Give Northwestern (36-7, 15-0 B1G) a time, a place and an opponent, and they will show up ready to play. They will also likely win. For the fifth consecutive weekend, the Wildcats swept a Big Ten series, taking all three games from Purdue (30-20, 6-11 B1G).
The Wildcats are off to both their best overall start and best conference start in program history.
Games one and two proved simple for the ‘Cats, as they won 11-1 in a five-inning, run-rule victory Friday and 8-2 on Saturday. Game three proved more dramatic, as Kate Drohan’s squad surmounted an early 2-0 deficit to take it 6-3.