The SDSU men’s baseball team played against the University of South Dakota.

The Jacks split the North Central Conference doubleheader, winning the first game 4-2 before USD won the nitecap with a score of 5-1. The teams finished with the 2-2 split overall.

The SDSU baseball team has been busy playing game after game in the last couple of weeks.

The team started

The SDSU baseball team is finally back on track after two wins this past weekend in Sioux City, Iowa on Saturday and Sunday.

SDSU played Briar Cliff and St. Scholastica on Saturday winning both games with scores of 9-4 and 17-4. Greg Geary had a homer in each game and went 4-for-9 with six RBIs. Matt Hanson was 5-for-8 with a total of five RBIs.

During the Briar Cliff game, Tigh Surdez struck out five pitchers and walked one in the first six innings. Geary was 2-for-5 had had a two run homer in the fourth while Adam Schroeder was 3-for-3.

The Jacks then played St. Scholastica, they tallied up seven runs in the fifth inning. During this inning, Hanson scored a two-run homer and Ryan Greene had a grand slam. Geary also had a three-run homer in the fourth inning.

For the second game overall, Hanson was 3-for-4 with three runs scored and three RBIs, Geary was 2-for-4 with three runs scored and three RBI,

Ryan Hansen was 3-for-4 including two doubles and two runs scored.

Greene was 2-for-5 with five RBIs, while Jimmy May and Ryan Sauter individually had triples.

The team came on very strong at the end of the game and scored 15 runs in the last two at bats to win the game.

SDSU came back again to play St. Scholastica at 12:30 on Sunday and won with a score of 22-13.

St. Scholastica started the game off strong, with two runs in the first three innings leading with a score of 12-7 headed into the bottom of the seventh.

At the bottom of the seventh inning, the Jacks scored eight runs and added another seven in the eighth inning.

All nine starters of the game had at least one hit and eight players had two or more hits to total the 21 hits and four home runs.

Hanson led the way, going 4-for-6 while Geary was 3-for-6 including a grand slam homer and seven RBI.

Jake Frey also had three hits which included a homer, Ben Morrison and Greene also had a home run.

After the two games St. Scholastica is now 11-5 for their season and SDSU improves to 4-10 for the season.

SDSU will play Southwest State on March 26 in Marshall, Minnesota and will then travel to Greeley, Colorado to open start their North Central Conference season with a four-game series over the weekend.

The SDSU baseball team traveled again to Missouri for this weekend’s games. The first game the team played was on Friday against Emporia State at the MIAA Challenge Tournament in Warrensburg, Missouri.

The Jacks ended up losing the game, ending with a score of 13-9. Greg Geary had 3-for-5 with two RBI and two runs scored. Matt Hanson, Ryan Sauter and Ben Morrison had two hits each. Hanson had a two-run homer in the fourth inning.

The MIAA Challenge continued on Saturday against Central Missouri and the Jacks ended up losing the game 13-1.

Central Missouri had a very productive sixth inning and was able to score seven runs. They ended the game with the ten-run rule.

Freshman Ryan Greene had three of SDSU’s hits which included a double and Hansen had the other hit for the team.

On Sunday, SDSU again lost to Washburn with a score of 10-2. The SDSU baseball team was limited to five hits off of four different Washburn pitchers. Ryan Hansen was 2-for-4 with one run scored and one RBI. Morrison had a fly that counted for the team’s other RBI of the game.

Both runs of this game were scored in the sixth inning when Geary led with a double. He scored on a double by Hansen, who scored on Morrison’s fly ball.

SDSU also committed three errors during Washburn’s six-run inning. This meant that five of the seven runs allowed by starter Tigh Surdez were not assessed to him.

Surdez said that the team isn’t used to playing outdoors quite yet, since most of their traning has been done indoors at the Barn because of the cold weather so far this spring.

“Last week was one of the first times being outside for the team,” said Surdez.

He also said that there is a lack of upperclassmen on the team this year.

“Our team is young, there’s not as much experience,” he said.

SDSU is now 1-9 for their overall season. Their next game

The South Dakota State University baseball team was runner-up at the North Central Conference last year and is already off to a challenging start.

