{"id":292972,"date":"2025-04-24T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=292972"},"modified":"2025-04-24T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:00:09","slug":"ndsu-baseball-drops-5-2-decision-at-creighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=292972","title":{"rendered":"NDSU Baseball Drops 5-2 Decision at Creighton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NDSU-base42225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NDSU-base42225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-292973\" width=\"397\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NDSU-base42225.jpg 800w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NDSU-base42225-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NDSU-base42225-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NDSU-base42225-311x175.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>OMAHA \u2013 The North Dakota State baseball team dropped a 5-2 decision at Creighton on Tuesday night at Charles Schwab Field Omaha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Creighton (24-12, 6-3 Big East) built up a 5-0 advantage over the first five innings following an RBI single from Ben North in the fifth inning.&nbsp;<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/gobison.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/sam-canton\/20190\">Sam Canton<\/a><\/dfn>&nbsp;sparked the Bison (13-23, 10-7 Summit) with an RBI single up the middle in the sixth frame to cut the edge to 5-1. NDSU continued to apply pressure loading up the bases and adding another run after Canton was hit by a pitch to score&nbsp;<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/gobison.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/bennett-freiter\/20191\">Bennett Freiter<\/a><\/dfn>&nbsp;in the seventh inning. However, the Bluejays went on to hold off the Bison over the final two frames to secure the 5-2 win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bison totaled seven hits as a team with&nbsp;<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/gobison.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jake-schaffner\/20206\">Jake Schaffner<\/a><\/dfn>&nbsp;going 3-of-5 at the plate with one run. Freiter also logged his first career multiple hit game with two hits and one run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NDSU pitching staff combined to use eight different pitchers with&nbsp;<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/gobison.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/leland-wilson\/20212\">Leland Wilson<\/a><\/dfn>&nbsp;(0-2) making the start with two strikeouts over 1.0 innings.&nbsp;<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/gobison.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/danny-lachenmayer\/20222\">Danny Lachenmayer<\/a><\/dfn>&nbsp;finished out the final frame with three straight strikeouts in the eighth inning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NDSU will be back in action at South Dakota State on Friday. First pitch is scheduled for 3:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OMAHA \u2013 The North Dakota State baseball team dropped a 5-2 decision at Creighton on Tuesday night at Charles Schwab Field Omaha. Creighton (24-12, 6-3 Big East) built up a 5-0 advantage over the first five innings following an RBI single from Ben North in the fifth inning.&nbsp;Sam Canton&nbsp;sparked the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":292973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292972","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\/292972","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=292972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292974,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292972\/revisions\/292974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/292973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}