryan Larson had to leave the game late in the second half with an apparent ankle injury.
Jamestown is the seventh seed for the boys WDA Tournament and will play second seed Bismarck, winners of their last 14 regular season games, on Thursday, February 29 in the first round at the Bismarck Event Center.