Tuesday…Women’s College Basketball: Jamestown -80 Valley City State 65<\/p>\n
(VCSU<\/a>) \u2013 Valley City State’s women’s basketball team fell to (RV)University of Jamestown Tuesday, 80-65.<\/p>\n Valley City State shot 42 percent from the field (24-57), 45 percent on 3’s (9-20), and 57 percent from the free throw line (8-14). University of Jamestown shot 40 percent from the field (29-72), 44 percent on 3’s (14-32), and 34 percent from the free throw line (8-9).<\/p>\n The Vikings fall to 3-8 on the season while University of Jamestown improves to 10-6 overall.<\/p>\n Valley City State started out strong Tuesday night as they only trailed by two at the end of the first quarter 16-14.<\/p>\n The Vikings took the lead within the first minute of the second quarter on back-to-back buckets from Adriana Torres<\/a>. Jamestown took back a short lead before Valley City State scored seven straight points, including five from Maara Nelson<\/a>, to lead by four with 5:32 on the clock. The Jimmies answered back with 10 straight points as they regained their lead and led 39-32 at the half.<\/p>\n The Jimmies scored the first eight straight points of the third quarter to build a double-figure lead early in the second half. The Vikings wouldn’t score until the 5:46 mark on a layup from Mackenzie Huber<\/a>. Valley City State garnered some momentum late in the third, scoring nine points in the final three minutes of the third quarter.<\/p>\n The Vikings scored five 3-pointers in the fourth quarter, but it wouldn’t be enough as the Jimmies took the victory 80-65.<\/p>\n Valley City State was led by Mackenzie Huber<\/a> who scored a team-high 13 points and pulled down eight rebounds. Alexis Bentz<\/a> tallied a team-high nine rebounds for the Vikings while Dani Schwanke<\/a> recorded five assists for the Vikings.<\/p>\n Kia Tower led the Jimmies with 15 points while Grace Benz added 13.<\/p>\n UP NEXT:<\/p>\n Valley City State returns home Friday, Jan. 10, for their conference home opener against Dakota State at 5:30 p.m. with the men’s game to follow.<\/p>\n Jamestown Travels to Concordia, NE on Saturday, Jan. 11, a t2-p.m., followed bythe Me’s game at 4:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tuesday…Women’s College Basketball: Jamestown -80 Valley City State 65 (VCSU) \u2013 Valley City State’s women’s basketball team fell to (RV)University of Jamestown Tuesday, 80-65. Valley City State shot 42 percent from the field (24-57), 45 percent on 3’s (9-20), and 57 percent from the free throw line (8-14). University of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":97232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188868","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\/188868","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=188868"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188892,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188868\/revisions\/188892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}