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Viking hoops teams sweep Culver in final HAAC doubleheader of regular season

The Missouri Valley College men’s and women’s basketball teams welcomed in Culver-Stockton (Mo.) inside the Burns Athletic Complex for a Senior Day Heart of America Athletic Conference doubleheader, Saturday afternoon. The Viking women’s team finished out an 85-78 win, while the men’s team earned an 85-75 win to close the regular season.

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Lady Vikings fall in OT

Failure to put the game away from the free-throw line proved costly, and the fourth-seeded Missouri Valley College Lady Viking basketball team suffered a punch-in-the-gut kind of loss — 74-73 in overtime — to the No. 5-seeded Mount Mercy Mustangs in the first round of the Heart of America Athletic Conference post-season tournament at the Burns Athletic Complex in Marshall Tuesday night.

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