{"id":218582,"date":"2021-02-05T22:31:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T04:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=218582"},"modified":"2021-02-06T11:13:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T17:13:39","slug":"viking-basketball-swept-by-viterbo-fri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=218582","title":{"rendered":"Viking Basketball Swept by Viterbo Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

LA CROSSE, WIS. (VCSU<\/a>) \u2013 Dani Schwanke<\/a> hit a three-pointer with 0:21 to go in the fourth quarter to trail by just a point, but the Viking effort wasn’t enough as Viterbo defeated VCSU 74-70.<\/p>\n

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Valley City State drops to 6-10 overall and 4-6 in the NSAA. Viterbo improves to 6-6 overall and 5-5 in conference play.<\/p>\n

Dani Schwanke<\/a>‘s 18 points on 7-for-8 shooting paced the Viking offense Friday. Maara Nelson<\/a> and Macey Kvilvang<\/a> each added 16 points while Kvilvang also grabbed a game-high eight rebounds. Taryn Dieterle<\/a> scored 11 points, good for her sixth straight game in double figures.<\/p>\n

Valley City State trailed throughout most of the game but never allowed Viterbo to run away. The V-Hawks led by as much as 12 points with 2:09 to go in the third quarter but a 9-4 Viking run to open the fourth quarter closed the gap to just two points at 56-54. After a V-Hawk timeout, Viterbo took a 7-2 run to lead 63-56.<\/p>\n

Trailing 69-65, Macey Kvilvang<\/a> drew an offensive foul that led to a Maara Nelson<\/a> layup to trail by just two points with 0:54 to go. The Vikings then had to foul to regain possession and Sophie Leinfelder sank a pair of free throws to hold a 71-67 V-Hawk lead. Dani Schwanke<\/a> then hit a clutch 3 to trail by just a point with 0:21 to play. From there, Viterbo finished the game with free throws to take the win, 74-70.<\/p>\n

Valley City State shot 57 percent on field goals (27-47), 30 percent on three-pointers (3-10), and 72 percent from the free throw line (13-18). Viterbo shot 42 percent from the field (24-57), 35 percent on 3’s (9-26), and 85 percent on free throws (17-20).<\/p>\n

Valley City State led the rebounding effort Friday, 32-17. Viterbo scored 24 points off of 19 Viking turnovers while Valley City State only scored nine points off of eight V-Hawk turnovers.<\/p>\n

Allie Wojtysiak led Viterbo with 10 points while Madison Lindauer, Kaitlyn Kennedy, and Sydney Koch each added nine.<\/p>\n

UP NEXT:<\/strong> Valley City State travels to Waldorf on Saturday for another conference doubleheader. The women’s game is scheduled to tip at 3 p.m. with the men to follow at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n

Men…<\/p>\n

Viterbo 91 VCSU 81<\/p>\n

LA CROSSE, WIS.\u00a0\u00a0 (VCSU<\/a>)\u2013 Viterbo’s Noah Fredrickson hit seven of Viterbo’s 16 three-pointers en route to a 91-81 victory over the Vikings on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Valley City State drops to 15-5 overall and 6-4 in the North Star. Viterbo improves to 9-6 overall and 6-4 in conference play. VCSU and Viterbo move into a four-way tie with Bellevue and Dakota State for second place in the NSAA standings.<\/p>\n

Three Vikings reached double figures Friday including Daevonte Munson<\/a> (11), Connor Entzi<\/a> (10), and Cayden Rickard<\/a> (10). Jalen Addison<\/a> and Hunter Sand<\/a> each chipped in nine points while Addison led the rebounding effort with six boards.<\/p>\n

Viterbo opened strong over the first 12 minutes of play to build a 15-point lead at 26-11. A layup from Hunter Sand<\/a> sparked a 14-3 Viking run that was capped by a three-pointer from Daevonte Munson<\/a> to close the deficit to two points at 29-27. The Vikings later tied it up with a three-pointer from Cayden Rickard<\/a> with just over a minute until the break. Viterbo’s Noah Fredrickson sank a 3 to hold a 42-37 advantage heading into the locker room.<\/p>\n

Viterbo led by as much as 15 points in the second half on another three-pointer from Fredrickson with 5:43 to go. The Vikings then took a 10-0 run capped by a layup from Chris Thompson<\/a> to trail 74-69, but could get no closer down the stretch as they fell to the V-Hawks Friday night.<\/p>\n

Valley City State shot 56 percent from the field (30-54), 44 percent on three-pointers (10-23), and 85 percent from the free throw line (11-13). Viterbo shot 43 percent from the field (27-63), 41 percent on 3’s (16-39), and 81 percent on free throws (21-26).<\/p>\n

The Vikings totaled 21 turnovers in Friday’s game after averaging only 11 turnovers per game this season.<\/p>\n

Brady Polk led Viterbo with 27 points while Noah Fredrickson scored 24, including seven 3’s for the V-Hawks.<\/p>\n

UP NEXT:<\/strong> Valley City State travels to Waldorf on Saturday for another conference doubleheader. Women will tip at 3 p.m. with the men to follow at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LA CROSSE, WIS. (VCSU) \u2013 Dani Schwanke hit a three-pointer with 0:21 to go in the fourth quarter to trail by just a point, but the Viking effort wasn’t enough as Viterbo defeated VCSU 74-70. Valley City State drops to 6-10 overall and 4-6 in the NSAA. Viterbo improves to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218582","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\/218582","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=218582"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218602,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218582\/revisions\/218602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}