U softball hoping Senior Day victory helps case for NCAA tournament bid
Copy shortlink: By losing the first three games of a four-game series against Michigan, the Gophers saw their chance at the Big Ten softball championship disappear, with the Wolverines clinching the regular-season title Saturday at Jane Sage Cowles Stadium. That left the Gophers with two jobs for Sunday's finale: Give the program's five seniors a victory on Senior Day and bolster the team's argument for an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. Consider both tasks accomplished. Behind home runs by MaKenna Partain, Natalie DenHartog and Sydney Strelow in the first two in...