The Hi-Liners baseball team took to the diamond for the first time this year and with the temperature sitting at a brisk 46 degrees at opening pitch the season opener would down to which side played the cleaner game.

Unfortunately for Valley City the Bruins would capitalize on three Hi-Liner errors in the ballgame to plate as three runs, with three more runs coming to score on wild pitches and past balls with the Bruins only tallying one RBI on the day. Fargo South 3B Alex Such was involved in three of the seven Bruins runs as he notched the only RBI for South with a Sac-Fly in the second inning.

The score was 3-0 in favor of South heading into the sixth, but in the top half of the inning the Bruins would plate four runs putting the game out of reach. What also put the game out of reach was the dominant pitching of Bruins starter Carson Shiek who went five innings, allowing no runs, and striking out eight.

Valley City pushed across three runs in the bottom of the seventh which was capped off with a two run single from Will Schwehr which was the lone Hi-Liner hit of the game. Despite only mustering one hit Valley City generated a plethora of walks with 11 on the day to go along with two hit by pitches.

Bryson Heck got saddled with the loss allowing only one earned run over four innings. Despite the loss Heck did a good job of limiting the damage early on in the ballgame, before finding his grove in the third and fourth innings.

The next scheduled game for Valley City is a road contest against the Grand Forks Red River Rough Riders at Kraft Field on Friday at 5:00pm.