The Gophers baseball team lost to Texas 5-4 in 10 innings Saturday in a nonconference game at the Metrodome. The Longhorns (13-9) scored the winning run on a walk and two singles.
Catcher Kurt Schlangen was 4-for-5 with an RBI and two runs scored for the Gophers (14-10), and first baseman Dan Olinger was 2-for-5 with a run scored. Ben Meyer pitched the first five innings for the Gophers and gave up four earned runs. Billy Soule, the second of three relievers, took the loss.
U sweeps in softball
The Gophers beat Iowa 7-3 and 10-1 in a softball doubleheader in Iowa City. Sara Moulton went the distance for the Gophers (20-10, 3-0 Big Ten), scattering nine hits but giving up only one earned run. Kari Dorle, her catcher, went 2-for-3 with a three-RBI double in the fourth inning. Leadoff hitter Tyler Walker was 2-for-4 with two runs scored.
Maddie Eckstrom led the Gophers in the second game with three RBI while Walker was 2-for-4 with two RBI and two runs.
Iowa (19-11, 0-3) stranded 12 runners in the doubleheader.
U third in gym meet
The Gophers gymnastics team, which was the regular-season conference co-champion with Michigan, placed third in the Big Ten Conference meet in East Lansing, Mich.
Nebraska won the meet for the second consecutive year with a score of 197.800, followed by Michigan (197.225). Freshman Lindsay Mable led the third-place Gophers (196.775). She was part of a five-way tie for first on the balance beam (9.950).
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• Senior Haley Spencer of the Gophers finished second in the 200-meter breaststroke (2:06.15) in the NCAA women's swimming and diving meet in Indianapolis. Minnesota finished 10th as team.
