Former All-America Gophers infielder Paul Molitor will be inducted into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame as a member of the 2020 class, the College Baseball Foundation announced on Thursday.
The former Twins manager and Baseball Hall of Fame player will become the second Gophers player (1975-77) to be enshrined into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame.
Dave Winfield (1971-73) was inducted in 2006, while Dick Siebert was inducted as a coach posthumously in 2007.
Molitor had a career .350 batting average for the Gophers with 18 homers, 112 runs, 99 RBI and 52 steals. In both 1976 and 1977, Molitor was a first team All-America.
Saints routed
The St. Paul Saints had a chance to reach .500 but instead were drubbed 10-2 by Fargo-Moorhead before 1,179 fans at CHS Field. The home team didn't score until the ninth inning when Josh Allen had a two-run single. Mikey Reynolds was 3-for-4 for the Saints (14-16).
Matt Pobereyko, an All-Star closer for Sioux City in 2019 who joined the Saints this week, gave up two runs and three hits in his first appearance.
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• Katherine Smith of Detroit Lakes, Minn., beat Louise Yu of Duluth, Ga., 2 and 1 in the round of 64 in the U.S. Women's Amateur in Rockville, Md.
• The Northern Collegiate Hockey Association announced it will not play any conference men's or women's games before Jan. 1 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. St. Scholastica is the league's one Minnesota school.
• The Florida Panthers signed Harvard forward Henry Bowlby, an undrafted free agent from Edina, to a two-year entry level contract. He had 21 goals and 45 points in three college seasons.
