{"id":220326,"date":"2021-03-01T22:38:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T04:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=220326"},"modified":"2021-03-01T22:41:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T04:41:27","slug":"vikings-volleyball-falls-to-dickinson-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=220326","title":{"rendered":"Vikings Volleyball falls to Dickinson St."},"content":{"rendered":"
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DICKINSON\u00a0\u00a0 (VCSU<\/a>) \u2013 The Valley City State volleyball team dropped a five-set battle to Dickinson State in a non-conference matchup Monday, 26-24, 17-25, 16-25, 27-15, 12-15.<\/p>\n

Dickinson State started out to an early 11-7 lead in the first set when Valley City State took a 9-1 run to build a 16-12 lead. The Blue Hawks rallied back to tie the set at 20-20 on a kill from Ashlyn Hamilton. Then, trailing 24-23, VCSU scored the next three straight points including a Bailey Nelson<\/a> kill to take set one, 26-24.<\/p>\n

The Vikings narrowly trailed 10-7 in the second set when the Blue Hawks took a 6-1 rally to lead 16-8. Valley City State got back within four points on a kill from Bailey Nelson<\/a> at 19-15 but couldn’t get closer as Dickinson State took the second set 25-17.<\/p>\n

Vikings opened the third set with an early 10-5 lead on back-to-back kills from Macey Kvilvang<\/a> and Maara Nelson<\/a>. The Blue Hawks took a nine-point rally and later found a six-point rally to take the third set 25-16.<\/p>\n

Trailing 18-21 in the fourth set, a kill from Katie Juarez<\/a> and ace serve from Maara Nelson<\/a> helped the Vikings inch closer. A solo block from Bailey Nelson<\/a> tied the game at 23-23. Trailing 24-25, Dickinson State committed back-to back errors followed by a Caitlyn Fischbach<\/a> kill to give the Vikings the fourth set 27-25.<\/p>\n

Vikings opened the final set with a 5-2 run when Dickinson State answered with five straight points to lead 7-5. A Katie Juarez<\/a> kill followed by a block from Juarez and Bailey Nelson<\/a> tied it up at 7-7. The Vikings would tie it up again at 9-9 on a solo block from Nelson. Dickinson State took the next four points and put it away on a kill from Karlie Cleveland to take the final set 15-12.<\/p>\n

The Vikings drop to 4-10 overall and go into the second half of conference play with a 3-3 record in the North Star. Dickinson State improves to 4-4 overall and currently sits at 3-3 in conference play.<\/p>\n

Sophomore Bailey Nelson<\/a> led the Vikings with 12 kills and six blocks Monday while Katie Juarez<\/a> added seven kills and seven digs. Maara Nelson<\/a> recorded a team-high 13 digs and Jakenda Short<\/a> posted a team-high 16 assists. Kallene Klever<\/a> recorded 12 digs and 12 assists for the Vikings.<\/p>\n

Dickinson State’s Baylie Dashner recorded a game-high 19 kills while Mackenna Johnson added 13 kills Monday. Karlie Cleveland recorded 42 set assists and Sarah Dobitz added 17 digs for the Blue Hawks.<\/p>\n

UP NEXT:<\/strong> The Vikings go on the road to open the second half of conference this weekend. VCSU faces Waldorf on Friday, March 5, at 7 p.m. The Vikints then take on Viterbo on Saturday, March 6, at 12 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DICKINSON\u00a0\u00a0 (VCSU) \u2013 The Valley City State volleyball team dropped a five-set battle to Dickinson State in a non-conference matchup Monday, 26-24, 17-25, 16-25, 27-15, 12-15. Dickinson State started out to an early 11-7 lead in the first set when Valley City State took a 9-1 run to build a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220327,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220326\/revisions\/220327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}