{"id":1037,"date":"2024-04-18T21:06:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T01:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2024-04-19T21:38:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T01:38:31","slug":"macu-picks-up-road-conference-win-at-vsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/2024\/04\/18\/macu-picks-up-road-conference-win-at-vsu\/","title":{"rendered":"MACU Picks Up Conference Road Win at VSU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ETTRICK, Va<\/strong>. &#8211; Virginia State dropped a nine-inning affair to Mid Atlantic Christian on Thursday 13-2.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MACU managed to load the bases with back-to-back singles and an error by the third baseman. A fielder&#8217;s choice would bring one run across, but the Trojans starter\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/govsutrojans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/gavin-stevens\/5160\">Gavin Stevens<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0managed to get out of the jam. The Trojans would get that run back in the second inning after\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/govsutrojans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jaquan-tucker\/5161\">Jaquan Tucker<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0was hit by the pitch and advanced to second on a sac bunt.\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/govsutrojans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/matthew-may\/5151\">Matthew May<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0was hit by the pitch and then\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/govsutrojans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/avante-banks\/5140\">Avante Banks<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0hit a two-out double to bring across Tucker.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mustangs would add another run in the fourth and then put up five runs in the fifth. In the bottom of the sixth, Banks hit into a fielder&#8217;s choice to bring across\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/govsutrojans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/thomas-chandler\/5141\">Thomas Chandler<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0to score VSU&#8217;s second run. However, MACU would score seven more runs in the eighth and ninth innings to make the final score 13-2.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/govsutrojans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jimmyll-williams\/5158\">Jimmyll Williams<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0and\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/govsutrojans.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/tj-mcgowan\/5166\">TJ McGowan<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0were the only Trojans with multiple hits, and Stevens now drops to 2-5 on the year. As a team, VSU now sits at 11-24 while MACU improved to 21-18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Story and image courtesy VSU Athletics<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ETTRICK, Va. &#8211; Virginia State dropped a nine-inning affair to Mid Atlantic Christian on Thursday 13-2.&nbsp; MACU managed to load the bases with back-to-back singles and an error by the third baseman. A fielder&#8217;s choice would bring one run across, but the Trojans starter\u00a0Gavin Stevens\u00a0managed to get out of the jam. The Trojans would get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macu","category-news","category-vsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}