BISMARCK – Another year passes without state tournament action for Jamestown Blue Jays basketball.

Both Jamestown teams were eliminated from the AA West Region Tournament Friday at Exhibit Hall D of the Bismarck Event Center. Jamestown’s boys couldn’t hold a 15-point first half lead and lost to Mandan 76-62. Turnovers plagued the Blue Jay girls in a 53-40 loss to Bismarck.

Boys Elimination Game: Mandan 76, Jamestown 62
Behind 25 first-half points from Thomas Newman on 11-of-17 shooting, Jamestown (5-19) led by as many as 15 points before settling for an eight-point lead at the half, 41-33.

Then, after Newman had many good open looks in the first 18 minutes, he basically had none in the last 18, limited to only three free throws and 0-of-6 from the floor as Hudsen Sheldon and TJ Brownotter paced the comeback for Mandan (16-7).

Brownotter scored 24 points on nine-of-16 shooting. Sheldon scored 22, including 14 in the second half, with 10 rebounds.
Edison Walters added 13 for Jamestown. Newman, one of nine Jamestown seniors, also had nine rebounds, four assists, a block and two steals.

Mandan outscored Jamestown 43-21 in the second half and held Jamestown to six-of-20 shooting. For the game, the Blue Jays shot 47 percent from the floor. The Braves made 43 percent.

Other seniors for the Blue Jays include Jace Dillman, Caleb Schiele, Braxton Perkins, Jaxon Kolpin, Ryan Kallenbach, Landon Lech, Max Rittenbach and Noah Meissner, who couldn’t play all season due to a torn Achilles tendon.

Girls Elimination Game: Bismarck 53, Jamestown 40
Jamestown (9-15) never led in a game where they committed 25 turnovers and shot only 30 percent from the floor.

Bismarck (13-10) led by as many as 22 points in the second half before Jamestown cut into the deficit with chances at the foul line against the Demons, who committed 21 fouls.

Katelyn Luther and Reagan Neumiller each scored 13 points for Bismarck, who split with Jamestown in the teams’ regular season meetings. Luther hit one three-pointer and Neumiller had two.

Milan Martin and Amelia Newman each scored nine points to lead Jamestown. Both hit one three-pointer each. Martin was six-of-eight on free throws. Macey Neumiller, the Blue Jays’ leading scorer this season as an eighth grader, scored seven with six rebounds.

Hannah Attleson had eight rebounds and averaged just under nine rebounds a game this season. She was named to the All-WDA Team.

One senior will graduate from the Blue Jay girls. Leah Trumbauer scored one point in her last game for Jamestown.