Authorities are searching for three Dickinson State University students....

Stark County Authorities are asking for help in finding three missing women... all three DSU Softball players...

They are 20 year old Afton Williamson, 22 year old Kyrstin Gemar and 21 year old Ashley Neufeld.

The girls were last seen last night around 10:45.

A female friend called the Sheriffs Department saying she got a call from the three women they were talking about water and were hysterical.

The cell phone call came through a tower five miles northwest of Dickinson.

Stark County Sheriff Clarence Tuhy says all three girls have cell phones however they now go straight to voicemail. Authorities have searched Patterson Lake along with other bodies of water in the Dickinson area.

Various law enforcement agencies are searching a large portion of southwest North Dakota.

The Highway Patrol along with three civil air patrol planes are also searched from the air but were called off after dark..

So far no organized ground searches are planned...

"Righ now, we don't even know where were supposed to be looking out or where...we're trying to target a big area....and kinda this area we think they might be at, but as far as anything else....I would say once the investigation continues and something is more definite...It all depends which way we're gonna have to go "


Williamson and Gemar are originally from California.

Neufeld is from Canada.

The girls were driving a White 1997 Jeep Cherokee with California License plate 3UBN521.

If you have any information on where the girls are or if you see the white Jeep contact the Stark County Sheriffs Department at 456-7610. watch the video | save this article / add to your favorites list