SPEARFISH, S.D. – Minot State University's men's basketball team played with the No. 5 team in the nation Black Hills State for about 18 minutes.

But a Yellow Jackets' run to end the first half and another to start the second half proved to be too much for the upset-minded Beavers.

Black Hills State shot 62.1 percent from the floor in the second half to pull away from Minot State 91-74 in a semifinal game of the Dakota Athletic Conference men's basketball postseason tournament Sunday at the Young Center.

The top seeded Yellow jackets (25-5 overall) move on to face No. 2 seed South Dakota Mines in the championship game Tuesday at home.

MSU (13-17) held the lead most of the first half on solid defense and timely shooting. MSU ended up getting outshot 40 to 38 percent in the first half, but kept hitting enough shots to keep a slim lead.

BHSU, however, went on a 14-4 run late in the half to take a 42-34 lead into halftime. Black Hills scored just 18 points fewer in the first half than it did in the game when MSU upset the Yellow Jackets at the Young Center in early January.

The Beavers upset bid was all but dashed as BHSU built a 72-52 lead midway through the second half.

BHSU was led in scoring by Cain Atkinson's 23 points. He hit 5 of 8 3-pointers in the game as the Yellow Jackets finished 9 of 18 from beyond the arc. Luke Enos scored 18 points and had nine rebounds, Will John Johnson added 13 points and eight rebounds and Spencer Childress and Tanner Adler chipped in with 10 apiece.

Nathaniel Packineau (Sr., G, Parshall, N.D.) finished his Beavers career with a 20-point, four-point, three-assist finale to lead the beavers in scoring. Jason West (Sr., G, Lompoc, Calif.) added 13 points, four rebounds and four assists and Kal Bay (Sr., G, Chandler, Ariz.) scored 10 points and pulled down four rebounds.