{"id":212868,"date":"2020-11-14T22:13:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T04:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=212868"},"modified":"2020-11-14T22:13:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T04:13:48","slug":"vikings-d-leads-vcsu-past-dak-st-sat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=212868","title":{"rendered":"Vikings “D” leads VCSU past Dak. St. Sat."},"content":{"rendered":"
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MADISON, S.D.\u00a0 (VCSU)\u2013<\/a> Valley City State’s defense dominated on Saturday, leading the Viking football team to a 14-6 victory at Dakota State University.<\/p>\n

VCSU held Dakota State to just four yards rushing and only 135 yards of total offense, controlling the game on a snowy and muddy field. The Vikings also picked off four passes and recovered a fumble to stifle Dakota State’s offense.<\/p>\n

The Vikings improve to 5-2 this season with the victory. Dakota State drops to 2-5.<\/p>\n

VCSU quarterback Jalen Pfeifer<\/a> hit Jacob Gottenborg<\/a> and Nyle Perkins<\/a> for short first-half touchdowns, putting the Vikings ahead 14-0 at the half. VCSU’s first touchdown was set up by a fumble recovery on a Dakota State punt return.<\/p>\n

The Viking defense shut Dakota State out until the final play of the game \u2013 a 3-yard touchdown pass from Tyler Tappe to Jacob Hirsch.<\/p>\n

Paco Baltazar<\/a> had two interceptions for the Vikings, while Gavin Wright<\/a> and Jerrod Williamson<\/a> each picked off a pass as well. Wright had a big all-around game for the Vikings, totaling a team-high eight tackles, 1.5 sacks, two tackles for loss, an interception and two passes broken up.<\/p>\n

Williamson finished with seven tackles and an\u00a0interception. Colton Taylor<\/a> and Sal Avila<\/a> each had five tackles, and Avila added 1.5 sacks.<\/p>\n

Dakota State had 15 rushing attempts for just four yards. The Trojans finishes with 135 total yards \u2013 90 of which came on their final drive of the game.<\/p>\n

VCSU’s offense did just enough, finishing with 234 yards \u2013 including 74 on the ground and 160 through the air. Taylor Simmons<\/a> had 26 carries\u00a0for 26 yards, and Shayden Luna<\/a> had 10 carries for 25 yards.<\/p>\n

Pfeifer finished the game 13-for-29 passing for 160 yards and two touchdowns. Perkins\u00a0and Gottenborg both caught touchdowns, while Simmons and Joshua McKnight<\/a> each had three catches out of the backfield. Tight end Jorun Hamre<\/a> had two catches as well.<\/p>\n

Up next: <\/strong>Valley City State is currently scheduled to play Mayville State on Tuesday, Nov. 24, in Valley City.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MADISON, S.D.\u00a0 (VCSU)\u2013 Valley City State’s defense dominated on Saturday, leading the Viking football team to a 14-6 victory at Dakota State University. VCSU held Dakota State to just four yards rushing and only 135 yards of total offense, controlling the game on a snowy and muddy field. The Vikings […]<\/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-212868","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\/212868","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=212868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212869,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212868\/revisions\/212869"}],"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=212868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}