Mount Marty\u2019s Colby Johnson made the game-winning basket with 21 seconds left Saturday as the VCSU men\u2019s basketball team fell 70-67 in the final minute of a non-conference road game at Mount Marty College.<\/p>\n
VCSU sophomore\u00a0Logan Nelson\u00a0made two free throws with 32.4 seconds left to give the Vikings a 67-66 lead over the Lancers. Johnson followed with a quick jumper from the right block on the other end to regain the lead for Mount Marty College. Valley City State had a chance to regain the lead, but\u00a0Jake Skellywas called for a charge with 4.5 seconds to go. Mount Marty then sank two free throws for a 70-67 lead and Nelson\u2019s half-court heave at the buzzer was off the back iron.<\/p>\n
Valley City State drops to 3-9 overall. The Vikings enter NSAA conference play next weekend with road games at Waldorf University and Viterbo University. Mount Marty improves to 6-11.<\/p>\n
The Vikings led by five late in the game, holding a 61-56 advantage after\u00a0Connor Entzi\u2019s jumper with 4:53 to go. Mount Marty would scored 10 straight points over the next three minutes to take a 66-61 advantage. The Vikings responded with six straight points, capped by Nelson\u2019s go-ahead free throws with 32.4 seconds left.<\/p>\n
Nelson finished with 17 points to lead three Vikings in double figures. Entzi scored 14 points off the bench, and\u00a0Michael Cornelious\u00a0had a double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds. The Vikings made 12 3-pointers in the game, including three each by Nelson and\u00a0Christian Kvilvang.<\/p>\n
Valley City State shot 50 percent overall (23-46), 55 percent from 3-point range (12-22) and 60 percent at the line (9-15). Mount Marty College finished at 42 percent overall (28-67), 29 percent from 3-point range (7-24) and 54 percent on free throws (7-13).<\/p>\n
Colby Johnson led Mount Marty College wth 24 points on 9-for-18 shooting. Jailen Billings and Saba Gvedashvili each had 11 points.<\/p>\n
VCSU led by as many as eight points in the first half at 32-24. VCSU held a 32-30 advantage at halftime before a back-and-forth second half that featured nine lead changes and four ties.<\/p>\n
Up next:\u00a0<\/strong>Valley City State (3-9, 0-1 NSAA) resumes conference play Friday with a doubleheader at Waldorf University.<\/p>\n from\u00a0(VCSUVikings.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mount Marty\u2019s Colby Johnson made the game-winning basket with 21 seconds left Saturday as the VCSU men\u2019s basketball team fell 70-67 in the final minute of a non-conference road game at Mount Marty College. VCSU sophomore\u00a0Logan Nelson\u00a0made two free throws with 32.4 seconds left to give the Vikings a 67-66 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161025","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\/161025","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=161025"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161061,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161025\/revisions\/161061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}