{"id":279685,"date":"2024-02-01T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=279685"},"modified":"2024-02-01T08:36:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T14:36:08","slug":"vcsu-viking-women-defeat-dickinson-65-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=279685","title":{"rendered":"VCSU Viking women defeat Dickinson, 65-58"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Valley City \u2013 The Valley City State women’s basketball team defeated Dickinson State 65-58 after a back-and-forth contest at home. Neither team held more than a nine-point advantage Wednesday but the Vikings finished strong, building a 61-55 lead halfway through the fourth quarter. The Vikings sealed the win with free throws down the stretch to ice the win.
 
VCSU improves to 10-11 overall and 4-3 in the conference. Dickinson drops to 6-15 on the season and 1-6 in the North Star.
 
The Vikings built an early 15-9 lead on a 3-pointer from Ashlyn Diemert<\/a><\/dfn> but the Blue Hawks managed to keep it close, trailing 21-18 after the first quarter. VCSU held Dickinson scoreless over the first four minutes of the second quarter to build its largest lead of the game at 27-18. From there, Dickinson finished the quarter with a 17-8 run to hold a 35-35 tie at halftime.
 
Dickinson built a 47-43 lead on a pair of layups from Whitney Edwards, but Madison Wilhelmi<\/a><\/dfn> gave the Vikings a lead for good with a 3-pointer from Elyse Hebrink<\/a><\/dfn>. Dickinson’s Katherine Fox had a chance to tie the game with 5:43 to go after being fouled on a made layup, but missed the free throw. Ashlyn Diemert<\/a><\/dfn> then hit a 3-pointer followed by a Hebrink layup to lead 61-55. The Vikings would secure the win with free throws in the final minute.
 
VCSU shot 44 percent from the field (27-61), 38 percent on 3-pointers (3-8) and 67 percent from the free throw line (8-12). Dickinson shot 40 percent on field goals Wednesday (23-57), 27 percent from 3-point range (4-15) and 73 percent on free throws (8-11).
 
VCSU held a 37-34 rebounding advantage and scored 25 points off turnovers Wednesday. Diemert led three Vikings in double-figure scoring with 21 points while JayCee Richter<\/a><\/dfn> finished with 13 and Adriana Torres<\/a><\/dfn> added 10. Hebrink tallied a team-high nine rebounds, and Ellie Braaten<\/a><\/dfn> posted five assists and three steals in the game.
 
Dickinson’s Samantha Oase totaled 21 points, nine rebounds, two blocks and two steals Wednesday.
 
UP NEXT:<\/strong> VCSU travels to Mayville State on Friday for a 5:30 p.m. tipoff. Dickinson plays at Mayville on Saturday at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Valley City \u2013 The Valley City State women’s basketball team defeated Dickinson State 65-58 after a back-and-forth contest at home. Neither team held more than a nine-point advantage Wednesday but the Vikings finished strong, building a 61-55 lead halfway through the fourth quarter. The Vikings sealed the win with free throws […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":279686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279685","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\/279685","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=279685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279691,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279685\/revisions\/279691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/279686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}