Saturday at \u00a0Waldorf<\/p>\n
FOREST CITY, IOWA \u2013\u00a0 (VCSU<\/a>)\u00a0 The Waldorf University football team scored touchdowns on its first three drives Saturday afternoon, marching to an early 21-7 lead and handing Valley City State its first conference loss of the season. The Vikings were unable to recover from the early onslaught as they fell 37-17 on the road.<\/p>\n Valley City State drops to 3-2 overall and 1-1 in the North Star Athletic Association. Waldorf University improves to 3-2 overall and 1-1 in the NSAA.<\/p>\n The Warriors started fast on Saturday en route to the victory. The Warriors scored first with a 12-play, 75-yard drive, and then added a 9-play, 93-yard drive for a 14-0 lead after the first quarter. The Vikings put together their own big drive, cutting the deficit to 14-7 on a Louis Quinones<\/a> 2-yard touchdown run that capped an 11-play, 80-yard march. The Warriors answered right back though, going 67 yards for another first-half touchdown and a 21-7 lead.<\/p>\n Waldorf broke the game wide open in the third quarter, taking advantage of a VCSU fumble and short punt to put together two quick touchdown drives. The Warriors scored both within two minutes of each other, building a 37-7 lead. The Vikings tacked on 10 points in the fourth quarter, including a 33-yard field goal by Landon Arredondo<\/a> and 16-yard touchdown pass from Jalen Pfeifer<\/a> to Jake Peterson<\/a>.<\/p>\n Waldorf finished with 390 yards of total offense, including 268 through the air. Valley City State totaled 290 yards of offense, including 197 passing and 93 rushing.<\/p>\n VCSU quarterback Jalen Pfeifer<\/a> finished the game 16-for-30 for 197 yards and a touchdown. Jake Peterson<\/a> caught five passes for 68 yards and a touchdown. Louis Quinones<\/a> scored a touchdown and gained 34 yards on seven carries. Joshua McKnight<\/a> picked up 55 rushing yards on 19 carries and also had two catches for 56 yards. Matthew Krizan<\/a> finished with four catches for 23 yards.<\/p>\n Brandon Elton<\/a>, Arron Martin<\/a> and Sal Avila<\/a> all had seven tackles each to lead the Viking defensive effort.<\/p>\n Waldorf did most of its damage through the air as quarterback Hilton Joseph went 23-for-27 for 254 yards and four touchdowns. Waldorf receiver Ryan Martinez had a monster game with 11 catches for 152 yards and three touchdowns.<\/p>\n Up next:<\/strong> Valley City State is back on the road next Saturday, traveling to Presentation College for a 7 p.m. night game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saturday at \u00a0Waldorf FOREST CITY, IOWA \u2013\u00a0 (VCSU)\u00a0 The Waldorf University football team scored touchdowns on its first three drives Saturday afternoon, marching to an early 21-7 lead and handing Valley City State its first conference loss of the season. The Vikings were unable to recover from the early onslaught […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181706","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\/181706","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=181706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181726,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181706\/revisions\/181726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}