{"id":168287,"date":"2019-03-26T17:01:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T22:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=168287"},"modified":"2019-03-26T17:01:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T22:01:06","slug":"emily-smith-nsaa-pitcher-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=168287","title":{"rendered":"Emily Smith NSAA Pitcher of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-168289\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/smithemily-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/smithemily-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/smithemily-431x242.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/smithemily-862x485.jpg 862w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/smithemily-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/smithemily-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/smithemily-311x175.jpg 311w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/smithemily.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Valley City\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/article\/3345\">(VCSU<\/a>)\u00a0 Valley City State University junior <a id=\"rosterLink0\" class=\"rosterProfileLink  \" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/roster\/24\/9\/2521\" data-url=\"\/SIDHelp\/briefBio\/24\/9\/2521\" data-original-title=\"\">Emily Smith<\/a> has been named the North Star Athletic Association Pitcher of the Week, the conference office announced Monday night.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>North Star Athletic Association Softball Pitcher-of-the-Week<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a id=\"rosterLink1\" class=\"rosterProfileLink  \" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/roster\/24\/9\/2521\" data-url=\"\/SIDHelp\/briefBio\/24\/9\/2521\" data-original-title=\"\">Emily Smith<\/a> \u2013 Valley City State (N.D.) \u2013 5&#8217;5&#8243; \u2013 Junior \u2013 Pitcher \u2013 Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Smith was dominant in No. 11-ranked Valley City State&#8217;s\u00a0conference opener.\u00a0 She threw a complete game 2-hitter in a 5-1 win over Dakota State (S.D.).\u00a0After giving up an RBI single in the third inning, Smith set down the final 14 batters in order to finish the game.\u00a0 She finished the game with 11 strikeouts and did not issue a walk. It was Smith&#8217;s 15th win of the season, which ranks her third in the NAIA. She is second in the NAIA with 129 total strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>North Star Athletic Association Softball Player-of-the-Week<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Claire Shoffit \u2013 Dickinson State (N.D.) \u2013 5&#8217;10&#8221; \u2013 Senior \u2013 Catcher \u2013 Woodland, Calif.<\/strong>\u2013 Shoffit batted .750 after going 9-of-12 at the plate as Dickinson State (N.D.) opened up their North Star conference play with a 3-1 record at Waldorf (Iowa).\u00a0 She recorded at least a hit in all four games.\u00a0 She was perfect at the plate, going 3-of-3 in the series opener and 4-of-4 in the series finale.\u00a0 For the week, Shoffit registered a slugging percentage of 1.333 with two doubles and a home run.\u00a0 She collected nine RBIs and reached on base by a walk two times.\u00a0 She scored at least a run in each game, totaling seven runs for the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City\u00a0 (VCSU)\u00a0 Valley City State University junior Emily Smith has been named the North Star Athletic Association Pitcher of the Week, the conference office announced Monday night. North Star Athletic Association Softball Pitcher-of-the-Week Emily Smith \u2013 Valley City State (N.D.) \u2013 5&#8217;5&#8243; \u2013 Junior \u2013 Pitcher \u2013 Portage La [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":168289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168287","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\/168287","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=168287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168290,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168287\/revisions\/168290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/168289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}