{"id":247736,"date":"2022-04-26T09:40:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T14:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=247736"},"modified":"2022-04-26T16:53:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T21:53:58","slug":"valley-city-states-joelle-lamontagne-pitcher-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=247736","title":{"rendered":"Valley City State’s Joelle Lamontagne Pitcher, Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"(VCSUAthletics.com<\/a>) \u2013 Valley City State junior pitcher\u00a0Joelle Lamontagne<\/a>\u00a0has been named NSAA Softball Pitcher of the Week, the conference office announced Monday. Mackenzie Hughes of Mayville State\u00a0was selected as\u00a0the Player of the Week.<\/p>\n

Mackenzie Hughes of Mayville State (N.D.) was named as the Player-of-the-Week.<\/p>\n

North Star\u00a0Athletic Association Softball Pitcher-of-the-Week<\/u><\/strong>
\nJoelle Lamontagne<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Valley City State (N.D.) \u2013 Junior \u2013 pitcher \u2013 Oxbow, Sask., Canada\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Lamontagne went 4-0 on the week, highlighted by a 1-hit complete game shutout at Waldorf (Iowa) on April 24 as Valley City State (N.D.) went 5-2\u00a0on\u00a0the week.\u00a0 She tossed a complete game shutout against Mayville State (N.D.) on April 21.\u00a0 For the week, Lamontagne pitched 26 innings with 19 strikeouts, a 1.08 earned run average (ERA) and did not walk a single batter.<\/p>\n

North Star Athletic Association Softball Player-of-the-Week<\/u><\/strong>
\nMackenzie Hughes \u2013 Mayville State (N.D.) \u2013 Freshman \u2013 outfielder \u2013 Thompson, N.D.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Hughes was 16-of-28 at the plate (.571 batting average) as Mayville State (N.D.) went 5-3 record for the week, including the North Star\u2019s 4-game series sweep at Viterbo (Wis.).\u00a0 She also drove in nine runs, tallied three doubles, two triples, and hit two home runs.\u00a0 She accumulated 29 total bases and seven extra-base hits.\u00a0 Hughes hit two triples, a home run, and earned five RBIs in MSU\u2019s 11-3 NSAA series opener at Viterbo.\u00a0 For the week, Hughes registered a slugging percentage of 1.036 and an on-base percentage of .586.\u00a0 She collected 11 put-outs and an assist, defensively.<\/p>\n

Recap from last week\u2019s games<\/u><\/strong>
\nBellevue (Neb.), receiving votes in the latest NAIA Softball Coaches\u2019 Top 25 national poll, extended their winning streak to 12 games after going 8-0 record in a pair of NSAA four-game series.\u00a0 The Bruins held off the Trojans in Omaha, Neb., on April 20 by the scores of 8-1 and 5-4 in eight innings, followed by 7-3 and 8-6 victories on April 21 in Madison, S.D.\u00a0 BU returned home for their four-game series sweep of Presentation (S.D.) on April 23-24.\u00a0 Bellevue raised their overall record to 36-11 and 22-2 NSAA conference record.<\/p>\n

Dakota State fell to Morningside (Iowa) 1-0 and 12-3 in six innings on April 18.\u00a0 The Trojans split a doubleheader with Dickinson State (N.D.) on April 23, with DaSU winning the first game 8-6 and DiSU winning the second game 5-4.\u00a0 Dakota State closed out the series with an 9-8 come-from-behind fashion over Dickinson State on April 24.\u00a0 The Trojans are 18-24 overall record and 13-10 record in the league.<\/p>\n

Dickinson State swept the three-game series with Presentation (S.D.) in Aberdeen, winning by the scores of 6-0 and 6-3 on April 21.\u00a0 DiSU held on to a 7-4 victory on April 22.\u00a0 Dickinson State is 17-23 overall record and 9-9 record in the North Star contests.\u00a0 Presentation holds an overall record of 11-23 and 5-14 NSAA conference record.<\/p>\n

Valley City State (N.D.) and Mayville State (N.D.) returned to action on April 20.\u00a0 Both teams split their doubleheader with the Vikings winning the first game 7-2 before the Comets won the second game 7-4.\u00a0 VCSU swept MSU on April 21 by the scores of 8-0 in five innings and 10-4.<\/p>\n

The Vikings outscored Waldorf (Iowa) 38-5 in the first two games of the tripleheader on April 24.\u00a0 The Warriors held on to defeat VCSU 7-6 in the final game of the tripleheader.\u00a0 Valley City State is 27-15 overall record and 14-5 record in the North Star.<\/p>\n

Waldorf went 3-1 record during their NSAA four-game series with Viterbo (Wis.).\u00a0 The Warriors swept the V-Hawks in La Crosse, Wis. on April 20.\u00a0 Both teams split their doubleheader on April 21 in Forest City, Iowa, with VU winning the first game 11-3 and WU rallying back for a 5-4 victory in the finale.\u00a0 Waldorf is 9-24 overall record and 9-12 NSAA conference record.\u00a0 Viterbo is 5-35 overall record and 2-22 record in the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(VCSUAthletics.com) \u2013 Valley City State junior pitcher\u00a0Joelle Lamontagne\u00a0has been named NSAA Softball Pitcher of the Week, the conference office announced Monday. Mackenzie Hughes of Mayville State\u00a0was selected as\u00a0the Player of the Week. Mackenzie Hughes of Mayville State (N.D.) was named as the Player-of-the-Week. North Star\u00a0Athletic Association Softball Pitcher-of-the-Week Joelle Lamontagne\u00a0\u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":247737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247736","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\/247736","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=247736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247738,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247736\/revisions\/247738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/247737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}