Despite scoring 12 runs and getting 21 hits, the Gophers baseball team's 12-game winning streak came to an end.
Indiana outslugged Minnesota 13-12 on Saturday afternoon in Big Ten baseball, scoring nine runs in the fifth when the Hoosiers hit a grand slam and a two-run homer.
Alex Boxwell led off the game with a homer for the Gophers (21-9, 7-1 Big Ten), and Matt Stemper and Jordan Kozicky had two-run homers in the fourth.
Minnesota scored in six of the first seven innings, and got three runs in the seventh — on Micah Coffey's RBI double and run-scoring singles by Stemper and Kozicky — to pull within one.
Coyotes sign UMD goalie
Freshman goalie Hunter Miska of Minnesota Duluth signed an entry-level contract with the Arizona Coyotes, the NHL team announced Saturday. Miska, 21, led the Bulldogs to the Frozen Four championship game this season. He was 27-5-5 with a 2.20 goals-against average.
"Hunter was one of the top goalies in the NCAA last year," Coyotes General Manager John Chayka said, "and he was highly coveted by numerous NHL teams."
U softball wins squeaker
After trailing 2-0, the Gophers rallied to edge Northwestern 3-2 on Saturday in Big Ten softball on solo home runs by Danielle Parlich and Sydney Dwyer and a tiebreaking run in the bottom of the fifth inning without a hit.
Allie Arneson led off the fifth with a walk, moved to second on an error, to third on a wild pitch and scored on a fielder's choice, sliding in safely under the tag.