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Maddie wins the duel — kind of. Sydney gets an RBI on a ground ball to make it 5-0, but Strelow thrown out trying to take third on the throw to first from the third baseman.

Looks like Sydney will get to face Maddie again, as she relieves Monticelli to start the 5th. 4-0 Gophers T6. Ehlke is a double machine! She’s going to catch Chavez if she keeps this up.

Very happy for her. You could see how excited she was doing the row/chop motion as she headed home from third. And the reaction of her teammates was awesome, too, as it was for Amani Bradley’s first HR as a Gopher in the 1st inning of Game 2.

Thanks for all the responses. Unless the Big Ten or Minnesota doesn’t follow these guidelines, Dawn has until May 11 to recruit her own roster to prevent departures via the portal, then she has as long as she wants to sign someone out of the portal.

Why is there so much conflicting information here on when the portal closes? You’d think it would be easy to obtain definitive information on this. NCAA must be doing a poor job of communicating (no surprise).

She richly deserves it. Very tough to face a team two days in a row and shut them out both times. We need Autumn and our other key performers to step it up now, so it was nice to see her hitting her spots so well this weekend. The curve on the outside corner to the righties was particularly...

The window for players to enter the portal closes on May 11 this year.

Yes, I thought maybe our right handed hitters should have moved an inch or two farther away from the plate, or alternatively up in the box to hit the screwball before it broke too far inside. Make her command the outside corner, which she never did because she didn’t have to. The only other...

No idea what the Iowa assistant was asking the umpire, but the conversation didn’t appear contentious. Earlier in the game, though, Iowa head coach Gillespie did mildly protest a called strike call to end an inning. So maybe she had the assistant complain second time around to avoid getting...

Yeah, the overall quality of softball has come a long way, but I watch a lot of softball from the other major conferences too and frequently see exactly the same types of boneheaded plays and questionable coaching decisions that we fans point out in obvious frustration when it’s our Gophers...

To illustrate just how difficult it is to lose to the Spartans, we failed to execute in all three of those situations and yet it still required a seeing-eye blooper to tie the game and put Michigan State in a position to win the game later on. We had plenty of at bats between the third and sixth...

When this team is locked in, they are tough. The problem is, and has been all year, they seem to lose focus too often and this has led to some losses to teams they shouldn’t ever lose to. There’s no way to sugarcoat it — not sweeping the Spartans is a horrible outcome. Maybe this will finally...

Also documented in this thread was the commitment of Cameron Chard of Belle Plaine. I suspect she was their #1 target among in-state players for 2024, although there are always several local/regional players out there who project as a potential contributor in a P5 conference so we will probably...

It’s always a little difficult to know how to respond to posters who call for more playing time for players who mostly ride the pine. Are these impartial assessments, friends of said bench players, former bench players with an axe to grind? We just don’t know, so I usually refrain from...

Yes, I too noticed some of that quirky behavior. A lot of people who have followed Stanton’s career think her demeanor on the recruiting trail and her in-game tactics are a little over the top at times. She’s been around for a long time with some decent success at Marshall, and it appears...

In February, I admit I agreed with another poster that maybe Ehlke’s role would be limited to occasional pinch hit duties again this year, as despite some positive signs in fall ball, in her first two years she had mostly either walked or struck out, albeit in very limited opportunities, and it...

Anything other than a sweep at Michigan State would be horrible for this team. Iowa played Northwestern tough and has beaten good teams all season. They have really solid pitching but their offense still lacks power and consistency. They can make you pay for poor defense, as they have some...

When I saw Copeland was 14-0 I was hoping we would pin a loss on her, but even though Copeland gave up the Ehlke triple, Kleiman started the inning and allowed the first two baserunners before Copeland came back in. So Kleiman took the loss. Nevertheless, another gritty come-from-behind win...

That was the kind of gritty, never-say-die win I’ve been looking for from this team for most of the year. Kudos to the entire pitching staff, and especially Jess Oakland, who had been mired in a dreadful slump, and was dropped from 2nd to 5th in the order, but we had more good at bats throughout...

I can’t answer your question, but can offer my perspective. She dominated until Copeland hit the HR on what I thought was a good pitch (good velocity, good location). Maybe that played with her mind a bit and she thought she needed to change speeds more because they were timing her highest...