Sports Briefs 9-27

Kernels travel to face St. Thomas More in playoffs

By The Daily Republic

After finishing the season 2-6-1, the Mitchell High School girls’ soccer team qualified as the fifth seed in the South Dakota High School Activities Association playoffs.

The Kernels take on St. Thomas More at 2 p.m. MST Saturday in Rapid City with the winner advancing to the state tournament.

Aberdeen Central and Sioux Falls O’Gorman have already qualified for the state tournament, while Sioux Falls Christian will face Groton Area for the other tournament berth.

On the boys’ side, Sioux Falls Christian and Groton Area earned automatic berths, with James Valley Christian playing Aberdeen Central for a trip to the state tournament, as well as St. Thomas More facing Sioux Falls O’Gorman.

Howard’s Wiese signs with DWU

By The Daily Republic

Howard senior Cal Wiese will join the Dakota Wesleyan University men’s golf team for the 2013-14 season, Tigers head coach Adam Anderson announced earlier this week.

Wiese has finished in the top three at the Class B state tournament each of the last three seasons. He finished third as a freshman in 2010, was the 2011 champion and tied for the best score in last year’s tournament, but was beat out for the title in a sudden death playoff.

NCAA agreement allows some UND Sioux logos to stay

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The NCAA says it has approved a plan that allows most American Indian imagery to remain in the privately owned athletic complex housing University of North Dakota hockey and basketball.

The state Board of Higher Education ordered the university this summer to drop its Fighting Sioux nickname to abide by a 2007 agreement with the NCAA.

That agreement had called for all Sioux logos to be removed from the Ralph Engelstad Arena and the attached Betty Engelstad Sioux Center. But the facilities have thousands of Indian-head logos, including on brass medallions on chairs and a 10-foot sketch in the hockey arena’s granite floor.

The new agreement allows those to stay, though six “Home of the Fighting Sioux” signs must be removed.

University President Robert Kelley says it’s a good resolution.

Wesleyan volleyball outlasts DSU in 5 sets

By The Daily Republic

MADISON — Dakota Wesleyan’s volleyball team outlasted Dakota State and came away with a 3-2 win Wednesday night in Madison.

The in-state rivals battled all night as the Tigers came away with the win by set scores of 25-18, 21-25, 25-17, 23-25, 19-17.

Leading the way for DWU was Danielle Bird with 24 kills and 15 digs. Briana Jung finished with a team-high 46 assists and also had 19 digs. Katie Lindow recorded 24 digs, Kelli Swenson had 11 assists, Elizabeth Mahsem had 14 kills and Sarah Kruse tallied 12 kills.

The Tigers improved to 4-14 on the season and take on Jamestown College Saturday in Jamestown, N.D., while the Trojans dropped to 8-11 with their fourth-straight loss.

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