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Follow the tennis and golf teams’ postseason, and find out how women’s softball threw a curveball into the Wolverines’ plans this weekend.
Whether you’re looking to get on the tennis train, take a few laps around the track, or root, root, root for the Buckeyes’ baseball and softball teams, here at LGHL, we’re keeping you up-to-date on what’s happening with all your Buckeye sports teams.
After routing Cleveland State and Oklahoma State last weekend to open NCAA Tournament play, the No. 1 Ohio State men’s tennis team will host No. 15 Mississippi State at noon ET this coming Saturday in the Super-Regional round.
The Buckeyes, who hold the No. 1 overall seed in the tournament, opened tournament play with a 4-0 sweep of Cleveland State last Friday.
Wins from the doubles duos of Justin Boulais/Andrew Lutschaunig and Cannon Kingsley/JJ Tracy earned the Buckeyes the doubles point. In singles play, the Buckeyes won all six first sets. They earned their final three points with victories from Robert Cash, Tracy, and Boulais.
On Saturday against Oklahoma State, the Buckeyes won, 4-1, to remain undefeated at home this season.
Kingsley and Tracy won their doubles match, 6-0. Lutschaunig and Boulais clinched the doubles point with their victory. Cash and Tracy were up when their doubles match was abandoned.
Cash, Tracy, and Alexander Bernard secured the victory with singles wins. The Cowboys’ lone point came in the singles match between Oklahoma State’s Alex Garcia and Jack Anthrop, marking Anthrop’s first singles loss of the dual season.
The Buckeyes now prepare to face the Mississippi State Bulldogs, who swept both Alabama State and Middle Tennessee State this weekend.
After defeating Toledo in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday, the No. 12 women saw their season end in a second-round loss to Vanderbilt.
Ohio State swept Toledo, 4-0, on Friday, to advance to the second round. Doubles victories from Madeline Atway/Teah Chavez, as well as Audrey Spencer/Luciana Perry, secured the doubles points. The Buckeyes won the first set on all six singles courts, securing all three singles points with straight-set wins from Irina Cantos Siemers, Akanksha Bhan, and Perry.
The Vanderbilt matchup was a heartbreaker, with the Commodores winning, 3-4. It is the fourth consecutive year the teams have faced off in the second round, with OSU winning in 2021 and 2023.
The Buckeyes didn’t make it easy on Vandy. When Cantos Siemers and Shelly Bereznyak dropped their doubles match, Atway and Chavez answered quickly with a win. Spencer and Perry ultimately fell to give Vanderbilt the edge in the doubles point.
Though Chavez fell in singles, wins from Bereznyak, Spencer, and Sydni Ratliff gave the Buckeyes a 3-2 edge.
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Perry ultimately fell to even the score, and the match came down to a battle between No. 17-ranked Cantos Siemers and No. 13-ranked Celia-Belle Mohr from Vanderbilt, with the Commodores barely edging out the Buckeyes.
Cantos Siemers and Perry will compete in the NCAA Singles Championship and Perry and Ratliff will take part in the NCAA Doubles Championship, which will take place between May 20-26 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, after team play wraps.
The OSU baseball team (23-22, 8-10) won three of their five games this past week, defeating both Cincinnati and Akron before dropping this weekend’s three-game series against Illinois, 1-2.
Up first, the Buckeyes hosted Cincinnati last Tuesday, April 30, picking up a 12-6 victory. Five of the Bearcats’ runs came in the second inning.
The Buckeyes took an early 2-0 lead before the Bearcats put up five of their six total runs in the second inning. OSU had an answer, though, with a six-run inning of its own in the third to bring the score to 10-5. Three of those runs were scored off a Hunter Rosson home run, marking his fourth consecutive game going yard.
The Bearcats tacked on their final run in the fourth, and from there, the game stayed quiet until the Buckeyes added a pair of insurance runs in the eighth.
Tyler Pettorini led the Buckeyes with three hits, while Joseph Mershon, Mason Eckelman, Nick Giamarusti, and Rosson were each good for a pair. Rosson led in RBIs, sending five runners home.
Chase Herrell (2-1) notched the win for the Buckeyes, striking out four (his career high) and giving up one run and two hits in 3.1 innings.
The Buckeyes took the field again Wednesday, this time in an 18-13 win over Akron, a game marked by hot bats and heavy hitting.
