LA CROSSE, WI \u00a0 (VCSUVikings.com)- VCSU volleyball took part in The\u00a0Viterbo Holiday Inn Express Tournament in La Crosse over the weekend. Against some tough programs including two that received votes in the latest NAIA national poll, The Vikings went 0-4.<\/p>\n
They were defeated by Our Lady of the Lake University, The University of St. Francis, Morningside College and Cardinal Stritch.<\/p>\n
Valley City State will hit the road again next weekend for the Concordia (Neb.) Bulldog Bash Tournament on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n
Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n Our Lady of the Lake 3, VCSU 1<\/strong><\/u> Freshman\u00a0Katie Juarez\u00a0led the Viking attack with seven kills.\u00a0Clarissa Olson,\u00a0Autumn Johnson\u00a0and\u00a0Paige Benson\u00a0all had five kills each.\u00a0Leah Ruter\u00a0led VCSU with 24 assists, and both\u00a0Reagan Ingstad\u00a0and\u00a0Charlotte Huschka\u00a0recorded three service aces. Huschka posted nine digs and\u00a0Hailie Wilds\u00a0recorded seven.<\/p>\n The Vikings hit .020 as a team, compared to .247 by Our Lake of the Lake. The Saints, who are receiving votes in the NAIA Top 25 Poll, were led by 12 kills from Natalie Fazio.<\/p>\n University of Saint Francis 3, VCSU 0<\/strong><\/u> Clarissa Olson\u00a0led the Viking attack with eight kills.\u00a0Paige Benson\u00a0had five kills and\u00a0Autumn Johnson\u00a0and\u00a0Katie Juarez\u00a0each had four kills in the loss. The Vikings hit just .053 compared to .250 for Saint Francis.<\/p>\n Leah Ruter\u00a0led VCSU with 15 assists;\u00a0Charlotte Huschka\u00a0had 13 digs; and\u00a0Katie Juarez\u00a0served up seven aces.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n Morningside College 3, VCSU 1<\/strong><\/u> Clarissa Olson\u00a0(11) and\u00a0Paige Benson\u00a0(9) combined for 20 kills to lead VCSU\u2019s offense in the match. Freshmen\u00a0Makayla Wetzel\u00a0and\u00a0Reagan Ingstad\u00a0each served two aces, and\u00a0Charlotte Huschka\u00a0led the defense with 15 digs. Olson also have five block assists and hit .409 in the match. As a team, the Vikings hit .079 compared to .303 for Morningside.<\/p>\n Cardinal Stritch 3, VCSU 2<\/strong><\/u> Olson and Benson had big matches again, both hitting over .400 as they combined for 22 kills.\u00a0Madison Brown\u00a0added six kills and\u00a0Autumn Johnsontallied five in the match.<\/p>\n Leah Ruter\u00a0had a team-high 26 assists while\u00a0Morganne Eppard\u00a0served three of VCSU\u2019s 12 aces in the game.\u00a0Charlotte Huschka\u00a0posted a season-high 21 digs.<\/p>\n VCSU hit .117 as a team while Cardinal Stritch hit .173.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LA CROSSE, WI \u00a0 (VCSUVikings.com)- VCSU volleyball took part in The\u00a0Viterbo Holiday Inn Express Tournament in La Crosse over the weekend. Against some tough programs including two that received votes in the latest NAIA national poll, The Vikings went 0-4. They were defeated by Our Lady of the Lake University, […]<\/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-152065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152066,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152065\/revisions\/152066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Vikings dropped their opener to Our Lady of the Lake (Texas) in four sets. After losing the first two sets \u2013 17-25 and 14-25 \u2013 the Vikings bounced back with a 28-26 win in set three. Our Lady of the Lake put the match away in set four, 25-15.<\/p>\n
\nThe Cougars swept Friday\u2019s finale by scores of 25-21, 25-21, 25-18.<\/p>\n
\nThe Vikings were tied with Morningside College after two sets, but the Mustangs closed out the match with 25-11 and 25-14 wins in sets three and four. Morningside is receiving votes in the NAIA Top 25 Coaches\u2019 Poll.<\/p>\n
\nThe Vikings rallied from a 2-1 deficit to force a fifth and deciding set in Saturday\u2019s finale. After the Vikings won set four, 25-19, Cardinal Stritch sealed the match with a 15-5 win in set five.<\/p>\n