{"id":594,"date":"2023-04-30T19:58:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T23:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/?p=594"},"modified":"2023-04-30T20:01:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T00:01:42","slug":"salem-sweeps-vsu-earns-top-seed-for-nsac-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/2023\/04\/30\/salem-sweeps-vsu-earns-top-seed-for-nsac-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Salem Sweeps VSU, Earns Top Seed for NSAC Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>NUTTER FORT, W.V.<\/strong> &#8211; The Salem baseball team played host to the Trojans of Virginia State for a 4-game weekend series at Frank Loria Memorial Field in Nutter Fort. The Tigers also took the opportunity to celebrate the graduating team members with Senior Day festivities ahead of Sunday&#8217;s matchups, and they celebrated with style as they beat the Trojans in all four weekend contests, and in the process secured the top seed in the upcoming New South Baseball Tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The teams battled both their opponents and some wet conditions for Sunday&#8217;s matchups. In Game 3 of the weekend, Salem starter Alden Halfinger got the win with 5 innings of work with 7 strikeouts while allowing just 2 Trojan hits in a 3-1 victory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salem uncorked its strongest offensive outing of the weekend in the final contest when the Tigers plated 5 runs in the fifth inning, cruising to an 8-2 win.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salem ends is conference schedule at 6-0, earning the Tigers the top seed in the NSAC Baseball Tournament beginning Friday, May 5 in Petersburg, Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conference regular season play will conclude on Tuesday when Apprentice hosts VSU for a doubleheader. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Story and image courtesy Salem athletics<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NUTTER FORT, W.V. &#8211; The Salem baseball team played host to the Trojans of Virginia State for a 4-game weekend series at Frank Loria Memorial Field in Nutter Fort. The Tigers also took the opportunity to celebrate the graduating team members with Senior Day festivities ahead of Sunday&#8217;s matchups, and they celebrated with style as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-salem","category-vsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","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=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}