LOCAL SPORTS BRIEFS: Hawks pick up Summit road win

VERMILLION, S.D. — North Dakota picked up its first Summit League street win of the season with an 86-72 win over South Dakota on Saturday.

Matt Norman

received his first begin since Dec. 12 in opposition to North Central and made essentially the most of it as he led the Hawks with 21 factors.

B.J. Omot

had one in all his greatest video games of the season as he scored 17 factors and recoesws 5 blocked photographs — the primary Hawk to report 5 blocks in a sport since

Filip Rebraca

blocked eight photographs in opposition to Milwaukee on Nov. 19, 2019.

This win was the Hawk’s third win away from Grand Forks this season, and the primary since successful 77-73 at Elon in November.

Within the second half the Hawks pushed the result in double digits as Norman hit the primary shot of the second half — a triple to make it 50-40. Later with the rating 55-46, a 12-2 run for the Hawks pushed their result in 67-48.

The run included back-to-back buckets from Tsotne Tsartsidze and a spotlight reel dunk from Omot, capped by a layup from

Treysen Eaglestaff

.

With 9:06 to go the Hawks took their largest lead of the day as Tsartsidze hit a jumper to make it 74-52. However over the following couple of minutes the Coyotes chipped away on the result in make it a 12-point sport at 75-63. However with the momentum going in opposition to the Hawks, Jalun Trent made a driving layup to finish the run and stored the Hawks forward by double digits the remainder of the best way.

For the sport, the Hawks shot 49.1 % from the sector and 40.6 % from downtown whereas limiting the Coyotes to capturing 40.3 % from the ground and 23.5 % from past the arc.

UND improved to 2-10 within the Summit and 8-17 general. South Dakota dropped to 6-7 and 11-14.

— Herald Employees Report