(VCSU.com\u00a0 )The Valley City State basketball teams dropped both ends of the first road doubleheader of the season Friday night.<\/p>\n
Playing at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, Valley City State’s women fell 71-59 to the Defenders while the Viking men lost a 90-70 contest.<\/p>\n
The Viking women and men both now have 1-2 overall records.<\/p>\n
Up next: <\/strong>Valley City State plays at Northwestern College on Saturday afternoon. The women tip at 1 p.m. with the men to follow at 3 p.m. from Orange City, Iowa.<\/p>\n Women: Dordt College 71, Valley City State 59<\/strong><\/u> Valley City State battled back in the final period, cutting the deficit to 67-59, but could get no closer than eight points.<\/p>\n The Vikings went 7-for-31 from 3-point range, finishing at 23 percent. VCSU was 6-for-8 at the free throw line. Dordt College shot 37 percent overall (23-62) and 21 percent on 3’s (6-28) but had a huge advantage at the free throw line with a 19-for-21 performance.<\/p>\n Kate Williams<\/a> finished with 13 points and nine rebounds for VCSU. Alli Vandal<\/a> added 12 points and Emily Schafer<\/a> scored 10. The Vikings had 20 turnovers and 13 assists. Dordt College finished with 15 turnovers and 13 assists.<\/p>\n Guard Erika Feenstra had a game-high 22 points to lead Dordt College.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Men: Dordt College 90, Valley City State 70<\/strong><\/u> After the early Dordt run, the Vikings ripped off 11 straight points of their own to get within 23-15. It was the closest VCSU would get all night as Dordt answered every Viking run with one of their own. Dordt led 41-27 at halftime and then started the second half with a 19-9 run to build their biggest lead of the night at 60-36.<\/p>\n The Vikings went on an 18-6 run of their own to close to within 66-54, but were unable to cut the deficit to single digits down the stretch.<\/p>\n Valley City State shot 25 percent in the first half and finished the night at 36 percent overall (26-73). VCSU was 40 percent from 3-point range (12-30), helped by a 9-for-17 performance in the second half. The Vikings were 6-for-9 on free throws. VCSU had 12 assists and 21 turnovers.<\/p>\n Alex Weston<\/a> made four second-half 3-pointers for the Vikings as he finished with 16 points and six rebounds. Chris Morgan<\/a> scored 12 points, and both Logan Nelson<\/a> and Hunter McCalla<\/a> scored nine points. Michael Cornelious<\/a> had 12 rebounds and four assists.<\/p>\n Dordt College finished at 46 percent overall (37-80), 19 percent on 3’s (4-21) and 63 percent at the line (12-19). The Defenders tallied 22 assists and just 12 turnovers. Ben Gesink led the way for Dordt with 23 points and seven assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (VCSU.com\u00a0 )The Valley City State basketball teams dropped both ends of the first road doubleheader of the season Friday night. Playing at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, Valley City State’s women fell 71-59 to the Defenders while the Viking men lost a 90-70 contest. The Viking women and men […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157043","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\/157043","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=157043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157044,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157043\/revisions\/157044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Vikings shot just 35 percent in the women’s game, going 23-for-66 from the field. VCSU trailed 15-13 after the first quarter and 34-26 at halftime. Dordt College broke the game open with a 17-4 run to start the third quarter, going up by as many as 21 points and leading 57-39 entering the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
\nDordt College opened the men’s game with a 23-4 run and the Vikings were forced to play from behind the rest of the way in a 90-70 loss.<\/p>\n