Songolo verbally commits to Dragons men’s basketball team

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Ngijol Songolo has verbally committed to play men’s basketball at Minnesota State Moorhead.

Songolo is a 6-4, 180-pound guard who played at the University of Illinois-Chicago, an NCAA Division I school that plays in the Horizon League.

Songolo said he can play both point guard and shooting guard. He played in five games for UIC last season, and has three years of eligibility left with the Dragons.

“I consider myself a real versatile player,” said Songolo. “My biggest strength is my defense. … I’ve always taken pride in my defense and doing whatever it takes to help my team win.”

Songolo said playing in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference was one of the reasons he picked MSUM.

“I’m very familiar with the league,” Songolo said. “I know it’s one of the more competitive Division II leagues in the nation.”

Songolo went to James Madison Memorial High School in Madison, Wis., where he played on a state championship team.

F-M RedHawks Weekly: Talking with pitcher Nathan Kilcrease

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Join WDAY’s Jody Norstedet and The Forum’s Eric Peterson as they talk with RedHawks ace relief pitcher Nathan Kilcrease.


F-M RedHawks Weekly: Ronnie Bourquin in studio

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Join WDAY’s Jody Norstedt and The Forum’s Eric Peterson as they welcome the RedHawks’s Ronnie Bourquin to the studio.


Laredo pitcher expects to miss a month after being struck in head by line drive

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Laredo Lemurs pitcher Greg Wilborn said he expects to be out about a month after taking a line drive off his head in Friday’s game against the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks.

“I felt fine, which was my main thing, I knew where I was,” Wilborn said before Saturday’s American Association game. “I knew how many outs there were and everything that had gone on.”

Wilborn left Friday’s game in the fifth inning after a Jose Garcia line drive struck him near his left eye that opened a cut.

Wilborn, who went to a local hospital, said he received 18 stitches, including five internal. He said a scan revealed no brain swelling or concussion. He did suffer a small fracture on the outer rim of the bone around his eye, Wilborn said.

“Hopefully, within in like a month or a little over I can be back out on the field,” Wilborn said. “I could have easily lost my eye if not worse. … It’s just a minor thing so I’m pretty thankful for that.”

Dragons men’s basketball team looking to get back on track at Nemzek this weekend

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The Minnesota State Moorhead men’s basketball enters this weekend having lost six of their last eight games, including back-to-back losses at Upper Iowa and Winona State last weekend.

“It’s the toughest part of our schedule combined with not playing our best basketball,” Dragons head coach Chad Walthall said of the recent stretch of losses. “We’re really at a point now of no return. We can go one way or the other. I really think this team is ready for this weekend. They are not satisfied.”

The Dragons (15-7, 9-7 NSIC) are tied for seventh place in the 16-team Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. They host Augustana at 8 p.m. Friday and Wayne State at 6 p.m. Saturday at Alex Nemzek Fieldhouse.

“We’re not 7-15 so you have to look at it that way,” said Walthall, who pointed out his team had two overtime losses in that 2-6 stretch. “We had some deficiencies. … I do think we are not far away.”

Walthall said senior center Eric Olson will be inserted into the starting lineup this weekend to team with fellow senior forward Alex Novak on the front line.

“We are trying to do some new wrinkles,” Walthall said. “Eric is a senior and he has been playing well. Eric has been playing starter’s minutes anyways.”

Olson has been averaging 5.5 points and 5.7 rebounds off the bench this season, averaging 20.5 minutes per game.

“We’ve got to play well down the stretch and get hot for the (NSIC) tournament,” Walthall said. “To do anything we’ve got to win at home. We have to be playing better.”