Northwestern baseball shut out Rutgers for the first 20 innings of this week’s series en route to a regular season-ending sweep and a guaranteed spot in the Big Ten Tournament.
The Wildcats (24-28, 13-11 Big Ten) extended their win streak to five with the dominant home performance against the Scarlet Knights (19-34, 7-16 B1G) to finish with a positive conference record for the first time since 2010, which is also the last season in which they made the Big Ten Tournament.
Hank Christie turned in his fifth quality start in his last six appearances in Game 1 of Saturday’s doubleheader, blanking the Scarlet Knights while allowing just five hits and no walks to go with four strikeouts.