Gopher Softball - 2016

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It's hard to believe that the Gophers did not have a POTW all of last B1G season.

Their last one before this week was February 15, 2015.
 

Ski U Mah Gopher said:
It's hard to believe that the Gophers did not have a POTW all of last B1G season.

Their last one before this week was February 15, 2015.
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I agree.

B1G Standings
Minnesota 3-0 22-9
Ohio State 3-0 18-7
Indiana 3-0 20-10
Penn State 3-0 14-14
Michigan 2-1 24-3
Illinois 2-1 21-10
Wisconsin 2-1 16-12
Nebraska 1-2 19-11
Michigan State 1-2 18-14
Northwestern 1-2 10-18
Purdue 0-3 18-14
Rutgers 0-3 15-19
Iowa 0-3 8-19
Maryland 0-3 7-23

RPI (Teams in bold are conference opponents for this season. All series are 3 games except for Wisconsin. The Badgers are a mid week double header.)
Michigan 1
Minnesota 20
Nebraska 24
Ohio State 35
Illinois 39
Indiana 52
Purdue 56
Wisconsin 61
Northwestern 65
Michigan State 81
Penn State 143
Rutgers 146
Iowa 174
Maryland 223
 


Gophers travel to Evanston, Illinois tomorrow (3 PM) to take on the Northwestern Wildcats (1-2, 10-18) in a 3 game series. Wildcats are led by shortstop Andrea Filler. She leads the club in average, doubles, home runs, triples, RBI's. She bats third in the lineup. Amy Letourneau has started 13 times for them in the circle and made a total of 21 appearances. She has thrown 80.2 innings and given up 86 hits, 48 strikeouts and 36 walks.

Northwestern has lost 5 of their last 6, but 2 of those losses were to Michigan. Gophers are on a 5 game win streak.
 

fan of Ray Williams said:
Gophers travel to Evanston, Illinois tomorrow (3 PM) to take on the Northwestern Wildcats (1-2, 10-18) in a 3 game series. Wildcats are led by shortstop Andrea Filler. She leads the club in average, doubles, home runs, triples, RBI's. She bats third in the lineup. Amy Letourneau has started 13 times for them in the circle and made a total of 21 appearances. She has thrown 80.2 innings and given up 86 hits, 48 strikeouts and 36 walks.

Northwestern has lost 5 of their last 6, but 2 of those losses were to Michigan. Gophers are on a 5 game win streak.
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The game they won vs Michigan, they put up 13 runs.
 


Gophers in a squeaker over Northwestern, 16-0 in 5 innings. Groenewegen and Wenner with two run first inning home runs. Dwyer with a second inning grand slam. LeMay with a three run homer in the fourth inning.
Allister tweaked the batting order once again for this game, swapping Houlihan and Groenewegen. Can't knock the results. Stober came in and threw a perfect 5th inning.
Tomorrow's game is moved to Sunday.
 

B1G Results for Friday

Minnesota stays unbeaten in conference play with a 16-0 win over Northwestern.
Ohio State suffers it's first conference loss to Wisconsin 6-5.
Indiana also fell from the unbeaten ranks losing to Michigan 11-5.
Penn State kept pace with Minnesota by beating Michigan State 7-2.
Bottom feeder Maryland grabbed a 7-4 victory over a faltering Nebraska squad.
Purdue broke through with a 6-4 defeat of hapless Iowa.
Illinois shut out lowly Rutgers 8-0.

B1G Results for Saturday

Michigan over Indiana 8-0. Hutchins won #1,458 to become the winningest NCAA softball coach of all time.
Nebraska beat Maryland 14-2.
Rutgers defeated Illinois 10-5.
Purdue victorious over Iowa 8-7.
Penn State remains undefeated with a 8-6 win over Michigan State.
 

Gophers split with NW today. Won Game 1 8-4 and lost game 2 10-2.
 

B1G Standings

Penn State 6-0
Michigan 5-1
Minnesota 5-1
Ohio State 4-1
Wisconsin 3-2
Illinois 3-3
Nebraska 3-3
Indiana 3-3
Purdue 2-4
Rutgers 2-4
Northwestern 2-4
Michigan State 1-5
Iowa 1-5
Maryland 1-5

Gophers are at home against Illinois on Friday. The Illini are 22-12 overall and are coming off two straight losses to Rutgers after winning the opening game of the series.
 



