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40-1/3. Impressive to say the least. It’s very difficult to go that many innings without a HR or a couple bloops and an error. This isn’t an earned run streak; it is an ANY run streak. Hats off to Autumn. She’s really exhibiting great command of all her pitches right now, which means she can...

Despite the defensive meltdown at East Lansing, Minnesota is actually fielding at a .976 clip (.980 is the gold standard) in B1G play, good for 3rd in the conference. Ohio State is at .955 in B1G games, tied with Wisconsin for 10th. Overall, Minnesota sits at .970 while Ohio State is at .966...

Nebraska is at Northwestern and Indiana is at Michigan, so we have a good shot at positioning ourselves for the 2-seed in the B1G Tournament if we play well in Columbus.

The Gopher pitching staff hasn’t surrendered an earned run for 56-1/3 innings, since the 4th inning of the last Indiana game. Ironically, both Pease’s scoreless streak and the staff’s no earned run streak started after a Taylor Minnick HR, off Pease in Game 1 and Schwartz in Game 3 of the...

True. I found myself thinking the same thing, although Wisconsin probably isn’t the most athletic-looking bunch in the league. I think Ohio State has some impressive athletes. Can’t wait to see how we compare to them.

Your statement piqued my interest so I went back and ran a quick check and by my count Pease is on a 34-inning scoreless streak, all the way back to the 5th inning of the first Indiana game. Anyone please correct me if I counted wrong. The entire pitching staff is on a long no earned run streak...

Gophers take Game 2 7-0 for the sweep! Pease 6IP 1H 9K 1BB. Enter throws a scoreless 7th for the shutout. Great production today from the entire batting order. Pease looking as dominant as Groenewegen and Fiser. Great job by Hambrick and Enter in Game 1. This is the time to start hitting on all...

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...