{"id":225408,"date":"2021-05-11T11:14:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T16:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=225408"},"modified":"2021-05-11T14:51:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T19:51:38","slug":"vcsu-has-9-recipients-nsaa-all-conference-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=225408","title":{"rendered":"VCSU has 9 recipients, NSAA All-Conference Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-24632\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/vcsuSports-small-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/vcsuSports-small-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/vcsuSports-small-431x291.png 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/vcsuSports-small-259x175.png 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/vcsuSports-small.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Bismarck\u00a0 (NSAA) \u2013 The North Star Athletic Association (NSAA) announced its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playnorthstar.com\/article\/6533\">2021 Softball All-Conference Teams, Gold Glove team and postseason awards Monday.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The NSAA Softball All-Conference Teams, Gold Glove Team and postseason awards were voted by the league coaches.\u00a0 The 2021 NSAA All-Conference First Team consists of 30 recipients, 20 on the first team and 10 on the second team.\u00a0 The Champions of Character recipients were also announced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Valley City State (N.D.) landed nine recipients on the All-Conference Teams, seven recipients on the First Team.\u00a0<\/strong> Bellevue (Neb.) has a total of six individuals on the All-Conference teams.<\/p>\n<p>The North Star also announced its 9-member Gold Glove team for displaying their outstanding defensive performance.<\/p>\n<p>In NSAA postseason awards, Emily Smith of Valley City State was selected as Pitcher-of-the-Year for the second straight season.\u00a0 Makenzee Stone of VCSU and Xitlali Lopez of Dakota State (S.D.) were chosen as Co-Player-of-the-Year.\u00a0 Stone also was selected as the Newcomer-of-the-Year. \u00a0Mark Mattson of Valley City State was named to the NSAA Softball Coach-of-the-Year after guiding his squad to an impressive 25-2 conference record as the Vikings collected their second straight NSAA regular-season title.<\/p>\n<p>Dickinson State (N.D.) went undefeated in the postseason tournament in Bellevue, Neb.\u00a0 The Blue Hawks claimed the tournament title by defeating Valley City State 4-3 on May 8, earning the league&#8217;s automatic bid to the NAIA National Tournament Opening Round scheduled for May 17-19.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bismarck\u00a0 (NSAA) \u2013 The North Star Athletic Association (NSAA) announced its 2021 Softball All-Conference Teams, Gold Glove team and postseason awards Monday.\u00a0 The NSAA Softball All-Conference Teams, Gold Glove Team and postseason awards were voted by the league coaches.\u00a0 The 2021 NSAA All-Conference First Team consists of 30 recipients, 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":225428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225408","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\/225408","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=225408"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225435,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225408\/revisions\/225435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/225428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}