{"id":280488,"date":"2024-03-07T09:40:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=280488"},"modified":"2024-03-07T09:40:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:40:30","slug":"vcsu-vikings-fall-to-late-inning-rally-in-mens-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=280488","title":{"rendered":"VCSU Vikings Fall To Late-inning Rally In Men&#8217;s Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Auburndale, FLA. \u2013 The Valley City State baseball team lost a lead in the late innings Wednesday as the Vikings dropped a 10-5 contest to IU South Bend.<br>\u00a0<br>Valley City State held a 5-3 lead after six innings, but IU South Bend rallied to score seven runs in the last three innings en route to the victory. VCSU drops to 7-9 overall and is now 3-3 on its trip to Florida. IU South Bend improves its record to 8-7 overall.<br>\u00a0<br>VCSU finished with seven hits and committed four errors in the loss. South Bend had 13 hits and committed only one error.<br>\u00a0<br><dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/kaden-rozdeba\/3386\">Kaden Rozdeba<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0and\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jamel-chabot\/3677\">Jamel Chabot<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0each had a pair of hits to lead the Viking offense. Rozdeba went 2-for-5 with a double, two runs and an RBI. Chabot was 2-for-3 with a double.<br>\u00a0<br><dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/tory-nelson\/3381\">Tory Nelson<\/a><\/dfn>,\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/hunter-logan\/3691\">Hunter Logan<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0and\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/dustin-mertz\/3688\">Dustin Mertz<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0all had a hit and an RBI.<br>\u00a0<br><dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/takao-cookson\/3594\">Takao Cookson<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0started on the mound and worked 3 1\/1 innings for VCSU, scattering four hits and three runs \u2013 two of which were earned. He walked one and struck out four.<br>\u00a0<br><dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jay-mendez\/3606\">Jay Mendez<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0pitched the next 3 1\/3 innings, keeping South Bend&#8217;s offense quiet until the seventh inning. South Bend broke through by scoring four runs in that inning to take a 7-5 lead.\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/riley-resnick\/3385\">Riley Resnick<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0and\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/brendan-berk\/3592\">Brendan Berk<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0each pitched in relief as well.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Up next:\u00a0<\/strong>Valley City State continues its trip to Florida with two more games on Thursday. The Vikings face Morningside University at 11:45 a.m. CT, and then play Cornerstone University at 2:45. Both are scheduled to be 7-inning games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auburndale, FLA. \u2013 The Valley City State baseball team lost a lead in the late innings Wednesday as the Vikings dropped a 10-5 contest to IU South Bend.\u00a0Valley City State held a 5-3 lead after six innings, but IU South Bend rallied to score seven runs in the last three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280488","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280489,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280488\/revisions\/280489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}