UND baseball's Thome throws shutout; Sioux upset NJIT
UND freshman pitcher Andrew Thome delivered another big-game performance for the Sioux on Tuesday. Thome threw a two-hit shutout, leading UND past New Jersey Institute of Technology 1-0 in the opening game of the Great West Conference baseball tournament.
RELATED CONTENTUND MEN'S HOCKEY: Berry applies for assistant job
Brad Berry, who played for the Sioux and served as an assistant from 2000-2006, has applied for the vacant assistant coaching position and is expected to be officially named soon after the job posting closes May 30.
RELATED CONTENTUND women's basketball: Brewster names assistant
UND hired Linda Sayavongchanh on Friday as its assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. Sayavongchanh (pronounced sy-uh-vong-chun) spent the previous three seasons as an assistant coach at Drake University.
RELATED CONTENTSioux-Bison football rivalry renewal tentatively set for 2015 and 2017 
The heated rivalry between the UND and North Dakota State football teams has been on hold since 2003. The nine-year drought appears to have an end in sight.
RELATED CONTENTUND MEN'S BASKETBALL: Sioux land Texas Tech transfer 
Former Texas Tech forward Jaron Nash has signed a letter of intent to transfer to UND.
RELATED CONTENTUND BASEBALL: Huskies sweep Sioux 
UND’s hitters, fielders and pitchers all took a turn struggling as Houston Baptist picked up 7-4 and 6-2 wins in Great West Conference play at Kraft Field.
RELATED CONTENTUND BASEBALL: Unlikely power keeps Thome a winner 
UND pitcher Andrew Thome’s streak of consecutive scoreless innings ended at 24 on Friday afternoon, but the unexpected power of second baseman Michael Anastasi kept the freshman hurler on a winning roll. Anastasi’s first career home run high into the wind in the seventh inning lifted the Sioux to a 3-2 win over Houston Baptist in the opener of a four-game Great West Conference series at Kraft Field.
RELATED CONTENTUND BASEBALL: Thome takes the mound today in hopes of a third-straight shutout 
UND pitcher Andrew Thome walked out of the clubhouse Wednesday afternoon onto the artificial turf at Kraft Field to warm up for a bullpen session. Despite a frame of 6-foot-4 and 210 pounds, Thome’s appearance doesn’t exactly strike fear into his opponents. The innocent exterior is misleading. The freshman from St. Cloud, Minn., is becoming one of the toughest and most feared young pitchers in Division I baseball.
RELATED CONTENTEx-UND player Frydenlund transfers to Jamestown College, to play for former Sioux assistant 
Jamestown College women’s basketball coach Greg Ulland hadn’t been around Chelsey Frydenlund for a year, but he noticed a change in the former UND player. Frydenlund, a former East Grand Forks Senior High standout, has transferred to Jamestown, where she’ll play for Ulland — the former Sioux assistant coach who recruited her out of high school.
RELATED CONTENTUND BASEBALL: Sioux rally past South Dakota State; await news on Bolander 
The celebration was tempered Tuesday when the UND baseball team scored three runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to rally to a win over South Dakota State. Sioux senior Kyle Bolander — who was 3-for-5 with a home run and four runs batted in against the Jacks — fell to the artificial turf rounding first base on a sharp ninth-inning drive to the gap that should have been extra bases.
RELATED CONTENTUND BASEBALL: Follis leads Sioux to 10-2 win 
Tyler Follis wasn’t a notable recruit. It wasn’t until two weeks before the school year started that anyone picked up the infielder from Bemidji High School.
RELATED CONTENTRead Herald staff writer Brad Schlossman's extensive review of the last 10 years of the UND men's hockey program on GrandForksHerald.com, available at HERE.


