FOREST CITY, IOWA \u2013\u00a0(VCSU)-The Valley City State baseball team put up 20 runs during its first game Thursday afternoon at Waldorf, but it wasn’t enough as they dropped a wild game against the Warriors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
VCSU and Waldorf combined for 45 runs, 44 hits and 19 extra-base hits during a 25-20 win by the Warriors. The teams scored in 13 out of their 18 at bats and totaled 36 runs over the final four innings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Waldorf also picked up a win in game two, defeating VCSU 17-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Valley City State is now 10-24 overall and 6-12 in conference play. Waldorf improves to 15-29 overall and 10-8 in the NSAA<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0Up next:\u00a0<\/strong>The Vikings and Warriors play another doubleheader Friday at 12 p.m. in Forest City, Iowa. FOREST CITY, IOWA \u2013\u00a0(VCSU)-The Valley City State baseball team put up 20 runs during its first game Thursday afternoon at Waldorf, but it wasn’t enough as they dropped a wild game against the Warriors. VCSU and Waldorf combined for 45 runs, 44 hits and 19 extra-base hits during a 25-20 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":271383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271382","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\/271382","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271384,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271382\/revisions\/271384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/271383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Waldorf 25, VCSU 20<\/strong>
Valley City State hit seven home runs by six different players in game one. Seven different Vikings had a least two hits in the game as VCSU put up 21 total hits.
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Drew Nixon’s<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a03-run home run in the bottom of the sixth inning \u2013 his second of the game \u2013\u00a0capped a five-run inning and gave the Vikings an 11-5 lead. Waldorf’s offense erupted for 20 runs over the final three innings. The Warriors took a 12-11 lead with seven runs in the seventh inning. Valley City State regained the lead at 13-12 as\u00a0Dustin Mertz<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0homered and\u00a0Tory Nelson<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0drove in a run with a sacrifice fly.
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Waldorf would put up eight runs in the eighth inning and five more in the ninth to take a 25-13 lead into VCSU’s final at bat. The Vikings made things interesting, scoring seven more runs in the bottom of the ninth \u2013\u00a0and putting two more runners on \u2013 before Waldorf recorded the final out.
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Jaden Babiuk<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0had a four-hit game for VCSU, going 4-for-5 with two runs and two RBIs.\u00a0Drew Nixon<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0homered twice and was 3-for-6 with two runs and five RBIs.\u00a0Judson Seliskar<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0was also 3-for-6 with a run and two RBIs, and freshman\u00a0Ethan Muchow<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0was 3-for-4 with two runs and two RBIs.\u00a0Zach Veneman<\/a><\/dfn>,\u00a0Tory Nelson<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0and\u00a0Adam Thompson<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0had two hits each.
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Veneman, Muchow, Seliskar, Thompson,\u00a0Dustin Mertz<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0and\u00a0Drew Nixon<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0(2) all homered for VCSU.
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Harrison Metz<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0started on the mound and went four solid innings, allowing four hits and three runs. He struck out three and walked three.\u00a0Riley Resnick<\/a><\/dfn>,\u00a0Carter Dodd<\/a><\/dfn>,\u00a0Connor Nelson<\/a><\/dfn>,\u00a0Devon Cook<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0and\u00a0Peyton Jantzi<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0all pitched in relief.
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Waldorf 17, VCSU 4<\/strong>
Waldorf continued its offensive onslaught in game two, putting up 17 more runs en route to a doubleheader sweep.
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The teams combined for eight home runs in the game, including two grand slams and two 3-run home runs by the Warriors. VCSU had three home runs that were all solo shots, including two by\u00a0Kaden Rozdeba<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0and one by\u00a0Shane Nixon<\/a><\/dfn>.
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Rozdeba’s two hits led the offense, while Nixon,\u00a0Zach Veneman<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0and\u00a0Adam Thompson<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0had one hit each.
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Brooks Brown<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0started on the mound and took the loss for VCSU, pitching 3 2\/3 innings.\u00a0Adam Thompson<\/a><\/dfn>,\u00a0Jay Greuel<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0and\u00a0Christian Ramirez<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0all pitched in relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"