{"id":219265,"date":"2021-02-15T16:28:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T22:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=219265"},"modified":"2021-02-15T16:39:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T22:39:44","slug":"vcsus-aiello-smith-nsaa-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=219265","title":{"rendered":"VCSU&#8217;s Aiello, Smith NSAA, Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-219266\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Aiello-Smith-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Aiello-Smith-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Aiello-Smith-273x175.jpg 273w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Aiello-Smith.jpg 438w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.playnorthstar.com\/sport\/0\/12\">playnorthstar.com<\/a>) \u2013 Valley City State University seniors <a id=\"rosterLink0\" class=\"rosterProfileLink \" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/roster\/48\/9\/3328\" data-url=\"\/SIDHelp\/briefBio\/48\/9\/3328\" data-original-title=\"\">Joelle Aiello<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a id=\"rosterLink1\" class=\"rosterProfileLink \" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/roster\/48\/9\/3595\" data-url=\"\/SIDHelp\/briefBio\/48\/9\/3595\" data-original-title=\"\">Emily Smith<\/a>\u00a0were honored by the North Star Athletic Association on Monday after helping lead the Viking softball team\u00a0to a 3-1 record this past week.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"rosterLink2\" class=\"rosterProfileLink \" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/roster\/48\/9\/3595\" data-url=\"\/SIDHelp\/briefBio\/48\/9\/3595\" data-original-title=\"\">Emily Smith<\/a>\u00a0was selected as the NSAA Pitcher of the Week, while\u00a0<a id=\"rosterLink3\" class=\"rosterProfileLink \" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/roster\/48\/9\/3328\" data-url=\"\/SIDHelp\/briefBio\/48\/9\/3328\" data-original-title=\"\">Joelle Aiello<\/a>\u00a0was chosen as the Player of the Week.<\/p>\n<p>Aiello batted .357 with a .929 slugging percentage over four games this weekend. She collected a double, two triples and her first career home run. She also scored four runs and drove in four \u2013 playing a key role in eight of VCSU\u2019s 13 runs on the weekend. Defensively, Aiello was perfect in 13 chances in the middle-infield positions.<\/p>\n<p>Smith pitched in relief in all four of VCSU\u2019s games, throwing a total of 11.2 innings and collecting two wins. She posted a\u00a01.20 ERA, and struck out 20 batters with only two walks.\u00a0Opponents batted just .111 off Smith. In a 2-0 win against Briar Cliff, Smith struck out nine of the 12 batters she faced while earning the victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(playnorthstar.com) \u2013 Valley City State University seniors Joelle Aiello\u00a0and\u00a0Emily Smith\u00a0were honored by the North Star Athletic Association on Monday after helping lead the Viking softball team\u00a0to a 3-1 record this past week. Emily Smith\u00a0was selected as the NSAA Pitcher of the Week, while\u00a0Joelle Aiello\u00a0was chosen as the Player of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219265","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=219265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219273,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219265\/revisions\/219273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}