Valley City (Mark Potts) \u2013 For Mayville State, a seven-hour delay was worth the wait. In a game that was scheduled to start at 2 p.m., but didn\u2019t start until after 9 p.m., the Comets scored six first-inning runs en route to a 9-6 victory over Valley City State University, in Bracket B of the NSAA Tournament<\/p>\n
Valley City State did not roll over after the first inning and fought back to tie the game at 6-6 in the fifth inning. Mayville State\u2019s Dondrei Hubbard hit a tie-breaking 2-run home run in the top of the seventh to put the Comets in front for good.<\/p>\n
The win early Tuesday morning came in the Bracket B Championship of the NSAA Baseball Tournament and advanced the Comets (45-10) to the championship game Tuesday afternoon at 1 p.m. against the University of Jamestown (40-18).<\/strong> The tournament champion will earn an automatic bid to the NAIA Opening Round next week. Due to a long rain delay earlier in the day, the VCSU-Mayville State game did not start until 9:21 p.m. Monday and finally concluded at 12:48 a.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n Valley City State ends its season with a 27-26 record.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n RECAP By Mark Potts…<\/p>\n VALLEY CITY, N.D. \u2013 For Mayville State, a seven-hour delay was worth the wait. In a Valley City State did not roll over after the first inning and fought back to tie The win early Tuesday morning came in the Bracket B Championship of the NSAA Valley City State ends its season with a 27-26 record.<\/p>\n Jose Guzman\u2019s 3-run home run highlighted the top of the first inning for Mayville Valley City State got one run back in the bottom of the third but missed an The Vikings continued to chip away with an RBI double from Grant Wesheler in the Valley City State then mounted a huge two-out rally in the bottom of the fifth, Dondrei Hubbard regained the lead for the Comets in the top of the seventh with a VCSU\u2019s best threat to battle back came in the bottom of the eighth as the Vikings Riley Nelson delivered an RBI single in the top of the ninth inning, adding an The Comets had eight hits in the game, led by a 2-for-2 game from Brady Nygaard, who Jacob VanVacter took the loss and pitching the sixth and seventh innings in relief, VCSU had nine hits in the game, including three by Grant Wehseler. Brady Anderson Up next: Mayville State will play University of Jamestown for the NSAA Championship Valley City (Mark Potts) \u2013 For Mayville State, a seven-hour delay was worth the wait. In a game that was scheduled to start at 2 p.m., but didn\u2019t start until after 9 p.m., the Comets scored six first-inning runs en route to a 9-6 victory over Valley City State University, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":98366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121163"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121169,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121163\/revisions\/121169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ngame that was scheduled to start at 2 p.m., but didn\u2019t start until after 9 p.m., the
\nComets scored six first-inning runs en route to a 9-6 victory over Valley City State
\nUniversity.<\/p>\n
\nthe game at 6-6 in the fifth inning. Mayville State\u2019s Dondrei Hubbard hit a
\ntie-breaking 2-run home run in the top of the seventh to put the Comets in front for
\ngood.<\/p>\n
\nBaseball Tournament and advanced the Comets (45-10) to the championship game Tuesday
\nafternoon at 1 p.m. against the University of Jamestown (40-18). The tournament
\nchampion will earn an automatic bid to the NAIA Opening Round next week. Due to a
\nlong rain delay earlier in the day, the VCSU-Mayville State game did not start until
\n9:21 p.m. Monday and finally concluded at 12:48 a.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\nState, which featured just two hits. Mayville State took advantage of four walks and
\na hit batter by Viking starter Steven Velarde to score the six early runs and jump
\nout to what looked like an insurmountable lead.<\/p>\n
\nopportunity to get more. Two walks and a single loaded the bases with one out.
\nMayville State got a strike out of Joe Demers for the second out, and then Brady
\nAnderson drove in VCSU\u2019s first run with an infield single that scored Manny Leyva.
\nThe inning came to an end though on Ben Bruenjes ground ball to third base as VCSU
\nleft the bases full.<\/p>\n
\nfourth inning, making it 6-2.<\/p>\n
\ntying the game at 6-6. Brady Anderson smoked a two-out solo home run off the
\nscoreboard to make it 6-3. VCSU continued its two-out rally as Ben Bruenjes drew a
\nwalk and Nate Bagby and Anthony Necochea followed with singles to right field, the
\nlast of which scored pinch runner Mitch Scheer to make it 6-4. Grant Wehseler then
\nloaded the bases with an infield single, and Manny Leyva tied the game with a
\ntwo-run double to left-center.<\/p>\n
\nno-doubt 2-run home run off Jacob VanVacter over the left-center fence , putting the
\nComets ahead 8-6.<\/p>\n
\ndrew three walks in the inning to load the bases with two outs. Nate Bagby worked a
\n3-1 count against Garret Osterode but popped out to shortstop to end the threat and
\nkeep the game at 8-6 in favor of the Comets.<\/p>\n
\ninsurance run for the Comets. Kalton Agnes set the Vikings down in order in the
\nninth inning to earn the save. Jacob Torgerson picked up the win for Mayville State,
\npitching 2 1\/3 innings of scoreless relief. Garret Osterode and Agnes each pitched a
\nscoreless inning to lock up the win.<\/p>\n
\nalso drew three walks and scored two runs. Hubbard and Guzman each homered and
\ncombined to drive in five runs.<\/p>\n
\ngiving up one hit and two runs. Max Koprek came on in relief in the first inning for
\nVCSU and gave the Vikings a chance to battle back by going 4 1\/3 scoreless innings,
\nallowing just three hits and striking out three.<\/p>\n
\nwent 2-for-5 with a run and two RBIs. Emmanuel Leyva drove in a pair of runs as
\nwell.<\/p>\n
\non Tuesday at 1 p.m. in Valley City. The winner earns an automatic bid to the NAIA
\nOpening Round. The loser will have to wait and see if they earn an at-large bid to
\ncontinue their season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"