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#SummitSB Championship Update: May 13

-- 7 p.m., May 13; Update --

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. --
Summit League officials announced Friday evening the remainder of the altered schedule for the 2022 #SummitSB Championship, which is now being played at Nygaard Field on the campus of the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. The six-team tournament is remaining with a double-elimination format.

Top-seeded South Dakota State and No. 4 seed South Dakota will open action on Saturday with game No. 4 of the championship. That game between the Jackrabbits and Coyotes will start at 9 a.m. CT and be the first of four games on the schedule.

No. 2 seed Omaha, who fell to No. 3 North Dakota State in game No. 3, will play the loser of the SDSU-USD matchup at 11:30 a.m. CT in game No. 5, which will be the first elimination game of the newly-updated bracket.

The Bison will play the winner of the SDSU-USD matchup at 2 p.m. CT in game No. 6.

The final game of the day will pit the winner of game No. 5 vs. the loser of game No. 6 in Saturday's second elimination game at 4:30 p.m. CT.

The 2022 #SummitSB Championship game will take place on Sunday at 10 a.m. CT with the "if necessary" game to be played 30 minutes following.

Updates will continue to be provided on the Summit League's twitter account (@TheSummitLeague) and the website at www.thesummitleague.org.

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-- 12:15 p.m., May 13; Update --

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Summit League officials announced Friday afternoon a change in venue for the remainder of the 2022 #SummitSB Championship, which will now be played at Nygaard Field on the campus of the University of South Dakota in Vermillion.

The change in venue has also changed the schedule, but the tournament will remain a double-elimination format for the remaining four teams. The action will resume Friday evening at 5 p.m. CT with No. 2 Omaha and No. 3 North Dakota State facing each other in what will now be game No. 3 of the tournament.

Information on live stats and a video stream, if available, will be provided at a later time. 

Saturday's first action will be game No. 4 featuring No. 1 South Dakota State and No. 4 South Dakota with the time for first pitch to be announced later this afternoon.

Updates will continue to be provided on the Summit League's twitter account (@TheSummitLeague) and the website at www.thesummitleague.org.

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-- 9 a.m., May 13; Update --

BROOKINGS, S.D. -- Summit League officials announced Friday morning that all games scheduled for the 2022 #SummitSB Championship today have been postponed for now due to damage and a power outage across the South Dakota State University campus caused by the heavy storms that passed through the state last night. The campus is closed Friday to only essential employees.

League officials and members of the games committee will continue to evaluate the situation and make a decision on how the remainder of the tournament schedule will play out once everything is properly assessed.

Updates will continue to be provided on the Summit League's twitter account (@TheSummitLeague) and the website at www.thesummitleague.org.

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