Carroll College 69 VCSU\u00a0 58<\/p>\n
HELENA, Mont .(Carroll College Athletics)\u00a0— Hannah Dean<\/a><\/dfn> and Sienna Swannack<\/a><\/dfn> combined for 26 points and the No. 7-ranked Carroll College Saints defeated No. 16 (NAIA D-II) Valley City State 69-58 on Saturday at the Yellowjackets Classic in Billings.<\/p>\n “We had some great play by our 2 point guards, (Jaidyn) Lyman and Swannack, especially in the second half,” Saints coach Rachelle Sayers<\/a><\/dfn> said. “Mikaela Olson<\/a><\/dfn> also came off the bench and gave us a huge lift. 19 steals in a college game is pretty amazing. I am really happy with the intensity and focus our kids are showing. That was a good Top 20 team we beat today.”<\/p>\n The Saints (4-1) led the entire way, surging out to a 22-10 lead after the first quarter.<\/p>\n Carroll shot 48 percent from the field, 39 percent from the three-point line and 80 percent from the foul line to while holding down VCSU’s offense (44% FG, 33% 3-pt, 68% FT).<\/p>\n The Saints bench also came up huge, scoring 32 points.<\/p>\n The Saints forced the Vikings into 23 turnovers, recording 19 steals.<\/p>\n Swannack’s 13 points are her career high.<\/p>\n Carroll is back in action on Sunday against Montana State University Billings.<\/p>\n “Tomorrow we will definitely have our hands full,” Sayers said. “MSUB is deadly from the three-point line and they can really score. We are going to have to be better on the boards and clean up our turnovers if we are going to have a chance to get them on their home court. “<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carroll College 69 VCSU\u00a0 58 HELENA, Mont .(Carroll College Athletics)\u00a0— Hannah Dean and Sienna Swannack combined for 26 points and the No. 7-ranked Carroll College Saints defeated No. 16 (NAIA D-II) Valley City State 69-58 on Saturday at the Yellowjackets Classic in Billings. “We had some great play by our […]<\/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-158535","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\/158535","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=158535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158540,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158535\/revisions\/158540"}],"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=158535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}