{"id":271701,"date":"2023-04-24T10:23:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T15:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=271701"},"modified":"2023-04-24T10:24:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T15:24:28","slug":"in-baseball-vikings-drop-games-at-conference-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=271701","title":{"rendered":"VCSU Vikings Drop Games at Conference Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

MADISON, S.D. \u2013 The Valley City State baseball team battled conference leader Dakota State University on Sunday, opening a four-game set in Madison, S.D.
 
Dakota State rallied late in game one for a 5-3 win over the Vikings. In game two, the Trojans broke a tight game open late for a 7-1 win.
 
Valley City State drops to 11-27 overall and 7-15 in conference play. Dakota State improves to 31-13 overall and 21-1 in conference play.
 
Up next: The Vikings and Trojans rematch on Monday with another doubleheader starting at 12 p.m. in Madison, S.D.
 
Dakota State 5, VCSU 3<\/strong>
Adam Thompson<\/a><\/dfn> and Jaden Babiuk<\/a><\/dfn> hit back-to-back two-out RBI doubles in the third inning and Valley City State took a 2-1 lead early. The Vikings tacked on another run in the sixth to take a 3-1 advantage
 
Dakota State responded with a pair of unearned runs in the bottom of the sixth, tying the game at 3-3, and then took the lead for good with two more unearned runs in the eighth inning. Four of Dakota State’s five runs were unearned.
 
Babiuk led the Viking offense with a pair of hits and an RBI. Thompson was 1-for-4 with a run and an RBI, and both Drew Nixon<\/a><\/dfn> and Jay Greuel<\/a><\/dfn> each had a hit.
 
Hunter Magnuson<\/a><\/dfn> turned in a solid start for the Vikings, working 5 2\/3 innings. He allowed just three hits and three runs \u2013 only one of which was earned.  Magnuson walked two and struck out three. Keeton Clark<\/a><\/dfn> and Jace Hanson<\/a><\/dfn> both pitched in relief. Clark took the loss after working 1 2\/3 innings, giving up four hits and two unearned runs.
 
Dakota State 7, VCSU 1<\/strong>
The Trojans scored five runs in the sixth inning, breaking open a close game en route to a 7-1 victory.
 
Jaden Babiuk<\/a><\/dfn> was 1-for-3 with a run scored, and Jay Greuel<\/a><\/dfn> was 1-for-1 with an RBI for the Vikings. Daniel Alvarado<\/a><\/dfn> started on the mound and went five innings, giving up six hits and four runs. He walked three and struck out three. Carter Dodd<\/a><\/dfn> pitched an inning of relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MADISON, S.D. \u2013 The Valley City State baseball team battled conference leader Dakota State University on Sunday, opening a four-game set in Madison, S.D. Dakota State rallied late in game one for a 5-3 win over the Vikings. In game two, the Trojans broke a tight game open late for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":271702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271701","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\/271701","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=271701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271704,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271701\/revisions\/271704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/271702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}