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women's golf finishes third BY BRANDAN ALFORD BrandanAlford@Gmail.com The 16th-ranked Boilers are back in action this weekend at the Lady Jaguar Intercollegiate in Augusta, Ga. The men's golf team is back in action this weekend when it travels to Florida for the Mission Inn Spring Spectacular on Saturday. Augusta, S.C., with a three-round total of 910. Purdue finished three shots back while Iowa State finLaura Gonzalez-Escallon head- ished a shot back in second place. Laura Gonzalez-Escallon lined Purdue women's golf team Paula Reto joined Gonzalezover the weekend with a second- Escallon in the top five, finishing Baseball splits in place individual finish, leading the three shots behind her teammate Chicago Boilers to a third-place finish in the at 10-over-par. Margaux Vanmol, Purdue salvaged a split in Purdue Mount Vintage Invitational. Aurora Kan and Kishi Sinha roundChicago over the weekend with a Coastal Carolina won the ed out Purdue's scoring, finishing 17-10 victory over Illinois-Chicago event, which took place in North 11th, 13th and 14th individually. before the series finale was rained out on Sunday. Olympic Sports Player-of-the-Week: UIC opened the weekend jake hansen with a 9-2 win before the Boilers After battling injuries throughout his Purdue career, redshirt (4-9) bounced back with an ofsenior Jake Hansen is making the most of his final season at Purdue. fensive outburst in Game 2. FreshHansen leads Purdue in batting average man Jake Picchiotti led six players (.368), slugging percentage (.447) and with multi-hit games, going 4-foron-base percentage (.468) while appear6 with two runs and three RBI. ing in every game in the middle infield Sean McHugh, Jake Hansen and for the Boilers. Hansen also leads Purdue Jack Armara all finished with three with seven walks drawn. hits in the contest. Against Illinois-Chicago over the Hansen has put together a weekend, Hansen batted .500 (4-8) in well-rounded start to his season two games, including a 3-for-4 perforat the plate, batting a team-leadmance at the plate in a 17-10 Game 2 ing .368 as well as having a .447 win where he scored three times and slugging and .468 on-base perdrove in a run as well. centages. — Brandan Alford Purdue returns to action Boilers were swept at No. 20 Baylor. The Bears opened the series with an 8-0, six-inning victory before posting shutouts of 1-0 and 4-0 to complete the sweep. Despite the weekend strugBaylor sweeps gles, freshman pitcher Lilly Fecho softball continues to headline Purdue's Purdue failed to pitching staff with a 1.82 ERA score a single run over through 69 1/3 innings of work. the weekend as the Fecho has a 5-6 record while post- Wednesday when it travels to No. 20 Louisville before a threegame series at Evansville starting Friday. ... all the fun ... all the food ... all the comfort ... all the services GoldanDBlack express • volume 23, express 25 • 33