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Photo by: AJ Harrison
Border Battle Dub: UW blanks Gophers to advance in Big Ten tournament
May 11, 2022 | Softball
Schwartz leads UW to the quarterfinals with third shutout of the season
EAST LANSING, Mich. – The Wisconsin softball team is moving on to the quarterfinal round of the 2022 Big Ten Softball Tournament after blanking Minnesota, 2-0, Wednesday in the first round of the championship.Â
Maddie Schwartz earned her third shutout of the season for the Badgers (28-18), scattering three hits across seven innings of work while striking out three Golden Gophers (26-24-1).Â
The Badgers struck first thanks to some small-ball hitting in the bottom of the opening inning. Fiona Girardot and Payton Bannon each got on base with one out before Morgan Kummer scored Girardot to give UW a 1-0 lead.
In the top of the second, Bannon made a spectacular catch to keep the Gopher offense at bay.Â
The defense behind Badger pitcher Maddie Schwartz continued in the third inning as second baseman Ellie Hubbard made a diving catch in shallow center field to start a 1-2-3 third inning.Â
Wisconsin added one more run in the fifth inning off the bat of Hubbard as she hit a sacrifice fly to deep center field to score Molly Schlosser who was running at third. Schlosser entered as a pinch runner after Abby Herbst earned a pinch-hit base hit.
Closing out the seventh inning, Schwartz recorded a strikeout, a flyout and a groundout right back to herself to finish the game and sending the Badgers to the quarterfinal round.Â
Batting Cleanup
 - It marked UW's first win over Minnesota since April of 2016.Â
- Schwartz moved into a tie for fourth place in school history with her 23rd win of the season. Only Andrea Kirchburg, Cassandra Darrah and Kaitlyn Menz have posted more wins in a single-season than Schwartz.Â
-Â Morgan Kummer continued her senior campaign with a hit and RBI
 - Fiona Girardot went 2-3 on the day
Up Next:Â UW will face Big Ten champion Northwestern on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. CT live on Big Ten Network
Maddie Schwartz earned her third shutout of the season for the Badgers (28-18), scattering three hits across seven innings of work while striking out three Golden Gophers (26-24-1).Â
The Badgers struck first thanks to some small-ball hitting in the bottom of the opening inning. Fiona Girardot and Payton Bannon each got on base with one out before Morgan Kummer scored Girardot to give UW a 1-0 lead.
In the top of the second, Bannon made a spectacular catch to keep the Gopher offense at bay.Â
Absolutely no quit. 😤@BadgerSoftball x #B1GSoftball pic.twitter.com/Q1N78Zpi1K
— Wisconsin On BTN (@WisconsinOnBTN) May 11, 2022
The defense behind Badger pitcher Maddie Schwartz continued in the third inning as second baseman Ellie Hubbard made a diving catch in shallow center field to start a 1-2-3 third inning.Â
Wisconsin added one more run in the fifth inning off the bat of Hubbard as she hit a sacrifice fly to deep center field to score Molly Schlosser who was running at third. Schlosser entered as a pinch runner after Abby Herbst earned a pinch-hit base hit.
Closing out the seventh inning, Schwartz recorded a strikeout, a flyout and a groundout right back to herself to finish the game and sending the Badgers to the quarterfinal round.Â
Batting Cleanup
 - It marked UW's first win over Minnesota since April of 2016.Â
- Schwartz moved into a tie for fourth place in school history with her 23rd win of the season. Only Andrea Kirchburg, Cassandra Darrah and Kaitlyn Menz have posted more wins in a single-season than Schwartz.Â
-Â Morgan Kummer continued her senior campaign with a hit and RBI
 - Fiona Girardot went 2-3 on the day
Up Next:Â UW will face Big Ten champion Northwestern on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. CT live on Big Ten Network
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Schwartz, Maddie (23-10)
L: Autumn Pease (11-14)
Batting:
RBI: Kummer, Morgan 1 ; Hubbard, Ellie 1
SH: Sirdashney, Skylar 1
SF: Hubbard, Ellie 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Girardot, Fiona 1 ; Schlosser, Molly 1
CS: Bannon, Peyton 1
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