The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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JUNE/JULY 2026 ❱ THE WOLVERINE 53 ❱ OLYMPIC SPORTS UPDATE Baseball Michigan (32-18, 17-10 Big Ten) entered mid-May with a seven- series win streak after taking two of three games in a weekend trip to Minnesota on May 8-10. After dropping the first game, 13-1, in a seven-inning contest, the Wolverines grabbed 9-8 and 8-5 victories in the Saturday and Sunday games, respectively. Sophomore Brayden Jefferis and junior Matthew Ossenfort had 3-hit games in the rubber match, while sophomore pitcher Michael Quedens grabbed a victory after pitching a career-high 6.1 innings with 3 strikeouts. Junior closer Cade Montgomery notched the save with 1.2 scoreless innings. The Big Ten Baseball Tournament is scheduled for May 19-24 in Ohama, Neb. Softball Despite losing to Nebraska in the Big Ten quarterfinals, the Wolver- ines earned the program's 32nd overall NCAA Tournament selection on May 10. U-M was drawn for the Norman Regional at Oklahoma's Love Field, where it was pitted against Kansas on May 15. No. 3 overall seed Oklahoma and Binghamton were the other two teams selected in the four-team, double-elimination bracket played out over three days. U-M was one of seven Big Ten teams to make the NCAA Tournament, along with No. 4 seed Nebraska, No. 8 UCLA, No. 14 Oregon, Indiana, Washington and Wisconsin. The Wolverines finished the year 34-20, and their tournament appearance is their 30th in the last 31 years. Men's Golf Michigan finished 11th at the Big Ten Championships, held at Pump- kin Ridge Golf Club in North Plains, Ore., with an 859 total in a tight field, where 5 strokes separated the fifth- through 11th-place teams. Sophomores RJ Arone (T-14, 211) and Nilay Naik (T-20, 213) led the Wolverines with top-20 finishes. Freshman Jordan Hwang tied for 40th (217) in his Big Ten debut. The event concluded the season since the team did not qualify for NCAA play. U-M finished the year setting a single-season team scoring record, closing the campaign with a 285.75 average, lowering last year's previous-best mark of 287.37. Women's Golf The Wolverines closed out the Big Ten Championships tied for 14th after a final-round 304 and 54-hole total of 905 at the Oakmont Coun- try Club in Glendale, Calif. Senior Lauren Sung and freshman Jaymie Ng led Michigan, tying for 42nd individually at 224, while freshman Reese Ng tied for 50th at 225. Sung was selected as an individual competitor at the NCAA Ann Ar- bor Regional with U-M hosting as one of six regional sites. She carded an even-par 71 on the first day of regional action on May 11. Men's Lacrosse U-M made a run to the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament but fell to No. 1 seed Johns Hopkins, 14-12, on April 30, ending its season with a 6-9 record. Junior Nick Roode recorded a hat trick, and fresh- man Luke Shannehan had 2 goals, while senior Hunter Taylor scored a goalie goal, the first in Big Ten Tournament history. Its final victory of the season came in the opening round of the Big Ten Tournament against rival Ohio State, an 11-8 win in Columbus on April 25. Women's Lacrosse No. 7 Michigan fell in the NCAA Tournament's second round in a 13- 12 loss to No. 6 Stanford on May 10 at U-M Lacrosse Stadium in Ann Arbor. Senior Calli Norris recorded her 100th career goal with 4 goals against the Cardinal, while freshman goalie Elizabeth Johnson had 12 saves for her sixth double-digit save game of the campaign. Truus van Wees scored back-to-back goals late to give the Wolverines a 12-11 advantage with five minutes to go before the Cardinal tied the score with 2 minutes to go, and won it with under a minute remaining. The Wolverines finished with a 13-7 record and a 5-3 mark in confer- ence play. Rowing The No. 17 Wolverines earned seven wins over 14 races in the final regular-season regatta on April 25 in Belleville, Mich. Opponents at the two-session event included No. 6 Princeton, No. 10 Syracuse and No. 16 Ohio State. From there, it turned its focus to Big Ten Champion- ships, set for May 16-17 in Indianapolis. Women's Tennis Twelfth-ranked Michigan saw its season end on May 8 with a 4-2 loss to No. 5 North Carolina in the third round of the NCAA Tournament. U-M erased an early deficit behind singles wins from sophomore Emily Sartz-Lunde and junior Piper Charney, who upset No. 2-ranked Reese Brantmeier, to tie the match at 2-2. But North Carolina secured a pair of three-set victories to advance. Michigan finished the season with 21 wins, along with Big Ten regular-season and tournament championships. Track & Field Sophomore Jake Machiniak ran a personal-best 20.58 seconds in the 200-meter dash for U-M's men at the Len Paddock open in Ann Arbor on May 8. His time was 0.32 seconds faster than the second-place finisher and 0.09 seconds off the previous record. Senior Zane Forist also posted a personal best mark of 58.40 meters in the discus throw, grabbing the No. 2 mark in program history in a victory. The women's output in the event included freshman Sydney Kuhn finishing with a 58.08-second mark in the 400-meter hurdles, good for sixth in U-M history. Seniors Trinity Henderson and Gabriella Newman grabbed wins in the 400-meter dash and high jump, respectively. — Anthony Broome SPRING SPORTS ROUNDUP The No. 7-ranked Michigan women's lacrosse team had its season end with a 13-12 loss to No. 6 Stanford in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. PHOTO COURTESY MICHIGAN PHOTOGRAPHY