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Love to joke about Minnesota, love to agitate Gophers football fans, never got into devouring hockey, but I wouldn t pay taxes anywhere else.
Bud Grant, Jerry Burns and Page, Marshall and Eller. Tony Oliva, Kirby Puckett, Tom Kelly and Gene Mauch. Clem Haskins, Willie Burton and Bobby Jackson. Glen Sonmor, Lou Nanne and Henry Boucha.
Natalie Darwitz, Krissy Wendell and Lindsay Whalen. Maya Moore, Samantha Seliger-Swenson and Amber Fiser.
And on and on. A sportswriter has been blessed with rich material in Minnesota.
Championships? Few enough to appreciate them.
Those four Super Bowl losses the last of which has been fermenting since January 1977 remain our badge of honor. If you can t laugh about Gary Anderson, Blair Walsh and short-tempered Mike Zimmer cutting one of the NFL s best kickers, Daniel Carlson, after two games, you re not trying.
Gophers softball team sweeps Big Ten leader Northwestern The Gophers have the most victories in the Big Ten at 19.
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The Gophers softball team won both ends of a doubleheader Sunday to complete an impressive four-game road sweep against host Northwestern, which entered the series in first place in the Big Ten with an 18-2 record.
Minnesota won the first game 2-1 in eight innings and the second game 10-4. The Gophers improved to 19-5, just percentage points behind first-place Michigan (16-4). Northwestern (18-6) fell to third place.
Eleven of the Gophers 12 runs on Sunday came by way of home runs, and two of the five blasts were provided by pinch-hitters Delanie Cox, a sophomore, and Chloe Evans, a freshman. Both were their first career hits as Gophers, and one was a game-winner.
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Sydney Strelow s single in the top of the 10th inning drove in the winning run as the Gophers edged No. 22 Northwestern 3-2 on Friday in Evanston, Ill., in Big Ten softball.
Amber Fiser pitched nine innings, threw 156 pitches and got the win; she is 8-4. The fifth-year righthander gave up two runs and six hits and struck out 12 for Minnesota (16-5).
Autumn Pease pitched the 10th for her fourth save this season. The conference-leading Wildcats (18-3) scored two runs in the sixth to tie it.
Natalie DenHartog hit her seventh homer for the Gophers in the third inning, and MaKenna Partain hit her first in the fifth.
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Minnesota softball outlasts Purdue in pitching duel
In another pitching-dominated duel, the Purdue softball team dropped a narrow 2-1 decision to Minnesota in the series finale Sunday.
Posted: Apr 4, 2021 9:44 PM
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (Purdue Sports) In another pitching-dominated duel, the Purdue softball team dropped a narrow 2-1 decision to Minnesota in the series finale Sunday. The Boilermakers put the tying run on second with one out in the seventh but could not drive it in.
Hits came at a premium against the two pitching staff with just five base knocks total for the game, topped by Purdue 3-2.