Area Sports

State Volleyball action begins this Thursday. In Class A, Mount Vernon/Plankinton remains in the hunt for a championship. They are the No. 5 seed in the state tournament and will face No. 4 seed Dakota Valley on Thursday at 12:45pm in the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, SD.

Dakota Wesleyan

Tiger basketball continues again tomorrow with more Great Plains Athletic Conference games. They’ll be back home in the Worlds Only Corn Palace. DWU will host the Northwestern Red Raiders, and both of their teams are ranked in the NAIA Top 25 poll – the women at No. 21 and the men at No. 12. Your No. 11 ranked women’s basketball team will start at 6pm and the men will play after around 7:45pm.

The men’s wrestling team is set to compete again tomorrow on the road. They’ll be wrestling in the GPAC Duals beginning at 7pm.

The GPAC All-Conference teams were announced for both men’s and women’s soccer yesterday afternoon. The women’s team had two players receive acknowledgment. Being selected honorable mention all-conference were senior goalkeeper Abigail Colgrove and sophomore forward Hannah Petrucci. Men’s soccer had three players acknowledged and one make one of the two teams. Those being junior defender Neil Ennis and sophomore midfielder Luis Waeschle earning honorable mention, along with senior midfielder Vladislav Burkov who was named 2nd team all-conference.

NBA

It’s NBA Cup – Group Play gameday in the NBA with two of these games on TNT. Including the Cleveland Cavaliers at the Boston Celtics at 6pm on TNT, the Charlotte Hornets at the Brooklyn Nets at 6:30pm, the Denver Nuggets at the Memphis Grizzlies at 7pm, the New Orleans Pelicans at the Dallas Mavericks at 7:30pm, the Oklahoma City Thunder at the San Antonio Spurs at 8:30pm on TNT and the Utah Jazz at the Los Angeles Lakers at 9pm. Your Minnesota Timberwolves won’t play again until Thursday when they travel to Toronto to play the Raptors.

NFL

It was a battle of the Texas teams last night on Monday Night Football between the Houston Texans and the Dallas Cowboys. It wasn’t much of a battle. Another rough showing for the Dallas Cowboys as they were trounced by the Houston Texans at home, 34-10.