MSU wrestling finishes season with three All-Americans
MSU wrestling finishes season with three All-Americans By Rob Clark | March 15, 2021 at 6:26 PM CDT - Updated March 15 at 7:14 PM
MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) - The MSU wrestling team sent three wrestlers to the NCAA Division II Championships over the weekend for a very successful business trip down to St. Louis, Missouri for the Mavericks.
MSU leaves with three All-Americans including a national runner-up.
At 174 pounds, junior Trevor Turriff capped off his season by competing in the championship match. Turriff fell 8-2 to Abner Romero of Lindenwood finishing as the runner-up in his weight class.
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Bethany Hasz, a redshirt senior from Alexandria, Minn., finished second in the women s 5,000-meter run on Friday in NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Fayetteville, Ark., with a time of 15 minutes, 49.62 seconds. She was in the back of the lead pack, roughly in ninth place, until making a late charge in the final 400 meters.
Alec Basten of the Gophers finished seventh in the men s 5,000-meter run in 13:32.98 a personal best by more than 12 seconds.
His time broke a nine-year program indoor record held by Hassan Mead (13:33.42).
U baseball falls in 10
Illinois scored five runs in the top of the 10th inning to beat the Gophers 6-1 in Big Ten baseball at U.S. Bank Stadium. Minnesota starter Sam Ireland pitched 7⅓ innings, giving up one run on a homer in the seventh and five hits. The Gophers (1-4) scored an unearned run in the seventh.
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