JAMESTOWN – Valley City State Women’s Basketball had chances to stop their losing streak, but Bismarck State prevailed. For the first time since November, the Viking men have a winning streak.
VCSU’s women fell 59-55 to BSC Tuesday in a Frontier Conference doubleheader at the Jamestown Civic Center. The Viking men then outlasted the Mystics 100-88.
Women: Bismarck State 59, VCSU 55
Twice in the second half, VCSU (5-12, 2-11 Frontier) came from 10 points behind, once to tie and the other to cut the lead for Bismarck State (5-12, 5-8) to one possession. However, VCSU missed several chances to take their first lead of the game and lost their 10th consecutive outing.
Kennedy Stormer, the conference’s leading scorer, led BSC with 17 points. She also had seven rebounds, two assists and four steals. Aleah McPherson hit three three-pointers and scored 13. Ashley Martodam had eight rebounds with four points.
Tiyana Schwinghammer scored 10 points with five steals for the Vikings. Jaycee Richter scored eight with 11 rebounds. Madison Spacher also tallied eight points.
Men: VCSU 100, Bismarck State 88
A blazing first half for Kaleb Larson helped VCSU (6-11, 3-10 Frontier) to a 17-point lead before Bismarck State (1-18, 1-12) cut the advantage to three points early in the second half. Then, the Vikings pulled away again before hanging on.
Larson scored 20 of his career high 29 points in the first half. He hit five three-pointers. Logan Deal recorded his third double-double of the season with 22 points and 14 rebounds. JR Cison wasn’t far from a triple double, with 11 points, eight rebounds and 10 assists.
The Vikings won their first four games of the season, then not again until a victory Saturday over Dickinson State, also in Jamestown. VCSU is tied with Dickinson State and Mayville State for eighth place in the Frontier and the league’s final postseason tournament place.
VCSU will host Mayville State in a doubleheader Saturday, but it will not be played at VCSU’s “Bubble,” the W.E. Osman Fieldhouse, after the building suffered damage from a water main break last week. Saturday’s games will instead be played at the Cobber Fieldhouse at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota.