Anchor Elizabeth Yetzer blew past Iowa's Lauren Hardesty down the stretch, giving the Gophers the title in the women's 4x1600 relay for the fifth time in six years on Thursday at the Drake Relays in Des Moines.
The Gophers finished in 19:06.52 and beat the Hawkeyes by 11 seconds. It marked the fourth consecutive victory at Drake for Yetzer, who redshirted in 2008 when Baylor took the event. "It's just a huge privilege," Yetzer said.
More Gophers news• The third-seeded men's tennis team will play sixth-seeded Wisconsin on Friday in the second round of the Big Ten tournament in Madison, Wis. The Gophers had a first-round bye on Thursday, while the Badgers defeated No. 11 Penn State 4-1.
• The eighth-seeded women's tennis team advanced to the second round of the Big Ten tournament in Ann Arbor, Mich., with a 4-2 victory over ninth-seeded Iowa.
• Senior pole vaulter Ben Peterson was named the Big Ten field event athlete of the week.
Etc. Maggie Leland, the Class 3A girls' golf champion last year in Minnesota, was named NSIC newcomer of the year. As a freshman at Augustana, Leland had the lowest stroke average in the NSIC (77.1). She went to Alexandria High School.
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