The Vikings led the Comets 7-6 early in set one when Mayville State’s freshman Elora Passa served eight straight points to make it 15-7. After securing a 10-point lead at 18-8, the Vikings answered back with a 9-1 run making it 19-17. Three kills by Passa contributed to the Comet win of set one, 25-21.<\/p>\n
Mayville State started out strong in set two taking a quick lead. Their largest lead of the game came at 20-13 when a Comet service error gave the Vikings a chance to strike back. At 21-16 in favor of the Comets, three straight Caitlyn Fishbach kills started an 8-3 rally for Valley City State. Tied at 24, two Viking errors gave Mayville State set two 26-24.<\/p>\n
The two NSAA teams battled in set three as they went back and forth, tying the game at 15. A Clara Weiland kill spurred a 6-1 run to give the Vikings their largest lead of the match. A pair of Bailey Nelson<\/a> kills secured the win for Valley City State, 25-20.<\/p>\n The Vikings kept their momentum early in set four taking a 5-1 lead but hitting errors allowed the Comets to answer back. Tied at 6-6, a solo block by Madisen Knudsvig gave the Comets a lead they would never give up as they took set four 25-19. Three Vikings had double-digit kills in the loss. Makayla Wetzel<\/a> tallied team-high 12 kills while freshmen Kylie Tucker<\/a> and Clara Weiland each added 10.<\/p>\n Reagan Ingstad<\/a> recorded 27 assists, 11 digs and three service aces for the Vikings. Alexa Walby<\/a> added 24 assists. Defensively, Morganne Eppard<\/a> recorded 22 digs and Kallene Klever<\/a> tallied 19 for Valley City State.<\/p>\n Mayville State was led by Elora Passa who tallied 31 assists, 18 digs, and 11 kills for the Comets. Hannah Bliss added a team high 20 kills and libero Jayden Warner tallied 35 digs.<\/p>\n Valley City State falls to 4-11 overall and 0-5 in the North Star. Mayville State improves to 13-8 overall and 3-2 in the NSAA.<\/p>\n UP NEXT: Valley City State hosts Presentation College for another conference matchup on Saturday, Oct. 5, at 3 p.m. in Graichen Gym.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wednesday At VCSU (VCSU)\u00a0 Valley City State fell 3-1 to Mayville State in a North Star matchup Wednesday night, 25-21, 26-24, 20-25, and 25-19. The Vikings led the Comets 7-6 early in set one when Mayville State’s freshman Elora Passa served eight straight points to make it 15-7. After securing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181488","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=181488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181502,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181488\/revisions\/181502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/images\/2019-20\/Morganne.jpg\")
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