North Iowa Cools Off Blue Knights

Winning streak halted in non-conference play

North Iowa Area Community College hosted and frustrated the Dakota County Technical College in a double header on Wednesday.  DCTC lost two tight games, both by the score of 5-4.  The losses, on a cold and blustery Mason City Day ended DCTC's five game winning streak. DCTC is now 7-11 on the season but still remain undefeated (4-0) in NJCAA regional league play.

"I was very pleased with how we played against NIACC who are one of the top three teams their conference. I think we showed we can play a very good level" said Coach Trent Seaman. "We are very close to pulling facets of our game together, if we can pull it together we will let the results take care of themselves".

DCTC will be back in regional play this weekend traveling to North Dakota to play Bismarck State College at Mandan Fields.  The four games series will prove to be pivotal in the Blue Knights goal of winning regular season league and earning the number one seed for the 2015 NJCAA Regional Tournament that will be played at DCTC May 8-11.

NIACC 5, DAKOTA COUNTY 4

Dakota County 102 000 1 – 4 7 3

NIACC 000 401 x – 5 6 0

Austin Wilson (5K, 4BB), Cole Nonweiler (4K, 1BB) and Victor Marin. Shelby Samuels (7K, 4BB), Riley Pollard (7) (0K, 0BB) and Juan De La Cruz. W - Samuels (1-0); L - Wilson; Save - Pollard (2). HR – Alfred Rodriguez (DC). Multiple hits – Joe Wood (DC) 2, Rodriguez 2. Multiple RBIs – Austin LaDoux (N) 3, Rodriguez 3.

NIACC 5, DAKOTA COUNTY 4

Dakota County 301 000 0 4 6 1

NIACC 500 000 x – 5 2 1

Nick Bentley (3K, 5BB), Andrew Manning (4) (3K, 1BB) and Victor Marin. Davis Bryan (1K, 1BB), Casey Hall (5) (0K, 0BB), Kellen Reed (6) (0K, 0BB), Chad Christensen (7) (1K, 0BB) and Zack Fricke. W - Bryan (3-1); L - Bentley; Save - Christensen (2). HR – Fricke (6). 2B – Evan Rogers (DC). Multiple hits – Nick Lacina (DC) 2, Rodriguez (DC) 2, Fricke 2. Multiple RBIs – Fricke 4, Rogers 2.