SMSU Athletics

February 27, 2014 – Hoof Prints Article

Hello Mustang Fans!

It is post-season time for our winter sports. Yesterday, the Mustang Women’s and Men’s Basketball teams competed in the first round of the Sanford/NSIC Health Basketball Tournament. SMSU Wrestling heads to Edmond, OK for the NCAA Central Region Tournament beginning on Saturday. Next week, SMSU Wheelchair Basketball will travel to Arlington, TX, for the National Wheelchair Basketball Tournament. It is an exciting time in the SMSU Department of Athletics with our winter sports staring post-season play and our spring sports in the early stages of their season.

I know it is hard to think about golf, but we have set the date for the 29th annual David and Carol Drown SMSU Golf Classic. The event will be Friday, June 20 at the Marshall Golf Club. The Golf Classic is the next Mustang Booster Club fund raising event, and the Golf Classic Committee will be convening in the next couple of weeks to begin the planning for this great event.

For all your information on NSIC and NCAA Division II post-season competition , the Mustang Booster Club and SMSU Athletics, go to SMSUmustnags.com.

Upcoming SMSU Athletics Events

The SMSU Wrestling team (12-5 overall, 6-2 NSIC) will be heading to the NCAA Division II Wrestiling Super Regional #3 Tournament that will be held this weekend in Edmond, Oklahoma. SMSU will look to improve upon its four wrestlers that it sent to the NCAA tournament last season. Justin Reinsma (133), Kyle Begin (165), Jacob Begin (174), and Travis Peralta (184) all qualified for the national tournament last season and are looking to return once again. Good luck to Coach Nelson and our Mustang Wrestling Team this weekend!

The SMSU Men’s Basketball team (17-11, 14-8 NSIC) began play last night in the NSIC/Sanford Health Tournament on hosting the University of Mary (7-20, 5-17 NSIC) at the R/A Facility. SMSU entered the tournament as the No. 3 seed in the NSIC South Division, while U-Mary is the No. 6 seed in the NSIC North Division. The winner of Wednesday's game will face the winner of the N2 Bemidji State and S7 Wayne State game on Sunday, March 2, with tip-off set for 8:30 p.m. at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D.

The Mustang Women’s Basketball team (4-22, 2-20 NSIC) enter the NSIC/ Sanford Health Tournament as the No. 8 seed in the south and traveled to Aberdeen, SD yesterday to the No. 1 seed (North) #22 Northern State Wolves in a first round match-up. The quarterfinals, semifinals and championship will take place on March 1-4 at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D. The winner of Wednesday's game will face the winner of the N5 MSU Moorhead and S4 Augustana game on Saturday, March 1, with tip-off set for 12:00 p.m. at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D.

The SMSU Women's and Men's Indoor Track and Field team will travel to Bemidji, MN, this Friday and Saturday for the NSIC Championships at the Gillett Recreation/Fitness Center on the campus of Bemidji State. The Mustangs are competing in their first NSIC championship since 1992 and will begin action on Friday with field events starting at 12:00 p.m., while track competition starts at 3:00 p.m. and will continue into Friday night.

On Saturday, field events will begin at 10:00 a.m., followed by track events at 1:00 p.m. The championship is expected to conclude at 4:30 p.m. Southwest last competed on February 20 at the Beaver Twilight in Bemidji with the two Mustang teams combining to earn eight first place finishes.

The SMSU Wheelchair Basketball team (11-14) will be in action next weekend at the NWBT Championships on March 6-8 in Arlington, Texas. The Mustangs first round opponent will be the University of Alabama on March 6 at 3:00 p.m.

The SMSU Tennis team (2-5, 1-4 NSIC) split its pair of matches over the weekend versus No. 38 Augustana College and Minnesota Crookston. SMSU fell 9-0 to Augustana, but defeated UMC 6-3. In SMSU's 6-3 win over Minnesota Crookston, SMSU took two of the three doubles matches and the No. 2, No. 4, No.5 and No. 6 singles matches. Katie Kienitz defeated Catherine Brown 6-4, 2-6, 10-7. Kienitz and Kayla Uphus teamed up to defeat Casey Paris and Holly Roepke 8-3 in doubles competition. Shelby Monahan and Samantha Ritter also notched an 8-3 doubles victory for the Mustangs over Amanda Newman and Sarah Muellner. The Mustangs will travel to Mesa, Ariz., for seven non-conference matches starting March 11.

The SMSU Baseball team, 1-3 overall, will head to Tucson, AZ, March 7-15 playing 12 games on the team’s Spring Trip at the Tucson Invitational. The Mustangs will begin NSIC play on March 22 as they head to MSU Mankato for a doubleheader with the Mavericks pending weather and playable field conditions.

The Mustang Softball team, 0-4 overall, begins their Spring Trip in St. Louis, MO, with a doubleheader against Missouri-St. Louis on March 6 at 3:00 p.m. The Mustangs will continue competition on the trip playing North Alabama on March 7 before arriving in Winter Haven, FL, to compete in 12 games from March 9-14 in the Rebel Spring Games. The Mustangs will begin NSIC play on March 25 with a doubleheader in Sioux Falls, SD, taking on the University of Sioux Falls pending weather and playable field conditions.

The SMSU Women’s Golf team will return to action in two weeks as they head to Daytona Beach, FL, hosting the SMSU Spring Invite at LPGA International Golf Club on March 13-14. The Mustangs have four tournaments scheduled for their Spring Season concluding with the NSIC Spring Championship and NCAA Central Region Championship.

Good luck to all of our SMSU Teams competing this weekend!

Go Mustangs!

Congratulation to Ken Mukomela who provided the correct response to last week’s Mustang Hoofprint’s Trivia Question: Who is the career leader in field goal percentage for the Mustang men's basketball team? Doug Imming (1979-83) is the career leader in field goal percentage with .573 (323-564).


Hoofprints Trivia Question (please put this in a box with the title on top)

Who is the career leader in field goal percentage for the Mustang women’s basketball team?

The first person to email me at MustangHoofPrints@SMSU.edu with the correct answer to this question will receive an SMSU t-shirt.