{"id":287397,"date":"2024-10-03T08:39:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T13:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=287397"},"modified":"2024-10-03T08:39:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T13:39:03","slug":"vcsu-falls-to-dakota-state-in-straight-sets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=287397","title":{"rendered":"VCSU falls To Dakota State In Straight Sets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MADISON, S.D. \u2013 The Valley City State volleyball team fell to Dakota State in straight sets Wednesday night, 25-20, 25-18 and 27-25. VCSU and Dakota State are each receiving votes in the NAIA Top 25 Coaches’ Poll, and Wednesday night it was the Trojans who came out on top.
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VCSU is now 10-6 on the season and 2-2 in conference play. Dakota State improves to 12-7 overall and 2-2 in the North Star. The Vikings have another big conference road match Thursday night as they take on No. 7 Bellevue. First serve is slated for 7 p.m.
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The Vikings held a 49-47 advantage in total kills Wednesday night but committed 19 attack errors to DSU’s nine. The Trojans also tallied eight service aces in the victory.
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Dakota State opened up the match with an early 8-4 advantage. The Vikings inched closer to tie the set at 12-all, later pulling ahead 17-15 on a\u00a0Rosie Anderson<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0kill. From there, Dakota State made a late surge with four straight points including a pair of Sydney Schell kills to take back the momentum and secure the first set, 25-20.
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The Trojans held onto its energy in the second set, using a 6-0 run to help them pull away en route to a 25-18 win in set two.
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VCSU made an early run in the third set with the help of three\u00a0Macy Fridgen<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0kills to hold a 7-3 lead. A Fridgen error later sent Dakota State on an 8-1 rally that included three straight service aces by Kate VanRooyan to hold a 15-14 advantage. From there, the teams went back-and-forth the rest of the way with neither team leading by more than two points. Dakota State pulled off the 27-25 win with kills from Macey Wathen and Tristyn Maras.
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Macy Fridgen<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0led all players with 14 kills on the night while\u00a0Emma Lucas<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0totaled 12 and\u00a0Morgan Nelson<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0added seven. Nelson and Lucas each recorded three blocks for VCSU.
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Sadie Hansen<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0posted 40 set assists and 15 digs for a double-double Wednesday. Defensively,\u00a0JayCee Richter<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0recorded a team-high 20 digs and\u00a0Delani Clarke<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0added 15 for the Vikings.
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Dakota State was led by Macey Wathen who posted 11 kills, while Sydney Schell added 10 kills and 12 digs on the night. Kate VanRooyan recorded a game-high 28 digs and four service aces. Madalyn Groft totaled 21 set assists, and Maddi Langerock finished with 17 assists for the Trojans.
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UP NEXT:<\/strong>\u00a0(RV) VCSU travels to No. 7 Bellevue for a Thursday night matchup at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MADISON, S.D. \u2013 The Valley City State volleyball team fell to Dakota State in straight sets Wednesday night, 25-20, 25-18 and 27-25. VCSU and Dakota State are each receiving votes in the NAIA Top 25 Coaches’ Poll, and Wednesday night it was the Trojans who came out on top.\u00a0VCSU is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":287398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287397","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\/287397","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287399,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287397\/revisions\/287399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/287398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}