April 16, 2015 – Hoof Prints Article Hello Mustang Fans!
Yesterday was signing day for all sports except for football and women’s soccer. It is an exciting day as we welcome our new student-athletes to the Mustang Family. This Saturday, the SMSU Volleyball team will host the annual Dick Bragg Spring Volleyball Tournament at the R/A Facility in Marshall beginning at 10:00 am. The event is free and open to the public. Along with SMSU, Augustana, Minnesota State, Sioux Falls and South Dakota State will compete in the tournament. Each team will play five rounds facing each team in the tournament once. Each match will play two sets to 25 points.
The Mustang Booster Club will host the 5th Annual Mustang Stampede "Glow Run" and after party next Friday, April 24, 2015, at the Schwan Regional Event Center. The Mustang Stampede Glow Run is a 5K walk/run open to everyone! Registration will begin at 7:00 pm with the race beginning at 8:00 pm. Women, men, students, and families are all encouraged to participate. Strollers are welcome, kids 12 and under are free! Following the run, a "GLOWtastic After Party" will be held following the walk/run!
The event is based on a team concept. A team captain is responsible for recruiting as many members as possible. Individual registration and donations will be applied to the team's fundraising total.
Individuals not associated with a team may also walk or run in the 5K. See individual registration information for the benefits received at each level. All the proceeds from the Mustang Stampede will go to support Women’s Athletic Scholarships at SMSU.
Also mark your calendars as the 2015 David and Carol Drown SMSU Golf Classic will be held on June 12 this spring at the Marshall Golf Club. Sponsorship and registration information can be found on the SMSU Athletics website.
For the latest information about the Mustang Stampede and SMSU Athletics go to SMSUmustangs.com.
This Week in SMSU AthleticsThe SMSU Softball team (21-19, 10-8 NSIC) split a doubleheader with Augustana College on Tuesday snapping Augustana’s 21-game win streak. SMSU went 4-2 over their last six games splitting with UMD and sweeping St. Cloud State on the weekend road trip before splitting with Augustana earlier this week. Southwest will host Sioux Falls in a doubleheader today with game one beginning at 2:00 pm.
The Mustangs will also host two NSIC doubleheaders this weekend. On Saturday, Minnesota Crookston (4-34, 0-20 NSIC) will come to Marshall with game one starting at 1:00 pm. The Mustang Softball team will be supporting cancer awareness by hosting “Strikeout Cancer” during Saturday’s contests. For each strikeout by an SMSU Pitcher, the team will be accepting donations to support cancer research and awareness. On Sunday, Bemidji State (16-20, 7-13 NSIC) will be in town for Senior Day with the first contest scheduled to start at 12:00 pm. Bring the family out to the SMSU Softball Field to support the Mustangs in a number of ways this weekend!
The SMSU Baseball team (14-18, 7-9 NSIC) went 1-3 this past weekend against St. Cloud State at Faber Field in St. Cloud, MN. The Mustangs hosted a doubleheader with USF (13-19, 10-6 NSIC) yesterday at Alumni Field. SMSU will head south this weekend for two doubleheaders against Upper Iowa (15-17, 7-11 NSIC). Both Saturday and Sunday’s doubleheaders are scheduled to begin at noon.
The SMSU Women’s Tennis team (4-12, 0-9 NSIC) finished their season last Saturday beginning the day with a tough loss to Bemidji State 5-4 before finishing the season on a high note with a 7-2 victory over Minnesota Crookston.
In the first match, BSU took two of the three doubles matches with the lone win coming from the No. 1 doubles pair of
Gabby Tellijohn and
Katie Kienitz earning an 8-6 win. The Beavers took the top three singles matches as the Mustangs took the bottom three spots. No. 4 singles
Mariya Krumm earned a win with a 6-2, 6-7 (7-5) victory before
Ashley Hoehne picked up another win in the No. 5 singles with a 6-4, 6-2 win.
Nicole McQueen picked up the final win at No. 6 singles, 3-6, 7-5, 1-0 (10-6).
