{"id":276491,"date":"2023-10-11T08:48:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T13:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=276491"},"modified":"2023-10-11T09:36:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T14:36:34","slug":"vikings-take-dominant-sweep-over-blue-hawks-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=276491","title":{"rendered":"Vikings Take Dominant Sweep Over Blue Hawks Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Valley City ND \u2013 The Valley City State volleyball team totaled 41 kills on a .376 attack percentage Tuesday night en route to a dominant sweep over Dickinson State by final set scores of 25-9, 25-13 and 25-17.<br>\u00a0<br>All of VCSU&#8217;s players saw the court Tuesday night in a true team effort, helping the Vikings to an 18-4 record on the season and a 6-1 record in the NSAA. Dickinson drops to 1-18 overall and 1-6 in the conference.<br>\u00a0<br>&#8220;I&#8217;m so proud of the way everybody went in there and was aggressive tonight,&#8221; said head coach\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/volleyball\/roster\/coaches\/michelle-meiklejohn\/373\">Michelle Meiklejohn<\/a><\/dfn>. &#8220;I&#8217;m very pleased with the way our offense stepped up with the rivalry match coming up tomorrow.&#8221;<br>\u00a0<br>VCSU had 10 different players record at least a kill and 12 players record at least one dig.\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/volleyball\/roster\/bailey-nelson\/3141\">Bailey Nelson<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0and\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/volleyball\/roster\/morgan-freije\/3136\">Morgan Freije<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0led the offense with 10 kills each. Defensively,\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/volleyball\/roster\/jaycee-richter\/3143\">JayCee Richter<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0paced VCSU with 12 digs,\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/volleyball\/roster\/delani-clarke\/3135\">Delani Clarke<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0chipped in eight and\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/volleyball\/roster\/reagan-bogenreif\/3468\">Reagan Bogenreif<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0posted seven.<br>\u00a0<br>The Vikings held Dickinson to just 24 kills in the match as the Blue Hawks recorded a negative attack percentage in each of the first two sets. VCSU&#8217;s\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/volleyball\/roster\/danielle-hagler\/3137\">Danielle Hagler<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0had a hand in four blocks while Freije and\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/volleyball\/roster\/morgan-nelson\/3142\">Morgan Nelson<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0each had a hand in three.<br>\u00a0<br><dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/volleyball\/roster\/sadie-hansen\/3138\">Sadie Hansen<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0recorded 31 set assists, and freshman\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/volleyball\/roster\/gracie-schumacher\/3466\">Gracie Schumacher<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0added six assists for VCSU. The Vikings also held a 7-3 advantage in service aces Tuesday, led by Hansen and\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/volleyball\/roster\/ellie-rush\/3144\">Ellie Rush<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0who recorded two service aces each.<br>\u00a0<br>Dickinson&#8217;s McKenzie Moser recorded a team-best five kills on the night and Haydin Henschel totaled 10 digs for the Blue Hawks Tuesday.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>UP NEXT:<\/strong>\u00a0(RV) VCSU hosts rival No. 14 University of Jamestown on Wednesday at The Bubble. First serve is slated for 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City ND \u2013 The Valley City State volleyball team totaled 41 kills on a .376 attack percentage Tuesday night en route to a dominant sweep over Dickinson State by final set scores of 25-9, 25-13 and 25-17.\u00a0All of VCSU&#8217;s players saw the court Tuesday night in a true team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":276436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276491","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\/276491","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276500,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276491\/revisions\/276500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/276436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}