Wrestling
No. 19 Wisconsin defeated Purdue Sunday 24-16 at the Field House, giving the Badgers their second Big Ten win of the year. Senior Ed Gutnik's pin of Jason Cook at 141 pounds won the match for UW, improving them to 7-4.
The day included two upsets and three bouts decided by fall. Gutnik's win gave him his first Big Ten victory. UW heads to Minnesota Friday to battle the No. 1 Gophers.
Women's Hockey
A 3-1 victor over Bemidji State Sunday extended the Badgers winning streak to 12 games. Head coach Mark Johnson is now just two wins shy of his 100th UW career win.
Junior Sara Bauer, who leads the country in points, tallied two assists Sunday. She is now tied at third place on the UW all-time point list with Sis Paulesn.
Senior captain Sharon Cole scored in the second period, and just over two minutes later, junior defenseman Bobbi-Jo Slusar and Bauer helped assist on a goal by junior defender Meghan Mikkelson, the eventual game winner.
In her third start, freshman goalie Jessie Vetter saved 21 shots and improved to 3-0-0.
Men's track
Senior Alonzo Moore highlighted a sucessful day for the Badgers, recording an NCAA automatic qualifying mark in the triple jump to lead third-ranked UW at the Elite Invitational Saturday.
The Badgers won eight events and picked up two NCAA qualifying marks at the meet.
Women's track
Redshirt sophomore Blair Luethmers broke the UW school record in the pole vault set two weeks ago by freshman Jenny Soceka at the Elite Invitational Saturday.
UW also swept the top three places in the long jump with freshman Chavon Robinson winning the event with a personal-best leap of 19-2 1?2. Junior Michelle Bellford finished second at 18-8 and one half and sophomore Venus Washington was third at 18-5 and one fourth. Freshman Jessica Jeremiah won the triple jump at 38-2 and one fourth to complete a sweep of the horizontal jumps for the Badgers.
