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Madison, SD – VCSU seniors\u00a0Haley Butterfield\u00a0and\u00a0Kelsey Hamade\u00a0were both honored as North Star Athletic Association Softball Players of the Week, the conference office announced Monday. Valley City State swept the weekly honors as Butterfield was named the NSAA Pitcher of the Week and\u00a0Hamade garnered NSAA Player of the Week.<\/p>\n
Kelsey Hamade\u00a0\u2013 of Valley City State (N.D.) \u2013 is a 5\u20197\u2033 \u2013 Senior \u2013 Outfielder \u2013 from\u00a0 Abbotsford, B.C. Canada<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Hamade had five multi-hit games, including three 3-hit performances, as Valley City State (N.D.) went 5-1 record for the week.\u00a0 She finished the week with 14 hits, including four extra-base hits.\u00a0 For the week, Hamade batted .636 with a .864 slugging percentage, seven runs scored, swiped three bases and drove in four runs.\u00a0 She is currently on a 10-game hitting streak.<\/p>\n Haley Butterfield\u00a0\u2013 of Valley City State (N.D.) \u2013is a 5\u20199\u2033 \u2013 Senior \u2013 Pitcher \u2013 from\u00a0 Richardton, N.D.\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Butterfield went 3-0 record with a save and a 1.40 earned run average in four pitching appearances as Valley City State (N.D.) went 5-1 record for the week.\u00a0The senior had a complete-game 5-1 victory against Presentation (S.D.) on April 20.\u00a0 She picked up a save in game one and a win in game two of a doubleheader with Waldorf (Iowa).\u00a0 Opponents batted just .177 against her last week.\u00a0 Butterfield currently leads the North Star with 16 wins and is third with an\u00a0ERA of 2.06.<\/p>\n from\u00a0 (VCSUVikings.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Madison, SD – VCSU seniors\u00a0Haley Butterfield\u00a0and\u00a0Kelsey Hamade\u00a0were both honored as North Star Athletic Association Softball Players of the Week, the conference office announced Monday. Valley City State swept the weekly honors as Butterfield was named the NSAA Pitcher of the Week and\u00a0Hamade garnered NSAA Player of the Week. Kelsey Hamade\u00a0\u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":143501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143500","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=143500"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143514,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143500\/revisions\/143514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}