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The Augustana women's basketball team (20-8) has advanced to the semifinals of the 2009 NSIC/Sanford Health Women's Basketball Tournament. The Vikings, who are the No. 4 seed in the tournament, will now face No. 8 seed Concordia University, St. Paul, on Saturday, March 7 at 5 p.m. in Winona, Minn. The other semifinal pits No. 2 seed Winona State against No. 6 seed St. Cloud State at noon. Saturday's semifinals winners will meet Sunday at 2 p.m. in the championship game. The tournament champion earns an automatic bid to next week's NCAA Division II Central Regional Tournament.
PLAYOFF?TICKETS: Tickets prices for this weekend's NSIC/Sandford Health Basketball Tournament are: $8 for Adults, $6 for Seniors, $2 for K-College and kids 5 and under are free. Tickets go on sale at 8 a.m. Friday. Fans can purchase tickets by calling 1-877-725-8849 or by visiting www.ticketalternative.com.
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 with Augustana Director of Athletics Bill Gross providing color commentary. The broadcast begins with a pre-game show 10 minutes prior to tipoff.
WEBCAST INFORMATION: All of Augustana's conference 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 Winona State athletic department will provide live stats for this weekend's games. Fans wanting to follow the action can go to the following link:
http://www.winona.edu/sportsinformation/wbasketball/livestats/xlive.htm.
