Authorities conducted ground and air searches Tuesday for three softball players at a North Dakota university who have been missing since Sunday, police said.
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(CNN) -- Authorities conducted ground and air searches Tuesday for three softball players at a North Dakota university who have been missing since Sunday, police said.
Kyrstin Gemar, 22, Afton Williamson, 20, and Ashley Neufeld, 21, all students at Dickinson State University, were last seen about 10:45 p.m. Sunday, according to CNN affiliate KXMB. A friend of the women told authorities she later received a phone call from them in which they mentioned water and were hysterical. The cell phone call came through a tower that was five miles northeast of Dickinson, KXMB said.
Several airplanes were flying Tuesday over the rural area where the women are thought to be, said Dickinson, North Dakota, police officer Thomas Grosz. In addition, he told CNN, the Dickinson Rural Fire Department had divers searching a nearby lake.
Grosz said on ABC's "Good Morning America" that authorities believe the women might have gone out to the lake to stargaze.
That would not have been out of the ordinary, Gemar's father, Lenny, said on "Good Morning America." Dickinson, he said, is a "pretty small town" without an active nightlife. He said the young women were known to go out to the lake to stargaze and chat.