{"id":290477,"date":"2025-01-31T13:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=290477"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:16:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:16:31","slug":"viking-baseball-opens-season-at-dakota-wesleyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=290477","title":{"rendered":"VCSU Baseball Opens Season at Dakota Wesleyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/VCSU-baseball12925.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"262\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/VCSU-baseball12925.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-290478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/VCSU-baseball12925.jpg 600w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/VCSU-baseball12925-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/VCSU-baseball12925-401x175.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>VCSU &#8211; The VCSU baseball team opens the season Thursday Jan 30 playing against Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell SD. The double header starts at 12:00 p.m. with the second game to follow.<br>\u00a0<br>Thursday&#8217;s forecast is 50 degrees and sunny, and the Vikings are looking to capitalize on the mild January weather taking on the Tigers. Head Coach\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/coaches\/alec-demaria\/519\">Alec DeMaria<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0said &#8220;This is very exciting and positive for us. We are playing baseball games in the Dakotas in January!<br>\u00a0<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zgNILad-PTw\">Watch<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dwuathletics.com\/sports\/bsb\/2024-25\/boxscores\/20250130_3lmx.xml\">Game 1 Live Stats<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dwuathletics.com\/sports\/bsb\/2024-25\/boxscores\/20250130_n6mw.xml\">Game 2 Live Stats<\/a><br>\u00a0<br>Viking Baseball boasts 13 seniors, 23 returning athletes on the roster for the spring 2025 season. The Vikings had all four of their 2024 All-Conference players return in 2025.<br>\u00a0<br><dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/hunter-magnuson\/4144\">Hunter Magnuson<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0a senior from Willmar Minn. who was named First Team All-Conference last season and has made double digit starts every year as a Viking.<br>\u00a0<br>Also returning\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jamel-chabot\/4131\">Jamel Chabot<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0is a Second Team All-Conference catcher who made 45 starts as a freshman leading the team with a .336 batting average and finished the year with 49 hits.<br>\u00a0<br>Senior\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jaden-babiuk\/4128\">Jaden Babiuk<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0returns as a two-time Second Team All-Conference athlete playing both short stop and catcher. Babiuk started in all 54 games last season.<br>\u00a0<br>Lastly,\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/vcsuvikings.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/takao-cookson\/4132\">Takao Cookson<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0will return for his sophomore season after recording and impressive freshman season where he was named NSAA Freshman of the Year and Second Team All-Conference. Cookson pitched in 17 games and made seven starts earning a team best 2.96 ERA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VCSU &#8211; The VCSU baseball team opens the season Thursday Jan 30 playing against Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell SD. The double header starts at 12:00 p.m. with the second game to follow.\u00a0Thursday&#8217;s forecast is 50 degrees and sunny, and the Vikings are looking to capitalize on the mild January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":290480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290477","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290482,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290477\/revisions\/290482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/290480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}