VCSU scored in the top of the ninth inning to win game one 2-1 during the doubleheader in Bellevue, Neb. In the second half of the doubleheader, Dakota State won 4-3 on a walk-off single in the bottom of the seventh.<\/p>\n
Valley City State finishes the four-game game series with three wins against Dakota State. The Vikings won Sunday’s games by scores of 14-10 and 10-1. VCSU is now 7-11 overall this season and 3-1 in conference play.<\/p>\n
Up next:<\/strong> Valley City State is scheduled to play a four-game non-conference series on Saturday and Sunday at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa.<\/p>\n VCSU 2, Dakota State 1<\/strong><\/u> VCSU’s Nate Soulis<\/a> had a pinch-hit single in the seventh inning to score Brady Smith<\/a> and tie the game at 1-1. In the ninth inning, Aiden Brook<\/a> opened the inning with a single, moved to second base on a groundout, stole third base, and then scored the game-winning run on Jorun Hamre<\/a>‘s groundout. Phillip Almanza<\/a> then set the Trojans down 1-2-3 in the bottom of the ninth to close out the victory.<\/p>\n Almanza earned the win after pitching four scoreless innings in relief. The junior right-hander gave up just one hit after coming on in the sixth inning. He walked only one and struck out four. Freshman Marcus Niemann<\/a> started on the mound and pitched five strong innings. Niemann gave up just two hits and one unearned run as he took a no-decision.<\/p>\n VCSU managed just six hits, all coming by different players. Hamre and Soulis each had a hit and an RBI, while Smith and Brook scored VCSU’s two runs.<\/p>\n Dakota State 4, VCSU 3<\/strong><\/u> VCSU trailed 2-1 entering the sixth inning, but Brady Smith<\/a> came up clutch with a two-run home run to left field, giving the Vikings a 3-2 lead. Dakota State would tie the game in the bottom of the sixth with an unearned run, and then the Trojans put together back-to-back two-out hits in the bottom of the seventh as Chris Burke doubled and then scored on Samuel Drummond’s walk-off single.<\/p>\n Nicholas Vargas<\/a> pitched the first six innings for VCSU, allowing six hits and two earned runs. He walked two and struck out seven. Jacob Miller<\/a> came on for the seventh inning and took the loss. Miller set down the first two batters before Dakota State’s two-out rally to win the game.<\/p>\n Brady Smith<\/a> was 2-for-3 with a home run and two RBIs for VCSU. Grant Wehseler<\/a> finished 2-for-4 at the plate, scored a run and had an RBI double in the third inning to put VCSU up 1-0. VCSU outhit Dakota State 9-6. The Vikings committed only one error, but it was a costly two-out error in the sixth inning that allowed Dakota State to tie the game at 3-3.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BELLEVUE, NEB.\u00a0 (VCSU) \u2013 Monday…After a pair of offensive outbursts on Sunday, the Viking baseball team settled into a pair of pitchers’ duels on Monday as they split a doubleheader with Dakota State University. VCSU scored in the top of the ninth inning to win game one 2-1 during the […]<\/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-168170","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\/168170","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=168170"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168229,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168170\/revisions\/168229"}],"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=168170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Vikings scored single runs in the seventh and ninth innings to rally for a 2-1 win in Monday’s opener.<\/p>\n
\nDakota State scored single runs in the bottom of the sixth and seventh innings as the Trojans rallied for a 4-3 victory.<\/p>\n