VALLEY CITY (vcsuvikings.com)– Dickinson State rallied from a 7-3 deficit on Sunday as the Blue Hawks extended their season with a 9-8 victory over Valley City State at the NSAA Baseball Tournament. VCSU led 7-3 after the fourth inning – thanks to a six-run third inning. Dickinson State chipped away and scored in the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth innings en route to the come-from-behind victory. Dickinson State will play Bellevue University in a loser-out game at approximately 5:30 p.m. Sunday. The winner will advance to the NSAA championship game against Mayville State at 11 a.m. Monday. Valley City State ends its season with a 23-26 overall record.
Photo via Valley City State Athletics VALLEY CITY, ND. (NewsDakota.com) – The Valley City State baseball team lit up the scoreboard on Friday night as the Vikings topped the Waldorf Warriors 22-12 in seven innings during the opening round of the NSAA tournament. Valley City jumped off to an early lead after scoring seven runs in the bottom of the second inning to take a 9-0 lead. Waldorf scored two runs in the top of the third, but Valley City would score the next 10 runs to go in front 19-2 heading into the top of the seventh inning. With their backs against the wall, Waldorf put up 10 runs of their own in the seventh to force Valley City to bat in the bottom half of the inning.
VALLEY CITY, N.D. (vcsuvikings.com) – Jorun Hamre broke the single-season home run record Sunday as the Valley City State baseball team completed a four-game sweep against Presentation College. Hamre hit his 15th home run of the season in game one, breaking the VCSU record of 14 held by Bryan Swaenepoel (2001) and Stacy Fitterer (1989). Hamre’s blast highlighted a 5-4 victory in game one Sunday. In game two, Reed Butz pitched six shutout innings and the Vikings closed the series with a 10-0 win. VCSU outscored Presentation College 51-17 over the four-game series. Valley City State is now 21-24 overall and finished 14-9 in conference play. Valley City State clinched the No. 3 seed for the NSAA Conference Tournament starting Friday in Valley City. The Vikings will face No. 4 seed Waldorf University in the first round, Friday at 5:30 p.m.
FARGO, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – Jake Malec’s one-out, two-run home run in the bottom of the 11th inning lifted the North Dakota State Bison to a 5-3 win over Valley City State Tuesday night at Newman Outdoor Field in Fargo. It was the 75th meeting between the two schools and the first since 2017. Jack Simonson led off the eleventh with a single. Calen Schwabe tried to bunt him over, but his bunt was too hard and pitcher Matthew Suda was able to field the ball and throw Simonson out at second. But the relay was not in time to get Schwabe. Then Schwabe moved to second base when Suda tried to pick him off, but his high throw went off the glove of first baseman Jorun Hamre and into foul territory to advance Schwabe. Then Malec skied a uda pitch high into the night twilight sky, right fielder Dustin Mertz could not pck up the ball right away, but it wouldn’t have matter. Malec shot clear the right field fence for the game winning home run. t was Malec’s seventh of the season.