{"id":168430,"date":"2019-03-28T15:50:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T20:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=168430"},"modified":"2019-03-28T15:54:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T20:54:39","slug":"vikings-baseball-sunday-mar-31-at-turf-football-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=168430","title":{"rendered":"Vikings Softball, Sunday Mar 31, at turf football field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City\u00a0 (VCSU)\u00a0 The No. 9-ranked Valley City State softball team will play its first home games of the season <strong>this Sunday on the VCSU football turf.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Valley City State will host conference rival Dickinson State University for a four-game series Sunday and Monday at VCSU&#8217;s Lokken Stadium. Doubleheaders on both days are scheduled to start at 1 p.m. VCSU athletics will be offering free hot cider for all fans at the home openers on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Valley City State is currently 24-1 overall this season and is ranked No. 9 in the latest NAIA Top 25 Coaches&#8217; Poll released this week. The Vikings are 4-0 in conference play after sweeping a four-game series from Dakota State last week.<\/p>\n<p>Dickinson State has a 13-10 overall record and is 3-1 to start the North Star Athletic Association schedule. The Blue Hawks are perennial contenders in the conference and were picked to finish third in the NSAA Preseason Poll. Dickinson State won the NSAA Tournament championship last season and has won four out of the five NSAA Tournaments played since the conference was formed in 2013-14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City\u00a0 (VCSU)\u00a0 The No. 9-ranked Valley City State softball team will play its first home games of the season this Sunday on the VCSU football turf. Valley City State will host conference rival Dickinson State University for a four-game series Sunday and Monday at VCSU&#8217;s Lokken Stadium. Doubleheaders on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":98365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168430","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\/168430","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=168430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168432,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168430\/revisions\/168432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}