Lucas Gilbreath gave up only two runs and three hits in 6â…“ innings and Toby Hanson hit a three-run homer as the Gophers edged Illinois 5-4 on Friday in Big Ten baseball at Siebert Field.

Gilbreath struck out seven and walked three for Minnesota (25-12, 9-4 Big Ten), improving to 5-0. Brian Glowicki gave up two unearned runs in the ninth but got his 15th save to tie the program single-season record.

Hanson, a junior first baseman, was 2-for-4 against the Illini (16-23, 3-10). The homer was his fourth of the season and he also had a run-scoring single giving him a team-high 35 RBI.

Matt Stemper drove in the Gophers' fifth run with a single in the seventh inning, putting Minnesota ahead 5-2.

The Gophers and the Illini will play a doubleheader Saturday starting at 1 p.m.

LB commits to U

The Gophers got their 13th verbal commitment for the recruiting class of 2018 on Friday night when Mariano Sori-Marin, a linebacker from New Lenox (Ill.) Providence Catholic, announced he was picking Minnesota.

The 6-3, 227-pound Sori-Marin had reported offers from Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Brown and Penn, among others.

Sori-Marin is rated as a three-star recruit by 247Sports.

JOE CHRISTENSEN

U golfer in second

Thomas Longbella, a freshman from Chippewa Falls, Wis., shot a 4-under 66 and is in second place after the first round of the Big Ten men's golf tournament at the Baltimore Country Club.

He trails leader Dylan Meyer of Illinois by three shots. The Illini also are in first place in the team race with a 269 score, 14 strokes ahead of Ohio State. The Gophers are seventh with a 291 total.

Etc.

• The Lynx waived Miami forward Keyona Hayes. Signed April 19, Hayes averaged 10.3 points and 6.1 rebounds for Miami in her senior season.

• Top-seeded Ohio State defeated the Gophers 4-0 in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten men's tennis tournament in West Lafayette, Ind. Minnesota finishes the season 17-10.

• Jordan Charles of the Gophers finished third in the triple jump (49-1½) at the Drake Relays. Minnesota's 4x400 relay had the second-fastest time in the preliminaries.

• Hannah Tapp, a former middle blocker for the Gophers volleyball team, helped SSC Palmberg Schwerin recently win its first German women's volleyball title in four years by sweeping Alliance MTV Stuttgart.