{"id":293103,"date":"2025-04-28T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=293103"},"modified":"2025-04-28T16:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T21:28:10","slug":"ndsu-baseball-comeback-at-south-dakota-state-falls-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=293103","title":{"rendered":"NDSU Baseball Comeback at South Dakota State Falls Short"},"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-base52825.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NDSU-base52825.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-293104\" width=\"338\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NDSU-base52825.jpg 942w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NDSU-base52825-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NDSU-base52825-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/NDSU-base52825-311x175.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>BROOKINGS, S.D. \u2013 The North Dakota State baseball team dropped the series finale at South Dakota State, 9-6, on Sunday afternoon at Erv Huether Field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After South Dakota State (12-28, 8-12 Summit) built a 7-3 advantage over the first six frames,&nbsp;<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/gobison.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/sam-canton\/20190\">Sam Canton<\/a><\/dfn>&nbsp;attempted to rally the Bison (14-26, 11-10 Summit) with a solo home run to left field to cut the edge to 7-4 in the seventh.&nbsp;<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/gobison.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jake-schaffner\/20206\">Jake Schaffner<\/a><\/dfn>&nbsp;followed it up with another home run to left field in the eighth inning. The two-run shot pulled the Bison back within one, 7-6. However, the Jackrabbits responded with a pair of RBI singles in the eighth to push their edge back up to 9-6. NDSU wasn&#8217;t able to get anything going over the final frame and dropped the series finale, 9-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NDSU totaled 11 hits as a team with four players contributing at least two. Schaffner posted two hits with three runs and two RBI, while&nbsp;<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/gobison.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/dante-smith\/20223\">Dante Smith<\/a><\/dfn>&nbsp;tallied three hits with one run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/gobison.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/leland-wilson\/20212\">Leland Wilson<\/a><\/dfn>&nbsp;(0-3) made the start on the mound, while&nbsp;<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/gobison.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/reese-ligtenberg\/20201\">Reese Ligtenberg<\/a><\/dfn>&nbsp;provided a career-long 3.1 scoreless innings of relief work with three strikeouts and one walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NDSU will be back in action at Minnesota on Tuesday night. First pitch is scheduled for 6:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BROOKINGS, S.D. \u2013 The North Dakota State baseball team dropped the series finale at South Dakota State, 9-6, on Sunday afternoon at Erv Huether Field. After South Dakota State (12-28, 8-12 Summit) built a 7-3 advantage over the first six frames,&nbsp;Sam Canton&nbsp;attempted to rally the Bison (14-26, 11-10 Summit) with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293103","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=293103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293105,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293103\/revisions\/293105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}