The search continues for three Dickinson State University softball players after a friend received a hysterical phone call from one of them in which they mentioned water. Two calls were made to the friend but both ended abruptly.

Authorities do not suspect any foul play. Instead, one of the girl’s father, Lenny Gemar, believes that it was an accident that happened when the girls went to stargaze at a nearby lake – a frequent past-time of theirs.

Dickinson is a “pretty small town” that lacks an active nightlife, he said, and the women were known to go out to the lake to stargaze and chat.

The three students, Kyrstin Gemar, 22, Afton Williamson, 20, and Ashley Neufeld, 21, were last seen at 10:45 p.m. on Sunday evening.

In addition to the planes that scoured the rural area where the women are thought to be, divers from the Dickinson Fire Department were searching a nearby lake.