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Rapid City Stevens beats Harrisburg 63-58

• BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) -- Virginia Vifquain scored 20 points to lead Rapid City Stevens over Harrisburg 63-58 in Saturday's seventh-place game at the South Dakota Class AA girls basketball tournament.
• Vifquain had four 3-pointers for the Raiders (15-11), who shot 51 percent from the field. Stevens made 15 of her 23 free throw attempts. Jennie Scharn added 18 points and six rebounds.
• Harrisburg (15-11) was led by Danni Honner with 18 points. Hailey Halling added 15 and Alex Johnson 12. The Tigers were 7-for-7 from the line.

Lyman slips by Gayville-Volin for 7th place

• HURON, S.D. (AP) -- Brooklyn Halverson's basket with 2 seconds to play in overtime gave Lyman a 46-44 win over Gayville-Volin in the seventh-place game at the South Dakota Class B girls basketball tournament.
• Halverson led the Raiders (16-10) with 18 points, making eight of her 11 shots.
• Anna Flitner had 10 points and broke a tie with two free throws with 4 seconds left in regulation. But she fouled Kelia Barta with a tenth of a second left and Barta made two free throws to tie it at 38 and send it into overtime.
• Barta was 10-for-10 from the line and finished with a team-high 20 points for Gayville-Volin (16-10).

Oil spills into Missouri River in North Dakota
REGINA GARCIA CANO, Associated Press

• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- As many as 33 barrels of oil have been contained after spilling from a well into floodwaters near the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers in northwest North Dakota, the state's Department of Health said Saturday.
• Ice jams in the rivers resulting from warmer weather have caused the waters to rise and flood at least 16 wells southwest of Williston, but only one spilled Friday, said Kris Roberts, the head of the health department's environmental response team.
• "A tank didn't have a sufficient amount of fluid in it to keep it anchored, and it started flooding a bit," Roberts said. "It had about 33 barrels of oil in the tank, and

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