{"id":289408,"date":"2024-12-23T09:49:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T15:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=289408"},"modified":"2024-12-23T09:49:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T15:49:41","slug":"vikings-defeat-mount-marty-76-66-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=289408","title":{"rendered":"Vikings defeat Mount Marty 76-66 on the road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>YANKTON, S.D. \u2013 Valley City State University men&#8217;s basketball beat Mount Marty 76-66 on Friday, Dec. 20 in Yankton, S.D.<br>\u00a0<br>VCSU finishes 2024 with a with a record of 10-4 and 1-1 in the conference. Mount Marty fell to 6-7 overall and 3-4 conference in their conference.<br>\u00a0<br>The Vikings got off to a hot start with a first possession three by\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/tyrel-creger\/4054\">Tyrel Creger<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0assisted by\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/shaheed-muhammad\/4050\">Shaheed Muhammad<\/a><\/dfn>. The Vikings held the lead for the majority of the first half finishing the half with a score of 36-29.<br>\u00a0<br>In the first the Vikings shot 14-30 (47%) from the field, 4-11 (36%) from the three-point line, and 4-6 (67%) from the free throw line. Mount Marty shot 11-22 (50%) from the field, 2-5 (40%) for three, and 5-12 (42%) from the free throw line.<br>\u00a0<br>In the second the Vikings held the lead from start to finish where closing the game out 76-66. In total they shot 27-53 (51%), 9-20 (45%) from three-point line, and 13-21 (62%) from the free throw line. The Vikings forced 22 turnovers. Mount Marty was 24-43 (56%) from the field, 3-9 (33%) from the three-point line and 15-26 (57%) from the free throw line. Mount Marty forced 12 turnovers.<br>\u00a0<br>The Vikings were led by\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/lamar-grayson\/3880\">Lamar Grayson<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0who scored 19 points, three rebounds, two assists, and three steals. He was followed by\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/tyrel-creger\/4054\">Tyrel Creger<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0and\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/shaheed-muhammad\/4050\">Shaheed Muhammad<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0who both put up 13 points.<br>\u00a0<br>Mount Marty was led by Tash Lunday who earned a double-double with 30 points and 11 rebounds. He was followed by Jake Jenson with 10 points, six rebounds and two assists.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>UP NEXT:<\/strong>\u00a0The Vikings go on Christmas break but return quickly after the new year playing the University of Jamestown on Jan. 3 and Dickinson State on Jan 4.<br>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YANKTON, S.D. \u2013 Valley City State University men&#8217;s basketball beat Mount Marty 76-66 on Friday, Dec. 20 in Yankton, S.D.\u00a0VCSU finishes 2024 with a with a record of 10-4 and 1-1 in the conference. Mount Marty fell to 6-7 overall and 3-4 conference in their conference.\u00a0The Vikings got off to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":289409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289408","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\/289408","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=289408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289410,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289408\/revisions\/289410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/289409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}