The second day of Big Ten Softball Tournament action is in the books, setting up what appears to be an exciting semifinal round on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n
After two double-digit seeds advanced to the quarterfinals on Wednesday, the trend of upsets continued to start Thursday\u2019s slate. 8-seed Indiana upset top-seeded Northwestern 4-3 to become the first team to claim a spot in the semifinals after the Wildcats walked in a couple of runs in the fifth to take a three-run lead. <\/p>\n
Despite a chance to win in the bottom of the seventh, the Hoosiers escaped with a one-run victory. <\/p>\n
The second game of the day went a bit different. 4-seed Nebraska finished off 10-seed Minnesota in five innings. Minnesota hit a lead-off home run off the first pitch of the game, but it was all Nebraska from there. In the final three innings, the Huskers would outscore the Golden Gophers 9-1, including four runs in the fifth to end the game early. <\/p>\n
Another mercy rule five-inning game would follow in game three \u2014 but this one was as improbable as they come. 2-seed Michigan and 10-seed Maryland played four and a half innings of rainy, scoreless softball before everything that could go wrong for the Terrapin, did. <\/p>\n
The Wolverines would score 10 runs \u2014 capped by a walk-off grand slam by Avery Fantucci \u2014 in the fifth to close the Huskers out. <\/p>\n
Upsets continued with the late game, seeing 11-seed Wisconsin will its way past 3-seed Rutgers 7-3 thanks to a four-run fifth inning that would end up being too much for the Scarlet Knights to come back from to round out a must-watch semifinal field. <\/p>\n
1st Round\u2013Wednesday, May 8<\/strong><\/p>\n Game 1<\/strong>: No. 8 Indiana<\/a><\/strong> 6, No. 9 Purdue<\/a><\/strong> 3 Quarterfinals\u2013Thursday, May 9th<\/strong><\/p>\n Game 5:<\/strong> No. 8 Indiana 4, No. 1 Northwestern<\/a><\/strong> 3 Semifinals\u2013Friday, May 10th<\/strong><\/p>\n Game 9: <\/strong>No. 8 Indiana vs. No. 4 Nebraska \u2014 4:00 PM on BTN Championship\u2013Saturday, May 11th<\/strong><\/p>\n Game 11:<\/strong> Winner of Game 9 vs. Game 10 \u2014 3:00 PM on BTN<\/p>\n Please note\u2013all television times listed are Central Standard Time and are subject to change<\/strong>. <\/p>\n Big Ten Network Games are also available on the FOX Sports app. For more information, please visit the Big Ten Tournament website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Day 2 Big Ten Softball Tournament results, updated bracket<\/a> appeared first on On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The second day of Big Ten Softball Tournament action is in the books, setting up…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51151,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51138\/revisions\/51151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Game 2:<\/strong> No. 5 Minnesota<\/a><\/strong> 10, No. 12 Illinois<\/a><\/strong> 7
Game 3:<\/strong> No. 7 Penn State<\/a><\/strong> 1, No. 10 Maryland<\/a><\/strong> 3
Game 4:<\/strong> No. 6 Ohio State<\/a><\/strong> 1, No. 11 Wisconsin<\/a><\/strong> 5<\/p>\n
Game 6:<\/strong> No. 4 Nebraska<\/a><\/strong> 11, No. 5 Minnesota 2 (Final\/5)
Game 7: <\/strong>No. 2 Michigan<\/a><\/strong> 10, No. 10 Maryland 0
Game 8:<\/strong> No. 11 Wisconsin 7, No. 3 Rutgers<\/a><\/strong> 3<\/p>\n
Game 10:<\/strong> No. 2 Michigan vs. No. 11 Wisconsin \u2014 6:30 PM on BTN<\/p>\n