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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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LEESBURG, Fla. – Ohio State and No. 22 Minnesota played 18 innings of softball on Saturday over the course of six hours and when it ended, the Buckeyes and Gophers had split a doubleheader in Leesburg, Fla. Ohio State is 2-2 on the year and closes out in opening-weekend with two games tomorrow vs. Nebraska (3:30 p.m. and 6:15 p.m.).
The first game of the day featured an 11-inning marathon that resulted in a 2-1 Ohio State win. Senior Payton Buresch went 10.1 innings without giving up an earned run and Kaitlyn Coffman plated what proved to be the winning run on a RBI double in the top of the 11th. Freshman Allison Smith closed out the game with the first save of her young career.
Emily Hansen carries a Christmas tree for a customer at the rodeo lot tree sale in Snowmass Village on Monday, Dec. 7, 2020. Hansen and her crew are from Moab and she’s been working for the Great Frasier Fir Co. for six years. This year is different with COVID-19. The demand for Christmas trees are up. By day four, the team had sold half of their inventory.
You’ve probably seen the headlines: there’s a national Christmas tree shortage this year, with trickle down effects from a low supply of fresh-cut firs from coast to coast.
But a lack of trees in Aspen? Well, sort of.