{"id":222317,"date":"2021-03-29T20:08:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T01:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=222317"},"modified":"2021-03-29T22:51:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T03:51:01","slug":"viking-softball-over-dakota-st-mon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=222317","title":{"rendered":"Viking Softball Over Dakota St. Mon."},"content":{"rendered":"

MADISON, S.D. \u00a0 VCSU <\/a>\u2013 The Valley City State softball team completed the series sweep of Dakota State with a 4-1 victory over Dakota State Monday.<\/p>\n

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Valley City State improves to 11-3 overall and 4-0 in the conference. Dakota State drops to 6-14 overall and 0-4 in the NSAA.<\/p>\n

The Vikings got things going in the top of the third as Joelle Aiello<\/a> was hit by a pitch followed by a bunt single from Anne-Elise Gest<\/a>. Sierra Crocker<\/a> advanced the runners with a sac bunt and Marissa Hawkins<\/a> drove in Aiello with a groundout. Makenzee Stone<\/a> singled to left field to score Gest as the Vikings held a 2-0 lead in the middle of the third inning.<\/p>\n

Dakota State later walked in a run in the fifth inning, and a Trojan error scored Danika Balvik<\/a> in the sixth.<\/p>\n

Dakota State got on the board with a solo home run from Alexus Foster in the bottom of the sixth, but couldn’t get closer as the Vikings completed the four-game sweep.<\/p>\n

Emily Smith<\/a> got the win in the circle after pitching a complete game. She allowed one run on four hits, walked one, and struck out 12. Makenzee Stone<\/a> and Andrea Rodriguez<\/a> each recorded three hits and one RBI for the Vikings.<\/p>\n

Xitlali Lopez got the loss for Dakota State, pitching 5.0 innings for the Trojans. She allowed three earned runs on nine hits, walked three and struck out six.<\/p>\n

UP NEXT: <\/strong>Valley City State is slated to play a doubleheader at Jamestown on Wednesday at 3 p.m. Game is subject to change dependent on the weather forecast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MADISON, S.D. \u00a0 VCSU \u2013 The Valley City State softball team completed the series sweep of Dakota State with a 4-1 victory over Dakota State Monday. Valley City State improves to 11-3 overall and 4-0 in the conference. Dakota State drops to 6-14 overall and 0-4 in the NSAA. The […]<\/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-222317","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\/222317","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=222317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222318,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222317\/revisions\/222318"}],"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=222317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}