The Zips jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first, but the Buckeyes put up seven runs (including home runs from Henry Kaczmar and Pettorini) in the bottom of the inning and never trailed again.
Mitchell Okuley led the Buckeyes with four hits, while Kaczmar, Pettorini, Mershon, and Josh Stevenson each added a pair. Both of Pettorini’s were homers. Okuley, Mershon, and Stevenson, along with Isaac Cadena, each stole a base, and Ryan Miller led the team with four RBIs.
With six strikeouts and four runs on three hits in 5.0 innings, Colin Purcell (2-4) was the winning pitcher.
The Buckeyes then hit the road for a three-game series at Illinois. The Buckeyes dropped games two and three of the series, but they picked up the win on Friday, a 7-5 upset that marked only the second home loss for the Illini this season.
The Illini currently sit atop the Big Ten standings. They took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the third, but the Buckeyes answered with a run of their own in the fourth, when Mershon hit a sac fly that sent Kaczmar home.
The Illini added a solo home run in the fourth to regain the lead, but a three-run fifth for the Buckeyes gave them a 4-2 advantage, and they wouldn’t trail again, capping the game with a solo home run from Mershon in the eighth.
Kaczmar, Mershon, Okuley, and Miller led the Buckeyes in hits, each tallying two, while Mershon and Miller each batted in a pair of runs.
Zach Brown (4-0) earned the win for the Buckeyes with one strikeout and one run on one run given up in 1.1 innings pitched. Blaine Wynk earned the save, his second of the season, after striking out two and allowing just one hit in 3.0 scoreless innings.
On Saturday, the Buckeyes fell, 10-5, but it marked the second game in a week in which Pettorini hit two home runs.
Illinois never trailed in the game, and holding the Buckeyes scoreless through four before the first of Pettorini’s two long balls went over the wall in the fifth to cut the Illini lead to 5-1.
He did it again in the top of the sixth, sending home Kaczmar and Rosson as well to make the score 5-4. The final Buckeye run came in the seventh when Okuley singled to get Mershon home.
Pettorini led the team with two hits and four RBIs, while Okuley also added two hits. Gavin Bruni (3-3) took the loss on the mound, striking out four and giving up four runs on three hits. He pitched for 2.2 innings.
Illinois won Sunday’s game in just eight innings, ending the game with the 12-2 run rule to win the series. Cadena put up a solo home run to get the Buckeyes on the board in the third, cutting the Illini lead to 3-1. He also added the Buckeyes’ only other run—a double that sent Stevenson home—in the fourth.
In addition to Cadena’s two hits and two RBIs, Kaczmar also had a pair of hits.
Gavin DeVooght (2-2) took the loss, pitching for 5.0 innings. He struck out two batters and gave up seven runs on seven hits.
Up next, it’s another five-game week for the Buckeyes, this time all at home. They’ll take on Eastern Michigan University tonight and Youngstown State Wednesday before hosting a three-game series against Northwestern this weekend.
The Buckeyes softball team (31-19, 12-11) picked up another series win to close out the regular season this weekend, this time on the road at Michigan. The Buckeyes fell in the series opener, 9-6, before picking up the next two to win the series, 2-1.
On Friday, the Buckeyes led early, but they couldn’t get hold on, and a four-run sixth for Michigan put the Wolverines ahead for good.
A sac fly from Jasmyn Burns in the first got the Buckeyes on the board, and before the inning was up, Sam Hackenbrecht added two more runs with an RBI single. Kirsten Eppele made it home in the third off a Wolverine throwing error.
Hackenbrecht added the final two runs to the Buckeyes’ tally with a two-run home run in the fifth, her ninth of the season. She led the Buckeyes, going 2-for-4 with a season-high four RBIs.
Allison Smith was Ohio State’s starting pitcher, striking out one and giving up two walks in four innings pitched.
Saturday was all Buckeyes, snapping Michigan’s 14-game win streak with a 6-0 win, thanks to a full-game shutout from pitcher Lexi Paulsen.
Paulsen gave up just three hits on the day, striking out four. The game was scoreless through two, before Taylor Heckman sent Kaitlyn Farley home with a sacrifice fly, followed by a Kami Kortokrax single that plated Tegan Cortelletti. The score stayed at 2-0 until the seventh, largely on the back of Paulsen’s pitching.
