Tetons top MCC to win Mon-Dak tourney

The Williston State College men's basketball team won the Mon-Dak conference tourney title on Saturday with a 78-68 victory against Miles Community College, completing a three-game sweep through the tournament for the Tetons.

Tarell Clark led the way in the championship game with 24 points and 14 rebounds, both team highs.

"It's awfully nice to win that tournament, it'd been a long time since the Tetons had won that on the men's side," said Tetons coach Hunter Berg. "It just feels good.”

The end of a three-day tournament can get kind of ugly and that's what it was tonight, but we grinded it out."

Williston State jumped out early with a double-digit lead quickly in the first half and never trailed in the game.

Miles City cut the lead to 54-51 early in the second half, but the Tetons' Jarek Hansen hit a long three-pointer to put them back up six with 13:04 to play, and then another a few minutes later to make it 63-54.

The Tetons held the lead all the way through and closed out the victory.

Charlie Chapman scored 17 points and five rebounds. Hanson had 11 points and seven rebounds, Moriba Defreitas had a double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds.

"Jarek Hansen had an excellent performance today and hit some great big shots for us and got some key rebounds," Berg said. "I thought Tarrell Clark just had a whale of a tournament, he's just one tough dude out there. He really took care of us and just lead's by example."

Williston 78, Miles 68

Williston State

Thaddeus Perry 1-5 2-2 4; Charlie Chapman 17 7-15 17; Tarrell Clark 9-19 6-9 24; Luke Martinez 0-12 4-4 4; Jarek Hansen 3-6 2-2 11; Shamile Jeffers 4-7 0-2 8; Moriba Defreitas 3-4 4-8 10

Miles Community College

Juien Botten 1-1 0-0 3; Dana Ori 5-13 0-0 14; Brandon Robbins 2-6 4-4 8; Willie Brown 5-14 2-2 13; en Perry 3-8 0-1 6; James Sparkman 1-4 2-2 4; Briahn Smith 5-15 2-2 14; John Bayo 2-6 2-4 6

Friday's game

Williston State 79, NDSCS 73

Thaddeus Perry 2-5 1-3 5; Charlie Chapman 3-10 7-7 14; Jake Reynen 0-3 0-0 0; Tarrell Clark 11-16 3-5 25; Luke Martinez 9-19 3-6 23; Jarek Hansen 3-6 0-0 6 Shamile Jeffers 1-6 4-7 6; Moriba Defreitas 0-2 0-0 0

NDSCS

Jamie Mauch 4-8 1-2 12; Steven Steward 4-5 0-1 9; Bryan Jacklitch 2-5 0-0 6; Malcolm Pope 1-4 1-2 3; Aaron Morris 3-7 5-7 11; Hanif Nixon-Hughes 5-9 2-3 12; Terry Bembry 7-15 2-4 16; Kurtis Mickelson 2-2 0-1 4

All-Tournament Team

Men's

Tarrell Clark, Williston State

Josh Ogden, Lake Region

Charlie Chapman, Williston State

Terry Bembry, NDSCS

Briahn Smith, Miles CC