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• Sisseton def. Deuel, 25-14, 25-13, 18-25, 25-13
• Stanley County def. Jones County, 25-22, 25-18, 11-25, 10-25, 19-17
• Summit def. Great Plains Lutheran, 25-20, 25-22, 25-23
• Timber Lake def. Dupree, 25-13, 25-22, 25-15
• Tri-Valley def. Dell Rapids, 25-15, 25-9, 25-11
• Viborg-Hurley def. Bridgewater-Emery, 25-18, 27-25, 25-18
• Waubay def. Tiospa Zina Tribal, 25-12, 25-17, 18-25, 23-25, 15-12
• Waverly-South Shore def. Florence/Henry, 25-7, 25-8, 25-8
• Webster def. Britton-Hecla, 25-22, 24-26, 25-22, 25-20
• West Central def. Garretson, 25-21, 27-25, 25-12
• White River def. Rapid City Christian, 26-24, 25-10, 25-12
• Wilmot def. Rosholt, 26-24, 25-27, 25-22, 25-9
• Boyd County Triangular
• Boyd County, Neb. def. South Central, 25-11, 25-8
• Stuart, Neb. def. South Central, 25-16, 25-14
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IHS expands access to Plan B for Native women
FELICIA FONSECA, Associated Press
• FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) -- Native American women seeking emergency contraception at Indian Health Services facilities managed by the federal government now can get it without a consultation or prescription.
• The agency had come under fire from women's health advocates who said it needed to make the morning-after pill more accessible to American Indian and Alaska Native women. IHS has no retail pharmacies, and critics said Native women faced long wait times for Plan B because they had to compete with all the other patients seeking emergency care at clinics, urgent care centers or at emergency rooms.
• IHS said more than a year ago that it was finalizing a policy to provide the drug directly to patients. That policy hasn't been released, but the agency told The Associated Press that all IHS facilities run by the federal government are now under a verbal directive to provide Plan B to women 17 years and older at pharmacy windows without a prescription.
• "I want to reassure you that we have taken this issue seriously, and the IHS has, on several occasions this year, confirmed access to FDA-approved emergency contraceptive products in all IHS federally operated facilities with pharmacies," the agency wrote in response to questions from the AP.
• The verbal directive to IHS area directors came as welcome news and a sign of (Continued on page 21)
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