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In the seventh, Heckman walked to start the inning before McKenzie Bump singled, extending her hitting streak to five consecutive games to get Heckman home. Eppele then came up big, knocking a three-run dinger over the right-field fence, driving home the Buckeyes’ final three runs to add some insurance.
The game marked Michigan’s first home loss this season, but it wouldn’t be the last, as the Buckeyes added insult to injury on Sunday with a 2-1 win to clinch the series, again on the back of excellent pitching and offense from Eppele.
Smith took the mound Sunday, giving up just two hits in her complete-game outing. She did not walk a batter and struck out five in the win, including a game-ending strikeout with two batters in scoring position.
Eppele hit two solo home runs, one in the second to give the Buckeyes a 1-0 lead, and one in the fourth to make the score 2-0. Michigan’s lone run came on a solo homer in the bottom of the fourth.
Up next, the Buckeyes get ready for Big Ten Tournament play, which kicks off Wednesday at Iowa. The No. 6-seed Buckeyes are hot entering the tournament, having won 11 of their last 13, dropping only Friday’s game at Michigan and one game last weekend against Illinois.
They will play No. 11-seed Wisconsin on Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET, with the winner facing Rutgers in the quarterfinals on Thursday. The teams faced each other in Madison in mid-April, and the Badgers took the series, 1-2. Wisconsin holds an 8-15 record in conference play this season.
The women’s golf team began NCAA Regional play in Bryan, Texas on Monday, and will continue through Wednesday, May 8.
At the time of publication, the Buckeyes have wrapped Day One of regional play and currently sit in sixth place, paced by Kary Hollenbaugh who is currently in fourth with a score of 69 (-3) after shooting five birdies and shooting par on 11 holes.
Ohio State finished the first round with a team score of 294 (+6), putting them just one stroke behind the fifth-place team and seven strokes back from LSU and SMU (who are currently tied for first).
The Buckeyes hold the No. 6 seed at the Bryan Regional. The lowest-scoring five teams, plus the lowest-scoring individual not on those five teams, will advance to the final in Carlsbad, California, later this month.
In addition to Hollenbaugh, the Buckeye lineup includes Faith Choi, Jillian Bourdage, Caley McGinty, and Emily Hummer.
The women placed sixth in the Big Ten Championships with a team score of two-under par. They have earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Regionals in all three years under head coach Lisa Strom.
The men’s golf team also earned an at-large berth to the NCAA Regionals, where they are also a No. 6 seed at the Baton Rouge Regional hosted by LSU, it was announced last week. Their 14-team regional will take place May 13-15, with the lowest-scoring five teams and an individual not on those teams advancing to the finals in Carlsbad.
The Buckeyes have six top-five finishes this season, two of which came in their last two outings. They finished runner-up at the Robert Kepler Intercollegiate two weeks ago and finished fifth in the Big Ten Championships last weekend.
Celebrations continue for Janela Spencer after a pair of wins at the Penn Relays earned her Big Ten Track Athlete of the Week honors. Posting a personal best time of 13.01, Spencer won the 100m hurdles—the first Buckeye win in the event in 24 years. She also ran a leg in the winning 4x100m relay.
The track and field team is busy preparing for the 2024 Big Ten Outdoor Championships, which will take place in Ann Arbor, beginning Friday, May 10.
The Buckeyes are now in full preparation mode for the 2024 Big Ten Championships, slated for May 19 in Wisconsin. They are currently ranked No. 14 nationwide.
The Buckeyes’ season came to an end last week when they fell, 3-0, to Grand Canyon in the NCAA Quarterfinals in Long Beach, California. The Buckeyes (22-9) entered the tournament as the No. 6 seed, with Grand Canyon (26-4) holding a No. 3-seed.
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The Buckeyes lost in three straight sets, with scores of 23-25, 20-25, and 21-25. Shane Wetzel and Jacob Pasteur combined for 23 kills, while setter Michael Wright put up 37 assists. All three were recently named to the AVCA 2024 All-American team. It marked the final match for both Pasteur and Wright.
This is the second year in a row that the Buckeyes have fallen in the quarterfinals after being ousted in the same round by Penn State in 2023.
