Jul. 20—GRAND FORKS — The semifinals of the North Dakota Golf Association Match Play Championship are set, and Grand Forks’ Duane Wages will compete for a spot in the championship Sunday.
Wages survived four playoff holes against Bemidji State’s Logan Schoepp to advance to the semis.
That semifinal will be a battle of Grand Forks natives. Wages, the fifth-ranked golfer and a volunteer assistant coach with UND men’s golf, will face No. 17 Koby Kuenzel Sunday morning at the Grand Forks Country Club. Kuenzel golfs at Bemidji State.
The other semifinal matchup will be between No. 3 Sean Moore, an incoming freshman at North Dakota State, and No. 7 Nate Peyerl, a UND golfer.
The semifinals are scheduled to tee off at 7:30 a.m.
The championship will follow at around 12:10 p.m.
Kuenzel beat UND’s Grayson Wetch in the quarterfinals. Moore bested Kasen Rostad, a junior at Minot North, and Peyerl beat Gehrig Geiss, a golfer at Jamestown.
After Friday’s qualifying round and first round of competition, the North Dakota Golf Association hosted a Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
The Class of 2024 included Jim Hackenberg, a Grand Forks Central graduate who invented the Orange Whip; Keith Duchscher, an NDGA board member from Rugby; Dave Kuschel, an assistant boys golf coach at Grand Rapids (Minn.); and Perry Piatz, a former coach at Kindred who will play for the Nicklaus Division championship Sunday morning.