RPI for B1G Teams

Michigan 1 (Also ranked #1 in latest poll)
Minnesota 22 (Ranked #22 in latest poll)
Nebraska 34
Ohio State 40 (Ranked #24 in ESPN/USA Softball poll)
Illinois 43
Indiana 46
Northwestern 52
Purdue 69
Wisconsin 71
Michigan State 96
Penn State 97
Rutgers 119
Iowa 169
Maryland 211
 

Can someone explain why we don't have one other pitcher that can go 2 innings without double digit runs against? SG isn't enough to win a regional on her own. We need someone to step up, but I don't think there is anyone on the team who can. That is going to hold us back this year. What happened to recruiting?
 

There is a softball game at the same time as the Spring football game. It would be nice if it could be scheduled later. Have a softball game at 3, and you might get people coming over from the Spring game.

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B1G Results from Friday (4-8-16)

Ohio State 17 Rutgers 8
Penn State 13 Indiana 3
Michigan State 12 Maryland 3
Nebraska 1 Michigan 0
Illinois-Minnesota postponed
Iowa-Northwestern postponed
Purdue-Wisconsin postponed
 



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Gophers knock the Illini starter out of the circle in the 1st inning. Minnesota has a 9-0 lead going into the 2nd inning.
Stober into the circle for Groenewegen to start the 3rd. Score still at 9-0.
Houlihan with a bases loaded home run to extend the Gophers lead to 13-0 in the bottom of the 4th.
Gophers take the first game 13-0 in 5 innings. Big knocks were Palkovich with a 2 run triple, Dwyer with a 2 run home run, Parlich with a 2 run triple, all in the first inning. Houlihan with the grand slam in the fourth inning.
Groenewegen with 2 innings of no hit pitching, followed by Stober with 3 shut out innings giving up 2 hits and 1 walk.

Game 2 Gronewegen started, ran into trouble in the top of the 4th. Left with 2 outs and the bases loaded. Anderson came in to record the 3rd out. Tied at 2 each into the bottom of the 4th.
Macken and Groenewegen homered in the bottom of the 5th to make it a 4-2 game.
Anderson escapes the 6th with no damage after a 2 out single, followed by a double. Got the next hitter to pop up.
Dwyer with a 2 run homer to make it 6-2 in the bottom of the 6th.
Illini get 1 run so far in the 7th. Have the tying run at the plate with 1 out and runners on the corners.
Gophers get an out as the run scores. 2 outs, runner on 2nd, 6-4.
Stober in for Anderson. Stober walks the first batter she faces to put the go ahead run at the plate.
2 wild pitches and Illinois scores to make it 6-5.
And that does it as the final hitter grounds out to SS.
Gophers take both ends of the the doubleheader.
 

Way to gut out the second win. First game went so easy (9 run first) and 2nd game was sketchy. Good teams still figure out how to win, as we did. Finish them off tomorrow, ladies!
 

B1G results today

Michigan State - Maryland postponed.
Wisconsin 9-5 over Purdue. Second game, Purdue 5-4 over Wisconsin
Northwestern 13-9 over Iowa. Second game, Northwestern 6-5 over Iowa.
Michigan 4-1 over Nebraska.
Penn State 15-7 over Indiana.
Ohio State winning 5-3 over Rutgers. (Game suspended)
Minnesota 13-0 over Illinois. Second game Minnesota 6-5 over Illinois.
 

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Allister tweaking things a little for this series with Wagner making her third straight start in the field at shortstop.
Gophers up 2-0 in the bottom of the 3rd. Macken led the game off with a dinger.
Macken adds a triple to the home run, finished with 3 RBI'S.
Minnesota get a series sweep with a 6-2 victory today.
Groenewegen with 9 strikeouts, 3 hits allowed, 1 walk and 2 hit by pitch.
Gophers error free for the 4th straight game.
 

