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Maryland ends Illini baseball 27-game win streak

Illinois saw its Big Ten record 27-game winning streak come to an end Thursday night in Minneapolis, falling 2-1 to Maryland in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament.

The Illini scored first but committed a season-high three errors and allowed two unearned runs in the second.

"At some point, there was going to be something that beat us," head coach Dan Hartleb said. "You don't go on these stretches very often in a career. We just had a let down tonight. There are some things we learned from tonight and will move forward with it. We are 27-1 in our last 28. Anyone in the country would take that, including myself."

Illinois grabbed a 1-0 advantage with three straight hits in the first. Junior Ryan Nagle started it off with his fourth single of the tournament and later scored for the third time in the past two days when junior Jason Goldstein found a hole on the left side.

Maryland capitalized on a pair of Illini errors in the second and pushed across two unearned runs for a 2-1 edge.

No. 1 seed Illinois will play on Friday night at 7:30 p.m. live on the Big Ten Network against No. 5 seed Michigan State.

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