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Follow the tennis and golf teams’ postseason, and find out how women’s softball threw a curveball into the Wolverines’ plans this weekend.
Whether you’re looking to get on the tennis train, take a few laps around the track, or root, root, root for the Buckeyes’ baseball and softball teams, here at LGHL, we’re keeping you up-to-date on what’s happening with all your Buckeye sports teams.
Tennis
After routing Cleveland State and Oklahoma State last weekend to open NCAA Tournament play, the No. 1 Ohio State men’s tennis team will host No. 15 Mississippi State at noon ET this coming Saturday in the Super-Regional round.
The Buckeyes, who hold the No. 1 overall seed in the tournament, opened tournament play with a 4-0 sweep of Cleveland State last Friday.
Wins from the doubles duos of Justin Boulais/Andrew Lutschaunig and Cannon Kingsley/JJ Tracy earned the Buckeyes the doubles point. In singles play, the Buckeyes won all six first sets. They earned their final three points with victories from Robert Cash, Tracy, and Boulais.
On Saturday against Oklahoma State, the Buckeyes won, 4-1, to remain undefeated at home this season.
Kingsley and Tracy won their doubles match, 6-0. Lutschaunig and Boulais clinched the doubles point with their victory. Cash and Tracy were up when their doubles match was abandoned.
Cash, Tracy, and Alexander Bernard secured the victory with singles wins. The Cowboys’ lone point came in the singles match between Oklahoma State’s Alex Garcia and Jack Anthrop, marking Anthrop’s first singles loss of the dual season.
The Buckeyes now prepare to face the Mississippi State Bulldogs, who swept both Alabama State and Middle Tennessee State this weekend.
After defeating Toledo in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday, the No. 12 women saw their season end in a second-round loss to Vanderbilt.
Ohio State swept Toledo, 4-0, on Friday, to advance to the second round. Doubles victories from Madeline Atway/Teah Chavez, as well as Audrey Spencer/Luciana Perry, secured the doubles points. The Buckeyes won the first set on all six singles courts, securing all three singles points with straight-set wins from Irina Cantos Siemers, Akanksha Bhan, and Perry.
The Vanderbilt matchup was a heartbreaker, with the Commodores winning, 3-4. It is the fourth consecutive year the teams have faced off in the second round, with OSU winning in 2021 and 2023.
The Buckeyes didn’t make it easy on Vandy. When Cantos Siemers and Shelly Bereznyak dropped their doubles match, Atway and Chavez answered quickly with a win. Spencer and Perry ultimately fell to give Vanderbilt the edge in the doubles point.
Though Chavez fell in singles, wins from Bereznyak, Spencer, and Sydni Ratliff gave the Buckeyes a 3-2 edge.
Perry ultimately fell to even the score, and the match came down to a battle between No. 17-ranked Cantos Siemers and No. 13-ranked Celia-Belle Mohr from Vanderbilt, with the Commodores barely edging out the Buckeyes.
Cantos Siemers and Perry will compete in the NCAA Singles Championship and Perry and Ratliff will take part in the NCAA Doubles Championship, which will take place between May 20-26 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, after team play wraps.
Baseball
The OSU baseball team (23-22, 8-10) won three of their five games this past week, defeating both Cincinnati and Akron before dropping this weekend’s three-game series against Illinois, 1-2.
Up first, the Buckeyes hosted Cincinnati last Tuesday, April 30, picking up a 12-6 victory. Five of the Bearcats’ runs came in the second inning.
The Buckeyes took an early 2-0 lead before the Bearcats put up five of their six total runs in the second inning. OSU had an answer, though, with a six-run inning of its own in the third to bring the score to 10-5. Three of those runs were scored off a Hunter Rosson home run, marking his fourth consecutive game going yard.
The Bearcats tacked on their final run in the fourth, and from there, the game stayed quiet until the Buckeyes added a pair of insurance runs in the eighth.
Tyler Pettorini led the Buckeyes with three hits, while Joseph Mershon, Mason Eckelman, Nick Giamarusti, and Rosson were each good for a pair. Rosson led in RBIs, sending five runners home.
Chase Herrell (2-1) notched the win for the Buckeyes, striking out four (his career high) and giving up one run and two hits in 3.1 innings.
The Buckeyes took the field again Wednesday, this time in an 18-13 win over Akron, a game marked by hot bats and heavy hitting.
