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Varsity - March 15, 2012

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BY THE NUMBERS Molly Spence's big weekend at the plate earned her Big Ten Player of the Week honors 6 WOMEN'S HOCKEY With their win in the NCAA quar- terfinals, the Badgers advanced to their sixth Frozen Four in the last seven years. Only Minnesota Duluth (7), and Minnesota (8) have made more ap- pearances in the 12-year history of the event, and only Duluth has more champion- ships (5), than Wisconsin's four. 1.873 16 » VARSITY MARCH 15, 2012 SOFTBALL Junior Molly Spence had an impressive week- end at the Wolf Pack Softball Classic, finish- ing the tournament with four home runs, 10 RBI and a .529 batting average. Her power surge resulted in a staggering 1.873 OPS (on-base percentage plus slugging per- centage) and earned her Big Ten Player of the Week honors. 4 MEN'S BASKETBALL Wisconsin has earned a top-four seed in the NCAA tournament for the third-straight season and fourth time in the last five years. The Badgers are one of just six schools to earn a top-four seed in each of the last three NCAA tour- naments, joining Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, Ohio State and Syracuse. 6,082 MEN'S TRACK Sophomore Ja- pheth Cato posted a score of 6,082 points to take All-America honors as the runner-up in the heptathlon at the NCAA Indoor Championships, the highest non- winning score in meet history. Cato's score — which ranks him as the No. 5 collegian all-time in the event — stands No. 6 in the world this year and would have earned the silver medal at the 2012 World Indoor Championships, which concluded Saturday.

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