Minnesota Aurora hopes to finish regular season unbeaten

The first-year Minnesota Aurora FC will try to finish the regular season with an unbeaten record when it plays at the Green Bay Glory at 11:30 a.m. Saturday.

The Aurora (10-0-1) has a 10-game winning streak after opening its season with a 1-1 tie against the Glory in its season opener and beating Green Bay 2-0 on Thursday in its latest match. Green Bay is 6-2-3.

The Aurora, the Heartland Division champion, will play either the Indy Eleven (9-0-2), the Great Lakes Division champion, or runner-up Midwest United FC (7-2-2) in the USL W-League quarterfinals at 7 p.m. Wednesday at TCO Stadium in Eagan.

Twelve different players have scored at least one goal for the Aurora, which is averaging just under three goals per match.

Chloe Evans, who led the Gophers in RBI last season with 46 and was second in homers with 11 as a sophomore this past season, will transfer to Central Florida, she announced on Twitter.

The second All-Big Ten pick was Minnesota's right fielder and hit .318. She is from Seymour, Wis.

Minnesota Duluth defensman Lizi Norton of Orono who will join the Gophers women's hockey teams as a graduate transfer for the 2022-23 season.

She had six goals and 32 points over four seasons for UMD. Norton will be Minnesota's ninth fifth-year skater this upcoming season.

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Ehsan "Lamps" Zakeri, a Minnesota United eMLS player, has advanced from the EA FIFA 22 Global Series Playoffs to the 32-player FIFAe World Cup 2022, which will be held July 14–17 in Copenhagen, Denmark. This is this first time the eWorld Cup tournament is being held since 2019 and a Minnesota United representative has not played in it before.

Jordan Taylor, a Badgers guard in basketball from 2009-12, will be among the 11 inductees into the University of Wisconsin Hall of Fame in 2022. Ceremonies will be held Sept. 9. Taylor is a Benilde-St. Margaret's High School graduate.