{"id":410927,"date":"2026-01-13T22:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T22:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/410927\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T22:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T22:21:08","slug":"womens-basketball-battle-of-the-vikings-game-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/410927\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Basketball – Battle of the Vikings game preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CHICAGO, Ill. —\u00a0North Park women’s basketball returns to the Carlson Gymnasium looking to snap a tough stretch as they host Augustana in a midseason CCIW matchup\u00a0on Wednesday night. The Vikings from Chicago enter at 4-10 overall and still searching for their first conference win, while Augustana comes in riding momentum from wins in four of their past five games played.<\/p>\n

North Park will lean heavily on junior guard\u00a0Aliyah Hershberger<\/a>, who has been the team’s offensive catalyst all season. Hershberger leads the squad with\u00a013.9 points per game, shooting an efficient\u00a046.6% from the field\u00a0and nearly\u00a038% from beyond the arc.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the other side, Augustana boasts one of the league’s most dominant rebounders in\u00a0Cali Papez, who averages\u00a06.8 boards per game\u00a0and has already pulled down\u00a095 rebounds\u00a0this season. Her 6.8 rebounds per contest is the top mark in the CCIW. Papez combines physicality in the paint with a knack for finishing, shooting over\u00a052% from the floor. Augustana is led in scoring by Papez (11.7ppg) and Audrey Erickson, who adds 11.3 points per game alongside a team-leading 19 threes made.<\/p>\n

Tipoff inside Carlson Gym on Wednesday is set for 7:00 PM CT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Story Links CHICAGO, Ill. —\u00a0North Park women’s basketball returns to the Carlson Gymnasium looking to snap…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-410927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}