{"id":4165,"date":"2013-04-26T11:41:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T15:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/baseball-team-falls-in-extras-in-game-one-takes-game-two\/"},"modified":"2013-04-26T11:41:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T15:41:47","slug":"baseball-team-falls-in-extras-in-game-one-takes-game-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/baseball-team-falls-in-extras-in-game-one-takes-game-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball team falls in extras in game one; takes game two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The baseball team (11-9) split with Mohawk Valley Community College (15-7) on Thursday afternoon. The Vikings fell 6-5 in eight innings in game one, but took game two 3-1 to earn the split.<\/p>\n<p>Hudson Valley rallied in the top of the seventh inning when Alex Lushkevich (Saratoga\/Saratoga Springs) scored on a sacrifice fly from John Craig (Shenedehowa\/Clifton Park). The Hawks capitalized on a two-out error in the bottom of the eighth to earn the victory in game one. Lushkevich led the team with two hits including a double, two runs and a stolen base, and Anthony Scaccia (Voorheesville\/Voorheesville) added two hits in the loss.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings took a 2-1 lead in the sixth inning when Andy Kozak (Sidney\/Sidney) scored on an RBI single from Scaccia. The Vikings tacked on another run in the seventh to get the two-run win. Cooper McGowan (Ballston Spa\/Ballston Spa) came in relief to earn the victory on the mound, allowing no runs and striking out five. Kozak continues his tear at the plate going 3-5 on the day with a double, two RBIs, two runs scored and two stolen bases. He was hit by pitch twice and also issued a walk to reach base safely six times between the two games. Kozak is now batting a Nation leading .600 on the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings travel to Columbia-Greene on Saturday for two games starting at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:41:47 +0000 by\u00a0j.hoyt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The baseball team (11-9) split with Mohawk Valley Community College (15-7) on Thursday afternoon. The Vikings fell 6-5 in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}