{"id":265880,"date":"2022-12-19T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=265880"},"modified":"2022-12-19T17:02:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T23:02:32","slug":"viking-women-drop-tourney-game-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=265880","title":{"rendered":"Viking Women Drop Tourney Game Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>HILO, HAWAII  (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/article\/4591\">VCSU<\/a>)   \u2013 The Valley City State women&#8217;s basketball team fought hard in the fourth quarter but fell just short in Monday&#8217;s game to Morningside University, 73-66.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Vikings closed an 11-point fourth quarter gap to just three points on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/roster\/51\/2\/4703\">JayCee Richter<\/a> 3-pointer with 2:21 remaining but could not upend the Mustangs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VCSU finished the Big Island Classic with an 0-2 record and falls to 8-5 overall. Morningside went 2-0 in Hawaii and improves to 7-5 on the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mustangs opened Monday&#8217;s game strong but the Vikings used an 11-2 run to hold an 18-18 tie at the end of the first quarter. Morningside then outscored VCSU 19-12 in the second quarter to hold a comfortable 37-30 advantage at the break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Vikings erased a 12-point gap to three points in the third quarter, and an 11-point gap to three points in the fourth, but could not complete the comeback on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VCSU scored 42 bench points Monday with big contributions from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/roster\/51\/2\/4690\">Ashlyn Diemert<\/a> who scored 14 points, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/roster\/51\/2\/4703\">JayCee Richter<\/a> who finished with 10, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/roster\/51\/2\/4686\">Allie Negen<\/a> who chipped in nine. Negen also grabbed team-best eight rebounds Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VCSU shot 36 percent on field goals (22-61), 21 percent on 3-pointers (6-29) \u2013 including four 3&#8217;s in the fourth quarter \u2013 and 58 percent on free throws (14-24). Morningside shot 41 percent overall (28-69), 36 percent on 3&#8217;s (5-14) and 55 percent from the line (12-22).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Vikings held a 47-42 rebounding advantage including 17 offensive boards and 16 second chance points. Morningside totaled 32 points off 23 Viking turnovers Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morningside&#8217;s Sophia Peppers scored 16 points to lead all scorers and Chloe Lofstrom grabbed nine rebounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UP NEXT:<\/strong> The VCSU women will host the University of Jamestown on Dec. 30 at the Bubble. Tip is scheduled for 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HILO, HAWAII (VCSU) \u2013 The Valley City State women&#8217;s basketball team fought hard in the fourth quarter but fell just short in Monday&#8217;s game to Morningside University, 73-66. The Vikings closed an 11-point fourth quarter gap to just three points on a JayCee Richter 3-pointer with 2:21 remaining but could [&hellip;]<\/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-265880","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\/265880","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=265880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265881,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265880\/revisions\/265881"}],"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=265880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}