{"id":224934,"date":"2021-05-05T11:27:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T16:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=224934"},"modified":"2021-05-05T11:27:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T16:27:39","slug":"vcsu-softball-players-sweep-nsaa-players-of-the-wee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=224934","title":{"rendered":"VCSU Softball players sweep NSAA Players of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/article\/4062\">VCSU)<\/a> \u00a0 Valley City State swept the final edition of the North Star Athletic Association\u2019s Softball Players of the Week. <a id=\"rosterLink0\" 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 named Pitcher of the Week and\u00a0<a id=\"rosterLink1\" class=\"rosterProfileLink \" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/roster\/48\/9\/3589\" data-url=\"\/SIDHelp\/briefBio\/48\/9\/3589\" data-original-title=\"\">Jessica Husband<\/a>\u00a0was chosen as Player of the Week. It is the fifth time this season that the Vikings have swept the weekly honor.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>North Star Athletic Association Softball Pitcher-of-the-Week<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><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>\u00a0\u2013 Valley City State (N.D.) \u2013 5\u20197\u2033 \u2013 Senior \u2013 pitcher \u2013 Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Smith earned three victories on the week, including two shutouts as Valley City State (N.D.) went 6-0 record for the week.\u00a0 The Vikings claimed the North Star Athletic Association regular-season title as Smith tossed a complete game with 11 strikeouts and allowed one run on four hits in 9-1 victory at Mayville State (N.D.).\u00a0 For the week, Smith gave up just one run and finished all three games in five innings.\u00a0 She struck out 25 batters and held its opponents to a .113 batting average.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>North Star Athletic Association Softball Player-of-the-Week<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a id=\"rosterLink3\" class=\"rosterProfileLink \" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/roster\/48\/9\/3589\" data-url=\"\/SIDHelp\/briefBio\/48\/9\/3589\" data-original-title=\"\">Jessica Husband<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Valley City State (N.D.) \u2013 5\u20195\u2033 \u2013 Junior \u2013 outfielder \u2013 Kingwood Park, Texas<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Husband recorded a .765 batting average and a 1.353 slugging percentage after going 13-of-17 at the plate with three home runs, fueling Valley City State (N.D.) to a 6-0 record for the week.\u00a0 She drove in 11 runs and scored eight runs for the week.\u00a0 Husband also had a double and recorded at least two hits in each of the six games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City\u00a0 (VCSU) \u00a0 Valley City State swept the final edition of the North Star Athletic Association\u2019s Softball Players of the Week. Emily Smith\u00a0was named Pitcher of the Week and\u00a0Jessica Husband\u00a0was chosen as Player of the Week. It is the fifth time this season that the Vikings have swept the [&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-224934","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\/224934","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=224934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224936,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224934\/revisions\/224936"}],"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=224934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}