{"id":170822,"date":"2019-04-30T07:28:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T12:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=170822"},"modified":"2019-04-30T07:29:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T12:29:26","slug":"vcsu-softball-players-nsaa-softball-players-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=170822","title":{"rendered":"VCSU players NSAA Softball Players of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"MADISON, S.D.\u00a0\u00a0 (VCSU<\/a>)\u00a0 \u2013 The North Star Athletic Association (NSAA) announced its final installment of the Softball Players-of-the-Week Monday by the\u00a0conference<\/span>\u00a0office.\u00a0 Valley City State (N.D.) swept the weekly honors as\u00a0Emilee Wilson<\/a>\u00a0was selected as the Pitcher-of-the-Week for the second straight week.\u00a0 Her teammate\u00a0Voni Culp<\/a>\u00a0was named\u00a0Player-of-the-Week.<\/p>\n

North Star Athletic Association Softball Pitcher-of-the-Week<\/u><\/strong>
\nEmilee Wilson<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Valley City State (N.D.) \u2013 5\u20197\u2033 \u2013 Freshman \u2013 Pitcher \u2013 Esko, Minn.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Wilson allowed just one run and two walks in 18 2\/3 innings this week as No. 7-ranked Valley City State (N.D.) went 8-0 record for the week.\u00a0For the week, she posted an earned run average (ERA) of 0.38 and gave up eight hits.\u00a0She struck out a total of 18 batters for the week. In conference play, Wilson leads the NSAA in ERA (0.91), opponent batting average (.167), hits allowed per game (4.26) and earned runs allowed (9), and ranks second in conference wins (12).<\/p>\n

North Star Athletic Association Softball Player-of-the-Week<\/u><\/strong>
\nVoni Culp<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Valley City State (N.D.) \u2013 5\u20193\u2033 \u2013 Senior \u2013 Infielder \u2013 Sacramento, Calif.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Culp reached base in her first 13 appearances against Presentation (S.D.) (9 hits, 4 walks), fueling No. 7-ranked Valley City State (N.D.) to an 8-0 record for the week.\u00a0 She finished the PC series by going 11-of-12 at the plate and reached base 15 times in 16 plate appearances.\u00a0 Culp scored 13 runs this week as she set a new school record for single-season with 62 runs.\u00a0 She recorded a fielding percentage of 1.000 during the week with 29 chances at\u00a0second<\/span>\u00a0base.\u00a0 For the week, Culp registered a batting average of .625 (15-of-24 at-bats), three doubles, a triple, five walks and drove in seven runs.\u00a0 She also swiped seven bases.<\/p>\n

Recap from last week\u2019s games<\/u><\/strong>
\nNo. 7-ranked Valley City State (N.D.) earned the North Star Athletic Association softball regular-season conference outright after going 8-0 record for the week.\u00a0 The Vikings swept Mayville State (N.D.) in the NSAA\u2019s four games series, winning 7-1 and 1-0 in Mayville, N.D. on April 23.\u00a0 VCSU followed up with 4-2 and 5-0 home victories on April 24.\u00a0 Valley City State swept Presentation (S.D.) 8-0 in six innings and 14-1 in five innings on April 26 in Aberdeen, S.D.\u00a0 The Vikings returned home with another doubleheader sweep over the Saints, winning 9-0 and 20-1 both in five innings.\u00a0 Valley City State lifted their overall record to 46-3 and 26-2 NSAA conference record, extending their winning streak to 13 games.<\/p>\n

Bellevue (Neb.) receiving votes in the latest NAIA Softball Coaches\u2019 Top 25 national poll, also extended their winning streak to 12 games after closing their regular-season schedule with a 6-0 record.\u00a0 The Bruins held to sweep Dakota State (S.D.) on the road on April 24, winning 4-2 and 8-7.\u00a0 BU concluded their season with a four-game series sweep over Waldorf (Iowa), winning 9-8 and 13-1 in five innings on April 27 followed by 4-0 and 13-4 in six innings victories on April 28.\u00a0 Bellevue is 41-16 overall record on the season and 23-5 NSAA conference record.<\/p>\n

Mayville State (N.D.) split their home four-game series with Dickinson State (N.D.).\u00a0 The Comets dropped the series opener 4-2 to the Blue Hawks, but bounced back with a 3-2 victory in the second game on April 26.\u00a0 MSU won in a 2-1 nine-inning affair in the first game on April 27 before DiSU closed out with a 4-3 victory.\u00a0 Mayville State is 23-16 overall record and 16-11 record in North Star conference play.<\/p>\n

Dickinson State closed out their home schedule with identical scores of 6-0 over Presentation on April 24.\u00a0 The Blue Hawks are 25-22 overall record and 15-13 NSAA conference record.\u00a0 Presentation is 4-40 overall record and 3-25 record in league play.<\/p>\n

Waldorf (Iowa) earned a pair of home walk-off victories over Viterbo (Wis.) on April 24.\u00a0 The Warriors won the first game 1-0 in eight innings, followed by a 3-2 win in the second game.\u00a0 WU is 14-30 overall record and 11-17 record in NSAA conference play.<\/p>\n

Dakota State took the first game of the tripleheader at Viterbo on April 28, winning 5-1.\u00a0 The V-Hawks closed out the regular-season by taking the final two games over the Trojans by the scores of 6-2 and 4-1.\u00a0 Viterbo is 15-28 overall record and 10-16 NSAA conference record.\u00a0 Dakota State is 9-33 overall record and 6-21 record in conference games.<\/p>\n

Looking Ahead<\/u><\/strong>
\nValley City State (N.D.) is the top overall seed for the 2019 North Star Athletic Association conference postseason tournament, which get underway on Thursday morning at VCSU Softball Complex in Valley City, N.D.\u00a0 The\u00a0Vikings<\/span>\u00a0takes on No. 8 seed Presentation (S.D.) at 10 a.m., followed by No. 4 seed Dickinson State (N.D.)-No. 5 seed Waldorf (Iowa) match-up at 12 p.m. in the Gold Bracket.<\/p>\n

No. 2 seed Bellevue (Neb.) opens up the tournament play against No. 7 seed Dakota State (S.D.) on Thursday morning at 10 a.m. in the Navy Bracket.\u00a0 No. 3 seed Mayville State (N.D.) takes on No. 6 seed Viterbo (Wis.) in the second game at 12 p.m.<\/p>\n

The double-elimination tournament continues through Sunday.\u00a0 The winner of the conference tournament will receive the NSAA\u2019s automatic bid to the NAIA Softball National Tournament on May 13-15.<\/p>\n

Check the NSAA website for the complete schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MADISON, S.D.\u00a0\u00a0 (VCSU)\u00a0 \u2013 The North Star Athletic Association (NSAA) announced its final installment of the Softball Players-of-the-Week Monday by the\u00a0conference\u00a0office.\u00a0 Valley City State (N.D.) swept the weekly honors as\u00a0Emilee Wilson\u00a0was selected as the Pitcher-of-the-Week for the second straight week.\u00a0 Her teammate\u00a0Voni Culp\u00a0was named\u00a0Player-of-the-Week. North Star Athletic Association Softball Pitcher-of-the-Week […]<\/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-170822","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\/170822","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=170822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170825,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170822\/revisions\/170825"}],"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=170822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}