Women’s Basketball
A Bison comeback fell short Thursday against Oral Roberts University in Tulsa as the Golden Eagles beat North Dakota State 59-58.
All four quarters were close, with Taylor Thunstedt’s 14 points and Kennedy Childers’ 12 keeping the Bison in the game.
NDSU took its first lead of the game late after a three-pointer from Childers, followed by a layup with :21 to play. But ORU converted with little time to play, and the Bison lost another away game.
Two days later, the Bison took on rival South Dakota State, but the result was the same. The Jackrabbits scored 19-plus points in all four quarters to beat the Bison 81-47.
Marena Whittle finished the game with 14 points and eight rebonds. While Emily Spier scored 13 points and hauled in eight rebounds. Four student-athletes scored in double-figures for SDSU, and the Jackrabbits shot about 54 percent from the floor to hand NDSU its third-straight loss.
Women’s Track & Field
The team partook in a pair of meets Friday, posting multiple nation-leading scores as well as a few changes to the record books.
NDSU’s distance medley relay team traveled to New York City for the Armory Track Invitational while the majority of the Bison women competed at the Air Force Team Challenge at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.
Medley teammates Taylor Janssen, Morgan Milbrath, Amy Andrushko and Erin Teschuk ran 11:15.89 to win the Armory Invitational meet by 10 seconds.
The Bison women ran the second-fastest distance medley relay in NDSU history and are now ranked seventh in the NCAA this year in the event. Despite several of the team’s top runner’s not competing at the Air Force Team Challenge, the Bison finished second in the team standings, only one point behind the winning team: the University South Dakota.
Courtney Pasiowitz threw 64-11.50 in the weight throw, setting a new personal-best by 22 inches as well as breaking the NDSU school record, just days after breaking the school record in the shot put.
Anna Benke continued her success this season, recording another new personal-best of 13-07.25 in the pole vault to tie for 18th in the nation this season. Brittany Stangl managed to clear a career-best, vaulting 13-03.50 to tie for third in NDSU history and ranking among the top 50 in the NCAA this year.
Men’s Track & Field
The North Dakota State men’s track and field team made its way into Air Force Academy territory Friday, attending the school’s Air Force Team Challenge.
Posting impressive numbers at the shot put and weight throw, the opposing Bison finished the event third with 109 overall points. NDSU junior Alex Renner won the shot put with a toss of 60-08.00. Both posting good numbers and new personal bests, sophomore Payton Otterdahl 58-04.75 and senior Brandt Berghuis 58-00.50 finished third and fourth, respectively, behind teammate Renner’s first place performance.
In a meet filled with NDSU personal bests, Bison sophomore Landon Jochim ran an indoor 400m personal-best of 48.62 to win the event. Sophomore Aron Klos also ran a personal-best of his own for fifth place in 49.76. The team’s seniors impressed in the 60m hurdle, taking top spots in the event. Jerome Begin clocked a personal-best of 8.21 seconds in prelims.