{"id":170189,"date":"2019-04-19T19:32:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T00:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=170189"},"modified":"2019-04-19T22:22:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T03:22:46","slug":"viking-softball-in-doubleheader-win-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=170189","title":{"rendered":"Viking Softball in doubleheader win, Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"FOREST CITY, IOWA\u00a0\u00a0 (VCSU.com) \u2013 Tatum Lundin<\/a> broke the VCSU career home run record Friday, and the Valley City State softball team swept a North Star doubleheader at Waldorf University.<\/p>\n

Lundin went deep in the second inning of game one, giving the Vikings a 3-0 lead en route to a 7-2 victory. In game two, Emilee Wilson<\/a> pitched a one-hitter and the Vikings won 8-0 in five innings.<\/p>\n

Lundin’s home run was\u00a0the 22nd of her career, breaking the VCSU career record of 21 previously held by Kelli Unrein and Cejay Hilhorst.<\/p>\n

With the pair of victories Friday, Valley City State improves to 36-3 overall and continues to lead the NSAA standings with a 16-2 conference record. Friday’s doubleheader was the first road trip for VCSU in more than three weeks after enjoying an extended home stand in Valley City.<\/p>\n

Up next:<\/strong> The Vikings and Warriors rematch Saturday afternoon for a 1 p.m. doubleheader in Forest City.<\/p>\n

VCSU 7, Waldorf University 2<\/strong><\/u>
\nValley City State racked up 14 hits in the opener, setting the tone early with a run in the top of the first and Lundin’s home run in the second inning.<\/p>\n

VCSU tacked on single runs in the fifth and sixth innings, and then opened up a 7-0 lead with two more runs in the top of the seventh inning. Waldorf would score its only runs of the game in the bottom of the seventh.<\/p>\n

Voni Culp<\/a> had three of VCSU’s 14 hits and scored three runs. Riley Perryman<\/a> and Lundin each had two hits and drove in two runs, and Autumn Perry<\/a> was 2-for-4 with a run scored.<\/p>\n

Emily Smith<\/a> started and pitched 6 2\/3 total innings for the win. Smith gave up just five hits and did not allow a run. She walked one and struck out four.<\/p>\n

VCSU 8, Waldorf 0 (5 innings)<\/strong><\/u>
\nThe Viking offense kept rolling in game two, putting up four runs in the third inning and four more in the fifth en route to the 8-0 victory.<\/p>\n

Emilee Wilson<\/a> was dominant in the circle, giving up just one hit and striking out seven over her five innings of work.<\/p>\n

Emily Smith<\/a> went 3-for-3 at the plate with two runs and two RBIs. Joelle Aiello<\/a> and Voni Culp<\/a> each had two hits and scored two runs. Marissa Hawkins<\/a> was 2-for-3 with a run and a team-high three RBIs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FOREST CITY, IOWA\u00a0\u00a0 (VCSU.com) \u2013 Tatum Lundin broke the VCSU career home run record Friday, and the Valley City State softball team swept a North Star doubleheader at Waldorf University. Lundin went deep in the second inning of game one, giving the Vikings a 3-0 lead en route to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":98365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170189"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170199,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170189\/revisions\/170199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}