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If we learned anything about professional sports in Minnesota, it's that the big players disappear when the lights get bright. All that momentum built up in the past 12 games were gone in like three innings. Gophers gotta learn that if your best pitcher is not having their best game you as her teammate gotta do everything to try and limit the errors and keep up with the other team offensively.
 

WayOfTheGopher said:
If we learned anything about professional sports in Minnesota, it's that the big players disappear when the lights get bright. All that momentum built up in the past 12 games were gone in like three innings. Gophers gotta learn that if your best pitcher is not having their best game you as her teammate gotta do everything to try and limit the errors and keep up with the other team offensively.
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The HRs were the issue gave up barreled contact at least 3 times
 

The opportunities were there to win, but our bats became silenced once again.
 
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Let’s see we’re we get sent tomorrow . That will be key. it looks like everyone came out of the game healthy. Cox has earned the right to start in the regional game. No offense to Syd, but right now Coxis better, plus we need Syd to give us some good innings to get us through the regional. It was a good run, now let’s get back at it.
 
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4EverAGopher said:
The opportunities were there to win, but our bats became silenced once again.
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Struggled against OSU and it carried over to this game. How does a team like Penn State get 12 hits while we only had 4 against the same pitchers? In hindsight probably should've started Hambrick.
 

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2023 college softball conference tournaments: Schedules, brackets, auto-bids

We're tracking the schedule, scores and winner of every DI softball conference ahead of the NCAA bracket reveal on May 14.
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  • Sunday, May 14: Selection show at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN2
  • Friday, May 19 through Sunday, May 21: Regionals (regional competition will be conducted Thursday-Saturday if a regional has a team with a no-competition policy for Sundays)
  • Thursday, May 25 through Saturday, May 27 OR Friday, May 26 through Sunday, May 28: Super regionals
  • Thursday, June 1 through Friday, June 9: Women's College World Series
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WayOfTheGopher said:
Struggled against OSU and it carried over to this game.
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OSU and Indiana were good teams with good players. Their players wanted to win too. Indiana is going to be near the top of the Big Ten for years IF they can keep Kern around (which I doubt).

I am extremely disappointed that I won’t be entertained tomorrow (and sports, at bottom, is simply about entertainment). But the selection show will be fun on Sunday. I am hoping we go to Stanford next weekend but, as in all years, I don’t expect a win to end the weekend; but it should be fun nonetheless.
 

WayOfTheGopher said:
If we learned anything about professional sports in Minnesota, it's that the big players disappear when the lights get bright. All that momentum built up in the past 12 games were gone in like three innings. Gophers gotta learn that if your best pitcher is not having their best game you as her teammate gotta do everything to try and limit the errors and keep up with the other team offensively.
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So if you’re a bright player you have to stay bright forever and never rely on your dim players right? You need to be all encompassing and do it all. Your thought processes are in the trash. Most team sports are exactly that, a team sport so you should never have to rely on bright players.
 



WayOfTheGopher said:
Struggled against OSU and it carried over to this game. How does a team like Penn State get 12 hits while we only had 4 against the same pitchers? In hindsight probably should've started Hambrick.
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Not sure what team you have been watching this whole season and in the past seasons. You can reread the 2022, 2021 and the 2020 forums and see a running theam that the Gophers have struggled to push runners in when we have them on base. It is a trait of a team that relies on the long ball and nothing more. Failure to build a well rounded hitting program will plague this program forever until they understand how to make it work. Maddie has been a delight to watch this season because she truly seems to find a way to make it happen even when you think she can’t. The Gophers need a few more like her to be able to make it deep into the series. Even with some of the best pitchers in the BIG10 we can’t make it happen with pitchers alone. You are not going to hold every single game to 1 to 3 runs. Time to find a hitting coach that can turn this program around on hitting and base running. Pipper can work magic only so much and she is best focused on pitching. No more sub 300 batters.
 

twinsbballfan said:
Not sure what team you have been watching this whole season and in the past seasons. You can reread the 2022, 2021 and the 2020 forums and see a running theam that the Gophers have struggled to push runners in when we have them on base. It is a trait of a team that relies on the long ball and nothing more. Failure to build a well rounded hitting program will plague this program forever until they understand how to make it work. Maddie has been a delight to watch this season because she truly seems to find a way to make it happen even when you think she can’t. The Gophers need a few more like her to be able to make it deep into the series. Even with some of the best pitchers in the BIG10 we can’t make it happen with pitchers alone. You are not going to hold every single game to 1 to 3 runs. Time to find a hitting coach that can turn this program around on hitting and base running. Pipper can work magic only so much and she is best focused on pitching. No more sub 300 batters.
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They do need better hitting. But there are lots if successful teams with below. 300 hitters in their lineup.
 

mngolf said:
They do need better hitting. But there are lots if successful teams with below. 300 hitters in their lineup.
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Well let’s just see how many there are at the World Series this year. Cant wait to see what kind of batting average wins it all. We lost to the team with the highest average even thou we have a pitcher with a very low era. Just saying in the end the stats start to mean something..hence why they keep them.
 

