Game of firsts...Freshman Henry Kaczmar connected for his first collegiate home run (above) in the eighth, starting pitcher Gavin Bruni collected his first collegiate win, and the Buckeyes nailed down their first conference in in 2023 with Saturday's 6-2 win over the Minnesota Golden Gophers. Read more about the game.

In the span of just two hitters, a masterful shutout effort by Isaiah Coupet came undone in the top of the ninth, as the Minnesota Gophers hit back to back homers (Weber Neels, above) on their way to a 3-2 win in the Friday opener.

The Buckeyes come home to recoup, and regroup, from a disappointing league opening road trip to Bloomington...a reader questions about where's the team we wrote about in February...and how can Minnesota be 5-19 after all those great players and all those great years?

Ryan Day makes Saturday's practice and scrimmage about winners and losers. And if keeping score now keeps going the way he wants, winning when it matters just might follow. Jeff Gilbert writes for Press Pros Magazine.com.

Too much of one, too little of the other...Indiana's Matt Ellis (background) watches his three-run home go up on the scoreboard behind Buckeyes pitcher Nolan Clegg, the dramatic blow in Indiana capturing the first game of Sunday's double-header, and the weekend series from the Buckeyes.