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Former Badgers football star Alec Ingold and basketball star Sam Dekker will be the team captains for the first-ever "Battle 4 Wisconsin" charity softball game taking place at Warner Park at 6:30 p.m. Saturday. The teams will also feature other former athletes and familiar faces.
Wisconsin is heading home, but not before playing one of the best games of the whole NCAA Tournament.
The Badgers will now play a "loser is eliminated" game against either Florida or Canisius on Saturday night.
The Gophers had just three hits in Wednesday's opening-round loss, Minnesota's first tournament shutout defeat in seven years.
Morgan Kummer and Ellie Hubbard each knocked in a run and that was more than enough for Schwartz.