The Mustangs picked up their first NSIC win of the season in the second match of the day versus Minnesota Crookston. All three Mustang doubles picked up a win to head into the singles matches up 3-0. The Golden Eagles took the first two singles matches to cut the Mustang lead but No. 3 single player Kienitz cut the run with a 6-1, 6-1 win followed by Krumm at No. 4 singles with a dominating 6-0, 6-0 performance. Hoehne picked up a win at No. 5 singles with a 6-1, 6-1 score and McQueen followed suit with a 6-1, 6-0 win at No. 6 singles to close out the match. I would like to thank senior, Katie Kienitz for her leadership and dedication to the SMSU Women’s Tennis program during her time at SMSU.
The SMSU Women’s Golf team was idle again this week and will return to action on April 25-26 when they compete at the NSIC Spring Championships at Dacotah Ridge Golf Club in Morton, MN.
The SMSU Women’s and Men’s Outdoor Track and Field teams had a strong two days at the Red Raider Open hosted by Northwestern College last Friday and Saturday. In the women's meet,
Kim Shabino placed fourth in the 200 meter dash (25.65) and fifth in the 100 meter dash (12.51), while
Eisha Oden finished seventh in the 400 meter dash with a time of 1:02.35.
Rylee Armstrong earned a third place mark in the triple jump with a mark of 11.29. In the heptathlon Armstrong placed third with 3,821 points. She finished second in the high jump (1.53m), long jump (5.25m), shot put (10.13m) and javelin (31.78m) and was third in the 200 meter dash (28.42).
SMSU's 4x100 relay team of
Alycia Hohenstein,
Kim Shabino,
Samantha McNeel and
Eisha Oden placed fifth with a time of 51.14.
On the men's side, SMSU had three individual capture first place finishes with one stadium record. Will Hanson won the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 14.31, Dallin Finley won the 100 meter dash with a time of 10.80, while Zach Jones won the triple jump with a stadium record mark of 13.88m.
Alex Weis earned a second place finish in hammer throw recording a throw of 48.10m and was fifth in the discus 46.43m. Alejandro Sanchez was second in the 800 meters with a time of 1:59.18, Lucas Woods was second in the long jump (6.59m) and also placed second in the triple jump (12.95m). Austin LaFollette also placed second with a 57.95 in the 400 meter hurdles.
Albert Rogalski (6.40m) and Zach Jones (6.34m) placed fifth and sixth respectively in the long jump. Ben Ryan also had a solid 200 meter race placing fifth with a time of 10.99. Jordan Flinn earned a fourth place mark in the hammer throw at 47.20m, while in the shot put, Ben Tonsager was fifth (14.86m) and Weis finished sixth (14.33) overall. Weis also finished fifth in the discus with a throw of 46.43m. The Mustang’s 4x100 relay team of Rivera, Finley, Ryan and Hanson crossed the finish line in second place with a time of 43.73, while the 4x400 relay squad of Finley, Kveseth, LaFollette and Sanchez earned a second place finish with time of 3:26.29.
The SMSU Track and Field teams both return to action this weekend as they head south to the University of Kansas Relays and the Sioux City Relays to compete.
Congratulations to junior,
Will Hanson, who was named Male Track Athlete of the Week for his performance this past weekend at the Red Raider Open. Hanson has now earned this honor for the second consecutive week by winning the 110 meter hurdles with a school record time of 14.31. He was also a member of SMSU's 4x100 relay team that finished second out of six teams with a time of 43.73.
I would like to wish all our teams the best of luck this week!
Go Mustangs!
No one was able to provide the correct answer to the last Mustang Hoofprint’s Trivia Question: What SMSU Baseball student-athlete threw the first no-hitter in the school’s history? Bruce Lahey threw SMSU’s first no-hitter against Moorhead State University on April 28, 1973.
Hoofprints Trivia Question (please put this in a box with the title on top)
Who was the last SMSU Women’s Tennis student-athlete to be named NSIC Player of the Year?
The first person to email me at
MustangHoofPrints@SMSU.edu with the correct answer to this question will receive an SMSU t-shirt.
