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Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n NAIA volleyball play in Valley City<\/p>\n #22 Bellevue University 3, VCSU 2<\/p>\n 23-25, 22-25, 25-21, 25-20, 15-6<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Friday…<\/strong><\/p>\n Valley City – \u00a0(VCSUVikings.com)- The Valley City State University volleyball team rallied from a 2-1 deficit Friday night, winning the final two sets to defeat Dakota State University in a North Star conference match.<\/p>\n The Vikings won set one, 25-22, but Dakota State stormed back with 25-22 and 26-24 wins in sets two and three. VCSU took set four easily, 25-18, and then the teams went back-and-forth in set five. Dakota State held a 10-8 advantage before the Vikings rolled off four straight points for a 12-10 lead. The teams battled to a 13-13 tie before VCSU senior\u00a0Autumn Johnson\u00a0hammered home the final two points for a 15-13 Viking victory.<\/p>\n VCSU improves to 8-7 overall and is now 2-0 in the North Star Athletic Association. Dakota State drops to 5-7 overall and 0-2 in the NSAA.<\/p>\n Three Vikings totaled double-digit kills in the match, including 10 by\u00a0Katie Juarez, 15 by\u00a0Clarissa Olson\u00a0and 11 by Johnson. None of Johnson\u2019s kills were bigger than her final two of the match. Tied 13-13 in the final set, Johnson spiked a set from\u00a0Leah Ruter\u00a0down for a 14-13 lead and then on the next point killed a free ball into the corner for match point.<\/p>\n Johnson hit .231 in the match as part of a Viking attack that hit .134 as a team. Olson was dominant throughout the night as she hit a team-high .467 with just one attack error in 30 swings.<\/p>\n Leah Ruter\u00a0totaled 28 assists, 13 digs and a team-high three aces.\u00a0Reagan Ingstad\u00a0had 17 assists and 12 digs, and libero\u00a0Charlotte Huschkaposted 30 digs.<\/p>\n VCSU held a 15-7 advantage in blocking. Olson totaled five block points for VCSU, including three solo blocks. Johnson added 3.5 blocks and\u00a0McKinley Putnam\u00a0had 2.5.<\/p>\n Dakota State had three players reach double-digit kills, including 15 by Maddie Polzin. Barbara Briceno posted 13 kills and Sami Zeller added 10 kills. Trojan setter Nicole Sarringar tallied a match-high 41 assists. Both Briceno and Alwaise Villa racked up 23 digs in the loss.<\/p>\n Up next:\u00a0<\/strong>Valley City State hosts No. 22-ranked Bellevue University on Saturday at 11 a.m. Dakota State plays at Dickinson State on Saturday.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bellevue is now 12-4 overall and 3-0 in the North Star Athletic Association.<\/p>\n VCSU drops to 8-8 overall and 2-1 in the NSAA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From VCSU Saturday NAIA volleyball play in Valley City #22 Bellevue University 3, VCSU 2 23-25, 22-25, 25-21, 25-20, 15-6 Friday… Valley City – \u00a0(VCSUVikings.com)- The Valley City State University volleyball team rallied from a 2-1 deficit Friday night, winning the final two sets to defeat Dakota State University […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153856","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\/153856","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=153856"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153875,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153856\/revisions\/153875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}