The Zips jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first, but the Buckeyes put up seven runs (including home runs from Henry Kaczmar and Pettorini) in the bottom of the inning and never trailed again.
Mitchell Okuley led the Buckeyes with four hits, while Kaczmar, Pettorini, Mershon, and Josh Stevenson each added a pair. Both of Pettorini’s were homers. Okuley, Mershon, and Stevenson, along with Isaac Cadena, each stole a base, and Ryan Miller led the team with four RBIs.
With six strikeouts and four runs on three hits in 5.0 innings, Colin Purcell (2-4) was the winning pitcher.
The Buckeyes then hit the road for a three-game series at Illinois. The Buckeyes dropped games two and three of the series, but they picked up the win on Friday, a 7-5 upset that marked only the second home loss for the Illini this season.
The Illini currently sit atop the Big Ten standings. They took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the third, but the Buckeyes answered with a run of their own in the fourth, when Mershon hit a sac fly that sent Kaczmar home.
The Illini added a solo home run in the fourth to regain the lead, but a three-run fifth for the Buckeyes gave them a 4-2 advantage, and they wouldn’t trail again, capping the game with a solo home run from Mershon in the eighth.
Kaczmar, Mershon, Okuley, and Miller led the Buckeyes in hits, each tallying two, while Mershon and Miller each batted in a pair of runs.
Zach Brown (4-0) earned the win for the Buckeyes with one strikeout and one run on one run given up in 1.1 innings pitched. Blaine Wynk earned the save, his second of the season, after striking out two and allowing just one hit in 3.0 scoreless innings.
On Saturday, the Buckeyes fell, 10-5, but it marked the second game in a week in which Pettorini hit two home runs.
Illinois never trailed in the game, and holding the Buckeyes scoreless through four before the first of Pettorini’s two long balls went over the wall in the fifth to cut the Illini lead to 5-1.
He did it again in the top of the sixth, sending home Kaczmar and Rosson as well to make the score 5-4. The final Buckeye run came in the seventh when Okuley singled to get Mershon home.
Pettorini led the team with two hits and four RBIs, while Okuley also added two hits. Gavin Bruni (3-3) took the loss on the mound, striking out four and giving up four runs on three hits. He pitched for 2.2 innings.
Illinois won Sunday’s game in just eight innings, ending the game with the 12-2 run rule to win the series. Cadena put up a solo home run to get the Buckeyes on the board in the third, cutting the Illini lead to 3-1. He also added the Buckeyes’ only other run—a double that sent Stevenson home—in the fourth.
In addition to Cadena’s two hits and two RBIs, Kaczmar also had a pair of hits.
Gavin DeVooght (2-2) took the loss, pitching for 5.0 innings. He struck out two batters and gave up seven runs on seven hits.
Up next, it’s another five-game week for the Buckeyes, this time all at home. They’ll take on Eastern Michigan University tonight and Youngstown State Wednesday before hosting a three-game series against Northwestern this weekend.
Softball
The Buckeyes softball team (31-19, 12-11) picked up another series win to close out the regular season this weekend, this time on the road at Michigan. The Buckeyes fell in the series opener, 9-6, before picking up the next two to win the series, 2-1.
On Friday, the Buckeyes led early, but they couldn’t get hold on, and a four-run sixth for Michigan put the Wolverines ahead for good.
A sac fly from Jasmyn Burns in the first got the Buckeyes on the board, and before the inning was up, Sam Hackenbrecht added two more runs with an RBI single. Kirsten Eppele made it home in the third off a Wolverine throwing error.
Hackenbrecht added the final two runs to the Buckeyes’ tally with a two-run home run in the fifth, her ninth of the season. She led the Buckeyes, going 2-for-4 with a season-high four RBIs.
Allison Smith was Ohio State’s starting pitcher, striking out one and giving up two walks in four innings pitched.
Saturday was all Buckeyes, snapping Michigan’s 14-game win streak with a 6-0 win, thanks to a full-game shutout from pitcher Lexi Paulsen.
Paulsen gave up just three hits on the day, striking out four. The game was scoreless through two, before Taylor Heckman sent Kaitlyn Farley home with a sacrifice fly, followed by a Kami Kortokrax single that plated Tegan Cortelletti. The score stayed at 2-0 until the seventh, largely on the back of Paulsen’s pitching.
