VALLEY CITY, N.D. – The Valley City State University Vikings Men and women will be back in action this weekend as the Vikings begins a five game homestand. However, that homestand will start on the road.

Due to water getting on the playing surface at The Bubble, Valley City State University's weekend games with Bismarck State College and Dickinson State University will be played at the Jamestown Civic Center.

The weekend schedule is as follows. Saturday, January 17^th, Valley City State will play Dickinson State at the Civic Center. Women will tipoff at 5:00 p.m., the men will tipoff at 7:00 p.m.

The Vikings' games with Bismarck State will be played on Sunday, January 18^th at the Civic Center. Women will tipoff at 2:00 p.m. and the Men will tipoff at 4:00 p.m.

This will be the 55^th meeting between Valley City State and Dickinson State Men since 2003. In the pervious 54 games, each team has won 27. In total points, only 51 points separate the two teams. They have had some great games over the years with 14 games decided by five points or less.

VCSU is led by JR Cison who is averaging 17 points per game, 15.7 in Frontier Conference games. He also leads the team in assists and steals. Kaleb Larson is next in line averaging 13.9 points per game, 14.6 in the conference. Logan Deal and Taylor Bryant-Frye are closing in on averaging in double figures. Deal is averaging 9.2 points per game, and Bryant-Frye is averaging 8.8. Deal leads in the team in rebounding with a 7.6 per game average.

The Blue Hawks have won six of the last seven meetings. The Viking win came in February last season when they won 66-65 at the Bubble.

The Vikings are 5-11 overall and 1-10 in the Frontier Conference. Dickinson State is 5-12 overall and 3-8 in the conference.

This will be the first meeting between Bismarck State and VCSU. This is the Mystics first season as a four-year school and joined the Frontier Conference with the five teams from the North Star Athletic Association.
Bismarck State is 1-16 overall and 1-10 in conference games.

You can watch the games on the VCSU Athletics YouTube Channel or listen to all the action on KOVC AM 1490/96.3 FM.

All passes, including parent, student, faculty, staff, and booster pass, WILL be honored. So have those passes ready to be presented at the gate.

Monday's games with Trinity Bible College have been canceled and will not be made up.