{"id":296377,"date":"2025-10-21T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=296377"},"modified":"2025-10-21T14:41:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T19:41:26","slug":"vcsu-volleyball-comes-up-short-against-msun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=296377","title":{"rendered":"VCSU Volleyball Comes Up Short Against MSUN"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Valley City ND (VCSU) – The Valley City State University volleyball team fell to the (RV) Montana State University Northern Skylights 3-0 on Saturday, Oct. 18. Set scores were 25-22, 25-21, and 35-33 in favor of the Skylights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Vikings are now 9-12 overall and 7-9 in Frontier Conference games. The (RV) Skylights are now 13-9 overall and 11-5 in Frontier games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first set featured back-and-forth action with 15 ties and four lead changes. Northern started the set with a 5-3 lead, where the Vikings would mount a four-point run, claiming a 7-6 lead courtesy of a kill by Rosie Anderson<\/a><\/dfn>, Eden Carrier<\/a><\/dfn>, and Macy Fridgen<\/a><\/dfn>. Annkia Pulju tallied an ace to cap off the run. From VCSU 7-6, the score stayed within 1 point until 17-17, where Northern would score three straight and hold that lead for the remainder of the set, finishing 25-22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Vikings started with a 3-0 lead in the second set, scoring three off JayCee Richter’s<\/a><\/dfn> serve; one ace and kills by Emma Lucas<\/a><\/dfn> and Danielle Hagler<\/a><\/dfn>. Northern then matched the Viking run, tying the game 3-3. Halfway through the second set, the Vikings found themselves trailing by a couple. With the score of 14-11 in favor of Northern, the Vikings rallied and tied the game at 15-15, causing a Montana timeout. Down the stretch, Northern held just ahead of the Vikings, closing the set 25-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Valley City found an early run in the third set, scoring six straight on Gracie Schumacher’s<\/a><\/dfn> serve, including two aces and kills by Morgan Freije<\/a><\/dfn>, taking a 7-2 lead. The Skylights narrowed the gap to 10-7, forcing a VCSU timeout. Subsequently, the Vikings once again grew their lead to 17-10 with kills by Lucas and a Delani Clarke<\/a><\/dfn> ace. Northern then steadily edged closer, scoring two points to every Viking one. The tied the game at 23-23, where the evenly matched teams battled it out, going point for point with each other until the score of 33-33. Northern edged ahead with a kill by Lexa Stock and Lexi Jones to close out the match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fridgen led the Vikings with 12 kills. Danielle Hagler<\/a><\/dfn> and Morgan Freije<\/a><\/dfn> trialed with 11 kills each. The tandem of setters continued to prove productive with Madden Bogenreif<\/a><\/dfn> earning 26 assists and Gracie Schumacher<\/a><\/dfn> tallying 20 of her own. Bogenreif and Schumacher also led the team in digs, both tallying 11. Eden Carrier<\/a><\/dfn> and Rosie Anderson<\/a><\/dfn> both tallied 3 total blocks in the contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Valley City ND (VCSU) – The Valley City State University volleyball team fell to the (RV) Montana State University Northern Skylights 3-0 on Saturday, Oct. 18. Set scores were 25-22, 25-21, and 35-33 in favor of the Skylights. The Vikings are now 9-12 overall and 7-9 in Frontier Conference games. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":296378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296377","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\/296377","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296379,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296377\/revisions\/296379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/296378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}