The Fighting Illini softball dropped a 3-0 decision to Wisconsin on another rainy Saturday (April 29) afternoon at Eichelberger Field. Originally scheduled for a 1 p.m. CT start, the Illini and Badgers took the field at 2:45 p.m., to due to heavy rain overnight and earlier in the day.
With the setback, the Illini fall to 35-12 and 13-4 in the Big Ten Conference, while the Badgers move to 29-13 and 8-11 in the league.
It was a scoreless tie through five innings of action until the Badgers broke through in the top of the sixth frame as a leadoff single up the middle turned into the game-winning run on an RBI double down the left field line.