MEN’S COLLEGE HOCKEY:

--St. Cloud State won the first game in their best-of-three NCHC playoff series against Western Michigan 5-2. The game was pretty close early on as SCSU would take the early lead in the first period on a goal by Jack Rogers. The Huskies would increase the lead to 2-0 in the 2^nd period on a goal by Tyson Gross. They would hold the 2-0 lead into the third where the scoring picked up. Veeti Miettinen increased the lead to 3-0 for St. Cloud before the Broncos would score twice to cut the lead to 3-2. St. Cloud would respond with two more goals of their own by Mason Salquist, and Josh Luedtke to get to the final 5-2 score. The Huskies look to advance on Saturday with a win, if not the two teams will play again on Sunday.

JUNIOR HOCKEY:

-- The Granite City Lumberjacks defeated the Rochester Grizzlies 3-2 in their best-of-three series. The Jacks got goals from Sam Brennen, Connor Miller, and Nolan Widman. Game 2 is on Saturday with a game 3 on Sunday if necessary.

COLLEGE SOFTBALL

--St. Cloud State lost to Missouri 3-1 on Friday. The game was scoreless through 5-1/2 innings before Missouri would put up all three of their runs in the bottom of the 6^th on four hits. SCSU would score their run in the top of the 7^th on an RBI by Maggie Fitzgerald. The Huskies will continue in the Crossover Challenge today with two games against Central Oklahoma.

--The University of Minnesota lost both ends of their doubleheader on Friday. The Gophers fell 5-4 to Boston University in game 1. Minnesota would take a 2-1 lead in the 6^th but Boston would rally for the win. Taylor Krapf led the Gophers in game one going 1-2 with a double and three RBI. In game two Michigan State would take down Minnesota by the same 5-4 score.  Again the Gophers had a lead going up 3-0 in the 3rd thanks to Kayla Chavez's three-run HR.  They would add another run in the 6th to go up 4-0.  The Spartans would score 5 times in the bottom of the 7^th to steal the win from the U. Bri Enter gave up 2 runs in 1/3 of an inning pitched in the 7^th to take the loss.

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COLLEGE BASEBALL

--The Huskies baseball team split a doubleheader with Augustana on Friday.  The Vikings took the first game 6-1. SCSU would rebound to take the second game 11-10. The Huskies were led by Drew Breier and Noah Dehne with have 3 RBI each. Up next for St. Cloud State is Minnesota State University-Mankato on March 22^nd.

--The Gophers lost a close one to Elon on Friday 2-1 in 10 innings. Brady Counsell had a good day at the plate going 3-6 with Minnesota’s only RBI.  The Gophers scored in the 2^nd and made the one-run hold until the 9^th inning. Elon tied the game in the 9^th and then pushed the game-winner across in the 10^th to steal the victory. Tucker Novotny was stellar for the U throwing 6.2 innings of shutout ball with two strikeouts and two walks. Seth Clausen took the loss giving up the run in the 10^th.

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