{"id":159295,"date":"2018-12-03T21:24:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T03:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=159295"},"modified":"2018-12-03T21:24:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T03:24:21","slug":"viking-men-over-oak-hills-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=159295","title":{"rendered":"Viking Men over Oak Hills, Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"

VALLEY CITY\u00a0\u00a0 (VCSU.edu)\u00a0 \u2013 Logan Nelson<\/a> poured in 29 points and the Valley City State men’s basketball team made a season-high 16 3-pointers during a 94-72 victory over Oak Hills Christian College on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Nelson led the Vikings with six 3-pointers, going 6-for-8 from beyond the arc. Christian Kvilvang<\/a> knocked down five 3’s as the duo highlighted a 16-for-31 team performance from deep. The Vikings made 12 of their 3-pointers in the second half as they outscored the Wolfpack 53-37 over the final 20 minutes of play.<\/p>\n

Valley City State improves to 3-7 overall. Oak Hills drops to 3-10 on the season.<\/p>\n

The Wolfpack took a 20-18 lead after nine minutes of play in the first half, but Valley City State gained control with a 15-2 run over the next four minutes, building a 33-22 advantage. The Vikings played to a 41-35 lead at the half, paced by 14 first-half points from Nelson and 10 off the bench by Connor Entzi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Vikings broke the game wide open midway through the second half. Leading 71-65 with 8:20 to go, the Vikings ripped off a 17-2 run over the next four minutes. Alex Weston<\/a> capped the big run with a 3-pointer, putting the Vikings ahead 88-67 with 4:15 remaining.<\/p>\n

Five Vikings reached double figures, led by Nelson’s 29 points on 11-for-14 shooting. Kvilvang did all of his scoring from the 3-point line, finishing with 15 points on 5-for-9 shooting from deep. Weston knocked down three triples and finished with 11 points and three assists, and both Michael Cornelious<\/a> and Connor Entzi<\/a> scored 10 points. Cornelious added seven rebounds and four assists.<\/p>\n

VCSU center Chris Morgan<\/a> had a team-high 11 rebounds to highlight VCSU’s 46-21 rebounding advantage. The Vikings recorded 24 assists in the game, including seven from Hunter McCalla<\/a>, who also had eight points and six rebounds.<\/p>\n

The Vikings shot 58 percent overall (38-66), 52 percent on 3’s (16-31) and were 2-for-9 on free throws.<\/p>\n

The Wolfpack kept themselves in the game with their 3-point shooting, making 13 3’s in the game. Oak Hills finished at 40 percent overall (28-70), 45 percent on 3’s (13-29) and 50 percent at the line (3-6).<\/p>\n

Elijah White made four 3’s and scored 21 points to lead Oak Hills, while Ronnie Jackson knocked down five 3’s and scored 20 points in the loss.<\/p>\n

Up next:<\/strong> Valley City State (3-7, 0-1 NSAA) now has 11 days off before playing at rival University of Jamestown on Saturday, Dec. 15. That game is scheduled for 4 p.m. at Jamestown’s Newman Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VALLEY CITY\u00a0\u00a0 (VCSU.edu)\u00a0 \u2013 Logan Nelson poured in 29 points and the Valley City State men’s basketball team made a season-high 16 3-pointers during a 94-72 victory over Oak Hills Christian College on Monday night. Nelson led the Vikings with six 3-pointers, going 6-for-8 from beyond the arc. Christian Kvilvang […]<\/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-159295","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\/159295","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=159295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159296,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159295\/revisions\/159296"}],"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=159295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}