Jesse Diggins positioned 18th within the basic dash in Falun, Sweden, on Friday, kicking off the ultimate weekend of the World Cup cross-country ski season.
The Afton native nonetheless leads the general standings, however Sweden’s Lynn Svern got here in second, transferring inside 41 factors of Diggins.
The season concludes with a 10km particular person begin basic on Saturday and a 20km freestyle mass begin on Sunday.
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MSU Mankato Roll-In Opener
Destiny Bursch scored 19 factors, Natalie Bremer added 18 and the seventh-seeded Minnesota State Mankato ladies’s basketball group defeated second-seeded Missouri Western 78-58 in Bethany, Okla., within the NCAA Division II Central The regional event has begun.
Minnesota State Mankato will play No. 3 seed Fort Hays State within the second spherical on Saturday.
The Mavericks (27-5) went on a 15-0 run within the first quarter to take a 26-6 lead after the interval and by no means regarded again from there. Both groups dedicated 25 turnovers, however the Mavericks scored 29 factors off turnovers to Missouri Western’s (25-6) 4 factors.
• The males’s Central Region event begins Saturday in Mankato, with host Minnesota State University as the highest seed and one in every of Minnesota’s 4 NSIC colleges within the discipline. Duluth, Minnesota performs Fort Hays State at midday, adopted by video games in opposition to Northwestern Missouri State vs. Southwest Minnesota State, MSU Mankato vs. Arkansas Tech and MSU-Moorhead State vs. Pittsburgh State.
PWHL Minnesota performs New York
PWHL Minnesota, who holds a three-way tie for first place within the inaugural ladies’s hockey league, will search for its fourth straight win when it faces New York on Saturday at Xcel Energy Center.
Minnesota has received its final two video games in opposition to last-place New York State after dropping 3-2 at dwelling in time beyond regulation of their first assembly on Jan. 14.
The different first-place groups are Toronto and Montreal, who will play one another on Sunday.
Busniuk dies at age 75
Ron Vasniuk, an All-America defenseman with Minnesota Duluth who spent eight seasons within the NHL and World Hockey Association, died on March 8 in his hometown of Thunder Bay, Ontario. He was 75 years previous.
Basniuk performed two seasons (1974-76) with the WHA’s Minnesota Fighting Saints and in addition skated with the WHA’s Edmonton Oilers and Hartford Whalers, and the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres.
He was an All-America participant with the Bulldogs in 1969-1970. Survivors embody his spouse of 52 years, Paula; And his older brother Mike can be a former NHL participant.
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• Shane Paladin hit a solo dwelling run within the ninth inning to tie the rating and hit the go-ahead run within the tenth inning to guide host Elon to a 2-1 victory over the Gophers baseball group. Brady Counsell had 3 hits and 1 RBI for the Gophers (7-8). Gophers starter Tucker Novotny pitched 6/3 shutout innings.
• The Gophers softball group suffered two losses, dropping by a rating of 5-4 to Boston University and Michigan State University in Columbia, South Carolina. In Game 1, the Gophers (13-11) led No. 24 BU 2-1 after 5 innings, however couldn’t maintain on. In the second, the Gophers led 4-0 going into the underside of the seventh inning, however the Spartans scored 5 runs for a walk-off victory.
• Gophers sophomore golfer Isabella McCauley shot a 68 at Mountain View College in Tucson, Ariz., and is in a three-way tie for second place, one stroke behind South Florida’s Melanie Green. The Gophers are thirteenth out of 15 groups, 20 pictures behind first-place South Florida.