B1G results today (Sunday)

Ohio State over Rutgers 11-9. Ohio State over Rutgers 10-0.
Indiana over Penn State 11-2.
Maryland over Michigan State 10-2. Maryland over Michigan State 9-8.
Michigan over Nebraska 8-6.
Northwestern over Iowa 9-5.
Purdue over Wisconsin 3-2.
Minnesota over Illinois 6-2.

Conference standings

Minnesota 8-1
Ohio State 9-1-1
Michigan 7-2
Penn State 8-3
Northwestern 5-4
Nebraska 6-5
Wisconsin 4-4-1
Indiana 5-6
Purdue 5-6
Illinois 3-6
Maryland 3-6
Michigan State 2-7
Rutgers 2-7
Iowa 1-10

Teams in bold are remaining opponents.
 

We sure play the crappy teams this year. I can't believe how bad our Big Ten Schedule is. Better win it this year ladies...
 

Real bad performance in the first game against Becky. Lose 6-3. Several throwing errors and Sarah was in la-la
land . Becky got 10 hits. First lost at home in 12 B1G games. Second coming up on the BTN.
 

Becky leading in the second game 5-1 in the top of the 6th
Ladies playing like total cap against a very average Becky team.
 



B1G standings after yesterday's disappointing double header loss to the Badgers

Ohio State 9-1-1
Michigan 8-2
Minnesota 8-3
Penn State 8-3
Wisconsin 6-4-1
Northwestern 5-4
Nebraska 6-5
Purdue 5-6
Indiana 5-6
Illinois 3-6
Maryland 3-6
Rutgers 2-7
Michigan State 2-8
Iowa 1-10
 

Major dump. They had a nice path to the regular season championship.
 

Well, have to agree with Ruppert and Beavergopher.

Gophers travel to Rutgers.
First place Ohio State and second place Michigan go at it on the Wolverine's field.
Penn State, tied with the Gophers for third place, hosts Maryland.
Nebraska is at Northwestern.
Indiana is at Michigan State.
Illinois is at Purdue.
Wisconsin is at Iowa.
 

Gophers put 5 runs up in the top of the first inning. Palkovich with a 3 run homer.
Stober replaces Groenewegen with 2 outs in the sixth inning and the Gophers up 7-0. No runners on.
Gophers win 7-1.

Michigan shuts out Ohio State 8-0.
Michigan State beat Indiana 6-2.
Nebraska beat Northwestern 4-3.
Penn State beat Maryland 9-6.
Wisconsin beat Iowa 5-4.
Illinois beat Purdue 4-0.
 

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Allister decides to go with Anderson in the circle to start the second game against Rutgers.
Side note: Man, the Rutgers softball complex is (what's the word?), underwhelming.
Gophers grab a 3-0 lead on a Palkovich bases clearing double in the first inning.
Minnesota gets the win, 8-0 in six innings. Nikki Anderson goes all the way giving up just 4 hits. Macken and Groenewegen hit home runs.
With the understanding that Rutgers isn't a good squad, Anderson sure can turn in some performances that get you thinking how good she can be at times. Really a riddle.

Michigan beat Ohio State today, 5-1. (Thinking that double header loss to Wisconsin is going to loom larger and larger as the season winds down.)
Michigan State over Indiana 6-2.
Nebraska beat Northwestern 8-1.
Iowa beat Wisconsin 5-2.
Purdue beat Illinois 1-0.
Penn State beat Maryland 4-0.
 


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Wagner back at shortstop. Allister has been doing this the last couple series when Groenewegen throws.
Absolutely need a sweep in this series to keep any chance of conference season title in play.
Groenewegen launched a rocket over the left field fence to give the Gophers a 1-0 lead in the top of the second.
Macken hits a 3 run homer in the second inning to make it 5-0.
Parlich follows Macken with a solo home run to make it 6-0.
Allister sends Anderson to the rubber to throw the bottom of the fourth with Minnesota up 8-0.
Taylor Chell hit a 2 run pinch hit home run in the fifth inning. Gophers end up winning 11-1.

Illinois beat Purdue 10-6.
Indiana beat Michigan State 2-1.
Michigan beat Ohio State 5-3.
Nebraska beat Northwestern 11-9.
Penn State beat Maryland 5-3.
Wisconsin beat Iowa 3-1.
 

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