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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) Defending national champion Sioux Falls is among three teams from the Great Plains Athletic Conference heading to the NAIA playoffs on Saturday.

Sioux Falls (11-0), bidding for a third national title in four years, will host Minot State (8-2) of North Dakota in a 1 p.m.

game.

Missouri Valley College (8-2) of Missouri will travel to Morningside (9-1) in Sioux City, Iowa, for a 1 p.m. game, and Nebraska's Hastings College (9-2) will visit Ottawa (10-0) of Kansas for a 1:30 p.m. game.

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