{"id":213075,"date":"2020-11-17T07:30:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T13:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=213075"},"modified":"2020-11-17T08:43:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T14:43:56","slug":"vcsu-athletes-earn-nsaa-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=213075","title":{"rendered":"VCSU Athletes Earn NSAA Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"(VCSU)\u00a0 Jalen Pfeifer and Gavin Wright have been\u00a0named\u00a0the NSAA Football Players of the Week, the conference office announced Monday.<\/p>\n

NSAA Football Offensive Player of the Week\u00a0Jalen Pfiefer \u2013 Valley City State (N.D.) \u2013 6’1″ \u2013 205 lbs., Senior \u2013 quarterback \u2013 Rolette, N.D.\u00a0\u2013 Pfeifer threw for two first-half touchdowns, helping Valley City State (N.D.) to a 14-0 lead and held to a 14-6 NSAA road victory at Dakota State (S.D.).\u00a0 He was 13-of-29 for 160 yards with two touchdowns and an interception.\u00a0 Pfeifer also rushed seven times for 23 yards.\u00a0 He registered 14 punts in the game for a total of 469 yards (33.5 yards per punt). It is the third time this season that Pfeifer was named Offensive Player of the Week.<\/p>\n

NSAA Football Defensive Player of the Week<\/u><\/strong>
\nGavin Wright<\/a> \u2013 Valley City State (N.D.) \u2013 6’2″ \u2013 194 lbs., Freshman \u2013 defensive back \u2013 Hillsboro, N.D.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The freshman linebacker was all over the field in his first career start in Valley City State’s (N.D.) 14-6 North Star conference road victory at Dakota State (S.D.).\u00a0 He recorded eight tackles (3 solo, 5 assist), 1.5 quarterback sacks, 2.0 tackles-for-loss of 13 yards, an interception and two pass break-ups.\u00a0 Wright was an anchor on VCSU’s defense team that held the Trojans to just four yards rushing and 135 total yards.<\/p>\n

NSAA Football Special Teams Player of the Week<\/u><\/strong>
\nCaleb Nielsen \u2013 Dakota State (S.D.) \u2013 6’0″ \u2013 180 lbs., Junior \u2013 kicker \u2013 Waverly, Neb.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Nielsen recorded 10 punts for a total of 443 yards, despite a 14-6 North Star Athletic Association conference home defeat to Valley City State (N.D.).\u00a0 His three punts went inside the 20-yard line and one punt was registered as a touchback.\u00a0 Nielsen recorded a game-long punt of 66 yards and averaged 44.3 yards per punt.\u00a0 Three of his punts were more than 50 yards.<\/p>\n

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(VCSU)\u00a0 Jalen Pfeifer and Gavin Wright have been\u00a0named\u00a0the NSAA Football Players of the Week, the conference office announced Monday. NSAA Football Offensive Player of the Week\u00a0Jalen Pfiefer \u2013 Valley City State (N.D.) \u2013 6’1″ \u2013 205 lbs., Senior \u2013 quarterback \u2013 Rolette, N.D.\u00a0\u2013 Pfeifer threw for two first-half touchdowns, helping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":213079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213075","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\/213075","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=213075"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213100,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213075\/revisions\/213100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/213079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}