North Dakota
UND men’s basketball can’t overcome North Dakota State in five-point loss
FARGO — UND coach Paul Sather likened this year’s Fighting Hawks team to a scene from the 1994 movie Shawshank Redemption.
“Sometimes you have to crawl through a mile of you know what to get to the other side,” he said after UND’s 87-82 loss at North Dakota State on Saturday evening at the Sanford Health Athletic Complex.
UND lost its sixth Summit League game this season, sitting at 2-6 through the first half of conference play.
The Hawks had numerous chances to take the lead against the Bison. Treysen Eaglestaff hit a 3-pointer to come within two points, 76-74, with under four minutes left in the game — just after Mier Panoam, who had 11 points in the loss, fouled out of the game.
Mambourou Mara fouled out with 1:05 left to play.
Dariyus Woodson hit a triple to cut NDSU’s lead to 83-81 with 14.5 seconds left.
Deng Mayar then fouled out, sending Tajavis Miller to the line. Miller extended the Bison’s lead back to four.
Eaglestaff missed a late three, but Amar Kuljuhovic was fouled.
Kuljuhovic went 1-for-2 from the line with four seconds left — UND was 21-for-35 from the free-throw line — and it was too late for the Hawks to answer.
“There were missed opportunities throughout for us,” Sather said. “They’re a very good team. They put you in defensive positions that are difficult, challenging. I thought our guys’ effort and energy was pretty good throughout the game. We had some lapses here and there. As far as how we wanted to guard them and how we wanted to play against them, I think it was the right way.”
The Bison improved to 16-6 and 5-2 in the Summit League, winning their last five straight.
For NDSU coach Dave Richman, free throws and defensive stops were the difference in the game.
“Treysen Eaglestaff is such a talented player, you put a lot of focus on a guy like that,” he said. “So all of a sudden you start getting spread out a little bit. We let them get downhill a lot, and we finally got some stops.”
Both teams shot 41% from the field, but 48 of the Bison’s 58 shot attempts came from 3-point range — a school record for most attempted threes.
UND went 9-for-29 (31%) from range, while NDSU was 16-for-48 (33%).
“I think we still might be taking threes out there right now,” Richman said.
NDSU was led by Jacksen Moni, who ended with a double-double (24 points, 10 rebounds). Jacari White added 20 points, and Miller had 17 points and seven boards.
Eli King grabbed a career-high 13 rebounds in the loss.
In the first half, Eaglestaff, who led UND with 22 points, missed back-to-back looks from three. UND assistant coach Jamie Stevens took Eaglestaff out of the game.
Eaglestaff started to take over in the second half, driving to the basket more in an effort to grab the win.
“I don’t usually get a lot of open looks like that, so I was just mad at myself,” he said. “So second half, I was just like, ‘OK, I don’t know why I care so much about if I get taken out or not. I’m a vet, just grow up and play basketball.’ That’s what I decided to do in the second half. It worked out pretty well.”
Sather still believes his team is talented enough on offense and is fighting to improve on defense. But he knows UND let some opportunities to take over the game slip away.
“God, you have to make some of the plays we didn’t make,” he said.
North Dakota
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BRECKENRIDGE — Coaches, teammates, friends and family gathered in the south parking lot of Breckenridge High School for another state tournament sendoff.
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This year, it was Troy Berndt taking the ceremonial convertible ride. He is headed to St. Michael-Albertville High School for the Minnesota Class A State Track and Field Meet on June 4-6.
Corbin Abner Lee / Wahpeton Daily News
He will be running in the third heat of the 400-meter prelims, scheduled for 4:52 p.m. June 4. There are seven athletes in each heat, 21 total, and nine will advance to the finals at 6:20 p.m. June 5.
The top two finishers in each heat advance, along with the next three best times. Berndt’s personal best time of 50.67 has him seeded 13th, but the 10th-, 11th- and 12th-seeded runners are less than five hundredths of a second ahead of him. The eighth- and ninth-seeded runners are also close, at 50.33 and 50.39, respectively.
Berndt dropped nearly seven-tenths of a second from his previous personal best at the Section 6A West Subsection Meet on May 21, running 51.35, and shaved another 0.68 seconds off at the Section 6A Championships on May 28 with a time of 50.67. If he keeps lowering his time, he will have a shot at reaching the podium against the best runners in Class A.
Corbin Abner Lee / Wahpeton Daily News
Results and photos will be available online immediately following the race June 4 and in the June 10 print edition of the Wahpeton Daily News.
Corbin Lee is a sports reporter for the Wahpeton Daily News and Richland County News-Monitor. Corbin can be reached by calling (701) 291-3551 or emailing corbin.lee@wahpetondailynews.com.
On this day in 1971, Rugby repeated as North Dakota’s high school sand greens golf champion behind medalist Dwight Stempson’s winning performance.
Here is the complete story as it appeared in the paper that day:
Rugby Repeats As Sand Greens Golf Champion
RUGBY, N. D. — Rugby repeated as North Dakota high school sand greens golf champion here Wednesday, posting a four-man total of 293 strokes for 18 holes.
Led by medalist Dwight Stempson’s medalist 36-35 — 71, the Panthers were eight strokes ahead of runnerup Stanley, which had a 301. Following were Garrison 311, Beulah 315, Leeds 322, Ashley 323, Bottineau 328, Pembina 329, Tioga 332, Parshall 341 and Hettinger 342.
Stempson and teammate Bruce Carlson each had one-under par 71s, but Carlson was unable to be at the regional and wasn’t qualified for individual honors.
Rounding out the Rugby totals were Delwin Wilson 40-37 — 77 and Dennett Hutchinson 35-39 — 74. Gary Kirchoffner, 41-39 — 80, was Rugby’s fifth entrant with the best four-of-five scores counted.
Runnerup Stanley was led by Steve Springan’s 34-38 — 72 and Joe Springan’s 36-38 — 74. Their two-man total of 146 strokes was good enough for the doubles title. Two strokes back with a 148 was the duo of Stempson and Wilson. Stan Saathoff and Mike Stepina of Garrison each had 76s for a 152 total and the Ashley combo of Steve Maier (76) and Dave Kretschmar (78) was fourth with a 154.
Stempson was the driving contest winner with a distance of 280 yards. Chris Knutson of Garrison headed the pitch and putt competition.
Kate Almquist is the social media manager for InForum. After working as an intern, she joined The Forum full time starting in January 2022. Readers can reach her at kalmquist@forumcomm.com.
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