The team’s first game of the season was originally set for March 3 but got postponed because of the weather.

SDSU had a start of 0-4 after their losses the next day to Grand Valley State and Pittsburg State respectively.

Greg Geary and Matt Hansen both had home runs for the Jacks. Hansen was 3-for-4 and Geary was 2-for-4 with a total of three runs.

After starting the second game, the game ended up being called off because the cold drizzle. In the top of the fourth the Jackrabbits scored four runs by Ben Morrison, Ryan Greene, Jared Schleifer and Jesse Schroeder.

On Thursday, SDSU played Grand Valley State again and lost with a 7-0 shutout in Joplin, Mo.

The team had a total of five hits: singles by Ryan Sauter, Jake Frey and Adam Schroeder and doubles by Geary and Breet Filut.

Sauter pitched until the third inning and Nate Huls pitched the final two innings.

On Friday, SDSU lost their games against Sterling, Kansas, 6-3 and Pittsburg State, 8-3.

The SDSU men’s and women’s teams got their conference meet off to a good start on Thursday at the North Central Conference meet in Grand Forks, N.D.

Sam Kezar placed eighth in the 3-meter diving competition, with a total score of 254.05 points for 11 dives.

Jake Berg finished 14th in the consolation finals of the 50-yard freestyle in 22..61 seconds.

On the women’s side, Camren Hillewaert got into finals for the 200 individual medley placing 14th with a time of 2:16.11. This time is .05 seconds from the school record she set last year at the NCC championships.

Going into conference this weekend, swim coach Brad Erickson wanted all of his athletes to finish with personal best times.

“I look at how each person does individually. The ideal situation is that every swim is a personal best. Most people usually have

The SDSU men’s and women’s swimming teams didn’t come away with a victory in Mankato this past weekend, but there is one more chance to get their best times in before the season comes to an end.

On the men’s side, SDSU lost by 117-95 ending the season with a 1-5 record.

The SDSU women’s team enters February with thoughts of spring and championships on their mind.

Thursday, the Jacks took a step toward those goals beating the Augustana Viking, 74-54.

The Jacks are still ranked No.1 in the NCAA Division II basketball with a perfect record of 19-0 and 8-0 in the North Central Conference.

The South Dakota State University swim team traveled to Grand Forks, North Dakota this past weekend to compete in the University of North Dakota Invitational. With some cancellations and schedule changes, the invitational ended up being dual for SDSU and UND.

Camren Hillewaert, a junior from Craig, Colorado, led the women’s swim team by winning the 200 yard breastroke with a time of 2 minutes, 32.56 seconds. She also got second in the 100 meter breastroke with a time of 1:11.35, and second in the 200 meter individual medley with a time of 2:19.86 seconds. Other top finishers for the women were Kristen Graves who was thrid in the 200 meter breastroke, finishing in 2:41.62 seconds.

The 400 medley relay finished first in a time of 5:03.64. Members of that relay were: Liz Howard, Megan Anderson, Katie Nordtvedt and Kay Strohbehn.

According to Hillewaert, the meet was ran in two separate sessions since it was an invite so everyone did more events than usual, she competed in eight events.

On the men’s side Jesse Peterson had a sixth-place time in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:54.40 and also a seventh-place finish in the 500 freestyle with a time of 5:15.47. Tim Wrenn also had a seventh-place finish in the 400 yard individual medley with a time of 4:50.52 and Morgan Haas had a time of 11:21.94 to place fifth in the 1000 yard freestyle.

The size of the SDSU swim team prevents them from being able to score high as a team at a lot of meets because of their lack of depth, but there are plenty of things to look forward to this season.

“Our team is so small compared to the rest of the teams in the conference. I would like to see everyone’s times drop at conference and for everyone to preform their best,” said Hillewaert.

The SDSU swim teams will have one more regular season meet next weekend in Mankato, Minnesota, which starts at 1 p.m. The North Central Conference Championships will be held Feb.19-22 in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

The South Dakota State University women’s basketball team beat USD at Frost Arena on Thursday.

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