MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - On Thursday night at Target Field, Illinois saw its Big Ten record 27-game winning streak come to an end, 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. A single and throwing error placed runners on the corners followed by the game-tying RBI single. The go-ahead run came home when third baseman Ryne Roper's wild throw ended up in the outfield following a fielder's choice.

Starter Drasen Johnson stranded runners at the corners in the third and left a man on second in the fourth with two strikeouts that finished the frame. Maryland had two more LOB in the fifth and another stranded at third in the sixth, marking the fifth straight inning a runner was left in scoring position.

Senior Casey Fletcher snapped a streak of nine straight Illini retired with a two-out single in the sixth, but Illinois came up empty again. Johnson worked a perfect seventh, freezing the final hitter for his sixth strikeout.

Sophomore Ryne Roper tallied a two-out single in the seventh and Goldstein was hit by a pitch with two outs in the eighth, but the Orange and Blue weren't able to move a runner past first for the sixth consecutive inning.

Johnson, who finished with seven strikeouts over 7.2 innings, recorded the first two outs in the eighth before relieverJ.D. Nielsen fired a strikeout.

With the bases loaded and one out in the top of the ninth, sophomore Cody Sedlock took over and threw one pitch, getting a ground ball to third where Ryne Roper turned an inning-ending double play.

The Illini went down in order in the bottom of the ninth, suffering their first loss since March 29, a span of 53 days.

Up Next: 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.