GRAND FORKS — The semifinals of the North Dakota Golf Association Match Play Championship have been set and Grand Forks’ Duane Wages will compete for a spot in the championship on Sunday.

Wages survived four playoff holes against Bemidji State’s Logan Schoepp to reach the semifinals.

That semifinal will be a battle between Grand Forks residents. Wages, the fifth-seeded golfer and a volunteer assistant coach for UND men’s golf, will face No. 17 Koby Kuenzel Sunday morning at Grand Forks Country Club. Kuenzel plays at Bemidji State.

The other semifinal will be between No. 3 Sean Moore, an incoming freshman at North Dakota State, and No. 7 Nate Peyerl, a UND golfer.

The semi-finals are scheduled for 7:30 am

The championship will follow around 12:10

Kuenzel defeated UND’s Grayson Wetch in the quarterfinals. Moore defeated Kasen Rostad, a junior at Minot North, and Peyerl defeated Gehrig Geiss, a golfer at Jamestown.

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Following the qualifying round and the first round of competition on Friday, 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 of Rugby; Dave Kuschel, an assistant coach of the boys golf team at Grand Rapids (Minnesota); and Perry Piatz, a former coach at Kindred who will play for the Nicklaus Division championship on Sunday morning.