Vikings Basketball returns after COVID shut down the 2020 season.
Robert Dungan
The Vikings women’s basketball team put together a convincing win in their first competition since late February 2020 with a 66-33 home win over Orange County CC on November 4th, 2021. Kathryn Stackrow finished with a game-high 25 points and added four steals in just 28 minutes of action. Stackrow finished 12-of-13 from the floor and posted her first double-double with 13 total rebounds. Nya Ewans-Edmonds also posted a double-double, nearly missing a triple-double in her first action for the Vikings. Ewans-Edmonds shot 5-of-9 from the floor for 10 points, grabbed 12 rebounds, and tallied 9 assists in 31 minutes of action. Leemya Garcia is the third Viking to post double-digit scoring with 12 points on 6-of-11 shooting. Hailey Cascioli added seven points and seven rebounds in 24 minutes. The Vikings sank 57% of their free throws, 46% of their field goals, but only 1 of their 7 three-point attempts.
The Vikings men’s team put on a good show in the second game of the OCCC-HVCC double feature but fell short of a home-opening “W.” The men’s team had four members reach double-digit scoring and were led by sophomore Luke Bourgault. Bourgault finished with a team-high 19 points on 5-of-12 shooting, including a game-high three 3-point field goals. The men’s game was a hard-fought match that featured 76 free throws resulting from 58 total fouls. The Vikings shot 29-of-39 from the free-throw line. Freshman guard Aristide Gateretse finished with 17 points on 5-of-10 shooting from the floor, and Eriks Veidemanis added 15 points in 31 minutes on 5-of-9 shooting, including 3-of-5 from behind the three-point arc. Trevor Green posted 13 points with four assists and three steals.