twinsbballfan said:
Not sure what team you have been watching this whole season and in the past seasons. You can reread the 2022, 2021 and the 2020 forums and see a running theam that the Gophers have struggled to push runners in when we have them on base. It is a trait of a team that relies on the long ball and nothing more. Failure to build a well rounded hitting program will plague this program forever until they understand how to make it work. Maddie has been a delight to watch this season because she truly seems to find a way to make it happen even when you think she can’t. The Gophers need a few more like her to be able to make it deep into the series. Even with some of the best pitchers in the BIG10 we can’t make it happen with pitchers alone. You are not going to hold every single game to 1 to 3 runs. Time to find a hitting coach that can turn this program around on hitting and base running. Pipper can work magic only so much and she is best focused on pitching. No more sub 300 batters.
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I am a novice fan with season tickets. Annie Smith made great strides in her first year and I don’t think we need to be looking for new coaches. This season is a long way from over. The improvement of a few players over the last half the season gives me hope. With the returning players we have have for next year and the incoming recruits (plus the portal) it should be a entertaining year
 


twinsbballfan said:
Well let’s just see how many there are at the World Series this year. Cant wait to see what kind of batting average wins it all. We lost to the team with the highest average even thou we have a pitcher with a very low era. Just saying in the end the stats start to mean something..hence why they keep them.
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Every team that makes the WCWS will have at least one pitching star with at least one good backup. Not every team will be an offensive juggernaut. Wait and see. None of that matters because Oklahoma is that much better than everyone this year.

In conference play, Indiana had the 2nd best batting average and the Gophs the 3rd best. The Gophs started to gel in the last half of the year and were a pleasant surprise at the plate (to me at least). I'm looking forward to next week.
 

It’s one game. In the Ohio State series, our hard hit balls and even some of our bloops found gaps. Against Indiana, they didn’t. And if Breezy’s long fly ball is called fair, it changes the entire complexion of that game.

There’s a reason the NFL stations a referee under each goal post on FG attempts. That third base ump didn’t even run towards the foul pole to try and get the best possible look as the ball crossed the fence, so who knows whether that ball was really foul?

Kudos to Indiana though for showing they can win games even when Kern isn’t contributing.

Pease definitely won the skirmish between Pitcher of the Year and Player of the Year, even if the Gophers ultimately lost the battle to the Hoosiers.
 

Panthadad2 said:
Every team that makes the WCWS will have at least one pitching star with at least one good backup. Not every team will be an offensive juggernaut. Wait and see. None of that matters because Oklahoma is that much better than everyone this year.

In conference play, Indiana had the 2nd best batting average and the Gophs the 3rd best. The Gophs started to gel in the last half of the year and were a pleasant surprise at the plate (to me at least). I'm looking forward to next week.
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They have their moments. While good, they can be beaten as have been proven this year.
 

#2Gopher said:
They have their moments. While good, they can be beaten as have been proven this year.
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But in a double elimination tournament… they need to be beaten twice.

Oklahoma is that much better than everyone else and I fear they will be until Gasso retires.
 

ClassOf98Gopher said:
But in a double elimination tournament… they need to be beaten twice.

Oklahoma is that much better than everyone else and I fear they will be until Gasso retires.
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Or the NIL money dries up. Talking to one of the Michigan parents when they were here
Storoko is getting $100,000. If true, how much is Jordi getting
 

dlw4gophers said:
Or the NIL money dries up. Talking to one of the Michigan parents when they were here
Storoko is getting $100,000. If true, how much is Jordi getting
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OU pays their players 40k min each. They compete like the Yankees do.
 


WayOfTheGopher said:
Struggled against OSU and it carried over to this game. How does a team like Penn State get 12 hits while we only had 4 against the same pitchers? In hindsight probably should've started Hambrick.
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There could be multiple reasons why PSU hit the Indiana pitching better, umpire strike zone or maybe Copeland and Johnson weren’t as sharp Thursday as they were Friday. Either way Indiana will be a team to contend with for the next few years as the majority of their players are sophomores and freshman. On to ncaa tournament. Go gophers 〽️🐿️🥎
 




rugger14 said:
So are we going to Stanford or Washington?
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It seems Washington has been the better team lately, BUT Stanford has two aces who are more consistently difficult to score against than Washington’s. That’s really tough for a team that doesn’t get to play a three-game series against those pitchers. They can throw one each game against you like Alabama did to us in 2017.

Stanford’s offense isn’t their strong suit, but their speed puts pressure on a defense. If we go there we’d either be ready to scratch runs across and/or take advantage of every mistake their pitchers make, and hit some home runs. Their freshman ace Canady has allowed only one HR all season. It came in the third game of their series after she had already beaten Washington 2-1 in Game 1. Their other pitcher, Vawter, lost Game 2 1-0. Washington roughed both of them up in Game 3, but only after they had seen each of them a full game already.
 
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