VALLEY CITY\u00a0 (vcsu)\u2013 Dickinson State opened the second half with an 8-0 run on Saturday, taking control of a close game en route to an 84-72 victory over the Valley City State men’s basketball team.<\/p>\n
The Vikings fell behind 44-35 after the Blue Hawk’s quick second-half run and could get no closer than five points the rest of the way as Dickinson held off each VCSU rally.<\/p>\n
Valley City State drops to 5-15 overall and 2-7 in the North Star Athletic Association. Dickinson State improves to 8-12 overall and 4-5 in the NSAA. The Vikings and Blue Hawks have now split their season series. VCSU won the first meeting 84-77 on Jan. 18 in Dickinson.<\/p>\n
Dickinson State scored the first nine points of the game and had a 16-8 lead before the Vikings ripped off a huge first-half run. Hunter Sand<\/a>‘s basket inside with 13:18 remaining was the start a 24-3 spurt by the Vikings that put them up 32-19 with 6:50 left in the first half. Hunter McCalla<\/a> followed Sand’s bucket with back-to-back 3-pointers, and both Connor Entzi<\/a> and Logan Nelson<\/a> added 3-pointers during the big rally.<\/p>\n The Blue Hawks answered with their own rally, scoring the next 13 points to tie the game at 32-32, and then took a 36-35 lead into the locker room. Dickinson State scored the first eight points of the second half to build a nine-point lead at 44-35. The Vikings were back within five points at 48-43 before the Blue Hawks scored five quick points to push the lead back to 10 points. A steal and lay-in by Sand pulled the Vikings to within 67-60 with 3:49 left, but that’s as close as VCSU would get down the stretch.<\/p>\n Logan Nelson<\/a> finished with 18 points to lead three Vikings in double figures. The sophomore guard made four out of six 3-point attempts and finished the game shooting 7-for-10 overall. Freshman Hunter Sand<\/a> came off the bench to score 13 points and dish three assists. Michael Cornelious<\/a> finished with 11 points and six rebounds before fouling out late in the game. Connor Entzi<\/a>, Austin Lee<\/a> and Hunter McCalla<\/a> each added eight points for the Vikings.<\/p>\n Valley City State shot 46 percent from the field (26-56), 40 percent on 3’s (8-20) and 71 percent at the free throw line (12-17). Dickinson State finished the game at 55 percent overall (27-49), 32 percent on 3’s (6-19) and 65 percent at the line (24-37).<\/p>\n Melvin Collins scored a game-high 24 points to lead the Blue Hawk offense. Kenny Jackson shot 8-for-12 as he finished with 21 points. Donte Walker made three 3-pointers and scored 18.<\/p>\n VCSU held a slight 33-28 rebounding advantage, including a 9-5 edge on the offensive glass. The Vikings were hampered by 21 turnovers in the game, compared to 15 turnovers by the Blue Hawks.<\/p>\n Up next:<\/strong> Valley City State is on the road at conference-leader Bellevue University on Friday night. The Vikings will then play at Dakota State on Saturday. Dickinson State has road games at Viterbo and Waldorf next weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" VALLEY CITY\u00a0 (vcsu)\u2013 Dickinson State opened the second half with an 8-0 run on Saturday, taking control of a close game en route to an 84-72 victory over the Valley City State men’s basketball team. The Vikings fell behind 44-35 after the Blue Hawk’s quick second-half run and could get […]<\/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-163157","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\/163157","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=163157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163158,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163157\/revisions\/163158"}],"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=163157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}