VCavman24

April 12th, 2014 at 7:57 PM ^

Also women's tennis beat Minnesota 7-0 and women's lacrosse beat Cal 13-12 in double overtime.  Cal has had a team since 1999, so that's certainly a big win for a first year team!

Wolverine Devotee

April 12th, 2014 at 8:02 PM ^

Women's Lacrosse's second-ever win.

Both wins this season have come in 2OT, by scores of 13-12, against california schools from the MPSF.

Also, the game-winning goals for both games were scored with 1:0X left.

Michigan had a hat trick of hat tricks today--Korten and Angerman (GWG) had 4 and Schueler had 3.

ThadMattasagoblin

April 12th, 2014 at 8:00 PM ^

We need to be in the top 6 to get into the Big ten tournament and we lost 3 straight games before today. We still play Purdue and Northwestern who are the two worst teams so we have a opportunity to make up ground later on but getting the win today was a plus.

modabomb

April 12th, 2014 at 9:44 PM ^

We need to be in the top 8 to make it to the Big Ten tourney. It used to be 6, but they changed it this year in anticipation of Maryland and Rutgers joining the conference I believe. So, not exactly a "crucial" game but the middle of the conference is still tightly contested so every game counts.

Source: http://www.bigten.org/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/020714aaa.html

ThadMattasagoblin

April 12th, 2014 at 8:50 PM ^

They were pretty consistent 7-8 years ago. They beat David Price and the # 1 overall seed Vanderbilt Commodores to get to the Super Regionals. They then hosted the NCAA Regionals the next year.

Raoul

April 12th, 2014 at 10:22 PM ^

The 17 runs were more than they scored in their last five games combined. We'll see if this is the start of a more positive hitting trend, or if it was a one-game aberration, aided by a very strong breeze blowing straight out.

Jacob Cronenworth hit his first two home runs of the season, and some of the freshmen had some notable performances: Carmen Benedetti went 3-for-4, with 3 doubles and 4 RBIs, and Johnny Slater went 4-for-6, knocked in 2, and scored twice.

Also of note was that Jackson Lamb made his first appearance on the mound as a Wolverine, setting down the side in order in the ninth.

The full recap is here.

MGoGrendel

April 13th, 2014 at 9:02 AM ^

until April. We started playing baseball here in Atlanta the first week of February and play until November (three seasons).



There a lot of competitive kids leagues in the South. At 6, the travel teams start up and go to a "World Series" between teams from several states. Kind of silly since it's coach pitch, but they are very serious about winning.



SEC Baseball is big, too, which makes it a big draw for the best players. Same for other southern conferences.

Vote_Crisler_1937

April 12th, 2014 at 11:03 PM ^

Illinois is in Tornado Alley. The wind blows strong in the spring and when it blows out there can be a lot of offense generated. M was able to better take advantage today. Illinois, Penn State, maybe a few others (Iowa?) are fields that get strong winds blowing out. Northwestern OTOH almost always has a strong wind blowing in which makes extra base hits much more difficult to come by. MSU used to (still?) have a ridiculously short right field fence. These things all make a big impact on games.