{"id":185299,"date":"2019-11-19T07:32:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T13:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=185299"},"modified":"2019-11-19T07:32:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T13:32:56","slug":"vcsu-football-team-receives-11-all-conference-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=185299","title":{"rendered":"VCSU football team receives 11-All Conference Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"

(VCSU<\/a>) The Valley City State University football team has been\u00a0recognized with 11 All-Conference honors for the 2019 season.<\/p>\n

The Vikings had six 1st Team All-Conference selections and five 2nd Team selections as the Dacotah Bank\/North Star Athletic Association All-Conference Teams were announced Monday by the conference office.<\/p>\n

Seniors Louis Quinones<\/a>, JohnL Jones<\/a> and Jake Peterson<\/a> all earned 1st Team All-Conference Offense. Quinones, a running back, led the NAIA in rushing yards per game (150) and all-purpose yards per game this season (210). He became the school’s all-time career rushing leader with 3,530 yards and 36 rushing touchdowns in his career.<\/p>\n

Jones, an offensive lineman, was named 1st Team All-Conference for the second straight season as he anchored the Viking line. Peterson battled injuries in his final season and was focused on by opposing defenses, but he still hauled in 34 catches for 454 yards and four touchdowns as a wide receiver.<\/p>\n

Defensively, the Vikings also had three 1st Team All-Conference selections as senior Arron Martin<\/a> and juniors Marshaun Jones<\/a> and Doniaj Smelker<\/a> earned the honor. Martin, a linebacker, led the Vikings with 93 tackles in his senior season. He was also named VCSU’s NSAA Champion of Character recipient.<\/p>\n

Marshaun Jones<\/a> tallied 58 tackles and eight tackles for loss on the defensive line, and Smelker finished with 48 tackles, two interceptions and eight passes broken up from a defensive back position.<\/p>\n

Five Vikings were named 2nd Team All-Conference, including offensive lineman Spencer Dorsey<\/a>, linebacker Sal Avila<\/a>, defensive back Andrew Hanretty<\/a> and kicker Landon Arredondo<\/a>. Quinones was also named 2nd Team as a kick returner.<\/p>\n

Earned Honorable Mention All-Conference for the Vikings were quarterback Jalen Pfeifer<\/a>, offensive lineman Berkley Santos<\/a>, defensive lineman Dakota Johnson<\/a> and linebacker Dustin Kasowski<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(VCSU) The Valley City State University football team has been\u00a0recognized with 11 All-Conference honors for the 2019 season. The Vikings had six 1st Team All-Conference selections and five 2nd Team selections as the Dacotah Bank\/North Star Athletic Association All-Conference Teams were announced Monday by the conference office. Seniors Louis Quinones, […]<\/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-185299","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\/185299","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=185299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185300,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185299\/revisions\/185300"}],"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=185299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}