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For me the turning point of the weekend was in game 1 when the HC removed Enter for Hamrick. MN has retaken the lead & Enter retired 6 in a row; she had NW pounding balls on the ground to the infield. Why not leave her in to try keeping that formula? Why abandon a successful strategy unless it...

A dismal feeling that the Gophers embarrassed the program, the University, their fans, and wellwishers with such a dreary wknd performance on BTN. The HC's dour comments with network announcers in between-innings interviews cast an even dimmer light for me. Hopefully she showed a bit more...

Pitching, pitching, pitching is the ultimate key to the sport.

MN's pitching is abominable. The team is way too talented to perform this poorly.

This weekend has been the most poorly played and motivated I've ever seen from a Gopher softball team. The announcers are right; MN is beating themselves. Embarrassing, at so many levels.

Of course, making circus and animal references runs the danger of lowering our postings to the level of a lot of distasteful current political discourse in D. C. & FLA. However, I'm not in total disagreement with the train wreck metaphor. Teams that win championships tend to find a way to win...

By 'ordinary' I was referring to today's NW performance only. They gave up 7 runs and allowed the Gophers numerous other scoring chances they repeatedly failed to take advantage of, often by failing even to put the ball in play.

A befuddling mishmash of errors mental and physical/offense and defense/coaches and players that make it feel almost impossible to deconstruct and reconstruct what happened. All done against a pretty ordinary NW team that was asking to lose. Depressing.

True. My point is that it seems strange the Gophers would be ranked in one poll but apparently (my key word) not even RV in the other. I wonder: Did I read the Coaches poll wrong?

I looked at the NCAA 1 coaches poll. There the Gophers don't appear in the top 25. It seemed they didn't even receive any votes. Or did I miss something? Or look at the wrong week?

Hopefully Piper can keep building the team as intelligently as she has 2023 over 2022 but with even more quality players and especially pitching depth year after year. It's about win, win, win as many games as possible over time. At the core is a deep staff of pitchers like Oklahoma St seems...

Thx for the info. I just followed the stats, which makes it hard to know any details.

Was it purposeful targeting against Strelow if her home run was disputed (frustration maybe? I saw Arizona State had just lost a close 1-0 to OSU)?

Talking about the ASU v. MN game, the OSU announcer said there were a couple of plays that could have been reviewed. Nr. 1 was apparently Strelow's homer. Nr. 2 was maybe the obstruction call in inning 7. Doe anyone know details about those two?

In all respect to you, John3298, but it's a game that humbles players but also can raise them up. Surely Strelow feels pretty good after the AZU game.

The Wichita State announcer was an interesting study. At the start he seemed convinced of WSU's superiority, incredulous that No. Col. could have led WSU by 1-0 after an inning. A batting order featuring a .600 hitter and a record-setting HR hitter seemed sure to swamp all comers. By the time...

I see that the Wichita State games v. Gophers will be on ESPN+. Does anyone know about any possible TV coverage of the other three games this weekend?

Yeah, she's strong and can drive the ball.

Maybe Ehlke and Ceynowa are the added power catalysts this batting order needs? Along with Burnett and Bradley's foot speed?