The Minnesota Golden Gophers softball team will close out the Big Ten regular season this weekend with their toughest task of the conference season. The #13/8 Gophers will host the #19/14 Northwestern Wildcats in a three game series at Jane Sage Cowles stadium with the Big Ten title on the line for both teams. It is still very possible that neither team will win the conference and the Michigan Wolverines will steal the title away from both schools. All in all it should be a crazy weekend of Big Ten softball.
Minnesota comes into the weekend off of a three game sweep of Iowa last weekend that saw ace pitcher Amber Fiser earn her fifth Big Ten Pitcher of the Week award on the season, and her third consecutive award.