N I O R K S

JU JAC March 2011

Sneak Peak: SDSU became the first women’s basketball team to win three consecutive Summit League
* Women’s 3-Peat women’s basketball tournament championships, claiming a 61-54 victory over Oakland
Basketball The Jackrabbits earned the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Tournament as
they won for the eighth straight game and 11th time in 12 games and will take a 19-13 record
* Men’s Basketball into the tourney after starting the season 4-9.
* Track & Field Senior Kristin Rotert, named the tourney MVP, led the Jacks with 17 points while Jennie
Sunnarborg just missed a double-double with 13 points and a career-high nine assists. SDSU’s
* Golf ball movement led to 20 assists on 24 field goals.
* Tennis Sophomore Katie Lingle, who joined the starting lineup in mid-season, added 13 points, six
rebounds, two blocked shots and a pair of assists, and was also named to the all-tournament
*Featured Athlete: team. Junior Jill Young, averaging 10 points per game, had just one free throw but finished with
Jennifer Mack a team high nine rebounds.
* Future Jackrabbit’s Oakland, which finished 20-12, led early in the game, never by more than four, before SDSU
Coloring Page tied the game at 15 on a three-pointer by Rotert. After Sunnarborg scored for SDSU, Malika
Glover tied the game at 17 before the Jacks took the lead for good on a layup by Rotert.
Oakland closed within three, 57-54, after a trio of three-pointers - two by Anna Patritto and
Remember one by Bethany Watterworth - but single free throws by Sunnarborg and Young, and finally two
by Rotert with 14 seconds left, provided the final margin.
SDSU shot 45 percent, 24-of-53, from the field, while OU came in at 40 percent, 21-of-52.
OU had a 34-31 rebounding advantage, but the Jacks were plus-five in turnovers after commit-
ting a season-low 10 miscues.
SDSU traveled to Cincinnati, OH, for the first round of the NCAA Women’s
tournament, but fell short to fifth-ranked Xavier with a score of 72-56.

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Fifth seeded South Dakota State used an early 13-0 run to take the lead from No. 4 seed IPFW in
quarterfinal matchup at The Summit League Championships in Sioux Falls, and then held off a late
Mastodon assault to hang on for an 85-75 win in front of 6,436 fans at the Sioux Falls Arena.
The Jackrabbits improve to 19-11 with their third win over the Mastodons this season, and advanced
to play top-seeded Oakland in the tournament semifinals. Unfortunately, after a hard fought battle the
Jacks could not tame the Golden Grizzles in the semifinals and fell 110-90.
Nate Wolters led the Jackrabbits with 30 points in the win, adding seven rebounds and five assists.
Dale Moss scored a season-high 21 points and grabbed nine rebounds, while Clint Sargent finished
with 14 points. Jordan Dykstra scored 10 points in his first-ever postseason game, and added five re-
bounds before fouling out with under a minute to play.
Frank Gaines led IPFW with 21 points and added a game-high 12 rebounds to complete the double-
double. Ben Botts and Trey McCorkle both added 16 points and John Peckinpaugh 11 points in the loss.
IPFW scored first on its first possession, but the Jacks answered with the 13-0 run, prompting not
one, but two timeouts from the Mastodon bench within the first three and a half minutes of the game.
The Jacks would extend their lead to as many as 20 points in the first half, before IPFW cut it to 43-
29 at halftime.
The Mastodons would continue chipping away at the lead, cutting it to as few as four points on three
occasions, but the Jacks made their free throws down the stretch to secure the win.

* Clint Sargent finished his SDSU career with 1,505 points,

which is fifth all-time!

* Sargent is the SDSU all-time leader for career three pointers

with 252!
* Nate Wolters set a sophomore scoring record with 604 points!
* This season the Jacks scored 1,500 points in 18 conference
games!
* Standout basketball player Dale Moss will trade in his
basketball sneakers for football cleats in 2011! Watch
Moss at Coughlin-Alumni Stadium this fall.

* Three Jackrabbits will graduate this year:

Clint Sargent, Dale Moss, & Payton Tivis
 The South Dakota State men’s track and field team was selected second and the women third by
The Summit League’s head coaches in the outdoor preseason poll.
“We are excited about the outdoor season as there as some events unique to outdoor that we have
some quality individuals,” said head coach Rod DeHaven. “We are also adding some individuals who
didn’t compete indoors that will definitely score some points. Hosting the conference meet in Sioux Falls
will also be a slight advantage, not complete home field advantage but an edge that may result in a
few extra points here and there.”

The SDSU men’s golf team finished in eighth place and compiled a team 54-hole score of 874 (291-
292-291) and women’s golf team moved up two spots to finish in fourth place as it concluded play in
the Jackrabbit Invitational at the Primm Valley Golf Club Desert Course. The Jackrabbits’ 54-hole score
is the fourth best in school history, while their 36-hole score of 583 is the fifth best in school history.
Hudson Carpenter led the Jackrabbit men with a score of 214 (73-71-70) finishing tied for 18th,
while his 54-hole score of 214 is tied for the seventh best in school history.
Morgan Fitts led the women with a score of 224 (74-79-71) and finished tied for 10th. Her final-
round 71 is the lowest round in history and tied for the lowest score in relation to par. Her 54-hole
score of 224 is the second lowest in school history, while her 36-hole score of 153 is tied for 10th lowest.

A sweep of St. Joseph’s highlighted the midway point of the tennis team’s yearly trip to Florida with
the men winning 4-3 and the women’s winning 5-2.
The men swept the singles matches from #2-5 with all coming in straight sets. #2 Jamie Dash and
#4 Chris Baron each won by the count of 6-4, 7-5, #2 Carl Lundberg was victorious 6-0, 6-2 and #5
James Thorp prevailed 6-4, 6-4. The women were just as dominate in singles play taking care of the
the Hawks #3-6 singles players. #3 Bryna Nasenbeny was successful over Maggie Mullaney 6-4, 6-2,
while #4 Natalia Medina won 6-2, 6-2. #5 Megan McDougall also won by identical scores of 6-3, 6-3
and #6 Bethany Goeden rounded out the quartet with a 6-1, 6-0 victory.
Hometown: Watertown, SD Nickname: Jmack
Jennifer
Mack
Pets: Punkin (cat) Sport: Track & Field: Thrower
Major: Sr. Parks & Recreation Administration, & Nursing
How it started: I had an interest in throwing early on & my dad increased my interest by
taking me to different throwing camps & clinics during my middle & high school years.
How did you get so good: I spend a lot of time in the weight room, doing drills and
watching film of people who throw.
SDSU highlight: I came from behind on my last throw of the weight to
win the 2011 Summit League Championships and set a new personal re-
cord! That throw was also the 2nd best weight throw in SDSU history!
Best part about throwing for SDSU: Wearing Blue & Yellow!
Best tv show: Amazing Race
Favorite karaoke song: Anything Shania Twain
What don’t your teammates know about you: I’m terrified of snakes!!!
No matter what people tell you, you will be as good as you personally
decide to be. Sometimes a person’s toughest competition is their own self.

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