JAMESTOWN – As Jamestown Jimmies Women’s Volleyball tried to attack, a top-15 team kept resisting and gave Jamestown a winless weekend.

13th-ranked St. Cloud State defeated Jamestown in four sets Saturday 25-22, 25-15, 15-25, 25-23 at Harold Newman Arena.

79 digs by SCSU (15-6, 9-4 NSIC) limited the Jimmies (14-7, 7-6) to a .101 hitting percentage.

Jamestown led 21-20 in a tightly contested first set before the Huskies scored five of the last six points on kills by Hannah Bruskiewicz and Carlie Willis, a block by Emery Thury and Kinsey Mohwinkle, a Jimmie attack error and a kill on the 25th point by Mohwinkle.

St. Cloud State controlled the second set, leading 13-4 with Thury having three kills in that opening run.  Jamestown was never closer than eight in the set.

The Jimmies’ play improved mightily in the third set with a 6-1 lead as Ava Bertsch and Momo Minamiya each served two aces and Gracie Adamson and Charlotte Lempka had kills.  After SCSU was within 15-13, Jamestown had three blocks in a four-point span.  Kyleigh Schopp had a block assist and a kill to put the Jimmies in front 23-14.  Adamson killed for the 24th point and Schopp killed for the 25th.

SCSU led 10-6 in the fourth set before Jamestown scored nine of the next 10 points as Schopp had two aces, a kill and a block assist.  Later, UJ was up 23-21 before St. Cloud State scored the last four points of the match on one kill by Thury, two kills by Shelby Kimm and the one that ended the match by Mohwinkle.

Kimm and Willis had 15 kills each for St. Cloud State.  Kimm also had 19 digs.  Braya LaPlant made 45 set assists.  Laurin Hamann had 23 digs.

Lempka led Jamestown with nine kills.  Adamson and Schopp had seven each.  Bertsch and Kate Wiebesiek each had 17 set assists.  Sophie Ketterling made 22 digs.

Jamestown will play Friday at Winona State.