{"id":234694,"date":"2021-09-16T06:48:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T11:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=234694"},"modified":"2021-09-16T06:48:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T11:48:55","slug":"vikings-volleyball-over-dickinson-st-wed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=234694","title":{"rendered":"Vikings Volleyball over Dickinson St., Wed."},"content":{"rendered":"
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DICKINSON, N.D.\u00a0 (VCSU<\/a>) \u2013 The Valley City State volleyball team opened conference play with a five-set win over Dickinson State Wednesday night, 21-25, 25-21, 25-20, 20-25 and 15-12.<\/p>\n

Three Vikings finished with double-figure kills Wednesday, led by Katie Juarez<\/a> who tallied 17 kills, 10 digs and three blocks. Caitlyn Fischbach<\/a> finished with 12 kills and Bailey Nelson<\/a> chipped in 10 kills for VCSU. Makayla Wetzel<\/a> added seven kills on a .375 hitting percentage Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Freshman setter Sadie Hansen<\/a> finished with a new career-high 47 set assists and totaled 13 digs and four kills. Kallene Klever<\/a> tallied a team-high 16 digs for the Vikings.<\/p>\n

Valley City State starts conference play with a 1-0 NSAA record and improves to a 3-9 record overall. Dickinson State drops to 0-14 overall and 0-1 in conference play.<\/p>\n

The Vikings held an early lead in the first set but the Blue Hawks scored four straight points midway through the first set to take over a 16-14 advantage. Dickinson State never looked back as they finished the set with four of the final\u00a0five points to take the 25-21 victory.<\/p>\n

Valley City State never trailed in the second set as they opened with an 11-6 lead on a block from Makayla Wetzel<\/a>. The Vikings led by as much as six points on a Juarez kill to make it 22-16 in favor of the Vikings. The Blue Hawks inched closer but a block by Juarez put the set away 25-21.<\/p>\n

The Vikings trailed\u00a013-14 early in the third set when a Bailey Nelson<\/a> kill sparked a 7-1 run to propel the Vikings to a 25-20 victory.\u00a0Then in the fourth set, Dickinson State put together its best performance of the night with 19 kills and just two errors to take the 25-20 win and force a fifth set.<\/p>\n

VCSU held the advantage the whole way through the fifth set, putting together a .455 hitting percentage. A Sadie Hansen<\/a> block put the Vikings ahead 10-6 and a block from Brooke Blessum<\/a> later finished the match as the Vikings took the set, 15-12.<\/p>\n

Dickinson State’s Baylie Dashner tallied 20 kills Wednesday while Mackenna Johnson added 19 kills and Cassidy Larson finished with 10. Bailey Pearcy totaled 63 set assists for the Blue Hawks.<\/p>\n

UP NEXT:<\/strong> Valley City State travels to No. 2 University of Jamestown on Friday, Sept. 17. First serve is scheduled for 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DICKINSON, N.D.\u00a0 (VCSU) \u2013 The Valley City State volleyball team opened conference play with a five-set win over Dickinson State Wednesday night, 21-25, 25-21, 25-20, 20-25 and 15-12. Three Vikings finished with double-figure kills Wednesday, led by Katie Juarez who tallied 17 kills, 10 digs and three blocks. Caitlyn Fischbach […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234694","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=234694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234695,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234694\/revisions\/234695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}