The Lynx added two free agents to their roster, signing Keishana Washington and Myah Selland to training camp contracts.

Washington, a 5-7 guard, averaged 27.7 points a game for Drexel last season and was the Player of the Year in the Colonial Athletic Association. Selland is a 6-1 forward who played for South Dakota State, where she was the Summit League Player of the Year twice, including this past season, when she averaged 16.1 points and 6.4 rebounds per game.

The Lynx also signed the four draft choices — Diamond Miller, Dorka Juhász, Brea Beal and Taylor Soule — available to the team this season.

U softball rolls

Natalie DenHartog went 4-for-5 with a pair of home runs, Taylor Krapf hit a three-run homer to cap a seven-run second inning and the Gophers softball team routed host Michigan State 13-1.

DenHartog had solo shots leading off the third and seventh innings and extended her program-best career total for home runs to 67 with her fifth career two-homer game. She also doubled, scored three runs and stole a base.

Sydney Schwartz and Amani Bradley each had two RBI for the Gophers (24-15, 5-5 Big Ten), who have won three in a row. Jess Oakland went 3-for-5 with an RBI and two runs scored.

Bri Enter gave up three hits and one run in five innings against last-place Michigan State (11-23, 1-10), striking out five.

The Gophers and Spartans will play a doubleheader Saturday, with rain in the forecast on Sunday.

U baseball splits

Weber Neels and Brady Counsell had two-run singles in a seven-run seventh inning and the Gophers baseball team came from behind to rout Iowa 12-3 in the first game of a doubleheader at Siebert Field.

In the second game, Brayden Frazier and Ben Wilmes each drove in two runs as the Hawkeyes won 7-2.

The Gophers (10-23, 4-4 Big Ten) had been held to one hit in four innings in the opener before getting seven runs on five hits and five walks in the fifth to take a 7-3 lead over Iowa (23-10, 2-6).

Etc.

  • Former Gophers men's hockey player Matt Staudacher announced on Twitter that he is transferring to Northeastern. The defenseman played three years for the Gophers before spending the 2022-23 season as a redshirt.
  • The NSIC hired Micha Thompson as NSIC assistant commissioner for operations. Thompson spent the past four years as the associate athletic director of compliance/senior woman administrator at the University of Sioux Falls; before that, she was the women's basketball coach at Upper Iowa for three seasons.