Stevenson, Georgetown Throttle Jimmie Women In NAIA 1st Round

Posted By: davidburrall
March 15, 2025 @ 12:30 am
Sports

GREAT FALLS, MT – It was a nice surprise last week when the Jamestown Jimmies received an at-large bid to the NAIA Women’s Basketball Championship.

On Friday, AJ Stevenson and Georgetown College weren’t too nice to UJ.

Stevenson hit seven-of-nine three-pointers and a career-high 29 points, leading Georgetown to a 93-62 win over Jamestown in a first-round game at the University of Providence’s McLaughlin Memorial Center.

As Georgetown (21-8) shot 59 percent overall from the field, Stevenson was 11-of-15 in 27 minutes. Off the Tigers’ bench, Trinity Klock made all six her of shots and scored 13. Izzy Lamparty tallied 12 on six-of-seven shooting. Teionni McDaniel dropped in four of six and two three-pointers and had 11.

Kate Cordes struggled to shoot for Jamestown (19-11), hitting just three-of-17 shots and leading the Jimmies with 12 points. Jailyn Martinson, one of five Jamestown seniors, scored 11 with six rebounds. Hannah Hagel, another senior, scored 10 with six rebounds. Senior Kate Busek scored eight. Cordes and Busek each hit two three-pointers. Megan Oswald scored one in her last game as a Jimmie.

Jamestown had one lead, at 4-2. The Jimmies were still down just one at 9-8 with 6:34 left in the first quarter when Georgetown had its first big run at 14-5 with five points by Klock and a three-pointer by McDaniel. Through one quarter, Georgetown led Jamestown 25-18.

Stevenson hit a layup and a three to make the Georgetown lead 30-18. After a Samantha Paulsen three-pointer for Jamestown cut GC’s lead to nine, the Tigers then took charge of the game with a 13-3 run and layups by Kayra Freeman and Klock, a free throw by McDaniel and a jumper and three-pointer by Stevenson for a 40-23 lead. Georgetown led 60-33 at halftime and led by as many as 33 in the third quarter.

Jamestown shot just 37 percent from the field, but did hit 12-of-14 free throws. Through Friday, the Jimmies were second in NAIA Women’s Basketball in free throw percentage at 79.3 percent.

This ends the Jimmies’ time in NAIA Basketball. Next season, Jamestown, as a member of NCAA Division II, will play in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference.