Trenten Hove drives ball to outfield
Jon Montoya
15
Winner Valley City State VCSU 19-33
2
University of Mary MARY 7-36
Winner
Valley City State VCSU
19-33
15
Final
2
University of Mary MARY
7-36
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Valley City State VCSU 3 1 7 0 2 2 0 15 13 1
University of Mary MARY 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 5 6

W: Steven Velarde (1-3) L: Ell, Austin (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Brian Larson, U-Mary Sports Information Director

Hove continues hot streak but Vikings sink Marauders

BISMARCK, N.D. – With the University of Mary baseball season entering its final week, Trenten Hove might be wishing the year was just starting. The Marauders leader in hits over the past week, the junior centerfielder continued his hot play in the U-Mary home finale. Hove posted two hits against Valley City State University, the third time in six games he has registered multiple hits in a contest.
 
In his last six games Hove is 8-for-22, including two doubles, two runs scored and two RBIs. In three plate appearances against the Vikings, Hove was 2-for-3 with a double and a run scored.
 
The Trenton, N.D., native's efforts weren't nearly enough today as multiple defensive miscues helped VCSU defeat U-Mary 15-2 in a non-conference game.
 
The Marauders return to Northern Sun action with a doubleheader at Northern State University on Wednesday and a four-game set at conference-leading University of Minnesota Duluth on Friday and Saturday, May 6-7.
 
Starting fast, the Vikings scored three runs in the top of the first inning using three hits, two walks, a hit batter and the first of six Marauders errors in the game.
 
After VCSU scored an unearned run in the second inning to go up 4-0, the floodgates opened wide in the third.
 
Two errors and a hit batter loaded the bases for Ben Bruenjes, who took advantage of the reeling Marauders and cracked a two-run double to right center field. The Vikings eventually scored seven runs in the inning on six hits and two U-Mary errors to take a commanding 11-0 lead.
 
The Marauders scored single runs in the fourth and fifth innings. Hove led off with a double and came home to score on a ground out by Jason Shaul. Freshmen infielders and Sioux City, Iowa, natives Daulton Sauce and Nick McCann combined for the second run. Sauce doubled to left center leading off the inning and McCann followed with a run-scoring single to right.
 
Leadoff hitter Jared Meiklejohn scored four times and had two hits and two RBIs for VCSU. Joe Demers scored three times and Brady Anderson  added three hits, two runs and a run batted in.
 
Freshman Alec DeMaria closed the contest out in stellar fashion for the Marauders, pitching two hitless, scoreless innings. He walked two and struck out one.
 
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