{"id":277127,"date":"2023-11-02T08:19:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T13:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=277127"},"modified":"2023-11-02T11:25:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T16:25:33","slug":"viking-women-win-home-opener-against-morris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=277127","title":{"rendered":"Viking Women Win Home Opener Against Morris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Valley City, ND (VCSU)\u00a0Katie Johnson’s\u00a0career-high 18 points led 4 Vikings in double figure scoring as the VCSU women’s basketball team won its home opener 77-62 over the University of Minnesota-Morris Wednesday night.
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Johnson posted 14 of her 18 points in the third quarter to help the Vikings pull away late in the game. VCSU led by as much as 25 points on a basket from\u00a0Madison Spacher<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0in the fourth quarter en route to the home win.
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VCSU improves to a 1-1 record on the season. Wednesday’s contest was an exhibition game for NCAA Div. III Minnesota-Morris.
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The Viking women opened with a 22-10 lead after the first 10 minutes of Wednesday’s game, shooting 62 percent from the field in the first quarter helped by a pair of 3-pointers from\u00a0Ellie Braaten<\/a><\/dfn>.
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VCSU held a 36-26 lead at halftime, but the Cougars opened the second half with six straight points to get within four. Over the next 4 and a half minutes, the Vikings outscored the Cougars 21-8 including three 3’s from\u00a0Ashlyn Diemert<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0and two from Johnson.
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The Vikings led by as much as 25 points on Spacher’s basket early in the fourth quarter and held on to secure the home-opening victory.
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VCSU shot 43 percent from the field (29-67), 39 percent on 3’s (13-33) and 75 percent on free throws (6-8). The Vikings held the rebounding advantage 38-30, and forced the Cougars into 27 turnovers.
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Morris shot 49 percent from the field (22-45), 25 percent from beyond the arc (1-4) and 71 percent at the free throw line (17-24).
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Adriana Torres<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0scored 12 points for the Vikings while Diemert finished with 11 and\u00a0Hailey Roberts<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0added 10 to round out Vikings scoring in double figures.\u00a0Ellie Powell<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0pulled down a team-best nine rebounds, and Torres and\u00a0Madison Wilhelmi<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0added four assists each.
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The Cougars were led by Grace Perry who finished with 18 points and Maddy Grove chipped in 14. Malory Anderson scored eight points and grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds Wednesday.
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UP NEXT:<\/strong>\u00a0VCSU plays a pair of non-conference games on the road this weekend. VCSU plays Mount Marty on Saturday at the Sanford Pentagon. Women tip at 5 p.m. and men follow at 7 p.m. The Vikings then play at Dakota Wesleyan on Sunday at 3 p.m. with the men’s game at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Valley City, ND (VCSU)\u00a0Katie Johnson’s\u00a0career-high 18 points led 4 Vikings in double figure scoring as the VCSU women’s basketball team won its home opener 77-62 over the University of Minnesota-Morris Wednesday night.\u00a0Johnson posted 14 of her 18 points in the third quarter to help the Vikings pull away late in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":32747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277127","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\/277127","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=277127"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277149,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277127\/revisions\/277149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}