In the seventh, Heckman walked to start the inning before McKenzie Bump singled, extending her hitting streak to five consecutive games to get Heckman home. Eppele then came up big, knocking a three-run dinger over the right-field fence, driving home the Buckeyes’ final three runs to add some insurance.
The game marked Michigan’s first home loss this season, but it wouldn’t be the last, as the Buckeyes added insult to injury on Sunday with a 2-1 win to clinch the series, again on the back of excellent pitching and offense from Eppele.
Smith took the mound Sunday, giving up just two hits in her complete-game outing. She did not walk a batter and struck out five in the win, including a game-ending strikeout with two batters in scoring position.
Eppele hit two solo home runs, one in the second to give the Buckeyes a 1-0 lead, and one in the fourth to make the score 2-0. Michigan’s lone run came on a solo homer in the bottom of the fourth.
Up next, the Buckeyes get ready for Big Ten Tournament play, which kicks off Wednesday at Iowa. The No. 6-seed Buckeyes are hot entering the tournament, having won 11 of their last 13, dropping only Friday’s game at Michigan and one game last weekend against Illinois.
They will play No. 11-seed Wisconsin on Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET, with the winner facing Rutgers in the quarterfinals on Thursday. The teams faced each other in Madison in mid-April, and the Badgers took the series, 1-2. Wisconsin holds an 8-15 record in conference play this season.
Golf
The women’s golf team began NCAA Regional play in Bryan, Texas on Monday, and will continue through Wednesday, May 8.
At the time of publication, the Buckeyes have wrapped Day One of regional play and currently sit in sixth place, paced by Kary Hollenbaugh who is currently in fourth with a score of 69 (-3) after shooting five birdies and shooting par on 11 holes.
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Ohio State finished the first round with a team score of 294 (+6), putting them just one stroke behind the fifth-place team and seven strokes back from LSU and SMU (who are currently tied for first).
The Buckeyes hold the No. 6 seed at the Bryan Regional. The lowest-scoring five teams, plus the lowest-scoring individual not on those five teams, will advance to the final in Carlsbad, California, later this month.
In addition to Hollenbaugh, the Buckeye lineup includes Faith Choi, Jillian Bourdage, Caley McGinty, and Emily Hummer.
The women placed sixth in the Big Ten Championships with a team score of two-under par. They have earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Regionals in all three years under head coach Lisa Strom.
The men’s golf team also earned an at-large berth to the NCAA Regionals, where they are also a No. 6 seed at the Baton Rouge Regional hosted by LSU, it was announced last week. Their 14-team regional will take place May 13-15, with the lowest-scoring five teams and an individual not on those teams advancing to the finals in Carlsbad.
The Buckeyes have six top-five finishes this season, two of which came in their last two outings. They finished runner-up at the Robert Kepler Intercollegiate two weeks ago and finished fifth in the Big Ten Championships last weekend.
Track & Field
Celebrations continue for Janela Spencer after a pair of wins at the Penn Relays earned her Big Ten Track Athlete of the Week honors. Posting a personal best time of 13.01, Spencer won the 100m hurdles—the first Buckeye win in the event in 24 years. She also ran a leg in the winning 4x100m relay.
The track and field team is busy preparing for the 2024 Big Ten Outdoor Championships, which will take place in Ann Arbor, beginning Friday, May 10.
Rowing
The Buckeyes are now in full preparation mode for the 2024 Big Ten Championships, slated for May 19 in Wisconsin. They are currently ranked No. 14 nationwide.
Men’s Volleyball
The Buckeyes’ season came to an end last week when they fell, 3-0, to Grand Canyon in the NCAA Quarterfinals in Long Beach, California. The Buckeyes (22-9) entered the tournament as the No. 6 seed, with Grand Canyon (26-4) holding a No. 3-seed.
The Buckeyes lost in three straight sets, with scores of 23-25, 20-25, and 21-25. Shane Wetzel and Jacob Pasteur combined for 23 kills, while setter Michael Wright put up 37 assists. All three were recently named to the AVCA 2024 All-American team. It marked the final match for both Pasteur and Wright.
This is the second year in a row that the Buckeyes have fallen in the quarterfinals after being ousted in the same round by Penn State in 2023.
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