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THIS WEEK: Augustana (3-0) will participate in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Holiday HoopsFest over the weekend before officially starting the 2008-09 NSIC season in December.
Both the men's and women's teams from Northern State, Minnesota Duluth, Southwest Minnesota State, Upper Iowa, Bemidji State, Wayne State and Minnesota State University Moorhead will all compete in the HoopsFest along with the Vikings. On Saturday Augie will take on Southwest Minnesota State (5-1) at 5 p.m. and will play MSU Moorhead (3-0) at 5 p.m. Sunday night. Both games will be played at the Sioux Falls arena.
RADIO: All Viking women's basketball games can be heard on KAUR Radio (FM-89.1). The game can also be heard on the internet at: www.goaugie.com/stream.asx. Veteran broadcaster Jeff Fylling will call all of the action, The broadcast begins with a pre-game show 10 minutes prior to tipoff.
WEBCAST INFORMATION: Neither of Augustana's men's basketball games will be webcast during the NSIC Holliday HoopsFest this weekend. Most of Augustana's men's basketball games this season will be webcast on the internet as part of the NSIC's television agreement with Penn Atlantic TV. Fans wanting to follow the action can go to the following link: http://www.northernsun.tv. This season there will be no charge to watch the games but fans will need to set up an account with Penn Atlantic.
LIVE STATS: The Augustana athletic department will provide live stats for all of the Vikings' home games this season. Fans wanting to follow the action can go to the following link:http://www.augie.edu/athletics/mbasketball/xlive.htm.
For the NSIC Holiday HoopsFest, fans wishing to follow the live stats can go to the NSIC web site and click on the following link and find the appropriate game listed in the schedule: http://www.northernsun.org/hoopsfest.cfm
AUGUSTANA SPORTSCENE: Augustana Sportscene is in its fifth season on UTV cable channel 10 in Sioux Falls. The 30-minute weekly television show airs Saturdays at noon. Augustana Sportscene is hosted by Viking director of athletics Bill Gross.
Augustana Probable Starting Lineup
No. Name Pos. Ht. Yr. PPG RPG
12 Chelsea DeVille G 5-8 Sr. 7.7 2.3
22 Amy Puthoff G 5-8 Sr. 21.3 5.3
32 Megan Doyle G 5-7 So. 15.3 3.3
40 Whitney Hofer F 6-0 Sr. 13.3 10.3
45 Dani Arens C 6-1 Jr. 5.3 6.7
Off the Bench Pos. Ht. Yr. PPG RPG
15 Tessa Wilka G 5-11 So. 3.7 2.3
20 Ashlie Traynor G/F 5-10 Sr. 1.7 1.3
25 Brooke Olsen G 5-9 Sr. 2.7 0.3
30 Nicole Helsper G 5-6 So. 0.0 0.0
33 Faith Tinklenberg G 5-10 Fr. 6.7 4.3
35 Kristi Board F 5-10 So. 6.7 1.7
41 Kathry VanDuynhoven C 6-0 RFr. 2.7 1.3
42 Teri Versteeg F 6-0 Fr. 0.0 0.0
