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CITY,ND (NewsDakota.com)- Monday night Valley City Post 60 played host to region opponent Grand Forks Blues. A long night at the field yielded Post 60 dropping both games, which both were region games. 
 
Game 1 VC lost 6-5, region game
 
A late 2 runs in the 7th gave the Blues their 1 run lead that they would hold on to.   After the 1st inning Grand Forks was up 2-1, they would add another run in the 3rd and 4th innings to take a 4-1 lead.  That is when the VC bats woke up.  Post 60 would pick up two runs in the 4th and another two runs in the fifth to take a 5-4 lead.  That lead would hold till the winning runs scored in the top of 7th and VC couldn’t come up with a run after loading the bases in the bottom of the 7th. 
 
Nate Rodriguez started on the mound for Post 60 and was tab with the loss.  Rodriguez threw all 7 innings giving up the 6 runs(5 earned) on 8 hits while walking 5 and striking out 10.
 
At the plate Post 60 had their best day hitting of the season.  They would come away with 14 hits in the game. The top 5 players in the Post 60 order would all have multiple hit games to pace the offense. 
 
Coaches Comments:
“It was great to see us finally put together a good game at the plate. We were starting to hit the ball on the ball hard and on a line for hits.”
“It is a tough loss for us all,  we played well and feel like we let a win slip through our fingers, but you have to give Grand Forks credit they made some great play and threw out 2 of our runners at home plate.”
 
Game 2
 
Once again it was a late inning let down that help propel the Blues to the win by score of 5-2. With Post 60 leading 2-1 heading to the 5th inning, Grand Forks would score at least 1 run in each of the last 3 innings to take a 5-2 lead and hold for the win. 
 
Jesse Johnson started on the mound for VC and got tagged with the loss.  Johnson threw 6.2 innings giving up 5 runs(2 earned) on 7 hits while walking 5 and striking out 7.
 
Offensively VC struggled at the plate again only picking up 2 hits.  Dalton Ondracek and Justin Manson each picked up a hit for VC.
 
Coaches Comment:
“I think we had a little bit of a hang over from the first game and that tough defeat.” 
“The Grand Forks pitcher got better through out the game.  He really kept us off balance late in the game and we couldn’t put any quality at bats together.”
“Overall looking at tonight’s games we are pleased with how we played. We were short handed with only 9 for the most of the night. We had few bad timely mistakes that didn’t help us. Only thing we can do is hopefully learn from this and become better.”
 
With the losses VC record now sits at 3-6 with a 1-4 region record.
 
Next action for Post 60 is Wednesday as they travel to Fargo to take on the Bombers with 5pm first pitch time.