MINOT, N.D. \u2013 The Valley City State University basketball teams dropped a pair of exhibition games during a doubleheader Tuesday night at NCAA Division II school Minot State University.<\/p>\n
The Viking women fell 66-59 in the first game, and the VCSU men dropped a 61-47 contest in the finale. Both games were exhibition contests for VCSU and do not count towards their overall records.<\/p>\n
Up next: <\/strong>Valley City State opens conference play Saturday with a road doubleheader at Mayville State University. The women will play at 3 p.m. with the men at 5 p.m. in Mayville.<\/p>\n Women: Minot State 66, VCSU 59<\/strong><\/u> Kate Williams<\/a> and Mackenzie Huber<\/a> both had 11 points to lead Valley City State. Huber added nine rebounds, while Dierra Diegel<\/a> finished with 10 points and eight rebounds.<\/p>\n Valley City State shot 36 percent overall (21-58), 14 percent on 3-pointers (2-14) and 83 percent at the line (15-18). Minot State was 39 percent overall (25-64), 24 percent from 3-point range (4-17) and 63 percent at the line (12-19).<\/p>\n VCSU fell behind 10-0 before battling back to within one point at halftime, 26-25.<\/p>\n The Vikings and Beavers have now split their season series. The Vikings won the previous meeting by a score of 67-66 in Valley City.<\/p>\n Men: Minot State 61, VCSU 47<\/strong><\/u> The Vikings shot 32 percent overall (18-57), 25 percent on 3’s (5-20) and 75 percent at the line (6-8). Minot State made 46 percent of its shots (27-59), despite going 1-for-12 on 3-pointers.<\/p>\n Logan Nelson<\/a> led the Vikings with 18 points and seven rebounds in the loss. Hunter McCalla<\/a> added seven points and Chris Morgan<\/a> scored six.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MINOT, N.D. \u2013 The Valley City State University basketball teams dropped a pair of exhibition games during a doubleheader Tuesday night at NCAA Division II school Minot State University. The Viking women fell 66-59 in the first game, and the VCSU men dropped a 61-47 contest in the finale. Both […]<\/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-158716","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\/158716","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=158716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158747,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158716\/revisions\/158747"}],"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=158716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Vikings were within one point several times in the fourth quarter, but were unable to overcome Minot State on its home court. Leading 52-51, Minot State used a quick 8-0 run to build a 60-51 lead in the final two minutes en route to the 66-59 win.<\/p>\n
\nValley City State held Minot State to just 61 points, but was hampered by a poor shooting night in a 61-47 loss.<\/p>\n