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Rough start to the weekend, as the Gopher bats were silent (3 hits, 16 strikeouts), Semb with another shaky start (5+ innings, 9 hits, 3 walks, 6 earned runs), and throw 2 more defensive errors onto the pile. A Berklund HR and 4 scoreless innings of relief from Hemmesch about the only highlights.
 

Hard to win series when you have one starter giving you anything in Wietgrefe. Think Semb is much more suited for the bullpen and was shocked to see them go back to Novotny in the 2nd game today. Hopefully see Hemmesch and maybe Capomaccio get a look along with Wietgrefe next week.
Probably have to win the rest of these conference series to make the tournament.
 

Gophers get back to .500 in sweeping the midweek series with St. Thomas. Last night, they overcame 3 early errors and 5 run deficits on a couple of occasions and chipped away, and relievers worked out of jams to eventually win in extra innings.

Tonight, they cruised as offense scored in first 5 innings and pitching combined on 7 hit shutout.

Weather looks good for Friday and Sunday, with chance of rain Saturday in State College. Pretty much a must-win series this weekend.
 

Pissed that one down their leg. Semb was in constant trouble but escaped most of them. Bullpen really struggled. Penn State is solid offensively you can't give them as many advantage counts as we did tonight. Offensively we still can't execute very well situationally, it cost us games early in the year and it is still doing so now. Many opportunities to add on or even blow it open but you knew how this was gonna end when we never changed the score.
 



Heading into final 3 weekends here is the standings:
T1. Purdue 11-4
T1. Illinois 11-4
T3. Nebraska 10-5
T3. Indiana 10-5
T3. Michigan 10-5
6. Iowa 10-8
T7. OHio State 7-8
T7. Michigan State 7-8
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9. Maryland 8-10
10. Minnesota 6-9
11. Penn State 7-11
12. Rutgers 3-12
13. Northwestern 2-13
Our schedule is 3 home vs Nebraska; 3 home vs Michigan State, 3 road vs Northwestern. I believe we'll need to go at least 6-3 to have much of a chance. 5-4 would be very tight.

We've lost our last 4 game 1's of series....it's going to be crucial that we start picking up some wins to open a series.
 

Tough start to weekend, as Gophers drop game 1, and Ohio State, Michigan State, and Maryland all win. Defense once again was an issue as Gophers committed 3 errors and a passed ball leading to 4 unearned runs in the 5th. Gophers rallied to tie it at 6-6 but bullpen touched for 4 runs in final 3 innings.
 

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